RURAL ENTERPRISE
week before hla death, when near tne
site of the present city of Fort Wayne,
he heard that cattle had broken Into
one of the nurseries 20 miles away. He
immediately set ou, on the long Jour
ney to rebuild the fence and to pro
tect hla property. The weather was
cold and w et; the fatigue and ex
posure were too much for a man past
the Biblical allotment of three ecore
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and ten. On hla return he stopped
Fort W ayn e to H onor M an ,h* p»,t*m »"in, of American orchard*. one nigh, at Hie home of William
11/1
DI a J f
a
with an hi , a batcher and Worth. It was March and the day had
W ho P lanted First
h Virginia hoe, he would aeelc out a been cold and raw.
N ursery in W e s t
protected spot among th e tree«, n e a r 11
Prayer Impresses Host.
_______
»treani; there he would dis up the soil
The sage refused to si, at the fam
Washington.—The chamber nt com- |(|.in. 'a,'.', nr *
P“l''«Tlxed and ily table, instead eating a howl of
Bierce at Fort Wayne, Ind., has in
“I’P1*- peach bread and inilk beside the fireplace.
structed a committee to locate, mark
,
. -
' '
'*n' “ ter bul,dln< He also declined the bed offered hlin.
and moke acceaalble to the public the |
" T * "*
“Ur
«rave of Johnny Appleseed. This ac
"*«■ “"<« ° 'b- <ras- preferring, true to his nature and con
victions, to sleep with h quilt and pil
tlon on the part of the business men w o u i ( i ,. ,
?. 1'l<’"e“r orchardlst low on the floor. Before retiring for
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>">rney
until
he
of Fort Wayne arouses public Interest
found another suitable place for a ' the nigh, he asked Mr. Worth per-
again In a man whom Secretary Sher nursery
| mission to rpad aloud from Hie Bible
man once described as ‘‘one of the
and to conduct family worship. He
Settlers Find Fruit Trees.
most striking ligures thia republic has
When the settlers arrived from the read: "Blessed are the poor In spirit,
ever produced."
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven; '
In 1847 a representative from Ohio, Fast they found fruit trees waiting for blessed are they that mourn, for they
them,
to
he
honght
for
practically
on the floor of the house of repre
shall he comforted; blessed nre the
scota,,ves. announced the death' of nothing. A "flppenny bit," which was meek, for they shall Inherit the earth,
To Mark Grave
of “Appleseed”
f lm
W e s t” H m n * a n y ^ o H ie r ^ a r i ' n î
hU
™
Tap W ire at P ier; Seize
'»■ Hidden Gems on Vessel
4
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New York.—Tapping a tele-
¡2 phone wire from a steamship
i,
?
<
WRIGLEYS
UJit
H “nd W
H um ow
f
;«
jj pier, customs agents trapped two ij
¡¡t members of an alleged diamond ;«
>2 smuggled diamonds. Jean was J
5 known when the two men were ’«
J arraigned on churges of being £
implicated In the smuggling of >
£; 30 unset diamonds valued at £
the
$15,000. Steamship employees >
flavor
Probably one
and Jewelers in this city were
reason for the
Involved In the conspiracy, cua- £
LASTS
toms officials said.
!»;
popu larity o f
A R A D IO O F T H E F IE L D
W
R
IG
L
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Is
th
a
t
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b ,„
The agenta overheard a tele- ;«i
t o long and returns such
phone conversation In which I, J
Timely tale from the Ladles’ Horae
great dividends fo r to smaU
was alleged Marcelle Jean, bag-
Journal; "A little stalk of goldenrod
an o u tlay. • I t keeps teeth
gage master of the French i was Just about dry enough to blow
clean, breath sweet, appetite
steamship
DeGruase,
talked j? away."
keen, digestion good.
w ith Sol Band, a diamond I i m - £i
F re s h a n d fu ll-fla v o r e d
‘‘As a broadcaster," he chuckled. "1
;«i ker In the Malden I.ane whole- > ; claim to rank with the most powerful
always^ In its w ax-w rap p ed
J sale Jewelery district. In ar- £ stations In Hie country. Wonder how
package.
>! runglng for delivery of the
n»»ny are tuned In?"
J smuggled diamonds. Jean was £
A scattering volley of sneezes toll,
♦ arrested as he left the pier tele- > that a number of people were already
> phone booth and Band was
getting him.—Boston Transcript.
£ taken Into custody a, the place *
♦ appointed for a rendezvous with >
H o w H e T elia T im e
2 the baggage master.
J
Smiff—Wha, time Is 11, old boy?
..........
V
M ille t in th e Lead
Or huven't you your watch with you?
Millet
Is the world’s most prolific
Billfuzz—It’s 11:45 a. in.; but I nev
grain crop.
er carry a watch.
D U E L TO T H E D E A T H
Smiff—Then how do you know what
W IT H S IN G L E R A Z O R time I, Is?
Billfuzz—I shave nt 7:30 every
Golden brown,
morning and I can tell what time It
feather-light
F o rm e r Frien d» F ig h t Through Is, day or night, by feeling how much
Flapjack« w ith
my heard hus grown.—Philadelphia
p len tyo f syrup
Room ing House.
Record.
for tw eet com•
etc. He then offered a prayer which
made an Impression on his host go
era." fie alluded to John Chapman money If he c o u ld
<*’■
^ a<* " O profound that he never forgo, It.
|H>pularly ami affectionately know n ns
" "r' '"* rtp'
According to Mr. Worth, the old
Johnny App.eaeed, who planted or- ™
,m ,-r e d l, or n e T "
""’T“ 1’'’
chards and nurseries in the wilderness .
. . pi„ t h _
, . ,
' lanKe ,Hr a man prayed “for all sorts and condi
few old clothes which Johnny Apple tions of men, tha, righteousness might
of Ohio and Indluna in advance of
seed was only too glad to get. For he made dear unto them, tha, saving
civilization.
tunately, there Is still In existence a grace might he freely grven to all na
Meager knowledge of Johnny Apple-
piece of paper containing some of lions, that the Holy Spirit might guide
seed rests chiefly on tradition and
A| Z P ,.
(,
,
legend He was ........... . S p r i n g f i e l d , J o ^ i l l ^ n n e and govern all who profess and call
themselves Christian: tha, all who
,D ....... “ * yP"r ,h* emb" (hundred and flftv trees when he goes were afflicted In mind, hodv or estate
1
by
">”* b' b1«- for them ,o some of my nurseries o7 might tie comforted and relieved, and
and fired the sho, heard round the
wnh.rR Joh”
X n
pany— you
that all might at las, come to the
world." Johnny's half-sister, who wen,
New York.—Struggling desperately
can't beat thia
Johnny
Appleseed
did
not
limit
hls
knowledge
of
the
truth
and
in
the
H
o
w
C
ould
H
e
K
n
o
w
?
Wes, long after he did, suhl that when
happy morning
activities to planting frul, trees; he world to come have happiness and for possession of a razor, William
Visitor—Will you be good enough to
he was a boy he was fond of nature;
1DU
Walters, twenty-six, and Edwin Cas-
everlasting life.”
also
planted
small
fruit,
such
as
(ell me the name of the picture they’re
he loved the flowers and the birds and
tellemes,
twenty-five,
roommates
In
a
grapes, and he scattered through the
“Albert stands far
The next morning Johnny had a
producing?
the animals, and on summer nights he
Better Bnak/atu“
forest the seeds of supposedly vulu- high fever; pneumonia had se, In dur furnished rooming house. No. 245 West
Bystander—I don', know—yet.
would He on his hack for hours gazing
Ninety
fifth
street,
fought
a
duel,
re
nble
medicinal
plants—pennyroyal,
ing
the
night.
Doctors
were
called,
"What
is
It
all
about,
then?”
up Into the starry heavens.
horehound, rattlesnake root and dog the patient put to tied and everything sulting In the death of Walters and
“I’m sure I can't say.”
Disappointed In Love.
fennel. A simpler and truer child of possible was done to relieve him. But the serious wounding of Castellemea.
"Aren't you one of the directors?"
Why John Chapman left Ids native the wilderness never lived than tie; lie the doctors said Hie case was hope
Other roomers were aroused by
“Heavens, no! I'm the author.”
»fate to wander In the Western wil loved Its solitude and its wild Inhab less—nothing could he done for Hie sounds of a violent quarrel. As they
derness Is one of the mysteries of his itants. By the Indians he was regard dying man. All those who saw him In opened the doors they saw Walters,
A N E W STEP
life It has been a fertile bn, futile ed as a great "medicine man.” and Ills las, hours afterward testified that bleeding at the throat, run into
subject of speculation for generations was always a welcome guest a, the they never before saw any man so the hall, go down to the second floor
among poets, novelists and historians fireside of the settlers.
calm and self-possessed on the thres and Into the bathroom, locking the
A tradition says I, was disappointed
During the War of 1812 Johnny Ap hold of eternity. He smiled sweetly, door. Then Castellemea Jumped on
love whirl, drove hlin from his neigh pleseed did yeoman's service for Hie with prayers on his lips, as his life an extension roof back of Hie bath
bors and friends and relatives In the settlements. He frequently traveled failed out.
room and climbed In the window to
Old Bay state; and this belief has the long distances to warn Ihe pioneers of
resume the battle.
This
was
In
1847;
Johnny
was
then
very fain, support of the fuct that the approach of hostile Indians.
A call for police brought Patrolman
seventy-two years old. Mr. Worth and
Chapman never married.
The legends hovering around the Ills neighbors hurled him at the foot William Smith of West One Hundredth
He Hppenred as a wanderer In the death of this half mythical character
street station. He forced the bath
valley of the Potomac In 1791,. The are legion. A man who rode the In of a natural mnund In the corner of room door and found Walters and
Davhl
Archer's
private
graveyard
uear
following summer he was In western diana circuits many years used to tell
Castellemea side by side on the floor,
Pennsylvania. One day In the fall of his congregations of an niitumu day Fort Wayne.—New York World.
bleeding from throat wounds. Doctor
1800 a woman living on the hanks of when he found Hn old man dying un
Kenny of Knickerbocker hospital pro
the Ohio river near Steubenville raw der the trees near Fort Wayne. He F ash ion E xpert P red icts
nounced Walters dead and took Cns-
a crnzy-looklng craft floating down the was being taken care of by some pio
tellemes to the hospital In a critical
R eturn o f the “P lu g H a t” condition.
stream. It consisted of two canoes neers who had stopped for the night.
Omaha,
Neb.—American
man
Is
prob
lushed together, heavily loaded with The venerable tnan, said the circuit
Both hod been slashed with one
hags and piloted by a barefooted, odd rider, called the children of the camp ably the ties,-dressed male. This is razor, which was found in Hie room.
ly dressed man wearing a broad- ers together, asked them to kneel and the opinion of Charles F. Wetzel of The two line] been good friends and
brimmed hat.
then offered up the most impressive New Y o r k , president of tlie Nation*! the police were unable to learn the
It was John Chapman with a cargo and touching prayer he had ever Association of Merchant Tailors. The cause of the tragedy.
Farmer Uucle—I don't like thia
of apple seeds which he had gathered heard. The circuit rider declared that top hat and cutaway coat for formal
here crop movement a b it!
from the cider presaes of Pennsylva Johnny Appleseed had the sweetest afternoon wear and full dress for eve
City Niece—Ob, how do you do It,
nia. He told the woman he was on smile and the greatest soul lie ever ning wear will soon regain the pluce Twice Robbed, H e Gives
Uncle? I’ve uever beard of tha,
they occupied In Hie American social
his way Into the wilderness to plan, knew.
Em
bezzler
New
Chance
dance I
life of a decade ago, Wetzel declared.
nurseries in advance of the pioneers.
Bu, fortunately there Is a more com Mr. Wetzel Is on a tour of the coun
St Louis.—Although he has twice
"My mission In life," he told her, "la
H ope» fo r P e rm a n e n t W a v e
to have apple trees ready for the set plete and authentic account of the try. studying conditions in the tailor been victimized by trusted employees,
death of Johnny Appleseed. About a ing Industry.
»lustave Koerner s confidence Is un
B o b b y -h a ir e d B e t t y
tlers when they comp,"
shaken, and he will give Hie Intea, of
la a r a d io s la v e .
Physically Johnny Appleseed was a
S
he hopea t h e y 'l l b r o a d c a s t.
his erring employees another chance.
man of uiedliiiii heigh, n n,| s p a r e build.
A p e rm a n e n t w ave.
H J. Borgmann, thirty-one years old,
M a s to d o n T u s k F o u n d in C in c in n a ti
The generosity and sincerity of the I
«■ashler and bookkeeper of the Nation
blameless soul within were reflected In !
Pa»» the B a ll Grounds
al Refrigerator company, of which
his soft blue eyes. Hud I, no, been '
C H A M P IO N X 60c
Employer—On your way to the
Koerner is head, wrote a confession
for his clownish garments he would
admitting the embezzlement nt $2,500 printer’s you will pass a baseball
have been a handsome man; but l,
For more than 13 years
Of the company's funds. Then turning ground.
was his condition tha, man should
standard equipm ent
Boy—Yes, sir?
to
Koerner,
lie
pleaded
for
a
chance
not clothe himself for show hut only I
on Ford Cars, Trucks
Employer—Well, pass It.
to “make good every penny."
to cover his nakedness. He was not
and Fordson Tractors
Koerner told the police that al
an Ignorant or Illiterate man; his con- I
—am ple p roof o f its
though "one of our employees hefore
W o u ld N e v e r Do
versatlon bore the marks of the good j
great d ep en d a b ility .
Cleaned me out of $20,000, and I didn't
“Now In winding up our stag ban
trslnlng Hnd education he had received '
prosecute, I don't see why I should quet we wilt sing, TJood Night, La
B lue Box for all other
,n Ills youth He was of a meditative j
make an example of hint. I'll give dles.' ”
cars, 75 cents. The gen«
and deeply religious mm of mind, pro I
him
another
chance.”
w in e h a ve dou ble*
“Have you gone crazy, Joe? All our
fessing himself a disciple of Emman
Borgmann Is hack on the Job.
ribbed sillimanite cores.
wives will tie listening In ”
uel Swedenborg, whose teachings he
had somewhat. perhaps unconsciously,
C h am p io n Spark Plug C o .
Toledo, Ohio
M isu n d erstan d in g
modi,led to suit his own convictions.
fio y Escapes From Jail
W buBor. On«.. London, Part,
His two missions In life were to make (
“What's the charge?"
in B arrel of Ashes
“Five dollars."
converts to his religion and to plan,
apple trees In the wilderness.
“I mean for the ride—not for the
Okmulgee. Okla.—Arthur Goodin,
Firs, Nursery In Ohio.
seventeen, of Henryetta, held In Hie taxicab 1”
Ills first nursery, so far as known,
county Jail here on a grand lar
whs In a narrow valley along the
ceny
charge,
copied
from
the W O U L D K N O W I F H E H A D
• •Ho, opposite what la now Wellsburg.
movies.
He hid In a large ash
barrel on the top story of the
" 'a
Later he penetrated the In
, erlor of Ohio, and for years Ills chief
county courthouse building, where the
,'ehl of operatlona was along the
county prisoners are kept. He was
Muskingum and Its tributaries
He
covered with ashes, but remained ,n
the barrel. I.ate tn the dav the bar
wen, westward ns far as eastern In
rel was placed In a wagon. It was
(liana as civilization moved In that di
hauled to the city dump grounds, and
rection. It Is estimated tha, this ec
Los A ngeles’Newest
centric man sc, on, more Hum one
when the barrel was dumped. Goodin
crawled out and made a run across the
hundred nurseries In Hie it,rest Many
field, making good his escape.
of the Anew, orchards In the early days
of Ohio and Indiana were composed of
\\ llllnni Burlier with two large piece« of the niaatoilon'a tunic which he
trees bought from Johnny Appleseed dug out of a gravel hank In Cincinnati, Ohio. The tusk was 8 feet 3 Inches long Starves for 70 Days,
Main Street
I
naturalist finds new
A N IM A L
Or
W a lt e r N . K o e li o f th o M a c M illa n
E x p e d itio n
D is c o v e r * S p e c im e n *
Not Y e , Named.
Washington —Climbing Arctic cliffs
barefooted, fighting In glacial waters,
skinning specimens on a tossing ship
awep, by Icy waves these are some
of the adventures of a naturalist In
the Arctic as related In a radio mes
sage to the National Geographic so
ciety concerning Dr Walter N Koelz,
chief naturalist of the MacMillan Arc
tic expedition
"I, appears from Doctor Koela' sum
mer work that there are a number o,
kinds of animals In the Far North
which have no, ye, been named," the
n iM s a g e saya.
"Smite of the most Interesting re
sults of the ex|>edl,lon have been con
n«r,el with the gyrfnlcona and red
polls. The former become proflreo-
alvely darker a» they go South. North
I
bet. 6th &7th
7 0 0 ROOMS
Starts Lecture Tour
E skim os Prosper in
F arm ing o f F o x e i
Budapest. — Another
long-dlstanc«
food abstainer has been found here in
S IN T H E A R C T I C
the person of Bela Vicsey, who ex
Nome, Alaska.—Frank Du Fresne, isted for 70 days without food of any
In charge of the 8 ,ewar, peninsula kind nnd with only a few sips of wa
of Cape York both young amt old birds for Hie United States biological sur ter every day. He then started on a
nre predominantly white, hu, In God- vey, re,M>r,k tha, Eskimos are taking lecture and propaganda tour with the
thaaa, Greenland, many of the birds a full par, In developing the farming object of making converts to his sect
taken show no white at all. If pro of foxes and the marketing of their
tective coloration In rock and enow pelts.
Insane F ro m R ad io
The south side of the peninsula Is
regions Is a reason, the mystery is
Sioux
City, Iowa.—Radio claimed an
no more simple since In neither region on Bering sea and the north on the insanity victim when Mrs. Mamie
has the gyrfalcon any enemy which . Arctic odean. On the north coast line Redelne of Correctionville, Iowa, was
mua, fear. In the North I, Is the only While men destroyed the Eskimo llve^ sent to the state hospital for Insane
bird of prey equipped with hooked IlhiMid by snnihllatlng the whales and at Cherokee by Insanity com in I s-
hurtling the driftwood.
beak and sharp rlawa.
iloners.
“One day Doctor Koela was , routing
The Eskimos have taken to white
Mrs. Redelne was undpr the Illusion
In a small stream which emptied Into foxes and some families are making lha, her enemies were using the radio
» small arm of Godtliaas fiord
In incomes of $2.000 annually. From ;o prevent her from obtaining employ-
this water the trout become brightly catching wild foxes and selling Hie iienL
colored. A picture which would drive furs. Hie natives have gone on to de
any fisherman to envy and color pho veloping simple ranches.
G ia n t H ailstones K ill
tographs were secured by Jacob Caver
The women do most of the work_
Belgrade. Jugo-Rlavla.—Giant hall-
of some of these trout, which weigh It's the aboriginal way—hut, Dn
stones killed two persons and injured
five pounds
Fresne pointed out, families threat
sixty others in the town of Staristvnth
ened with extinction are beginning to
The American round-the-world fly thrive, though father slta around the luring a cyclone. The wind devastated
ers flew In Dougins machines, with cabin that has replaced the igisi, for the plain of Rnat, uprooting trees and
,'nttlng off communications. The dau>
MW-horse power motors.
, centuries the Kabliuo'a only boiua.
ige Is estimated at many thousands.
"Is his car a sound one?”
"Haven’t you ever heard It go by J"
300 " £ “ $1»
200 “ Î, $2""
No Good U m p ire
I n e v e r aaw a good u m p lra
1 n e v e r hope to * « • one.
B u t w h e n It c o m e* in u m p ire * .
I d r a t h e r eee th a n be one. ’
2OO±£; k $2»
GOOD
bot
One W a y to D o I t
"So many automobiles; How does
a pedestrian cross the street?"
“Now and then a car wants to eros*
We cross with It."
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W i l l buy o c e a n a n d r i v e r f r o n t , a n y
• ertsage. o r c it y p r o p a r ty , in F l o r i d a
P re fe r
M i a m i a n d D a y t o n a p r o p e r tie s .
S en d le g a l
d e a c r lp tlo n
end
te r m s
A ls o h a v e *oo<l
F l o r i d a p r o p e r ti« « f o r s a le
.
IV n rla o n
The C ontradiction
Mrs Fryer- And she prides herself
on her giMMl taste, doesn't she’
Mr* G a y e r - » * certainly doe,. my
dear^ And ,ay, I wl, b Jo„
her husband 1
t 3 CI
F L O R ID A
LAND W ANTED
„
M ash er
Polite Strsnger—I'm sorry to trouhl*
you, madam, hu, I believe you are alt
ting on my hat.
Acidulous Female— If you try to en
ter into conversation with me, air ,
shall Inform the police
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