The Prescott daily news., 1908-02-15
A STATUE OF
 PENN
Vhitnsser Wanted a Ee~w Aiseya-
 t&one Made

ioenoe of Saekso0- . QHnher, who died recently near our town; and . very sandsorne marble ssatus of william Penn was knocked down to WNitaksr. who resrs . iaSsr beer garden squars or swe above me. He had the statue cayted ever to the marble yard, whore he sought an interview with MT. MIX, the owner. He told Mix that he wanted that statue fixed up somehow sos twouid represent one of them heather gods" He had an idea that MIX might chip the clothes otr of VII Ham and put Tyre or a club in his hand. "so's he might pass muster as Apollo or Hercules"
 But Mix said that he thought the difficulty would be in wrestling with Williams hat
 It was a marble hat, with a rim big enough for race course; and Mix said that although he didn't profess to be much on heather mythology, as a general thing. still it struck him that Hercules. in broad-brimmed hat, would attract attention by his singtA lar1ty, and might be open to criticism.
 MT. Whitaker said that what he really wanted with that statue when he bought it was to turn it into Venus, and he thought perhaps the hat might be chiseled up into some kind of a halo around her head
 But Mix said that he didn't exactly see how he could do that when the rim was SO curly at the sides. A halo that was curly was just no halo at all. But, anyway. how was he go- ing to manage about Penn's waist. coat?
 It reached almost to his knees, and to attempt to rush out a barelegged Venus with a halo on her head and four cubic feet of waistcoat around her middle, would just ruin his busi- ness. It would make the whole hu- man race smile.
 Then Whitaker said Neptune was a god he always liked, and, perhaps, Mix could fix the tails of Penns coat some how so that it would look as if the fig ure was riding on a dolphin; then the hat might be made to represent sea weed and a fish spear could be put in the statues hands.
 Mix, however, urged that white marble hat of those dimensions. when cut up into seaweed, would be more apt to look as if Neptune was coming home with load of hay upon his head; and he said that although art had made gigantic strides during the past century, and. evidently, had a brilliant future before it, it had not yet discovered a method by which shadbelly coat, with flaps to the pockets, could be turned into any thing that would look like dolphin.
 Then MT. Whitaker wanted to know if Pan wasn't the god that had horns and split hoofs, with a shaggy look to his legs; for if he was, he would be willing to have the statue made into Pan, if 1t could be done without too much expense.
 And MT. Mix said that while noth- ing would please him more than to produce such figure of Pan. and while Williams sQuare-toed shoes. probably, might be made into cloven hoofs without a very strenuous effort still he hardly felt as if he could fix up those knee-breeches to resemble shaggy legs; and as for trying to turn that half-acre hat into pair of horns, MT. Whitaker might as well talk of emptying the Atlantic ocean through a stomach pump,
 Thereupon Mir Whitaker remarked that he had concluded, on the whole, that it would be better to split the patriarch up the middle and take the two halves to make a couple of little Cupids. which he could hang in the bar-room with a string, so that they could appear to be sporting in air. If MT. Mix could put pair of wings on each of them, why, so much the better: but if he couldn't, very we'll Perhaps the flap of that hat might be sliced up into wings, and glued on the shoulders of the Cupids.
 But Mir Mix said that while nobody would put himself out more to oblige friend than he would, still he must say, if his honest opinion was asked, that to attempt to make a Cupid out of Penn would be childish, because if they used the half one way, there would be very small Cupid with a very long leg; and if they used 1t the other way. he would have to cut Cupid's head out of the calf of Will liam's leg. and there wasn't room enough. let alone the fact that the knee-joint would give the god of love the appearance of having a broken back. As for the wings, if the man