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Show NO "HOOKING JACK" FOR KERN Observations made during a summer session . of congress seem to acquaint one with the true inwardness of things much more vividly than those made during the winter sessions. Sweltering Swel-tering in his hotel one torrid evening, a prominent promi-nent leader was bemoaning his lot. Only a few miles distant a delightful summer home awaited await-ed his coming, but alas he was detained here to look after the caucus. Yet John Kern, senator sen-ator from Indiana, had no intention of "hooking Jack" from duty. It was a humid evening and the perspiration stood in beads on his broad brow, and how could a human senator be expected ex-pected to forget the home of his heart, amid the Virginia mountains? Here his father was born, and in emigrating to the west, the elder Kern dreamed of the time when he might return re-turn and own the land which so greatly and wonderfully figured in the pictures of boyhood. His wishes were more than fulfilled, for he spent many happy days at the old home during the sunset of life. Senator Kern Is known as a true Hoosier. Like many Indianans his forefathers came from Virginia to Kentucky and thence to Ohio. With his old home town of Kokomo are associated stirring memories of youth. The noted jockey, Tod Sloan, was befriended by the Benator In early days and did not forget him in the heyday of fame, for he never missed an opportunity opportu-nity of calling to see his friend Kern. In his own inimitable way the senator recalled the early days of Indiana; while his mind was set upon holding the Democratic caucus in line and watching every move to secure the passage of the tariff bill. He is one of the few senators who wears a beard, which he strokes meditatively with a patriarchal air, but his twinkling and snapping snap-ping dark eyes belie the semblance of age. National Magazine. |