The New North West

HEADS OF ALL THE PRESIDENTS.

Carved With a Penknife Upon a Slender Stick by a Convict.

Daniel Titus, a convict in the Montana penitentiary, at Deer Lodge, has sent to a Kansas City attorney a cane fashioned by himself during his idle hours, which is a marvel of artistic work. The stick is a light, straight piece of beechwood. A gold head ornaments the top, but this is discounted by the remarkable wood carving. Convict Titus, with his penknife, has carved upon the slender stick faithful representations of the faces of every American President from Washington to Harrison. This includes every man who has ever occupied the White House, because President Cleveland, now serving his second term, was Harrison's predecessor and successor.

Directly below the ornamental gold head-piece the convict carved the American eagle and the motto of the United States, "E Pluribus Unum." A shield with the bars and stars in the center, an excellent likeness of the Father of His Country is next, and then follow the faces of all the Presidents. The stick was evidently taken when green. The outer bark was polished and cut away to the sapwood. This was cut and carved in thousands of delicate hairlines, and then the wood was cut away, leaving each face on a raised surface. The work is as delicately done as the finest pen and ink work, and that Convict Titus is an artist as well as a genius is attested by the faithful representations.--Kansas City Star.