New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-31


wilderness, and ever am leaving the city more ant
more. and Withdrawing into the wilderness. shouI'
not lay much stress on THIS fact il did not beiey
that something like this il the prevailing tendency
my couDtrymon. mnst walk toward Oregon and no
toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving
and may say that mankind progress from east to west
Within few years we have witnessed tie phenomenon
Of sOutheastwaTd migration in the settlement of Ans
tralia but this affects us as retrogrnde movement
and Judging from the moral and physical character
the first generation OF Australians, has not yet proved
successful experiment. The eastern Tartars thinl
that there is nothing west beyond Thibet THE
world ends there. say they beyond there Is NOTHING
but q shoreess sea- II is unIiisated E1st "hei'
they live. 49,.
works Of art and literature retracng the seps cf the
race; we go westward as into Tie future with spir
oil enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic Is LetheaI
stream, III passage over which we nave had on OPP
portunity 10 forget the Old World and its institutions
II we do not succeed this time there u.s. perhaps, one
chance for the left before II arrives on the
bank Of the Syx; and that N the Lete OF the Pacific
which il three times az ide.
know not how significant 1t II, or how FAR i is an
evidence Of sngularty that an individual should tins
coHseB: in lis pettcst walk with the general
Of the race; but know that something AKIN TO tc MI
I gra'ory instinct in birds and quadrupods-whch IN
instances is known TO have affected tie squirrel
tribe, impeding them to general and mysterious mo'e'
menf, in WHICH they were seen, say rome, eIots'
ing The broadest rivers, each on its particular CHIP
with s tail raised for sail. end bridging narrower
streams with their Geadthat something Ike The juror
which affects tie domestic cattle in the SITng, and
which is referred 10 worm In their ialIs-aecs both
nations ana individuals either potentially inm tine
10 time. Not flock Of wila geese cacklcs over our
town. bu. il to extent unsetlcs Inc value Of real
estate here. and. if we're broker, should p.obe0ly
take that disturbance into account.
"rhsn longsn folk 10 son on pilrimages
Ard pllIncr-s for the seken strange sisonies."
Every sunset which / witness Inspires me with the
desire to to est distant and fair that into
which the yocs down He appears 10 migrate
lard daily. and tempt to follow him. lie is the Great
Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream
all night Of those mountainridles an the horizon though
they may be Of vapor only, which were last goed by
his RAYS The island Of Atlantis and the islands and
gardens Of the Hesperides sort Of Terrestrial para
disc appear TO have been the Great West Of the an
clients eny,oped in mystery and poetry Who has not
seen in imagination when looking into the sunset sky
the gardens OF the HespeFides and the foundation o al
CoLmbus felt the westward tendency more strongly
than any before He obeyed it, aid found New World
for CASTLE and Leon. The herd OF men In those days
scented fresh pastures from aiar.
| Mr. Thoreau loved apples, and disconrses about
them in words as fragrant as an orchard in May.
Tho flowers Of the apIlc perhaps The most beaui
fa OF any trees, so copions and so delicious TO both
sight and scent The walker Is frequently tempted to
turn and Dger near some more than usany handsome
one whose blossoms are two-thirds expanded. How
superior IL Is in these respects - tie pear, whose bos
SONS are neither colored nor fragrant
by the middle Of July green apples are 60 large ns ia
remind US OF cocdiing and Of the Autumn The sward
is commonly strewed with little ones which fall still
born. were--Nafnrc thus thinning them iof u.s.
The Roman writer Paladius said: II apples are in
cined 20 fall before their tine. stOno placed IN spit
root viii retain them Some such notion still suryiy.
ing may account FOR Of the stones which we zee
placed 70 be oyergrovn In the forks Of trees Itey
have saying in Suffolk, England;
AT Miehselmss tine, OF little before,
Half a apple goes to the cose.'
Early apples begin 10 be ripe about tie fret OF An
gust but thnk that none OF them are so gooc 70 ear
serchef with than any perfume which they sci! in tie
ahops The fragrance Of some fraits 10 NOT 10 De Tor
gotten along with that Of fowers Some gnary appie
which pick I'D IN the road reminds me by lis fragrance
sf all the wealth OF POuonacarrying me forward 10
those DAYS when they VIII be collected in golden and
rudy heaps Ia the orchard and about the cder mns
A week O- two later you are gong BY ORCHARDS or
gardens especially in tie evening" You pass thlorgh
h,c region POSSESSED by the fragrance q ripe apples
and thus en0y them without psicc. and without robbng
there is thus about all natural products certain vol
ae and ethereal quality which represents their bgh.
Get alue and which cannot be yuls.rzed, w bought
and sold No mortal has ever enjoyed the perfect Ia
yor any fruit and only ihe eOd.Ae among Zen begin
"a taste It's ambIosial qualities Tor nectar ami ampFo
sin only those fine havors OF every earthly nut
which oar palates fail 10 peioeiye-ust AZ We oc
cupy the heaven Of the gods without knowing H. When
particularly n.ean nan carrying load Of fAar
and fragrant early apples 10 market, seem to SEQ
q contest going between him and his horse ON the
aide and the apples on TIE other aad TO ny mind
the apples always gain H. fhIy says that Ppi!es are
tle heaviest Of all things and that the oxen begin To
sweat az the sgt OF load Of them. Our driver
begins Ia lose his load the moment lie ies TO transport
them where they DO not belong that Is 70 any but the
nost beautiful Though be gets out from time to time,
and feels OF them and thinks they axe al there SCI the
Of their evanescent aud celestial dualiet song
10 heaven from his cart while tie pulp and skin sid
only going 20 market. lhey are not apples,
but ponnce Are not these sim dumas apples the
which keeps the gods forever young and thinK
you that they VIII Jet Lok or Ihassi carry them on To
J5.unheim while they grow wrinkcd end grayf No.
for KagnaI0k the destruction o. the gods is not Jet,
There is another thinning Of the fruit commonly neer
the end VI August or IN September when TIE ground
s,rewn with windlalls aud this happens especially
when high winds after rain Ia some orchsr'is
you.nay fully three quarters Of tie whole crop Oh
tie ground lying In circular form beneath the trees
vol hard and gre.a-or. II IL is hillside rolled flr
down tie hnl. However. II is al Nj wsd that blows
nobody any good. All the country over, people are
busy picking up the windias. and this win make them
cheap for eaily appe'pcs: -
distinct on the trees snw one year IN neighbo-ing
town solo fuller Of fruit than remember to baye
e, sr before. small yellow apples hanging over The
road. Tho branches were gracefully dfoolltg WIN
their weight like a barberry bush. SO that The wlsle
tree acquired "a new character. Even the topnost
brnnches instead Of standing erect spread and dropped
In all directions AID there we're 80 many poles support
inc the lower Ones that they looked like pictures o
banlan trees. As an old English maanscrp. says
The mo nppelen Tue tree Dee1' TIC ofc sehe oo"e'u
surely the apple is the mobiles, o. fruits Let the most
beautiful or tue sWfiest have IL. That should be The
"goins' price Oh apples.
True to his instincts he loves the Wild apple with
q peculiar love.
TIE FRUIT, md Irs FLAVOR.
The time for Wild apples Is the last of October and
the FIRST OF November They then set TO be palstable
or they rpea late aud they src st perhaps as Seant
fnl rs ever. i make great account of lheSofruits
which the farmers do not think IL worth the while TO
eaihoi-wd hayors Of the Muse. vyncous and nspirt.
ing The farmer links that he has better In bis bar
rrls. bu, NE Is mistaken. unless he has "a walker S
appetite and Imagination neither ofwhich can he have
Slch grow quite wild. aud left out till the frat
VI November. presume that the owner does not mean
gather. They belong TO children as Wild M them.