Others have told of his war record at Henry, Donaldson, Shiloh, Lays Ferry, Lyuca, Resaca, Corinth, and other places until after three and a half years, he was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky.

Triumphs of Peace

When I was young, we were taught that deeds of valor were the greatest achievements, but now we find greater triumphs in peace. One of the most heroic things that Captain W. R. Akers has done in his splendid career, was when at the age of twenty-five years he took up the work of education which had been denied him in his younger years. He went to school and stood in classes with ten-year-old children to learn the multiplication table. How well he succeeded, how great was his achievement, is told in the fact that in the next ten years he attended Cornell college, and taught high school and served three times as county

superintendent. In the meantime he studied law, and opened a law office at Malcolm, where for eight years he practiced law.

In the meantime. Miss Susan Karnes, of Loudenville, Ohio, had become Mrs. Akers, and together they reasoned that there were greater opportunities in the west. Captain Akers hung out his shingle in Fort Collins in 1882.

Mrs. Akers was preparing to join him. She had a sale of the most of their household effects, and went to a neighbors to spend the night. On the morrow she was to journey to far off wonderful Colorado to join her husband.