The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-14
Oh, Aesala ia'aa Yye'ps
Arp on AppetiteS.
THE BtRTOW PHII.OSOPuER WRITES
OF FRUIT AND MEAT EATERS.
He Talks Gardening, Too--Tclla or the Life
OF tho People Before Flesh Was
Used For Food.
TAtlanta Constitution.


time, and 1 have to wage war on
them. Thcro is always something
to prey on everything TINT is good.
Eternal vigilance ~ the price of lib
erty and just so it is the prico Of Il
good g"rdon. The weeds outgrow
everything you plant and nothing
hurt them. BriYrs and thistlcs and
crabgrass and dogfcnncl and chick
weed grow right along just like
littlo sins and bad habits. 1t takes
constant work. and constant working
to koep down. woods and original
sin, Hoe, every ono that thirstoth!
I bought IA dimes worth Of paris
green and dissolved half n table
spoonful in half q bucket of water
and sprinkled tho beetles carefully
last evening and this morning thoy
are dead. But this docs not cnd it,
for they have just begun to como.
1t is not much trouble and will save
the potatoes. | tried it last year
Be suro and m'rk tho paper that
contains tho powder "polson' and
put it whore the grandchildren can't
got it. Put tho mixture on with an
old whisk broom and what is left in
tho bucket hang it up high some
whore till wanted again.
We had fruit growers convcn,
ton here last week and learned II
good deal about discriminating these
pcstifcrous things, both visible and
invisible. 1t is Il right good cduca.
tion to hoar such experienced men
talk as Mr.. Miller 90 el NeSbitt.
and Mr.. Starncs. wish tho con-
vention would moet hero onco Il
mouth. My respect for horticulture
and horticulturiLs is very gr,at.
The Bcrckmaus and Mr. Rumph and
DR.. Jones have dono Il world Of good
in advancing tho growth of frui,
trees and diifusing knowlr1E" among
the people. Mr.. Miller, too, though
more recently domiciled among us,
is already Il household word in this
part of Georgia.
Tho growing OF fruit il no doubt
tho eldest occupation known to man.
1t most happily combines physical
labor with scientific study and the
reward is useful, gratifying and re.
tining. There is no doubt but fruit
and vegetables wcrc tho only food of
mankind 1000 years after man
was created. I alluded to this in n
little talk [ delivered to the convon,
ton, and some of my Bible. reading
friends have since questioned mo
about it and asked for my authority.
They reminded mo that Abol's sacri
fec was from his Aocks and was
moro acceptable than Gains offering
OF the fruits of tho ground. 1t does
not follow, however, that tho hocks
were for food. Only few of tho ami
mails wore fit for anything and those
few, such rs domestic cattle, wero re,
quircd for bcusts Of burden and till
ing the soil and furnishing cloth
ing.
"And tho Lord made coats ofskins
and clothed them"
"Before tho fall" and whilo Adam
and Eve lived in the garden of Eden
the fruit of tho trees and tho hcrbs
therein were their only food, Aftor
they were driven from tho garden
the Lord said:
''Thou shalt cat tho horb of tho
field. In tho sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread" And God sont him
forth from tho garden to tho till
ground, whence no was taken,
There is nothing about eating ilosl!
up to that TIM. Before Evo was
created the Lord said to Adam:
~ have given You ovory herb and
the fruit OF every tree and to you it
shall he for meat"
He gave Adam dominion over tho
animals and Adam named thom, but
nowhere is it initiated that they were
for meat
And now let us pass down the
generations until after tho food.
"And God said to Noah, Tho fear
of you shall be upon every beast of
the earth and every fowl of tho air
and the fishes Of tho sea and every
moving thing that liyeth shall be
meat for won Ev m n, tbo u ,