THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897. steppe.! forward to put th e noose com ing out ahead. P ity he d id n 't tenon sunshine or a B aptist Ju n e th e most im portance it seems is to , . . u u / bv m i i a n e e, i al*out have n.i.i.. „1 , — . inational . . about his neck. a \i a a I'PvJutmr, leu d atio n . rru~ 1 he Bible al- as to speak of a denom accum ulate p ‘ r o p e r t y . ’ ” ®eems, is to •‘Not VHt,” sa id M orton ways foils ju st in the nick o f time, university. T t,t. t . . . . . “ W hat’s tlte u s e of w aiting?" said J u s t when we w ant to k n o w M.me- I, u ,;,t ,k ., • , • 1 ">■»strong arraign m en t of 7 " « ; ....... ' f X 'Z i r Z d *Get VO, X p ^ X n S after * ,,, , supper we’ll hang him . “Oh, no. I couldn’t eat m y supper with a good conscience, if i d id 'th a ,.” ^ n X ^ ' X ' f t o you S T t h e X “ w “ I“ ‘’n '' I,- 'u u n b ) w> nt re s to y on, L bar- therefore, we do not need anym ore, he. I think we can present a re- Quite true; we need no m ore like sp e e ta b le o n n o sitio n ” thoC« t i ‘ i t s.e m e d 'a s C h a,lie m hd.t win ' u J '" t hut Big Dick was more determ ined’ i ^ X t 'X Z ° \ h X m m .7 “ Listen to me, m en,’’ said Mor- th an ever. He was one of those M io v f ti ton. “ Why are you in such a devil- stubborn folk, rudelv conscientious nroniiw |7 " ' ish h u rry ? C a J t you w ait? There’s ........s w a y , th a t only grow more X X o J t ' ?■ 1 1" " "* ' ' °' “" d not too severe but it is most . „ « i t w and e h a ’ ' r,lt ier more pessi- »*<'»* th an the facts will w arrant, • H u n ia” — - » o u t the sam e m a n y gi in rai ton th a t it was in the •’" 'v,' " ll"8 generation. People do no“ :h a “ 8e suddenlv, though at o „ e time enough. The hoy can ’t run off. A w'eek hence is ju st as good as now, if th e th in g is the rig h t thing to be done. Don’t m ake a m istake. L et us be sure th a t this poor child is a crim inal. H e’s not a m an th at we should fear him. stubborn the more you undertake would h ,h ,>nK>rr‘>' ' ’ ell" c a ' lon -o reason with them. H e was Z . T ’'n,'. thoroughly convinced th a t little ,,o7 7 iv e rs T ti7 s h U h c t o ^ ' T Pete ought to lie hung, and he was Most o f , I , . n 1 • 1 rl . determ ined th a t he should be h u n g I of them is t h a t ' 7 f V i". 7 7 nM at the shortest possible notice He trvnn»n«inr ' ° ** ,ernian was stil, hacked up hv a m ndt i 7 r m " - SCh7 " L or m ore m e n ; but he’s« m en mo«, , , ,v i , H “ 7 ’ No of them , did n o t fee! like , e k litm ‘" “ t he elo«,,! by Ihe pohee. But » '» ‘’ 'h ere m ay be m anifestations ‘>f ,h « lo^ * '» a - u r e which a t other " 7 reetrai,'ed, or which ' ' ’ p a y tliemselves in other ways, Ul" *'r otl"‘r forms. Men and are as good now, probably, 88 “ W r oi a cen tu ry Com e, give him a f a i r , r ia l.'’ TherV " “ Va8t am0Unt m oral worth which d Ws not ap p ear Still there was no answer w ith su7l, d e t e r m i n e d f i g h t s as a 7 7 " " Wrober°.f ,h e 8 ,r" n^ ' <‘"d is not as readily one dared to speak first, though I i.u iu u n g n ie rs «8 I and freest, the genuine university * ‘ seen in public as is m uch th a t is perhaps m any would have spoken Charlie and Joe and Jim spirit is found in the highest degree, open to criticism . Greed is ag­ “ We are going t<> hang this boy, second and th ird in favor of the h or m ore o f these g o o d ones there gressive, v an ity flaunts itself in the and it’s useless for you to resist. boy. “ You m ight as well give up, Dam n it, we’ll kill you all, if need is a crying dem and. A school can face of everybody and vice is often M orton,’’ said Dick. “T here’s no­ be. We won’t have horse-thieves rise to be a university only when u tterly sham eless; and thu s the body to stand by you. The boy’s and m urderers protected. I’ll give its teachers are university men- had of hum an nature obtrudes not worth the game. Give him you a m inute to drop this thing. when they are men trained to face ¡t-elf upon th e public when the directly ar.d effectively the prob­ virtues and the innum erable acts up.” If you keep it up, by God I’ll shoot lems of n atu re and of life. “ I will not give him up, and, I you. Get ready, m en.” of disinterested kindness th a t m ake A university could not be other­ will sell m y life as dearly as pos­ There was heard on all sides the life worth living are practiced in wise th an free. Its faculty could sib le.’’ om inous clicking of pistols. private and make no show w hatever. respond only to the noblest influen­ He drew both p istols,and fronted B ut th e m inute w asn’t half up A bank robbery is proclaim ed ces. To a university men and women the crowd like a lion a t bay. before Bill and Jen n ie came upon throughout the la n d ,b u t the hon­ go for individual help and training. “ T h at puts a new complexion on the stage of action. Jennie had esty of thousands of bankers whose A pretender in a university could the m atter. W e don’t w ant to kill hastened to the cottage of Bill on names do not come before the pub- not give such help. His presence you, hut we’ll have to, if you don’t the first alarm , for her w om an’s lieassociated with dishonesty, n o th ­ drop them things. I ’ll be dam ned heart beat for the little fellow who is soon detected by his fellows and ing is said. A m an or woman by his students, the latter he could whose nam e is brought into the if I don’t see justice (loin ! I never was so hard pressed. “ Not to late,” cried Bill. “ W e not harm , for lie could not retain divorce courts is a subject of com­ undertook to hang a horse-thief vet m ay have to light, but I ’ll save him. them. By the side of his fellows mon talk, but of the thousands of but what I succeeded. “ Hold on there!” said Paddie A h, Charlie; you are ahead of me. he could not m aintain himself. No husbands and wives who live body of men is so insusceptible T h a t’s right, I’m with you. This John, who hitherto had been a some­ bappy, harm onious lives, nothing of coercion or contam ination as a is «aid. A m urderer’« career w hat indifferent spectator of the hoy shall not be lynched.” “ He shall not, ’ cried Jennie, university faculty. A scholar is a usually becomes a m atter of gen scene. “ I t ’s getting serious now. t m o n U o I. n 1 — . I d id n ’t care much for the hoy, hut who also drew forth a couple of re­ free m an. He has always been so. eral knowledge, but of the m illions I do for Charlie. H e’s my friend, volvers. “ I can shoot, too; and bv He will always rem ain so. who have never com m itted m urder the eternal, I will shoot ” A university is sim ply a contri- and, as he has chosen to fight the the world at large knows nothing. Jennie wa« a Jack so n ian Demo­ vancc for m aking wisdom effective And so, though ihe papers are full thing out, I guess I ’ll take my stand crat and, though she co u ld n ’t vote, by surrounding wise men with the with him; so y o u ’ll have to kill me, of accounts of crim e and vice, sen­ she could say, “ By the etern al,” conditions most favorable for ren ­ too, Big Dick, before you get th a t sational reports of which are often and she could shoot as straig h t and dering wisdom contagious. boy. dished up for p ru rie n t tastes, yet in D avid S tarr J ordan . It makes an infinite difference quick as any m an. spite of this fact a large proportion The sudden addition to C harlie’s when there are two instead of one. of the population in every com­ A fle lio r is tic V iew . It begins to look like a m ajority. force m ade the crowd back o f Big m unity is intelligent, self-respect­ Dick hesitate still more. They One man is a very insignificant I t is often asserted tb it there is ing and honorable. spectacle, but two men will com­ hardly wanted to fight a woman. and has been during the last q u a rte r S till it m ust be adm itted th a t Besides, Tim Baker was one of Big m and a certain sort of respect; for of a century a m arked m oral there is the dark side of life, and nearest and stanchest decadence. One w riter says: “ It the question is how the tendency to one man may be crazy, but it is Dick’s very seldom th a t two men arecrazy supporters, hut, when he saw Jennie is really not worth one’s while to greed, selfishness and sensualism together on the sam e subject. It on the other side, why, then, like a live any more, swept along in the can be overcome. The work of re­ is evidence of your sanity, when very obedient spouse, he lo o k his current of licentiousness and im ­ form is not one th a t can be accom­ another m an th in k s exactly as you place beside her. He knew better m orality which now obtain. There plished in a day. It m ay be aided by educational m ethods and by than to fight his own wife. do. is no longer to be found th a t high whatever will lead to the im ­ “ I guess I ’ll do the sam e,” said Tobe, C ontinued. sense of honor and p u rity which provem ent of the social environ­ Jim m y. A U n iv e rsity M ust Be L iberal. ° ” Ce could be seen in some lives in m ent and lesson tem ptation to ‘‘C harlie’s on the growing side, evil doing. V irtue is a p la n t of ----------- every com m unity, and which served growth, and the tim e when men and I ’ll hoist his colors. I can M e are indebted to the Forum as an exam ple for the young, at slow .................................... and women will have noble aim s and shoot pretty straig h t, too. My for the following ex tra ct: least, to em ulate. Life has been high aspirations and will realize^in prayers don’t am ount to m uch, hut A 1 niversity is not a school lowered to the love of anim al enjoy- character and conduct lofty ideals 1 ve a couple bullets th a t can ac­ m aintained for the glory or the ex- rnent and all high ideals sacrificed ° f llfe’ ifi DOt near a t h a n d - But if complish a good deal. They are tension of any denom inational body, to the dom inant idea of getting all look th ro u gh the sunny as heavy as serm ons, but a heap