The Meeker herald., 1917-09-08
A Steepejack and
An Aaonautess
., WILLIAM dlANDLR

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Tom Gurfey - soos = b ecah walk
beean to e,f1b ever IL furniture. and
his mothsr was n dreo1 lest he ct up
On to Q NfsAow sfli 4nsd tnmble OK
A few years later hib plscs Of b1tssfui
fsst was Q tfestop. Then b gut to
climbing watsr spo0fs aaA treliises on
to roof, and By this time. being Old
enough 70 70 to wort, ~ became Q
steepie3ark
Emily Ra1cai6s was built upon stint
lar lines 70 Tom Gus5ey.
while Eben Radcliffe did not Try TO
prevent his daughter from risking hes
neck In an aeroplane. be was very
much averss to her marrying Tom Cur
ley. to whom she had become attached
What Do ZOO want to marry q stee
plejack forY' be asked. Hell break
bis neck and leave you Z widow
mo mors than Ill come down with Q
thump In an seroplane and leave him
Whoever" was the reply.
Tom had one unfortunate trait He
was q spendthrift. Mr.. Radcliffe tn.
order to get the whip hand Of him en-
pIoyed an agent to lend the young man
al the money he wanted and draw the
papers In such way that II the funds
were NOT paid 1t maturity he could ar
rest Tom and jail him. OF course the
funds were not paid. and . constable
was sent for Tom
Emily got wind Of the move and
warned her lover. Ton kept an ere
out for susplcious looking persons, and
when bs saw . man making . bee line
for him be ran for his natural defense.
q church spire. A tail elm stood be-
s,de the building. and Tom. catching
lower limb. pulled himself nj and was
soon in the topmost branches. The
constable followed him. and Tom.
climbing out on q branch o~erhanging
the church, dropped to the roof.
The constable followed, and Tom.
who had climbed the steepls before and
knew every projection. climbed up to
where the cone began. There was
lightning rod running to Q point above
the apex, and Tom went no BY It and
sat on the bali. holding to tie weather
vane.
This was more than the constable
dared. do. He descended BY the way
be had come and, once on the ground.
settled himself to starye out the cul.
prit. He had n GOOD view of Tom, who
must come down sooner or later and
Give himself M.
Now n happened that Emily needed
to do soma sboppiux that morning and
pessine the church saw her lover cor
raled on thu apex OF the church spire
and thu constable bel.v vatc hing him
me = dor ewing = coon. She took I'm
The situation At once. sbe must help
Mr. lover o.,t of mia embarrassment.
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were thrown around the cnurcn 70
prevent the prisoner escaping under