The independent., 1907-03-07

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young trees which cannot, like those
tings.
The beauty and fragrance of apple
blossoms rival those of the flowers of
the orange tree, and serve to adorn
many a landscape in their season, but
no such universal use is made of them
as Of orange blossoms, which have
come to be identified with marriagea-
Bile maidens. Their use was handed
down from pagan times when, as the
emblem Of fecundity, orange blossoms
were used in religious ceremonies. The
use Of orange blossoms at weddings
is confined to first marriages, for
when a widow remarries the appro-
pirate flowers are those Of the white
lilac But the wedding of a young girl
without orange blossoms is almost an
anomaly nowadays.
"Since Eve Ate Apples"
The apple has figured largely in
culinary affairs ever since it became
known to the sons Of men, or as
Byron wrote in Don Juan:
All human history attests
That happiness for man,--the hungry
sinner
Since Eve ate apples. much depends on
dinner.
But while the common belief in all
ages and in many places iii fiiteratllss
appears to be that the fruit eaten by
the first parents of the human race
I'm the garden they were to dress and
keep was the apple, the Book of Gene
sis does not SO state but calls it the
fruit Of the tree which was in the>mid-
die Of the garden" and also the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, the fruit Of the only tree in
the garden which the man. Adam, and
the woman, Eve, were forbidden to
eat, But when the subtitle serpent had
beguiled the woman, she did eat and
gave to her husband. While no term
such as Ewes apple survives, the de-
signation Of Adams apple is given to
the prominent bone in a mans throat,
where it is declared a portion of the
forbidden fruit stuck which he at
tempted to swallow. The name Adams
apple is also bestowed on a species
of lime which bears indentations like
the prints Of row Of teeth.
OF the savory articles Of diet made
from apples. apple pie, apple sauce,
apple butter and apple jelly are the
Chill. ADDiC Viiit 10 stIOtttSt d~SaStid-
ton for cider, the juice expressed from
apples, much of which is converted in
to vinegar; and there are apple whs-
key, applejack, apple brandy, apple
toddy and various other spirituous
products derived directly or indirectly
from the fruit, Dried apples and can
ned apples play considerable part
in the food supplies Of the world.
The term apple of the eye, used in
the Bible, is frequently applied to any
thing highly esteemed. An apple yard
is an orchard, or a field devoted to
the rearing of apple trees The wood
of the apple tree is close fibred and
hard, and is used for turning into ar
ticles for which hard grained wood
is required.
Speaker and audience act and react
upon each other until a frenzy seizes
the whole restless mass and there
breaks forth such shouting and
shrieking and wild leaping and
threslling of arms as has never been
seen or heard since the followers OF
that terrible satan, in convention as
sembled. clashed on their sounding
shields in the din of war.
Now is the moment for the pre-
siding elder Bounding into the All
from his stool upon the platform, he
bellows in a voice that would stam-
pede all the bulls of Bashan:
"Cum an be sabed! Cum an be
sabed, De debbles gWne ter git yer
eff you don! He's gwine ter git yer!
He's gwine to git yer!" he re-reiter-
ates in tones that roll like a booming
cannon above the roar Of the wild
congregation.
Then again and again he parades
the. devil up an down upon tn
earth lax er ro'lin' lion" lashing his
hearers into still greater frenzy with
the forked tail and the volcanic
breath. Here and there man or
woman falls into a trance, self-hyp-
notified, while other vault wildly In
semi -dslirium. shrielSing for some
body to ''hot meh!" The latter are
swiftly seized. the unconscious ones
gathered up. and all are borne bodily
To the foot of the platform During
fhc process of resuscitation the con-
gregafion auiets down, save for low
sobbinEs and meanings that sweep at
intervals through the nervous mass.