The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
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buried a lot of rusty irons and iron
barrel hoops and the scraps of a cast
iron stove at the foot of the tree be-
cause it had never borne an apple and
he thought the strength of the iron
rust might do it good. That was in
December and early in May that tree
was so covered with apple blossoms
that it looked as if an immense flock
of butterflies had descended on it and
were resting preparatory to flying
somewhere else. That summer the
tree was loaded with greetings, and
Lewis brother. a harum-scarum child
of six. gave the seven months old
baby one Of the apples to eat-not only
that. but cut il up for him. and instead
of dying in commissions the infant, who
had been sickly before, thrived upon
ii. The village physician was called in
to look at the child, and he immedi
ately said that he was what is called
a pudenza amachyrtis-that is one to
whom apples are necessary. He ad-
Vised them to throw away all their
milk and TO let the child eat all the
apples he could-but only from the one
tree. He is likely to absorb so much
iron that he will be the strongest child
in the world He analysed one of the
apples when he got home and found
that it was 80 per cent iron and only
10 per cent apple. so. Of course. any
GIllu MO dlt iOAlillS tlSC AOhA1
absorb so much iron that his muscles
would be hard as anvils.
Mr.. Jackson was one of thoIe men
who always think they have the best
OF everything. His cattle were the
heaviest in the country, the fruit was
the finest. his wife made the best
cheese, his dog was the best sheep dog,
his Sunday hat was the cheapest that
any man had ever worn to church, so
you may imagine that the chance of
having the strongest son in the world
appealed to him. and he told his wife
to make enough apple butter from
those greetings to supply the baby,
when the apples themselves were all
eaten or until more apples were ripe
As a consequence, when little Lewis
was eight years old he was just as
strong as a pair of cattle. and he liked
nothing better than TO show his
strength. If he hadn't been good
natured I'm sure l don't know what
might have happened, because he could
have pulled the schoolhouse to pieces
and could uproot saplings Of several
years growth.
of course it was a great saving to
his father such a strong son. He'd
clear a field of rocks in single day.
wrenching them out of the earth and
tossing them over the fence as if they
had been pebbles instead of powders.
linen. 100. ne Qlu ali the plOuSllnS-
He'd start out in the morning with
some apples in mis- pocket and plough
at his heels, and by noon he'd have
done the work of pair Of cattle and
would have thought it fun, too. Dnt
If for any reason he was unable To
eat for few hours his strength left
him and he was Just like other boys.
He used to carry n supply of apples in
his pockets. but one day when he was
pulling a load of feed up from the vii
lage he found he'd eaten his last apple
and his strength left him and he had
TO leave the wagon by the side OF the
road and run home for an apple Then
when he returned he picked up the
shafts and skipped up the hills like a
colt in a meadow on a frosty morning
There is a high mountain near the
Jackson place called Mt. Nomadnet-
tuck. 1t is twenty miles high and is
considered by some geographers to be
the highest mountain in New England.
although whether New England eX-
lends as far into the air as that is a