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

ground from the summers sun, but I never
did know,vhefe IL como from under cer-
tain circumstances. Ita all an unexplor-
ed Nildernesg TO me. Last year there
wasn't rng weed in my corn and nigh
" little grass, and 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 o
month ago cut some Of the weeds down
and the grass come up just as rank and
thick and I'm moving II for hay and /
would like TO know where the grass como
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
go: there. In the spring I graded of Q
little rise In my front yard and dug down
two feet into the clay aud elete and left
II 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 oil over it, and it bothers me to
know where they come from. Cir; Psc;:
weeds and opedildock or some other dock
will just sporitane anywhere around @
horse lot or COW pen or an old house in
field, and don't understand that for the
birds wont eat the seed nor carry them
and they arc too heavy 10 blow around.
There's young hickory bushes all over
my woods and nary old one in quarter
OF mile. If you cut down an oak for
rest pines will come up thick all over IL,
and If you cut down pine forrest oaks
will come up, acorna or no acorns. A
few years ago the bed Of the creek on my
farm was changed and now there's @
young cane brake coming up in new
place, and canes don't blossom nor be1r
seed. How did they get there? May be
all these things spontane according to
the new tangled doctrine of evolution,
and If 80 then / reckon Pm an evoln-
tioner, for I'm obliged to believe that
under certain conditions Of coil aud at.
mosphere plants can originate themselves
without seed. The, other day / locked
up piece Of cheese where fly couldn't
fud 1t, but the mites got into it somehow
from the inside and worked out, 80 It
seems 10 mo If snimels can develop with
out ancestors vegetable life can do the
same thing. ~
But don't believe that q hair from
black mares tail will turn into snake if
you put It in The branch. don't be.
lieye that o 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. I
am not that sort of an evoluter. don't
believe that the jumpin kangaroo swum
all the way from Noah's ERIK to the island
Of Australia, or that every sort Of a men
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 tho
war new kind of clover came pp oil over
the land and covered It like q new carps.
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
aome said it was blown here in o storm
and an old Irishman told me it came
from Erinqby instinct, for it never grew
anywhere but in conquered countries.
One thing is certain, IT, come all of o sud-
den, and come everywhere at once, and
it's conundrum the agricultural bureau
has let alone. It's a great blessing to
this impoverished land, and it's origin is
no accident. I think the Legislature
ought to give tho bureau another term TO
investigate these mysteries and determine
whether things spontane or do not spon-
tane-and where the army worm comes
from, and when they are coming and
how to stop 'em when they do come, for
they eas up oil my nabor's fodder and
about this time yesterday evening i wish
ed they had eat up mine.-BM Arp IL.
Atlanta Constitution.