Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-02

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il - save hanaa lie, my OzH huasa
hfe. dld Is - Appeass tAs tr4Ln-ooy.
sno Aad suF8ei h.mself loose ga m- A.
Council Blatfs. aud vas gOiag - mAke
ms 0uy 81 Hs. hing before Ne goE - *
Jo~eph pronounced oinjo, accent
he4sY ga tAs J0). o. hek me- he
waited ne ~ bay al u Prot MAJ
thess books except tie gospel and
nIue Of r. r ROes novels ALI lay
lors v orld on Wheels aRd .' Be
tween tie Gates. a. seven or q ight
u Pinkerlou fearful and wonderful
defective stories anc IS hole library OF
trencl novels With very flashing titles
and dis4ppoiBtngly tame reading, and
some California pears aud Siberian
oranges, and sOne Alaska hgs and
Senegam bian grapes. some candy pack
ages With beautiful prize aud = ten
dollar biil Ia every package except the
one DC sold m-, aud some ivory Orua-
menJs mais Of isOry thst grows on
trees. a.d some fresh roasted peanuts
which he assured me we're George
Washington faYOrlte fruit THAI would
purify the blO0l make the hair curl.
Hhiten the teeth. make tie complexion
cl AZ and promote longevity. ana some
English walnut meats. yintsge Of 1888.
rails az guide Il last July, and some
apples
reflected did no. think l ought
10 5us all these things. because 1 have
Z - A
wealthy IS / am said To be by tie
sOlic ting committees Of pO.crly-
stricken churches and tOttering col
leges. But ] felt, a. p rhaps YOU have
felt thousand times. dear hearcr. that
| had TO buy something of that bOy. or
lie down on the floor of the car and
die.
So bought apples. selected ap-
pies because they are palatable nutri-
| tiOus and Cheap. | asked him how be
sold his apples With exceeding scorn
he said. "Twoforrasent (Which by in
terpretstiOn ), two for cent?. | think
he said two for cent. | knew 1 hal
| Just miss Il a lecture engagement bv
| railroading into a snow drift the night
before. and consequently had just
enough money LETT 10 buy one, N a job
lot.
Ib,t It with great difficulty and little
| iov. sine hcy. the leathe.v fungus that
it was. handed it back to the boy
and told him TO keep it hr m ght want
10 XII a dog with II some day. The
boy. with native independence of
hi> class. ~ d tina | didn't Know good
! apple when got one. He opined, in
| deed. and very op'nely, too. IN a loud
tone O. e pr ,~ion. for Ihs benefit of he
whole car, that when had any orchard
fruit at home regaled myself. like a
| prince. on driei apples
| did not smlte the boy nor upbraid
| him with hard and stinging words
/ More. indeed. an sorrow than In anger I
| told him dit know what a good apple
was, and | knew where they used 70
grow. and, moreover, if ne would ring
me- one now, my entire bank account
( with al the hereditaments, protests and
/ ONerdrafts thereuntO appcrtan.ng,
/ should be his. The only good apples
| in the world lncal descendants OF the
| golden stock of HesperideS, used to
| grow. twenty-ii or thirty years ago,
| on an old farm, three or four miles out
/ of Peoria. Ill, on the Mount Holly
/ Road. | told the boy they were not al
ways fair apple to look upon IN their
early youth. when | loved them best
They were hard on one side and green
or the other They were gnarly all the
way round and >oIr al the way through.
! There was more hcartache and sorrow
and deep-seated, gnawing remorsc and
| heartfelt sorrow and honest penitonce
in one of those apples. after You bad
T eaten a neck OF th"m i'm the same after
noon. than there is now in a whole
! green watermelon.
Nevertheless. | used to 90 into that
orchard at eight d m. eat apples till
1l.S0 and then feel hungry for big
| dinner.
And | told ,ae 10Y if he would bring
me one of those apples now. with the
same old taste and flavor that it had
/ quarter of q century gone by, with the
same old smell of thc clover and apple
/ blossom lingering about it; the same
/ old idle breezes that kissed my bOvish
! cheeks in the long. elightful truant
/ summer afternoons. with the whistle of
/ a bob-white over in tie stub le field be-
/ yOnd the cow pasture; with the muir
muir of the brook that went singing
/ over the white pebble, AZ tae foot of the
! Orcha bill, "a the muse Of the bees
humming and Lutzug about in the
sweet rel clover tops bring them to
mr even with tie old well-rem mhcrcd
and p acul.ariy pun ent flavor OF the
/ buggy whip which frelu ntly -casonei
I those spp'es because 10 boy could al
ways get oser the fence In tiue told
/ him ! would gladly. gladly. gladly give
him fifty dollars for just one apple.
But the boy looked \ me with n
nameless fe-lr. and backed o4 down the
aisle-Df the car. and touched the con
/ ductor on the eltOw and said
"BlI, Ssy Bill, VINO has charge
/ Of the lunstic on tn wO13-b1x
"Ah. des.ly beloved. there IS no
lunscy about H. We know nv. and
som. day the boy vii Know. that ap-
pies are not 80 good today as they were
twenty ive wears ago Nothing Is so
good 10 u. in fact The apples ,re
tough and favor.es-. the grass g wiry
and thin where { used % be iv.ng vel
vet under our feet, the DAYS aTe not so
long the nights have grown colder.
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