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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1921)
NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. FIND LIKENESS OF AUGUSTUS Archaeologist Discovers Splendid Statue of Roman Emperor at Tivoli. LIFELIKE STUDY BY ARTIST 'aluable Addition to Portraits of Ro man Emperors and Is Only One Extant Done During Em perofs Lite. Kome.TIvoll, tliut lovely little city perched nbovu Itoiile, culled Tlbur by the undent ltoinuns, litis Just given to tho drehueologleal world two uev urt treasure's un oUgustoum, or hull, and u Hplendld heud of Emperor Au gustus. Prof. Alesslo Vnlle, one of the arch aeologists who havo miulii Tlvoll u speclnl study, long believed that Tlvoll should reveal an ancient hull of Importance, considering the nour ishing state or the city In itoiiinn duys. He began to dig near a newly discovered weights mid measures of fice, also dating from the ltouuiii cm- r pjrc, thinking that the public weights and measures must surely he near home Important hull. Ho wus pot mistaken. He has opened up a hall with n Komuu pave ment of white and green marble which looks us If It wero put down this morning, so fresh (s It, and the statue of Augustus, broken hut with the head (nlact, us tho picture shows, with the lifelike lines cut out of the uiurhle by xonio unknown sculptor of evident genius. Likeness of Augustus. The statue ! a likeness of Augus tus when lie hud. grown old. An In scription underneath It, which dedi cates the statue to the gods, "for the happy return In good health of our Augustus Cucsar'-proves -It was dono during the famous emperor's lifetime, a votive offering to the gods by n loyal Tlvoll citizen who signs himself 300 SPIES IN THE AMERICAN ARMY Amazing Story of German' Es . ;p!onage During the War ! ' ' Is Disclosed. DESERTER MAKES CONFESSION Former Officer Tells of Being 8ent From Germany With Other Cadets to Enlist. In the United States Army. ,,Ncv York. Au unitizing story of Germfln .espionage during the War was disclosed when John Wlllet, for mer captain In tho Forty-eighth Uni ted States Infantry, confoasd he was reully, Huns fillers, a cudot In tho Giynnm army until ,1014, when he wus sent to this country with. BQO other cadets to Joint the American army and' become United States oflleors. Wllhjt ndmltted ho had ubsconded wjth $0,000 of his company's funds at Cump Sevier on November 548, 1018, a few weeks 'after the Armistice, und de serted. It was this offenso and not any sub? plclon of his spy role which resulted in his arrest here when Hugh J. Hun nlguu, formerly a first lieutenant In tho Forty-eighth, recognized tho de serter on tho street and hulled n po liceman. Hints' at Treason In Washington. "You would bo surprised how ninny high Gorman oDlcluls held Jobs In Washington during tho war, Wlllet told Detective Sergeant O'Leary, The prisoner made this siulemeiit after ho had narrated how ho camo hero irnd what ho would have done hud his rcgt ment been sent to Franco. "I would huve led my men to slaughter, and could have been use ful to my own country In many other wiiys." Wlllet declared, uccordlng o Where Italy View of an old ouurter In ltutiullo. rchnectlve territorial claims. Not Stopped by A Bs- ShC- ilkfp Kite" -" jSwyw. -is Kennehunkport, Me., lias n grist mill, operated by the tide. It wus erected In 1&'10 and has never stopped since then. Unaffected by shortage of coal or "daylight saving" laws, It goes steadily on, working four hours and then rest ing four. As the moon Is an hour slower each day compared with the sun. however, tho miller bus to chunge his hours somewhat. M. Vernnus Dlllllus. The same man guve the public weights and measures to the city. History lets us dne this statue be tween II. C. :n and A. D. 14. when Emperor Augustus died near Nrtplcs, aged seveuty-slx. Experts say the luce Is the face of n man of fifty. In the worn Hues, tho Ill-tempered mouth. Its upward tvvlBt at tho left side, we huvu Ho lluttering -picture of tho great enlpcror. but h lifelike study by tin artist who dured to cut his statue us he saw tho hilinun model. For this renson, and because of Its surely be ing dono In AllgUstU.f lifetime. It Is u very valuable addition to the col lection of portraits of the' Homan emperors, nnd probably the only one extant of Augustus done during his lifetime, Tho llgure, which originally snt on the pedestal at the head of the hull,' Is graceful, as Suotolus, Mint gos sipy hlstorlun -from whom niter scribes have Jcurucd nearly all they the police, In explaining why ho and others wero sent to the United Stutes to enlist In tho American army. Wlllet was taken to Fort JUy prison on Gov ernor's Island. Confronted by two cx-lleutonants of the Forty-eighth Infantry, Sidney I'. Howell, a luwyer, nnd Krunchv Hatcl). Wlllet began to respond to questlpns. As to his pedigree, ho Hold he wus born In Gerinuny and educated there. "I was trained for spy work when I .wns u boy nnd later whenJ was u endet In u Germim military academy," tho detectives quote Wlllet as saying. "When tho World war begun In 1014 I wus selected to Join n band of cadets Who were to come to the United Stutes with orders to Join tho American army. Other groups went to tho French iirmy and' to the British. About UOO others came over here with mu. I knew my military training soon would be recog nized und that, promotion would fol low, so I enlisted as a private the ilrst opportunity I got. I had no citizenship pupers I did not need any. Enlisted as Buck Private. "I enlisted as n buck private In Al bany soon nfter my arrival In this country. Within a very short tlmo my ability as n soldier was recognized and I was promoted. ".My heart was nearly broken when I discovered my regiment probably would not he sent to France, I would have died for my country gladly. So, lfl days ufter the armistice, I took the company fund money and left camp. "I'm telling you this freely becauso 1 might us well be dead. Life does not matter much to me." Wlllet suld Mint nfter ho deserted Camp Sevier ho started traveling. He toured the Pacific coast. In Chicago about u year ago he mar ried an American girl named Craw ford, It Is said, Wlllet recently opened n mall order business In this city under the nume of Crawford. and Jugo-Slavia Are where the Italians and Jugo-Sluvs formulated their treaty, und ure settling their Coal Shortage know about the 'Uotntin emperors, told us, saying: Graceful Person. "He was it very graceful person through all the stages of life, though he was very careless In his dress nnd would set several burbers to ivork Upon his hair together, and would sometimes clip and sometimes shave his beard, nnd at the same time WOild bo reading or writing." Augustus, though emperor, called himself n deiuocrut und, says Sue tolus, "always ubhorrcd the tlt'e of lord as a scandalous affront.'' Hu tells us, too, that the emperor caught cold easily and wore, woolen undor- wenr In winter, "with n thick wool togu." This broken statue, with the hnso on which It stood, unenrthed nfter so long bridges the gulf of centuries and brings ono or the greatest rulers the world ever snw very hour. Love of Musjc Traps Robber of Poor Box Philadelphia. It was his love for music which led to the ar rest of Jacob Kntz, twenty-four years old, Kntz entered the Emanuel Lutheran church hero shortly nfter midnight nnd found tho poor box which he emptied of Its contents, S!i. Then ho found the new organ. Kntz had musical talent and he ran his Angers over the keys, Then ho became so absorbed In the .Instrument that he .forgot wjiero ho wns. pulled out the dfnphono and thundered uwuy. The strains awakened the pas tor, Uov. Rudolph Nleder, who lives next door, nnd ho called the police. ORE TOTALS 5O,000,O0Q TONS Great Lakes Shipments Show Increase of 7,700,000 During Year, Say Duluth Figures. Duluth, Minn. The total shipment ,pf Iron oro for the season reached ap proximately mj.uuu.uw tons, according to figures announced here. Iron ore shipped from the bend of the lakos thus far amounts to 47,707, 872 tons, with njiout flO.000 tons re maining to go out from tho Duluth arid Iron Itnngo rallrond docks at Two Harbors and the Chicago & North western railroad docks at Ashlund, WIb. , Total shipments from nil tho docks for the season show an Increase of approximately 7,700,000 tons over Inst yenr, when 40,007,850 tops .were shipped. , Children Unshod in Big Shoe Town. Itroekton, Mass. This city produces shoes for world-wide distribution and makes niofo of sonio kinds than nny other city, but CJiurlea 1. Brooks, at tendance olllcer of the school board, reported that mnny of Its children are unshod. There are at least fifty chil dren In the city who cannot go to school becauso they luck shoes, he said, and some, of them havo not been to school In weeks. Negotiating Daddy's EvervirA?, fairy Tale dywm GRAHAM BOMER. rco,i.tt r vmiiim htvHi wki THE SEASONS. "It seems u pity," snld old man Win ter to the Fairy Queen, "that wo enn't alt get together and have d' frbllc. You know once In a while wo do. But It seems n pity we can't' havo ono offenor and yet I don't know but what It Is best this way." "Well," said the Fairy Queen, "what do you mean? Do you think It Is best the way It Is or do you think It would be better another way? I'm sure you're not very clear, old man Winter." "Well, snmotlmes I think It would, he better another wuy, though In re ality 1 don't think so. I think the way It Is can truthfully be considered n very lino way. ' "You see," old man Winter contin ued, "there Is the Spring. The Spring Is n ldvely Creuture and I'd llko to really know her better. "But I never can know her better. I hnve to hurry nwny when she comes. Now und again I have a talk with her but then everyone grumbles and says, 'Oh dear, oh' denr, It's like a winter'! day again, and It has been so nlcs nnd springy lately.' "And the early flower nil complain, too, If I talk too much with Spring. They don't care to havo us friendly. "Then there Is the Autumn. Autumn Is lovely. So brilliant and beautiful. Autumn always wears such flashing, ''You're Not Very Clear." handsome, gorgeous clothes. How 1 do wish I could reully make friends with Autumn. "But they say Mint I hurry Autumn out of. the way just, as Spring with all her lovely-Ways and gruces pushes me out of the. wuy. "Now, Autumn usually has put on his old things when I come around. He Is dressed verv shnbbllv In old browns nnd sometimes he is bndly torn ' about und his clothes are In ugs and tatters. "But still I have Had a glimpse. of the beautiful way In which Autumn dresses when I've come a little abend of time for n short talk. "Then there Is Summer. 'She 'Is n beautiful lady, I'm to)d. But I don't see her. "Sho wears lovely palo greens and soft-toned browns, and sho wears wav ing wheat In her hair, and she cnrrlcs lovely yellow goldenrod, nnd she goes about to tho gurdens touching them with her mngle wand and making all the flowers come out In beautiful ar ray. "Summer Is n beautiful creature. "But I never renlly see her. Sho looks after gardens. She Is. always present ut picnics and at tennis games and nt swimming parties. "She never comes to the skating parties I give, nor the slelgh-rldes nor the constlng parties. "She simply hates cold weather, they say. She, loves warmth and sunshine. "Now, I never get to know her at all. - Qnce In a while, us I sutd, we do catch glimpses of each other. We Join to gether sometimes durlhg Spring's visit or Autumn's visit and wo lly about after each other and hnve great, glori ous races, und we huve such a tlmo that the eurth people say, 'Goodness, gracious, first of nil It seems like n Bummer's day and then It hns n touch of autumn to It, nnd then It seems as cold ns winter, nnd then It feels a little like the early spring. ' ,, " 'What ,n queer, queer duy It Is,' they sjiy. 1 "And that Is when vo are having one of our frolics. But they come very seldom. For the most part the four seasons do not know each other. I know Autumn und Snrlni: sltchtlv. "Spring knows Sinumer and me slightly. ".Summer knows Spring nnd Autumn slightly. "And Autumn knows Summer und tfio " "That's pH," snld the Fairy Queen. "you're all most Important . but you don't ever get to know one.nnothe'r well. But still If you did It would In terfere with the work and pluy of ench, so I suppose It Is Just ns well us It Is." she ended, "Yes. It Is Jils't ns well ns It Is.' snld Old Man Winter. "That is really the truth." ' The Inspired Compositor. An eminent preacher announced three sermons on the throe pnrublesln Luke 15, calling them "The Lo Sheep.". "The Lost Coin" nnd "The Lost Son." Imagine hs dismay whey he saw those heads printed In the paper, "The Lost Sheep." "The Lost Cow" arid ThdvI,'est '8ow."B6ston, Trnnsrrlnt - v SEWING FOR THE LITTLE ONES SEWING that Is mqre of n Joy than a task, occupies the time of tho home seamstress In Junuury and Feb ruary, fdr she Is engaged with tho diminutive and ever junuslng gar ments for her little ones. The de signers of this yeur's models merit more than usual thanks, for they have made most unusual and pretty dresses and rompers, as a guide for those who want to give their children the ndvun- tnge Of the best styles. Besides fa miliar cotton goods, they hnve used linen In colors, pongee, dark taffetas, and hnve combined contrasting colors. Rompers are among those present In every diminutive wnrdrobe, Quite often they are us pretentious ns the" little affairs shown above, which seem equally woll adapted to girls or boys up to the nge of four. They are clev erly cut In one piece of sturdy cotton goods.' or coarse ljnen, hove a plait In tno center oi ine,irpnt nnu dock, ana aro slashed about the waist tp allow Things That Spell Distinction GHltlSTMAS tlmo brought out gar nishments Innumerable for the dress nnd for the homes of ladles fair all these personal niceties that wom en are never too old or too young to enjoy and appreciate. Beginning with neckwear, Micro were many collar and cuff sets, some of them In new styles, but made as thoy havo been of fine nets, sheer fabrics and luce. Among the pew things there w,oro cuffs with "bib" collnrs to match,, as shown In the Illustration nhove, In which fine bntlsje. with tiny tucks, Venice luce and narrow Vril lace edging1, are combined In n beautiful pet. This pnrtlcular collur has n round neck. It wn not more popular than straight collars, with narrow vestees nnd cuffs to nintch, made of similar materials. Flno net pieces embroid ered with flowers In the "Inzy-dalsy" stitch, bordered with narrow eluhy Insertion nnd finished with an edging of the same lace,, were among tho love liest sets and they nro easy to make this kind pf embroidery goes quickly and Is very effective. a belt of the goods or o sash of rib bon to slip through. The round neck nnd short sleeves aro scalloped at tho edges, but they might bq bound with tnpe or lawn. Few seamstresses can. resist the temptation to put u little simple embroidery or stitching on such small garments. Instead of rompers, some smnll girls maintain the freedom of their sex by wearing blouses to match frocks or aprons. The latter are too brief as to length to hamper them nny. There are a good muny sleeveless frocks and rompers In the new dis plays, n few with long sleeves, but more Minn either of these, are those made with short sieeves that hardly reach the elbow. Little flowers and miniature fruits are favorite motifs for embroidery on the dressier gar ments and small ties of wodl ending In balls, or of narrow ribbon, and nmuslng, muke-bollcve buttons, delight tho hearts of "their weurcrs. ' There are somo very handsome high necked pieces In which n high collar of tucked net, with filet or other luce Insets, edged with narrow cluny arc Joined to long vestees of net with a plaited frill of lace down the center, finished off with flat crochet buttons. They are usually made of deep cream colored net and lace and much ad mired by older women. All the best ncccssorles of this kind nro hand made. In handkerchiefs the holidays brought to notice very dainty ones of plain or crossbar linen with very nar row hems. They were bordered with frills of fine net: sometimes this frill had an edge whipped with colored thread. 1 5 2- conrnoHT n vimm NtvsfAit unioh For Evening Gowns. iridescent mauve, spunled not It much used fr evening gowns. J 7
