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Show The Dried Apple Pie A SCIENTIFIC journal, after noting that vast quantities of American dried apples are annually an-nually shipped to France, where they are converted into cider, adds that "a pound of dried apples contains as many constituent principles as four pounds of the fresh ones." That statement is filled with suggestions. The first race of California and Nevada men had not outgrown their early partiality for the marvelous apple pies that were made in those days in the Eastern States, and even the amateur cooks in the mining camps could put up a fair sample of dried apple pie. They were often eaten at breakfast break-fast time. Thr result was that men shoveled gravel or swung picks or hit drills with increasing increas-ing energy all the forenoon. The Indians caught the secret and so before taking long journeys they tightened their belts and as they progressed on their journey and as the apple pie expanded the old rule with them was reversed and instead of tightening their belts, they loosened them until when their normal condition returned, they had ended the journey. Then the apple brandy that tho boys made, was it not a miracle? Not understanding under-standing the philosophy of the thing, they naturally natur-ally believed that some of the virtues of the apple ap-ple had been lost in drying and drank enough more to malce up the deficiency, with the result that it was then as it was in ancient times: "There were giants in those days." We suspect that tho idea of concentrating low grade ores, to save what was precious and cast aside the gang, was ifl first conceived by a man who practiced eating ' flf dried apple pie for breakfast. He must have been ! X1 a chemist, too, who had analyzed his food and fl who said to himself: "When I eat three pounds H of apple pie for breakfast, I, in truth get the sub- , I stance of twelve pounds of fresh pippins or Rhode B Island greenings, and assimilate them perfectly. 1$ If I can apply the principle to the reduction of if ores, why see the result! I can reduce to one If ton 'the vital constituents of four tons of twelve- ' 11 dollar ore to one ton that will he worth forty- 31 eight dollars. Then the truth quickly dawned V upon him that as the ore was heavier than the :Sk gang, "he might, by crushing it, wash away the K gang and have the valuable metal left. Thus we jfl see what was thought at the time as a mere un- ' ! natural longing for dried apple pie, was, in truth ' PI the matrix of a great principle, which, put in prac- t a I tice, has resulted in making thousands of mines, II before practically worthless, immensely valuable, F I has resulted in great fortunes to thousands of 'II miners and has added greatly to the accumu- j'l lated Wealth of the world. ifl Right here we have a suggestion to make, It f fl is for people who cannot afford to pay the prices fl charged for apples here, to go to the country next jfl summer and contract for their apples and also fl with the farmer's girls to carefully prepare and fl dry the fruit for them. Then bring it home and fl make their pies and apple sauce of them, and ' fl reflect while eating the fruit next winter that ifl with every pound so consumed, they are getting fl the same nutriment in an easily QIgestable form, jfl that the neighbor, next door, gets out of four ,1 pounds of raw apples. The same principle is invoked that inspired i fl the first great sculptor. IH He had one of those old Greek apple pies for II breakfast, and musing over the principle of tho tjfl dried apple pie, it suddenly came to him that If jjfl he could eliminate from a piece of rough marble H before him all that was gross and earthy in tho H stone, there would stand before him a winged H statue of victory in polished alabaster. It was H his sub-consciousness that caught the vision. Ho jflj went to work, not with the idea of creating some- iK thing, but of taking away from something already H created, all that wa jarse and gross in the en- H vironment in which the goddess was imprisoned, H and when his work was finished, the rich men of H the world, seeing the goddess in her grace and IH celestial whiteness, were willing to hand out their jH gold for the miracle of art and enchanting lovell- H ness. IH Aspasla gave Pericles dried apple pie for din- jjfl ner and then in impassioned eloquence he could jjjH address an audience of critical Greeks all night. gfl When Ulysses came home tired from his ten IH years' war before Troy and that tempestuous voy- ffl age of a year on his way home, and found the ffl palace filled with the thieving suitors, ho was in lfl half despair until Penelope slipped him one of II those dried apple pies for breakfast and under its H influence he went in and slew the whole scurvy fl bunch of conspirators. When young Paris went H from Troy to Greece to spend a few days with I Manelaus, Helen gave her husband's guest a H dried apple pie for breakfast, and Paris never .fl rested until he stole his friend's wife and carried K her off to Troy for a cook, and under those pies the Trojans maintained the siege for ten years ffl and then were only heaten by treachery. Zenobia i!fl Flfl ' fl Jl - 1 H Palmyra's wonderful queen learned Iibw to make B those pies from a Greek tramp, and when Aure- H lian captured her capital, to conciliate him, gave H him dried apple pie for breakfast, and in return H he packed the marvelous fighting queen off to H Rome for a cook. The possibilities that slum- H ber in the principle of the dried apple pie are H limitless. |