The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-06-19
ARP ON APPETITES.
The Barlow Philosopher Writes OF
Fruit and Meat Eaters.
lie Talks Gardening, Too--Teiis of
the Life of the People Be-
fore Flesh Was Used
for Food.

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| 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 crabgrass 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 l bought a
dimes worth of paris green and dis
solved half tablespoonful in half a
bucket of water and sprinkled the
beetles carefully last evening, and this
morninT 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. l 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 a fruit growers convention
here last week and learned good deal
about DISCRIMINATING 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. l wish
the convention would meet here once
a month. Ny respect for horticulture
and horticulturists is very great. The
Bereimnns and Mr.. Rumph and DR..
Jones have done a world of good in adj
vancng 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
Dor 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 / 800 years after man was created
l alluded to this in q little talk l de-
livered to the convention, and some OF
my Bibe-reading friends have since
questioned me about it and asked for
my authority. They reminded me that
Abel's sacrifice was from his flocks
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 a few of
the animals were fit for anything, and
these few, such as domestic cattle, were
required for beasts of burden and
filling 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 Adam:
81 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 fol
meat
Now let us pass down the generations
until after the flood. "And God said tc
Noah, The fear 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 meal
for you. Even as the green herb have
l given you all things. But flesh, will
the life thereof, which is the blood there
Of, shall We not eat"
When Moses came he limited the
| kind of animals that might be used fol-
food. Swine were specially prohibited
and to this day no Jew will make {
hog of himself by eating hog. Flesl
eating has never been considered re
fning or spiritualizing in its influences
upon our nature. and yet there is M
doubt that the laboring man needs ami
NAL food. solomon says: go no
among the rotous eaters of flesh" TIT
children of Israel chided Moses fol
bringing them away from the flesh pot
of Egypt, and so the Lord sent then
quails to eat for supper and mama fo
breakfast. Even some of our teeth arr
called CANNES, from "canis," dog, be
cause we tear flesh with them like
dog. AS a man grows old he cares les
for flesh, but his appetite for fruit neve
leaves him. But if he didn't lose his Xix
ing for flesh he couldn't eat much of /
nohow, for about that time he loses hi
teeth and Providence admonishes hin
that it is time TO prepare for that spirit
ual food that cometh from above. Their,
is n food of the gods called ambrosia
Int it is made of fruit and not of flesh
Cannibals love fesh-raw flesh, blood,
flesh, and even eat human flesh, ant
they are next to dogs in the scale o
creation. No, there is no refinement il
flesh eating and yet l am free to confess
that l am not yet old enough or sain'
enough to refuse to dine on turkey Of
fried chicken or quail on toast. Gold
smiths hermit was dreadfully heart
broken when he said:
mo focls that roam the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
| Taught by that Power that pities me,
| learn to pity them"