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THE ROMANCE UF
 A RED CROSS NURSE

the hour when the fever was coolest and lucid moment prevailed.
 q am sorry to have you leave me-sor- rier than I can tell. In fact you remind me very much of some one l know Tn the states. If only my eyes were clear so that I could see! I cannot tell why 1t is, maype it is the fever, but you certainly remind me great deal of her." .,
 "Is she a very dear friend Of yours she asked, her voice trembling slightly
 "Yes, very; but we had little dii1er- ence before I left home. She doubted me- and I-well perhaps I doubted her, for In the last few weks she did not seem to me the woman who had promised to be my wife, Sister Rose," he said, "I will remem- Der you, and when am away shall think of you often-oftener perhaps than ought"
 The next day Sister Rose was transfer red. She went to Siboney, and from there a few weeks later, she went home.
 It was two months before Allyn spencer recovered sufficiently to be brought nome on the ambulance ship-a mere Wreoh ol his former self. He was carried rom lhe boat to his home. His first question on reaching home was for his hancee. he had heard from her only few times ana
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Allyn Spencer, millionaire and man-about- town. was as much in love as any man could well be with two parties. His ale glance was divided between love of country and affection for Grace Drew, herself the daughter of a millionaire, and one of the society girls of Cobridge.
 T could not love thee, love- so much, loved not honor more," he murmured in the ear of his fiance one evening when war and lowe had been the themes of con versation; but she. doubting maid, shook her head and sighed, for well she knew that no power of war would have been suf- hcient to draw her away, and she measur- ed her lovers regard by her own.
 Nevertheless Allyn Spencer joined the vol unteers and began to attend army drills and take turns at camp life. Grace Drew observed this sorrowfully and one evening, when her lover came to call on her, re- splendent in uniform and brass buttons, she said to him, If you are really going, dear-and you are-why not let me go too? could go as a Red Cross nurse and nurse you if you are wounded!
 Ah, but you would nurse other fellows too," said Spencer, shaking his head. "No, my sweetheart, must leave you at home and when the war is over I shall
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to say of him, "He's no hotel general" which meant a good deal, because a great many generals at that time seemed to be mere pottcries who ate course dinners and changed their clothes and lolled in easy chairs. But that wasn't so of Wheeler. No sooner had he reached Tampa than orders, were given for the locating of his divisional headquarters, his tents were up, his cot set out, and the old man was set tied down to the privations and the rack ct of camp life after lapse of 33 years.
 Once I asked him how it seemed to be back in uniform again, and once more to be spending his days on horseback.
 .I feel" he said, ''as if had had about three weeks leave and was simply return ing to my usual duties as general of cav alry."
 Much has been crowded into his life since last he had performed those duties, and 1t Is significant of the great impress army life leaves on a mans character, that though years and years may pass, he swings back into the life again with no shock of surprise and no sense of change
 General Wheeler was happier camping in a dusty field under the lea of rail- road or in little cleared patch amid the rain-soaked forests of palms than he ever was in the great hotel at Tampa, to which he seldom went unless he had busi ness with some of the sleek, table d'hote warriors. When he was with them he transacted his affairs in a nervous hurry and got out-as If the company tired him, which no doubt it did.
 If you sought him at his tent toward ev- ening when the rush of affairs slackened a little, he was ever cordial in his well come, but with certain manifestation of bashfulness, as though you had done him quite an honor by dropping in.
 He is a deep stuoent of history, in the
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know it? said Grace sweetly, land I have received my commission. l sail tomorrow on the Solace!'
 "ImpossibleP exclaimed Mrs. Drew, sink ing into the chair Impossible! Your fa- ther will never consent"
 But it was not impossible; and, with or without papa's consent, Grace Drew sailed away on the Solace next day, while all the Drew family and Drew acquain- tances gathered on the wharf amid smiles and tears and bouquets, to say goodbye to the society girl, who was going to nurse the wounded of our army in Santiago.
 The surgeons in the improvised hospital at Santiago de Cuba wondered at the vol unteer Red Cross nurse who insisted on wanting to nurse very sick people. A news paper from the states had reached the hos- pital and in the newspaper 1t stated that a long list of wounded were to be brought from the hills back of Santiago into the city as soon as circumstances would per- init. The paper was four days old. and the Red Cross nurse who was known as Sister Rose, read it and realized that by this time the wounded should be expected to ar rive One name in the long list caught her eye and the ominous words "Shot through the right arm and lung," dazzled before
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Electrically lighted throughout dnclud- ing lights at the head of each berth), the North h-Western Limited, which leaves Chi cago daily at 630 p. m., and reaches St. Paul and Minneapolis early next morni. g, is regarded by the travelling public as the highest development in railway science. This train is equipped with buffet, smok- ing and library cars, regular and com partment sleeping cars, and luxurious din- ing cars.
 The principal summeh hesorts in Wis consin are most easily reached via the Chi cago 6 NorthWestern railway, "the pio- neer line west and northwest of Chicago" ]"
 All ticket agents sell tickets via this popular route. s*s
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INTERESTING SKETCH
 OF GEN. WHEELER

!. O'Donnel Bennett in Chicago Journal.
 Among the personalities l came to know fin the course of nearly three months fair ly close association with the army, that of Major General Joseph Wheeler stands out as the most amiable, yet the most soldier ly, the most dashing and still the least assertive, the most open and at the same time the most cautious.
 From the start he was the soldiers beau heartily by the volunteers of the north, and ad. red by those from the so..h. He was more and more highly esteemed as the campaign progressed from days of preparation at Tampa to days of fight ing around Santiago.
 At the start soldiers and civilians used
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then her letters seemed to have something less than natural feeling in them They were strained and strangely insincere.
 One evening she came to call on him with her mother and at sight of her, all of his you," he said. "Sometimes in the hospital I could almost picture your face"
 "How peculiar said Miss Drew search ing him closely.
 "Yes," turning away his eyes, guiltily, Miss Drew thought, "and in the evenings when was delirious with that horrible fe- yer, I was sure you passed my cot"
 Every interesting!"
 It was only two weeks after that before the marriage of Allyn Spencer and Grace Drew was announced. They were to be married in the early fall
 One evening as the two sat talking in Allyn said:
 "There is one thing I feel that l ought to confess to you-before we are married Allyn had frequently alluded to something on his conscience but on all such occas- ions Grace had adroitly turned the conver- sation; but no wshe smiled innoeently and said, "Why what can it be Allyn?"
 'That Red Cross nurse who took care of me during the fever at Santiago"
 "You have mentioned her very often."
 "Yes, and once I almost thought that I was in love with her."
 Strange" said Miss Drew, and then she added, "Never mind now Allyn, but if you are very good, perhaps, sometime l will tell you secret!
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her eyes as she read!
 '.They will surely bring him here," she said to herself, reading the name over again.
 And bring him there they did! For that very afternoon the wagons arrived with the loads of wounded men; and that night at twilight Sister Rose found herself beside white cot, which somehow or other possess ed more attraction to her than any other hospital cot she had ever seen.
 American iron bedsteads had been ob- tained- for this improvised hospital; and, on the whitest pillows of all, by pale figure, dirty and wounded, but inexpressi- bly interesting to Sister Rose, who hover ed about strengthening the clothes and touching the hot brow of the fever stricken, wounded patient who lay tossing on 1t in delirium. Every night at twilight Sister Rose took her place in the ward, relieving the day nurse. She made her appearance with a bowl of broth in hand, and from one cot to another she went giving the evening meal, but stopping longest. it seemed to her, at the one cot which DO at- tracted her.
 One evening as she came with bowl and tray to relieve the day nurse, the patient. who was beginning to recover conscious ness, said to the day nurse, T am sorry to have you go, Sister, were it not that the other good sister comes." The day nurse smiled, but the other good sister blushed furiously, and the day nurse de- parted, wondering why 1t was that the Sister Rose blushed so often and so easily.
 But the patient on the cot was beginning to convalesce, and the yellow fever after running its course was less severe. Sister Rose, who had asked to attend the sick est of the patients, knew that in a short time she would be transferred, and one evening as she sat by the cot she told her patient that she must leave him. It was
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COMPARISONS, ETC.

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making of which he had no small part, and more of which he had observed at first hand as other men made it. What he knew he recounted admirably and with shy hint of diffidence which was very fascinating. A wise commentator he was, too, and when he told a story of war or politics, events seemed to fall into logi-' cal arrangement and the lesson of them to stand out boldly. He had great fund of stories about the latter-day Bonapa- rtes, several of whom he had known in timately, one at West Point and others in the walks of both civil and military life. Frol,, them he had learned much concerning the most exalted members of the family. Particularly well had he known Colonel Boneparte of the chasseurs d'Afrique, in speaking of whom he said: '"The colonel once told me that at the very time the Prince Imperial was killed in zululand, the Bonapartists had an im- mense fund at their disposal, and by a carefully conceived plan had made ready for a coup which the colonel said he had no doubt would have seated the boy on his fathers throne. He doubtless would have remained there, too, for from his kinsmen learned he was a lovable lad and clever enough to have held his own"
 Many time, so the general said, he had urged this or that Bonapartst who showed particular promise to brace up and prove himself worthy the big things that always seemed dancing just beyond the reach of that fated family.
 "But," added the general, "a kind of lethargy seemed to have laid Its hold on them, and they preferred to amuse them- selves with their books and pleasant oc- equations than to seek distinction in poli- tics or war. With some of them too rich dinners were the secret of an inertia which angered me, but which probably made for the continued peace of France"
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h hSIMPLECATARRH CURE

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The age-herald., 1898-08-21

Take your Sunday ride to East Lake. The only double track electric road in the city. Band concert. Finest park in the south. Take East Lake cars on First and Second ave- nues. If
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gives the consumers the very best To- bacco they can get. Two ounces for 10 cents. It Is fast winning its way to public favor. Try 1t.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-16
THE LADY
One OF the Rest Amateur Performances
Eyer Given in the City.

The lady Ministries entertainment at the
opera house, Monday night, demonstrated
again the unusual talent which is pos
sessed by the young ladies and gentlemen
of our city. The entertainment was first
class from start to finish, and never was a
more appreciative audience assembled IN
the opera house, than that which gathered
there Monday evening.
Mrs. Frank Geyer assumed the manage
ment OF the entertainment, and a large
part of It's success is due TO her. She has
had considerable experience in theatrical
lines, and her appearance on the stage
was greeted with applause.
We would like to comment on zach
number of the program separately, but as
the program was a full one, we will be
unable to do 50. Each number was we'll
chosen by the manager, and well carried
forward by the performers.
The grand cake walk, which concluded
the program, was the first ever INDUCED
in by the ladies and gentlemen OF our
city. With the colored population it is a
frequent occurrence, but never before
have our young ladies and gentle
men taken a hand in it. The cake, u
triumph OF 1.-THE culinary art, was awarded
to Mr.. Frank Nicholson and Miss Maidey
flanagan. Immediately after the close
OF the entertainment, Mr.. Nicholson and
Miss flanagan invited their friends up
on the stage, where the FAKE was cut and
served.
The proceeds of the concert will be used
to finish up the inside of the new Caiho-
lie church.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-16
C SHORT-STOPS.

A nice line of wall paper, from &c up, at
A. Egle's. 4-9-2m
MONEY TO LoAN.-No red tape. Inquire
of ]. @. P~lattenburg. tt
Go to Wittenberg, the tailor, for your
new spring suit. He will make it to fit
you. 4-9-tf
WANTED-Work for colored boys. Ten,
twelve and fourteen years. Apply at the
INTELLIaEECER office. ii
Mr.. j.. o. Lesueur is now a country
gentleman, having moved into the
Stramcke residence, two miles south OF
town.
We can send our readers the Semi
Weekly Kansas City Times at reduced
rates. Call early. This offer only lasts a
few weeks. tt
Spring humors, boils, pimples, erup-
tions, sores, may be completely cured by
purifying the blood with Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
A torpid liver robs you OF ambition and
ruins your health. De Wits Little Early
Risers cleanse the liver, cure constipation
and all stomach and liver troubles. Day
q Shelby, Leading Druggists. 4-2tf
It is a great leap from the old fashioned
doses of blu e-mass and n%auseous physics
10 the pleasant little pills known as De
Wits Little Early Risers. They cure
constipation, sick headache and bilious
ness. Day & Shelby, Leading Druggists.
w~arrenaburg Star: Frances l.. Price
has filed suit against her husband, George
Price, for divorce. The couple were mar
riei December IS, 1887, and quit living
to gether in May, 1894. Mrs. Price asks
divorce on grounds of desertion and nom
support. J.. w. Suddath is her attorney.
1t will be heard at Warrensburg.
The pupils of Prof. Rudolph Richter
will give a public recital in the chapel OF
the Baptist college this evening. This
will be the first public recital given by
the music class of Baptist college this
year. Prof. Richter has one of the best
classes in music in the city, and their
recital will be greatly enjoyed by the
lovers of music.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-16

The Chicago & Alton, on Saturday,
April 80, 1898, will sell excursion tickets
from Higginsville to Chicago and return
at $3.50.
Excursion tickets sold at the above low
rate will be good for passage only on
special train due to arrive Chicago Z a. M,
Sunday, May l, 1893. They will be good
for:return passage only on special train
due to leave Chicago IL p. M, Sunday,
May ], 1898.
Tickets at above rate can be obtained
only at the ticket offices of the company.
Passengers paying on trains will be
charged regular fare. Tickets sold at the
rate quoted above will be accepted for
passage in Palace Reclining Chair Cars,
free of extra charge, and also in Pullman
Tourist Sleeping Cars, which will be
carried through to Chicago In above
special train. Rate per double berth TO
Chicago, one way, in Pullman Tourist
Sleeping Car, only 81. Returning, these
Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars will be
carried IL special train due to leave
Chicago IL p. M, Sunday, May l, 1898.
Rate per double berth from Chicago only
81. baggage will not be checked upon
tickets sold At the rates quoted above.
Bicycles will be checked at the usual
extra charge.
For further Information, time of trains,
and tickets, apply to
Ii. q. STIDHAM,
Ticket Agent, Chicago s. Alton Railroad,
HiERinsvills, Mo. 4-16t2
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-16
LEROY FARMER.

A nice line of wall paper. from DC up. al
A. Egle's. 4-9.2m
For the latest styles in neckwear, go to
II. Sinauer. 4-9t2
MONEY To LoAN.-No red tape. Inquire
of ]. Q. P~Iattenburg. Il
Mr.. John w. Vaughan, OF neal Dover.
was a pleasant caller at our office Thurs
day.
Wittenberg, the tailor, ma kes suits as
low as the lowest, and they ara as good as
the best. 4-9-tf
WANTED.-A white woman TO do gem
eraI homework. Apply at the IHTELLI-
aENoER office. IT
WANTED.-To buy a half in teresl In a
paying business in Lexington Address
Box 119, Sweet Springs, Mo. 4-2.2t*
The protracted meeting which. had beer
in progress for three weeks al the Meth
odist church, was closed Wednesday
night.
The Kriehn building, occupied by
Krlehn & Wilker, and Eggleston &
Ewing, received a coat OF paint, this
week, and looks much improved.
Mr.. BrIghtwelI Is taking the
ton of children OF school age in this
school district. II he begins to ask you a
lot of questions about your children,
don't hit him, but answer the Questions.
Thirty-five years make a generation.
That is how long Adolph Fisher, of
ZanesVille, o., suffered from piles. He
was cured by using De WitL's Witch
Hazel saIve. Day & Shelby, Leading
Druggists. 4-2tf
Miss Minnie Davenport, OF st. Louis,
who is trimmer for Miss Lucy Davfe' mil
linery establishment, is here now ready
customer. Ladies, call at once. New
stock just in. 3 .19tf
In the case of narney VS.. the Mi ssOuri
Pacific railroad, being a suit for dai uages
for the death OF her husband, in. the
circuit court, Mrs. Harvey was aw: mded
5000 Tuesday. The case was appeal ed 20
the supreme court.
The farmer, the mechanic and the
bicycle rider are liable to pected eats
and bruises. De Wits Witch Hazel SalVe
is the best thing to keep on hand 1t
heals quickly, and is a we'll known cune
for piles. Day & Shelby, Leading Drug
gists. 4-2tf
L. A. Seminary will undergo \ co Rsld-
cradle improvement this ummer. The
school will close on the 18th day of May,
and then carpenters and brick mpIsons
will go to work to build a new front, and
to put the whole building in mo 1ern
repair.
Iduna Literary Society of Central Col
Iege will give an Entertainment at the
opera house Monday evening, April 18th,
In honor of their birthday. the society
having reached the age of "sweet six
teen." The society never fails to give the
audience an evening OF real pleasure and
instruction.
Palmyra SPECTATOR: "Prof. Edgar Wat
son, formerly OF this city, who is now
te aching at Lexington, Mo-, has been ap-
pointed to a change of the Methods
church at Salisbury Prof. Watson will
hold his position at Lexington until the
close of the school term, but in September
will join theM Missouri conference and de-
vote his life 10 tbe ministry"
There are some persons who make IL II
rule, when they come ~ nav thei' IlX"-.
to complain TO tao coli Ito . ~ ,ht
sssessmenG Was TOO high. TIE collector
has nothing tO do with that. The county
court will sit AS II board of appeals on
you have any complaint, make 1t to them.
They are the only persons who can make
any change for you.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-16
DEATHS.


Died, in HigginsvilIe, April 10, 1898, OF
heart trouble, Mrs. Elizabeth Siebel, wife
of Fred Siebel, aged 81 years, 9 months
and Is days.
Died, at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. j. l.. Ennis, 1881 Vernon avenue, st.
Louis, Mo-, on Saturday. April 9th, Mrs.
Mary Ann Carroll, aged so years, l month
and % days.
Mrs. Carroll was born February 2, 1918,
at Staunton, Va. Her maiden name was
Fitzpatrick. She married Mr.. Charles e.
Carroll about 1888. in Lexington, Va. In
1912 they moved to Missouri and settled
in Lexington. The family resided here
till two years after the death of the hus-
band and father, which occurred about
fifteen years 60. Then, as the children
had all grown up, some being married,
Mrs. Carroll removed to st. Louis and
lived with her daughter, Mrs. j. l.. Ennis,
where she died.
Mrs. Carroll was the mother OF seven
children, five OF whom are yet living:
Mrs. Fleta Turner, of Kansas City; Miss
Mary j., Charles C., Daniel b. Carroll and
Mrs. Ennis, all of st. Louis. Mrs. T.. II.
Willis, of CarroIlton, the only child of
Burris Carroll, deceased, is her grand
laughter, anu attended the Iuneral mere
Tuesday. Mrs. Carroll was u sister OF
Mrs. John p. Herr, of Mayhem. and has
many relatives and hosts of friends In
this county.
The writer of these lines remembers
that in 1856 the Carroll family lived on
South Twentieth street, about two
blocks south of where Mr.. Ed McGrew
now lives. There the children were born
and reared. South of the residence was
the carding machine, owned and operated
by Mr.. Carroll and his oldest son, Burris.
Some years later the family moved TO the
residence now occupied by Prof. Demand,
on Franklin street, where Mr.. Carroll
died fifteen years ago. We We're never
we'll acquainted with Mrs. Carroll, as she
was very domestic in her disposition, but
we know all the other members OF the
family, and could not help feeling a warm
friendship for her because of the regard
we had for the others. No better man
ever lived in our midst than Mr.. C.. 4.
Carroll, a modest, retiring, Christian
gentleman, whose word was his bond.
Mr.. e. q. Carroll, junior, worked for n
long time in the INTELLIGENCER office.
One by one the old landmarks are disap-
pearing, but we honor them for what
they were.
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Married, in Higginsville, April 10. 1898,
at z p. M. by Squire Raglaud, *. y.
Jackson to Miss Julia Wolliver.
Married, in this city, April IA, by Judge
VIM. Young, Mr.. w. X. Bailey, of Iowa
Falls, and Miss Artie J. Close, OF Warsaw.
Married, at the residence of the brides
mother, in this city. Monday afternoon,
April IL, 1893, at 3 O'Clock, by Rev. f C..
Gordon, Mr.. Olcott Buckley, OF Little
Rock, California, n Miss Katherine l..
Reeder.
The wedding was attended by only the
immediate relations of the bride and
groom, and a few chosen friends.
Miss Reeder is a daughter OF Mrs. Emma
Reeder, OF this city, and is one of Lexing-
toms most popular young ladies'.
The groom is an energetic young bust
ness man, and at one time attended school
at w. M. A. He Is at present engaged in
business in Little Rock, California, at
which place he and his BRIDE Will make
their future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buckley left on the west
bound evening passenger train for the far
West, where they are followed by the best
wishes of their friends in old Lafayette.
The INTELLIGENCER extends congratu-
lations, and wishes them happiness and
prosperity.
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1902 (sire OF Contest, 2:io over
half mile track, and 2:2I at two years old, and
othersl by Madrid 1885; dam, the great brood
mare Rosa Clay, by American Clay "a, etc.
$50, payable when mare PRODUCES n
living fnal. or SD, payable al time of service;
money To be rcfundcd should mare prove not
in fOal.