The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-17


formerly reserved for the tables d
royal families, and the isinglass made
! out of their membrane; the tench- called
the physician of fishes because wher
applied to human ailments, it is sale
to be curative: the lamWeys, so tempt
ing to the epicurean that too
many of them slew Henry IL
aye, the whole world of fishes.
Enough OF them floating up and down
the rivers to feed the hemisphere i
every ear of corn and every head OF
wheat and every herd of quadruped
and if every article of food in all the
earth We're destroyed Universal
drought leaving not so much as a spear
of grass on the round planet, would
for the human race a staple commodity
of food, which, if brought to shore,
would be enough not only to feed but
fatten the entire human race In times
to come the world may be so populated
that the harvests and vineyards and
land animals may be insufficient to feed
the human family, and the nations may
be obliged to come TO the rivers
and ocean beaches to seek the living
harvests that swim the deep, and that
would mean more health and vigor and
brilliancy and brain than the human
race now own.
The Lord, By placing the fish in the
first course of the menu in Paradise.
making it precede bird and beast. in
dicated to the world the Importance of
the fish as an article OF human food
The reason that men and women lived
500 and 400 and SEQ and 900 years was
because they were kept on parched corn
and fish. We mix up fantastic food
that kills the most of US before thirty
years of age. Custards and whipped
sillabubs and Roman punches and
chicken salads at midnight are gaunt-
let that few have strength to run 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 paradisaic diet if it is to
get paradisaic morals and paradisaiC
health. The human race to-day needs
more phosphorus, and the fish is
charged and sureharged with phos-
phorus. Phosphorus, that which shines
in the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such
stalwart men that they could endure
anything and achieve everything?
Next to divine inspiration, it was be
cause they were nearly all fishermen
and lived on fish and few plain eondi-
ments. 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 dar-
ing plea before Felix. and the phos-
phorus in his boldest of all utterances
before the wiseacres on Mars Hill, and
the phosphorus as he went without
fright to his beheading, and the phOs-
phorus you see in the lives of all the
apostles. who moved right on IN
daunted to certain martvrdOm, whether
to be decapitated or flung off preci-
pices or hung in erucifxion. Indeed,
the only articles of food that Christ by
miracle multiplied were bread and fish,
which the boy who acted as sutier to the
1000 people of the wilderness handed
over-five barley loaves and two fishes
Know, also. in order to understand
the ichthyolOgy of the Bible that in
the deeper waters. as those of the Med
iterranean. there were monsters that
are now extinct The fools who be-
come infideIs because they cannot I'M
derstand the engulfmentof the recreant
Jonah in 4 sea monster, might have
saved their souls by studying n little
natural history. oh" says someone,
that story of Jonah was only fable. "
Say others: 1T was interpOlated by
some writer of later times" Others
say: 1T was a reproduction of the
story of Hercules devoured and then
restored from the monster" But my
reply is that history tells US that there
were monsters large enough to whelm
ships. The extinct ichtyosaurus of
other ages was so feet long, and as late
as the sixth century of the Christian
era, up and down the Mediterranean
there foated monsters compared with
which the modern whale was a sar-
dine or herring. The shark has
again and again been found to
have swallowed a man entire
Notice also how the Old Testament
writers drew similitude from the fish
cries. jeremiah uses such imagery to
prophesy destruction: Behold, l will
send for many fishers, saith the Lord,
and they shall fish them" Ezekiel uses
fish imagery to prophesy prosperity:
1T shall come to pass that the fishers
shall stand upon it from En-gedi even
TO En-eglaim; they shall be a place to
spread forth nets; their fish shall be
according to their kinds, as the fish of
the great sea, exceeding many" The
explanation of which is that Ea-gedi
and Ea-egIain stood on the banks OF
the Dead sea. in the waters Of which no
fish could live, but the prophet says the
time will come when these waters will
be regenerated and they will be great
places FOR fish Amos reprOves idOlatries
by saying: The day shall come upon
you when he viii take you away with
hooks and your posterity with Ash
hooks Solomon, in Eeclesiastes, de
eIares that those captured Of tempta-
ton are as fishes taken in an evil net
Indeed, Solomon knew all about the
fnny tribe and wrote a treatise on
ichthyology, which has been lost
Furthermore, in order that you may
understand the ichthyology of the Bible,
you must know that there were FIVE
ways Of fishing One was by a fence of
reeds and canes. within which the fish
were caught But HerOdic government
forbade that on Lake GaliIee, lest pleas
ure boats be wrecked by the stakes
driven. Another mode was BY spear
ing; the waters Of GaIilee 50 clear, good
aim could be taken for the transfxing.
Another was by HOOK and line An
other mode was by a casting net or that