The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-02
Soothing Effects Of a Nc buchad-
neIrar ct on Cas-.

Fourteen men aul I,t women ma. d
tie liygcule Hoe. e..yglat - answer
these couundruns
shall q Food Reform - etg b FORM
cd America What shall called .
How shall Il De- ,ou>t tut,,i.
Thirteen o. til, men and u - thc NO.
men fixed Their rye, . lieut. : imtraLon
upon the fourteenth man. vii. st, q rs
fund aud -en.4 T,r,ou au4 sued h,
2p6 pound. against an Of-l o .th
easy grace. Or IIo,ts5oa 4 o'clock
ran his hand through L- .r aud
announced ltat .ht Discus, ga the co..
nundrums would bc-u. Ties drove
a fountain Ita over a ~hee s. paper
rapidly and handed tbs 10 II. .5A he>h
fed reporters:
j. The large man BY the pan , the
Rev. Or. TAYLOR OF Troy, who never Las-
ted flesh in HI, life, and whose father
and grandfather before him were n.lar
~ distinguished in taste.
= The pleasant lady with the glasses
between the totling door, : Mr. Helen
Campbell, assistant editor 81 the Cout,-
aeHt, and a TODD reformcr.
Another rotund gentleman. who spoke
ike Al Englishman. but who was reall,
+. II. DorcmGs. an American. WHO has
for four wears been the mainstay OF the
Food Reform society OF Great Britain.
mex distributed a grea, many very IN
teresting food tracts to the reporter.
and made the opening address
1t is time, lie said, with j winning
smile, 1t 5 time dat MAJ learned
that thcIe : something FOR him 10 eat
besides the eternal round III roast beet.
mutton chops. aud beef. steak, and
something better than going Z the doe
tor for medicines To Countcract the elect
Of these thing. When Americans
awake To tbs important truth they VIII
discover that they an raise Their phyS.-
cal standard SO t.at the average ot SEX
men to well men viii bc something less
than ten - ne, a il : now"
Mr.. Doremus said he would offer hin-
sell to American physicians for a food
experiment. and guarantee TO eat yc--
etables. quantity Tor quantity. against
any beet eater in tile land. and show
better physical results for it. or give up
his mission and % back to dyspepsia
and torpid liver. He would prove by
his experiment, if the doctors accepted
the challenge, that men could live bet
lCl dud ALcdlCl 44N hdl dId lildt Al tue
same rule were applied in feeding tie
poor the money devoted to them would
90 four times a. far a now.
Mr.. Doremus weighs lGj pounds with
out his watch chain. When he had sat
down, the Rev. DR.. Taylor then lifted
his 20G pounds OF health to full view. and
remarked that if the American people
were taught to know that they could
live without flesh altogether il would
produce a humane vegetarian sentiment
that would convert the country to a veg
citation diet in the next h~alfcentury.
Editor Club of the Quaker Pace
maker got up in his Oxford ties and red
stockings. and said that he attended as a
delegate from the Christ Church of Bib'e
Christians on Third street, Philadelphia.
This church had been 65 years in exis-
tence. Its creed teaches that flesh food
is against the teachings of the Bible,
Brother Club said that he knew that a
vegetable diet improved the character and
instincts of c%arnivorous animals, and in
crease | their docility. Indian corn was
successfully fed to the dogs of the chase
to increase their powers of scent. Mr..
Doremus had told him that vegetable
diet tanned ferocious dogs and fierce cats,
and took all the fight out OF men who be-
fore that vent raging round the universe
b~eSeechlng creation to tread on the tails
of their coats.