The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-19
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The Barlow Philosopher Writes of Fruit
and Meat Eaters.
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And now the potato bugs have come
again-come early-ahcad Of time,
and [ have to wage wal on them.
There is always something to prey on
everything that is good. Eternal Wig
lance is the price Of liberty and just
so it is the price of a good garden.
The weeds outgrow everything you
plant and nothing hurt them. Briars
and thistles and crabgrass and dog
fenncl 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
thirstcth l bought a dimes worth
of paris green and dissolved half a
tablespoonful in half a bucket Of wa
ter 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 until
wanted again.
We had a fruit growers convention
here last week and learned a good
deal about discriminating these pestif-
erous things, both visible and invisi-
Bile. It is a right good education to
hear such experienced men talk as
Mr.. Miller, Colonel Nesbitt and Mr..
Starnes. I wish the convention
would meet here once a month. My
respect for horticulture and horticul-
wrists is very great. Tee Berkmans
and Mr.. Rumph and DR.. Jones have
done a world of good in advancing the
growth Of fruit trees and difusing
knowledge among the people. Mr..
Miller, too, though more recently
domiciled among US, is already a
household word in this part of Geor-
gia.
The growing Of fruit is no doubt the
oldest occupation known to 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
we're the only food of mankind for
1900 years after man was created. |
alluded to this in a little talk I deliv-
cred to the convention, and some of
my Bible-reading friends have since
questioned me about lit 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 focks we're for food. Only
a few of the animals were fit for any
thing and these few, such as domestic
cattle, were required for beasts of bur
den and tilling the soil and furnishing
clothing.
"And the Lord made coats of skins
and clothed them"
Before the fall, aud 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 Gre
ated the Lord said to Adam:
II 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
animals and Adam named them, but
nowhere is it intimatcd that they
were for meat.
Now let US pass down the genera
tions 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 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
thereof, shall ye not eat"
When Moses came he limited the
kind of animals that might be used for
food. Swine were especially prohib-
tied and to this day no Jew will make
a hog of himself by eating hog.
Flesh eating has never been consider
ed refining or spiritualizing in it's in
fuences upon our nature, and yet
there is no doubt that the laboring
man needs animal food. Solomon
says. $50 not among the riotous eat
ers Of flesh" The children of Israel
chided Moses for bringing them away
from the flesh pots Of Egypt, and so
the Lord SEN them quails to eat for
supper and mama for breakfast.
Even some Of our teeth are called
CANNES from "canis," a dog, because
we tear flesh with them like a dog.
AS a man grows old he cares less for
flesh, but his appetite for fruit never
leaves him. But if he didn't lose his
liking for flesh he couldn't eat much
of it nohow, for about that time he
loses his teeth and Providence admon-
ishes him that it is time to prepare
for that spiritual food that comcth
from above. There is a food of the
gods called ambrosia, but it is made
Of fruit and not flesh. Cannibals love
hcsh-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
not yet old enough or saint enough to
refuse to dine on turkey Of fried
chicken or quail on toast. Gold
smiths hermit was drcadfully heart
broken when he said
No focks that roam the valley FREQ
TO slaughter 1 condemn:
Taught by that power that p:t!es me,
l learn to pity them
That was alright until he found his
Angelina and then / reckon he killed
a chicken for breakfast. But it is a
fact that most kind-hcarted people
will confess, that if they had to kill