Show JOHNNY Johnny has been dead sixty sixty sixty six six- ty years and more but his work If It not his soul goes marching on In a aver very literal sense Johnny planted plant plant- ed good seed and the fruit truit is still g growing i It will be be- bewell well for tor us all if it after we weI weare weare I are arc dead we leave behind so much good as that done by Johnny AppleI Apple Apple- seed I He lIe had a hobby It It was the grow grow- growIng growing ing lag of ot apple trees He Re loved the appie apple apple ap ap- pie and he wanted others to know it and love Jove it as much as he be did So he went about the country plantIng planting planting plant plant- ing apple seed and from that bo ho got his name Many of the apple trees Inthe Ini in inthe t the e middle west are direct descendants i of the trees planted by hy Johnny Apple Apple- seed i A goodly fruit is the appl applet I Johnny lived In a time time- when there was strife between the whites and the Indians But the red redI I sled men knew him and his work and it is r recorded corded that they never molested him They Tiey considered him hima a great medicine man I Up and down the land went Johnny without thought of ot reward planting good He tIe came to his death when going to look after atter some of his trees trees which had been damaged by cat tie tle Why not emulate him Not in planting seeds of ot apple trees for tor there are arc men who know moro morn than we do about the fruit But we wo may all set out trees of truth and love and kindness and service to our fellow tellow fellowmen fellowmen men that shall grow after atter we ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves are arc laid away underneath them We need not travel up and down the theland theland land as Johnny did Each EachIn In his own community may easily find planting room for tor the seeds of ot good So shall the land be covered with the good fruit that the hungry may eat and be lie filled that the weary may taste and be lie refreshed |