Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-24
There is enough wonder in

shark TO confound the scientist. IL ooe.
| not take the universe to prove uoI. 4
| fish does it. No wonder that Llnn4as az
Culver and Agassiz and the greatest mine
| OF all the centuries sat enraptured before IL
anatomy.
| Oh. its beauty AMI the aiapta1ness OF II
| structure to the eiemsat in wnlc1 IL mus
| live: the picture gallery on the sides or Tn
| mountain trout unveiled as they spring VI
| to snatch the flies; the grayllng. caiied tn
| flower OF fishes; the salmon, ascending tn
! Oregon ami the Severn, easily leaPins tn
falls that would stop them; toe bol1 percn
the gudgeon. silver AMI black spotted; tn
herring, moving a squadrons hVe mile
long; the carp, tor cunning caue1 tn9 Io1
OF fishes; the wondrous sturgeon formerly
reserved for the tables of roval families and
the isinglass made out of their membrane:
the tench, called the physician OF fishes be.
cause when applied to human ailments it Is
said TO be curative: the lampreys, so tempt
ing to the epicurean that too many OF them
slew Henry II-aye, the whole world OF
fishes!
Enough of them floating up and down the
rivers to feed the hemispheres IL every ear or
corn and every head Of wheat and every
herd Of quadruped and if every other article
Of food In all the earth were DESTROYED.
Universal drought, leaving not so much as
spear OF grass on the round planet, would
leave In the rivers and lakes and seas for
the human race g staple commodity OF food
not only to feed but fetten the entire human
race.
In times to come toe world may b3 so
populated that the harvests and vineyards
and land animals may be insu ff1cient to feed
the huL1an family, and the nations may bs
Obliged to come to the rivers and OCEAN
beaches to seek the living harvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean mora
healh and vigor AMI brilliancy and brain
than the human race now owu.
The Lord, by placing the fish in the first
course of tia m anu in par adise, making it
precede bird and beast indicated to the
world the Importance of the fish as az
article OF human food. The reason that
men and women lived three and four aud
five and nine hunjre1 years was because
they were kept on parched corn and fish.
We mix up fantastic fool that kill the
most of us before thirty years OF age. Gus
tards and whipped sillabubs and Roman
punches and chicken salads at midnighs are
gantlet that few have strength to run.
We put on many tombstone glowing
epithets saying that the person beneath died
or patriotic services or from exha ustion in
religious work when nothing killed the poor
fellow but lobster eaten at party four hours
after he ought to have been sound asleep in
bed. There are men to-day in our streets so
many walking hospitals who might have
been athletes if they had taken the hut Of
Genesis in my text and OF our Lords re-
mark and adhered to sim picity OF diet.
The reason that the country districts have
furnished most OF the man and women of
our time who are doing the mightiest work
in merchandise, in mechanics in law, in
medicine, in theology, in legislative and
congressional halls, and all the. pr esidents
from w Washington down-at least those who
have amounted to anything-is because they
were in those country districts of necessity
keOt on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounted to any
thing who was brought up on floating island
Or angel cake. The world must turn back
to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac
morals and parad Saiac health. The human
race to-day needs more phosphorus, and the
fish is charged and surcharged with phos-
that which shines in
the dark without burning
What made the twelve apostles such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve everything? Next to divine in
SplratiOn, it was because thaY were nearly
all fishermen and lived on Dish and q few
plain condiments. Paul, though not brought
up to swing the net and throw the line, must
OF necessity have adopted the diet Of the
population among whom he lived, and you
see the phosphorus in his daring plea before
Felix, and the phosphorus in his boldest OF
all utterances before the wisacres on Mars
Hill, and the phosphorus as he went without
frig. to his beheadlng, and the phosphorus
- see In the lives OF all the apostles who
Loved right on undaunted to certain martyr
W1eCQSr TO De OeCaDlCaC0Q or HUNG Or
precipices or hung in crucifxion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark without
burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent of questions of diet. Let
those who by circumstances are compelled
to simplicity Of diet thank God for their res
cue from the mptation OF killing delica-
ces. The men and women who are to de-
eide the drift of the Twentieth Century.
WHICH is only seven or eight steps Off ard
now five miles back from the rail station
and had for breakfast this morning similar
bill Of fare to that which Christ provided for
the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake
Galilee.
Inieed the only articles Of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied vera brea au1
fish which the boy who acted as suffer to the
1000 persons of the wilderness handel over
five barley loaves and two fishes. The
boy must have felt badly when called on to
give up the two fishes which he had brought
out after having caught them himself, sit
ting with his bare feet over the bank of the
lake and expecting to sell his supply at good
profit, but he felt batter when by the mira
Gle the fish were multiplied and he had more
returned to him than he had surrendered.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthy ology of the Bible that in thu deeper
waters, as those of the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. Tbs
fools who become infdels because they can
not understand the ingulfment of the recre-
ant Jonah in sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying little natural
history. 'Oh," says some one, that story
of Jonah was only fable" Say others:
'sIt was interpolated by some writer of later
times" Others say: 1T was q reproiuc-
ton OF the story OF Hercules devoure1 and
then restor ed from the monster" But my
reply is that history tells US that there were
monsters large enough to whelm ships.
The extinct icathyosaurus of other ages
was thirty feet long, and as late as the Sixth
Cant1Irv of the Christian era I'D and down