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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
caIlous Indeed.

well, must confess l am glad to
get back home amongst my old kin
and friends, where people amt too
busy or too unfeeling or too stuck-up
to take some interest in one another"
said Mrs. Policy.
Nov, there's them post office folks
down to Chicago. found 'em actual.
ly hard-hearted! Why, would you be.
lieve 1t. that man that brings round
the letters to Mabels, he's so queer
and standoffish that when he handed
me husbands postal card, telling how
mother had fell and broke her arm
he never so much as opened his lips
to give me one word Of sympathy
No, sir. not even enough to say. Too
badl'"-Youth's Companion.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
H Real Origin of the Pearl

converted into carbonate of lime, and
the pearly mass proceeds to grow
with the shell.
If the larva lives, 1t may pass into
the body of the strengthened trigger
fishes which prey on the pearl-oysIers,
there undergoing further development
Ultimately 1t reaches the body OF the
great rays, which in turn eat the trig.
ger-fishes. In the rays the worms at.
tain full development, and produce
larvae that are cast into the sea and
find Judgment in pearloysters. Thus
the cycle is begun once more.
We may literally accept the saying
of a celebrated French Investigator,
that "the most beautiful pearl is in
reality only the brilliant sarcophagus
of a worm"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
cHAPrER xxvIII.-contInued.

"Why didn't you explain, dear, to
the captain" Evelyn asked, with one
OF those bursts of naiyette that con
trasted so charmingly with her usual
Iy Astounding good Judgment.
Cameron smiled. 81 couldn't get
near the captain, my child" he re
turned, indulgently. ut wasn't be-
cause | didn't try. The officers ridi-
culed my assertions as pipe dreams,
and when, at each port. pleaded to
be allowed to communicate with our
consul, l was only kept under stricter
guard"
And so his story continued, inter,
rupted at intervals by questions from
one or another of US, until we had the
whole wretched tale of cruelty, in.
Guiding the final chapter which pre-
coded the rescue.
When he learned that every stoker
and trimmer, save himself, had been
ordered on deck, still hoping against
hope that the outside world had at
length been moved to intercession in
his behalf, he demanded to be allowed
to go with the rest. And when his de-
mand was refused he rebelled. fight
ing his way to liberty with an Iron
bar from a cinder-tub, which he had
purposely concealed for such emer
gency.
have no inclination to test patience
By detailing all the events and record
Ing all the dialogue of that happy day
Much that happened and much that
was said must leave to the imagina'
ton of those that read. But ! cannot
refrain from the statement that Cam
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
Science Has Rudely Shattered Poetic
Idea That Has Been Held
For Centuries.

For many centuries, even until COM
paratively recent times, it was the
common belief that pearls were drops
of dew that gained entrance into the
she'll of an oyster, and were there
transpired into lustrous gems. Arab
and Indian divers still believe that at
certain seasons oysters come to the
surface and suck in the rain-drops
that later become pearls. Science,
however, has rudely shattered this
poetic fancy, and discovered the real
origin to be a worm. DR.. Hugh NJ.
Smith gives some interesting tnfor-
nation on this subject in the National
Geographic Magazine.
We now know that almost any for
eign body-a grain of sand, bit Of
mud or shell, a piece of seaweed or
a small animal--may by its irritation
cause the mollusk to cover 1t with
nacre and make 1t the nucleus of a
pearl; but the largest part of the an
nual pearl-crop OF the world is due to
parasites that normally pass a part
of their life-cycle within the shell OF
the pearl-oyster.
Minute spherical larvae Of marine
worms known as Cestodes become en-
bedded in the soft tissues, as many as
forty having been found in one Cey-
lon oyster. AS the result Of irrita'
ton, the oyster forms a protecting
sac about the intruder. and then. II
the larva dies. its body is gradually
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11

been desultorily drawing figures on his
writing pad with the end Of a pen
holder, abruptly shot his gaze to mine
and caught the quick question Of my
eyes.
YES" he said, without change Of
tone, yes, you see. now, don't your
"McNishl" murmured.
"McNish." he echoed Donald Nc
Nish."
But" began, 'T don't quite" and
thought of the letter from McNish's
mother.
"Oh, 1t is clear enough" he went on.
Some Of the children were put out to
live amongst neighbors. and eventu-
ally, my father and the rest OF us
came to this country The others he
left behind, promising to send each
month the money for their keep. DON
aid he left with couple named Nc.
Nish, who had no BARNS of their own,
and when the boy grew to be a big
lad, and my father, who in the mean
time had been successful here and
married again, sent for him to come
to America. word came back that he
had been dead a twelvemonth."
And your father believed it?"
"Oh. yes, for they returned the back
pay he had forwarded, and sent lock
Of my brothers hair, think, and
trinket or two that had been his as a
kiddie."
Afterwards, though, you learned
that he was still alive?"
mo-" was Cameron's answer. I'VE
never heard. Had 1t not been for that
marked resemblance gathering me in
to the net spread for him, l should
probably never have known. And,
Clyde" he added, lever since learn
ed Of his having been there, in town,
have been wondering. Do you think
1t possible that he ever realized that
he was in his brothers house?"
Hardly" l said. "It doesn't seem
likely, though; unless the name and
the-He must--Oh, certainly" l STUN
bled, "he must have realized that we
mistook him for-yes, for some one
named Cameron. He answered to 1t
readily enough; he even insisted that
he was Cameron. And If his mind was
clear enough to put two and two to-
gether, why, knowing that he had a
twin brother in America, 1t would
seem" And there l stopped my
foundering, for Cameron had risen to
his feet, and smiling, tolerantly, was
waving hushing hand at me.
"Yos, yes" he said, 1--WE argued 1t
all out in just the same way, dear
friend. And yet we never can be GER
tain. can we? Only have thought, II
he might have realized 1t. and have
been able to have played the part, and
stayed, and taken up my life and lived
It for the rest Of his, l might have
gone on and taken his punishment to
some purpose. For l have had more
than my share of the good things,
Clyde, and maybe II poor little Donnie
had had even half my chances. 1t
would all have been so very. very diff.
ferent."
He still thought Of him as the child
brother he had parted from long
years ago in Scotland. and as such he
would ever remember him. was glad
then that he had stopped me when /
had tried to draw for him the differ.
ence in their faces. For it was such a
difference! Looking at Cameron now
with the lamp of true greatness alight
behind those plain features, | mar
veled that | could even have seen a
vestige of likeness In the brutal. soul
less face Of his twin brother.
And then, for the first time, too, ]
really understood.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
Something Seemed Lacking.

One of the best known London
newspapers, in a review of "Lincolns
Own Stories" collected by Anthony
Gross, commented on the anecdote
which Lincoln was fond Of telling Of
a family of such migratory habits
that they were able to get everything
into one wagon, and even the chick
ems were so used to being moved that
whenever they saw the wagon sheets
brought out they laid themselves on
their backs and crossed their legs,
ready to be tied. The British review
er, with an insular sense of humor,
remarked: "One feels a little as
though something must have been ac-
cidentally left out of this and of many
other stories in the book"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11

And ! know for a fact that he pro
vided so generously for the young
French driver of the electric brougn-
am, who was so badly injured in that
Pell street adventure, that the fellow
returned to France a month before the
trial Of his assailant.
All these things, say, continued
to puzzle and disquiet me, long after
the sharp edges of rancorous remem-
brance had been worn away. And in
variably at such times there would re-
cur recollections OF those early days
Of the threatening letters and of that
elusive something in Cameron's man
ner which | was never quite able to
comprehend or explain.
The true Interpretation was re-
served for the night preceding my
marriage with Evelyn, which, by the
way, had, at her guardians wish, been
delayed for nearly year because of
what he chose to regard as her un-
seemly youth. The. celebration was to
take place at Cragholt and the house
was already filed with kinsfolk and
intimate friends, including most of the
wedding party.
1t was after midnight, and Cameron
and were alone together In his ma
hogany and green study; he at his
writing table and in the same ada
cent leather chair In which had sat
twelvemonth ago while listening to
the story Of the incised portrait
AS was not unusual we had reverted
| 10 kIoA -, l.. 80 t.
cidents Herewith Connected; and l
had been trying to make clear to Cam
eron, as had already frequently tried
to do, the peculiar difference between
McNish's expression and his.
'In individual feature" said, warm
ing to my subject. there never was
in all the world before, believe, such
similarity. And in repose, the en-
semble, should say, was equally iden-
teal. But when 1t came to"
And there Cameron checked me.
Clyde" and his tone was strangely
grave, It seemed to me, you'll pardon
my interrupting you, l know. l I'M
derstand what you would say, proba-
bly, better than could from your put
ting 1t into words. And I want to
tell you why l understand. Indeed
I've wanted to tell you for q long
while, but whenever I've got to the
verge of 1t, have baked"
He paused here to shake the ash
from his cigar, reaching across his
desk for a receptacle, and somehow
the gesture reminded me of that of
McNish as he had thrown out his arm
which held the letter, and so exposed
the telltale tattooing.
II have never told you, Clyde" he
resumed. his eyes turned on the glow
ing tobacco ember which he had Just
barred, anything about my birth or my
family. But now that you are to be.
come one Of us, in a way, it's only
fair that you should know; for though
Evelyn's mother was but my half-sis
ter, still the girl gets the same blood
through her grandslre.
YES" said, 81 know that. Evelyn
told me that much. / know, too, that
you were born in Scotland; and the
very name of Cameron is pretty good
guarantee of family worth"
my father belonged to a rather poor
branch" he confessed, land like many
poor men he had a large number OF
children. There were ten, all told
and when my poor mother died, 1t be
came a serious problem how to take
care of us little ones. l was among
the youngest, not over seven. and
had twin brother"
AS he said this Cameron, who had
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-11
Knows He's RIaht.

Does your husband ever tell you
you have poor faster"
Frequently"
"And what reply do you make to
him?"
Il think of what married and say
nothing"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
CHRISTMAS TREE
OF L., ]. & L. EMPLOYEES
Annual Celebration Held at Fraternal
Hall. B. Wellman Acts as
Santa Claus

Last Friday night the employees Of
the Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's depart
ment store held their annual Christmas
tree celebration in Fraternal hall on
Third avenue. Presents were distributed
to the younger employees of the store,
books and knives going to the boys and
vanity bags, cards. handkerchiefs and
other useful things to the girls. All the
members of the firm were present with
their wives and children and the affair
was pronounced most enjoyables Baskets
of fruits, nuts, cakes and other dainties
were given to the older persons to take
home, and following the distribution
of the gifts, the young people went
home and there was a dance
One of the ladies of the store pre-
sided at the tree and told a story of
Christmas that greatly pleased. To Miss
DoWd is given the credit for the decor
alton of the tree and she. with Mrs
Westcott, had charge of the distribu-
ton of the gifts. Mr.. Linstedt made a
Santa Claus that gave great delight.
I. b. Wellman was chairman of the en-
tertainment committee and general ,su-
pervisor of the event.
Each year at Christmas the EN-
ployes' Mutual Benefit association of
Loveman. Joseph 6 Loeb have a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
POLICE PROBE WILL
RESUME TOMORROW
No Hearing Yesterday on
Account of Austin's
Illness

At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the
police probe will be resumed. No ses-
sions of the investigation were held yes
terday on account of the illness, 1T was
stated, of Connie Austin, who is pressing
the charges against Police Chief Bode-
ker.
Mr.. Austin's attorney, Judge Zell Gas
ton, appeared at the city hall yesterday
morning and conferred with the city COM
missioners who agreed to call off the In
vestigation for that day. large num-
Der of people kept filing into the city
hall all day yesterday under the impress
sion that the hearing was In progress.
Judge Castor stated yesterday that he
would have q witness from Demopolis
present tomorrow, and that he expected to
conclude with all his testimony. He
stated that Mr.. Austin himself would take
the witness chair.
Upon the conclusion of the testimony
of Mr.. Austins witnesses. witness for
Chief Bodeker, of whom it is said there
will be about 200, will be placed on the
stand and examined.
Representations as to the probable end
of the Bodeker case are being made, but
it is safe to say that the testimony will
not all be in before the latter part of this
week
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
COMMISSIONERS ATTEND
TO ACCUMULATED DETAIL

holidays. The billet mill will be the
largest producer as compared to the
ingot and steel mills for the reason
that the company is engaged in fur
nishing stock billets to the American
Steel and Wire company for the be-
ginning OF operations by that concern
within the next few days. The steel
and the ingot mills will be operated
on about the same basis as before
Christmas; that is, every day and night
except Saturday and Sunday.
1t is believed that the officials Of
the company feel that the currency bill
will enable an expansion of business
and will be of unusual benefit pro-
vided the men engaged on the board
exercise their broad authority conser-
vatively and the bankers of the country
maintain a careful position in regard
to loans.
This opinion. 1t is said, is in limo
with the beliefs of other operators and
bankers of the district who look for
unusual business expansion on a con-
sentative basis 1t may be somewhat
slow on account of the necessary eau
ton which will be exercised in getting
the new currency legislation safely at
work, but is sure to come, they say.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE is
DONE-STATUS OF AVENUE T
STREET RAILWAY FRANCHISE
IS UNCHANGED

The Tennessee Coal Iron and Rail-
road company has orders for 4500 tons
of pig iron for Mediterranean ports
which were given through the Steel
Products Export company. Announce
ment to this effect was made yester-
day. The iron will be shipped at stated
intervals to the concerns across the
ocean that are using the Birmingham
made product.
AS rule, the Tennessee Coal. Iron
and Railroad company prefers to use
its iron in this district or sell in this
country, but from time to time export
orders have come in.
The general situation as it concerns
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company, the biggest concern in this
district, is good. The steel plant will
resume operations during the next few
days after having been closed for the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28

CINE in a hurry on account of the rapid
completion of a furnace, and the conse-
quent pressing need for the engine. Pas
chal G.. Shook of Shook & Fletcher, rep
resenting the Mesta company here, ne
gotiated the unusual contract with the
Woodward company. The Pennsylvania
railroad contracted to deliver the special
train OF % cars to the Louisville and
Nashville railroad in IA hours after load
ing on cars at Pittsburg. The Louisville
and Nashville railroad, for it's part, agreed
to deliver the special train in Birmingham
within SO hours after receiving 1t from
the Pennsylvania railroad at Cincinnati.
The Mesta company proceeded to break
its time contract the two railroad COM
panies also carried out their agreement
and the blowing engine is now at the
Woodward plant near Bessemer.
In addition to breaking the worlds rec
ord in constructing such an engine. 1t
is probable shat new records were es-
tablished in the movement of one con-
signment of such an immense tonnage.
The local railroad men cannot remember
when such a tonnage was hauled on one
train consisting of the parts of only one
article.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
To Make Soil Survey

Eufarla. December 27.-(Special.)- How-
ard C. Smith of the United States de-
partment of agriculture will start in
January to make a soil survey of Bar
bour county. He has just completed a
survey of Bullock county. The local sur
vey was secured at the instance of the
Commercial club of this city The data
will be of great value In bringing set
tiers to this county, which has an ex-
tremely varied soil. There are valuable
mineral deposits in the vicinity of Baker
Hi, Is miles below Eufaula
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
Banquet May Be Postponed

Chattanooga, December T-Following
the receipt of letter from President
Fairfax Harrison OF the Southern railway
that it will be possible for him to be in
Chattanooga on January 20, the Chamber
OF Commerce has practically agreed to
postponement OF its annual banquet and
meeting until that date. Others expect
ed to attend are j. Howe Payton of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
rpilway, Col. Henry Watterson of Louis
vile, A. s. Ochs of New York and C.sA.
Prouty of Washington. general manager
of the railroad valuation work of the in
terstate commerce commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28

A special train arrived here yesterday
over the Louisville and Nashville, with
a blowing engine for the Woodward Iron
company. in the construction of which. the
worlds record has been broken. The
Mesta Machine company of Pittsburs
made the engine, weighing 100000 pounds
in 81 days working time. The contract
with the Woodward company called for
the completion of the engine in 80 days
and another one in 100 days. The COM
pany in Pittsburg, by constructing the
giant engine in 81 days earned sub
stantial bonus offered by the local con-
Germ, and incidentally smashed the rec
ord for constructing an engine of such
size.
The engine is horizontal, cross-con!-
pound blowing engine, As inches and Sd
inches steam and "a inches and 81 inches
air cylinders by 60-inch stroke. In size
it Is one of the largest ever brought
here and one of the most modern.
The Woodward company desired the en-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28

The Woodward company bought two of
the large type engines and it is believed
that the other one, which is also fin
ished, will be ready for shipment with
in the next few days. 1t is counterpart
of the one which arrived hero yester-
day.
The engines are to be used at the fur
mace operations of the Woodward COM
pany near Bessemer. 1t is stated that
the new furnace is to be lighted soon.
p. G. Shook, who handled the extra
ordinary order, given the Mesta COM
pany, had this to say yesterday:
1.-THE construction of this engine is easi
ly the worlds record for such construc-
ton. It's construction in 81 actual work.
ing days, the special train service given
by the Pennsylvania and the Louisville
and Nashville, furnish proof that in this
day and time to execute big orders one
must have cooperation in ones organiza-
ton and big facilities I am very much
pleased with this accomplishment of the
Mesta Machine company. and it may be
said in passing that in this delivery they
have given the Woodward company a nice
Christmas gift
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
TO MAKE CHANGES
At PUBLIC LIBRARY
More Space for Reference
Books and Children's
Department

More adequate space for reference books
to be the results of the action of the city
commission in granting to the public IL
brary additional space in the city hall.
The space made available for library
purposes is a part of the balcony of arm
DRY hall, directly opposite the circulating
department of the library on the fourth
floor, and contains some $50 square feet
of floor space. This part of the balcony
will be partitioned off from the remainder
of the balcony and the library will not
interfere in any way with the present
uses of the same for conventions. fire
mems balls or military drills.
The new room thus acquired will be
used by the library as stock room. In
it will be placed 5000 or 5000 volumes OF
books not in current demand, books
which are, in some cases. very valuable,
but valuable only for the occasional in
vestigators, for whom they viii still be
available. The shelf space gained in the
present large reading room will be used
for reference books, including the bound
magazines. and this room will become
the reading and reference room, and with
several additional tables and chairs can
be made to accommodate at least 100 peo-
pie. The present reference room accom-
modates only 10 people.
The childrens department, with a ca
pacity of a dozen readers and 1000 books,
will be moved into the old reference room,
which can be so rearranged as to shelve
about 1900 volumes, and seat at least two
dozen children.
The preliminary changes, including the
building of partitions and the reinforcing
of the floor will be made under the super
vision of City Building Inspector Mat
thews. The book cases will be erected by
the library board.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28
Dodson Out ON Bail

Chattanooga. December 27.-(Special.)
Charley Dodson, charged with being an
accomplice in the murder of Squire
c. A. Bedel, has been released from the
county Jail under bond OF 5000.