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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1897.
dashing into tlmse flames, taking fancies as solid realities. Peopl
those two childn-n, and tumbling do so like to be gulled, and there’s
out. I didn’t know I was hurt till millions in it.”
this morning.
“I congratulate you,” said
‘•What are you going to do with Charlie, “and I congratulate the
your little venture at the mines?” public. I am sure you won’t hurt
“Make the best of it. Mv claim them; for your nimble fancies shoot
is worth something, and I’ll hang no arrows of poison, and a straight
on. I’ve just a thousand tucked fancy is better than a twi-ted fact,
away in my little hole. I want Feed people on fancies until they
you to send it to me. It’s in the know how to take facts. I guess
corner, under the big stone. I that’s the wisest course.”
think I ’ll speculate while I’m lofin’ “It certainly is,” said Paddie.
round. They say there’s lots of “The way to rule the world is to
chances.”
gull it. I can’t revolutionize; but
“ Plenty of ’em, no doubt,” said I’m going to make people happy,
Charlie, “as blackberries; but, in- even if I had to stuff'a lie down
stead of plucking, you’ll get their throats, unless it happens to
plucked. Y«»u might as well fling he a theological lie, and that I can’t
your money into the sea.”
stand. But I believe the best way
“I’ll try it,” said Dick. “I may to tight theology, and all such
be a millionaire.”
gloomy humbugs, is by telling peo-
“ I hope so,” said Charlie. “ I pie nice stories that are untrne aud
suppose, next to making money, yet true. Such is the function of
the best fun is to lose it.”
the poet, and the poet on the daily
“What’s it good for, if it don’t press is the coming power.”
keep a llying? It’s no betttr than
“I ’ll bet on your success,” said
old rags to stow away; while, on Charlie. “Make folks laugh, and
the go, it helps somebody. Lose you’ll win. Wit is truth in
today, we win tomorrow.”
disguise, wherein it makes its
“All hail, my hero,” said Paddie, sharpest thrust. Hullo,Sol, you’ve
striding up and giving Dick a got some new’ boots on. Are you
hearty grip. “You are famous now. going to give us the shake?”
Fortunate man to be in everybody’s “Sorry to sav it, but I am,” said
mouth, without being a fool or a Sol. “I ’ve another chance, and
knave; but simply a man, that and my friends want to run me.
nothing more, which consigns so There’s a split in El Dorado
many to obscurity and poverty. County; and things are pretty
I’ve labored for fame, and could well mixed up, and I may slip in.
never get it, and here at one stroke I shall run on the Independent
have beat me. However, ' as Civil Service Reform platform.”
• you
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you have taken to the fire, I’m go­ “ What do you mean by the Inde­
ing to take to the quill; and by be­ pendent Civil Service Reform plat­
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ing a goose, 1 hope to win fortune. form?”
I am a member of the press. To­
“ Well, by Civil Service Reform, C hem icals, Drugs, M edicine, T oilet A rticles, P erfum ery
morrow, I begin to take notes and I mean gettin’ the offices and
and Soaps, S tationary, P a te n t M edicines, P ain ts
manufacture public opinion by hangin’ on, making ’em a life
and Oils, Combs and B rushes, Etc.
shrewdly following it. It’s a tenure, through thick and thin, no
splendid trade to learn, if I can matter whose out or whose in. The
only get the hang of it.”
old cry. To the victor belong the
SILVERTON, OREGON.
“Shall we lose you too? Golden spoils, is wrong. The new cry is,
Throne will have to shut up shop, Get your mouth to the public crib,
draw curtains, and put out the and keep it there.
lights. It has no orchestra now,
( to be continued ?
nobody to fiddle.”
$ iooo Reward.
“And, therefore,
nobody to
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dance,” said Paddie. “I ’ll bestow
Friday’s question to Robinson
all my ability to Gooch. I’ll give Crusoe, “Why God no kill Debbil?”
him my fiddle and pumps. He’d has never been answered. The
make a good clown, if he was only best attempt at a solution of the
rid of his religion.”
conundrum is probably the guess
‘‘But he isn’t rid of it, and so he that his adversary is logically
Corner Hain and Water Streets
plays the rascal. Lie smells too necessary to uphold God’s own
much of brimstone. How did it existence. At any rate, it will be a
SILVERTON, ORE.
happen that you stay here? In­ bad day for sky-pilots when it is
deed, you look gay, a brand new universally allowed that there is
suit of clothes and a stove-pipe no Devil. This is, perhaps, why
hat.”
JOHN HICKS
they fight shy of him. There is,
SAMUEL AMES
“Well, I'm respectable now, and however, some man in America
can sin to my heart’s content and who means to bring him to close
not be wicked. I met an old chum quarters. He advertises in a
here. We were at school together journal published at Peru, Illinois,
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at Dublin. He is one of the most that he will pay a reward of $1,000
successful edi ors >n the city, and to the sheriff of anyone of the*
has a fat income. He has just the 102 counties in Illinois for the
place for me—a position whose arrest of the “Devil,” if he can be1
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duties are to furnish facts alias found in the state. Chicago is
popularly said to be a suburb of ~
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imagination; and I can do that to hell,
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charm. I shall enjoy it watching for some enterprising police officer.
the solemn public devouring my —Freethinker.
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