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To avenge our wrongs costs more
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The prune crop Of the whole state
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About the only blow that strikes q
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Note the evil results OF smoking as
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Salt IS Sheep Medicine
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Customers Always Satisfied With Results

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time we have known Of cases OF catarrh
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tive action. 1t Is well spoken OF by its
patrons and Is held alongside the best
on the market.
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CARRIERS PHARMACY.
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In 4 Novel.

IN novel.
SWELL, this heroine marries early,
must say"
''Huh?'
Page thirteen"
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Your Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root has
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have used It IN my family and they de-
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Very truly yours.
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Oct. 8, 1916 Salisbury. No.
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Logical Result.
''That girl rings true"
''Of course, she does. She's belle
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
FRANCOIS BARBE AIARBoIS PERSUADETH TForIAsJ

States for $l5,0O0,0O0, probably the
biggest real estate bargain the world
has ever known. ..
Thomas Jefferson (sce foot note)
closed this deal, comprising 76l ,00O,-
600 acres. The few acres on which
Omaha stands today are worth more
than Jefferson paid for the whole
business.
OF course, there were knockers"
even in those days and Jefferson's
enemies made fun OF him for buying
the great American desert" and pay
ing out good money that could have
been used in building postofices or
paying the salaries OF additional gov
ernment employees.
But Jefferson paid no attention to
them. He just kept the Louisiana
territory and went on about his busi-
ness.
OF course, the British were very
sorry when they heard that the
United States had bought the terri
tory, because they were just about to
take it themselves from their enemy,
Napoleon, and they wouldn't have
paid him cent for it either. They
didn't try to take it away from us.
They still remembered the Revolu-
tionary war.
Little was known of this vast ter
ritory in those days. There were no
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

Harry Zimmans hobby is opposing
public service corporations in their
every activity. He is always to be
found at Improvement club meet
ings, opposing gas franchises, fighting
against electric light contracts, boost
ing for seven-for-a-quarter street car
fares or seeking to take over the
whole flock of corporations for the
city.
Harry has a brother, Ike Zimman,
who draws salary largely for op-
posing his brothers views. Ike Zim-
man is contracting agent for the
Omaha Electric Light and Power
company. While Harry is opposing
corporate interests at an Improvement
club meeting in one end OF the city,
Ike is at the other end Of town talk
ing before another meeting in favor
Of an electric lighting contract, or
some other movement OF the cor
poration.
Asked why he and his brother
didn't agree TO stay at home and play
seven-up and thus counteract each
others influence in municipal affairs,
Ike said: 1t means my bread and
butter for me, and it means nothing
to him. We fight on every subject,
except when he is running for Office,
and then it is awfully hard to vote
for him."
Most people are mistaken in their
guess OF what constitutes the hobby
Of Senator Joseph H. Millard. They
think it is globe-trotting, or foreign
travel
True, he travels a great deal in
foreign countries, but not so much
for the sights in foreign lands. He
travels for the sea voyage. Riding
on the galloping waves Of the salty
deep is his real hobby. He says he
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

sight. His vision today is not the
strongest, but he gets along very
well and reads every night until II
o'clock to keep up with the march
of events.
With his sight regained young Nc
Cague began to work at the Union
Pacific warehouse, for the Union Pa
cific had driven some spikes by this
time, including the golden spike at
Promontory Point.
As he was too short and slight to
make much of freight pusher with
a truck, they, put him into clerical
work, where he finally drifted into
the auditing department. 1t was his
peculiar work to handle the Union
Pacific land accounts.
Then and there he developed
taste and a liking for the handling
of land matters, and then and there
followed his taste for real estate ac-
tivities. -
He quit the railroad auditing work
and drifted about the state, alighting
at a score of Nebraska towns seek
ing location. Grand Island might
HdVS udu Hllu tOudy IL HG HdQ Qe-
cided to land there. Beatrice might
have had him at the head OF bank
or real estate concern, but he did
not stay. Hastings might be sending
him to the legislature or to congress,
but he did not stay there.
No, he made the circuit and finally
rolled back into Omaha, convinced
there was no better place on the maps
then printed by the current geogra-
phies.
At IS he was president of the
American National bank here. He
tackled various enterprises, started
from the bottom four distinct times,
and is today at the head of the Nc
Cague Investment company of Oma-
ha, ex-president of the Omaha COM
mercial club and man who has taxi
en- All active part in every big move
ment in which Omaha has been in
volved for a third of century.
Next Week in This serics-"How Omaha
Got A. HOspe."
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Bv A. EDWIN LONG.

At one time John L. McCague
seemed more likely destined to be a
missionary, carrying the gospel to the
blacks OF Egypt, than to develop into
leading business man of Omaha,
Neb.N, S. A.
No joke about it. He was born in
Cairo, Egypt. That settled it for him
so far as designs on the presidency of
the United States were concerned.
For Uncle Sans fundamental law
puts the skids under the presidential
ambitions Of any man not born within
his borders.
"Johnnie" L. McCague was quite a
silver of boy before he ever heard
of Omaha, Nebraska, U. S, A. When
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Comb Honey

Liberty.
An Omaha man says there is no
such animal as personal liberty. Para
doxically, there is and there is not.
People who abide in certain tropical
climes probably enjoy personal lib
erty. They shake a tree and their
breakfast falls into their laps. No
prescribed rules OF fashion or eti-
quet disturb their routine OF the day.
They do not have party telephones
nor finger bowls. Their heat is not
turned off at 1890 p. m, by the engi-
neer OF their apartment building, nor
arc they kept in suspense by grand
jury investigations. They do not
have to kiss themselves goodbye
every time they go downtown, lest
they should be run over by an auto
mobile before they returned to home
and loved otes. They do not have to
vote themselves wet or dry every
now and then, nor run a marathon
with their wives every Sunday morn
ing to get to church before the col
lection plate had been passed. That
is one form of personal liberty.
In the higher walks Of civilization,
however, liberty becomes more and
more a chimera. From the rising of
the sun until the going down thereof,
personal liberty is but fanciful some
thing TO conjure with.
Woman has more liberty than man.
Man even talks in his sleep, because
he does not have an opportunity to
say his say during waking hours;
at least, that is the plant OF the mar
ried men. 1t said that single men
do not talk in their sleep, which seems
singular. Woman can have the-last
word, but where is the man who can
boast of having had the last word?
Woman can wear any old fashioning
of fabrics and furbelows and that goes
for style. She can wear as much or as
little as she wishes and there Is none
to say her nay. That is personal
liberty.
What liberty does mere man have,
anyway? The Statue OF Liberty on
Bedloe's Island is the figure of
woman. Whether in painting, craven
image, in song or story, liberty al
ways is feminine. What further evil
dence is needed? Woman gives and
woman takes away mans liberty. Man
imagines he is a freedman, a free
agent, with the right to pursue life,
liberty and happiness. He just -pursues
liberty, but never quite catches up.
Some day man is going to be free,
and then he will be allowed to eat
chackers in bed, wear any kind of
necktie he desires, go without a collar
if he feels inclined, smoke corncob
pipe and eat raw onions whenever he
has time and inclination. That will be
liberty. i
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Omaha Lod Makes Good at College
y By Liv1ng q Most Strenuous Life

Debating honors, oratorical honors,
class and college honors have fallen
thick upon an Omaha boy at Ne
braska Wesleyan university at Univer-
The lad is $tanley Fl. High, son Of
F. A. High, Omaha district superin-
tendent of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon
league. a.,
Young High is senior i'll Wes-
leyan university. He was president
of the freshman class and as such was
kidnapped by the sophomores and
locked in basement for days. He
soon became member of the Boost
>ers' club and is one of the livest boost
ers of the school. He is member of
the Everett fraternity. Last year he
was manager of the Coyote, the an
nual publication of Wesleyan. j
A Prize Debater.
From the first he has been de-
batter. He has debated for three years
in class, interclass and intercollegiate
debates for the school. He is recog-
nized by the professors as one of. the
best debaters the school ever had,
and is always reserved for the rebuff
tai, in which position he has on sew
eral occasions charged the enemy on
a seemingly lost field and carried
away the victory for Wesleyan.
On February l9 last he won the
Hero day oratorical contest ct Wes-
leyan with an oration prepared by
himself on BILLY" Sunday as the mod
ern hero. For this he received a
handsome cash prize and a gold
medal.
The young Omaha chap is ambi-
tious. He is not satisfied with mere
class, interclass and intercollegiate
honors. When his school work is
finished at the end of each week he
flies to Lincoln, where he catches
train for Ashland. From Ashland he
walks seven miles west where he
breaches on Sunday in little country
church. So much enthusiasm has he
stirred up there during the year that
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Grohs History of0maha
Althe truth and untruth that's fit to know

railroads in it. Tclegraphs, OF course
were unknown. The only inhabitants
were the noble red men Of the plains
The buffalo, the coyote and the 60
pher roamed at will over the vast
stretches of ground. Farms could
have been bought very cheaply III
those days.
Final deed to the property was
signed on Floreal 10, in the eleventh
year of the French republic. This
corresponded to April 80, 1908. At
that time the French were changing
everything around. They even tried
to change the months, calling April
"Floreal" because it was the month
OF flowers, a poor idea which didn't
last long.
Francois Barbe Marbois was En-
peror Napoleon's agent in the deal
and Napoleon gave him 10000 francs
for his commission. This is only about
one-twentieth OF ! per cent. Most real
estate agents today would expect at
least per cent. But Marbois couldn't
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

boats siren once more on the Mis-
souri,. He yearns for the good, old
days OF the steamboat. He reads
stories Of steamboats, and would
rather take steamboat ride than at
tend grand ball of Ak-Sar-Ben.
IF you keep after anything long
enough and hard enough, you will see
its accomplishment is his motto
When navigation shall have been
properly opened on the muddy
waters he expects to get job as
skipper.
If you have a position that calls
for capable man who is willing to
serve without any salary attached
call on DR.. D. E. jenkins, president
Of the University Of Omaha. Its just
one of his hobbies.
When the University of Omaha was
scouting around for a president, il
Just called upon DR.. jenkins. He took
the position seven years ago, and al
though he has taught part of the time
in the university, he has refused to
accept salary.
For three years, ending in 1916, ne
was member of the Board of Edu-
cation, another salaryless position.
Other positions that he is holding
and has held without pay are so
numerous that it is almost impossible
to enumerate them. He has been
president and is still member of the
Nebraska Prison Reform board; he is
one Of the officials Of the Nebraska
Presbyterian synod and is actively
connected with the Omaha Minis
teriaI union.
Billy Byrne, manager OF the
Orpheum, admits, he has hobby. The
af t. 49, = nr n -
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

would rather spend eight or ten days
on the sea out OF sight of shore than
do anything else in the world. He
was in Europe when war broke out,
and had to sail back to America with
the lights of the boat all snuffed out
through the night to keep from being
sighted by warships, That was an
experience on the sea he had not bar
gained for.
As soon as he got home and learned
the war was going to cut off Euro
pean tousng the next summer, he
began to study the sea routes of the
Pacific to the orient, Just in order to
be enjoying
"A life on the ocean wave,
And a home on the rolling deep"
c. N. Dietz has hobby for col
lecting curios of all kinds from the
farthest reaches OF the globe. He
has taste for art and literature, so
he gathers many fine paintings and
rare works of art. But he does not
stop at that. He will pay a good
price for an odd-shaped cocoanut, will
give up his dinner for button off
the coat of the king of Siam, will
lose weeks sleep to get a plume
from the tail of an ostrich in the
gardens OF Zulu chief, or bottle
Of soil from the hanging gardens of
Babylon.
"Walt Jardine's hobby Is river
navigation. He wants Uncle Sam to
spend $l5,000,000 for improving the
Missouri from Sioux City to some
where down near Kansas City. He is
back of resolutions which are before
the Nebraska and Iowa Legislature,
calling upon congress to make the
appropriation.
His dream is to hfas the steam
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
the-people of Egypt. That gave him
serious trouble later.

the-people of Egypt. That gave him
serious trouble later.
With his parents young Johnnie
moved about from place to place in
the United States, where his people
were pursuing their missionary &C
tivities. When Farnam street was lit
tie more than a buffalo pasture and
when not rail spike had been driven
west of the Missouri river, the family
splashed across the ferry and arrived
at Omaha.
While/his father was founding the
United Presbyterian church in Omaha
Johnnie was probably playing num-
ble-ty-peg on the grass where the
United States National bank now
stands.
Maybe he was not playing there,
either, for Mr.. McCague insists he
never had any real boyhood.-
Anyway, he existed around here for
a time until at II he became mes
senger boy for a transfer company
transferring freight from the Iowa
railroads to the ferry boat and from
the ferry boat to the warehouses in
the village of Omaha. He trudged
through mud and snow carrying mes
sages, and getting pretty tired by
night, for he wasN slender to excess.
Then Omaha lost him for time.
At II he was whacking mules over
the backs with blacksnake, freight
ing between Sterling and Fort Nor
gan, Colo. That was tough work.
He was either burning under the noon
blaze that smote the prairies or he
was shivering in the billiards that
gnawed their way through every
thing.
Then-ah, then-the old Egyptian
eye disease grew worse. He came
back to Omaha and in a short time
grew totally blind. For two years
this young man was blind, and during
that time neither he nor his parents
expected he would see the light of
Nebraska's sunshine again. Eventu-
ally he came under the care of an
eastern specialist and recovered his
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

he was six years old he was diggii; 9
his bare toes in the wet sands and
slime of the Mystic Nile, just cut OF
swapping reach of the crocodiles. At
other times maybe he scratched
around the sides of the Pyramids at
Gizeh seeking to climb to the top. But
mostly he was kept at home, for his
parents were very devout, serious and
studious people.
His parents were missionaries in
Egypt. That's how he chanced to be
born there. In fact, it is said, Il his
parents had not gone to Egypt, he
might not have been born there at all.
At E years his parents brought
him to America. The most notewor-
thy thing he brought with him from
Egypt was serious eye disease which
during those early years dug its pes
tilential fangs into the eyes of half
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Chapter IV-Purchase of Louisiana.

Our history now leaps across
nearly three centuries. We pass over
the Revolutionary war almost in ST.
lence. because Nebraska did not take
part in that. 1t was war in which
the thirteen colonies revolted against
King George III because he tried to
tax tea. They wouldn't stand for It.
George Washington became famous
in this war and is now FIRST in the
hearts OF his countrymen."
The famous Liberty bell was
cracked during this war and there
was some other damage to property
and considerable loss of life, but the
Americans came out victorious. The
Liberty bell was never repaired. 1t
is a total loss except as curiosity.
We come now to the purchase OF
the Louisiana territory by the United
States. This vast territory was owned
by France. Napoleon (see foot note)
was afraid the English would cap
ture it. So he sold it to the United
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

Chambers" l3-month- grandson
When Mr.. Byrne wants to get away
from the grind of managerial duties
he hies out to see this grandson, with
whom he enjoys a romp on the floor.
The parents Of the child charge this
grandfather with breaking into the
discipline of the Chambers household
by yielding to the. whims of their son,
1T sounds strange to hear Billy
call me grandpa" remarked Mr.
Byrne, as he was relating the wonder
full abilities of his namesake.
"My idea of having a good time is
to take hike out to see Billy Byrne
Chambers, because we understand
each other perfectly well and the
good times we do have" added the
Orpheum man.
Working problems in algebra is
Mrs. Z. M. Syfert's hobby when she
isn't presiding at meetings of the
Omaha Woman's club. Factoring, ex-
tracing the square root or the cube
root of anything and similar mathe-
matical undertakings are Mrs. Syfert's
greatest indoor sport.
You see, Mrs. Syfert used to be a
schoolma am before her marriage, and
the habit has strong hold on her.
Every once in while Mrs. Syfert
has haunting fear that she has for
gotten how to work out an equation,
so she will haul out her algebra book
and begin to review the problems.
Before her duties as president OF
the largest woman's organization in
the city became so arduous, Mrs. Sy-
fert took up new study each year.
She studied German, French and
music after her marriage. Mrs. Syfert
is an inveterate reader; indeed, you'd
have TO think hard to guess the name
of book she hasn't read
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Run on Religion and Psychology.

Are the people OF Omaha detaching
their minds from sordid money mat
tcrs and following higher dcalsl Are
they seeking for the better things in
life?
Either that or they are turning over
a new leaf and started on program
OF reform, il credence is to be placed
in the words of Miss Edith Tobitt,
librarian. "Omahans," says the IL
dbrarian, "are showing a leaning to-
ward religion and psychology, The de-
mand for books along these lines is
nearly swamping the library.
Since the war began and the
Billy Sunday religious program was
held, Omahans seem TO be reading
with a definite end in view.
They seem to be more sober
minded" she said, Il don't know why
they should take this attitude unless
the war has sobered them up"
While many Of the library patrons
have turned their attentions TO re-
ligion and psychology there still is a
large number who do not consider
themselves high brows" and like to
browse among the pages OF meaty
novel or magazine.
Then there is that class Of people,
Miss Tobitt says who have technical
turn Of mind. "Wc Rave tried TO cul-
tivate the technical turn OF mind in the
public. We have recently added a
large number OF technical books OF
all kinds"
Omaha people can have any kind
Of books they desire if they make a
demand for it, says the librarian.
when we see that the people become
interested in certain subjects we
usually try to get as many new books
in that line as possible. Just now we
are adding books on psychology and
religion"
What Some Wives Are Up Against.
Il do hope you will succeed in To-
eating him. were the parting words
OF a woman as she left the Office
OF Mrs. Rose Ohaus at the Welfare
board Office i'll the city hall. The
woman was referring TO her husband
whom she had not seen for more
than a year. There was bit Of
charm in her manner. She spoke
without malice Of the man who had
made life so hard for her. She
wanted TO locate her husband and to
plead with him to furnish. money for
the education of the two daughters
he left behind, when he deserted his
family. She wanted to send him a
photograph Of the girls, that he might
see how they had grown.
The woman's life story, briefly
toid, was as follows:
my father died when l was 3 years
Of age, but mother managed to keep
M: in school until ! was graduated
from high school at the age OF 10
years. The summer following my
graduation I met and married the
man, who impressed me more than
any other man Of the entire world
Ny folks approved Of the marriage.
Ny husband was superintendent Of
construction with large concern and
our prospects seemed to be roscatc.
He was 20 years Of age, well edu-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04

with a bundle or umbrella over your
head or reading a newspaper Either
hides oncoming vehicles from your
view."
Thus, it would seem, that the prac-
tice, of carrying bundles on heads
should be abated; also, it would ap-
pear, that he who runs should not
read.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-04
Lattle Human Interest Stories
Picked Up About the Toavn

Gated and apparently Of refined man.
ners. Our lives went along pleasant
ways for four years, Two children
were born. ! was desperately i'll in
a hospital when we lost the third
child. After convalescence, my hus-
band sent me and the children to
my maternal grandmother in western
Nebraska, was % years old at that
time"