Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-06-17

From the London Telegraph,
In the food of vast numbers of people
for several centuries the apple has played
great and satisfactory part. OF all the
fruits which temperate climes afford, it is
at once the most wholesome and the most
palatablc. From its consumption when
ripe no evil effects result; it is more di.
gestibIe than the pear, safer than the
gOoSehery or The cherry, and useful in Il
greater variety OF ways than all its COM
peers put together. In the early spring ii
adorns the field by its Incompatible bios.
som, enchanting the eye by its beauty,
while it til' the air around with the most
delicate OF perfumes. Equally as the
queen Of the desert, and the cooks most
constant friend, it has the highest claim
t) distinction. From it, juice the wine
OF DevOnshire is made; raw, it ekes out
the breakfast of the farm lablrcr; roasted,
it is unsurpassed in the delicious taste it
affords; as the foundation of jams, iellies,
tarts and conserves innumerablc, it holds
an unrivaIled place.
All kinds Of experiments have been
made with it, and each has been sucCe IS
lul. 1t has figured cOnspicuousIy both as
a meat and as drink. In the thirteenth
century, according to Guillaume lie Rro-
ton, the inhabitapt ''''e'' ''
made cider their daily beverage, but were
so Jealous OF possessing the rccipC OF the
grateful drmght that they would neither
send it away from their country nor let the
secret out When one sad day, however,
the Norman harvest of apples fell short,
and the good people of Normandy had tC
20 further afeld for the generous fruit
which they loved so well, they found, tt
their horror, that their neighbors Of Biscay
had, by some means or other, discovered
the secret OF cider themselves, and were
ready not only to sell the fruit but its pro.
duct us we'll. Still, in Paris the people
were sadly behindhand with the apple,
and as late as the fifteenth century con.
tented themselves with u sour kind Of
drink called "depense, made by stepping
the fruit in water, of which the most
that could be SAID was that it was as harm.
less as it was uninviting.
England had meanwhile made far
greater progress in the use Of the apple
We lind 1t, indeed, placed upon the menu
of II dinner given Iomewhere about the
year 1850, and being handed found to the
guests shot roasted, with white sugar.
plums upon it," in company with such
other dellcacies as roasted figs, sorrel and
rosemary, as kind Of preparation for the
soup and fish which were to follow; while
in splendid pie, intended for royalty,
which contained, among other delightful
components, partridges, quail thrushes,
bacon, sour grapes and skylavks, it very
properly held a prominent position. Sc
good was it found in every situation afford
ed it, that the Crusaders mixed it with
their beer, and, while not forgetting juni-
per, resin, gentain, cinnamon. allspice,
bread crumbs, sage and laurel, chopped
up the apple very fine, and by its aid filed
up the cup. 1t was not, however, until
the sixteenth century that, in the form OF
a pie unmixed with other fruit, it attained
the dignity Of a side dish. though from
that time forward it deservedly ranked
alone. 1t had been many years in attain
ing It's majority, but when oLce that had
been gained, it was everywhere acknowl-
edged What we should do without it
now, it is almost impossible to tell.