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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Sun Attracts Falling Stars

Each so-called shooting star is merely a cold little meteor which is moving around the sun in its own path, just as the immensely larger comets and planets are doing, says St Nicholas Magazine
 On the average these particles are nov ing about 26 miles a second, when they are at the distance from the sun that the earth is and, as the earth itself is nov ing 1872 miles second, the two bodies are sure to collide with high velocity.
 If the earth runs into the particle in such a way as to overtake 1t, it will strike out air with speed of only about eight miles a second; if they meet head on. so to speak. they may come together with speed of A miles a second.
 In either case the friction of the air on the cold particle, as this blows through the air, instantly heats it up to heat so great that 1t Is vaporized and appears to LIS as a shooting star.
 The reason why the little meteorlc par ticles are moving so very swiftly in the first place is simply because they are falling toward the sun.
 If you could carry a stone many mill lions of miles away from the earth and there let it drop, 1t would begin to fall toward the earth very slowly, but as it fell 1t would constantly move faster and faster, until when it finally struck the earth 1t would be moving no less than seven miles in each second.
 In exactly the same way each of the little meteoric particles away off in space began long ago to feel the pull or gray itation," of our sun and to fall toward that body.
 If the meteorite and the sun had both been at rest at first, the meteorite would have simply fallen into our sum- but as our sun is moving through space at the rate of Il miles in each second the me teorite will not hit it exactly, but will miss it and begin to swing around it in a curved path.
 As the sun is so much larger than the earth, its pull is very much greater. If you could visit the sun you would find when there that you weighed more than 27 times as much as you weigh on the earth
 This great pull of the sun on each of the meteorites make them fall very swift ly, indeed; 1ti S because the pull is so strong that whe nthey have fallen toward the sun to the place where the earth Is we find them moving some 26 miles in single second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Did You Ever Stopto Think How Much Like Human
Funny thing-the human brain.

Funny thing-the human brain like a razor it Is?
 A man told me about razors the other day.
 He told me how a razor may be used for just so long.
 Then
 Stropping it does no good. No sort of sharpening process puts keen edge on it.
 But
 Put 1t away 10 rest six months and take it out again and it is as keen cutter as the day it was bought. Another man told me about locomo- lives.
 How they can run a certain length of time and then must have rest. Examined
 Every bolt and screw may be in its proper place and the running gear abso- lutely perfect
 But
 It won't go. A Send it to the machine shops to have it overhauled and the fact is revealed that there is nothing the matter with it. Oil and polish it.
 Fire it up and start it off.
 And
 It promptly-stopsi
 Apparently it's life of usefulness is ended.
 But
 Send it to some dusty old barn and let 1t supremely alone for a few months, and 1t comes gaily back to work, just as good as it was the day it left the master me chanic's hand
 Now then:
 Isn't the human brain curiously like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

them asked the other if she believed in the quadruple soul of the sex.
 Il don't know that one replied. .sIt' S a curious thing. Deep down in my heart l believe that when David sang of the Harp of Thousand Strings he meant woman's soul. It's wonderfully con : strueted thing, let me tell you. Now know less about my own feelings than anyone else. I seem to be built around a series of hollow reeds, some thing on the principle of a pipe organ and my opinion as l hear myself ex- press them comes as quite as much of a surprise to me as they must to you would almost say-if l had the cour- age--that I'm only half and Aeolian for the world of people who have brains to play on, to breathe through. My soul,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Frogs and Boys

Did you ever creep up cautiously, quiet ly and politely behind a big frog so as not to disturb his meditations-with a club in your hand? says the American Boy. And then did you ever lift that club and bring it down with all your might on the spot where the frog-used to be? Of course you have. Now how do you account for the frogs moving on just when you want him to finger? It's pro- voking after you've got your feet sopping and your clothes muddy; but the most provoking thing about it Is the calmness of the frog
 He sits there on his lily pad and pre- tends there isn't boy within mile. And he keeps right on pretending till your club is an inch from his nose-when he goes away from there. It is all a put up job. That's the way frogs amuse them selves. You think you're having fun hunting frogs, but as a matter of fact the frogs are having fun fooling boys
 Probably you went out in the morning with your mind all made up to come home with nice mess of frogs legs and sur
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whatever it is. is many-s sided. Maybe it's piece of colored glass and the re factions that come from it are amaz- ing to me who increase it. It's all mystery"
 The other woman wasn't so sure.
 She didn't agree that her soul was 1000-stringed autoharp; that any old stray musician might twang what arias he would upon 1t. but she was positive that she had many souls, and that no two of them were the same age.
 Tor instance she said, 'T have an old, old soul. It must be 100 years old. maybe 1900 years older than my body. At times it takes me back to the Garden of Eden itself. Then again l seem to re- member all about the Trojan war Then again l have another soul so young that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Pointing Pistols

Recently Solomon German of Manhattan scared into flight two thieves who en-
 tered his store by pointing his index finger at them and fooling them into supposing that he had revolver, says the New York Sun. It is an old trick and yet it sue ceeds, just as the confidence man can all ways sell a gold brick to a farmer who never heard of Hungry Joe.
 A short time ago river thieves boarded a tug moored along the Hudson and at tempted to enter the captains cabin and secure money and valuables from a small safe he had there. The engineer of the little boat heard the thieves. and creeping up out of the engine room called: Halt! Who's that? Halt, or I'll fire'' At the same time he ran around the side of the cabin with dipper handle.
 Not until the thieves got ashore did it seem to occur to them that there couldn't have been a pistol in their disturber's hand or he would have fired. When 1t came to mind they retreated to a safe distance and then shaking their fists at the grinning engineer cursed him pro- fusely.
 Over near Hunts Point a few months ago they had an amusing case of cross ''pistols' purposes. Several dwellings had been robbed and everybody in the vicinity became suspicious of the slight est unusual movement after dark. Two high school boys planned ma sked hold up of citizen after dark. They held him all right, both presenting proper looking pistols with shining barrels After the citizen handed out all his valuables and whined abjectly that he had nothing more the boys revealed themselves.
 Tn great rage the citizen then blew a police whistle and a mounted officer galloped up. The boys protested they had only Joked with neighbor. The cit izen declared they should be punished. The officer was willing to look lightly on the affair until it was pointed out that pistols had been brandished
 This made the matter serious. The of-. flcer arrested the boys and took from them the weapons that might bring them term of years in prison. 70 heavy is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

thing might be said of the seriousness of the soul at the same time.
 Responsibility
 Is there something fascinating about woman's soul?
 Had you ever thought of it?
 There was a time when a woman wasn't endowed with this spiritual pos session any more than she was ac- corded the possession of brains.
 The lack of a soul was one of the gravest charges that they held against Undine until she loved a mortal and was given half soul in compensa- tion for the unhappiness that attach ment brought about.
 So also
 Did they gossip about Lifithl
 Some, indeed, have gone further and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nil<olaevna. has corresponding rank in the Eighth Vosnes- enski Lancers and her tunic is heavily braided. while the narrow belt ends in curious tassel. The helmet is of low,
 rounded shape, the bunch of feathers being in the center over the brow and clasped with the device of the regiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

speculated as to where we would be today if Adams first wife had been other than she was
 None the less, Undine and Iilith still live on.
 Alas and Alack. that they do not see the daily papers in the E1ysian fields
 statement credited to a "learned professor is now going the rounds that would doubtless interest all ladies maligned as "soulless' in the past.
 The writer of the article avows that mot only have women souls but that each individual daughter of Eve has four souls
 Now, theni
 .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

pools for water bugs. erustacea, and young fish. and the pools are not so far out from shore that the expert rodsman cannot land his line in them. Bloodworms are the popular bait just now, though later many anglers will substitute shredder crabs.
 For sNrf fishing for bass the rods : man must make an average cast of 175 feet The rules of the Asbury Park Fishing club require the rodsman to land his bass with rod and reel and without assistance until the fish is ac- tually beached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
FRECKL.ES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These
 Ugly Spots

NOW IS Inc Time fO Gef NId Of TheHe
 Ugly Spots
 There no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine-double strength--is guaranteed to remove these homely spots.
 Simply get an ounce of othine-double Strength-from any druggist and apply little of 1t night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished en- tirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to completely clear the skin and gain beautiful clear com plexion.
 Be sure to ask for the double strength othine this is sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freck1es.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

the New York penalty. But when the pis- tols were exposed the whole matter was dropped. The pistols were first rate imi- tations of the real thing, only Tn this case they could explode nothing more deadly than a cap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

it might be q thing that blossomed out last n,ght.>, The world to it is mys-' tery of wonder and color and light and fire grance. And to balance it all, there s my soul the same age as l am. That soul was born the day l opened my eyes on this wised old world. That the earth soul that keeps all the other fantastic rear-sous under control'
 That's precisely what I said,'' the fiji st speaker exclaimed These others aren't souls at all, but strings as I said. Our souls are just a harp of thousand strings, ard there's one mighty musician soul that wrings the melody out of the whole"
 T wonder" said the other, pondering.
 Who doesn't?' returned the first speaker. equally as .houghtfully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

prise folks All day you wallow in the mud and bang away with your club at frogs that laughing at you till they nearly split their sides. By the time it begins to grow dark you have in your bag a couple of immature froggies whose ineXperience allowed them to laugh a second too long. Two frogs for a days work, Anyhow you figure, there'll be enough for mother to have for break fast.
 That consolation lasts till you take them into the kitchen. Mother looks at them and edges away Take those nasty toads right out the house immediately!' she says. And then like as not, the frogs back in the pond have another laugh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

Two women were discussing this matter the other day Chats the req son I'm writing this srory) and one oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
a razor-when it comes to rest?

Like locomotive when it's made up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

its mind that for it's own spiritual good it will stop awhile
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

two pounds of sausage for lunch,
she comes face to face with Mrs.
Stuyvesant van Rippington
motoring up to her apartment
It.would Ls bad enough if
Mrs, van Rippington were alone,
but as she is accompanied by
Dedly Borus, the occasion is a
calamityl The monocole Of
Lady Borus is intently fixed up
on the brown paper p arc !.
which at once assumes the pro-
portions of butchers entire
stock. A pocket, in accessible
position, would have saved the
situation, But where, on a
modern gown, could q pocket or
two pounds capacity be giaftedg
Since the modern feminine
costume has become so tight
that it has been found necessary
to remove ifs veriform appendix.
(or pocket) the handbag has
grown in size. The tighter the
gown, the larger the h II d
pocket. 1t is not now uncom-
mon to see a woman with a
gown 30 tight that it seems pho
tographed upon her.. wrestling
with a bead encrusted hand
sAtchel of such proportions as
would bring into prominence the
muscles of a baggage smasher.
Since women have entirely
eliminated pockets, and men
have cut down the number by
half, it would seem that a
pocketless generation might be
one of the Possibilities of the fu-
ture. But if such should come,
probably Nature will make pro-
vision for us as she has with tho
kangaroo,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
WASHINGTON
New Mexico State Debt. Funds
and investments, 1880 TO

Washington, D. c., April II,
1914. Preliminary figures from
the forthcoming bulletin per-
tanning to national and state in
detedness and funds and invest
mments have been given out by
Director w. j. Harris, of the
Bureau of the Census, Depart
ment of Commerce. The bulle-
tin carries information for the
state of New Mexico, as well as
for the other states and t h Q
United States. The data were
compiled under the supervision
of Mr.. John Lee Coulter. expert
agent in charge of the inquiry
on Wealth Debt, and Taxation.
The bulletin, which will soon
be issued, will contain statistics
for each state for each year
from 1890 to 1913, inclusive, as
far as statistics are available,
and will also contain details for
the yearmost nearly correspond
ing to 1880, thus making it pos
siblo to show the general move
ment during period of over 80
years. The bulletin will show
the total debt Of the states, as
well as many details, such as
The various classes OF outstand-
ing bonds and special debt obli-
cations to public trust funds. It
viii also show the floating debt
and itscomponent parts. Under
Funds and investments" will
be shown separately all of tie
different funds, and in each case
cash and securities will be
shown. The population of the
states for each year under con-
sideration viii be used, and the
per capita debt (less sinking fond
assets) will be given,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17


Easter was very appropriate
.ly observed here in an all day
service at the church. In The.
early part of the morning, the
Sunday School gathered in full.
attendance, After which the big
egg hunt came off. Between
four and five hundred eg gs
were found, mostly of the rabbit
egg which are, as you know of
many colors. shapes and sizes.
/ Next came the bountiful din
ner which was spread on one
long table from the many well
filed baskets that came in one
by one through the snow. At
2 O'Clock all assembled around
the organ and had song services.
These all'day services might
be INDUCED in more often in
view of cultIvating a m or g
sociable, neighborly and friendly
feeling for each other.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
NOTICE.

We are at the same old stand
and have a complete line of
staple and fancy groceries as
cheap as any one in New Mex
leo. Come i'll and let US figure
with you on your groceries.
We are agents for the celebrated
R. 7. Frazer saddles, come in
and let us take yol'r oruer fol
one.
Come in andlet' as take your
measure for that new spring
suit Of clothes.
We also pay the hig he 81
market price for all Kinds Of
produce,
(ad) Jones and Pirtle.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

The finest snow of the season
fell last Saturday night. The
weather being SO warm The
snow melted very nearly as fast
as it fell. However there was
about three in c h es on the
ground early Sunday morning
which was all gone by noon.
1t is generally believed to be
the best moisture in the ground
at this time known for many
years. The prairiss are now
green and cattle are very busy
working after the little short
grass. Anothur rem. days and
grazing will be good.
This early grass is a very wei
come visitor to the stock man
who il wintering on short range
whore they are having to feed.
Sack feed shipped from south
ern Texas is expensive.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
p 0 c X E T. S.
Especial Record Service

There are times when a man
wishes no had fewer pockets aud
when a woman wishes she had
more.
The occasion when a man
hates his pockets occurs when
wife inveigIes him into a shop
ping orgy, and casks him ITO
please put this rat trap ia Ais in
side ceat pocket, this Turkish
towelin one outside, tkis crib
blanket in the other; does he
think he.could get this pair OF
slippers in his vest pockets aud
where IS no going to put this
jardiniere!"
A woman never wishes for q
pocket more frequently than
when on her way home with
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
Literary Commissions. "
copyrighted 1914 by the Foster Service.
DOMEsTIcs

Domestics are female tories Of
the China factories, struggled
into unsuspecting homes as
servants.
A domestic can show more
carelessness with a piece of cut
glass than a fool can with a gun
that isn't loaded. They have
long been suspected, too. as
plain clothes fusionists of the
light, heat, and power compan-
les, as they have less concern a
bout the high cost Of living than
a leading lady has of her sub
ordinates in the chorus.
IN cities, these promoters of
bankruptcy are useful, nor a.
lone in keeping the policy a.
wake and well-fed, but the as
surfing the citizens one of these
otherwise elusive arms of the
lay is contiguous to their proper
ty every night after ten O'Clock,
and that if. any one wishes to
rob their home he muet first a.
gree not to modest the kitchen.
There was q time, so our an
cestery tell us, when the life Of
a domestic was not one of ease.
They were then brought into
homes with the distinct under
standing that their headquart-
crs was the fourth room back,
and that their entertainment
was to be extracted from the
broom and wash-tub, the piano
and parlor being reserved for
the mistress of the house. No
one, however, gives full cred
ence to this.
There are, though, even now
some off-brand domestics who
are very kind to their mistresses.
1t is sid these often ask off
not more than four or five days
a week, and in come instances
even offer to take care of the
children $ h ould d. the mistress
wish to step out for an hour Of
two.
But the life of a twentieth
century domestic is not all
glory. She is expected to be
able to adore almost anything
over which she reigns, even to
the dog and the cat. but such
alteration must never be per
mitted to drift toward the patsr-
nal portion of her realm.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
BROKEN LIMB

Martin Mckee the ID year old
son of John F. Mckee living a
mile west of town, while rum
ming his horse Monday after
stock, made a quick tilrn and
the horse slipped and fell on the
boys leg: breaking one of TIL g
bones between the knee and
ankle. At this time the fracture
is healing mic ly, aud it is
thought that il. will give him no
serious trouble.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
FARMERSl

Send 25c for a copy Of The
farmers Rapid Fig'rer and
Calculator; the handiCst book
you ever saw; money back il
wanted. -. G. Foster, .Assump-
ton, III.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

Ed Jett of Bcaz was in town
Tuesday and received a fine re-
gistered Hereford one year old
bull from Texas, by express.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

Miss Josie Good left Monday
for Lemesa Texas, to y en- d
quiet a while with her grand
mother.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

w. A. Shira, postmaster at
Beaz, was in town Monday on
business.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

w. w. Bracksn, postmaster
at Valley View was in tow n
Saturday inrolIte to PIainview
Texas.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

Lee Kimmons lost a goodmare
Monday by her falling into a
tank of water and drowned.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17

There will be singing services
at the church Sunday evening
at Z O'Clock.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
LOcAL AND PERSONAL

B. F.JGood is in Texas this.
week attending to some bdsiness
matters.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-17
Don't Forget to come in

Don't Forget to come in
and look at our new line of
Spring Goods. Shoes, slippers
and Dry Goods. Remember our
grocery line is always complete
at bottom prices.
We pay You the top market
price for your produce any time
You bring it. Butter, eggs,
chickens and hides.
viii b. IN the market for
Mexican beans for few days.
tad l. CNDentoh.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-06-04
What Patience viii Do.

patience and perseverance will ac-
complish all things" was a fayorits
saying of an old farmer.
He had just made this remark in
a train n day OF the way to mar.
ket, when a pompous individual in
the next seat turned to him and said.
Nonsense. sir. l can tell you a
great many things which neither pa.
thence nor perseverance can accom-.
plish.'
Perhaps you can" said the far.
mer, but / have never yet come
across one thing"
We'll, then, I'll tell you one WIN
patience and perseverance enable
you to carry water in a sieve?"
Certainly"
Il would like to know how"
Simply by waiting for the water
to freeze"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-06-04
PEACE STEPS AT
NIAGARA DELAYED
AMERICANS WILL INSIST Thai
RECOGNITION IN NEGOTIATIONS
BE GIVEN CARRANZA.
Administration Believes That Terms
Of Peace for Mexico Which Will
Not be Permanent Peace Will be
Worse Than Useless.

Washington.-Every indication in
Washington points to prolongation OF
the Mexican mediation negotiations at
Niagara Falls. That the Washington
government desires the Mexican con-
s~titutionalists represented in the pro
ceedings tending for peace is un-
doubted. The view of the administra-
tion is said to be that terms of peace
for Mexico which will not be per-
manent peace are useless.
Administration leaders, cognizant of
this view, reiterated Saturday their
oft-expressed confidence that the me-
dition conference would not adjourn
until the pathway to an adjustment of
the differences between Huerta and
the United States and the internal
conflict in Mexico had been cleared.
In circles close to the administra-
ton 1t was declared the American
representatives at Niagara Falls con-
ference had been instructed to urge
upon the South American mediators
the necessity of giving recognition to
the constitutionalists forces in fran
ing a plan to compose the turbulence
of Mexico.