T H E TORCH O F REASON, S IL V ERTO N , OREGON , T H U R S D A Y , JU L Y 1,
*nd so he alw ays acted in a grim
and awful way.
Such men are
trem endous allies for whichever
bide they take.
fie welcomed the new-comers
with a certain stu rd y grace.
“ You have passengers, I believe?”
‘ Yes.” said Stockdol liger, “ very
pleasant ones too, q u ite pious and
devoted. ReffttyT*/ nave been'ecfin1*
ed with th eir com pany, or ra th e r
his com pany; for I h av en ’t seen
me woman, only the m an, but he
is one of the saints. He prays
every d ay .”
- “ W hat is his name, please?”
D ru n k a rd ’s Will.
I leave to society a ruined c h a ra c
ter, a wretched exam ple, and a mem-
ory th a t will soon rot.
I leave to my parents d uring the
rest of th e ir lives, as much sorrow
hum anity in a feeble and declining
state can sustain.
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I leave to my 1) rot tiers and sisters
HS m uch m ortification and injury
as 1 could bring on them .
I leave to my wife a broken heart,
a life o f wretchedness and sham e,
to weep over my prem atu re death.
I give and bequeath to each of my
children poverty, ignorance and low-
character, and the rem em brance
th at th eir father was a m onster.—
— Selected.
“ Gooch— E p h raim Gooch from
Scooptown, Maine. I know’ him by
reputation, he came from near
where I live. He has just built a
new steeple to the church. He is
an honor to our cause. H e seems
W ettstein Taken to Task.
to realize the worthlessness of
hum an life. I h ard ly ever see him
smile. I feel as if my ship was E ditor T orch of R eason -
blest w hile he was on board. He is
In the T orch of Ju n e 10, Mr.
in his cabin now, reading the Bible. W ettstein takes agnostics to task
He doesn’t read any other book, for declaring th a t they do not know
except a tract now and then. He what becomes of us after we die.
has some beautiful tracts. They The reasoning was so queer th a t
are full of the spirit of the gospel. it interested me more th an such
He proves
I hey treat of the sinfulness of m an, a itid e s usually do.
o, of the _ awful*
_____ conclusively th a t we do not know
o f Sabhat h-breaking,
in >s of dancing: they adm onish us ' what becomes of ourselves. From
to lie m ournful, and sit in sack- this, he argues th at nothing he-
eloth and ashes. They have done comes of us which is the opposite
me a great d ea lo f good, these tracts °1 w hat he proved, for if we know
have. They have penetrated my th a t we are to be an n ih ilated , we
soul like the sword of the Lord, and certainly know- what becomes of us
H e then shows th a t a m an is an
convicted me of my shortcom ings.”
“ We would like to see this anim al. From this, he argues th a t
paragon: he will he w illing, I sup w hatever happens to an anim al at
death, happens to m an. T his is
pose, to put in an appearance.”
“ I will send for him : he will parallel to the reasoning of the
student of logic who argued th a t as
edifv you.”
m an was an anim al and a horse
Soon the cap tain sum m oned his was an anim al, th a t therefore a
im m aculate passenger. In a few m a n was a horse.
He lays down the proposition
moments, the fam iliar form of
G o o ch was seen coming up the th at “ those affirm ing m ust prove
tru e.” He proves abundently that
hatchw ay: he bad a Bible in one at death the body disintegrates but
b ind, and was hum m ing the good th at does not prove what becomes
old melody, “ H ark! from the tombs of the life, the power th a t made the
a doleful sound.” W ith a most organism and intelligent or even a
obsequious how and im perturbable live being. The most th a t he proves
is th a t In* doesn’t know. But in
air, he greeted his old acquaintances stead of saying so as the agnostic
of Golden Th rone.
does, he boldly affirms th a t he does
know a n d th at this power or life is
C h a p t e r x x i ii .
an n ih ilated as well as the carcass.
“ 1 begin to th in k th a t Gooch is if e
not 8tick to his proposition
ose affirm ing m ust prove
the devil him self,” said C harlie as '
“ tho8
tru c .” 1 be problem s of electricity,
he looked at him . “ It m ay he of m agnetism , of life are y»*t open
harder work than wre im agine to questions. No one knowetii whence
h ^ a k through the net he has they come nor w hither they goeth.
Is the m agnetism
annihilated
woven.”
Gooch advanced with deliberate when we dem agnetize a w atch? It
has disappeared. The watch weighs
” ep. H p ¿¡d n<>t seem surprised
just as m uch after the operation.
"r afraid to meet his old associates The most th a t we can prove is
He was evidently prepared for any ^hat the wafch is demagnetized,
emergency.
prove w hat becomes o f the
“ We ar« not verv glad tn nee you, " ’a« nP,!Brn
P ^ v e th a t the
I I c rnnfoco
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m
agnetism
is
an
n
ih
ilated
is an-
o n fe r, said C harlie. “ Never- other thing
I t in ea»y
t o deelarel
heless, we have been very anxious th a t the m«»on is made of green
to overhaul this ship. We care f'heese, but to prove th at it is or
tnore for your com pany than for th at it isn’t is another thing. Mr.
.'<»u. There is a lady on board, I M ettstein proves the annihilation
believe.”
’
of the body as such. Let him
es,” said the deacon, unabash- Pr°ve the an n ih ilatio n of the power
*d.
which moved the bodv aliout.
“We will take her hack with us, Proving th a t it has disappeared,
•<nd you can go to C alcutta as fast does not prove th a t it has been an
nihilated. Respectfully,
(TO BE
OONTINUED.)
I
1897.
W. E
Jo H M O N .
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