Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11

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into action for the making of that frs
fish. Lanceolate and translucent mir
acle. There is enough wonder in the
plate of q sturgeon or In tho cartilage
of shark to confound the scientists
1t does not take the universe to prove ;
God. A fish does it No wonder tina
Linn@us and Cuvier and Agassiz ant
the greatest minds of all the centuries
sat enraptured before its anatomy. Oh
its beauty and the adaptnedness of it.
structure to the element In which II
must live; the picture gallery on the
sides of the mountain trout unveiled n:
they spring up to snatch the flies; the
grayling, called the flower of fishes
the salmon, ascending the Oregon and
the Severn, easily leaping the falls that
would stop them, the bold perch, the
gudgeon, silver and black spotted; the
herring, moving in squadrons five miles
long; the carp, for cunning, called the
fox of fishes; the wondrous surgeons,
formerly reserved for the tables OF
royal families, and the isinglass made
out of their membrane; the tench, called
the physician of fishes because when
applied to human ailments, it is said
to be curative; the lampreys, so tempt
ing to the cpicurean that too
many of them slew Henry H.;
aye. the whole world of fishes
Enough of them floating up and down
the rivers to feed the hemisphere If
every ear of corn and every head of
wheat and every herd of quadruped,
and if every article of food in all the
earth were destroyed.
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
800 and 400 and 500 and 900 years was
because they were kept on parchcd 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 mp 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 surcharged with phos-
phorus Phosphorus, that which shines
in the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such
stalwart men that they could endure
and achieve everything?
Next to divine inspiration, it was be-
cause they were nearly all fishermen
and lived on fish and few plain condi-
ments. Paul, though not brought MP
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 behcading, and the phos-
ohorus you see in the lives of all tic |
apostles, who moved right on un.
Haunted to certain martvrdom, whether
20 be decapitated or flung OFF preci-
oices or hung in cruci6Xion. Indeed, |
he only articles of food that Christ by |
miracle multiplied were bread and fish.
which the boy who acted as sutler to the
1000 people of the wilderness handed
barley loayes and two fishes.
Know, also, in order to understand
he ichthyology Of the Bible that in
he deeper waters. us those of the Med
terranean, there were monsters that
ire now extinct. The fools who be-
.ome infidels because they cannot I'M
Ierstand the engulfment of the recreant
Jonah in n sea monster, might have
aved their souls by studying little
natural history. oh" says someone,
that story of Jonah was only fable"
;ay others: 1T was iptcrpolated by
ONE writer of later times" Others
ay: ut was n reproduction of the
tory Of Hercules devourcd and then
estored from the monster" But my
eply is that history tells us that there
we're monsters large enough to whelm
hips The extinct ichtyosaurus of
'ther ages was 30 feet long, and rs late
S the sixth century OF the Christian
ra, up and down the Mediterranean
here floated monsters compared with
which the modern whale was sar-
line or herring The shark has
gain and again been found to
ave swallowed n man entire.
Furthermore, in order that you may
the ichthyology of the Bible,
'ou must know that there were five
ways of fishing One was by "A fence of
ecds and canes, within which the fish
we're caught. But Herodic government
orbade that on Lake Galilee, lest pleas
ire boats be wrecked by the stakes
riven. Another mode was by spear
nO. the xaters of Galilee SO clear good