Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-04
Trout Fishing.

Trout Fishing.
We have a friend who is somewhat o
a practical joker, residing in a pleasant
country residence near the ocean. Some
time since he had visit from Professor
-, of poetic memory. The profes.
sor is keen trout fisherman. and seeing
a pond at some distance from RS resi-
dence he inquired
Can you fish for trout in that pond q
go, yes" said R. "as well as not"
"Possible where's your rod :"
"I have none. I'm no fisherman
But if you want to try, we'll go over to
s., and get tackle, and you may
try your hand at it tomorrow.
1t was thereupon agreed to do so, and
the day was passed by the worthy pro.
fessor in preparations for angling.
The next morning early, R. drove him
over to the pond, and he whipped it all
round to windward g. ieeward and final
ly waded in up to his waist and threw his
flies most skillfully but never raised fin.
At length, as the sun grew tolcrably hot,
he turned to R. who lay under a tree
solacing himself with book and cigar,
and exclaimed:
81 don't believe there is a trout in
your pond"
al don't know that there is" replied
R. imperturbably.
"Why, you told me there was.
40, no." said R. leisurely turning and
lighting another cigar, "you asked me if
you could fish for trout here, and | said
you could as we'll as not I've seen
folks do it often but | never knew of one
being caught here
ArrLEs FOR HUMAN FooD.-The i'm.
portance of apples, as food, has not hith-
erto been sufficiently estimated in this
country, nor understood. Besides con.
tributing a large portion of sugar, muci:
hugo; ana other 'Hnrritits matter, in the
form of food, they contain such 6ne
combination of vegetable acids, abstfac.
tive substances, and aromatic principles,
with the nutritive matter, as to act power
fully in the capacity of refrigerants, tom
les, and antiseptics; and, when freely
used at the season of ripeness, by rural
laborers and others, they prevent debility,
strengthen digestion, correct the putrefac-
tive tendencies of nitrogcnous food, avert
scurvy, and very probably maintain and
strengthen the powers of productive la
Dor. "The operators of Cornwall, in
England, consider ripe apples nearly as
nourishing as bread, and more so than
potatoes In the year 1901, a year of
scarcity, apples, instead Of being convert
ed into cider, were sold to the poor; and
the laborcrs asserted that they could
stand their work on baked apples without
meat; whereas a potato diet required
meat or fish" The French and Germans
use apples extensively; indeed, it is rare
that they sit down, in the rural districts,
without them in some shape or other, even
at the best tables The laborcrs and me-
chanics depend on them, to a very great
extent, as an article of food, and frequent
ly dine on sliced apples and bread
Stewed with rice, red cabbage carrots, or
by themselves, with a little sugar and
milk, they make both a pleasant and nu-
tritious dish. If your friends will only
provide themselves with plenty of choice
fruit, we will venture that not one man,
woman or child, in fifty, would care for
animal flesh to eat. Who doubts, for a
moment, that many scrofulous and other
diseases are traceablc to flesh diet! 1t
is well known that much of the meat we
eat is in diseased state when slaugh liter
ed, and its effects may be well imagined.
Yet our fruit is always in healthy state,
and cannot generate disease in the human
body; but it has diluting, purifying and
renovating tendency.-Water. Jour.
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