Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-18
From lie cnei ififss ~ q n 1qnies n 80

The apple Is one Of the oldest spe
eles OF fruit. IL was fayorite Will
our first parents, who risked every
thing to get it. BY the way, il mus
nave been green apple or am Earl,
june they ate. for IL was before tn,
JdH There were twenty tive
varieties of apples known to the
Romans, at the time that Pliny wrote
ana there are over two hundred
varieties known to us at this writing
Beside the list of apples found In
horticultural works, there are several
other kinds not enumerated there.
There are the Dead Sea apples, that
are said TO look fresh and Inviting
without, but turn to dust as YOU
attempt to quarter and core them
Ihey are species of dried apples not
quoted in the market reports. There
is the apple in the throat, sometimes
called adams apple" the apple of
the eye, the apple-pieEy, dc.
Then We have the golden apples of
HesPerldes, " to secure which was one
OF the twelve labOrs of Hercules
enJoined upon. that classic athlete
through the hostility of "crueI Juno"
Hercules, belt remembered, was sired
by Jupiter, that mighty son. of thun-
der, but his mother, being a daughter
OF Earth, Juno Mrs. Hereules) was
yoT7liilst him from birth. The golden
apples We're a present to Juno at her
wedding. from the goddess of the
Earth, whose situation, by the way.
has since been filled with distinguish
liability blythe '.GoddessOfL Liberty, -
a central figure at all patriotic denlon-
stratiOns.
These apples Juno had intrusted to
the keeping of the daughters of
Hesperis, ably assisted by a hOrrid
dragon. The poets, led by the analogy
Of, the lovely appearance of the west
ern skysat sunset, viewed the west as
q region of brightness and glory.
hence it was there they placed the
isle of the Hesperides. There home
was on the setting sun.
But Hercules didn't know this. not
being a reader Of the poets. He
sought out Atlas, the father of the
condemned by the gods to
support the weight of the heavens
upon -his shoulders, 0by the gods n |
and offered TO assume the burden
hlnlselflif Atlas would seek the apples
and deliver them 10 him Stias
Delng naturally well posted i'm geegra-
phyt nom which he is rareiy sepa- |
rated, soon found the Hesperian isle
struck ite, 7" as you might say
made his girls, give up the apples,
under a pFetense of exhibiting them |
1t the horticultural fair at the Rink"
and delivered them TO Hercules, who
oy that time, like the Democratic /
party, was tired Of supporting the
World.
While an apple produced the first
domestic difficulty on record il was.
Iiso the cause of the Trojan war.
which Homer and Virgil !
would have had no theme adequate
or their quilts, and the French opera
must have been deprived of La Belle
Helena, which Bateman forbidi
.Lhusnt occurred :: Eriz; the Goddess
4 Discori = enraged because she was
lot invited TO a certain wedding at
ended by all the other members of
he celestial family, threw a golen
pple among the guests, inscribed
For the fairest." Juno, Venus and
Iinerva claimed it; which, on the
art OF Minerva, was stated by the
apers of the day to be the most1
POLISH act of her life, for like mostl
'lse virgins, although she had oil in
er lamp, she wasn't "pOoty.n
The decision being left to Paris, a {
lepherd on Mount Ida. though son {
the King Of Troy, he decided in I
lvor of Venus, she having promised
i'm the most beautiful woman in the4
.orld for a wife-and We may add
lat q handsome Touuu has hud the I
lside track in the race ever since,
Paris went TO Greece, where he was I
received by Menelaus, ]
ing of Sparta, returning his hospi-
iity, as is often the case, by running I
way with his wife, the fair Helen.
Lenelaus, after advertising her in the $
parta Gazette. as having left his bed
nd board, and warning people not to I
ust her on his account, got up an Q
lpeditiOn and sailed for Troy, where I
Ie guilty parties had fed, for the T
IrpOse of recovering his wife, to- a
,ther with damages. The ten wears 2
ar followed, ending i'm the downfall Il
Troy, is well known. c
Grecian Helen returned to Sparta r
ith her husband, bowed down with Il
ief and remOrse over the "bendern r
e had been on, which we are conf II
mt now was the origin of the g
irecian Bend" She finally ac- q
that she had been "a L
tie indiscreet,n y beggel2 his pardon, u
duced him to resume the payment \
her dry goods bills, and they lived q
ry happily together from that time a
I. They often attended the Opera g
1uGe, and used to laugh heartily Il
er OfieHbaeh's La Belle Helene. e