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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
Wanted Senator to Look Up Prospective Wife

II HE other day Senator Knute Mel
son was startled by the receipt
of a letter which contained the fol-
lowing clipping from a publication
called Cupid's Column. His surprise
grew as he read the clipping. which
was as follows:
"27S3 Washington, D. C.-I am a
young widow, twenty-five years of age.
No children sc, 1870 pounds, blonde
hair, gray eyes, very good form, good.
disposition, French Methodist; have a
small income; like both city and
country life. Would like to CORE
spond with some young man matri-
monially inclined. See my photo"
To the right Of this touching mis-
giva was Il picture, also clipped from
a newspaper. of a remarkably pretty
girl, wearing a low collar and an
elaborate picture hat. The letter read:
II am mailing your picture and
your description" said the note, ito
the city of Washington, d. c. hope
you will get it and write to me at
once, for am young bachelor. and
my father owns farm In Minnesota,
with a ditch running through 1t, and
l am sure that we will be happy
here. am 8 feet 8 inches" and
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
HAPPY OLD AGE
Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating.

AS old age advances we require less
food to replace waste, and food that
will not overtax the digestive organs,
while supplying true nourishment.
Such an ideal food is found in Grape
Nuts, made of whole wheat and barley
by long baking and action Of diastase
in the barley which changes the starch
into a most digestible sugar..
The phosphates also. placed up un
der the outercoat Of the wheat, are
included in G1Ape-Nuts, but are lack
ing in white -four because the outer
coat of the wheat darkens the -four
and is left out by the miller. These
natural phosphates are necessary to
the well-balanced- building of muscle,
brain and nerve cells.
Il have used Grape-Nuts," writes an
Iowa man, for. years and feel as
good and am stronger than was ten
years ago.
Among my customers meet q man
every day who is well along in years
and attributes his good health to
Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has
used for the last years. He mixes
Grape-Nuts with Postum and says
they go fine together.
For many years before I began to
eat Grape-Nuts, l could not say that
enjoyed life or knew what 1t was to DO
able to say 4 am we'll suffered
greatly with constipation, but now my
habits are as regular as ever in my
life.
Whenever make extra EFFORT I
depend on Grape-Nuts food and II just
fills the bill. can think and write .
great deal easier"
There's a Reason" Name given By
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above lettare A sew
are genuinos true, and fall Of hunlnn
interest.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

much more to that effect. On the
back of this was written:
Dear Senator: This young woman
lives in your city. Please look her
up for me, as ! want to marry her.
l put her photograph outside the en-
velope, but the postofice authorities
returned 1t to me. II you will look
her. up and tell her to write me l will
be much obliged to you and will re-
member your kind favor"
All the senator said when he
dropped the envelope and its contents
into the wastebasket was:
"He wants me to open a matri-
monial agency for his special benefit.
Now, I'll do any number of things
for the people, but Ill be blamed II |
will do that"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

r HE people who know how to run
the United States government
better than the men who made 1t are
numerous. and they always have their
information on tap. The other day a
woman, who is tired of government
interference, wrote to Secretary Nc
Adoo as follows:
Hon. Secty McAdloo.
Sir: Why do 1t for you to perse-
cute the little stocks of Steel and New
Haven and Telefun. Only a little /
have and now all gone so that
cant make any will to give to my oun.
My lawyer says 1t is alright becus
Wilson will do 1t, but he gets my
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

"'Where7'N Said the congressman.
why. clerk in that division was
drowned this afternoon
THE congressman looked at him
sadly. 4 regret to inform YOU Re
said, that you are too late; the place
has been 6lled.'
How can that bef' shouted Allen
The man has just been drowned!'
"'Yes, l know answered the con
gresham. but the place was obtained
by a Massachusetts man who saw
the clerk go in swimming. He made
a correct guess that the clerk could
not swim and made his application By
telephone ten minutes before the
clerks body was brought to shore
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
HJI 4zREk4T
&RgE|A38lD lak 49,
Plan Public Golf Links at the National Capital

Now. the President is not so bad
as they make them, by quite Q long
way, but he still fs In the exercise
class.
He plays golf for the good It does
him and because he never expects to
make his living teaching golf to be-
ginners.
The president usually reaches the
club about $780,
He plays the first nine holes very
leisurely, without the least sign Of
having to hurry back to the White
House. Then he usually cuts OF to
the seventeenth. playing that hole
and the eighteenth. Then, without
going into the club house. he gets into
the automobile and rides back to the
White House.
With the president, golnng serves
as no siik-stocking amusement. He
never plays golf with the nabobs Of
the town. His almost exclusive golf
ing companion il DR.. Grayson.
Indeed, President Wilson has not
devoted himself in the least to max
ing friends in the wealthy and aristo-
cratic classes Of Washington.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
They Tell McAdoO How to Run U. S. Treasury

money, and my husband is a striker.
My bank says 1t is was Mr.. Taft &
Mr.. Wlckersham, and my Savings De-
partment says 1t Is Wilson & Mr.. Nc
Adloo. Respectfully Yours. - -"
Another letter which Secretary Nc
Adoo received is even funnier than the
foregoing.
~. s. Govt" writes from Fresno,
Cal. The letter is dated June and is
as follows:
"Mr. McAdee: In regard to all gov
eminent money Loan none out unless
you can get 8 per cent Have all
Departments Deposit every week In
National Treasury money collect that
week. Keep everything in first-class
shape equipped Treasury Department
with Burglar alarm system If neces-
sary and have for protection four Arm
Guards at night. Swear them in to
be loyal to the Government, which is
48 States and Island Possessions.
Yours truly,
Signed in full: U. s. GOVT"
Under the signature appears the
following: Approved at $3.50 p. M"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

LyOlA Ia flnknAtn ,
Vegetable Com.
pound has done for
me. / was weak.
nervous, and cared
for nothin g but
sleep. Now / can
60 ahead with my
work daily and feel
ten years younger
than before l started
taking your med-
cine I will advise
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
A Distinction.

Miss Outertown-Isn't there q Mrs.
Skinner here who keeps boarders?
Hi Hubbel-She takes boarders,
ma'am, but she don't keep EN-
Puck.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
Realistic.

'Is the story of that foreign we'd
ding stabbing ARRAY in the papers?"
"Yes; illustrated with plenty of
cuts"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

A coating of unslaked lime was
used to thaw out the frozen ground
for an excavation operation in Iowa
recently The innovation was entire
ly successful
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

When a man has cold in the head
he needs a sheet. But a girl can
make out with handkerchief as big
as a postage stamp.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
The sensatIon.

Knicker-These are said to be
times of great moral uplift.
Bocker-I know It; but don't like
to ride in an elevator all the time
Judge.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

Give the old-fashioned woman the
I've and she will make a batch Of
soap.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
General Directions.

Mrs Youngwife-How do you MAKE
mince pie?
Mrs. Matron-oh. out of anything!
Judge.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
y $ Y N % 81 s \
PART ONE.

PAHT ONEs
CHAPTER 1.-The story opens with
Jesse Smith relating the story of his
birth, his early life in Labrador and OF
1.-THE death of his father.
CHAPTER II-Jesse becomes a sailor
His mother marries the master OF the
ship and both are lost in the wreck OF
the vessel
=. CHAPTER 1I1-Jesse becomes a cowboy
CHAPTER IV-He marries Polly. a
singer Of questionable morals, who later
lie reported to have committed suicide.
CHAPTER V-Jesse becomes a rancher
and moves to British Columbia
PART TWO.
CHAPTER I-Kate Trevor takes I'D the
narrative. Unhappily married she con-
templates suicide, but changes her mind
after meeting Jesse.
CHAPTER II-Jesse rescues Kate from
her drink maddened husband who at
fempts to kill her. Trevor loses his life
in the rapids.
CHAPTER III-Kate rejects offer of
grand opera managers to return to the
stage and marries Jesse.
CHAPTER Iv-Their married life starts
out happily.
CHAPTER V-Kate succumbs to the
pleadings of composer to return to the
stage and runs away with him. She
rescues Widow O'Flynn from her burning
house, is badly burned herself and re-
turns home where Jesse receives her with
open arms.
CHAPTER VI-Cattle thieves appear in
the neighborhood. Jesse asks Kate to go
20 place Of safety To HIS JOY she re-
CHAPTER VII-Jesse resumes the mar
rative. He calls on neighbors and plans
20 capture the robbers. Kate is rescued
from the hands OF the bandits.
CHAPTER VIII-The robbers are cap
tured. but later make their escape.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26
WOMAN FEELS
10 YEARS
YOUNGER
Since Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Re-
stored Her Health.

Louisville, Ky. az take great pleas.
ure in writing to inform you Of what
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

any woman TO consult with you before
going to a doctor. Mrs. INIzE VIZ
LIS, 222s Bank St, Louisville, KY.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

CHAPTER IX-Jesse is captured by
the robbers. but by a clever ruse makes
prisoners of the robbers.
CHAPTER X-The prisoners are turned
over to a United States marshal. who
has arrived with extradition papers.
CHAPTER XI-Jcsse takes charge of
the outlaw chiefs son. Billy O'Flynn.
having promised the chief to keep him
out OF his fathers profession.
CHAPTER XII-He takes Billy to Van
couver and the lad is shanghaied.
CHAPTER XTII-A son is born to Kate
and Jesse and is named David
CHAPTER XTV-Jesse receives a letter
tells how she deceived him into thinking
she had killed herself. She threatens to
and their son. father and mother sepa-
rate.
PART THREE.
CHAPTER I-Kate and David go to
England to live. Four years later Billy
o'F'lynn arrives and tells how Jesse has
been ruined and ostracised through the
vindictivoness of Polly.
CHAPTER II-zKate arrives in British
Columbia. lays plans to help old friends
and defeat the plots of Polly.
CHAPTER III-Provisions and help ar
rive in time TO save Jesses life, He hears
OF Hates arrival and OF her plans.
CHAPTER Iv-Brooke. former ban
dit and intimate of Polly's. calls on Kate
to interest her in a scheme to betray
Polly to his own financial advantage. She
refuses.
CHAPTER v-Brooke's despicable plans
are defeated.
CHAPTER vI-BroosSe is found dying
In Polly's road house, having been shot
by Polly after he ed attempted to kill
her. Polly dies from wounds inflicted by
EPILOGUE-Ffnds, Jesse and Kate re-
united and ali dififultiee swept away.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-09-26

BOlAhk w y UOCUOEs - MIos ANLLH WIZ
LIS, 2229 Bank St, Louisville, KY.
Another Sufferer Relieved.
Romayor, Texas. -"I suffered terri
bly, with a displacement and bladder
trouble. was in misery all the time
and could not walk any distance. I
thought never could be cured, but my
mother advised me to try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and I did.
"I am cured Of the displacement and
the bladder trouble Is relieved. / think
the Compound Is the finest medicine on
earth for suffering women. - Mrs..
VIOLA JASPER, Romayor, Texas.
II You want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. CcOnils
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter win
be opened, read and answered By .
woman and held In strict confidence,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20
DISHONOR TO GIVE UP
FILIPINOS, SAYS GIBBONS

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 20.-Cardinal
Gibbons. in a remarkable public state
ment, declares that it would be a
national dishonor for the United
States to surrender the Filipinos to
the tender mercies of some neighbor-
ing power or turn them adrift, wholly
unprepared to face the future as an
independent people" The cardinal,
whose article has appeared in Bos-
ton newspaper, says, in part:
I'm my opinion, the wisest step
would be for the President, in his
wisdom and discretion, to select a
committee of discreet, observant, pa
triotic citizens to visit various por-
tions of the islands. Thus would they
be ena bled to form their judgment
upon observations made at first hand
as to the time when the Philippines
may have the ability and education
to assume a larger measure of self
government than this nation Is war;
ranted by conditions today in promis-
ing them. To hold out promise to
them that we could not keep would
be no less dishonorable than to shirk
our obligation toward them"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20
CARE OF. WILSON'S
GUESTS PUZZLE.
Colonel Birch Securing Capital
for Autos to Garry Them
to White House.
BY HERMAN b. WALKER.
Star Rurpau


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-Colonel
Thomas H. Birch. personal aide to
Governor Wilson, is busy today with
members of the Inauguration COM
mittee here, trying to work out a
solution to the problem of how the
inaugural guests of the President
elect are to be conveyed from the
Capitol to the White House after the
inaugural ceremonies of March 1.
The Governor has 250 tickets re-
served for his own use for seats in the
reviewing stand for the inaugural
parade. and is anxious that the guests
he invites to use these tickets shall
also have an opportunity to hear him
deliver his inaugural address at the
Capitol. What is bothering the Gov
ernor and the committee is the ques-
ton of how this trainload of peo-
pie, who will fill thirty or more au-
tomobiles, are to be taken back to
the White House in time for them to
get into their seats there and witness
the parade.
"Rubberneck' wagons, the kind Of
cross-seated sightseeing automobiles
much in use here, were suggested as
means of conveying the big party,
but it was found that all have been
rented out for the day for grand
stand purposes. This morning Colonel
Birch was securing the town for au-
tomobiles for use in getting the Gov
errors guests back to the White
House.
The Governors aide arrived in
Washington yesterday. and during
his stay here has made arrangements
for the entertainme during the in
,auguration of the Essex Troop, big
delegation of Princeton students,
another of Hudson county Democrats,
clubs from Bayonne and Trenton and
about 500 Monmouth county Demo-
Gratis, who will march in the parade.
No member of the New Jersey dele
cation went on record yesterday as
favoring the literacy test for immi-
grants. as contained in the Burnett
bill. The vote of the House to sus-
tain the Presidents veto of the bill,
which would have required immi-
grants to pass a test to show they
could read and write, was 21S to ia,
or FIVE votes short of the two-thirds
needed to override the veto.
The record of the New Jersey MEM
bers on the vote was:
To sustain the veto: Townsend,
Mccoy. futile, Scully, Hamill and
Kinkead.
Not voting: Browning. Wood,
Hartt and Gardner.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20
CLEANSE YOUR LIVER AND BOWELS
WITH DELICIOUS "SYRUP OF FIGS"
Removes the Sour Bile, Gases and CIoggedUp Waste With
out GRIPPE or Nausea-No Headache, Indigestion Con-
stipation BiIousness Coated Tongue.

injury It's action is the action of
fruit--of eating coarse food-of taking
exercise. 1t is true and effective
liver and bowel cleanser and regu-
lator.
Most folks dread physic-they shrink
from the taste and after effects. Syrup
of Figs is delicious, and. besides, you
don't realize you have taken anything
until morning, when all the clogged-
up waste of the system is gently but
thoroughly moved on and out of the
bowels without gripping or weakness.
Ask your druggist for the full name,
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA"
This is the old reliable and only genu-
inc. Refuse, with contempt, any other
Fig Syrup recommended as good.
They are limitations meant to deceive
you. Read the label carefully and
look for the name California Fig
Syrup Company.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20

bill it is acting solely in the interest
of the policy holders. I say that there
is a different impelling and under
lying reason for the company's efforts
to defeat the BILL and that its UMPIRE
cedented actions should raise strong
suspicion in the minds of you As
semblymen as to its motives.
ut has been urged that the city of
Newark would alone get the benefits
of this tax. This is not true, for
Essex County gets one-third of the
taxes collected in Newark.
1.-The Prudential is noted for its
efforts to use the Board of Health
there to defeat the death claims of
its policy holders, and the Board of
Health will tell you it is pestered to
death almost by the company for
this purpose.
THE average duration OF an in
dustrial policy is seven years, so
that if the holder has to wait fifteen
years before he is entitled to the de-
ferred dividend fund very few of the
poorer p61icy-holders will come in for
a share of the fund
Assemblyman Carhart was the first
to object to the bill. He said the
money in the fund in question had
been paid by thousands of people. not
only in New Jersey, but all over the
United States, and that the tax on it
should go to the State If there was
to be any tax. He also said it seem
ed to him TO be trust fund, and as
such should not be taxed.
The question was asked by Mr..
Moore whether the fund belonged to
the company or to the policyholders.
To this Mr.. Rowe replied: FROM
present indications the fund belongs
to the policyholders and probably
some day they might get it,
Then Mr.. Moore quoted the opinion
which had been given by former
Chancellor Ma gle, ex-Justices Van
Syckel and Collins and Richard V.
Lindabury, ali of whom are directors
of the Prudential, to the effect that
the fund belongs to the policyholders
and that the company has no interest
in it.
A roll call was taken on the bill,
showing 43 against 1t and 10 in favor
of 1t. MIR. Rowe then changed his
vote to the negative to ask for a re-
consideration of the vote. Mr.. Egan's
motion that the motion to reconsider
be tabled was carried by a voice vote,
and that settled the bills fate for
the day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20

Foul breath. coated tongue, dull,
headache, stomach sour and
full of gases, indigestion. biliousness
and sallow complexion, mean that
your thirty feet of bowels are ,logged
with waste matter; that these drain
age organs of the body arc INSTRUCTED;
liver stagnant and stomach full of
poisonous gases, sour bile and un-
digested. fermenting food not prop
erly carried off
Most of our ills are caused by con-
stipated bowels We ALI need a laxa-
tive sometimes; nobody can doubt
that. The only question is, which one
is the best? And that isn't q question
any more. Syrup of Figs, being COM
posed entirely of luscious figs, SIENNA
and aromaties. must act in a harm
less, gentle and natural way. Syrup of
Figs. can be constantly used without
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20
4PRU" TAX BILL IS
BEATEN IN HOUSE
Assemblyman ROwe's Spirited
Appeal Fails to Help
Measure.
ONLY ESSEX MEMBERS
VOTE FOR ITS PASSAGE
Matthews, Who Was to Submit
Act, Played for His Change
of Heart.
rFrom a stan corro,no,a.n.,


TRENTON, n. J. Feb. 20.-As-
semblyman Hubert ]. Rowe's bill to
tax the Prudential Insurance Com
pahy, Which the Essex member intro
duced for the Newark city admins
trat.on, was lost in the. House yester-
day by a vote of 43 to TO- Ten Essex
members cast the only favorable
votes. Assemblyman Matthews de-
clared against the measure and AS
semblyman Lewis was absent
The defeat came only after a long
debate, in which Mr.. Rowe, armed
With figures and an understanding of
the measure, declared that, in spite
of the company's claims to the con-
trary, the proposed tax would not
come out of the pockets of the policy
holders, but out of the company's gen.
eral assets.
Mr. Nutting, of Essex, furnished the
sensation of the debate by calling
Mr.. Matthews chameleon" because
the one member of the Essex delega-
ton who is not in accord with the
other eleven had changed his atti-
tude on the bill since last fall Read
ing from a Newark Star report of a
political campaign meeting in Octo-
Der Mr.. Nutting showed that Mr..
Matthews had then told his audience
that he would personally introduce "a
bin in the Legislature providing for
the taxing OF the Prudential if they
would help to elect him.
Mr.. Mathews defended his change of
mind by saying that during the cam
paign he had been led to believe from
- 80 n 1t =.
deferred dividend fund of the Pru-
deantil Company was the company's
own property and not that of the
policy-holders, but that a study of
the case since the bill was introduced
made him believe the fund belonged
TO the policy-holders and ought not
to be taxed. He maintained this po-
sition even after it had been explained
that the bill did not seek to tax the
dividend fund, but the general assets
of the company.
In explaining the bill Mr. Rowe
said:
THE main reason of the necessity
for this bill had its starting point
some years ago in the act of the com
missioner of banking and insurance
when he placed among the actual la
bilities of the Prudential $23 100000
deferred dividend fund The courts
have decided not that this fund is
immune from taxation, but that the
commissioner of banking and insur-
ence may include it in the company's
liability on policies if he sees fit. The
purpose of this bill is to take away
the discretionary power of that one
man. At the same time that the
company carries it as a liability on
policies. it also carries it as an asset
of its own.
"The only real argument that has
been made against the bill is that by
Its passage you will tax the pennies
of the poor. According TO the press
agent of the company there have
been sent to you 10000 letters protest
ing against the bill There are
$4,000 deferred dividend policy-hold-
ers, so you see you have only had an
expression of opinion from per cent
of them.
1T is a mighty slim excuse for the
company to say that in opposing the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-20
ACT ON FIRE DANGERS

NAsHINGToN. Feb. 2o.--Rigorous
protection against the dangers of fire
is proposed for patrons of motion pic
ture theatres in this city under rules
and regulations virtually agreed on
by the district authorities. These in
clude the detail of special policeman
at each theatre at the expense of the
theatre management; the placing of
window exits by doors; limitation of
the number of patrons at each per
formance and the adjustment OF
standing billboards outside the thea
tire. The latter. 1t is declared, furnish
a serious obstruction to the quick
of the building.