The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-25

thick, CQdOI1C luz
Of the worlds manufacture until
| Thursday. Before that there was
light, but it was electric light or phos-
phorescent light, not the light OF sun
OF moon. But the botanical and po-
biological productions came on Wed
nesday-tirst the flowers, and then the
fruits. The veil of fog is lifted, ana
there stand the orchards. Watch the
sudden maturity of the fruit! In our
time pear trees must have two years
before they bear fruit, and peach trees
three years, and apple trees five years;
but here, instantly, a complete orcnard
springs into life, all the branches bear
ing fruit. The insectile forces, when
have been doing their worst to destroy
the fruits for six thousand years. had
not yet begun their invasion. The
curculio had not yet stung the plum,
nor the caterpillar hurt the apple, nor
had the phylloxera plague, which has
devastated the vineyards of America
and France, assailed the, grapes, nor
the borer perforated the wood, nor the
aphides ruined the cherry, nor the
grub 'punctured the nectarine, nor the
blight struck the pear. There stood the
first orchard, with perfection of
rind, and an exquisiteness of color, and
lusciousness of taste, and an at
auence of production which it may
take thousands Of years more OF study
of the science of fruits to reproduce.
Why was the orchard created two
days before the fish and birds, and
three days before the cattle? Among
other things, to impress the world
with a lesson it is too stupid to learn
that fruit diet is healthier than meat
diet, and that the former must pre-
cede the latter. The reason there are
in the world SO many of the imbruted
and sensual is that they have not i'm
proved by the mighty, unnoticed fact
that the orchards of paradise preceded
the herds and aviaries, and fish-ponds.
Oh, those fruit-bearing trees on the
banks of the Euphrates, and the Gil
hon, and the Hiddekel! I wonder not
that the ancient Romans, ignorant OF
our God, adored Pomona, the Goddess
of Fruits, and that all the sylvan del
ties were said to worship her, and thai
groves were set apart as her temples
You have thanked God for bread s
thousand times. Have you: thanked
him for the fruits which he made thu
:, first course of food in the menu of thu
= worlds table? The acids of thos'
Is fruits to keep the worlds table from
"a being insipid, and their sweets to keel
r it from being too sour?
IS At this autumnal season how the or
s, chards breathe and glow, the leaves re
ut moved, that the crimson, or pink, O
st saffron, or the yellow, or brown ma
h the better appear, while the aromatic
I | fill the air with invitation and remi
Of niscence. AS you pass through tn
ri orchard on these autumnal days an
re look up through the arms of the tree
at laden with fruit, you hear thumpin
ri on the ground that which is fully rip
OF and, throwing your arms around th
ur trunk, you give a shake that sen6
Is down a shower of gold and fire on a
5h sides of you. Pile up in baskets an
be- Iebarrels and binst< and on shelves ian
a tables the divine supply. But thes
az orchards have been under the assau
II of at least sixty centuries-the storr
az the droughts, the winters, the inse
ng tivora What must the first orcha1
he have been? And yet it is the explo
;es er's evidence that on the site of tn
on orchard there is not an apricot, or {
ut, apple, or an olive-nothing but desc
les and desolation. There is not enoul
in to forage the explorers horse, mu'
lin less to feed his own hunger. In 9th
nd words, that first orchard is lost q
e." chard. How did the proprietor and t.
proprietress of all that intercOlum1
alton of fruitage, let the rich splend
slip their possession? It was as nj
most of the orchards are lost; name
by wanting more. Access they had
) all the fig-trees, apricots, walnuts,
= monds, apples-bushels on bushels
II and were forbidden the use of only 0
y tree in the orchard. Not satisfied wi
+ all but one, they reached for that, a
z lost the whole orchard. Go right do,
J through the business marts of
great cities and find among the weis
ers and clerks and subordinates, M
who once commanded the commerce
world. They had a whole orchard
successes, but they wanted just {
more country-seat, or one more sto
led or one more railroad, or one more n
]? lion. They clutched for that, and !
ere all they had gained. For one mi
tree they lost a whole orchard. Tn
are business men all around us W
ried. nearly to death. The doctor t.
a. them they ought to stop. Insom
- or indigestion or aching at the base
~ the brain or ungovernable nerves
them they ought to stop. They rea
80. have enough for themselves and th
~, NJ. families Talk with them about til
~. overwork, and urge more prudence 8
~. longer rest, and they say: Yes,
= are right; after have accomplish
80 one more thing that / have on
W mind. will hand over my busin
~, to my sons and go to Europe, and 9
~ ~ the kind of exhausting life have b
q. e living for the last thirty years So
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