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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-12-05
CHAPTER XIV.
The Locked House.

Jesse'S Memoir.
The book of our adventures which
we began together, was to go on
through all our years. We were too
young to think how 1t must some time
finish at our parting, that one of us
two was to be left with only the bro
ken end, the pity of Christ and every
word a stabbing memory.
Since l lost Kate is four years to-
night, and in all that time now. never
dared to enter the house wnere once
she lived with me, her poor fool Jesse.
Today l unlocked the door. The sun
light, glinting through chinks in the
boarded windows, fell in long dust
streaks on rat-eaten furniture, gray
cobweb scattered ashes. There was
the puppy piano, green with mold, her
work basket, half eaten, her writing
table Uttered with rat-gnawed paper.
The pages are yellow, the ink is rusty
brown, but the past is alive in every
line. the living past, the sunny warm
scented land of memory, all full of
love and glory and delight, and agony
which cannot be taken from me-
How wonderful it is to think that
great lady. and this ignorant callous
brute shown up in the rotted manu-
script, should ever have been man and
wife together! When think of what
was-illiterate, slovenly, lazy, selfish.
brutal, meanly jealous, ignorantly
cruel, | see how it was right that she
should leave me. 1t has taken me
bitter lonely years to realize that
she tanned me. So much the greater
mystery is the love which made
amends for my shortcomings, made
her think me better than | was, a
something for which she sacrificed her
self, and in self sacrifice became like
the great angels which she saw in
dreams.
Then came the letter from Polly her
self, which sent me crazy. so that my
lady read every word of it, without
being warned.
Opium, Jesse, an overdose of opium
did the trick, and paint to make me
look like a corpse. and blood from the
| laid there. You was no husband for
such as me with Brooke around, the
man I'd kept. Shucks, did We think I'd
be such a puke as to set, with yer
dead-line round me, screaming IL men
came near, with all Abilene grinning.
and you drunk as Noah? That was no
way to treat lady That was no
mo h,,xr Ill
I'd a mind to. Pshaw, 1t makes me
sick at the stummlck to think mar
ried you. only done 1t for a joke.
But you jest mark my words on the
dead thieving, no foreign woman from
London, England, shall have you
while you're mine. heerd of this Mrs.
Trevor daring to call you her husband
She's not your wife. she's not Mrs.
Jesse Smith, she's not a married wom-
an. but poor thing, and her child,
what's he? I've had my revenge on
her, and you, and I'm coming to rub it
in. I'm at Ashcroft, am, coming on
the same coach as this letter, coming
to live in your home. II don't love
you, no other woman shall. It's Fancy
Brooke, the man you calls Bull Dur
ham, what give you dead away, he. and
the news he got by mail, since you let
him get off alive, you fool. That
ought to splash yer
And If didn't love, dye reckon
that I'd care?
Your deserted true wife,
POLLY SMITH.
"P. S.-I'll be to your ranch Mon
day"
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Jesse's Narrative.

IDen Jesse came DacK-
Jesse's Narrative
found my LADY seated on her stool,
that letter in her hands, while Pete.
uneasy, clicked his spurs in the door
way. ! asked If he'd take a message.
Burning the trail" he said.
Say, IL she comes, I'll kill her"
Not that my lady whispered. so
knelt down by her, and she stroked
my forehead
Il didn't catch your words" said
Pete.
Promise" my lady whispered,
there must be no murder"
Tell her, Pete" said I, "there1l be
no murder. | can't let her off with
that-give her fair warning"
Pete rode away slow.
Wife," whispered-we spoke in
whispers, because it was the end of
the world to us two-"you trust me?"
She kissed my forehead.
Tell me-" she said, "one thing.
Polly was not dead?"
"She slammed dead. She's alive.
Kate. She's coming here. Take Da-
vid away. Take him to South Cave.
to Father Jareds camp
What will you dor
Lock the house before it's defiled."
And then, dear?"
When she's gone, III come to the
cave, too"
Kate took David, letting me kiss
him. letting me kiss her, even knowing
everything, let me take her into my
arms. She was very white, very quiet
She even remembered to take her SER
want, and the two Cinnamon, making
some excuse to get them away.
locked the house and the old cabin.
Then l made the long call to Ephrata,
and went to the Apex Rock, calling I'M
til he answered from among the dog
tooth violets. He climbed straight up
the steep rocks, whimpering. because
Id scarcely called him once in four
teen months. He rubbed against me,
forgetting he hefted eleven hundred
pounds, and | had to scratch his neck
before we started up to the house.
then to the left along the wagon track
The wagon was swinging round the
end of the grove at canter and when
let out a yell for the last warning
the woman only snatched at the dri-
vers whip to fog the team faster
Then turned loose my bear, he rear
ing up nine feet or 80 to inspect that
outfit
off at gallop straight for the edge of
the cliffs. The woman was shot out
as the wagon overturned, the driver
caught for a moment while his wagon
went to matchwood He lay in the
wreckage stunned, but the horses
went blind crazy. taking that twelve
hundred feet leap into the Fraser rap
ids. So had aimed, and as I'd prom
ised my lady to do no murder, | kept
my bear beside me.
The driver was awake and stagger-
ing to his feet. He would have
talked, only my bear was with me.
hard to hold by the roach hair. The
man needed no telling. and after he
escaped from my ranch | did not see
him there in the years which fol.
lowed.
The woman, standing in the wreck
age of her trunks, wanted to talk. We
herded her, Eph and |, to the foot OF
the pack trail, which leads up by steep
jags to the rlm-rock of the upper
cliffs, then on through the black pines
to Hundred Mile. We herded up the
pack trail, my bear and |. and pointed
her on her way alone. afoot II she
lived through that eighty miles, she
would remember the way, the way
which Is barred.
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CHAPTER KIN.
Nativity.

Kate's Narrative
Jesse allowed that the upper forest
does look sort Of wolfy." He would
post relays of ponies along the out
ward trail. SO that he and MCGEE
could ride the 80 miles back in a sim
gle march. II the doctor survived that.
he would be here IN 4s hours. perhaps
In tine
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-12-05

Two days had passed since my dear
Jesse left, then through the long day |
waited in the house, and the blue
gloom of night swept up the glowing
cliff. 1t wac then | heard the signal
shot from the rim-rock, and tod my
baby David that his father was coming
home
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Rates NarratiUe.

was waiting for Jesse until the low
sun shone into the cave. All that let
ter, which had been a blur of horror,
cleared now before my mind. but
Father Jared held me by the hands,
drawing the pain away. He had given
me tea, he had made me a very throne
of comfort in front of his camp fire.
David slept in my lap, and now while
the dear saint held my hands. and I
looked through the smoke out toward
the setting sun, he spoke of quaint
sweet doings in his hermitage. He
spoke as a worldly anchorite with a
portable bath, of his clumsy attempts
to patch WORKOUT cassock, and how
the squirrels tried to superintend his
prayers at even-song. Then the sun
caught the walls of the cave and the
roof to glowing beryl and etherea
ruby. the smoke was a rose-hued
thread of light. and the deep canyon at
our feet filled with a shadowy sea of
flooding amethyst
The sun had set, and the first star
just shone out, as Jesse came, stand.
ing at the mouth OF the cave, dark
against the glory. l could not see his
face.
CrO B&l CONTINuED4
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from that place they come, borne by
messengers. A messenger was wait
ing In these woods, no evil spirit, my
daughter, but one who came bearing a
child to you. She stands august and
lovely at your back, and in her arms
the soul of a man-child, just on the
verge of incarnation, waits at the
boundary of the spirit land.
The light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it
not
That light is all around you, and [
must go. This very ground is holy.
Fare you we'll"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25
SYNOPSI& !

CHAPTER John Rawn is born f9&
Texas Early in life he shows signs oS
nasterfulness and inordinate selfishness.
CHAPTER HE marries Laura John
son. He is q clerk in a St. Louis railway
Office when his daughter Grace is born.
Years later he hears Grace,s lover. q
young engineer named Charles Halsey'
speak or a scheme to utilize the lost cur
rent Of electricity. With his usual un-
scrupulousness he appropriates the tcea
as his own and induces Halsey TO perfect
an experimental machine. He forms q
company. with himself as president. at
salary Of 100000 a year. and Halsey as
superintendent Of the works at saI2Iy
OF $1,000.
, CHAPTER I1I-Rawn takes cha1se OF
the office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware
a beautiful. capable and ambitious young
woman. is assigned as his stenographer
She assists in picking the furniture ara
decoration for the prncely mansion
Rawn HIS erected. Mrs. Rawn feels OUT
Of place in the new surroundings.
CHAPTER Iy-Halsey goes to New
York with Rawn and Miss Delaware 10
exriai3 delays in perfecting the new mo-
tor to the impatient directors. he gets
message that deforned daughter mas
been born to his wife, Grace RaWn. tie
returns to Chicago.
CHAPTER V-Hawn bargains with Miss
Delaware to wear his 5ewelry and appear
In public with him. as q means to help
him in q business way.
CHAPTER VI-Rawn is fortunate IN
market speculations. piles up Weallh anu
attains prominence.
CHAPTER Willie frets because MS
wife does not rise with him in a soclaE
way. He gives her million dollars TO
leave him.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25
CHAPTER VIII.

The Extreme Monogamy of Mr. Rawn.
1t is always more or less annoying
to put away wife. Even if the ex-
pense of the process be little, as in
these modern days it has come to be,
and even if consent thereto be mutual,
as is so often the case, there are in
practically all cases so many unpleas-
ant attendant features as almost to
dispose one to favor the abolishment
OF the marriage idea, and to condemn
it as one not destined to survive in
these days Of modern competition.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25

This, the more especially as regards
that monogamic idea of marriage
which the government at Washington
harshly seeks to extend over our en-
tire domain. AS to the idea OF poly
gamy, much may be SAID in its favor
Thus, if one be tired of one wife, Or
bored by another, in polygamy it is
easy to shift the domestic scene to
third, and that in wholly good-humored
fashion. The idea of divorce has
about it something almost personal, as
though one were diSpleased over some
matter, as though one held in ones
heart something actually of criticism,
or dissatisfaction, or mayhap con-
demnation of ones own earlier judg-
ment in the selection of helpmeet.
Again, even after divorce has been
consummated, there are so many small
habits to be broken heritage and hold
over of relations but recently sun
<dered. For instance, if one has been
accustomed to pork and boiled cab
bage at table, ard if cnly one woman
has evinced ability 20 prepare shoul-
der Of pork and cabbage in the proper
manner, and if that woman has
chanced to be ones lately current
wife. it is, let US repeat, an annoying
thing to find that that particular wom-
an. after deliberately forming and fos-
tering in one craving for shoulder Of
pork and cabbage-after having estab-
rIished an addition, as it were, in ones
soul for that viand-has with shame
less disregard of wifely duty and do
mestic decency obliged one to divorce
her, perhaps ex vinculo, or at least alb
mensa ct thoro.
And again there may be yet other
habits upon the one hand or the other
which must be broken or readjusted,
If ones Hife-or one Of ones wives
has been in the habit Of leaving her
tatting each afternoon on the top Of
the table near the best view out Of the
bow window, and if one sees contin-
ualIy this abandoned tatting perma-
,nentiy left there in the confusion Of
her permanent departure-it is annoy
ing. let US repeat, to be reminded of
habit to whose creator We have said
farewell. It causes a mental ennu1
constantly to be removing tatting or
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25

lest tWo or ;l.""o yc2rs, my Joy.
shoHld rot be SURPRISED if eve1'ually
l were obliged to make my residence
in New York, if not abroad We are
rising in the world, rising very fast,
Charles. DO you want to go up with
the Rawns, Or stay down with the
ICES II this world? Besides, in
this case you ought to respect the
wishes Of your own wife You want
to remember, my dear boy, that my
daughter, Grace, is half Rawn as well
as half Johnson. The only trouble
with her is, the Rawn half has not
yet had its innings"
Halsey turned and stared at his
wife. He found her sitting with her
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25
(TO BE CONTINUED.
SMITH HAS ITEMS INCREASED.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator E. D.
Smith of South Carolina, today an
nounced that he had induced the SEN
ate committee on public buildings
and grounds to report favorably
amendments to the public building
bill, appropriating 100000 for Fed
eral building at Clinton, and in
creasing the appropriation for the Co.
lumbia postoffice from $225,000 to
$265,OO0.
A persistent rumor is afoat, coming
from sources close to the administra-
ton, that President Taft is inclined
to veto the public buildings bill on
general principles.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25

dark eyes fixed, now on her father,
now wandering hither and yon o:c-
the rich surroundings in her fathers
home To his intense surprise, she
had as yet issued no veto to this calm
proposal to which they all had list
ened In his surprise he forgot COM
ment of his own. What caused him
greatest surprise of all was his secret
feeling that he WIS not so ~e'''ct?rt
to this arrangement as he ought 70
be! He pondered Grace, her sour Wis
age, her morose air. He recalled
countless angry, irritated words. He
looked, and saw no longer any fem
mine charm. 1t took all his resolution
not to question why he had ever
made this choice. Almost he began
certain comparison.
"Now let this end it" resumed John
Rawn. LET comforts, and let lu1u-
ries, come where they have been
earned. It's the Rawn half of Grace
that has earned the luXuries, Charles,
if 1 am willing to give them to her.
Take what you can get, my son, Of
comfort and luxury in this life-after
you've earned them. But earn them
first. Your place is over there at the
works. This is your opportunity. Fall
in with my plans and I'll carry you
along. Don't try to hold Grace over
there when she belongs here. Don't
be selfish, Charles"
He relented just a trife ri don't
say this is going to last forever. Pull
off success over there for us. I'll tell
you what I'll do-the day you can
charge a storage battery from one Of
Our second current receiyer5-fnished
and in place there in the factory-and
run it from the factory up here, I'll
make you a present of fifty thousand
dollars"
"And about Grace-?" All! that
comparison
She'll be a good deal closer to you
then than she is now She's half
Rawn, I tell you, Charles; and love
in a cottage does not suit the Rawn
blood to-day!
"But I'll tell you" his face light
ened bit at the jest you can go
on with your brotherhood of man ideas
over there at the factory. hope you
love them-those brothers who are
trying to ruin me and this company!
Try them out-associate with them
love them all you can. Compare that
life with this, my boy;> and when
you've done your work, for which you
are paid-when you can charge one
car at one receiver, and come from
that life to this, on the strength Of
your brains and your own ability, as l
have come here. myself-wlly, say,
III give you slice of million dol
lars! Then you can compare that life
with this, and see how you like the
two. I've made up my mind already
about that! So has Grace!"
Halsey turned once more to his
wife. She had changed in the last few
minutes. Her eye was brighter, her
color higher She was gazing not at
her husband nor at her child, but at
these rich surroundings.
Il wonder if I could play one Of my
old pieces on the piano any more
now?" she said gaily, rising and walk
ing to the seat of the grand 7iano
which stood across the room from !
them. 1--WE been so busy"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25
Surprise Your Friends.

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Kings New Life Pills. They stimulate
the liver, improve digestion, remove
blood impurities, pimples and erup-
tions disappear fro:D your face and
body and you feel better. Begin at
once. Buy at W. E. Pelham & Sons
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25

When the doctor orders you to stop
work it staggers you. l can't, you
say. You know you are weak, run
down and failing in health day by
day, but you must work as long as you
can stand. What you need is Electric
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Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy.
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25
COMPULSORY VACCINATION.

1t is hereby ordered by the Board
of Health of the Town of Newberry,
ratified by the Town Council, that all
persons who have not been vaccinat-
ed during the last five years must be
>vaccinated Immediately DR.. ". z.
Pelham, Jr., has been appointed by the
Board of Health as public vaccinator.
Anyone may be vaccinated by their
family physician. DR.. Pelham may be
found at his Office from $50 to p. m.,
and 2 p. m. to S p. m, Sundays ex-
cepted.
F. D. Mower,
Chairman Board of Health.
S. S. Cunningham,
Secretary. 2-l5-t1.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-02-25

CHAPTER I-John Rawn fs born ID
Texas Early in life he shows signs o&
maSterfulness and inordinate selfShness.
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probeae Court, Chitina Pre-. cinct, Third Judicial Division,
 Territory of Alaska

In the matter of the estate of Leo Muth, deceased, Notice to Creditors
 Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned administrator of the es. tate of Leo Muth, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers. within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator. at his res- idence at Phillips P. O., Chitina Pre- cinct, territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate.
 JOHN M. NEAGLE,
 Administrator Date of first publication May 13, 191' Date of last publication June 24, 1913
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10
PUBLICATION NOTICE

For the matter of the Estate of Axel Fast, deceased, notice Is hereby given to all persons that I, H. T. Staftsholt, was on the eighth day of February 1913, duly appointed ad- ministrator of the estate of Axel Fast, deceased, by letters issued by J. W. Nickell, United States Com- missioner and ex-oficio probate Judge in and for the Chiitna pre- cinct, Third Division, District of Alas ka.
 All persons indebted to said Axel Fast deceased are requested to call at my place of business in the Overland Hotel in Chitina, Alaska, to settle same. All persons having claims against the said estate are requested to file. your certified bill with me the undersigned administrator on or be- fore six (6) months from the date of the first publication.
 H. T. STAFSHOLDT,
 Administrator First publication April 8. 1s13-4w.
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court, Chitina Pre- cinct, Third Judicial Division,
 Territory of Alaska

In the matter of the estate of John Barker. deceased, Notice to Creditors Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned administrator of the es- tate of John Barker, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator, at his res idence at Phillips P. O., Chitina Pre- cinct, territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate.
 JOHN M. NEAGLE,
 Administrator Date of first publication May 13, 1913 Date of last publication June "A, 1913
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

have this day sold to Thomas w. Cloninger of Chitina, Alaska, the restaurant outfit, furniture and fix lures heretofore known as the Chit ina Grill, located in the ChitinaHo- tel building, Chitina, Alaska All debts owing to me personally or iii the conduct of said business will be paid on demand while the said Cloninger assumes the payment of all debts incurred in the conduct of said business after this date.
 c. H. SAINDON Dated May 8, 1913.
 Last publication June "A, 1913
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10

NEW YORK, June 6-Charles E. Kohler, manufacturer of 3 piano bearing his name, and well-known sportsman, died in Paris, according to cablegram just received from that city.
 WASHINGTON, June 6-The ex- tradition treaty with Paraguay has been approved by the Foreign Rela- tions committee; also the bill to raise the Madrid embassy.
 LONDON, June 6-Two reservoirs Hellondene have been found to con- tain poisonous substances and .his dastardly work has been charged against the sufiragettes.
 SEATTLE June 7-Hearings were held yesterday in the Willough- by group of coal claims in the Ber- ing River field, for xhich patent has been applied. There are eight claims in all, six located on Carbon mountain and two on Shepard creek, containing a good quality of anthra- cite coal.
 SALT LAKE, June 7-Governor
 mmons, in a spirited address at the observation conference, declared hat a lobby is being maintained at Washington to put the west on a easehold basis, and he suggested hat an investigation would verify is statement.
 WASHINGTON, June 7-The ap- pointment of Prof. Henry Jones Ford of Princeton, as governor of the Phil ippines is considered practically set tied.
 WASHINGTON, June Thirty one employees of the weather bu- reau have been reduced for connec- tion with the political activity whir h resulted in the dismissal of Chief Moore.
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10

claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator, at his res idence at Phillips P. O., Chitina Pre- cinct, territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate.
 JOHN NJ. NEAGLE,
 Administrator Date of first publication May 13, 1913 Date of last publication June "A, 1913
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10

THE AFRICANO and other high grade CIGARS.
The Chitina leader., 1913-06-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court, Chitina Pre- cinct, Third Judicial Division,
 Territory of Alaska

In the matter of the estate of Fred Wahle, deceased. Notice to Creditors Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned administrator of the es- tate of Fred Wahle, deceased to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator, at his res idence at Phillips P. O., Chitina Pre- cinct, territory of Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate.
 JOHN M. NEAGLE,
 Administrator Date of first publication May 13, 1913 bate of last publication June 24, 1913