The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-18
BILL ARR ON EATING,
His Experience in Gardening and
Growing Fruits-In Early Times
Flesh Was Not Used for Food.

His Experience in Gardening and
Growing Fruits-In Early Times
Flesh Was Not Used for Food.
And now the potato bugs have come
again-cOme early-ahead of time, and
| have to wage war on them. There
is always something to prey on every
thing hat is good. Eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty and just SO it is
tho price OF d good garden. The
weeds outgrow everything you plant
and nothing hurts them. Briers and
thistles and crabgrass and d%ogfennel
and chickweed grow right along just
like little sins and bad habits. 1t
takes constant work and constant
watching to keep down weeds and
original sin. Hoe, every one that
thirsteth bought a dimes worth of
paris green and dissolved half a table
spoonful in half a bucket Of water and
%sprinkled the beetles carefully last
e'ening ana this morning they are
dead. But this does not end it, for
they have just begun to come. 1t is
not much trouble and will save the
potatoes. | tried it last year. Be
sure and mark the paper that contains
the powder poison " and put it where
the grandchildren can't get it. Put
the mixture on With an old whisk
broom and what Is left in the bucket
hang 1t up high somewhere till wanted
again.
We had a fruit growers convention
here last week and learned q good
deal about exterminatiug these pesti-
ferrous things, both visible and invisi-
BILE. 1t is a right good education to
hear such experienced men talk as
MIR. Miller, Colonel Nesbitt and Mr..
Starnes. | wish the convention would
meet here orce a month. My respect
for horticulture and horticulturists is
very great. The Berckmans and Mr..
Rumph and DR.. Jones have done a
world Of good in advancing the growth
of fruit trees and diffusing knowledge
among the people.
The growing OF fruit is no dou bt the
oldest occupation known to man. 1t
most happily combines physical labor
with scientific study and the rev ard is
useful, gratifying and refining. There
Is no doubt but fruit and vegetables
were the only food Of mankind for
1900 years after man was created. l
alluded to this In a little talk | deliv-
cred tn the conventions, and some of
my 'Blble-reading friends have since
questioned me about it and asked for
my authority. They reminded me
that Abel's sacrifice was from his
docks and was more acceptable than
Gains Offering Of the fruits Of the
ground. 1t does not follow, however,
that the focks were for food. Only q
few OF the animals were fit for any
thing and these few, such as domestic
cattle, were required for beasts Of
burden and tilling the soil and furnish
ing clothing.
And the Lord made coats Of skins
aud clothed them"
Before the fall, and while Adam
and Eve lived in the garden of Eden
the fruit OF the trees and thc herbs
therein were their only food. After
they were driven from the garden the
Lord said
Thou shalt eat the herb OF the field.
nj the sweat OF thy face shalt thou eat
bread" And God sent him forth from
the garden to till the ground, whence
he was taken"
There is nothing about eating flesh
up to that time. Before Eve was
created the Lord said to Adam
~ have given you overy herb and
the fruit of every tree and to you it
shall be for meat"
He gave Adam dominion over the
animals and Adam named them, but
nowhere is it intimated hat they we're
for meat.
Now let us pass down the genera
tions until after the food. "And
Col said TO Noah, The fear OF YOU
shall be upon every beast OF the earth
and every fowl Of the air and the fishes
OF the sea and every moving thing
that liveth shall be meat for you.
Even as the green herb have | given
you all things. But flesh with the life
thereof, which Is the blood thereof,
shall We not eat"
When Moses came he limited the
kind OF animals that might be used for
food. Swine were specially prohibited
and to this day M Jew will make a
hog OF himself by eating hog. Flesh
eating has never been consid red re-
fning or spiritualizing 10 its influences
upon u nature, and yet there is no
doubt that the laboring man needs
animal food. Solomon says, $50 not
among the riotous eaters OF hesh.' The
children OF Israel chided Moses for
bringing them away from the Iesh
pots OF Egypt, and 30 the LorL sant
them quails to eat for supper all man.
ma for breakfast. Even some Of our
teeth are called %canines, from "caniD,"
q dog, because we ear flesh with them
like q dog. As q man grows old he
cares less for flesh, but his appetite for
lrult never leaves him. But III he
dident lose his liking for fl ssh he
couldn't eat much OF 1t nohow, for
about that time he loses his teeth and
providence admonishes him that it is
time to prepare for that spiritual food
that cOmeth from above. There Ia a
food OF the gods called ambrosia. but
1t is made Of fruit and not OF flesh.
Cannibals love fl ,sh-raw flesh, bloody
flesh, and even eat human flesh, and
they are next to dogs In the scale OF
creation. No, there Is no refinement
In flesh eating and yet I am free to
confess that | am o yet old enough or
saint enough to refuse to dine on tur-
key or fried chicken or quail on toast.
Goldsmith's hermit was dreadfully
heartbroken when he said
"No nocks that roam Tbs valley free
10 slaugh err / condemn;
Taught by that power that pities me,
learn to pity them"
That WAC all right until he found his
Angelina and then ] reckon he killed q
chicken for breakfast. But It Ia a fact
that most kind-hearted people will
confess, that IL they had to kill their
own sheep and bulloc',s and chickenr
for food they would do without lssb
for a long time. It takes q hard heart
and q strong man to butcher q lamb,