The Peanut

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• 22 pounds to the bushel
• one who intends to cultivate the plant
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1. The rise in the price of Peanuts oc- casioned by the increasing demand and the Peanut Trust, should cause thousands to embark in this industry, so as to make peanuts one of the greatest crops iu the United States.

2. The farmers' Bullclin, No. 25, issued by the Agricultural Department, Washington, contains valuable instruction in regard to the cultivation of peanuts. It should be procured by every one who intends to cultivate the plant. From this we copy the engraving of the plant. It is a picture of the Virginia Peanut, the running ^'ariety, and gives a very good idea of the form of the plant. It was engraved for us by the Conger Engraving Co., of Linneus, Mo., and is a fair sample of the engravings pro- duced by their rapid process.

3. The cultivation of the peanut is not at all difficult as described by the Farmer's Bulletin, from which we quote :

4. "The Virginia running variety of the peanut, being most widely known and most popular with tlie trade, may be taken as the typical American peanut. Its vines are large with spreading branches, growing flat on the ground and bearing pods over almost their entire length. The pods ate large and white, weighing about 22 pounds to the bushel. The Virginia bunch variety grows erect and fruits near the tap-root, but produces pods very closely resembling those above described."

5. For an interesting account of the different varieties of peanuts, we refer the reader to the Guide to Nut Cookery, by Mrs. A. Lambert, of Battle Creek, Mich., which is advertised on advertising page 3.

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17. DECEMBER, 1899.

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19. ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY, B. LL

20. WE present by coartesy of The So- dal Gospel oi Xh& Commotiwealth, Georgia, a half-tooe portrait of Ernest Howard Crosby, son of the late Rev. Howard Crosby,, D. D., of New York, Ernest H. Crosby was bom November 4, 1856. He graduated at the head of bis class in the University of New York City in 1876; received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Columbia College in 1878, and began the practice of law on completing his studies, and became a member successively of the firms of Crosby & Hoffman and Crosby & Crosby, in New York. He was elected to the legislature in 1886, and re- elected twice. In 1889, he was nominated by President Harrison to be Judge of the International Tribunals in Egypt, to which position he was appointed by the Khedive. This was an appointment for life, but Mr. Crosby resigned at the end of five years and returned to his native state. On his way he called to see the eminent Vegetarian, Tolstoi, and abandoning politics, he has de- voted himself, like Tolstoi, to farming and reform. As alecturer, \he Social Gospel says: "His profound moral convictions, mas- terly grasp of his subjects, clear fresh thought and swift flow of language chain attention. He knows how to be satirical, and his sense of humor adds not a little to his popularity on the lecture platform." 1899

21. We wrote him for his experience in Vegetarian practice and recieved the follow- ing reply :

22. "Vegetarianism appears to me (and has always appeared since it first attracted my attention) as covering a pwrtion only of the field of action which a man must enter upon if he determines to place himself in right relations to the world around him. When I once became convinced, as I did some eight years or more ago, that the relation which I bore to the world was one of in- justice, I was unable to restrict that criti- cism to my position towards mankind, for the same reasoning applied to my position towards the brute creation. The intention to make the experiment was crystalized by a chance meeting with an American gentle- man of my own name who was nearly seventy years old and had not tasted meat since he was thirteen. He happened to lunch with me while I was serving as judge of the International Tribunal in Egypt, and his account of his experiences made an im- pression upon me. I remember that he boasted of having served through the war without eating meat, apparently considering the killing of men as less harmful than the killing of animals — one of those little inconsistencies to which Vegetarians are prone, if they forget the wide bearings of true humanity.

23. "A few months later 1 visited Count Tolstoi in Russia and found him an extreme Vegetarian. I told him that I hoped to try it some day. 'Your wife will do all she can to prevent it, you may be snre,' he replied, but in this respect he proved to be a false prophet. I remember reading an article aboat this time in an English review by Lady Paget, recommending Vegetarian- ism, but stating that she had found the diet very difficult to adopt and had made the effort once or twice before she succeeded. Now that I have lived upon a Vegetarian diet for a considerable time without any difficulty whatever, I cannot understand what she meant. It was partly in con- sequence of reading this article that I took up the new diet gradually, and I am inclined to think it is a good plan. It most have been about the first of June, 1896, that I began to eat meat only once a day. This was a slight change which would have no injurious effect on health, and furthermore could not cause much of a domestic com- motion. At the end of a year the family had become accustomed to see me refuse meat at lunch and when I began to do the same at dinner, it attracted little attention. I continued to take soup until June i, 1898, and fish until June ist of this year, taking one step each year. I still eat eggs and dairy products, but I confess that they worry me, aud the butchering of calves which this necessitates, is the meanest kind of butchery.

24. "This gradual change of diet has had no effect whatever upon my liealth. I am conscious of no alteration in my physical or mental condition, and my weight is precise- ly the same as it was before. Nor has the change caused me the slightest effort of will. II has not required the least self- denial and I have no desire to eat meat. It is not like giving up a stimulant. I t64

25. stopped smoking eight years ago, and I still dream of cigars and am still tempted by them, but to give up meat is child's play in comparison. My only reason for not eating meat is that I dislike the cruelty of it. That seems to me the " strongest argument to use, and I think that Vegeta- rians often injure the cause by assuring^ healthy looking meat-eaters that they are swallowing poison when their appearance proves that the assertion is at least doubt- ful. A cause always needs to be protected from its most fanatical sapporters. It should be self-evident to a humane man that if he can be just as strong and well on a diet that does not cause suffering to others as on a diet which does cause much suffering, it would be better for him to select the former. Using this argument, I should endeavor to perstiade a man to adopt a Vegetarian diet gradually and I am sure he would not know the difference. The real difficulty will present itself when one is dining out and in general company, aud then sometimes I confess I am not as strict as I might be. The laws of hospitality have their claim, too. Still, even after my short novitiate, I should find it disagreeable to eat a solid piece of meat."

26. We are glad to add Mr. Crosby to the list of those who have g^ven up fiesh-eating from motives of humanity. The gradual way in which this was done appears to have made no perceptible difference in Mr. Crosby's health, although it is impossible to tell how he would have been by this time had he continued fiesh-eating; the rheumatism and other chronic troubles to which flesh-eaters are especially subject, he has escaped by abstaining before these unpleasant symptoms appeared. Plesh- eaters often have a healthy appearance be- fore the chronic effects of their dietetic habits are discovered.

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29. IS THE EDENIC LIFE PRACTICAL? A Discourse delivered at the Bible Christian Church, Park avenue, Phila- delphia, on November 5, 1899, by Rev. Henry S. Clubb.

30. Prox'C thy servants. I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink. — Daniel i: 12,

31. Those who accept the Word as a revela- tion of God's will to man are not sur- prised that one part bears out another and is a confirmation of the other. The ideal life laid down in the first chapter of Genesis, or what we call the Edenic Life, is a life of love. The Garden represents intelligence and Eden love. These united are the two elements that constitute a life of true enjoyment, a life in which love reigns supreme, guided in detail by intelligent thought. It is undoubtedly the wise pro- vision of the Creator that his creature, man, should live an intelligent life of affection.

32. It is a life in which the highest and best thoughts rule our action and govern our character.

33. This Edenic Life is the ideal life of man. a life in. which love is the propelling force and intelligence or wisdom the directing power.. The life thus realized is the Garden of Eden or an earthly Paradise, Into this garden the Lord desires to put man. The Garden of Eden is not only a place, but a state or condition of life, and the question before us is: Is it practical to enter this state in our present surroundings?

34. Daniel as a prophet of the Lord was devoted to the Edenic Life and desired to live it. His position in Babylon as a captive or prisoner of war was the most unfavorable possible to leading an ideal or lidenic life. The selection of himself and three com- panions from among the cipiives was un- doubtedly on account of his superior talent, 1899

35. ability and personal comeliness. He was a person in whom the moral and spiritual nature so predominated as to make him desirable as a courtier to adorn the palace of the King, and he and his three compan- ions were selected for this purpose and such as the King desired to stand before him among the princes of the realm. These were all to be fed with the meat and dainties of the King's table.

36. But Daniel had read the Scriptures and had made them his guide; he therefore knew from study, inspiration and experi- ence that the "herb bearing seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit" were ordained for and therefore constituted the best possible food for human sustinence. He therefore purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with any portion of the King's meat. It was not merely objection- able on account of the idolitrous worship with which it was associated, but it was unfavorable to that health and comeliness which it was desired to secure in the courtiers who were to wait upon the King and to that intelligence and wisdom which the King required. It is impossible to conceive of a position in which this Edenic life which Daniel purposed in his heart to live was less practical. Here was the order of the King, which in Babylon was the law of the realm. It required Daniel and his three companions to be fed on the King's dainties and wine, in order that they might be fit subjects to stand before the King and adorn his palace. How could this ordinance be suspended to suit these captives?

37. Daniel had already been brought into favor and tender love with the prince of the Eunuchs, This was undoubtedly on account of his personal superiority. Daniel was a young man of great personal and manly beauty and his charms of person were enhanced by bis high moral and

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39. spiritual developnienl. He was an lidenic man. He bad striven so far as in him lay to live a loving, Edenic life. It was a life of purity, of mercy and kindness to all of God's creatures. Such a youth, even in captivity, impressed the Prince of the Eunuch's so favorably as to draw out a tender sentiment of affection. Love usually begets love and Daniel's request to the Prince through Melzer to have the matter tried as an experiment ten days seemed reasonable, and even at the risk of offending the King and exciting the King's wrath, which might endanger the Prince's life, he consented and the experiment was made. It was not without misgivings on the part of the Prince that the result would be un- favorable; believing that their faces would be worse-looking than those of the children fed on the King's meat. But the Prince consented and the result, even in ten days, was that their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than the countenances of all the children that ate of the King's meat.

40. That settled the matter, and "Melzer took away the portion of the meat and wine that they should drink and gave them pulse.

41. Dr. Talmage iguoranlly asserts that pulse is a worthless weed, and that Daniel's living and thriving on it was a miracle, but this is not true.

42. The term pulse applies in botany to those seeds that grow in legumes or pods ; hence peas, beans, lentils and locust seeds are known as pulse, and as all these were known in the East as common articles of food, they undoubtedly were provided for these captives in the place of tlie meat served to the other selected children.

43. At the end of three years these young people were all brought before the King, his object being to select the best for his highest and most responsible positions in the Court.

44. Nebuchadnezzar, it is recorded, com- muned with them and among them all was found "none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mish- ael and Asariah, therefore stood they before the King."

45. It is also recorded thai in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the King inquired of them, he found them "ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm."

46. It cannot be said that this experiment was not an impartial one. It was made by princes who were unbelievers in the Edenic life. It was made at a palace noted for its indulgences- in the luxurious living of Eastern monarchs. The Prince of the Eunuchs was afraid of the result, so it could not be that the experiment was conducted by any oue interested in promot- ing Edenic ideas, but was an entirely dis- interested experiment resulting in a marked degree favorable to Edenic living.

47. If the Edenic life be practical and every way successful in a palace surrounded by luxury and excess, can there be any position where it is not practical ?

48. Does not the Bible record thus verily itself?

49. The fact that all the astrologers and learned men were inferior to Daniel and his companions was proved in after experience, wherein Daniel showed himself equal to every position in the kingdom to which he was promoted, to the great discomfort of the Babylonian nobles. Thus it will be seen that the objection sometimes raised against this mode of life, that it is unfavor- able to promotion to the higher positions of social and political influence is shown to be untenable, as Daniel rose in spite of all opposition and prejudice to the highest positions in the realm.

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51. moral and spiritaal influence and effects, is shown conclusively by this record, so that it is perfectly consistent \pith the teachings of the Bible to make this Bdenic Hfe a religions principle in the life of every member of the Christian Church. May we all, like Daniel, stand np for principle, even in the Courts of Kings, and maintain onr consistency even nnder circumstances of adverse criticism, persecution or ridicule. Let us, in the words of the poet — "Dare to be a Daniel."