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Old Letters Put New Light Upon Louisiana Sale True Story of Land Deal Told in Documents Held liy Missouri Society. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 13.— In the t archives of the Missouri Historical so ciety at Jefferson Memorial here there rests, temporarily, a sot of letters In which the true story of the Louisiana Purchase is told. The letters were written from the year 1801 to 1803 hy Robert Living ston, American ambassador to France at that Interesting period in the world's history. They are addressed to Rufus King, then ambassador to Grqpt Britain, and some of them con tain the signature of James Monroe, in addition to that of the author. Nothing morn than a little matter of $4,000 stands between the Missouri Historical society and the coveted manuscripts which were recently brought to the attention of John II. Gundlaeh, St. Louisan and himself an insatiable collector of old books and manuscripts. An entirely new light is thrown on the story of the great purchase, gen erally considered the most important event in American history, next to the revolution itself, by these letters, and an effort will be made to raise funds for their purchase. Gundlaeh has recently made an in valuable addition to his own private collection of books and manuscripts In the form of a set of autographed letters written by Napoleon Bona parte. Most of them are addressed to his cousin, the Due de Belluno, one of the military leaders In the Napoleonic wars, and contain characteristically concise instructions as to the conduct of the campaigns preceding the great Russian disaster. The letters are dated 1813. "I shall consider if a piece of good news,” says one letter, “when I learn hat the enemy of 8.000 has got itself nto a mess at Leipsic and has been iestroyed.” One of Gundlach's greatest treasures •s an autographed letter from Pope Gregory XIII to Charles IX congratu ating him for his success in destroy ing so many heretics by means of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Another is a letter from Jerome F.onnparte conveying to his mother the news of the late emperor's death. “For all we know, the accursed Eng lish had conspired to murder him!” the bereaved brother writes. Equally Interesting is a lengthy letter written hy the Martinis tie La ’ayette to the noted Englishwoman, l.ady Sidney Morgan, vividly describ ing the’last days of Napoleon in exile. Forty-odd autographed letters of Richard Mlagner, many of Lincoln end Roosevelt, several of Beethoven. Haydn and other celebrities, as well as part of the original minutes of the first constitutional convention, are part of the C untllach collection, which represents the work of a life time in assembling. “The passion for collecting manu scripts is nothing short of a disease,” Gundlaeh says, “and once you've been bitten by the microbe there's no cure for you. But to get the fullest pleas ure out of this hobby, if hobby it is, you must he free from all narrowness, all prejudice—national, religious or political. You simply stand off and, in a purely objective way, watch the march of history.” r ' Papillion Notes v/ j The Junior* of the Papillion High school will put on a play entitled "When | a Fe'ler Need* a Friend." Friday and ! Saturday evening*. November .1 and 22 The Cadies auxiliary met Thursday *» the home of Mr*. Adam Gramhoh. An •Interesting program was rendered. Mr*. John Dugan and if. Sprague de parted Monday for their home at Stone ham. Colo., after having spent several weeks with friends here. Miss Eliza Wilson spent the week-end at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clyde Barton, and family at Missouri Valley, la. Mrs. C. P. Myers of Indianapolis Is visiting this week at the home of her sunt, Mrs. J. T. Gatewood. Mrs. Myers was formerly Miss Marne Badge of Pa pil lion. Mr. and Mrs. F A. Slrawn returned to their home at Broadwater, Nel».. after spending some time at the hutno of thoir son. J. E Slrawn. and family, here. Mr. and Mrs. .1 IjJ Curte of South Omaha, spent Sundri, at the home of Mr* A. F. Empey. Mr. and Mr*. Hoy Macfuris spent Wed nesday with friends,'»t Valley. Mrs. M. If. UnAvn entertained at ft o'clock dinner Wednesday evening in hon or of her mother s 74th birthday anni versary. Bridgepnr illinms, an tmploye of the Scottsbluff sugar fac .ory, was seriously «cnlfle<| by cxplo ilon of one of the "batteries," throw ing steam over his feet and ankles. ADVERTISEMENT. 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In a great banking institution I had been attracted by the cheery manner of a pale and sickly young man. I commented upon his good nature, under what seemed to me try ing conditions, to his superior. He told me that for a year the young man had been suffering from an Insidious malady. But kept at his work, and when the bank closed in the evening went to a rest room and remained for two hours reclining on a sofa to recruit strength for the arduous trip to his home in New Jersey. This is the sort of courage a great city in its rush and hurry sometimes overlooks. New York seems pitilessly cold and indifferent mostly because it does not know of the heavy hearts along the way. Contact here is casual. People meet and hurry on. Thousands of unsung heroes brush elbows with their more fortunate brothers daily. 1 know a motion picture director * . -■■■ MS] . . 1-11—■WM West Ninth street. His wife is clerk ing in a store. He managed to save a little and opened up a stationery store on Tenth avenue several weeks ago. Two days later a fire destroyed his uninsured stock and he went back to the office building. His wife noer faces a seri ous operation. Many men would be crushed. Vet he looks at the future with confi dence. ‘'What I have done once 1 can do again,” he says. It is my guess he will come back. Misfortune is a true test of courage. To rise above one's troubles is no easy task. It is human to whim and complain. Nellie Revell, f) ve years ago, went to a hospital with the pronouncement she would never walk again. She had been an active woman—a theatrical press agent and a newspaper re porter. For many years she was in a plus ter cast. She always spoke of the time she would leave the hospital. n-11 I V3I-K-■-id-ilii He Slept In n Nearby Hallway. who, through tlie misfortunes of his profession,-has been out of work for nearly a year. He has an aged mother who Is not able to leave her wheel chair. His finances are In a very bad way. Yet each morning he leaves his home early as though on his way to the studio so she will not know. His evenings he spends with her and manufactures tales of his work on the movie lots. “it Is amazing,” he told me. "how one's friends shy away from you when you have a run of bad luck. The one invaluable lesson l have learned is the value qj thrift." Yndiamayed. In one of the office buildings on Forty-second street is an elevator starter. Four years ago his fortune crashed with the Wall street firm with which he was connected. He moved from a fine apartment on West End avenue to a single bedroom on Friends came and went away .shaking their heads. On her bed of pain she cheered the sick and downcast in all far-flung corners of the globe. Today she walks. She is nearing the time when she will leturn to the active world about her. Not once was she completely discouraged She had her discouraging moments, but she fought them oft and clung to the hope of recovery. Persistence. I remember a few years ago when a friend of Karl Carroll's came to me to discuss Carroll's plight. At 30, after a successful career song writing and play writing, he was down to the last dollar and steeped in debt. We went to see him. He was the most optimistic of the trio. He was dewn but not out. Today he has two successful plays on Broadway and a theater that twars his name. The income from six com panies of "White Cargo” alone nets You Know in Advance Dodge Brothers Dealers realize that a car’s good performance is no longer the sole basis of an owner’s good will. It is equally essential that dealers give good service. • Because of this, they employ the Flat Rate Service System, which insures accurate work at a fair, predetermined price. When you leave your car with a Dodge Brothers Dealer for service you know just what work will be done, when it will be finished and what it will cost There are no un pleasant surprises in your bill. * . You know in advance. r O’BRIEN DAVIS AUTO CO. SHTH AND HAKNKY STS.-TF.I,. HA 0123 Dalfi ml llitlre Hritnrh.. •« Cmm.ll Mafia. la. Dealsaa, la. --— £ * — him $10,000 a week. Carroll refused to be beaten. There is a man in New York who has matle six fortunes and lost them. Today he happens to he on the top wave, lie says each one of his fail ures was absolutely priceless in teach ing him something he would never have learned in any other way. i recall with some pride a frail lit tie Greek who about 12 years ago opened t*P a sidewalk fruit stand on Columbus avenue near Seventy-sec ond street. lie had only a few oranges, lemons, apples and bananas. They were polished to a slick shine. In tattered garments he braved the wintry winds and at night slept in a nearby hallway, lie was pa thetic in his appreciation for the slight patronage I gavo him. There was the added handicap of speaking only a few words of English. On one corner of his block was one of the finest fruit displays in town and be low him a fine market place. Courage. His future looked altogether hope less. But he had courage and hope. Today you ride past the same block on Columbus avenue and you see three complete stores given to him. An electric sign hangs out front, lie employes 15 clerks. He added a deliratessen department and a soda fountain. He began his career with $2.18. Today this young Greek is only 29 years old. He is worth $200, 000. Rarely will you find a happier soul than Blind George, the news dealer of the Bryant Park corner. In his world of darkness he has found the secret of happiness in mak ing others happy. He is a friend of thousands and no one has yet heard George si>eak of his plight. An old Latin proverb runs: "There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to bear misfortune." People who interest me most are those who have suffered misfortune. They are more considered and they think more clearly. And they have more faith in their fellows. Destiny. I have been reading "Derricks of Destiny," which is the autobi ography of Samuel Gamble Bayne, former president of the Seaboard Na- ; tlonal Link and also the founder of that institution. It is an interesting study of a great man who made romance of business. He knew America and be believed Texas was the greatest slate of all in natural lesourccs. Mr. Bayne was an intimate of John D. Archbold, II. H. Rogers. John D. Rockefeller. Theodore Roosevelt. Henry P. Davison, Pierpont Morgan, Mark Twain and all the great of I New York of his day. His advice to young men is sound and worth re peating: "Sometimes 1 see solemn young men reading books on success in i which they are told to fihd a calling and stick to it. The gentle barnacle, I believe, when very young attaches itself to the bottom of a craft to which it has drifted with the cur rent. It then stays put and get* somewhere. In so doing, it I* serene and useless, and Impedes the speed of its stout carrier. Arrived at last, at a safe haven, the barnacle has Its reward. It Is knocked to pieces as soon as the boat goes Into, dry dock "Learning when ta leave « place In this life for which one Is not fitted, either by nature or training, Is often a hard task. There is, how ever. nothing more dreary In the world than engaging In a calling which offers no *est and no thrills. One of the first lessons In business ABE MARTIN On the Old Family Doctor —I——. I ■ - I II ■ When we look at our fine, clapper doctors o' t'day as they whizz here an’ there In ther high-powered cars, performin’ marvelous operations an' savin’ scores o' human lives without th’ aid o’ whiskers an' plug hats an’ shiny frock coats, we begin t’ realize _<1 break a leg, or git poisoned, jest you watch an' stee how soon your doctor kin git t' you from th' golf links, or a the ater. It's amazin'! O’ course if a feller's Weedin’ t’ death an' his doctor is addressin' a commercial club rneetln', or attendin' a corner stone a horse. A big, round, or tall digni fied, bewhlskered, livery stable smellln’ doctor o’ thirty-five years ago would no more swap his plug hat an’ Prince Albert coat for a golf outfit than he’d Jump off th’ court house. He might, if he eouldn’ git Th’ ole time doctor would occasionally play a little croquet it lie couldn’ get out o* It. that we've lived t* witness great changes. An' our doctors o' t'day find time t’ keep ther communities tuned up an' In good health, an' also identi fy 'emselves with th' civic life o' ther towns an’ cities. An' lielievs us keepin' up with th’ civic life o' our time an' attendin' t' business too, is goin- some. We know a fine, young lung expert that made 18 holes in 74 yisterday, an' also remounted four sets o’ lungs, took in a movie in th' afternoon, an’ solicited fer th' com munity chest,'til 10 p. m. If you I learned, was to nuit before It was too late. Another bright little tome has been written by Edward James Herman, an advertising ratn of Indianapolis, Ind. It is called "Health is Wealth." It is devoted to the art of keeping 100 per cent alive and ratin’ to go but, unlike many of these efforts, it offers a true modicum of common sense. Mr. Herman among other things points out that it Is becom ing old-fashioned to walk a mile. That is something about which to reflect. lavin', it makes it sort o’ ticklish. But such cases have been handled successfully. When Art Smiley’s nephew fell off a smoke stack Dr. Mopps wuz on th’ spot in his golf clothes jest as he lit. “I could have caught him,” Doc said, "if they’d 'phoned me a minute sooner." But we don’t think a doctor ought t be bothered when somebuddy falls two or three hundred feet, or gits his head shot off. Why should a doctor drop his civic work, or leave a S2 performance, t’ try t* save somebud dy that's dead? Doctors are alius bein' called away right in th’ middle of a golf game or theatrical per formance, an’ then when they git where ther goin’ th' patient's liable t’ live four or five hours yit. It don’t look fair. Th’ doctors o’ thirty an’ forty years ago did little civic work, an' cared less fer th’ the ater. They stuck t’ business an’ often it took 'em nine or ten hours t’ drive t‘ a case o’ mumps, or a sore toe. They wuz very dignified an’ mussy, an’ raised great bunches o’ whiskers an’ ther plug hats wuz alius rubbed th’ wrong way. Ther frock coats wuz too big an’ they all smelled like out o' It. play a little croquet, out lie took himself too seriously t' wear a uniform, or git very fer from his office. U’opyrtght. 1124.) ""Trench Rats" to Come Here for Vet Meet * Organization Correspond With “Cooties" and “Forty V Eight.” The playground organization the Disabled American Veterans the World War, known as th “Trench Rate,” will hold Its nation al gathering In Omaha, during th week of the D. A. V. national con clave here, June 22 to 27, 1 925, ac cording to Adj. Wilbur Shaw, of th local organization. Volney P. Moonej of Los Angelee is head keeper of th Trench Rat* eoclety, which waa in stituted last June at the D. A. V national convention in Salt Lake City. The Trench Ratn correspond to th Fofty 'n Eight of the American Legion, and Cooties of thn Veteran of Foreign Wars. Since Its birth, j the organization has grown rapidly • In membership and number of “cages”. The society. In addition to Its playground activities devotes much time to charity work, specialising In care of wives and families of wounded and disabled American world war veterans, who have died or are unable to work or support their families. The national convention the women’s auxiliary of the Dlaablsd ' American Veterans of the World War will be held In this city during the same week □ Vesta Battery Service ,1s prompt and courteous at all times. Ton will find complete equipment for repairing any battery, no matter what make you have. We do any kind of electrical work on any make of car—Starter, Generator', Lighting System*. Expert workmanship at a fair price. OMAHA BATTERY COMPANY WM. J. POWERS, Manager y 2212-14 Harney Street Telephone AT. 3394 We Have Moved Down Town Harney at 20th Street I Their Amazing New Value The Coach is now priced below all comparison. 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