The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1907 Page: 4 of 16
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making Its way to Indianapolis. It Is
driven by Ezra Meeker, of Puyallup,
^ ash., who at (ho age of 76 Is retrac-
ing over tho Oregon trail the course
he took 54 years ago, when he went
west from Indianapolis. For years It
has been his dream to retraco his path
and now he is finishing the Journey.
The long trip Is made both as a mat-
ter of personal enjoyment and in the
Interest of history. At regular inter-
vals along his route Meeker has erect-
ed monuments to mark the old Oregon
trail, so that he who comes after may
be able to pick out without difllculty
the trail.
From Washington to Omaha 19 mon-
uments have been erected. At the
time when the traveler made his first
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 20,000
people have contributed to the erec
tion of monuments. At Baker City,
Ore., the monument was erected by
contributions received from 800 school
children.
At Boise, Idaho, Meeker camped for
several days beside the postofflce. He
spoke to the public school children of
his object and 1,200 contributed to
purchase the granite monument which
will mark the place where the old
timers passed through what is now a
thriving city.
To erect a monument at the summit
of South Pass, Mr. Meeker traveled 84
miles from a postofflce. and 24 people
who reside in the neighborhood were
the only witnesses to the event. These
people, with Mr. Meeker, inscribed the
Stone. It stands on the irrigation sur-
vey near Sweetwater and is 7,540 feet
above the sea level, probably the high-
est monument in the United States.
In most of the towns and places
where monuments have been erected
Mr. Meeker stays to see the work
done; but in some instances he has
turned the matter over to a local com-
mittee appointed for that purpose.
Mr. Meeker, accompanied by his
granddaughter, Miss Bertha Temple-
ton, left Puyallup, Wash., Jan. 29, 1906,
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 comfort-
ably.
In appearance Ezra Meeker is the
typical pioneer. He is tall and straight.
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live there. The air la loo rare and ; !?.,nn 7T11 ,0*U
cold, the thermometer often falling to ^ ' f°f lh"
25 degroea below tero. Once a month ' 1 ™ ba*°U Upon aiudit*
un observer climbs up to tho station
to take tho readings of the Instru-
ments. He Is two days going up and
two days coming down.
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LONG REACH FOR LIFE.
Wild
Fig Tree on Big Rock Sends
Root to Soil at Base.
Among tho natural curiosities dis-
covered by tho Belgian exploring ex-
pedition in the country lying between
the basins of tho Congo and the Nile
was a wild fig tree—Flguler du dlablo
—which, having by tho chance of tho
winds had Its birth on the summit of
an enormous rock of granite, and find-
ing no nourishment for its expand-
ing roots near by, sent one long root
in search of soil down the face of
tho rock until It reached the rich
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made among Eurojiean and Americ^i*
art museums by a special committee j
of experta. At the same time, ex-
haustive Investigations Into the proper
lighting and arrangement of objects
of art have been conducted with the
aid of specialists from the Msssachu-
setta Institute of Technology. When,
three yea re hence, removal from the
prcaent overcrowded and unsuitable j
building has been made fiossible, the
Immense treasures in tho keeping of
tho museum will be housed as art
collections never were before and en-
tirely in a way to mako them most
accessible to the American public.
The modern art museum is much
more than a collection of paintings
and sculpture gathered at random. It
covers so wide a range both in time
and place, that Its collections become
an epitome of ancient and modern
civilization as revealed In art. There
are objects, for example, in the Bos-
ton museum which were fashioned
when the ancient civilization in the
valley of the Nile was still at its
dawn. Visitors see statuettes in lime-
stone and wood which were carved
and painted nearly 3,000 years before
the birth of Christ. *
Several of the paintings in tho
Chinese and Japanese departments
are as important in oriental art as
so many Raphaels, Titians and Rem-
brandts would be in a collection of
European paintings.
It is especially to the collection of
original works of Greek art contained
in the Museum of Pine Arts that the
visitor's attention should be directed.
Owing to the difficulty of getting or-
iginal works American museums have
often been obliged to present Greek
art through the medium of plaster
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Present Quarters of the Museum.
ident and his wife, since the other
Stuart "Washlngtons" are replicas
painted from these portraits. The
portrait of Samuel Adams is that by
which this famous leader of the Rev-
loutionary democracy is best known,
while the portrait of John Hancock is
equally familiar.
That all the important possessions
of this American museum will be
even better known than now through
the removal to the new museum
building, with its greater opportuni-
ties for observation and study, is in-
evitable. As part of the great "Uni-
versity of the Fenway," in proximity
to the white marble Harvard Medical
school, to Mrs. "Jack" Gardner's
Italian palace and to half a score of
other important structures the new
Museum of Fine Arts will be one of
the foremost among the greatest
group of buildings that has yet been
devoted to the higher education of
the American people.
Plant with Long Root.
earth at the bottom. There it burled
itself In the ground, and thus estab-
lished a chain of life for the depend-
ent plant above.
The best remedy against annoy-
ance from small things is to battle
with great.—Ivan Pan<»
Beef Clubs
In New York we have beefsteak
clubs, as they had in London cen-
turies ago. Out west they have beef
clubs, as they had in the extreme
south half a century ago. The west-
erns clubs are organizing everywhere
as a rebuke to the beef trust and its
frightful extortions. Each consists of
14 members, and a beef, usually a
two-year old heifer, is cut into 14
pieces, seven on a side. The mem-
bers take turn about in furnishing the
heifer, and receive their portions in
rotation. When in the course of hu-
man events 14 beeves have been dis-
tributed, each member has received
a whole one, piecemeal. He who
gets a brisket to-day may have a sir-
loin next week. The man who fur-
nishes the beef is entitled to the
haslets and tongue. The slaughterer's
pay is the hide, horns and hoofs. In
one small township in Kansas there
are six beef clubs, totaling 84 mem-
bers. The beeves are killed on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
each week. The butcher keeps a
stiiet account and renders to every
man according to his dues. No more
choice beef can be had anywhere in
the world, and the club saves from
6 to 14 cents a pound. We could have
beef clubs of this kind in New York
just as well as in Kansas.—N y'
Press. '
WHERE HE LEARNED.
An Irishman looking for work took
his stand in a group at the gate of a
large engineering establishment. By
and by the foreman came up to the
gate and asked:
[ AJe there any drillers here?"
} es, said Pat, stepping forward.
He got the job at once, but he had
W°Jki,nS l0ng at the machine
when It broke down. The foreman, in
quired"S a pIeasant mo°d. then in-
' Where, man, did
ing?"
you learn drill-
Tlt Biti!* PmU re»1'-
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Wintersteen, Paul A. The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1907, newspaper, January 17, 1907; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284441/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.