hem — Loire By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T IS easy enough to account for the erection of private memorials to pri- vate citizens in the form of mark- ers over their graves and for the statues, monuments and other memorials with which we honor our statesmen, no ary and naval leaders and other heroes. But how 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 great variety of things, both animate and inanimate. To give a com- plete catalogue wm would require no less space than wk, bu w an idea of thelr variety cons Perhaps as queer an assemblage of monuments as can be found in ne place arth to be seen In a & burial plot dea P statues members ne family dressed hiot " y anid. +3 x ions of the mes and the figures of wr, whicl narily you wou ild be an appropriate objec yet of Vimoutiers tain Beau Monee of the Eighteer who 8 credited with membert cheese, Norman milkmaid shaft on the farm Main Place In thé city statue of her, back whicl relief showing the farmhouse on the Maree! farm where she 17 us} 1 until her de new kind of « These monur ver efforts of a New York For many years he condu New York, ‘where the only patients for all Kinds 1 Pilsener beer and Camembert ef 1 he gave his h ailments was cheese, Because his gratitude to the inventor of the cheese with which he made 80 many people well and saved their lives, he made a romafitic pilgrime age to Vimoutiers a year or so ago, and the re sult was this most unusual of all monuments It was only a year or so ago that news dis patches earried the following story: O San Jose, Calif.—A movement is in progress here to erect a monument to the memory of Louis Pelller, who, 75 3 rs ago, started the prune industry in America Pellier eame to Calif is uring the famous gold rush of 1840, Away 1¥ France, he missed the plums home locality near Bordenux, 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 a monument, Shot last month when he became too feeble to eat after serving nearly every mine in the region of Falr Play, he will have a me- morial of samples of ore taken from all the mines in which he worked, Up In Alaska several years ago a bronze plaque, bearing a bas-relief of a mule and a horse, was dedicated by the Ladies of the Gold. en North, an auxiliary of the Alaska-Yukon Pl. oneers, to perpetuate the memory of the faithful pack animals, both mules and horses, who lost thelr lives on 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 near In. gpiration point above the famous Dead Horse gulch, If you want to see how other members of the equine world have been honored, go down to Lexington, Ky., and drive out along the Win. chester plke until yon come to Hamburg Place, the farm of J, E. Madden, Nestling in a little grove of trees on this farm Is what Is thought to be the only cemetery for horse celebrities fn the world. Dominating the grassy plot of ground of less than an acre and enclosed by a stone wall stands a statue of a horse. Upon the foundation on which the statue stands Is this inseription, “Nancy Hanks 2:04." For this Is the last resting place of the world champion trotter from 1802 to 1804. #ven more traditional than love of man for or HY HARLL “ME Hani FONTAINE} new qui i wrens uu 1 C AMEMBERT, i = Se PANT ———— 1. Monument erected to the memory of thou sands of carrier pigeons killed during the World war which was unveiled in Brussels, Belgium, by the Duke of Brabant, sen of the King of the Belgians. 2. Monument over the grave of George W. Pike near Douglas, Wyo, 8. A burial plot in a cemetery at Mayfield, Ky., containing life-size statues of the dead in the fashions of their times and figures of ani. mals which were pets of various generations of the family and which were buried beside their masters, 4, Monument erected in Berlin, Germany, in appreciation of the invaluable services which the horse gave to the German army during the World war, 5. Monument to Camembert cheese near the city of Vimoutiers In the Camembert district of Normandy, France, 6. Monument erefted to Segis Pietertje Pros. pect, world's record milk-producing cow, near Seattle, Wash, &> fs hoa ® his horse ig his love for his dog. So it Is not surprising that In various parts of the world may be found monuments to “man’s best friend.” Visitors to Newstead abbey in Nottingham, Eng- land, are certain to be shown Lord Byron's monu- ment to his dog Boatswain. Boatswain was a Newfoundland of affectionate disposition whose death left the great poet Inconsolable. The dog was buried not 50 feet from the corner of the abbey where he used to sit on sunny days and where his master used to romp with him. His grave 1s marked by a shaft of brick and marble surmounted by an urn, The pedestal is a series of steps. On a tablet are inscribed the words: “Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without Insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if tnscribed over human ashes, is but a just trib. ute to the memory of Boatswain, A Dog" It is not especially unusual, perhaps, for man to erect monuments to hia two best friends, the horse and the dog, but It is unusual for him to erect a monument to a cow, For that reason the statue of Segis Pletertje Prospect, a Holstein cow, which stands over her grave on the banks of the Snoqualmie river near Seattle, Wash, is unique among memorials, The reason for this honor 1s explained by the Inscription on the bronze tablet at the base of the statue. It reads as follows: by head, grief. But the face to the sk take place. Winging over the n valley cor pioneer wor 08 a8 she sees an bronze shows the harves devoured the erickets, the pioneers In the wilde On the fourth tablet Monument. Erected the merey of God to the Thus this mon stone of one of the mos matic incidents In An of how the gulls saved the in 15848, Thin brief catalogue of unusual would not be complete without re usual memorials to two mene perhaps, and certainly not especial ~in fact, to two pretty bad me most human standards. Carved on cliff is a huge human skull which fame of “Sonpy” general “bad man” of the Klondike ing davs who died as he had lived—by the gun. So today an ironic skull on a Jagged mountainside is Smith's salute to latter-day pilgrims journeying north by the Inside water route to Alaska, The skull 25 feet high by 9 feet wide, with missing teeth and leering smile, was carved by order of the “Arctic Brotherhood” bad men, Some day when you're motoring through Doug- are these words: “SK in grateful ument is an erican |mith, gambler, gunfig | | | | | the hill east of that city and take a look at a large granite gravestone upon which is engraved this unusual epitaph: GEORGE W, PIKE Underneath this stone In eternal rest Rleeps the wildest one of the wayward west, He was a gambler and sport and cowboy too And he led the pace In an outlaw crew, He was sure on the trigger and staid to the end But he never was known to quit on a friend In the relations of death all mankind Is alike But in life there was only one George W. Pike. Perhaps it's Just as well that “there was only one George W. Pike” for Malcolm Campbell, a famous old-time sheriff of Wyoming, is authority for the statement that Pike's “remarkable rec ord for horse-stealing extended over a period of 15 years during which time there were few terms of court that he was not down for at least two counts . . . but he was never convicted of & crime in his life! (© by Western Newspaper Union.) 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