Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-09
Tho Hog Discussed, Etc.

DEAR Courier: The primaries arc
over with the "broathing spoil" fod-
der has boon housed, tho tleecy locks
Of king cotton make nimble fingers
lively and in tho meantime your cor
respondents life has been somewhat
ovontful, of which we propose to
now mcntion, all sorts of paragraphs
cullcd here and there.
Atlanta vas visited during tho
"float." There VIC had a phantasma-
goria of all of tho Cato City's lead
ing business on wheels. As usual
there was quite a throng in attend.
ance. TO say the least of Atlanta,
she is progressive, jos.!ing and bust
ling. While Georgia is the Empire
State of the South, Atlanta may be-
considered the outcroppings of Tho
same, taking the lead in all progress
sivoncss, secular as well as religious.
Rev. Dc Wit Talmagc, of Brook
Ign, lcctured at Salt Springs, but
left next day for Now York. He
complimcntcd the Salvation Army,
saying they were doing a good work.
This creed, like Cowan's, has not boon
popular with certain classes, but by
their persistent zeal seemed to be
gaining favor.
The area Of the incorporate limits
of Atlanta is the largest scope of
inhabited country, without the sty-
'gian pig stye, that it has been our
pleasure to visit. Why municipal
regulation should rule the dctcsti-
bic "hog pen" because Of it's "%unclcan-
ness" and the sparccly settled coun-
try take no notice of its existence,
can only be accounted for because of
wanton neglect Or the want of sani-
tary information. In passing through
the country, ever and anon the alfac-
tories l. shocked with the "immoral"
stencil, generated during tho heated
term by feeding all name of refuse
matter from the kitchen and other
dccaying substances to swine to feed
the "earthly tcnamcnt" with! How
can humanity reconcile such on in
consistency after reading the 18th
chapter of Leviticus and all of its
references? DIR. Adam Clark was
once asked to pronounce a blessing
at a table whore there was a baked
pig. After surveying the situation
he said, "Lord, if thou canst bless
under the Gospel what thou didst
curse under the law, sanctify these
%vions," etc.
In visiting p. J. Bcrkmans, of
Augusta, Ga, ono of the finest
pomologists and the President of the
Pathological Society of the South,
who has toasted the angel of vision
with, not only Southern, but tropical
fruits rs facinating as "applcs of
gold in pictures Of ~silver;;" who has
refined the scrsc of smell with the
most choice varieties of hot-housc
and open-pit selections of flowers;
whose rcdolcnt zcphyrs have brcathcd
along the face of things a "fcast of
reason and flow of SOUL" the sweet
perfumes of "balmy springs" whose
wreath garland bouquets not only
of the rarcst selections that Pomona,
the GODDESS of the floral kingdom ever
gave to earth, but so artistically
arranged that thousands of the
"fairest of the fair" have been capti-
waited and allotted Cupid in lodging
a whole CULVER of arrows that stormed
the citidcl of even til. heart Of the
most etiquetical coquct, and all
that, and after kindly showing me
through all of these flowers and
fruits that science and skill could
devise, this man, with n half century
devoted to this refining loneliness,
said, in the run Of "convcrsc sweet
that visitors often say, "Bcrkmans,
why do you not have a pig to eat up
all of this refuse matter accruing
from his 300 acres of peaches, his
81 200 worth of watermelon seed, milk
from his dairy Of fine Jerseys" etc,
would reply, G" don't want them,
they stink 1t can more easily be
imagined than described how it is
such men rs DR.. Adam Clark and
Berkmans can train their moral
senses with religious thought and the
beauty of earth, backed by the
volume of inspiration, in which no
permission is given as a food pro-
duct, but is simply a scavingcr and
is positively prohibited, because of
his ~unclcnnncss, and those that feed
on swinc's flesh might cry out, I'M
clean, unclcan, and in conclusion We
will only add, | defy the fear of
reputation that there is not men
ftnpol fhn y.nrl U,N,;,3 I.t 1lo.o