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COVERED
WITH
SCALES

Eczema made Its appearance on my head In
its worst form, and ft continued spreading
until my face was covered with scales and be-
came horrid sight. Ihad fine head of hair,
seven years growth. and had to sacrificeit. 1
was In despair. The physicians had failed
oven 20 relieve me, when one recommended
CUTIoURA SOAP. My father procured a set of
CUrIoURA REMEDIES, and in three weeks the
scales left my face and the skin lost its fiorid
hue. In sir tOeeks tOds entirely cured. My
face was smooth and my complexion clearer
and finer than IL had ever been before.
Miss MARION A. SMITH, Sunbury, Pa.
SPEEDY CURE TREATMENT. - Warm baths
with CUTICURA Soar, gentle applications of
CUfIoURA (olntment), and mild doses OF CUrI.
oURA RKsoLvBHT. greatest Of humor cures.
Sold thr01ghea1 The void. Price. CuTIcURA sOos
soar aseI RssolSsss, SOC. end 81. PorrER DRU0
AND CHEM CoaF, Sole RropA. Boston.
A mw-" How 70 Cure che WoFSe eossmAs 2 mailed frso.
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county, being asked on his return why
so many more of the Mexicans were
killed, replied: ssBecause there were
so many of them.''
The second capital surrendered to
your victorious arms, and a months
occupation of Chichuahua tired you OF
peace, and you soon started to hunt
General Wool, 700 miles further in the
heart of the enemy's country. 1t was
a triumphal march, and soon you found
the mountain slopes and gorges where
another volunteer army had won un-
dying fame.
In my opinion, the battles of Buena
important of the Mexican war. Had
either resulted in disaster to the Amer
lean arms, the end would have been
vastly different, and the government Of
the country greatly changed today.
Had General Tayly lost on those fated
days, 2Ist 22d and 23d of February,
1S47, his army would have been de-
stroyed and the escaping fugitives
chased by the conquering Mexicans to
the Neuces, the occupation of the Rio
Grande, Tampulis and New Leon
abandoned, your little army would
have been cooped up in Chihuahua
before you knew it, doomed to death,
or worse than death, in Mexican pris-
ons, wearing the fetters prepared for
you before Sacramento. The peace
party would have forced treaty aban-
doning the Mexican soil and letting
California fall into the possession of
Great Britain. Had the flag been borne
down at Sacramento, you were beyond
succor or hopei your fate only word
to point q moral or adorn tale.
The gallant Price, with another regi-
ment of chivalrous sons of Missouri,
would have been surrounded by a
myriad host of bloody Greasers, and
would have been fortunate to have
escaped with remnant to this side of
river, to encounter the merciless Com
anche and Arapahos. The same treaty
would ave followed, leaving us per-
haps California and Texas to the
Neuces. Even as it was, General Price
and his little band of heroes had to
perform prodIgies of valOr to save New
Mexico. Captains Burwin, Hendley
and Bent, Waldo, Culver, Brown and
many others were victims of the feroc-
ity of the Mexican conspiraters, while
the names of Wilcox, NORM, Murphy, |
Agnew, Fisher add others must always
be remembered with pride in connec-
tion with Toas, Moro, Canada, En- |
budo and Vegas, besides many skirm- |
ishes The patriotism and bravery of |
the Missourians triumphed on these
fields, and your compatriots on many |
others later in the war.
After the victories of Buena Vista |
and Sacramento the nation was in the |
saddle, the war party in the ascendant,
and any defeat or check to the armies |
under General Scott would only have |
proved temporary. God, in His Prov
idence, permitted and directed your
victories in the interest of humanity |
and civilization. The result was the |
acquisition of Colorado, New MEXICO,
Arizona, California, Utah and Nevada,
now progressive and prosperous prov
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province was conquered-and unlike
former conquerors, you shielded the
conquered with the protecting wing of
your country's flag; established laws,
restored society and secured them from
The merciless Indians.
Perhaps the most fortunate and re-
markable triumphs of the achievements
of the marvellous success of The First
Missouri regiment, was that winter
march over the crags and canyons of
the Rio Colorados, amid snow and
sleet, and treaty of peace with the
powerful, brave and unconquered tribes
of the NavijOs. History hardly pre-
sents parallel. With no foe to en-
counter, no lance to break, you start,
IN obedience to orders, on another
march of 700 miles through an enemy's
country, appalling from natural obsta-
cles, without commissarv or paymas-
ter, beleaguered by treacherous Mexi-
cans at all times. You take your
Christmas dinner at Brcito, after a
sharp appetizer of half an hour, in
which five hundred of you put to flight
and disabled fourteen hundred of the
best lancers of the Mexican nation.
The old Vera Cruz contingent Of
Santa Anna-then Ell Paso-furnishes
you its luxurious fruits and wines for
month, and recruited, you cross the
sixty miles OF desert, called "The Jour-
ney of Death" Thence, in twenty days,
amid perils from foe in front, prairie
fires, thirst and depleted rations, you
confront with 925 men (but they were
all Missourians) an army of 1890
Mexicans entrenched and fortified with
cannon and small arms, accompanied
by the senoritas and danes of Chichua-
hua, a wagon load of specie, and an
other of fetters TO bind you as pris-
oners
Three hours of steel TO steel, sulphur
GUS smoke, and Saxon might-three
hundred lie on the bloody field, and as
many more have surrendered to your
prowess. Your loss, only two killed
and twelve wounded. One of your
privates, Smith Cummins, of Clay
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The following is the lineup:
Touch dowus-Ryus, 2; Tillery, 2.
Goals kicked-Hickm man, 4.

Touch downs-Ryus, 2; Tillery, 2.
Goals skicked-Hickman,4 a.
The play, in detail, is as follows:
w. NJ. A. won the toss and took the
ball. Holman kicks 10 NJ. V. C.'s To-
yard line. NJ. v. G. fumbles, and q
w. M. A. man falls on the ball on the
15-yard line. Hickman hurt IN the
scrimmage, but resumes play. Stark
took the ball, but dropped 1t when
tackled. A w. NJ. A. man fell on it..
NJ. v. C. failed to gain their five yards,
and w. NJ. A. got the ball. Ryus
through left tackle two yards. Fer
guson hurt and carried off field insen-
sibIe and removed to town. Ball on
lO-yard line. Marshall takes Fer
guson's place. Gunlack through tackle
three yards. Fisher around end five
yards. Tillery makes touchdown
through tackle. Ball in play five
minutes. Hickman kicked goal.
NJ. ". C. kicked fifteen yards; Hol-
man brought back fifteen yards; Stark
around end thirty yards, taking ball
out of the side line. Warwick brought
it in and gained twenty yards. NJ. V.
G. protested, claiming that the ball
should have been brought in for a
scrimmage. Referee decides in favor
OIL w. M. A. In the next scrimmage
Christy was hurt, Brigham taking his
place. Gunlack around end four yards |;
Tillery, one yard. Follmer around end
two yards; Gunlack, two yards Fisher,
four yards; Tillery. two yards; Ryus,
three yards. Follmer took the ball,
but lost two yards. Stark through
guard four yards; Ryus, one yard /;
Fisher, one yard. Ryus makes touch
down. Six minutes Of play since last
touchdown; two touch-downs in eleven
minutes of play. Hickman kicked goal.
NJ. v. C. kicked off twenty-five
yards. w. NJ. A. brought back fifteen
yards. Stark gained ten yards around
end; Ryus, fifteen yards around end.
w. M. A. fumbled. NJ. v. C. got ball.
In the next scrimmage Stark broke
through M. v. C.'s line and runner.
NJ. v. C. lost five yards. M. v. c..
fumbled. Fisher fell on the ball. NJ.
v. C. got the ball on tumble. NJ. V.
C. tried to punt, but failed. w. NJ. A.
got ball. Stark, twelve yards around
right end. Ryus gained three yards
through tackle. w. M. A. lost two
yards. Fisher gained three yards;
Ryus, three yards; Tillery. one yard;
Gunlack, two yards. w. NJ. A. lost
five yards: gained two yards. Time
called with ball on NJ. " C.'s 10-yard
line.
Score, end of first half-W. nj. A,
12; NJ. V. c., 0.
Play began at $40. M. v. C.
kicked twenty yards; Gunlaca, ten
yardsp Ryus, three yards; Fisher, two
yards; Tillery, five yards; Fisher, two
yards; Ryus. four yards; Ryus, two
yards; Stark, three yards; Gunlack,
two yards; Ryus, four yards; Stark,
two yards; Fisher. five yards; Fisher,
two yards; Stark yard. Ryus makes
q touchdown in six minutes of play.
Hickman kicks goal.
NJ. v, C. kicked twenty-five yards.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-10-03
SUMMER Is GONE.
BY J. L. n.

Written for the Intelligencer.
Now comes the drear Autumn with quick
Gay Summer hath vanished at the sight
of her face.
The leaves on the branches are withered
and dry,
And all things are tending to early decay.
The groves seem to sigh and all nature to
The beautiful birds from the forests have
The flowers are dropping and hanging
their head,
While leaves scared and dried appear in
their stead.
Yet, Autumn, / love thee, though clouds
and dark storm,
Portentious aRd gloomy, have shrouded
The emblem OF man when declining In
His pleasures receding are mingled with
tears.
But still thou art welcome. thrice well
come to me,
For fruit and not flowers were indebted
to thee.
Thou fillest the barns with abundance of
That children of want may net ask bread
In vain.
And Winter, though piercing and cold is
thy blast,
Thy beautiful evenings are pleasantly
passed
In social communion with friendship and
love,
While Luna in splsndor Is rolling above.
Thou art clothed with garments OF snow,
and the earth
Is chilled by thy breath aud has silenced'
her mfrth.
Thou deckest the earth In q diamond
sheen,
And fields turn to white which so lately
were green.
Thou toucheth the rivulet dancing in
mirth,
Congealing its springs in the desolate
earth.
Thou bindest the rivers in strong icy
chain,
And swayest thy scepter over mountain
and plain.
The poor and the homeless thou fillest
with dread.
The rich should remember their bounties
to spread,
That they, when the winter OF Death shall
have come,
May mud a life where is no Wfuter or
Autumn.
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PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS LEX
INGT0N DISTRIOT-FIRST ROUND.

lhdIUh DlbThlOI- -flh6I hU0ND.
Dover and Providence lat Providenes
October ga.
HigRinsville Station October AS.
Malta Bend and Grand Pass (at GranC
Pass-October 10-11.
Waverly Station-October Hip.
Longwood and High Point (at Long
wood-October 1918.
Knob Noster and Dresden (at Dresden
October 24-25.
Lamonte Station-October2 25 %.
neutrality-suspicious. 81 and Novem
ber 1.
Columbus Circuit (at Columbus)-No
vember 7-8.
Odessa and Marvin lat Marvin)-No'
vember 14-15.
Wellington (at Bates City)-Novembel
1915.
Montserrat lat Montserrat)- -Novembel
2l-22.
Herndon and Houstonia lat HoustoniaI
November 1928.
Sweet Springs and Blackwater (al
Blackwater) November 29 80.
Corder and Blackburn (at Blackburn)-
December 5-6.
EImwood and Bethel Cat EImwood)-
December 81.
The district stewards will meet at Hig-
ginsville at 10 a. m, October 10th.
J. NJ. Boon, p. Z.
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W. M. A. VICTORIOUS.
The First Round on the Grid
iron a Triumph for the
Academy.
MISSOURI VALLEY NEVER SCORED.
The Home Team Plays q Great Game
Score, "a to 0.

Wentworth Military Academy is
going to play foot ball this season.
Their first round on the gridiron was
with Missouri Valley College, at Hig-
ginsville, last Saturday, and resulted
in a great victory for W. NJ. A. The
Missouri Valley team is considered u
strong one. It Is q strong one. Brig
ham, the star Missouri University
man, is the coach, and played in the
game.
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Low Rates.

On account of st. Joe fair and races at
st. Joe, Mo-, September 9th to 18th the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company makes
. rate of one fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale September 9th to 18th.
Priest of Pallas parade, Karnival Krew
and Kansas City Interstate Fair, Kansas
City, Mo-. October 9Th to 10th, one fare for
the round trip. Tickets on sale October
4th to 10th, good returning October 11th.
A. 8. LOOMS, Agent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02

i'm Santo Domingo there is a species
of large wild dog descended from the
hounds brought to that island by tho
Spaniards.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02
IT'S VERA WEEL.

It's vera weel, throughout the day.
When ia EN- up wi wark or play.
To think a man can live Away
Wfoot a wiley
It's vera weeI when cla'es are new,
To think they'll always last just so,
And look Is well they do moo,
Wfoot WHEY.
But when the holes begin to show,
The stitches rip, the buttons go,
What in the warls man to do
Wioot wiley?
It's vera weel when skies are clear.
When frien's are true, and lassies dear,
To think yen gang through life, nae fear,
Wioot WHEY.
But clouds will come the skies athwart.
Lassies will marry, frien's maun part:
What then can cheer your saddened heart?
A dear, wee WHEY
It's vera weel when young and hale,
But when you're auld. and crazed and frail,
And your blithe spirits gin to fail,
You'll want a WHEY
But mayhap then the lassie dear
VIII treat your offers wi sheer;
Because you're cranky, gray and Sere,
Yen get nae WHEY
Then haste We, haste, We silly loon;
Rise up and seek about the toon,
And get Heavens greatest earthly boon,
A wee bit WHEY
Great Thoughts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

According to a musical journal
there are in London PA, 900 women and
girls who are learning music
"A Coventry England) firm is ex-
ecuting an order for $50 bicycles for
the use of officers of the Salvation
Army.
The sum of 100000 is annually paid
by the gambling institution at Monte
Carlo for the support of the clergy OF
Monaco.
A Mohamme6an congress is soon to
be held in Cairo for the purpose of unit
:ag Moslems all over the world to re-
store the solidarity of Islam"
Prof. Henry Jones, upon whom the
University of GLASGOW has conferred the
degree of Ii. D., began life as a shoe.
maker in a small village in Denbigh-
shire, England.
The first prize in the freshman ora
torical contest, some days ago, at Earl
ham college, Richmond, Ind, was won
by full-blooded Indian girl. Miss Ger.
trude Simmons, of Deadwood, S. d.
The time-honored custom of hold
ing a 'shirt-taiI'' parade on ST. Patricl's
night was observed by Williams college
students. The freshmen. clad in night
robes, marched through the quiet
streets of Wiliamstown and then
around a huge bonfire INDUCED in suck
antics as only college men enjoy.
Miss Sarah Dennis, colored
woman, occupied the pulpit of the First
Methodist church in San Francisco, Cal,
two Sundays ago and preached an ex-
cellent sermon. She prefaeed her ser
mon by leading the congregation in
singing a hymn Her home is in Los
Angeles, where she does mission work in
the slums and prison.
1t is said that the new bonnet which
Mrs. Ballington Booth has designed for
the fair american Volunteers will
make the girls look much prettier than
did the poke bonnets of the Salvation
Army. In thus selecting an attractive
uniform for recruits Mrs Booth shows
how we'll she understands human ma
ture.
Prof James Seth, of Brown uni
versity, who has been appointed profess
| sor of ethics in the Sage school OF
philosophy of Cornell university, was
born in Edinburg in 1860. He was
graduated at Edinburg university in
1881, carrying off all honors in philos-
ophy, after which he won the Ferguson
philosophical scholarship, which is open
| to graduates of all the Scottish uni
| yerSitieS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02
THE GHOST TRAIN.
BY CY wARNIAN.

When the Rio Grande Western was
narrow gauge road it was very crooked.
Even in the Utah desert there were
many curves among the sand hills that
have been piled up during the past few
thousand years. a locomotive of
a type known as sewing machines, be-
cause all their machinery was in sight
was trying to make spur for the
general managers special, against
which she had d time order. The time
was growing alarmingly short, and the
driver of the light engine knew that
the man on the special, with the gem
eral manager behind him, would be
crowding the limit. These sewing
machines" were famous riders. The
springs were SO light and SO perfectly
adjusted that one of these locomotives
would ride as easily to the engineer
as Pullman car does to a commercial
traveller, with one seat for himself and
another for his feet. AS the little ma
chine rocked round the corners, scream
ing at every curve, the engineer and
fireman kept a sharp lookout ahead,
at the same time counting the minutes
and reckoning the miles that still lay
between them and the spur.
Down the desert one of the swiftest
engines on the road was trembling
away toward the sewing machine, and
at the end of each minute the two 10
comotives were 11a miles nearer each
other.
To be allowed to pull the general
manager is an honor earnestly striven
for by engineers. and when once OBJ
tanned it is carefully guarded. What
ever record a man makes at the head CT
such train is sure to count for or
against him, since he is then direct
1y under the eye of the management
The chances are always in favor OF a
good run, for the train dispatcher, with
his own reputation at stake, can be de
pended upon to keep the track clear
He will hold passenger train ten min
utes rather than hold the special five
Another point in favor of the special en-
gineer is the fact that he is due at ne
particular point at any specified time
and having no time card to hold hin
down he may regulate the speed of tbs
train TO suit himself. He is always al
experienced runner who knows tn,
road-knows every low joint and higi
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02
PECULIAR ROBBERIES.
Cabs, Elephants, Wagons and Even Hoasel
Stolen by Bold Thieves.

Cabs, Elephants. Wagons and Even Houses
Stolen by Bold Thieves.
Now and again it happens that q
genius in crime arises who considers
the ordinary robbery unworthy of his
abilities, and therefore he goes in for
removing articles of an extraordinary
nature For example, take the man
who stole the coffee stall the other day.
1t was a nice coffee stall, replete with
urns, cups and saucers, plates. knives
and forks and spoons, and a good sup
ply OF comestibles, ranging from shop
eggs to Jumps of cake cut with mathe-
NAUTICAL precision.
The stall stood before its owners
home, and behind some old ratings of
iron and wood. The full audacity of
the robbery will be realized on learn
ing that the thief did not take down the
ratings or even wait for a suitable
time. He just selected a moment when
the proprietor was out of the way, and
then took out the stall at six o'clock
in the evening, just the owner was il
the habit of doing when about to set
up his travelling coffee shop near n
large gas factory mile or two away.
The perpetrator of this extraordinary
robbery was detected through the
agency of a friend of the real propri-
| the stall.
| Quite recently there have been two
or three cases recorded in the papers
of cab stealing; this can
quite understand, for a horse ano.
cab is a nice little property, where
| with one can earn decent Hv
| ing. But what shall be said of the
man who stole an elephant? This same
elephant escaped from a circus process
sion that was vending its way through
| the streets of a suburb of Liverpool.
The great animal wandered for many
miles and eventually stopped at a farm.
the proprietor whereof promptly an
nexed the valuable brute, and was
foolish enough to sell it to the next cir
Gus proprietor that CHANGED to be in
the vicinity. The farmers reason for
getting rid of the elephant was the pro
digious quantity of food the animal
consumed. We need hardly say that
the whole silly proceeding ended in
the conviction of the farmer, though he
got off with three months imprison-
ment.
There are at least two cases on rec
ord of man stealing house. One Oh
these was a portable corrugated iron
structure, which ran on wheels and
belonged to great contractor, WHOSE
manages used it as a pay box, while
the other was an ordinary semi-de
tached suburban residence. How could
such house be stolen? Well, the al
legged thief simply took possession 81
it, put himself in a state of siege, an6
then set the owner at defiance. After
a long and most exasperating course o.
Jaw proceedings the real owner recov
cred his house and the claimant wa
dislodged.
| Horses and vans have been stolen, O
course; so have whole houses of furni
ture, if we may use the term. The lat
ter unique robbery is worked in thi
way: 4 householder going abroad viii
perhaps warehouse his furniture a
some well-llnown repository, and tn
thieves Will contrive to impersonat'
him, and in many cases get possession
Of the whole of his household goods
| Amusing journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02
WONDERS OF SkIAGRAPHY.

An Invisible Power That Can Work in
the Dark.
Now that it is has been shown that it
is possible to take photographs with
dark light it is obvious that we must
attach a deeper and a much wider mean
ing to the word light than has hereto
fore been ordinarily understood. The
fact is, the eye is able to see very lit
tie. 1t can appreciate and turn to ac-
count in producing impression upon
the retina but a very limited portion,
barely more than an octave of tha
waves or vibrations that may actuata
the ether or medium which pervades all
space. The ear is more sensitive in
strument for sound vibrations, since
most people can appreciate the notes
within the compass of a piano, but even
here there must be a limit. Some
persons cannot recognize the extreme
top notes or rapid fluctuations until the
tension of the strings is reduced, when
the note is appreciated, having been
brought down to the level of the ears
capacity and the vibrations reduced in
frequency. In the same way the pho
tographic plate has brought within our
vision countless stars which the eye,
even aided by the telescope, fails to
see. The sensitive plate, in other
words, records infinitely more than the
eye, and this property is utilized to
bring things within the range of hui
man vision. So it is with the "X'' or
Roentgen rays, and doubtless there are
other rays which have greater pene-
trative power. Opacity is, indeed, a
phenomenon existing merely for an
eye like ours, which, if constructed a
little differently, would enable us to
see easily through walls. Perhaps it
is a wise provision that it is not So
The fact that photographs havebeen
taken with no apparent source of light,
appears to be due to the property of
probably most things, of absorbing GER
tain rays and giving them out again in
the dark. Thus, if transparent pho
tograph proof has been freely exposed
to the light and then taken into the
dark room and placed over sensitive
plate for some time the plate on devel-
opment will give a distinct negative
image. The same thing is illustrated
in a stronger manner in luminous
paint, which absorbs light and gives
it out again so that it is visible to the
eye in the dark. We have heard some
people assert that on reading a paper
closely in a railway train which is just
rapidly entering a railway tunnel they
are enabled to read on for quite few
| seconds or 50 in spite of the darkness.
| 1t is quite possible that it is due to the
paper giving up the light which it has
| absorbed.-LondonL Lancet.