The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-16
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The Philosopher
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| And now the potato bugs have come
again-come eariy-ahead of time, and
have to wage war on them. There is al
ways something to prey on everything
that is good. Eternal vigilance is the
price OF liberty and just so it 10 the price
of good garden. The weeds owtgrow
everything you plant and nothing hurts
them. Briers and thstles and crabgrass
and dogfennel and chickweed grow right
along just like little sins and bad habits.
1t takes constant work and constant
watching to keep down weeds and origin
al sin. Hoe, every one that thirsteth!
bought dimes worth OF paris green and
dissolved half a tablespoonful in half a
bucket OF water and sprinkled the beetles
carefully last evening and 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 pota-
toes. i tried it last year. Be sure and
mark the paper that contains the pow
der poison" and put it where the grand
children can't get it. Put the mixture
on with an old whisk broom and what
is left in the bucket hang it up high
somewhere till wanted again.
We had fruit growers convention
here last week and learned good deal
about DISCRIMINATING these pesiferous
things, both visible and invisible. 1t is a
right good education to hear such exper-
fenced men talk as Mr.. Miller, Colonel
Nesbitt and Mr.. Starnes. / wish the con-
ventiOn would meet here once a month
My respect for horticulture and horticul-
turists 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 a.
mong the people. Mr. Miller, too
though more recently domiciled among
us, is already household word in this
part of Georgia.
The growing of fruit is no doubt the
oldest occupation known to man. 1t most
happily combines physical labor with
scientific study and the reward 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. alluded to this in a
little talk / delivered to the convention.
and some of my Bible-reading friends
have since questioned me about it and
asked for my authority. They reminded
me that Abels sacrifice was from his
fiocks and was more acceptable than
Gains offering Of the fruits of the ground
1t does not follow, however, that the
nocks were for food. Only a few Of the
animals were fit for anything and these
| few, such as domestic cattle, were re,
quired for beasts of burden and tilling the
soil and furnishing clothing.
And the Lord made coats Of skins and
clothed them
Before the fall, and while Adam and
Eve lived in the garden Of Eden the fruit
| OF the trees and the herbs therein were
their only food. After they were driven
| from the garden the Lord said:
Thou shalt eat the herb of the field
In the sweat OF thy face shalt thou ca,
| bread" And God sent him forth from
the garden ITO till the ground, whence
he was TAKEN
There is nothing about eating flesh uI
| to that time. Before Eve was created
the Lord said to Adam:
Il have given you every herb and the
fruit OF every tree and to you it shall be
| for meat"
He gave Adam dominion over the ami
| mails and Adam named them, but nowhere
is it intimated that they were for meat.
| Now let us pass down the eneration:
until after the flood, "And God 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 Hveth 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 ye not eat"
When Moses came he limited tho kind
OF animals that might be used for food
Swine were specially prohibited and ia
this day no Jew will make a hog Of him
self 10y eating hog. Flesh eating has
never been considered refining or shirt
ualizing in it's influences upon our nature
and yet there is no doubt that the labor
ing man needs animal food. Solomon
says Go not among the rotous eaters
OF hesh. The children of Israel chided
Moses for bringing them away from the
fiesh-pots Of Egypt,so the Lord sent ther,
qualls to eat for supper and mama for
breakfast. Even some Of our teeth are
called CANNES, from ''canis," a dog. be-
cause we tear flesh with them like y dog
AS man grows old he cares less for
flesh, but mis- appetite for fruit never
leaves him. But if he didn't lose his lik
ing for flesh he couldn't eat much OF it
nohow, for about that time he loses his
teeth and Providence admonishes him
that 1t is time to prepare for that spirit
ual food that cometh from above. There
IS food Of the gods called ambrosia. but
1t Is made Of fruit and mot flesh. Can
nibals love flesh-raw flesh, bloody flesh.
and even eat human flesh, and they are
next to dogs in the scale Of creation
no, mere is no refinement in flesh eating.
ana yet am free to confess that am not