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Show THE BULLETIN Cats Said to Have Come From Section in Egypt Americans Will Join in Paying Tribute to Their Favorite Fruit WHOS y? NEWS the Celebration of National Apple Week, October 31 to November 5, They'll Sing the Praises of Its Many Varieties and Recall Once More the Story of Its "Patron Saint," the Queer Frontier Character Who Was Known as "Johnny Appleseed." e Western Newspaper Union. During By ELMO SCOTT WATSON APPLE a day keeps the doctor away. So runs the old familiar saying and it will probably be repeated often during the week of October 31 to November 5. Its not because theres any concerted movement on to disparage our M. D.s and try to make it more difficult for them to earn a living. But the seven days between those two dates have been designated as National Apple week, during which time Americans will be urged to eat more of fruit. this supposedly health-givin- g Whether eating apples does or doesnt make a person valleys. Johnny's idea was to plant his apple seeds so that the healthier, it will have little trees would be growing when the effect upon our interest in the settlers arrived. observance. For among all The chronology of Johnnys life from this point on is somewhat the "weeks" which we are uncertain. It is known that he called upon - to "observe" established a nursery at Mari- reacommercial (usually for sons), few have more sentimental appeal than National N Apple week. There are a number of reasons for this, among them these: If ever America decides to choose a "national fruit, the chances are that the apple will be the leading contender for that honor. Its the one fruit which iWe can, and do, eat virtually the .whole year 'round. 'Take a poll of American men on their favo-xit- e dessert and the chances are that the majority of them will say apple pie! without hesitation. Apple cider was the favorite beverage of our pioneering fathers (it helped elect William Henry Harrison President during the exciting hard cider-lo- g cabin campaign of 18401 and its still a favorite, especially' at this time of the year. If National Apple week needs a patron saint, it won't have to look far to ibid one. You've guessed his name, of course Johnny Appleseed! The real name of this queer genius of the American fruitier was John Chapman. He was bom near Leominster, Mass., on September 26, 1774, the son of Nathaniel Chapman, who served in a company of Minute Men at the outbreak of the Revolution and ,who moved westward to Spring-fielMass., after the death of his wife in 1776. His Wanderings Berin. In 1793 Nathaniel Chapman was .drowned while fishing in the Connecticut river near South Hadley Falls and soon afterwards Johnny's wanderings began. Johnny is said to have packed his meager personal belongings, walked down to the town clerks' office, where d, The Fort Vancouver Apple Tree. etta, Ohio, and that he used this place as the base for his operations. He wandered from place to place in that state, planting his seeds and caring for the trees , already growing. To Cider Mills for Seeds. Frequently he revisited the cider mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio to get more seeds which he would wash free of pulp, sort and sew into deerskin bags. These bags he presented to emigrants as they continued to penetrate the farther regions of the rich Mississippi valley, and some of these tiny bags are still the treasured possessions of descendants of the pioneers who profited by Johnnys bounty. Johnny started four nurseries in Ohio. They were situated near the present cities of Mansfield, Ashland, Salem and Delaware. He is said to have established more than a hundred in various parts of the Ohio valley, and there is no way of telling how many thousands of fruit trees he started during the course of his 40 years of wandering. As Ohio began to settle up he spent more and more of his time farther west in Indiana and Illinois, and it is more than likely that he crossed the Mississippi into Missouri and that some of the orchards in that state owe their origin to this queer genius. With nothing more than an ax, a hatchet and a hoe he would seek out a protected spot among the trees near a stream and there dig up the soil until it was thorThen he oughly pulverized. would plant thousands of apple, peach and pear seeds and build a brush fence around the infant nurscy to keep away deer and other grazing animals. When the settlers arrived they had only to dig up the apple seedlings and replant them, when they had established their homes, to start an orchard. Johnny planted other things besides apple trees in the wilderness. Small fruit such as grapes and berries he scattered through the forests. Johnnys Death. Johnny's wanderings came to an end in 1843 when he died in the home of a friend, William Worth, in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was buried in what was known as the Archer burying ground near that city. For many years his grave was neglected and it seemed that Johnny Appleseed was about to be forgotten by a generation who knew little of his labors in their behalf. Then in 1912 the Indiana Horticultural society and the Ohio Horticultural society decided that it was time to take action and save Johnny Appleseed's name and fame from being utterly lost. The burying ground where he slept was known, but the exact location of his grave was uncertain. Pioneer residents of the locality were sought out and by piecing together their stories it was possible to determine the plot of ground which held the dust of Johnny Appleseed. So an iron fence was built around it and on it was placed a tablet, bearing his name and the date of his death. A monument to honor his memory was later placed in the Fort Wayne city park. Other monuments in his honor were erected in Mansfield, Ohio, and in Ashland, Ohio, but more appropriate is the memorial, sponsored by the Springfield, Mass., Garden club and established a few years ago. e It is a tract of land, which may have once belonged to his father and over which he undoubtedly roamed as a boy. In it have been planted a wide variety of the sturdy old New England varieties of apples which Johnny spread broadcast throughout the East and the Old WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 'M'EW YORK. Henry L. Stoddard, Monument to Johnny Appleseed In Fort Wayne, Ind. It was John Burroughs, one of Americas best beloved writers on nature subjects, who wrote a charming essay on The Apple-Eate- r which is worth recalling during National Apple week. He said: Almost as interesting as these memorials to the man who did so much to plant apple trees all over the Middle West are some of the monuments to apple trees themselves. In Wilmington, Mass., stands a monument on which' is inscribed This pillar marks the estate where the Baldwin apple tree was discovered by Saml Thompson in 1793. Erected 1895. Thompson, according to the story, discovered the first Pecker apple tree (later named the Baldwin) while locating the line of the Middlesex canal and the monument honoring his discovery was erected by the Rumford Historical association a hundred years later, after the Baldwin had become one of the most popular apples in New England. A similar monument stands in the village of Dunela, near Abbotsford, in Quebec. It honors the McIntosh apple, discovered by Allen McIntosh as a chance seedling which he spared while clearing the brush on the site he had chosen for his home. This seedling apple, at first called a Grany, was later named for its discoverer and preserver. The original tree lived for 112 years and was destroyed by fire in 1908 when a house near it was burned. An Historic Apple Tree. Another apple tree with an equal record of longevity is the historic tree which stands in a little plot of ground in Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash., and which still bears fruit every year. Near it is a sign that says: "Oldest apple tree in the Northwest grown from seed brought from London, England, and planted in 1826 by the Hudsons Bay Company. As a matter of fact it was planted by Robert Bruce, the venerable Scotch gardener employed by Dr. John McLoughlin, who, as factor for the H. B. C., once ruled sub-nurseri- es he left instructions that his father's cabin be given to the most needy family in Springfield, and started for the West. He reached Pittsburgh in 1794, established himself on a farm there, and planted an orchard. From that period in his life dated his name of Johnny Appleseed. To emigrants, floating down the Ohio on their way to new homes in the West, Johnny Appleseed became a familiar figure. He would invariably present each family with a package of apple seeds and urge them to plant them as soon as they had found their new homes in the West. As there were not enough seeds on his place to supply all the pioneers, Johnny went from farm to farm to buy more. His farmer friends regarded him as somewhat queer, but the emigrants were glad enough to receive his offerings. In 1799 Johnny appeared as a wanderer in the valley of the Potomac. In the summer of 1800 he was again in western Pennsylvania and in the fall of that year he appeared on the banks of the Ohio river near the present site of Steubenville. lie was starting out as the advance guard of the wave of pioneer settlement which was pouring into the fertile Ohio THIS four-acr- remember the apple-hol- e in the garden or back of the house, Ben Bolt? In the fall after the bins in the cellar had been well stocked, we excavated a circular pit in the warm mellow earth, and covering the bottom with clean rye straw, emptied ir basketful after basketful of hardy choice varieties, till there was a mound several feet high of shining, variegated fruit. Then wrapping it about with a thick layer of longer rye straw, and tucking it up snug and warm, the mound was covered with a thin coating of earth, a flat stone on the top holding down the straw. As winter set in, another coating of earth was put upon it and the precious pile was left in silence and darkness till spring. . . . Buried Treasure. As the supply in the bins and barrels gets low and spring approaches the buried treasures in the garden are remembered. With spade and ax we go out and penetrate through the snow and frozen earth till the inner dressing of straw is laid bare. It is not quite as clear and bright as when we placed it there last fall, but the fruit beneath, which the hand soon exposes, is just as bright and far more luscious. Then, as day after day you resort to the hole, and removing the straw and earth from the opening thrust your arm into the fragrant pit, you have a better chance than ever before to become acquainted with your favorites by the sense of touch. How you feel for them, reaching to the right and left! Now you have got a Tolman sweet: you imagine you can feel that single meridian line that divides it into two hemispheres. Now a greening fills your hand; you feel its fine quality beneath its rough coat. Now you have hooked a Swaar, you recognize its full face; now a Vendevere or a King rolls down from the apex above and you bag it at once. When you were a schoolboy you stowed these away in your pockets and ate them along the road and at recess, and again at e and they, in a measure, corrected the effects of the cake and pie with which your indulgent t. mother filled your The boy is indeed the true apple-eateand is not to be questioned how he came by the fruit with which his pockets are filled. It belongs to him, and he may steal it if it cannot be had in any other way. His own juicy flesh craves the juicy flesh of the apple. Sap g has draws sap. His little reference to the state of hiq appetite. Whether he be full of meat or empty of meat, he wants the apple just the same. Before meal or after meal it never comes amiss. He has nests of them in the mellowing, to which he makes frequent visits. Sometimes old Brindle, having access through the open door, smells them out and makes short work of them. The apple is indeed the fruit of youth. As we grow old we crave apples less. It is an ominous sign. When you are ashamed to be seen eating them on the street; when you can carry them in your pocket and your hand not constantly find its way to them; when your neighbor has apples and you have none, and you make no noctural visits to his orchard; is without when your them and you can pass a winter's night by the fireside with no thought of the fruit at your elbow, then be assured you are no longer a boy, in heart or years. comThe genuine apple-eatforts himself with an apple in their season as others with a pipe or cigar. When he has nothing else to do, or is bored, he eats an apple. While he is waiting for the train he eats an apple, sometimes several of them. When he takes a walk he arms himself is with apples. His traveling-ba- g full of apples. He offers an apple to his companion, and takes ona himself. They are his chief solace on the road. He sows their seed all along the route. lie tosses the core from the and from the top of the stagecoach. He would, in time, m&ke the land one vast orchard. Do you - tent-shap- noon-tim- lunch-baske- r, fruit-eatin- Monument to the Baldwin Apple. over an empire of 400,000 square miles and won for himself the title of Emperor of the West as well as that of the Father of Oregon." While McLoughlin was factor at Fort Vancouver he was visited by Capt. Aemilius Simpson of the British navy. One evening at dinner, Simpson was reminded by one of his men of a promise he had made a certain young lady back in London. At a farewell banquet this girl had taken the seeds from an apple she was eating and presented them to Simpson, asking him to plant them when he reached his destination in the Pacific coast wilderness. Simpson had forgotten the incident until reminded of it by his aide. He reached in his coat pocket and found the packet of seeds resting under his white kid gloves. He immediately presented them to McLoughlin and from one of those seeds grew the tree which still bears fruit each year. Still bearing fruit also is anveteran which other century-ol- d stands clear across the continent from the Vancouver apple tree. This is the famous Marshfield Hills apple tree on the shores of Cape Cod bay in Massachusetts. It is 30 feet high, 10 feet in circumference and every spring it louks like n ball of white and pink blossoms supported by huge limbs nearly six feet in girth. ot hay-mo- lunch-bask- et er car-windo- w one of the best of all American political reporters, friend of more Presidents and cabinet officers than any other living Stoddard on man, is the author Shirt-Sleeof It Costs to Be jus Newopapering President,s li he d. Its pub mine of previously untold stories quickly transferred it from the book page to the news page. Having enjoyed a long acquaintance with Mr. Stoddard, I dropped in at his office, overlooking the Old Park Row which formed his genius. Close in nearly all his life with statesmanship, he wanted to talk about The latter allusion had to do with Hitchcocks Beanery, d where waiters served ham and beans to printers, stereotypers, reporters, editors, and politicians, who mingled in a shirtsleeve forum which Mr. Stoddard thinks helped to galvanize the New York newspapers of that day from 40 to 50 years ago. Sixty-tw- o years in newspapering, Mr. Stoddard is up from the case, a printer on the New York Tribune, an ace political reporter and for 25 years owner and publisher of the New York Mail. It seems to me that every reporter ought to know the smell of printers ink, he said. The great newspaper of today, with all its marvelous efficiency, has lost something stimulating and vital in no longer having this mingling of the erafts. I reve wing-coll- ar shirt-slee- ve news-paperin- Where did Puss come from origl-nallHer first home, like that of wheat tea, and other commonplace things, is lost in the past Her name. Puss, is a form of Perse (Persian), Tit-Bi- ts according to a writer in London magazine. Expert! tell us that cats migrated from ancient Egypt In two directions, after crossing into southern Europe. The first tribe went northward and westward; these appear ea the wild cat of the Carpathian and Hartz mountain, and the north of Scotland. The others went eastward and northward; these produced the familiar Persian cat From the same tribe came the tailless Manx variety, whose home was in Japan before it reached the Isle of Man. A third kind arose from the same source, in the East Indies, with a short smooth tail having a knob at the tip. Puss lost her high character rapidly after the old Egyptian times. She got mixed up with Satan, witches and that kind of thing. A witch, it wai aaid, loved to change herself Into e cat It was once a common trick In country markets to tie up a cat Inin a bag, and stead of a sucking-pig- , offer It for sale. Should any country mouse not want to buy a pig in e poke, be must first let the cat out of the bag. g. shirt-sleeve- member that, at nitchcocks, a slovenly reporter might be ealled down by one of those ome niscient printers, or perhaps it would be the other way about, with one at the newsmen berating the press room foreman, and asking him why he couldnt manage a decent old-tim- make-read- y. 'Curiosity Killed Cat.' Taken From Old Saying The saying Curiosity killed the cat is believed to be a corruption of the older saying, "Care killed the cat It is one of the sayings perpetuated more by sound than sense, according to a writer in the Boston Herald. A proverb known in England and Scotland from time immemorial says that a cat has nine lives, yet care will wear them out Hang sorrow, care will kill a cat" occurs In Christmas," a poem written by George Wither, who died in 1667. The same line is attributed to Ben Johnson, John Taylor and others. This proverb probably referred originally to the fact that cats are frequently so petted and pampered that they sicken and die. However, cats are not usually thought of as being especially curious. Why "Care killed the cat" was changed to "Curiosity killed the cat la a puzzling question. One writer says a plausible explanation of this change is found In the fact that one of the figurative sensei of "cat ia a human being who scratches like a eat, particularly a spiteful or back-bitin- g woman. Theodore Roosevelt used to go to Hitchcocks frequently, perhaps with Jake Riis or Eddie Riggs of Guaranteed Aid for Minister the New York Sun, and I remember Oftentimes in the early days, says James Creelman, Julian Ralph and Cleveland Plain Dealer, the seta score of' then famous politicians the tlers in a community or in several and newspaper men, mingling with would sign a pledge guarthe men from the mechanical de- townships that would provide anteeing partments, arguing over the world sustenance for athey if IjaJived minister war scare, local and national' polito them administered and among sun. tics everything under the It their one of Here's needs. spiritual was something like the free speech those pledges: "We do by these common in early colonial America, bind ourselves, our heirs, presents where you could step into the enand administrators . . . closure and say what you thought executors, to sums annexed to each of the pay about the king or anybody or any- our without fraud or delay, names, thing else. for the term of three years, to RevThe gusto with which T. R. would erend Giles Cowles, the pay to be dump a bottle of catsup and a slath- made in wheat, rye, com, oats, poer of mustard on a plate of ham tatoes, messpork, whisky, etc., the and beans, or corned beef and produce of farms, as shall be needbeans, was something worth seeing ed by the said Mr. Cowles and famiand remembering. ly, together with chopping, logging, fencing, etc. We agree, likewise, Frequently, these sessions at should any contribute anything withnitehcocks were a in said term of three years toward on the paper, just after press the support of the said Mr. Cowles, time, in which any story of unit shall be deducted according to the usual distinction or a clean-cu- t aum annexed to each man's .name. news beat was sure to get a We likewise agree that the preachcheer, and quite as certainly ing in each town shall be in proporany of us who had stubbed his tion to what each town subscribes toe was in for a raking over. for said preaching. oban me has made work My server of our efforts to establish true democracy in America. I have never attempted an exact definition of democracy, but, whatever it is, I am sure it was exemplified in this craft ideal of the e newspaper. The spirit seems lost in the highly departmentalised, mechanized and specialized characenterter of modern large-scal- e not of only newspapers, prise, but of business in general. Stoddards family newspaper tradition goes way back into the flatesbed days. His tablished the Hudson, N. Y., Register, in 1787. He learned the printers trade in his grandfathers printing office at Hudson. A proofreader on the Tribune at 15, he read proof Taught Grecian Youths to Bow In mythology Sagittarius was a on the famous Tilden Ciper dis-patches, a reporter soon thereafter, skillful archer and taught the Greon the Tribune and the Philadelphia cian youths the use of the bow. His Press. He wrote the first daily tele- wife was very jealous and was algraph letter ever sent out from New ways spying on him. Finally cen-be York city. changed his form to that of a taur in order that she could not recognize him and know of his whereI ALWAYS thought the reason abouts. 1 Alice Paul never Finally ho was accidentalstayed in jail scratched with a poisoned arrow ly was was she a that wraith long just and floated through the bars. The and died. Then he was placed In . wan, fragile little the heavens, where, ever since, he Ti ny Feminut feminist, locked aims an arrow at the huge Scorpion Seta One Goal up many times in in the west For Suffrage day Past. now fans up her National Womans party to the World Woman's party, of which she becomes temporary chairman. Its objective is the abolition of all legal Hi-He- at distinctions between men and women, to which goal she narrowed triumphant suffrage and to which she has held it ever since. A tiny wisp of a woman, she is the living refutation of Schopenhauers contention that will and intelligence never go Mbw4 nl SoU hr Aak together. 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