Show FREAK OF NATURE Morgan Cont Apple Bears Inscription Inscrip-tion Famine 1900 Special Correspondence Farmlngton Sept 5John Ford jr ot Centervllle who passed through Farm fngton this afternoon on his way home from a business trip through Morgan I county gives an account of a most phe i nomenai discovery that was made In an apple orchard belonging to I Mr Gjbbey Who resides In Round valley a few miles I east of Morgan City I lk was gathering fruit a While Mr Olbbey frui fend days ago he saw high up in the tree t a large a1o apple with some Inscription I tllt upon gltre8n picking I it and making I an examination it was tound that the words examinaton inscribed on plainly Famine 1PCO were the apple The letters were in green While thehalancacfthe apple was red the ncc Whi Mr Ford wa relating the circumstance to some J friends here and Wcna the he smiles of incredulity on their faces smies he stated that when he heard the story He was two and a too unbelieving was lelng Gibbers when he half miles from Gbbes heard it i and in order to satisfy his curiosity I curi-osity he rodo over and examined the apple himself He declares that the letters and I rSq rel1h figures are large well formed and quite legible I Those who know Mr Ford will statements not hesitate to believe that his hesiate beleve is due whether phenomenon are to the true successful experiment of some horticulturist hor-ticulturist or to a freak of nature will have to be proven |