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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXX._ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JANUARY 4, 1912. NUMBER 8. EPITOME Of EVENTS PARAGRAPHS TWA-* PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. (RE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mert.ee of WHat •• Transpiring la Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. Washington. Senator Work* of Oahlorwia will at tempt to attach to the Sherwood pen das Mi a provision absolutely prohib iting aa.i special peddioo bills and i making uulicfUr lor pewsloa any per- ; *m who sumps to get special legis lation UUreirry by The rocgr*** lonal Vmci < -mailt tee oa print lag that 'ataltmud' infer had been used for years ta the gsreriarM priatiag of Bee lad to (hr annuuncemetH of a j empiric aew set of g»ii-.t»»st paper atendmrd* 1 card Jaasea has been promoted to br -neper of the Lime Rock light fsDot. Rhode Island, la place of Ida »»*«* lewis, puprisrly called “the IrsJ fusteg of America." whose ■ death (A tuber *1 las*. c!o«*d more ■ thaa thirty jeans' continuous ffrtke S'.ed With heroic deeds and crowned tut uastrrwal (set. The cannot ersy over the reguta (loss forbiddoue the importation into the ratted Plates of colored tea* is atlS a is--* Issue before the treasury depaftment Lloyd C. GHdoMB. repre —a-eg eastern tea importers, has • gratae*cd u> Asemtaat Secretary Cur tis that coasaderable colored tea was gerOsg . t.rough at San rr=aciaco. Mica Oara Hartoa. founder and ( first , :e. ,d«nt of the American Xa- , ticwal Red € nans sortety. was sbow •-Ced with 11 llltlagg and good »-sites as the ninetieth anniversary of hi r berth Although feeble from her Hi d*«s than «oar. Mias Barton was able to i eideade her Lint day with rela tives »ed Mend* who ate spending Christmas with b> r at her home. MhmtMtrt to a call at the White honor by Vic* President Sherman wtda credence was emu to a report that Mr Sherman doed dot desire to bo Cb* repdbbraa . afdidatr tor governor of Xew Turk It farther was n ported apparently oa thw iugheat authority that calms his potty desired him to , two again ter the vic*-pr?«4d*arr. he l iiiiM retire trees, politics Match 4. I»U __ It An Tat Sen is proving the man of the hour in the Chinese crisis. The senate by a unanimous vote 4snM for the abrogation of the treaty with Ruasia. An ap*enl has been made for a mil lion dollars to swell the George Pea body idsrstMa fund Stripped at power. General Reyes haa surrendered and l* a ptfsoeer of . • - alleging aa illegal B |Rg anit agaust the Keystone Watch Cane company. A lackey 'rota Rhode Island, in tended for the president s Christmas r. arrived at the White boose. It tarty pounds i E Mark, rhairmaa of the j _ r national committee, denied that he nas m any way committed as K> where the n« at d-mocratic roavea Boa aho-.Vd be held The CalHornus senate passed the preside trial preference primary bill without a dire rating vote. The bill I no* motarns only the governor's sig nature se intrant a law. la—-*-—- to the articles of in corporation of the Micnraflolis A St. Lotus Railroad company have been tied, tn> r*-asli>c the capital stock from •od.nub to *.v> JU Indianapolis, books and papers seised tram the International Aanocia tsun uf Bridge maid Structural Iron Wnrhers altar the arrest at the Mc Kamaras mnre minus el y examined fol low ms the tipMlthr before the fed eral grand Jury of Robert J. Foster, n detect!**. Tkatsrt oat of n detachment of twenty rnralra were killed in a fight with Zapatistas near Fan Jiar.a. Me*.. Sunday according to details which Rare jnst been tweeivnd. In addition, j two a child wore killed •ad _ _ mutilated Thai General Morales is Hkeiy to forfeit his life because of his last at gtaapt at reoelltau ta Santo riomingo Is the tenor of advice received at Washington from the Island republic, fie appeals to have landed on the east const of the aland with fewer than a frpff damn followers. (iffirri floated la breakivh miter for fattening purposes hereafter wit] be tons Ml ere f as adulterated under the pare laud act. according to a de- j rlsw. by the pure food hoard The de cision *iC not be final until signed by Bert clary of Agriculture Wilson Cum rh» titahttak owner of a number I at trail stares in Sun Francisco, was Paid u, at $760 by confi dence la Chicago. , Govurnor Marion K Hay of Wash has declined ta call a spuria! of thn legislature far the eo ; of a president!*! preference ade record time In » rwsolatioa. The tar the payment of of January 1. covered Mxty Congress, on reassembling after holiday?, will get to work on the wool measure. More than a million gallons of mo lasses were destroyed in a fire among •he wharves and buildings of the Bos ton Molasses company. Colonel Roosevelt has declined a second time to attend the New York pence dinner The Hamburg-American line has or dered a third 50,000 ton liner for the Irmns-Atiantic service. Congress will have a surfeit of bills providing for a downward revision of the woolen tariff. Dr. Sen. Chines" republic promoter, nas arrived at Shanghai and is in con ’erence with \Vu Ting Kang. Republican members of the ways ind mer.ns committee have begun work on the republican wool bill. The i-ible supply of w heat in Can ada December 22 was 11,860.000 bush els. an increase of 228,t*00 bushels. Kansas City religious workers have undertaken to find respectable homes for women of the red light district. Henry X. Van Dyke, formerly regis trar at Princeton university, died of heart d sease on a Broadway car in New York. % Henry !. Hons, former assistant gent ral manager of the Burlington ;:nes west was made vice-president of the New Haven road. Rid bcr? bb-w the posioffice safe at SpauMtr.g. Ohio. Two men, with $100 orth of stamps and some registered ] t.ail w * re arrested at Hickville. Kdward Sawyer, secretary and as -- ant trea- irer of the Great North ern and one of the pioneer railroad official* of the northwest, will retire January 1. Diamonds va'tied at between $6,000 md $7/ 0". enclosed in a jeweler's wal let. were stolen from the diamond room 'if a jewelry firm in Minneapolis. The thief escaped. The California estate of the late II .< heel Cudahy, the Chicago meat j !•:»< ker. v ho died at Ixts Angeles, has j 'y -Ided $ll.t-' " to the slate in the i lorm of inheritance taxes. The funeral of Wright Lorimer. the a- ’or wTei committed - lie iile in New York last week was held in the Dana. Mass . town ball, the building where be first attended school. K G. Ip*-', is of r't Ipvuis. publisher • ad promoter of realty and banking enterpr •-?. was reindict d by the federal grand jury on the charge of using the mails to defraud. Mr- Kirov M Avery, aged 67, edi to- of the idficlal paper of the I)augh ;-rs of the American Revolution and | prominent in club and educational ; work, died in Cleveland. Ohio. The win of Jolin R Walsh, the Tor- , mor Chieago burke- who died early < n November following hi. release j rum me peuneucuuy, \ was admitted to probate. The Jewish Chronicle says that the j leading Jewish institutions in London i have decided to urge the abrogation of I the Anglo- Russian treaty, which dif- ; ferc-ntiates against the English Jews, j Wil'iam Rockefeller gave to bis em ployes as a Christmas present $5 for ' every year ea< h had worked on his es- i tate at Tarrytown. Several men have l*een in his employ for upwards of twenty years. . Edward H. Shuster, cousin of I Morgan Shuster, treasurer general of Persia, is in New York, ea route to j Teheran from the Panama canal zone. : He is going to help the treasurer gen eral in his trouble with Russia. The Chicago grand jury returned odictnents charging Frederick G. i Ron eh am and William R. Channell 1 with the murder of Mrs. Hattie Kauf- ! man. who was killed by four automo- i bile bandits December 2. The exports of the United States during the eleven months of the cur- ! rent year ending with November ex- j reeded the imports by somewhat more , than $473.f00/<00. The value of the 1 exports was $1,8*17.814.510, while the imports were worth $1.362.350.228, ac- ; cording to statistics issued today by j the Department of Commerce and La- ! hor. A dispatch to the London Mail i from Sydney, N S. W„ says that I Great Britain and France have enter- I ed it.:o negotiations for the division ' of the New Hebrides, the joint gov- ' eminent having been a failure. The i New Hebrids group in the Pacific I ocean is administered by a mixed commission of French and British naval officers. President Taft has settled the j vexed question of allowing the prac- j tice of Christian Science or other no- j medical methods of healing the sick on the Panama canal zone. The exe- * entire order, made several months ! ago, which members of the Christian j Science church feared would prohibit th< ir method of healing, was modified. >-o that there can be no doubt as to the lawfulness of such practices. Personal. Frank Gotch. the champion wrestler, has retired for good. Sladero will not insist on the death penalty for Keyes and his followers. Byron Clark wBl succeed J. E. Kel by as general solicitor of the Burling ton lines west of the Missouri river. The invasion of Ohio by LaFollette lieutenants has begun. J'm Flynn, the fighter, is anxious to take on Jack Johnson. Senator LaFollette preached the doc trine of progression at Cleveland and Youngstown. O. Chicago Christian end«avorers pro pose to test the sincerity of Mayor Harrison. Poatofflce employes over the coun try bad to work Sunday on account of the holiday rush. President Taft is preparing a mes «age on efficiency and economy in lh« government departments. FRIEND FARMER MEETS DEATH IN PECULIAR MANNER. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Friend—While shelling corn at the Everet Blanchard farm, about four miles northwest of town, Carl John son, a young Danish farmer, was caught in the fly wheel of a gasoline engine and received injuries from which he died in about two hours. One arm was broken and his lower limbs to the knees were beaten to a jelly and pieces of bones lay scattered around the engine. Johnson was un man ied. Flash Light Causes Combustion.. Grand Island—A flash light, neces sary to the taking of the picture of the banquet at the Eagles' hall, was followed by the igniting of a lot of paper decorations, and there was on the program for the entertainment of the members of the Nebraska State Association of County Commissioners, Supervisors and Clerks a stunt that had not been planned for. Horses Killed in Wreck. Beatrice—A stock train on the Rock Island was wrecked near Mayberry, Saturday, and six cars went into the ditch. The train carried 140 head of horses which were being shipped to St. I.ouis from Nebraska and seventy head were killed. Many that were not killed outright, were badly injured. Nurse Gagged—House Robbed. Axtell—A trained nurse was gagged and Si,000 in cash and a $25 watch were stolen in the home Peter Weedlum. one and a half miles east of this city. Friday night Miss Hei man. the nurse, who wras in the house at the time, was found gagged near the Methodist church in the morning. Think the Trouble Is Located. Lincoln—The discovery of two pipes carrying underground polluted seep age into a local city well is believed to offer what may be a solution to the epidemic i>f intestinal trouble which has raged here the past week. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE. Secretary Royse of the state bank ing board was the recipient of a gold clock as a holiday gift from the state bank examiners of his department. The guns and equipment of the ma chine gun company of the Nebraska national guard at Beatrice have been shipped back to the United States I arsenal ait Rock Island. 111. The com pany was mustered out of the service of the guard several months ago. Under the provisions of the Allen bill enacted into law by the last legis lature. election judges are required to call attention to the constitutional amendment upon the ballots, a thing which has never been clearly set out in previous election laws of the state. A. B. Allen has been elected secre tary or the state railway commission. He is to succeed Secretary Clark Per kins. who desires to devote all of his time to the publishing of a newspaper at Aurora. Mr. Alien will work with Mr. Perkins in the office till the an nual report of the commission is is sued. Superintendent Maruel of the state industrial school for boys at Kearney, says that his institution has sold 673 bushels of potatoes that were raised on the institution farm. They were bought by another state institution, the Hastings asylum, at 93 cents a bushel. The Kearney school has an other carload for sale. At a meeting of the state normal board, at the office of State Superin tendent Delzell, it was decided that the recently destroyed waterworks plant at the Peru normal school would be rebuilt forthwith, despite the fact that it would create a deficiency in the appropriation made by the last legislature. Complying with the contract with Daniel Chester French, the New York sculptor. Secretary of State Wait has sent the former a state warrant for *10.000. a total of *13.000 has now been paid the sculptor. Improper adjustment of the door to the vault in the state treasurer’s office Thursday night caused the turning on of the burglar alarm, and there was some excitement in the neighborhood til the seat of trouble was located. A clerk in the building finally cut off the power and quiet was restored. Governor Aldrich has said that he intended to file nomination papers as a candidate for governor shortly. He will file a personal request to have his name placed on the primary ballot. This statement is supposed to lay to rest the rumor that the governor in tended to enter the race for United States senator. “The people of Nebraska will un doubtedly be surprised to learn that the apple crop of this state has reached the enormous proportion of 9,935,889 bushels for 1911,” says Dep uty Commissioner of Labor Louis V. Guye. V BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Merrick county has organized • poultry association. Walter J. Lamb, the oldest lawyer in Lincoln, is (lead at the age of T3. More than 50.000 cream separators are in use on the farms of Nebraska. E. P. Gaines has been appointed postmaster at Ansley, to succeed Thomas Wright. The Lincoln Woman’s club claims to be the largest club of that sort in existence in the United States. Ixigan McBride of West Point, a 12 year-old lad. has received an appoint ment to the military school at West Point. In a Christmas day shooting affray at North Bend. Mike Gorey was shot twice in the abdomen and will prob ably die. The Elks club at Lincoln played the role of Santa Claus to over 2.000 little ones Christmas day, keeping open house from 9 till 12. The Beatrice Co-operative associa tion. organized several weeks ago. has made final arrangements for the open ing of its grocery store. Threats to dynamite the home of Mayor Dredla of Crete are contained in an anonymous letter that has reached the mayor through the mails. W. D. Alexander, a Milford busi ness man. was slugged and robbed of nearly $200 Thursday night. His assailant escaped after beating him up badly. Owing to a snowstorm and a small pox scare the farmers' institute at Guide Rock wat not the success that was expected. There was a small at tendance. Charles Anderson, a homeless wan derer. pleaded guilty in county court at Ogalalla to trying to wreck a pas senger train on the Union Pacific west of Brule. / Miss Jean Boyd, a brilliant Fremont girl attending a school of music of Mt. Carroll. Ia.. has written over 10C songs, everyone of which is pro nounced a gem. Otto Swartz, a Lincoln railroad man. was shot and instantly killed on a hunting trip Thursday. In taking a gun from a handcar it exploded, the charge striking him in the face. Mayor Mauck of Wymore has or dered the "lid" put on good and tight and instructed the police to arrest anyone caught playing poker, shaking dice or keeping slot machines. Hastings is making great prepara tions to entertain the good roads asso ciation and the association of commer cial clubs, both of which meet there during the early part of the year. Harry Oliver u_s- badly injured when a freight train backed into a handcar which he and his father were driving at l«ong Pine, and he died four hours later. He was twenty-one years old. , With his little four-year-old niece clasped in his arms, "playing sleep,” James B. Austin. & real estate dealer of Lincoln, died suddenly Monday iiiui uiug. tivai «. lauuir v-twuocu uis death. The committee in charge of solicit ing funds for the new hotel project at Hastings report pledges to the amount of $100,000 and the campaign will be pushed until $125,000 or better is pledged. Miss Alva Boiler, a Hastings young lady attending an eastern college of music, is receiving high praise from critics for the skill and expression dis played in the rendition of a Schubert number at a recent Boston concert. After partaking heartily of only partially cooked weinerwurst, the family of Fred Nickel, a farmer living near Central City, was attacked with trichinosis, which came near result ing fatally to several of the members. A new and deadly corn stalk disease has made its appearance in different sections of Pawnee and Nemaha coun ties and is causing consternation among owners of horses, the loss of several valuable animals having been reported. A number of burglaries at Univer sity Place have been traced to the hands of three bcvs. aged 13. 10 and 9 years, who have been arrested and a partial confession secured. The youngest was captured in the closet of a house he had entered while under surveillance. The Watson hotel at Nebraska City, which burned on November 5. is being wrecked for the Sichl Hotel company stockholders, who own the building. It has not been decided what will be built to replace the old building, which stands on the most important busi ness corner of the town. The proposition to vote $100,000 bonds for a new court house for Platte county was defeated by about 150 votes. Harry Westver. owner of drug stores at Fremont and Schuyler, died suddenly while visiting his wife, a patient in an Omaha hospital. Heart disease was the cause of his death. Nebraska teachers who taught school in this state a score or more years ago and who are still engaged in the profession will hold a banquet in the Lindell hotel at Lincoln. January 16. The alumni of the University of Nebraska residing in Hamilton county have perfected an organization. The Lincoln I>and company, which at one time owned large pans of the townsites of 500 towns and cities through which the Burlington railroad runs, will moVe its headquarters to Burlington. Ia. Secretary C. E. Prevey of the Lin coln charity organisation believes that unless the present labor situation improves a public work will have to be established for the purpose of car ing for the large number of local un employed. FOUR IN JE RACE SUPREME COURT MEMBER IS SOON TO BE NAMED. QUARTET FROM ONE CIRCUIT Candidates Suggested from Vacant Circuits Eliminated One by One from Consideration. Washington.—President Taft prob ably will decide next Tuesday upon the man to succeed the late Justice Harlan on the supreme court bench. The field of possible appointees has been narrowed to four men d it Is said that a selection may l looked for at the next meeting of tne cabi net. January 2. The nomination probably will be sent to the senate next week. The four from whom the president will make his selection are said to be ; United States Circuit Judge Hook or ; Kansas, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Xagel, Senator Sutherland or | lTtah and Frank R. Kellog of Minne sota, trust buster for the government , and its prosecutor in the Standard Oil suit. Senator Borah of Idaho, it ts j said, has not been entirely eliminated 1 . from consideration, but the choice ! ; rests apparently between the others. | . Of these men Judge Hook and Sen- ! ator Sutherland stand foremost, al- ' | though Secretary Xagel and Mr. Kel- ! j iogg are still “in the running." I .Judge Hook was under considera- ! I tion by the president last year wnen ! he made his supreme court appoint • ments and his backers have been act- I ' ive this winter. Senator Sutherland \ ' is warmly admired by the president ! and has J>een summoned to the Waite j j House frequently of late. One fact said to militate against Secretary Xagel is that he is G3 years ! old and Mr. Taft has declared several times that no man should go on the ' ; bench, after he reached the age of 6b. i Mr. Kellog's candidacy has been : 1 vigorously pushed by his friends and j his work in the Standard Oil and other eases has attracted favorable j attention at the White House. As at present constituted the Third. ; I Fourth and Seventh circuits are un- 1 j represented on the supreme court I and the Fifth and Sixth circuits eacn | have two. Chief Justice White and I Justice Immar and Justices Day and i Lurton. respectively. All four of the leading candidates ; j come from the Eighth circuit, already j represented by Justice Vandevanter, ] appointed by the president last year, j but candidates suggested from the j vacant circuits, while considered Dy I the president, have been eliminated j , one by one. DR. SUN YAT SEN AS HEAD. — I Unanimously Elected President of Chinese Republic. Nanking, China.—Dr Sun Tat Sen ! has been elected unanimously presi dent of the republic of China. His , election as president of the republic i by tbe Nanking conference means j that the peace conference between I Wa Ting Fang and Tang Shao Yi is j closed. The president will assume , charge of all negotiations. Grave Opened by Robbers. Duquoin, III.—Grave robbers have | been at work in the Odd Fellows’ : emetery here, but an investigation showed that no bodies have been re moved. The grave of Robert Wheat ley. who died suddenly several months : c.eo. had been opened and nearly all ! the earth removed from the casket, but the body was not disturbed. — Mr. Bryan As Candidate. Omaha.—A petition to place the ! i name of William J. Bryan on the I democratic primary ticket as a candi j date for president in 1912 is being i circulated by A. A. Arter of Omaha. : T'p to this time he lias secured more i than half the required number of sig . natures. Croker Sued for Damages. I New York.—Richard Croker and his sons. Richard Croker. jr., and Howard Croker. were made joint de fendants in a civil action begun to day by John J. Breen to recover j $100,000. Hasn’t Planned Revolution. j San Antonio. Tex.—Emilo Vas- | | quez Gomez, who is in the city as a j j self-styled refuge, denied he had j i planned or would plan a revolution j [ against the Mexican government. r I . Chicago Bishop Consecrated. Chicago.—In the presence of a dis tinguished gathering of clergy and j laity Rev. William E. Toll was conse crated Episcopal Bishop suffragan of Chicago on the 27th. American Runs Amuck. Bresla, Germany.-^-A visitor at one of the hotels here’, who is said to be an American, but whose identity has rfbt yet been ascertained, after firing several shots at the hotel porter and entering his room, defied the police for an hour. Bride of Navy Captain. Washington—The marriage of Mrs. D. P. McCartney and Captain Harold P. Norton, U. S. N. took place at nocn Thursday at the home of the bride In this city. ( EGYPT'S MUMMIFIED MONKEYS Some Specimens of the Hideous Ob jects Found in the Tomb of Amenhotep II. i Boston, Mass.—It is no strange thing for a man to have household pets chosen from among the number less forms of life in the animal world, but his attachment is seldom so great as to result in the preservation of their bodies after death, as was done by some of the ancient rulers of Egypt. Possibly the man of today who .erects a monument to mark the last resting place of his pet dog would gladly follow in the foosteps .of the Egyptian by preserving the remains Mummified Monkeys cf Egypt. of various other pets, if he knew how. It is much better that he does not possess this knowledge. For one thing, the country would be more or less lit tered up with animal mummies, and we have about all the junk we can consistently care for as it is. When Amenophis. or Amenhotep II., succeeded his father, Thotmes III., on the throne of Egypt in 1S14 B. C„ he j was destined to a short reign. It was I a lively one, however, for he took I N'ineveh by assault and conquered the j Ethiopians. Some writers even identi- j fy him with Memnon, who fought in j the Trojan war. One would scarcely expect so active a warrior to spend much of his time in fondling pets about the palace, vet this King was very fond of monkeys and enjoyed having many of them around him dur- j ing his feign of about a dozen years. ! This has been proven in recent years ; by the finding in his tomb of their i mummified remains. Other curious contents of the tomb | *ere mummified ducks and chickens, but it is not Jikely these were consid ered as pets by this old-time ruler. These latter were preserved in wood en vessels, carved to represent the i bird they contained in this old tomb, :he oddest finds in this old tomb, j however, was a vessel containing honey, which had retained its deli rious flavor all these thousands of ••ears since Amenhotep II. himself s'as laid away amid such strange sur •oundings. A look at the picture, showing some if his companions, impels one to won der if the King’s slumber was ever aroken by any strange or fantastic ! ireams. PINES RELICS OF DIM PAST — There Are Now but Two Small Grovet : of the Torrey Species in the World. San Diego, Cal.—Possibly no othei tree that grows has so small a geo graphic range as the Torrey pine. There are but two small groves of this species of pine hr the world. One is about 18 miles north of San Diego, Cal., and the other is on Santa Rosa group. It is evident that the Torrey pine, like the giant redwoods of the Sierras and the Monterery cypress, is a relic of a past geological epoch. The grove north of San Diego is the largest of the two that still exist. Here the trees are found close to the ocean, on a rugged and inhospitable coast, where they are swept alternate The Torrey Pine. 1 iy by the westerly winds off the Pa cific, and by hot blasts from the des erts in the interior. Probably it is awing to this situation that the trees are dwarfed in size, and that most of them are grotesque and fantastic in shape. When planted in favorable regions, the Torrey pines grow tall and straight, and grow very rapidly. They are of little value for the purpose of the lumberman, and are not often planted except for shade and orna mental purposes. Dies of a Broken Heart. Hempstead, L. I.—Extreme grief over the tragic fate of her little girl caused Mrs. Kate Bleowski to die of a broken heart. Last week the little one was fatally burned at a bonfire in front of her home here and as she was carried into the house the mother collapsed. She remained in a semi conscious condition until her death. The attending physician says that her death was du* solely to a broken heart a ■ OB CALL London’s Oldest Custom Relic of Crusaders. Benchers, Barristers and Students Summoned by Ancient Method— Recalls Days When Clocks and Watches Were Un known. London.—Nowhere do old customs ding more firmly than in the ancient seat of legal learning, the Middle Temple, London, which still jealously guards the traditions it has inherited. To the present-day benchers, bar risters and students are summoned to dinner each evening during term time by the blowing of a horn—a custom which has survived on this spot since the romantic days of the crusaders. Every evening at 5:30 during the three weeks of the legal terms, a warder, in gold-braided uniform, procures the ox horn from the strong room of the Middle Temple, and proceeding to the famous fountain in Fountain court, summons the members to dinner by blowing a blast on this primitive in strument. He then visits each court in turn, according to ancient custom, and many a bencher throws up his window to listen to the sound of the winding horn, which has been heara continu ously in these precincts since the time when the Knights Templar established themselves there in 1184. Its use recalls the days when clocks and watches were unknown, and the voice of the watchman, calling out the time, wasafamiliar sound through the night watches. Sun dials were then the only guides the people pos sessed as to the flight of time, and of these more than one still survives, I i—*. _ Summoning Lawyers to Dinner. with its quaint motto, on the walls of the Temple buildings. It is to the sworn edcmies of the Knights Tem plar, the Saracens, oddly enough, that as we do, indeed, the greater part of our mathematical knowledge as well. Vhen the Templars founded their new monastery between Whitefriars and Essex house in the Strand, the latter was, as its name implies, merely a beach beside the silver Thames, and all around was open country, the site of the present law courts being a large field which was used as a tilting ground by the knights. In later days, when the men of law had taken over tlie settlement of the Knights Tem plar, the students, who were resident in the Temple, were dependent on its kitchen for their daily meals. After a hurried breakfast in the buttery at eight o’clock they would take their law books, and wander off along the Strand, where, in summer time, they lay under the trees and bushes study ing law. Some would row across the river to the Surrey fields, and wander through the open country. Half an hour before dinner the pan yer man, who drew the daily supply of bread every morning from West minster, used to take a large ox horn and walk along the river's side, blow ing the horn as a signal to the stu dent’s to return to the temple for dinner. The panyer man, who was formerly charged with the duty of winding the horn, had also to provide the hall with mustard, pepper and vinegar, his an nual wages in 1638 amounting to $26. Other useful members of the staff were the chief wash pot and the under wash pot, the chief turn broach, the steward’s servant and under turn spit; the last named receiving $6 a year. The horn now in use in the Middle Temple posseses no antiquarian in terest in itself, dating back only some ten years. It was brought over from the Argentine by one of the members shortly before it was found necessary to discontinue the use of the old one. “Ye horn of ye Middle Temple” had become so decrepit, through age and constant use. that the weird and fancy sounds it emitted were calculated to bring itjinto ridicule. It had become a mass of silver bands, which had been added from time to time to keep it together, and close up the cracks in its sides. But in spite of these bands the air still escaped so freely that the warder who blew It had to place a wet handkerchief over the horn every time he used it. So the ancient horn, which had sounded the welcome summons to din ner in term for generations, waB placed on the retired list, and now it only sees the light on grand nights in hall, when It Is placed on the table with the rest of the Middle Temple’a proud display of silver plate.
