T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , A P R IL 22, 189:
O b itu a ry .
Mrs. J u lia A nn Brooks, wife of
John E. Brooks of th is city, died at
her home Sunday April 5th. 1897,
aaed 67 years am i 23 days. She
was one of the early pioneers of
this state, having crossed the plains
from Iowa in th e year 1852. In
the growth and developm ent of
progressive liberal th ought in this
country Mrs, Brooks’ nam e figures
conspicuously, she having been a
life-long*F reethinker and a fear­
less cham pion of the principles of
Liberalism . She was a subscriber
to the T ru th Seeker and the Torch
of Reason, and one of th e m ain
stays in the F irst Secular church of
M cM innville, of which she was a
member and faithful a tte n d a n t.
She was a lover and student of
nature, and found rare beauty in th e
most lowly forms. H er genial,
generous n atu re an d broad hospi-
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tality , together with her keen
perception of justice and right,
made her loved and honored by all
who knew her.
The funeral was conducted from
the home on M onday April 6,
Nettie O lds-H aight, lecturer of the
F irst Secular church, delivering
the oration. I t was a beautiful,
touching trib u te to tbe virtues of
the deceased. In p a rt she said:
Not for out dead need we m ourn.
In any case all is well with them .
W hether death be an eternal
dream less sleep, or w hether it be
simply a tran sitio n period between
this life and life in another form,
we know not; but w hatever the
change, it is a n a tu ra l one,
th a t is necessary to the well-being
of the race. W e m ay have u n ­
lim ited fa ith —we m ay hope with
all the in ten sity of our being and
yet the h an d s on th e dial of time
are not swerved one iota from their
n a tu ra l course.
B ut this we are
a ssu re d ,th a t since we all came from
N ature, each an d all her children
are heirs to a com m on fate. No
superstitious fear h au n ts (he m inds
of those m ourning loved ones for
the peace of th eir deaJ. They
knew th a t in the great d ram a of
life she played h er p a rt well. T his
vast concourse of friends, anxious
to pay a last trib u te of respect to
one who has ever been faithful,
kind and true, is evidence of the
high place h er m erits won in the
affectionate m em ory of all who
knew her.
We all know with
w hat heroic bravery this sister ever
faced the b attles of life, and how
her loyalty to the conscientious
conviction of rig h t ever m ade her
a valuable friend, a splendid citizen,
a kind an d generous neighbor.
F ar and near she was noted for
u n tirin g efforts in behalf of th e
poor, needy an d afflicted. H er
religion m ust he judged by her
actions. If they were good, a bad
religion could not have prom pted
them. H er life is a m onum ent of
grand and noble deeds th a t will
endure for all tim e in the m em ory
of all who knew her, and will bless
the coming generations with its
living presence. T ru th and love
forever survive. The eternal years
of Tim e are theirs. No kind act,
no generous im pulse of the h u ­
m an heart was ever wasted. O ur
individual lives are but the rounds
by which the future generations
m ount higher and higher on the
ladder of progression. It required
all th a t has ever gone before to
make the present m om ent possible.
It takes our lives, our every thought
and action to m ake possible th a t
which shall come after. We live
forever in the good th a t we have
done, an d for a g ran d er im m o rta l­
ity none can wish.
Let us honor the dear dead by
em ulating her virtues, and by tr y ­
ing to make our own lives and the
lives of those around us happier
a n d better. The question is not
“ Are we prepared to die?’’ The
question most im portant for us is
“ Are we prepared to live?” He
who knows to live shall know to die.
MRS. A. E. barker ’ s A D DRESS.
verdure, were em blem atic of the S U V E R T O N . . .
springtim e of her life; the m anv-
hued flowers dotted here and there
of her hopes and joys. The bridge­
less stream s on whose ban k s they
rested after perhaps a perilous
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crossing, were indicative of ven­
tures and successes. T he clim bing
of the rock-ribbed m ountain with W hen you w ant a ....
its yaw ning chasm s is suggestive
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of the graves into which they drop
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th eir choicest pearls. The sum m it,
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the noontide of life; then down the
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western slope to the setting of the
sun, and the day is done. T he last
hour hade fair to sweep aw ay the
accum ulations of a lifetime. In one
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short m om ent the home w ith its
treasures wealth could not replace,
its keepsakes fashioned by tender
hands now silent and at rest, all
went up in smoke. Again th«
grave was opened to receive her
child. H er m other-heart beat lov­
ingly for her own and received wiih
equal fondness those left m other­
less. But her hands, scarred and
seamed w ith toil, are folded peace­
fully and still.
She was great because she was
good. She had the courage of her
honest convictions. She loved na-
ure in her m anifold beauties.
From the m ountain fern she could
draw a lesson and a beauty others
could not see. She loved to scale
the loftiest peak, and on the moss-
clad boulders, read the story of
evolution. She could sit upon the
sea-girt shore and listen to the
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music. She met the change called An Ideal R epublic, p a q e r..................
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death calm ly and serenely. She T he N a tu re C u re, I)r. Conger, new,
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provided for even the m in u tae of
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her dress, who should prepare her V o ln ev ’s R uins, c lo th , 75c p a p e r ... 50
for burial, and how she would be V ital Force, A. C h ev an n es, “ . . . . 20
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buried. I asked her if she had any Trial« and T riu m p h s of L abor, Ber-
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special request to make. She re­
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plied: “ I have been studying over
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th is all n ight; I would like to see
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m other-love go out to her boy, even M olecular H y pothesis of N ature.
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when the death -d am p was reaching H a u d te o k of C urrency am i w ealth,
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to her h e a rt’s center. But her pulse
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is stilled; all has been done th a t
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could be done; no expense has been
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no skill; and on behalf of the fam ­
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In the study of the history of the
w orld’s peoples a universal verdic-
has been rendered “ T hat to be truly
great is to be tru ly good.’’
From the poems of H om er to the
biographies of Socrates, P ythagoras,
Confucius or Plato, from the say ­
ings attrib u ted to Budda and re it­
erated in the sayings a ttrib u te d to
.Jesus, and along down the ce n tu ­
ries to our im m ortal Lincoln, whose
greatness consisted in his in n ate
goodness, the sam e verdict is ren­
dered. B ut we need not go to the
history of peoples or biographies of
m en alone to find greatness. We
can find it in our present genera­
tion and in the hum ble walks of
life. I t is not my province here to
lecture or serm onize, nor do I
stand a representative of any order
to which our deceased belonged or
to represent an y p a rtic u la r line of
thought in which she believed
for we believed alike along m any
lines— but I am privileged to stand
here as a friend, for she was my
friend and proved herself so when
I needed a friend, and I am her
friend and have tried to prove m y­
self so.
The m aiden nam e of my de­
ceased friend was J u lia Ann Rav.
On A pril 13th, forty-five years ago,
she and Jo h n E. Brooks m utually
united their love, th eir sym pathies
and future destinies, in sickness
and h ealth, ’till death should p a rt
them . One week after the consum ­
m ation of this union by law, they
started on an overland journey
from Iowa to Oregon, here to try
th e realities and priv atio n s of pio­
neer life and are honored mem bers
of the Pioneer Association of Or­
egon.
T he Rebecca lodge, of which she
I have thought w hat a m iniature
reflection th a t journey was of her was a m ember, conducted the ser­
future life. The plains, rich in vices at th e grave.
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