White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-01

shall we account for some of the
strange memorials which, through the ages have
been set up by human hands and which man
continues to set up to a great variety of things,
Doth animate and inanimate To give a COM
plete catalogue of them would require no less
space than book, but for idea of their
variety consider some of these:
Perhaps as queer an assemblage of monuments
as can be found in any one place on earth is
to be seen in a cemetery at Mayfield, KY where
a burial plot contains life-size statues of the
dead members of one family dressed in the
1ashlons OF their times, and the figures of vari-
Gus animals, among them a deer which were
the pets of the various generations of the fami-
~ and were buried beside their masters.
Ordinarily you wouldn't think that cheese
would be an appropriate object for a memorial,
yet there is one 1t stands near the little city
of Vimoutiers in France on the farm of a GER
tain Beau Moncel, where during the latter half
of the Eighteenth century lived Marie Harel,
who is credited with being the inventor of Ca
membert cheese Not only is the fame of this
Norman m1lkmaid commemorated by this stone
shaft on the farm where she worked but in
Main Place In the city of Vimouters itself is
statue of her, back of which is a stone bas-
relief showing the farmhouse on the Marcel farm
where she was born in 1861, where she lived
until her death in 1917 and where she made the
new kind of cheese now famous the world over.
THESE monuments were erected through the
efforts of New York doctor, Joseph Knrim.
For many years he conducted sanatorum in
New York, where the only medicine he gave his
patients for all kinds of stomach ailments was
Pilsener beer and Camembert cheese. Because
of his gratitude to the inventor of the cheese
with which he made many people we'll and
saved their lives, he made a romantic pilgrim
age to Vimoutiers year or so ago, and the re-
suit was this most unusual of all monuments
1t was only year so ago that news dis
patches carried the following story:
San Jose, Calif.-A movement is in progress
here to erect monument to the memory Of
Louis Pellier, who, Is years ago, started the
prune industry in America.
Pellier came to California during the famous
gold rush of 1949 Away from his sunny France
he missed the plums from his home locality
near Bordeaux, and wrote back for seeds and
cuttings, and searched the hills for roots of
wild species on which his scions could be graft
ed. So interested did be become, he gave up his
quest for gold and gave the world the prune
beginning what is now a billion dollar industry
From another part of the West at about the
same time came this news story:
Fair Play, Colo.-Prunes, a burro will have
monument. Shot last month when he became
too feeble to eat after serving nearly every mine
in the region of Fair Play, he will have me-
mortal Of samples of ore taken from all the
mines in which he worked.
Up in Alaska several years ago a bronze
plaque bearing a basrelief of q mule and a
horse, was dedicated by the Ladies of the Gold
en- North auxiliary of the Alaska-Yuk Pr
oneers, to perpetuate the memory of the faithful
pack animals. both mules and horses. who lost
their lives the White Pass trail during the
klondike gold rush days. With Gov. George A.
Parks of Alaska and George Black. member of
the Canadian parliament from Yukon territory,
officiating, the dedication took place In
SEPARATION point above the famous Dead Horse
gulch
If you want to see how other members of the
equine world have been honored 60 down to
Lexington. KY, and drive out along the Win
chester pike until you come to Hamburg Place.
the farm of j. e. Madden. Nesting in q little
grove of trees on this farm is what is thought
to be the only cemetery for horse celebrities
in the world Dominating the grassy plot of
ground of less than acre and enclosed by
stone wall stands statue of a horse. Upon the
foundation on which the statue stands is this
Inscription, "Nancy Hanks 2O4' For this is
rho last resting place of the world champion
trotter from 1892 to 1894.
ven more traditional than love of man for