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 — ' ♦ ------------- -------- — — — —_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _________ 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- ">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 B 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 E Y ’ S Is th a t It 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." LITI ES 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