The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-08

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] Indulged in Pomnco and Sweet cider.
Ny mind revorts with pleasure 10 chat
period In my existence when the male
| portion Of my parentage persuaded me
/ TO rise 40 2'30 p. M and allowed me 20
! pry yoke Of anti-labor oxen ten miles
through a November climate that stood
seven feet ia It's socks and was war
ranted TO freeze everything chat didn't
! have a Yale lock on it
! The object of these nocturnal trips
was the cider mill, which was usually
/ run by q Joint stock company and a
| horse that moved as If he had spent the
| most OF his lie az nu hour hand Uu
| town clock Being of young and tender
! years, it generally became my duty to
| see chat Che horse didn't faint awuy or
! lie down TO slumber and allow the apples
| in the mill to get rusty. The horse and
1 generally got on good terms az an
! early stage of the game and would
| divide the time for sleep between us.
| The horse had been a somnumbulist
/ from his earliest childhood, and his
habit of walking in his sleep enabled
| him to sneak in few hours sweet re-
| pose on my time without my knowing
| It, The only way I could tell whether
| he was April foOling me or not was to
mention whoa to him; if he was awake
! and i'm full possession of his senses, he
! would Immediately observe my sug-
/ gestion; If he was asleep and uncon-
| scious of his surroundings, he would
not heed my gentle murmur.
! The art Of cider making is not gener-
! ally understood by those people who
love to drink it and put it i'm their mince
! pies. Ii is for the enlightenment of
/ these people that this article is written.
/ The apples from which the cider is
/ made are picked off the ground in an
| advanced state of decomposition. They
| are generally picked with a coal shovel,
| and anything that happens to be lying
around on the ground is picked just the
| same as if it was an apple and thrown
/ into the cart as tirst-Cass cider material
! This gives tone to the cider and causes
/ it TO work. When the apples and other
! ingredients are ground up and ready for
the ardent hug of the cider press, the
| composition is called pOmace and looks
! a good deal like sauer kraut in a brown
| study. The juice squeezed out of this
! composition is called cider.
! / developed very large appetite for
cider at the first engagement / played
! with a cider mill. / opened with eating
! apples, gave matinee by filing up with
! pomace, and closed the performance by
! absorbing cider from barrel through
| a three-inch bung-hOle punCtured with
] a straw. When ] went to bed that night
! / was so pufed up with pride and
! pomace that l had to postpone my
evening prayer until after the swelling
| went down.
No matter where you locate sweet
| cider it is bound to ferment. IL is sure
| to foam and sizzle. From extensive re-
| search in ancient history, / find this is
| caused by the alcohol the cider contains,
which is not visible to the naked eye,
, but is there just the same. Somehow I
/ forgot this when l sucked so much
juice into myself and retired without a
! thought of the disaster that was likely
| to follow. l awOke about 1914 a. m.
with a well-emphasized feeling of un-
rest equi- distant from the two poles.
thought l was a maddening crowd, as
my friend Shakespeare once remarked.
/ cot the impression that was a torch
light procession at a political demon
| stratiOn. / felt like bowling mob. /
was satisfied that l was full and COM
plete election returns The cider had
begun to ferment. aud as l was on the
outside of it felt an irres stible desire
to celebrate the event Iarose and with
a dollar and a quarter umbrella over
nv shoulder marched up and dowa the
| room with firm and measured tread,
while my voice rose clearly on the still
night air as / put the imaginary hosts
I Er1
The cider continued to feTment. 1
imagined that l was terrible holO-
caust. Making a trumpet out Of
the water pitcher, in stentorian
tones / ordered the firemen to turn the
hose on me. The cider still fermented.
| I thought I was riot. and getting up on
a rOcking-Chair, ] ordered peace-lOving
citizens to put me down. just then |
stepped on the edge of the rocker and
my order was promptly obeyed. Icame
down on my nose. More ferment.
| got the impression that I was q terrible
runaway, and appealed to the policemen
to catch me before did any more dam
age. While I was tearing at breakneck
speed up and down the room, crushing
the furniture beneath my proud and
angry hoofs, the door was suddenly
! burst IN and my rather entered with ms
hair looking up to the blue dome of
heaven and a hog walnut whiffletree in
his right hand. The whiffietree caught
me just as passed him ON my way up
to the other end of the room for the
purpose of mangling the wash-stand.
This attracted my attention, and / was
on the point of rearing in the air and
paving him to death with my forward
feet when he lassooed me with the back
of a chair, and l was laid on the bed
while the entire family came in and took
reserved seats on me tll the cider had
ceased to ferment, and L dropped off
into a sumber that was childlike and
bland Ever after this little episode
became guarded in the manner in which
! / 'corraled pomace and newly-bOrn
cider-T0nl Holmes. ip SO. Paul Herald.
SLEEVES.