The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-17
The Red Apple in Antiquity

apple poisoned on one side, with
which the death of Snow-White and
Red-Rose is attempted by the wicked
stepmother, which are familiar in all
nurseries. The story of William
Tell, shooting the apple from his
sons head, used to be a classic, but
modern iconoclasts have torn that
idol from its pedestal and tossed it
on the top shelf, and were it not for
Schiller's wonderful drama, it would
pass into oblivion.
"The apple has also taken a prom
inent part in science. Voltaire is
one of the several authorities for the
statement that seeing an apple fall
from the tree to the ground, started
train of thought in the mind of
Sir Isaac Newton that resulted in
giving to the world the law of CRAWL
tation. The tree was shown in the
garden of Woolsthorp for many
years, before it was cut down in
1920. There are those who endeavor
to discredit the story, but in spite
of their arguments, it gives promise
to continue forever, in the museum
at Oxford, is statue of the philoso-
| pher represented with the disputed
apple at his feet.
MANY rites and ceremonies were
associated with the apple tree in the
olden days One of these, the bless
ing of the tree, was observed in Eng
land as late as 1882. Between Christ
mas and Twelfth day, the farmer
and his laborers, preceded by a
trumpeter, marched to the orchard,
and forming in circle around
tree, sang and chanted in praise of
the fruit. This ceremony was re-
peated until every tree had been
visited, after which the party en-
joyed a feast and made merry at the
farmers house.
1.-THE culture of apples in America
began at an early day. There was
in England an old man who, in his
desire to do something to benefit his
fellow men, collected apple cores and
when the pioneers were beginning
to settle the central western terri
tories he crossed the Alleghenies on
foot, carrying bag of apple seed
on his shoulder, and all he asked
was permission to plant. without
charge. 'Apple-Seed john the only
name by which he was known,
tramped thousands of miles, and he
has left behind him monument
which many a rich man might envy.
If that glorious old vagrant could
know that in 1910 more than 10000
carloads of commercial apples would
be harvested in Montana, Oregon,
Idaho, and Washington, and that
more than 100000 barrels of APP
pies would be exported from the
United States and Canada his heart
would sing with gladness.
"Dr. Samuel Bailey of Mt. Ayr,
Iowa, has discovered that the crav-
ing for liquor can be eradicated from
the human system by eating apples.
He says there is peculiar combina-
tion in the acid of an apple that al
lays the irritation, or sO-called appe-
tite, produced by the use of liquor,
adding: L am also of the opinion
that the keen appetite for tobacco
is reduced by the use of apples. AS
a rule the lover of apples is rarely
an habituaI user of alcoholic stimu-
llants. l believe that the use of ap-
pies as an article Of diet will very
much decrease and ultimately abate
the appetite for intoxicating liquor.
/ THE National Apple Growers
association, assembled in congress
lat st. Louis in 1906 voted unani-
lmously to set aside the third Tues
lday in October as apple day, with the
suggestion that the apple blossom be
adopted as the national flower. The
National Apple Show, Inc, organized
in Spokane in 1908, set aside the
third week in November as the time
to show the products of the orchards
Iof America, and to stimulate interest
and encourage perfection in growing
lit offers prizes and premiums OF
total value of $4,000 in competi-
Ition, which are free and open to the
world.