The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-04

vegetarian, but an almost exclusive
meat diet is depraving. Savagcs con-
tine themselves almost exclusively to
animal food, and that IS one reason that
they are savagcs. Give your children
more apples and less mutton. The
world will Lave to give dominance to
the fruit diet of Paradise before it gets
back to the morals of Paradise. Nav
GODS blessing come down on the or
chards and vineyards Of America, and
keep back the frosts and tic curcullo.
But we must not forget that 1t is We'd
nesday evening in Eden, and upon that
perfect frutt OF those perfect trees let
the curtain drop. "And the evening
and the morning were the third day."
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS.
Now it is Thursday morning of the
world's first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be passed
IN scattering fOgs and mists and vapors.
The atmosphere must be swept clean.
Other worlds are to hove in sight. THIS
little ship Of the earth has seemed to
have ali the ocean of immensely to it,
self. But Dlightier craft are to be hailed
today on the high seas Of space. First.
the moons white sail appears and does
very we'll until the sun bursts upon the
scene. The light that on the previous
three mornings was struck from an cs-
pecal word now gathers in the sun,
moon and stars. One for the day, the
others for the night. 1t seemed as if
thcv had all within twenty-four hours
been created. All, this is a great time
in the worlds first week. The moon,
the nearest ncighbor t., our earth ap-
pears, her photograph to be taken in
the Nineteenth century, when the tclc-
| scope shall bring her within one hundred
and twenty miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, altcrward
to be found eight hundred and eighty
eight thousand miles in diameter, and,
put in astronomical scales, to be found
to weigh nearly :our hundred thousand
times heavier than our earth; q mighty
furnace, its heat kept up by mctcors
pouring into it as fuel, world levour-
ing other worlds with its jaws Of Ilamc.
And the stars come out, those street
lamps of heaven, those keys OF pearl,
upon which Gods fingers play the mus
ic of the spheres. How bright they look
in this oriental evening! Consultations!
GalaXies! What twenty-four hours OF
this first week-solar, lunar, stellar ap-
pearances! All this Thursday and the
adjoining nights employed iD pulling
aside the curtain of vapor from these
flushed or pale faced worlds. Enough!
And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day."
THE FISHES AND THE BIRDS.
Now it Is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds history. Water,
but not fin sM INNING it; air, but not a
wing flying it. 1t is silent world
Can 1t be that twas made only for veg.
etables? But hark! There is a swir
and a splashing in all the four rivers O.
Pison, Gihon, Hiddekcl and Euphrates
They are all aswim with life. some dart
ing like arrows through split crystal
and others quiet in dark pools like shad.
ows. Everything, from spotted trout
to behemoth, all colored, all shaped, the
ancestors IF funny tribes that shall by
their wonders of construction c0nlound
the Agassizcs, the Cuviers and the Lin
nruses and the ichthyologists of the
more than six thousand years following
this Friday of the first week.
And while l stand on the banks OF
these Paradisacal rivers, watching these
iinny tribes, l hear a whirr in the air
and look up and behold wings-wn"s
OF larks, robbins, doves, eagles, hamin
goes, albatrosses, brown threshcrs.
Creatures Of all color--blue, as if dipped
in the skies; fiery, as if they had flown
out OF the sunsets; golden. as if they had
| taken their morning bath in buttcrcups.
And while 1 am studying the colors they
begin to carol and chrp and coo and
twitter and run up and down the scales
ola music that they must have heard at
heavens gate. Yes, [ find them in
Paradise on this the first Friday after
noon OF the worlds existence. And |
sit down on the bank of the Euphratcs,
and the murmur of the river, together
with the chant Of birds in the sky, puts
me into state Of sOmnOlencc. And
the evening and the morning were the
fifth day."
BEASTS AND MEN.
Now it is S iturday morning Of the
worlds first week and with this day the
week closes. But oh, what a climactcr-
ic day! The air has its population and
the water its population. Yet the land
come. by the voice of God created!
Horses grander than those which in at,
ter time Job will describe as having neck
CioILetl Will tnunuCr. CaIJlC enough 10
cover a thousand hills. Sheep shcp-
herded by him who made for them the
green pastures. Cattle superior to the
Alderneys and Ayrshires and Devon
a'lires Of after times. Lcopar,'s so beau
tltul we are glad they cannot change
their spots. Lions without their fierce,
ness and all the quadruped worlds gen,
tie. so sleek, so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal
creation, whether they walk the earth
or swim the waters or fly the air. DO
you not notice that God gave them pre-
cedence of the human race? They were
created Friday and Saturday morning,
as man was created Saturday afternoon
They have Il right to be here. lie who
gals horse, or exposes a cow to the
storm, or beats a dog, or mauls cat, or
CANDLES at the pigeon shooting, or tor
lures an insect, will have to answer for
it in the Judgment day. You may con-
sole yourself that these creatures are
not immortal and they cannot appear