?omatvce ? Bclicious Tw vr&oRoirf By ROBERT H. MOULTON C1IE world is full of raonu ments erected to the mem ory of notable men and women, and in commemo ration of notable events, and even famous race jjv - horses and pet cats and! dogs have had their merits I extolled on granite shafts. 1 But the only monument to a tree of which there is any record stands in a held in Madison county, Iowa, and tells the romance of the big red DAiclous apple, which was born in Iowa, and is now known and grown in every quarter of the globe where I'omona waves her waniL^ This unique monument di cated on August 15 U>jJjA<[farent De licious tree which is still standing and still bearing apples abundantly after a life of 50 years. Its offspring, in trees distributed and planted, num ber more than 7,5(XMKiO. According to the lowest estimate by experts, fully a third of the baby trees have survived and grown to producing age. The same experts- estimate that the annual crop of apples from these trees | brings in the markets $12, 000, (XX) an- 1 nuallv. Therefore, the fifty-year-old tree, near which has been placed this memorial, a granite boulder suitably inscribed, may call itself the $12,000, 000-a-year apple tree. The story yf the Delicious apple tree is a pon jological romance with out a precedent. Back in the fifties a young Quaker! fanner left his home in Indiana and settled in Madison couny, Iowa, near the little town of Feru. Jesse Hiatt was his name. He loved the apple and the apple tree with the love of one who knew their secrets. To him an apple was an institution, and a new apple was an epoch-making event. The new settler planted an orchard shortly after he acquired his farm. He made a spe cialty of apple trees. He grew trees of the popular varieties of that time, always seeking something newer and better. One day in the spring of 1S72 Hiatt found that a Belltlower seedling in his orchard had died, but from the root had sprung a tiny shoot. He resolved to watch that apple sprout and see If it was worth while. He would give it a chance in the world. A few years later the Bellilower or phan reached the producing point. A few buds were observed in spring. By midsummer :he buds had become 1 tiny apples. By early antumn the baby apples had grown to big red | ones, and from each emanated a most delicious aroma. Jesse Hiatt plucked one and ate it. The flavor, like the aroma, was delicious. The apple tasted like no other apple that he had eaten. The shape was different. Each apple on the tree had a quintet of rounded knobs, well defined. This precluded it being a Belltlower apple, in the opinion of Jifrsse Hiatt. It must be something else ? a new apple alto gether. Thus it came about that, in honor of his adopted state, Hiatt gave his new apple the name of the Hawkeye, Iowa's nickname. For 15 years after bearing its first crop the new tree bore annually, and increasingly, be fore its discoverer found a way of making it known beyond his neighbor hood. There, in the midst of Hiatt's big orchard stood the single tree, sturdy, a rugged trunk, branches radi ating with strong self-support, the foli age of a glossy green, the fruit a rich red glory. >r- ? *v^?&ssaR. 11^ ,E 7*azu&y2<z )?ZJC?OZtf 27Z&?-* Hiatt hoped to introduce his new apple by selling to some nursery the right to use scions from the tree for reproduction. A scion, horticulturally is a slip or cutting from a twig or shnot of 'a tree, for grafting or plant ing. Ever since 1 SI 0 there had been in Pike county, Missouri, near the little city of Louisiana, a nursery, whose management was on the watch for new varieties; but this was more than 'J(K) miles from the Hiatt orchard, and the old man's efforts to market apparently did not reach that far. In 1803, however. Uiatt learned that every autumn there was held in the city of Louisiana a fruit show con ducted by Clarence LI. Stark, then president of the Stark nurseries, a grandson of the founder, lie wondered if Stark would be interested in his Hawkej"e apple. He decided to send down a few for the fruit show any way, and accordingly boxed four Hawkeye beauties and shipped them to Louisiana. They were placed on display, along with apples of many varieties from Missouri and other states and with samples of various other fruits. Some of the displays were much more notice able, having many more^than a mere quartet of samples. The beauty of the Hawkeye apples caught Stark's attention at once. Their aromatic fragrance caused him to pause and pick up one of the apples. The man who knew apples from A to Z and back again bit into the Hawk eye. "Delicious!" he cried, "Delicious!" Then eagerly he took another bite, and another, and several more, for the Hawkeye was a big fellow. Finally he had devoured the entire apple, there being no core to speak of. Then he looked to see who was making this exhibit but unfortunately the tag of the exhibitor had got lost in the shuf fle and there was no way of telling where the apples had come from. There was nothing to do but wait, in the hope that the unknown exhibi tor would send samples the next year. And he did. In 1894 Hiatt sent an j other modest showing of Hawkeyes, securely tagged. Stark carefully opened the exhibit shipments himself that time, with the express purpose of finding the mysterious new apple about which he had dreamed for a whole year; and he found it. lie recognized the apple by its aroma even before he opened the package. He wrote to Hiatt immediately and soon a contract to propagate and mar ket all scions from the tree was made. Mr. Stark always carried with him a little note book in which he jotted down appropriate names so they would be ready for new fruits whenever they were discovered. For a number of years he had retained in the book one name for which he hoped some day to find a new fruit worthy to bear it. 'Developed' Monstrosities In ancient, medieval and later times dwarfs were in so much demand as per sonal attendants of noblemen and their wives that the Romans practiced some method of ?aarflng the poor. Bishop Berkeley had an idea that he could manufacture giants, and accordingly adopted an orphan named Magraph. and Is believed to have fed. him on mucilaginous foods and drinks, though there is no actual proof of it, but he was nevertheless so successful In his! treatment of him that at the age of sixteen Magraph was seven feet iaU, and at his death, which occurred with all the symptoms of old age, at twenty, he measured 7 feet 8 inches. Cattle Graze in Fields All Winter. It is because of the warm Chinook winds that cattle on the prairies of Alberta, Canada, can graze in the fields all winter, a snowfall of a foot or more disappearing in a few hours before the warm, dry breath of. the That name was "Delicious," and the ! moment he hit into the samples sent by Jesse iliatt he knew he had found j the apple he had so long nought. So the exclamation "Delicious 1" not i only expressed the delight of an ap ple connoisseur hut named, on the in stant, a new apple. The Ilawkeye firm that time forth has heen the Stark Delicious and that name is registered in the patent ollice at Wash- l ington. I With thejiamlng and arrangements ! for introduction completed, the next I problem was testing the tree and fruit in various apple regions. It had been estimated that from forty to fifty years were required for successful ; apples to become known by the fruit growing public. Fifty years is a long I time, and Mr. Stark felt that If this I new apple was as widely adapted and as valuable as he thought it would be, it would mean too great a loss to the fruit world to wait that long. So he adopted the novel plan of sending out each shipping season a few young Delicious trees free with the vurious orders going to different parts of the country. He felt that these trees would tell the story. If this apple, like some other sorts, would suc ceed only in a limited territory, there would be little heard from the trees. On the other hand, If It was widely successful under varied conditions of soil and elimnte, he firmly believed the Delicious would revolutionize all established ideas of apple growing. How this unusual test turned out is well known. Several years after the first Delicious trees were sent out let ters began to come In from all parts of the country, at first gradually and then in a flood. Everybody wanted to know the name of the new apple which didn't taste like other apples but had a distinctive flavor all its own. They wanted to plant more of them. And thus the Delicious started it flight toward national and, event ually, international recognition. Mexicans in American Cities. New York hns a large number of Mexicans and Chicago is said to have 4,000. Many of them are working in the stockyards, having been imported to meet the shortage of labor. They are settling In the old Irish section east of the yards. The railroads em ploy many hundreds, housing them generally in box cars which have been fitted up for bunkhouses. Social and religious organizations have taken cognizance of the local Mexican popu lation. The Presbyterian denomina tion maintains a church or mission for them at the Jefferson Park church, West Adams and South Throop streets, and also has a Spanish-speaking min ister at large for the settlements. Very often special school arrange ments are made for the migratory workers. Chinook. Not all the warm winds of Montana and the regions north and south have their orilgin west of the Rockies. Various causes contribute to the formation of descending air. and when the descent is a number of thousands of feet, the winds resulting are always warm. Such winds blow over prairie regions west o: the Mis souri. but not always adjacent to the Rockies. Similar warm winds are known in other parts of the world, as in Switzerland, where they are called Fehn winds. LAID ON ALTARS In All Ages Weatth Has Flowed Into Religious Temples. ! Gold, Silver and Precious Gem? Of fered at Tribute Both to Idols and the Unseen God* Requisition of church valuables by the soviet government, reported in dis patches from Itussia, raises a question as to the wealth of the various re ligious institutions of the world. "Since the dawn of history people have been lavish with their gifts for religious purposes, whether they wor shiped idols or an unseen God," says a bulletin from the headquarters of the National Geographic society. "The result is that in all ages treas ure, usually in the form of gold and sil ver and precious stones, has flowed to temples and churches, monasteries and other religious institutions. In any pe riod and in most parts of the world, then, except during recent decades in the West, a considerable part of the liquid wealth of the world has been In ecclesiastical hands.. Only the" treas uries of temporal princes surpassed those of the religious institutions, and in some instances, as in Tibet, the monasteries and temples held practi cally all the country's treasure. "Archeologists find pagan temples of civilization's dead for thousands of years were ornamented with a wealth of precious metals. Indian temples of several faiths have had their rich treasuries an<j their ornaments of gold a?d silver for cehturies, and they have made use, as well, of a glittering ar ray of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and other jewels. Many an idol today, from the dim Interiors of Indian tan pies, looks out through eyes of great lustrous, precious stones and wears other gems that might ransom an em peror. "Christianity had to fight for its life for the first 300 years of its existence and its rites were carried on in the simplicity that secrecy made necessary. Hut with its official recognition came the tendencies which had marked most of the openly accepted religions which had come before; toward the making of gifts to churches by devout follow ers and powerful patrons and toward, the use of more elaborate and costly paraphernalia in the services. Con stantino, first Christian emperor of IJome, lavished gifts on St. Peter's i church in Rome and on Sancta Sophia in his own capital, Constantinople. He thus had a hand in enriching the two most famous, and once the two richest, churches in Christendom, "The marked enrichment of Chris tian churches began in earnest in Italy j and the East in the Fifth and Sixth centuries and spread in early medieval times to France and other western countries. Not only did the churches j accumulate gold chalices, patens, can- j delabra and other small objects, but j many had large screens of gold and \ silver, as well as fonts and statues. To a few of the churches, altars of solid I gold were presented, but later church j regulations prescribed stone and wood as the only permissible materials for altars. Precious stones also came in j use to ornament images of the saints, j or as gifts to them. Thus the Sacred Baby of the Church of Ara Coeli in : Rome has been given over a space of many years a wealth of Jewels. "The accumulation of treasure by temples and churches and monasteries has not been unbroken. Time and time again these convenient stores of precious metals and precious stones have been seized by conquerors. Pa gans have looted the shrines of other pagans. Mohammedans looted Roman j churches, including St. Peter's in 846, and the churches of Constantinople in 1453. Sancta Sophia, after the break between the western and east ern churches, was sacked by western Christians during the fourth crusade. Church vessels were taken or de stroyed in many cases at the time of the Reformation." American Boy Child at Seventeen. In America a boy is still a child at seventeen. In England he is a man, with a man's air, a man's costume and a man's interests, having put away childish things,, which still exist in spite of his clothes. He does not go tearing down the street in his long trousers and higlr hat as would an American boy if he was initiated into the same costume at the same age. An American boy would (and let us hope he always will) destroy the whole effect and would run around the corner to the nearest pump to meas- | ure the fluid capacity of his wonderful headpiece or to fill it with luscious stolen fruit. ? Exchange. ' American Milk in Hungary. American evaporated milk has scored a hit In Hungary. There Is a great scarcity of fresh milk and there has al ways been a prejudice against the canned article which is in extensive use in the United States and other countries, but recently a quantity of evaporated milk was sent there through the American relief, and It has made its way Into public favor. Preparations are being made to take large quantities of It, as it has been shown that it can be sent there at a cost much less than the dairy prod uct can be obtained. Appreciation. "John, dear, did you enjoy the Welsh- rabbit I made?" "Darling l And the biscuit^ ! Enjoy them? Why, I couldn't sleep all night for thinking about them !M ? Richmond Times-Dispatch. SHOWED LIFE IN OLD EGYPT A Remarkable Picture of Daily Routine of Thousands of Years Ago Re vealed in Tomb. It is difficult to bejieve that anything happening today is as significant or as interesting as things that happened in Egypt a few thousand years back. Be sides, the history of present-day Egypt mi?ht as well be that of India or Syria or any number of other countries. The effort t3 attain self-relaxation, natural self expression, is now a matter of stenciled pattern. It involves trite slogans. It makes use of the familiar weapons of boycott and strike. It is recklessly extruvagant with ink. I do not mean to belittle national as pirations ? but the exploring mind finds greater novelty in the marvelous de lineation of Egyptian life on the walls of Ti's tomb at Sakkaru, Gertrude Em erson writes in Asia. The sacrificial bulls are hobbled and thrown. Ti and his wife inspect the forced fattening of geese, the feeding of cranes in the poultry-yard. She kneels by his side, and together they watch the harvest operations, the reaping of corn, the loading of sacks upon the backs of asses, the treading out of grain by the oxen. Three village elders are brought to the estate office by over seers to give evidence concerning taxes. Ships are being built, with animated conversation going on among the workmen. Carpenters are sawing; men are blowing a furnace. The ljfe of the Delta is depicted with a thou sand intimate details. TI is sailing through the papyrus marshes in a boat, superintending fishing and bird-snar ing. Some of the men harpoon hip popotamuses while others draw in the fishnets and empty the narrow-necked baskets. A hippopotamus bites a croco dile. The thickets are filled with birds, fluttering about or sitting on their nests. Cattle returning from pasturage are led through the shallow water; one man carries a sheep on his back. Two dwarfs are seen leading a j)et ape atid a leash of greyhounds. And I came up out of the crowded tomb with its marvelous lore of life and retraced my steps across the sand of the empty desert, where shards are strewn and bits of broken blue porce lain continually catch the eye, past the colossal statue of Rameses II, lying, prone in indignity, near the dirty little village of Mit Rahineh, which once was Memphis, and so back to Cairo, with its cosmopolitan uproar, its sophistication, its flaring hatred of Europe and its new-horn interest In politics. The tomb seemed far closer to realities. Eyesight and Marksmanship. Some curious researches have been , made by army surgeons to determine the relationship between good eyesight and good target practice. It would appear, at first glance, that the two things must invariably depend the one upon the other. But the facts lead to a different conclusion. At least, they show that one inay have very de fective eyesight and yet be a very ac curate marksman. Astigmatism, my opia and other defects of vision may exist In a marked degree without de stroying the ability to aim and shoot straight. In various armies soldiers are permitted to shoot from the right or the left shoulder, according to their own preference, which is often guided by the superiority of one eye over the other. Accuracy of judgment counts for as much as acuteness of vision with the good marksman. ? Washing ton Star. Sun-Loving Star Gazer. She was a sun-loving Smith college freshman from the South, and al though greatly interested in studying the stars, she fouod as the weather grew colder that she could hardly en dure the night observing that her as tronomy course required. So she took the advice of her friends and tried hats, fur coats, woolen stockings and warm gloves galore, but her hands and feet still froze and she was miserable. One night she appeared at the observ-, atory with a beaming face and hands that were to stay warm. She had solved her perplexing problem. In either bulging pocket was a metal hot water bottle filled with the hottest water that her house could provide, and, although for the first night of her experiment her hands sought her pockets more often than her books, she now does her observing almost will ingly. ? Chicago Journal. Soldier Ants. Before the biological society in Lon don a naturalist described his studies of the African termites, or white ants. Certain individuals in every nest have no other apparent function except that of fighters or soldiers. Some have a long beak from which they eject an acrid, corrosive fluid ; others inspire terror by making a loud clicking noise with frheir mandibles; but they neither shoot nor bite. One singular observation of the naturalist was that the soldier ants, which rush out to de fend an attacked nest, do not return to the nest, but wander about and soon perish from exposure to the outside air. Wiping Out Pests. A record of 303 pocket gophers and 99 moles caught in 11 months ending In November, obtained for Roy Hanen krat, an Oregon boy, a prize of $25. Another boy, Ferdinand Beeker, caught 820 moles and received a second prize of $15. These boys were taking part In a contest organized fli Tillamook county, Oregon, to eradicate these pests. The county was divided into three districts, and prises amounting to $50 were allotted to each district Forty boys and girls entered the con test. will lib 1 td ni m TENTATIVE PLAN WORKfQ r , 1 AGREEABLE BOTH COy. MISSIONS. I RECALL BRINGS SliPl? Despite Departure of British Cor>-, sion, Early Agreement W ... ? Not Be Surprising. WASHINGTON. ? AUh^.y .v British debt commissicn s Itome with the mission whirl, : it to America uncompleted. ?.?. formed officials in Washington no means pessimistic over ?! bility of an early agreemi;;r refunding of the British w;ir i the United States. In view of the TArts dis- he ; ? the first time, some of thos" i, ... with the recent exchanges the British and American comb ers would not be surprised if !?;. ? assent to settlement plans tenti worked out here is given soon . : <? Chancellor Baldwin and his coi I ? : _ . of the British commission arriv. ia London. While the greatest reserve Is s! here regarding the nature of this tative plan, it is known that it r ; ... sents the well considered judgm< :? [ both commissions as embodying ? - maximum concessions that might r> <? sonably be granted by the ITn i * 4 States. In view of the advanced s*. <r. which has been reached in the di- ?;< sions, 1 the sudden decision of tho lir ish government to recall its conn . v sioners to London for consultation. In stead of authorizing them to comiti.!* the agreement. As the home government had h ? n kept fully informed of every step in the progress of the negotiations :? had been assumed that the ahs^:. 0 of objections to the plan as it de veloped could be construed only -is forecasting assent to the final stages The conclusion has been drawn in diplomatic circles here that the Lr: change in the European political si" tion after the two commissions lv : :: their work caused the British gov. ^ ment to hesitate to assume any r. a financial burdens at this tfrnp -c if was assured of the ahiliiy ot ? taxpayers to bear them. Among the many elements nf prehension which thusi may hav<> "n fluenced British n^icials, are enu: rated the possibility of an expen.vvo war with Turkey, heavy losses of as the result of the operations of French in the Ruhr, followed by ir creasing unemployment of Engl Is?! workmen, unrest in India, and unsatis factory conditions in Egypt, which might make it necessary to modify he? present independent status. To tip up the government In such an enorirmu* financial transaction as that conten: plated by the commission under tb/^n ends is said to have been viewed as hazardous in the extreme. Car Carried North Carolina License. Jacksonville, Fla. ? Although Thorna? creek, 20 miles north of here, was dy namited four times following the find ing of an automobile submerged at the end of a "blind" road, without any bodies bing revealed, county officers were of the opinion that several per sons perished when the car catapulted into the stream. The creek will be dy namited further downstream. The outomobile, which was re moved from the water, bore a Greens boro, N. C.. city license No. 307, and a North Carolina state license No. 40. 735. There was a shriner's emblem on the front of the car. A short distance from where the automobile was submerged were found a baby's tin horn, a pair of woman's stockings, a handkerchief, some or angeB and crackers. These articles had lodged in some vegetation grow ing near the bank. A farmer, hearing the automobile going down the "blind" road, went to investigate and found the machine in the water. The road ends at the stream. Peacock to be Given Hearing. Lakeland. Fla. ? Dr. J. W. Peacock who escaped from the criminally in sane department of the North Caro lina state prison and who recently was declared sane at Arcadia, Fla., will return to North Carolina without requisition papers provided he is as sured no technical charge is placed against him and he would be tried only for insanity, it was reported. The decision is said to have been arrived at at a conference between Dr. Peacock and his attorneys. Dr. Peacock has been visiting here but could not be located. Forest Fires Raging. Kinston, N. C. ? LeQrange reports told of extensive forest fires in that flection. Several thousand acres of -wooded land have been burned over. Houses have been threatened in some localities. One farmer reported sev eral hundred dollars' damage on his premises from a blaze started by rab bit hunters in an adjacent thicket Rainfall over the district has been be tow normal for several months. The farmers have been compelled to quit work to cope with the fires in some places.

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