The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-04

ground from the summers sun, but never
did know where it come from under GER
tain circumstances. Its all an uncXpl0r-
ed wilderness to me. Last year there
wasn't rag weed in my corn and nigh
ty little grass, and I sowed wheat upon the
land and now the weeds are about five
feet high, all over it, and SO thick you
can't walk through 'em, and / want to
know where they come from. About a
month ago cut some of the weeds down
and the grass come up just as rank and
thick and Pm moving it for hay and L
would like to know where the grass come
from. Last year there wasn't morning
glory in my clover field, and now its full
of them, and l want to know how they
got there. In the spring I graded off
little rise in my front yard and dug down
Two feet into the clay and slate and left
it too poor and hard to sprout peas, and
in less than month the bull nettles and
pepper grass and other weeds had sprout-
ed up all over it, and it bothers me to
know where they come from. Gimpson
weeds and opedildock or some other dock
will just spontane anywhere around
horse lot or COW pen or an old house in
field, and I don't understand that for the
birds wont eat the seed nor carry them
and they are too heavy to blow around.
There's young hickory bushes all over
my woods and nary old one in quarter
of q mile. If you cut down an oak for
rest pines will come up thick all over it,
and if you cut down pine forrest oaks
will come up, acorns or 10 acorns. a
few years ago the bed of the creek on my
farm was changed and now there's a
young cane brake coming up in new
place, and canes don't blossom nor bear
seed. How did they get there? May be
all these things spontane according to
the new tangled doctrine of evolution,
and if so then I reckon Pm an evolu-
toner, for I'm obliged to believe that
under certain conditions of soil and at.
mosphere plants can originate themselves
without seed. The other day locked
up piece of cheese where fly couldn't
find it, but the mites got into it somehow
from the inside and worked out, 30 it
seems 10 me if animals can develop with.
out ancestors vegetable life can do the
same thing.
But I don't believe that hair from a
black mares tail will turn into snake if
you put it in the branch. l don't be-
lieve that man ever came from amonkey,
for they are both Just like what they were
as far back as history runs, and haven't
made very much improvement if any. l
am not that sort of an eyoluter. don't
believe that the jumpin' kangaroo swum
all the way from Noah's ark to the island
of Australia, or that every sort of a man
descended from Shem, Ham and Japeth,
but do belive that nature furnishes her
own resources, and all these weeds that
follow the crops come up without seed
just as natural as original sin follows the
human family. The first year after the
war new kind of clover came up all over
the land and covered it like new carpet
and nobody ever found out where it come
or how it got here. Some said the Yam.
kee cavalry brought it in their oats, and
some said it was blown here in storm
and an old Irishman told me it came
from Erin by instinct, for it never grew
anywhere but in conquered countries.
One thing is certain, it come all of a sud.
den, and come everywhere at once, and
its conundrum the agricultural bureau
has let alone. It's great blessing to
this impoverished land, and its origin is
no accident. I think the Legislature
ought to give the bureau another term to
investigate these mysteries and determine
whether things spontane or do not spon-
taue-and where the army worm comes
from, and when they are coming and
how to stop 'em when they do come, for
they eat up all my nabor's fodder and
about this time yesterday evening wish
ed they had eat up mine.-BM Arp in
atlanta Constitution.