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Loup City Northwestern NUMBER 32. VOLUME XXIX. LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JUNE 15, 1911. IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST ftPPEN set the IWORLD C»£R TOLO lit ITEM ’ED FORM. EVENTS HERE A\0 THERE C-ta a L ”'** for tho of t** Busy M»n— Latest Rr*-*c-a Infor ■MCMM. Washington Tt - Canadian re-.procity b.U oaa actaff m t< • be aena'e tuLi* com k s.:^ ’• .. be •-ported to tie up per t«c» at <-o*lC:re*a »it boot recoas stenda i* Tl* h joc mesdtncnt lb •U print j_per and wood pulp prort *.j*. *a» ai by the «**:••.»» by • rate of » ta < letpaia'io* •• t»^»ct tbe ghermaa ab&-tr»»r la« io u to protect prop «-• -•*-.«• and 'be p.e * wetfar* abbe *** *• -rJ by Elbert H. Cary. • -tub of board of d.re tjr* iff 'be ''tuted State* Steel corporal.on. in cee-' ai.ua tie ’eetimosy before the r.ou* KKt;'.< 'fees monopoly" ip %e*-;t»tita coamrttta* By -e-e eote tbe felted Vale* »: ate approved fba ar' .OB of tbe otettee a* pru .-ece* and elee •t-. a* a • r x* a assbroauBtae* <ff • «bt to tuart tbe C*« Lor.mer (>' - Tbe Mka—ni«* fa -Imbed »itb aide authority aed a-lll be * .tt immediately. 0b* of tbe ue.'j-je .nritatlon* r* »♦ • -d Presides' Taft came frora -b* At-.:. TV*; naaoriat.oa of K sr o< ._t,d .•JCabtita. »tick asked Mr Taft to :«m te Arkansas City. Kan. to addre** ita eotteerttioe July lb Tbe president area com petted to decline tbe ititUtlne Tbe tone expected * ooi tariff reef > * bill was presented to tbe bouse at tefeeaectat iv«a by "ha.-man Cnder • ood at tbe *ayc and means rote sui te* Tbe measure tat accompanied by a 1-«gTbr report from the Deaao ra*» if tie committee .s ita faror. • fcde tbe Republican : numbers nnani ■toady reported againf K. Tbe re port attark* president Tmf! and tb« tariff board Domestic Tti-- - members c* -be Ohio »ral aaa**Wy and aa attache aere Indict - -4 In bribery ebarfe* by tbe grt: 1 Jsry at <'o', urn but at.rb adjourned fir an tndeteute period aut-.-ect to call. 'Ur • u-'i.-t >d .ec-tlaflve t-rlbery a t* • inpleiad. but It al.i not bo --- Mitmcd for tbe present Tbe iarr*«t steamship merger oa •- creat .abe# since tbe formation if 'be C; rfertet and tbe steel trust 1—ts ea> effected at ( .ereiaad «hen be r.niefeltr toarbes *ere put upon be merper at t<* companies con rulttsc fuentymae of the finest bulk 'eel :ret*f-r» am tbe in.and seas "be ne* zpaay takes 'te title of be C'«at Lake* Steamship company, tod. ba>e a ;-*id la capital at K.M*. Tit*’ I t.t«4 8‘i!« f’wl corporation m» <itcl u^4r*4 another competitor s 'be Basset? Preaiey company of *)»• eland. O. one of tbe lirjwt )©b *fcC "*>«■ <-rc» of finished ilw! prod sets in tbf tTatosd Sum Tbe eon Adecatloa Is said to bit» boos Is tbe mcbburt-ood of The Southern Pacific Railroad com muy R<» kltnO Ik* cu'clf. costing t .5 mm Mm. t* "»n>f, This rut -Tosses the Sierra mountains thirty aw* mflao from Colfax. Cal., to Rock la. Cat S.i -tossabd garment work*--* are * **r4ke at Octclaad for recogal jam at •heir union LiiUsc postage stamps for patron* £ tae *c?**-mm*at M tbe cause at a srtoti -ase of blood poisoning of Mias trace Has. ton clerk is Tbe post of - toe at Faye'te city, Pa, according to ser pfetilrUas • • e Joseph f> itre* former rambler of be t'atveratty of Minnesota. who was arrested a »-ek ago. charted wttb ertsx rtwr la his accounts I12.SM. araa rsarreststt and bail was raised rom C>l to SIMM One of tbe most important actions afcec by tbe Judiciary committee of be Connect lent geoe-ai assembly by is preseat test** is fts decision to east* tbe H- WO® Had for damages te case of death by accident A seat: military body knows as tbs Crawl ord asd Cberoke? Volunteer a» socistioa a as chartered at Topeka Kan with tbe purpose of drirint rio (stars of tbe prohibitory law out of Crawford aad Cherokee countie*. Three T*le freakaep ssuct appeal ta roan at Xe* Hates. Coes . to faro charge* of mutilating property, it be ing alleged that tbe students painted remark* oa the sidesalk before aa Seats Fe't crack train, California *. met head-en with a light en g ■ • near Domingo. 25 miles from Al t ; erqje. N M., resulting in tha t,»; a of J VV Green of Las Vegas. X M the engineer of the light en gme. the fatal scalding of Ray C. F wers, firtman of the limited, and the Injuring of fifteen or twenty pas senger*. • • • After cutting out his wife's tongue and :.~ar!y disemboweling her. John F - agye, *t Cleveland. O.. committed t if rather than he captured by the po'iice. • • • Forest fires, raging in the Dragoon n. near Tombstone. Ariz., have h'-en gaining headway despite the efforts of a large force of ran gers. • • • Governor Dix has signed a bill pro fc biting the admission of boys under eivteea years to pool and billiard r u.? >r public bowling alleys in New York state. • • • Ir a quarrel over th- possession of ! a p. fe -ce of letters. W. E. D. Stokes ' c.: r.aue proprietor of the Ansonia , f 'tel :n New York city, was shot three times in the leg - by Lillian Gra lit a sit-ger, and Ethel Conrad, an •rtist. at the young women's apart-j me-nt* Th*> Wisconsin .-enat*- adopted a ' n declaring that Senator ' enson bought i.is seat in the I t ied States senate and request ing that body to investigate his elec tion Fr«t. rick Kohl, a prominent San frit' sco capitalist, was shot and • bly farnl'v wounded by Adele Verve, a French maid, until recently n t s wife* employ A lawsuit was be cause for the shooting. Sporting iPapke, the American fighter, cncr k-d out Jim Sullivan, the Eng t! haxpion. in the ninth round of • ir 20-round buttle at London. This ‘ -ory crowns Papke as the tuiddle • • • hi champion of the world. Personal Carrie E Nation, sixty-six years old, i »h g- red celebrity by h-r use of a t.v et in the cause of prohibition, \ -.■■a of paresis in the Evergreen sail Itartuni at Leavenworth. Kan. She J «a« admitted to the sani’arium Janu -r. r; suffering fr tn nervous break down Pmat< cab g-ams received in New j V rk <:•' announce the death of Mrs Mary Kingdom the mother of .Mrs •- rge J Gould, in Paris Mrs Kir.? Jot. had been in bad health for the pi st two or three years. One of the returning passengers or the Mauretania, which docked in New 1 York, was Col. William Brcmwel. V' lish of Cincinnati, grand master oi ’he Kcigh’!- Templar of the Cnitec States • • • Mrs J H Wayland. wife of the edl •or of the Appeal to Reason, published at Girard. Kan . died of injuries re ••-ived in an auiomobile accident near Girard • • • Nathaniel Tooker. seventy three year* old. first vice-president of the Cuban American Sugar company and a d;re< tor^of other sugar companies,! fesl de..u in New York from heart dis ease. Ei*kty years of age and still enjoy ing college life. Mrs. Amy D. Winship of Kacine will enter the University cf Wisconsin next fall as the only or-igenarian “co-ed" in the United ■States and probably in the world. Mrs Tom I. Johnson, widow of the Cleveland cx-mayor. has bnught suit aC-.tst the trustees of her husband s estate to obtain access to a safe de po-'t vault In Ne- York. In which it is said there is ll&O.f'Of in securities. Miss Grace Bryau. the youngest ctod of William Jennings Bryan, was married to Richard L Hargraves, a prominent young business man of Lincoln, Neb., at Fairview The wed ding was private. William Cornelius Hall, a well-todo r- ;lred manufacturer, famous among college athletes as the captain of the crew of Bob Cook, who was the faU»er ot rowing at Yale, la dead at his home in New York. He was fifty-six rears aid. An inventory of the estate of David H Moffatt. filed in the Denver county court shows that the testator died possessed of property worth more than $15,000,000 • • • Col Theodore Roosevelt declares with emphasis that the story that he h::d agreed to support any man for the Republican presidential nomina tion in ISIS was without any founda tion of fact. • • • Foreign Fishermen of St. Johns. N. F., re port finding a number of mattresses off the southeast coast, which leads to the belief that a ship nas been wrecked Dear there. • • • M. De Broquerille. minister of rail roads. posts and telegraphs, accepted the commission to form a new cabi net in succession to the Schollaert ministry in Belgium. ! : ONE PERISHED TRYING TO SAVE LIFE OF COUSIN. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Ainsworth. — Two young men, C .tries Anderir.an of Bassett, aged twenty-one, and Harry Alderman of Fremont, aged fourteen, were drowned in Clear lake, while fishing. They were camped on the bank of the lake w ith a party from Bassett, and Charles entered the water to try to drive the bass through a shallow place when he suddenly disappeared. Harry, know ing that his cousin could not swim, jumped in to save him. Both were drowned within plain view of the fran tic father of the oldest boy, who was powerless to give aid. Veteran Dies at Ashland. Ashland—Decoration day exercises j here were marred by the sudden col lapse of one of the veterans. Samuel j A. Quincy, aged eighty-six years. The ’ procession had gone to the cemetery in automobiles from ,own and the vet erans were marching up to the manu men* to the unknown soldier dead ' when Mr. Quincy suddenly pitched for- i ward out of the line of marchers, j overcome by heat and excitement. Monkey in Chicken House. Tecumseh.—When Mrs. Byrum of Howe visited her chicken house Sat- ! urday she found a full sized monkey ■ :n possession When she a tempted to drive the unwelcome vistor away the animal hi: her severely on the ; hand ar.u arm. An investigation j brought forth the fact that the moo- i key had escaped from a small show ' wi. oh had given an exhibition in the town the night before. i Tock Strychnine. Osceola.—Miss Zcila Hollister, the ; 17-year-old daughter of George Hollis ter. who haf resided rear Osceola for j many years, committed suicide on Fri- : dav afternoon by taking a half tea- • spoonful 01 strychnine. Storm Does Damage. Beatrice—Gage county was visited by a damaging storm late Sunday evening. A strip several miles wide through the center of the county from east to west being more or less dam aged from hall and wind. isteele City will celebrate. West Point is talking of erecting a big auditorium. 'ork will entertain the good roads advocates June 14. A jx>sta! savings bank has been or dered established at Crete. Pierce has secured the north Ne braska G. A. R. reunion this year. As the result of a special election Wayne will be "dry" another year. J. C. Maloney, a traveling salesman, was found dead in bed at a Fremont hotel. Fire of an unknown origin destroyed MH» tons of baled hay in a barn at Newport. A good roads association has been organized in Louisville with a large membership. An earthquake shock was felt at Tekamak Friday at 4:30 and made crockery and chinaware rattle. Burglars were frustrated in an at tempt to enter the store of Hatfield & Co. at College View, and made their escape. Brooding over the prospect that he might become a helpless invalid drove Henry McHenry to suicide at Fre mont. 1 oung ladies in charge raised sev eral hundred dollars to add to the Car . *'g,e library lund at Geneva by means of “Tag Day.” Frank, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. August G. Toelle of Wisner, was drowned in Kane's lake Wednes day afternoon. Miss Evelyn Sarver of York 'ran against a scythe that was in a hay stack aad cut a gash in her neck that took several stitches to close. Einrolu has put the bar down on joy rides on motorcycles and threat ens to make it unpleasant for the boys who are given to airing their best girls on the handle bars. Will Hayward, long a prominent figure in Nebraska politics, has defi nitely announced that he will leave Nebraska for good abo%t July 1 and take up his residence in New York City, where he will become a member of a prominent law firm. Company C of the state university cadets won the cup for best drilled company. The corner stone of the new St. Paul’s church at Osage was laid Sun day before a large crowd. Rev. Brendli of Talmage. Rev. Eller of Horton and Rev. Duensing of Syracuse assisted in the ceremony. Recent developments lead to the be lief that the loot taken front the Gat her bank has been recovered by con federates of the three men arrested for the robbery and now confined in the state penitentiary awaiting trial at Aurora. The state university cadets to the number of 350 are in camp at the Chautauqua grounds at Beatrice, where they will remain for several days. A toll bridge is to be built by a Plattsmouth company across the Platte river east of the Burlington railroad bridge over the same stream The state Sunday school convention just closed at Grand Island is said to have been the largest and most en thusiastic in the history of that organ ization. Mrs. J. J. 'Watkins of Osceola was severely burned by an explosion of gasoline. The accident occurred while the woman was working cleaning clothes. The state aerie of the Eagles is to be held at Columbus for three days, beginning June 13. One cf the things that is agitating the order is state autonomy. Levi Munson, proprietor of the Ro>al hotel at Lincoln for some time past, has been taken to Fremont to be gin a thirty-day jail sentence for vio lating the federal liquor laws. The school district of the city of Kearney has registered $40,000 of school bonds with the state auditor. The bonds bear 5 per cent interest and run twenty years, optional in tec years. The fourth annual session of the Nebraska yearly meeting of Friends has just closed at Central City. The Nebraska jurisdiction includes Nebras ka .Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the two Dakotas. An unidentified man. supposed to be Charles F. Winters, was knocked off the tender of an engine by the water crane at Oxford. He was rendered un conscious by the fall and died without fully regaining consciousness. A. V. Whiting of Lincoln was elect ed president. Louis Humpe of Lincoln secretary-treasurer, and J. S. Miller of Omaha chaplain at the recent session of the Gideons, held at Lincoln. A re port showed that 8,000 Bibles have been distributed in Nebraska hotels. 500 being placed In guest rooms in Lincoln and 1,100 in Omaha. Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams of Omaha, bishop of the Episcopal church of Nebraska, dedicated a beautiful new pulpit in the Episcopal church at Beatrice, installed by the parish in memory of the late Bishop Worthing ton. who was for twenty-three years bishop of that diocese. The pnlpit is made of polished brass and is very beautiful. Secretary Mellor of the state board of agriculture has received primed copies of the state fair premium list The fair will be held at Lincoln. Sep tember 4 to 8. Liberati's military band and concert company will again furnish music at the auditorium on the fair grounds. Daily flights of aero planes and night entertainments are on the program as usual. Governor Aldrich has announcer the appointment of R. D. McFadden of Hastings as state hotel inspector. In this appointment the government de ferred to the wishes of the traveling men's associations. Mr. McFadder was indorsed by the executive com mittee of the Nebraska Traveler's as sociation. He is now manager of th« Hastings Wholesaler, a trade paper. Labor Commissioner Guye has is sued a circular containing the law passed by the last legislature for thf protection of factory employes, anc includes with the law several rules and regulations drawn up by himse! that indicate how factory owners maj best comply with the provisions an< intent of the measure. Copies of thes« laws and regulations will be sent tc all factory owners and operators. Mr. Iwanski. stockman at the stab hospital for the insane, took a car load of hogs to South Omaha Tues day. There were forty-two head. Thi average weight was 402 pounds an£ they sold at $-'>.70. bringing a net st:n to the state of $330. The state good roads association o Merrick county has completed eight miles of road across the county in th» two days set for the purpose. Thit leaves Merrick county with only tw« short stretches of bad sand road. on« of which will be finished shortly. License* to Seine. State Game Warden Miller has beei beseiged with applications for licensei to net and seine tish. By paying $3 and putting up a bond of $100 anyone can obtain & license to seine and nei catfish, carp, buffalo and gar fish froir June 1 to October 31, providing th« netting and seining is done betweer sunrise and sunset and providing th« state game warden consents to issue s license for the stream mentioned ir the application. Seines and nets mus' have a mesh of two Inches square This law was passed two years ago. Secretary of State Wait has sent the last proof sheets of the sessioi lai^s to the printer. He believes tht voiume will be ready for distributioi and sale June la. Oeorge Aldrich, son of Governot Aldrich, has commenced work in tht governor's office in place of Miss Husted, who was filling the place dur ing her father’s illness. The gover ncr’s son will enter the university this fall and will hold the position ol recording clerk until Mr. Kusted is able to' 5# on duty. MORE TARIFF RILLS LIKELY THAT THE HOUSE WILL TAKE OTHER SCHEDULES. HECiPORCTY IN THE SENATE If Congress Does Not Adjourn Soon Tariff Revision Wiil Be Largely Entered Upon. I I I Washington.—Opening of the fight 1 on the Canadian reciprocity bill on the floor of the senate Tuesday with house democrat leaders urging the j senate to defeat the Root amendment to the paper schedule; vote in the j senate Monday on popular election of i senators bill; resumption of the wool j tariff revision debate in the house ' Tuesday—this is the week's program | of congress. Several conferences are planned, i including a caucus of democrats in j the house Wednesday night to con- i sider extension of the legislative pro- i gram and a meeting of republican j senators Tuesday to revise the list of senate employes. House investigat ing committee wil continue their work. There is much speculation as to the probability* of adjournment, which Senator Smoot and some others pre dict as early as July 27. while Demo cratic Leader Underwood says, "if the j extra session continues until late : summer or autumn," a more compre-! hensive scheme of tariff revision will be undertaken by the house. Early action on the reciprocity bill, hoped for by the president seems un- I likely, unless the Root amendment; | which has been objected to as fatal to the agrement, is defeated. Mr. Underwood and other demo crats who oppose the Root amend ment. now propose to exert all the in- i fiuence they can to prevent favorable \ action on the amendment so that i: will be unnecessary for the bill to be re-referred to the lower branch of i cingress. Word from the senate finance com mittee that it has practically wound up its business for the extra session has reached the house. Democratic representatives are about convinced that the senate committee will not pass upon any of their tariff legisla tive bills, the free list and wool bills and one yet to come, probably a re 1 vised cotton schedule, on which a , house subcommittee of the ways and j means is now working. Whether the democrats of the ways ! and means committee will take up | revision of any other schedule, suuch | as sugar and steel, will depend upon the length of the session. “There is a probability that we will | undertake to revise other schedules after we have passed the wool bill and drafted a cotton bill." said Mr. 1 Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee. "If the ses sion continues until late into the sum mer or into the fall, we might as well i go ahead with our tariff program. Af-j I ter cotton, sugar and steel schedules ; would naturally be discussed. YUAN SHIH KAI RESTORED. Progressive Leader Will Take Post of Vice Prime Minister. Victoria. B. C.—Yuan Shih Kai. the j famous Chinese progressive leader, is i about to be resiored to office, accord | ing to advices brought by the steamer | Empress of Japan. Peking correspond- * ; ends state that Yuan has been formal* i ly asked to take the post of vice; I prime minister to handle foreign af- ! i fairs and that he has replied that he j ; trill accept if he is not opposed by the i empress dowager. To Attack Rebels. Cananea. Sonora. Mex.—Juan Cab ral left here with 150 men for No gales. The former insurrecto chief tain is on his way to Lower California to attack the rebels in Mexicali and Tijuana. Carrie Nation’s Funeral. Kansas City, Mo. — The funeral services over the body of Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, who died Friday night at Leaven worth. Kan , were held from the home of her niece, Mrs. M. D. Moore, in Kansas City. Kan., Sunday. Four Girls Drowned. Appleton. Wis.—Four girls were drowned and five other occupants of a small sail boat narrowly escaped near here when a squall struck the craft on Little Lake Butte Des Morta and capsized It. Panama Bond Issue. Washington. — The government's $50,000,000 Panama canal loan prob ably will be taken in the main by small investors. Although the bids will not be opened until next Satur- j day, more than 000 sealed proposals 1 have been received. Hundreds Killed in Battle. San Diego. Cal.—Culiacan. in the state of Sinaloa, surrendered to the Maderists, May 31, after nearly two days -of fierce fighting in which hun dreds are reported to have been kill ed. The city was nearly destroyed. Mazatlan. in the same state, surren dered without resistance June 2. These advices were brought by the steamer, Benito Juarez, which has just arrived from Mazatlan. The at tack on Culiacan began early May 30. The assacl: was made on the east, north and south. MAN-AS MERCHANDISE SHIPPED BY EXPRESS MAKES LONG JOURNEY NAILED UP IN A COMMON WOODEN BOX. Lawrence. Kan.—Shipped from her* as merchandise in a common wooden box, a man giving the name of Banks A. Meyers, succeeded in reaching Fort Worth, Texas, before he was discov ered by o.'icials cf the American Ex pr*#3s company at that place. Meyers' presence in the box was learned only when, almost overcome from suffoca tion, he was forced to make it known. Employees of the express company are Shipped in Box. at a loss to explain Meyers' motive. A man giving the name of John Trask bought an empty box. which had con ained a talking machine. Later in the day he hired an expressman to haul the box to the American Express of fice. w here he had made arrangements to have it shipped to Galveston. Nei ther the expressman nor the company employer noticed anything particular about the box. which was securely nailed and weighed more than 300 pounds. Whether Meyers and Trask are the same, is not known here, but the police believed Trask had himseli nailed in the box by confederates after making arrangements for the shipment. CRIMINALS GAIN SYMPATHY ‘Man's Inhumanity to Man" Doesn't Apply to Women and Criminals, It Seems. St. Louis. Mo.—“Man's inhumanity to man" seems in the way of being off set in St. Louis and other southwest ern cities by the treatment some wom en accord him—if he be a criminal. Everyone is familiar with the occa sional outburst which results in flow ers and other delicacies being sent by women to men convicted of crimes, even when all they knew cf the prison er is what they have read in the newspapers. In St. Louis recently another phase af this hysteria, as many term it, has developed to an unusual degree. A number of women, having gotten their husbands into court on one charge or another, have refused to prosecute. In one case the husband was returned several different times, and in each instance the wife relented at the last moment. Finally he appeared charged with wife-beating, and the court arbi trarily ordered the offender to prison Gives Him Money. serving notice on the wife that no at tention would be paid to any attempt to her part to secure clemency. The beating had been administered because of the failure of the wife to supply her husband with money. It si'as with considerable interest, there fore. that the guards, from a dis tance. noted that in bidding her im prisoned husband goodby, the woman, with tears in her eyes, pressed into his hands a fat roll cf bills, apparent ly attempting thereby to make up for her "unkindness"—going home practi cally penniless herself as a result, as }t afterwards developed. , Somerset Cows Turn ’Em. Somerset, Pa. — Somersaults were turned by cows of Somerset in a cy clone that struck this place, tore off trees, wrecked buildings and did much other damage. It was the nearest ap proach to a cow jumping over the moon ever seen in this country, and when the storm was over cattle that cad been carried through the air for 100 feet were huddled for mutual pro lection. CHISELS MAKE THE STATUES “DECENT DISROBED HERCULES AND UN CLAD MERCURY TOO BRAZEN FOR OKLAHOMANS. HIGH ART IS NOT WANTED According to the Dictum of the South western Censors, Hereafter An cient Deities Must Wear Trousers or Else Stay Right at Home Weatherford, Okla. — Hereafter when an ancient god visits an Okla homa institution of learning, he will have to wear what is called—in the vernacular of the southwest—pants. When it comes to real art, nobody has anything on the students and faculty of the Southwestern Normal school at this place. But their art is of a distinctly proper sort, which be lieves in pants where pants ought to be. And that's where Apollo, Her cules. Mercury et al. got into trouble. The new normal school building is really an imposing one, and everybody hereabouts is proud of it. But some one who had once been to the state university discovered that it was in complete. It had modern steam radia tors and ventilation shaft and every thing of that kind, but it was shy something. Then somebody else awoke to the burning need of a little statuary, something antique and classical, that could be scattered around in convenient places that weren't already occupied. When Oklahoma wants a new auto mobile. a new steel binder, a cream separator or a perambulator, it con sults the nearest merchant. If he hasn't the thing in stock. Oklahoma wires or writes to the nearest market whether it's St. Louis. New York or "Somebooy's Busted de Arms Off.*’ London. All it wants is value received | tor its money, and everybody knows It has the money. So what w^s simpler, when a little art was required, than to send to j New York for it? All the agent in New York had to do was to rush along the best art obtainable, em phasis being laid upon the classical ! and antique statuary, and the rest j was easy. And that was *■ r it happened that one day several cumbersome ! packing cases were dumped off a | train at Weatherford, consigned tc | the Southwestern Normal. The pack j ing cases were sent out to the school building, and a janitor was instructed to open them. A little while later the janitor ap .reared apologetically in the office of one of the faculty members. “Boss." he said. “I'm afraid some body's done busted de arms offen one of dem stachutes!” The faculty man inspected the cast, which was a copy of a famous Venus, and told the janitor not to worry about that. A little while afterwards, i the same janitor reappeared with i even a deeper look of trouble. I "Boss," he said this time, “dey j tin't nobody busted dis one. but some body's sho' forgot to send along de J pants!” It was too true! Apollo didn't have an so much as a Highlander's kilts. Hercules and Mercury stood brazenly forth in the same state of attire. And this was what New York has , sent to ov'upy prominent places around the college grounds ai d build | ing of a perfectly respectable institu tion for young ladies and gentlemen. There was a hurried call of the fac ulty. To drape or not to drape—that S was the question. And then some body brought chisels into use and the statues were made to conform to the local ideas of decency. And that was how Appollo, Her cules and Mercury, not to mention some lesser heroes and deities, re mained in obscurity in a cellar under the normal school building until the state board of edu -ation made its re cent visit. Then the mutilated statues (and this story, as well) were dragged shamefacedly into the garish, open light of the day. Gored by a Cow. Glasgow, Ky.—In attempting to cut a cow's horns at his home near here Jasper Berry, a wealthy farmer, was gored and is in a critical condition.