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He has not been Ill, he said, for h~fty-four
years, and he looks It. He is strong and
rugged and apparently capable Of enduring
any kind Of hardship. He will reach
Indianapolis in time for a Christmas dinner
with friends of his boyhood.
In appearance Ezra Meeker is the typical
pioneer. He is tall and straight, notwith-
standing his 70 years and his hard life
OF the plains. His hair and beard
are white and long. making him on-
spicuous.
The changes that have been made" he
said. ARE marvellous. The entire face Of
the country Is changed.
With the exception Of about 300 miles
through the Rocky Mountains the country
Is thickly settled, put even in this country
things have changed. The vegetation has
changed. The old buffalo grass is no more
and other grasses have come on to take the
place Of It.
The country I passed through about
ffty-four years ago is nothing like the coun
try I am going over to-day. Mountains,
rivers, valleys, prairies, hills--aIl are differ
emit. It seems impossible for me 10 realize
that the vast wilderness We travelled over
such a short time ago is now built up with
magnificent cities and villages and the
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To erect a monument at the summit
Of South Pass Mr.. Meeker travelled eighty
four miles from a post office. and twenty
four people who reside in the neighborhood
were the only witnesses to the event These
people, with Mr.. Meeker, inscribed the
stone IL stands on the irrigation survey
hear Sweetwater and il 7,S40 feet above
the sea level, probably tho highest monu-
ment in the United States.
In most of the towns and places where
monuments rave been erected Mr.. Meeker
stays to see the work done: but in some
instances he mas turned the matter over
to a local committee appointed for that
purpose. He has Witnessed the exercises
Incidental to the erection Of the perma-
nent landmark at the following places:
Tenino. Wash; The Dalles, Pendleton,
Meacham, La Grand. Baker City. Durkee.
all in Oregon American Falls and Twin
Falls, Idaho; Fort Boise and at Casper,
Wyoming.
Mr.. Meeker, accompanied by his grand
daughter, Miss Bertha Templeton, left
Puyallup, Wash. January 20, 1908, and has
made the trip by easy stages. His old
fashioned prairie schooner is fitted up for
housekeeping and in It he spends his days
and nights comfortably.
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prairies AVE been transformed into great
forests and elegant homesteads.
The increase in the number Of forests 10
wonderful TO me. We travelled days with
out seeing a tree. and now the entire way
almost Is shady"
In making his westward trip Mr.. Meeker
went up the Platte River. through South
Pass, down Snake River to the Columbia,
down through Oregon to Puget Sound. AT
the last place he located, probably because
he had come to the jumping on place, but
for fifty-four years he stayed there, he and
his wife, and during that time, 80 he said,
neither had been i'll a day.
In those days the traveller was only %
and he was accompanied by his young wife
INC their one child. He at once began
raising hops, which has been his business
ever since. The Introduction Of machinery
and the growing demands for his products
caused him to make a dozen or more trips
back East, but those trips were made aboard
vanished cars, consequently he knew only
in a general way OF the vast changes which
have occurred.
At Lincoln, Neb., one Of his oxen died and
he stayed for some weeks before he could
Inc another. Much OF his wagon is from
the vehicle which he used in 1851.
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The plan Of operation Is simple. Meeker
calls upon the people OF tho city or town
near where he desires to leave a mark
to erect a monument, and in every case
they have responded. The size Of the
monument has depended uron the hber-
atty Of the donors.
From Washington to Omaha nineteen
monuments have been erected. At the
time when the traveller made his fret trip
across the plains Omaha was not on the
map. Council Bluffs then was known as
Kanesville. a trading station and the end
Of civilization.
Since leaving Washington 10000 people
have contributed TO the erection OF monu-
mnets. At Baker City, Ore, the monu-
ment was erected by contributions received
from 500 school children.
At Boise City, Idaho, Meeker camped
for several days beside the post Office. He
spoke to the public school children Of his
object and 200 contributed TO purchase
the granite. monument which will mark
the place where the old timers passed
through what is now a thriving city.
The Governor Of the State and the other
State officers insisted that the slab be erected
in the State House yard, and it was. The
monument is twelve feet high.
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high priest of d~istriss, with his cannonicicles
cut short, KEEP up his horrid cries:
Help, help, run for your lives, good
people! The plague, the plague! l he'd
a tube Of living plague bacilli in my room!
1t is missing, fallen into the hands Of an
ignorant pusson or wuss." Oh, il was fear
full.
just thin the special that he'd been sent
to take away the survivors that night
halted putting on the siding. Immedjitly
the mob was aboord; they filed the psrlor
cars, they stopped over into the baggage
cars n tender, they dashed into the cab,
s~ubmuggin' the engineer and fireman in
their terror.
Take us away" they screamed, any
where, Everywhere, so long as we may
flee from the wrat' that has came"
And the train rolled slowly out.
This is how, | may explain be parenthesis,
that Gentleman George and / med our
escape, if not with honor, and the Lord
unly knows what we wud have done with
it, at least with our hides.
Even as we sped from the house l he'd
noticed, down by the stashun. the distangay
form of Kate Esmay waitin' for some
train or other, as pritty a sight as woman
ever med. She TUNED at the uproar, and
you cud fairly see fear belttle and coarsen
her.
She doubtless fought, poor ting, that
the theft OF the diamond had been dis
covered, that the hue and cry was after
her, for she picked up her skuts and few
toward the river, onct and agin falling
down, but dashin' ahead all the harder.
Now, as the train rolled more rapidly,
approachin' the bridge. l seen her crouohed
on the very idge Of the bluff, overlukkin'
the dark Inc rapid stream. Some sense
Of what had happened had come to her
from the incessant and furious alarm,
for she thrust her hand in her buzzum,
and drew u the sealed packet.
Evidently it had busted open from her
falls, for l cud see her brushin' somethin'
from the front of her driss frantically
Thin, as if overwhelmed with loathing
and tibet ~shudderin'. creepin', shiverin'
terror tibet sets bot hair and wits on ind,
she gev wan awful downward plunge into
the sullen wathers, and a gone foriver
and a day
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DANGER SIGN IN VAIN.
New workers. VIII walk Under Two-Ton
safes n They Get a chance.

That New Workers. pay little attention to
overhead dangers was illustrated one after
noon last week, when four safe movers were
hosting a two ton safe into a window of a
high building on Broadway.
Before the men started to hoist the safe
they placed at each end OF the building a
sign on which the word danger was printed
in large red letters. When the safe had
been raised about twenty-five feet the men
stopped to rest. The big safe hung sus-
pended in the air.
A steady stream of men and women, I'm
needing the danger signs, walked under
the suspended safe, some of them not even
g~lancing up 10 see what was being raised.
Some women walked out in the gutter, but
the majority walked right under the safe,
laughing and chatting as IL they were in
the security Of their homes.
Then the safe movers got busy again. A
crowd had gathered on the opposite side of
Broad way to see the safe hoisted and when
1t disappeared through the window there
were signs of relief. II the ropes had
parted while the safe was suspended in the
air with so many people passing below
some of them would have surely been
killed.
We always test every rope and pulley
before we use it, said one Of the safe
movers. IF we didn't we would kill or
injurc two or three people every day, be-
cause none Of them pay any attention 70
the danger signs, except a few nervous
women.
1--we seen men stand right under a sus-
pended safe and look up at il as il there
was absolutely no chance of It's falling
Some of these men become indignant when
/ tell them to move on.
weighs a little over two tons and II Il ever
came down on anybody's head there would
only be a grease spot left TO show where a
person had once been. There is only one
way to keep the people from walking under
around the danger zone
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She had niver approved of the brass casket,
and my bringing the fragmints and what l
foolishly said, oonfummed her imprishun
that it he'd already attracted attinshun.
"Oh. we've got it all planned pufick
The uncle will he here to-morrow-Miss
Nixon is so nervous, she will surely give
it to him at fust op~porchoonity.
Kate Esmay will hide us in her room;
it is next door. We kin hear and see. She
will inviggle him in there, on the pretince
OF consultin' about some injury. He is a
physishun, mind. We will neck him, gag
him, bind him; cop the di'mond, and thin,
no, OF we go to Tom Tidler's ground be
the Light of the Moon!"
My feelins pervint me from diIatin' on
Jest what happened. Sure enough. the
next AFTERNOON, standin' against the con-
nicshun dure, we heerd Miss Nixon say:
Here it il, dear uncle. Oh, be careful,
careful. hev been nearly wild with the
responsibility; and papa in sech a state"
Sure enough, we prisintly heerd Kate
Esmay a talkin' to him, out in the hall.
invitin' him into the room to wait until
she ran down to the Office.
Sure enough he ken in, the old poppy
guy, more of a sandhill thar his brother,
and while he stud, blinking around, WI
necked him, gagged him. bound him tucked
him away in the closet arter large he'd
sneaked q small, sealed package from his
close.
Thin, oh, thin, jest as we was about to
make a break t'roo the winder, acrost the
roof, the door opened and hut. Kate
Esmay faced us, wan hand levellin' a re-
volver, the odder on the electric call.
"Tn trouble you for tibet di'mond." says
she.
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"

She got it, av coorse. What Use cud we
do, whin she he'd US, bot ways' She got
it, and she vamosed, a smilin'. sparklin'
blindin' jeer, leavin' us too small to even
see each odder.
At lengt' large spoke, way down in his
t'roat like wan pleadin' guilty.
we must mosey along lively he NUT
tered, "or wuss will foller. That old guy
in there may croak; we handled him pretty
rough, yet we can't release him. II we
unly knew about the trains"
Here is a Chicago paper that fell from
his pocket / said 1T otter tell"
And 1 stopped short as IL shot. There,
right in front Of me starin' glims was this
item, marked in blue:
DR.. Elijah Nixon. who arrived in town last
week from India. the worlds greatest arch
biologist. gave a private exhibition yester-
day OF the marvellous gem the Light Of the
Moon.
Il oud read no more for the cramp in me
t'roat; the little spots fioatin' before me
eyes.
What did she git away with, thin"
whispered large in a daze.
The answer KEN from the next room,
in the agonizin' voice Of the injured DR..
NIXON, our fellow passenger. In his daugh-
ter's absence he he'd evidintly risen for the
fust time, in his right mind, II not clothed.
He he'd come out into the parior, he he'd
seen the busted casket on the Table.
Help, help, run for your lives, good
peoplel" he screamed. "the plague, the
plagued And he banged out Of the room
like a gale O. wind.
We was skeered, but not so stiT that we
didn't foller lively; out t'roo the hall, do wn
the stairs, scootin' arter his white orry fam.
He foated into the great Office, where pas
sengers and patents was passin' the time Of
day, like an animated wash on two sticks.
Run for your livesl" he screamed, "the
plague, the plagued Enough plague bacilli
is missin' to d~epOpelate the continent"
IL was a root this time and no mistake;
a mad, panicky rush, with the divil hisself
hopelessly in the rear. Reminder. the
daily press he'd been paintin' itself yalIer
and rid with d~escripshuns of the ravages of
the plague. Reminder, the survivors OF
the wreck he'd been on idge liver ence,
seem and hearin' things behind and about
in regular dotty style. Reminder, that
patents are allus dead skeered OF the
disease they amt got.
So it was nc wonder that wan and all
swept, tumbled and plunged, hitter skilter,
nowheres, annywheres, put into the open,
like a house. like the whole world, aire.
And all the while Dr.. Z. Nixon, like .
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Buried Church OF Cornwall
From the Country G,nil,u0r

FTom The Country GcnNtn0n
II Ia stated that the attempt is being naas
to raise funds for the restoration o. ~
buried church" OF Perran-zabuloe H. cora
wall. This name. which has beaT stated
before now to be- a fragment OF tn ancient
cornish language, Is simply a corrup l't u -
Plran-ln-sabulo st. Piran in the 'H'i
As II to justify the name more ~. Y.
the shifting dunes long covered ,t .'''
church completely from view. and u va. "'"
rediscovered. like an Egyptian ~ ''l
laid bare in the year 1885. The surE.'.,s
ruins are now rallied in and visited auuHaAJ
by numbers OF people.
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H..

But luck was still with large and me.
We landed on our feet, niver a scratch.
From the say Of the trafnsmen, we might
hev' gone furder and Jared wuss, too; for
on a bluff near by was a celebrated sana-
forum, where we cud go and rist; while jest
beyond was the river into which we might
have win and risted. By common con-
stint it was agreed that wan and all shud
repair there, and most OF US needed it, too;
and see what ilse the railroad was going to
do for us.
1t was near the ind of the season, and
unly a few patents remained, lie rubbin'
and sun bathin' themselves into a simblance
Of healt'. So we practically he'd the great
carry vansary to Ourselves.
And we needed it. There was wounds
to be drissed, and the weary INC faintin' to
to be undrissed; and even those of us who,
for the instinct, he'd lukked t'roo the gates
ajar unscathed, he'd been Jared by the
untoward o~perashun.
DIR. Nixon was numbered among the
wounded and missing-a rap on the kronk
had knocked the sinses out Of him. It was
Jarge's sad july to aid the DISTRESSED Miss
Anne fetch her unconscious pregenerator
to the house. while I was a quick sicond-
somethin' to boot, you might say, since l
carrot his feet.
Nor did the softer, sweeter infoonce Of
her own sect fail TO draw near on hoverin'
wings. Mrs. Thearle, immune, as a wild
der, av coorse, from disaster, added her
riddy sympathy and womanly consuls.
By the time we he'd the old gintleman tucked
in his bid, with ice on his head and hot
wather at his feet, we four was as friendly
as IL we had knowed wan another for years;
l might even say, more friendly.
Il will 60 at onct to the wreck and see il
l kin recover amy more luggage for you, y
said large.
And 1 will stay, dear, with you IL you
like, and help straighten out the little we
brought" added Mrs. Thearle.
And poor Miss Nixon cud unly expriss
her gratitood in natur's own elastic cur
rency-tears.
Our search was unavailin'. We found
the casket; it wasn't the unly wan around
there, wuss luck, but IL was burst open,
it was Imply. Where, oh, where was the
Light OF the Moon?
II didn't take US long 10 detarmine that
it must be in Miss Nixon's posseshun. 1t
stud to reason that no c~ombinashun Of dam
aged relatives cud cause a woman TO ignore
the Ioss OF 20 priceless a gem.
Besides, she had stood on that very spot
whin We saw her immejitly arter the wreck.
Evidently she had emoved the diamond
and not fought it wuth while to keep the
broken casket.
We'll put her to the fist, amy way"
said large; and he gathered up the frag-
mints and bore thin back TO the house.
MAnA nn.VaNsAnA-k.-. III Al = 4
Ava hisself. Miss Nixon failed TO show
any interest in our find. tossing It on the
cintre tabble.
1T was very good OF you she said;
but l was hoping | had seen the last OF
that"
just thin Mrs ThearIe KEN IN from the
Office.
Il sent this telegram for you to your
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now, while l read what l clipped from a
Frisco paper"
And he read as follers:
DR.. Elijah Nixon. the world
archeologist, arrived in town yesterday
en- route for England. 1t is said that the
doctor bears with him the famous diamond,
lost for centuries. which he recovered amid
the ruins Of an ancient temple at Delhi. known
as the Light Of the Moon. 1t Ia also said that
arrangements have already been made for
the purchase OF this gem by the Crown.
While the good doctor declined diplomatic
cally to verify these rmors. he did dilate on
the mai vellous weight and purity Of the dia-
mond.
The reading ceased in a world without
ind crash. Our special limited maxim
more haste than speed, whit Of the sprid-
din tracks at a cuv', and landed us in a
hullybully OF splintered wood, twisted
initial, busted trunks smashed glass ,screech-
in scorchin' steam, with seats piled on,
and cuttuns all tied about amazin,' from
which poor humanity emerged, w~hitefaced
and bleedin', as if out Of hell itself. Oh.
it vas fearful.
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BACK OYER THE OREGON TRAIL.
EZRA MEEKER RETRACING HIS
PATH or 81 YEARS AGO.
He Is Travelling In the same Kind OF Prairie
Schooner n Hc went west In-On
His Way Tie Has Been setting Up
Monuments 10 Mark The Trail.

BURLINGTON, Ia, Dec. Slowly travel
ling across Iowa an OK team, hitched to a
canvas topped prairie schooner, is making
its way to indianapolis. 1t is driven by
Ezra Meeker OF Puyallup, Wash, who
at the age Of 70 is rctracing over the
Oregon Trail the course he took ifty-four
years ago, when he went West from In
a~ianspolis. For years Il has been his
dream 20 retrace his path, and now he is
Snishing the journey.
The long trip is made both as a matter OF
personal enjoyment and in the interest Of
history. At regular intervals along his
route Meeker has erected monuments to
mark the old Oregon trail, so that he who
comes after may he able to pick out without
difficulty the trail.
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III.

IA
II was a repulse, but not a root. was
satisfied that large, by his brashness, not
only had affronted Miss Nixon, but had given
Mrs. Thearle a true Gimp OF our characters,
or lack Of thin. Whin / told him these
views he oussed bot loud and deep, be way
of c'robborashun
But hope springs Internal in the sportin'
brist. Before very long large he'd recon-
structed a wukkin' plan.
The intervenshun OF this uncle, he said,
rally simplifed matters. Ividintly, Miss
Nixon 8 real reason for sindin' for him was
to tunn over the di'mond to him. HINGE,
whin he KEN, we otter hev' no trouble
in locatin' it.
Mrs. Thearle was good natered; p'raps
she wudn't mintion her suspioshuns. Why
shud she bother about the burial, senoe she
fought US already dead?
Besides. and here KEN in bot the strengt'
and weakness Of Jarge's natur', in the
feminine dioshunary, to which livery gallant
man had aociss, there was rally no sech
wuds as the ind. He had med a mistake
by not nussin' along the widder's interest
in him. Very well, thin, he wud soon hev
her around his finger agin.
His former GOODNESS wud unly make more
allurin' his present warmth. The true
rule in love was bitter late than at amy
odder time.
Well, large suited his actions to his wuds,
like the star actor he was. All thet arter-
noon he and the wilder set in the sun
parlor like a ooupla Of ove birds on a perch.
All that evening they occupied a cosey
Garner Of the drawin' room until the watch
man TUNED bot thin and the lights out.
Whin large at lengt' KEN to our room /
was prepared for much, but / must say he
gev' me more.
W are a pair Of gillies, Smithers," he
cried, in high good humor, lame ducks,
pigeons, cabbages, annythin' ht to be
plucked. l swear the blush of shame man
tied for all it was wuth whin she TUNED
those snappin' black eyes OF hers on me
and asst, What is your game, annywayi"'
"A confidence womanl' l cried.
THE bist in the worrold; Kate Esmay,
to wit replied large, land no more Mrs.
Thearle Of Thearle Manor than you be.
She was arter me hot fut, t'fnkin' l he'd
more Doodle than brains, and she t'un
down the magazine, for you to pick It up
and be picked up"
Il told you that she was on to us at all
events" / interposed. well, what did you
dor"
Il showed her the clipping. av coorse;
we declared a hard and fast alliance, sheer
and sheer alike. II was the unly ting to
do, Smithers. No doubt, zach Of US wud
rather go it alone, but neither kin do with
out the other. AFTER we land the Light Of
the Moon, then we will see what We will
see. A stern race Is apt 10 be a long wan,
especially for a woman
What dooos she say Miss Nixon said and
did7"
Miss Nixon confded 10 her that she he'd
a very great treasure in her posseshun, she
wudn't tell where it was hid, which must
be KEEP from all public knowledge. She
he'd mirao'lusly saved 10 from the wreck.
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uncle at Chicago she said, reading from
a paper: -'Dr. E.. Nixon, ETC., Father
severely hurt-oome at once. / am I'M
injured; and 1t is intact Will it do7"
Very nicely replied Miss Nixon. 1T
is such a relief; he will surely be here to-
morrow"
Il am glad, too" agreed large softly.
1T is too grave a responsibility for you to
bear with all your other antilles
Il don't quite understand. Do you mean
father"
Il mean II. Your father told me about his
precious charge on the train. I hope at
some more perpishus time I may have the
pleasure of ~inspectin' So"
But Miss Nixon stiffened like concrete con-
strucshun.
Il can't understand sech extraordinary
conduck," she said. But it isn't nioissary
for me to understand, since our aoquaint-
ance is so limited and brief"
And; somehow or odder, we found our
silves out in the corridor, with the door
slammin' hard behind. A quick fire; and
yit not so suddint that I cudn't see that
Mrs. Thearle's bright eyes was shinin' all
the keener for the laughter in thin.