St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-06-19
ARP ON APPETITEs.
The Barlow Philosopher Writes o.
Fruit and Meat Eaters.
He Talks Gardening, Too-Tells oi
the Life OF the People Be-
fore Flesh Was Used
for Food.

And now the potato bugs have come
/ Again-corne early-ahead of time, and
l have to wage war on them. There is
always something to prey on everything
THAT is good. Eternal vigilance is the
| price of liberty, and just SO it is the
price of good garden. The weeds out
grow everything you plant, and moth
ing hurts them. Briers and thistles
and crabgTass and dogfennel and chick
weed 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,
everyone that thirstethl I bought a
dimes worth of paris green and dis
solved half a tablespoonful in half 4
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 potatoes. I 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 it up high somewhere till wanted
| again.
We had fruit growers convention
here last week and learned good deal
about exterminating these pestiferous
! things, both visible and Invisible. 1t
| is right good education to hear such
experienced men talk as Mr.. Miller,
| Col. Nesbitt and Mr.. Starnes. I wish
| the convention would meet here once
| month. My respect for horticulture
and horticulturists is very great. The
Rerckmans and Mr.. Rumph and DR..
| Jones have done world of good in ad-
vancing the growth of fruit trees and
diffusing knowledge among the people.
Mr.. Miller, too, though more recently
domiciled among us, is already house
hold word in this part of Georgia.
The growing of fruit is no doubt
the oldest occupation known to man.
It most happily combines physical la
bor with scientific study and the re
ward is useful, gratifying and refining.
There is no doubt but fruit and vege-
tables were the only food of mankind
for 1900 years after man was created.
I alluded to this in little talk de-
livered 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
Abel's sacrifice was from his focks
and was more acceptable than Gains
offering of the fruits of the ground.
It does not follow, however, that the
fiocks were for food. Only a few of
the animals were fit for anything. and
these few, such as domestic cattle, were
required for beasts of burden and
tiIling 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 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 ere
/ ated the Lord said TO AdaIn:
ST 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 no
where is it intimated that they were for
meat.
Now let US pass down the generations
until after the flood. "And God said to
| Noah. The fearof 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
I given you all things. But flesh, with
the life thereof, which is the blood there.
of, shall ye 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 no Jew will make a
hog of himself by eating hog. Flesh
eating has never been considered re-
fining or spiritualizing in its influences
upon our nature, and yet there is nc
doubt that the laboring man needs ami,
! NAL food. Solomon says: @Go not
among the riotous eaters of flesh" The
children Of Israel chided Moses for
bringing them away from the flesh pots
of Egypt, and so the Lord sent then,
quails to eat for supper and mama fol
breakfast. Even some of cur teeth are
called CANNES, from scanis," dog, be
/ cause we tear flesh with them like a
dog. AS man grows old he cares less
for flesh, but his appetite for fruit never
| leaves him. But if he didn't lose his lik-
i ing for flesh he couldn't eat much of ii
nohow, for about that time he loses his
( teeth and Providence admonishes him
that it is time to prepare for that spirit
ual food that coueth from above. There
is food of the gods called ambrosia,
| h1lt it is made of fruit and not of flesh
1 Cannibals love fesh-raw flesh, bloody
| flesh, and even eat human flesh, and
they are next to dogs in the scale oi
cTea tion. No, there is no refinement in
flesh eating and yet am free TO confess
that I am not yet old enough or saint
enough to refuse to dine on turkey or
fried chicken or quail on toast. Gold.
smiths hermit was dreadfully heart
broker when he said:
No foeks that roam the valley free
To slaughter condemn;
4 Taught by that Power that pities me,
/ learn to pity them .
That was all right until he found his
/ ANGELINA and then reckon he killed q