T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , S E P T E M B E R 30, 1897. Mental Poison. grades our hreaili Beamed to be get- m ountains besides this one, and ting short and everything turned m any other thing* contrary to o u r There are various sorts of poison k i black A peculiar h elin g came holy religion; they are getting —#onie physical, some m ental; The Only I ap er o nVer us. We seamed to he shrink- bolder and l*>l«ler ami have forced gon,e are retailed from dispensaries Published VVeekiy by the l.m eiai I ni- j r,g t d e g e n e r a t in g a n d t im e seemed our holy p rie s t b u g s into some veiy m ^ d m ^ g ^ r e H j a n d s o t n o f r o m p a m - ''^ S w t r u c ti w / M o r a l Secularism . m be ru-hing backwards and carry- ridiculous positions. H e i e c o m e s phlet and magazine, folio and peri- in g us with it at a trem endous rate, one of the oeaihen, infidel herencc odical. The form er species of poi- J. E. Hosmer, ...................E d itor Hll(j „ „ lo o k in g i t o u r b o d ie s we n o w an d I ’ll not stay to hear bis gon jM t |,e more deadly, the latter P. W. Geer, ..................... Manager found th a t like “ Sh«'” in H. Rider blasphem ous talk one second, ’ and m o re injurious. The former- H a g g a r d ’s novel we had withered, off he m arched with his queer little commonly puts his victim out of E ntered a t th e {»ontoffiee at Silverton, and while w «ere wondering what eyes turned u p to the space above pain in a few hours; while the la t­ Oregon, as sv o n d -c la s- m ail m atter. it all m eant we heard liitle voices the fern ami sa al hru.-li where he ter, even though adm inistered in SUBSCRIPTION RATES. supposed the big bug, who made the strongest doses, frequen ly tor­ il 00 ¡dl ar<*un»i us, and strange t«» say One year, in a d v a n c e .................... This conduct ture- for twenty, forty, sixty years ô( although at first we could i.ot un- the m ountain lives. Six m onths in a d v an c e .............. T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................ 25 d< rstand w hat was said, we soon on the part «»f our first acquaintance before death ensm s. .Judging ac­ In clubs of five or m ore, one year, amuse«! us, but we weie well repaid tions by their effects, it is more in advance.................................... ,ri onnd th at we hail degenerated int<» Money should tie sent by registered little black bugs and the other bugs for tin* loss of bis conversation by crim inal to poison the mind th an letter or m oney order. were trv V in e f’ t«> make us understand at once receiving a hearty antenna it is to poison the body, inasm uch th a t we w ire welcomed back to th e shake from the new comer. \\ e as the evil inflicted is vastly greater. Notice! former comlition from which we were ju.-t becoming much interested Pei haps the worst species of m e n ­ A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your sprung. One fine, gentlem anly in an account the things that naturally awhile, for we believe th a t their ex­ to have it tried by bearing a ghost Coast Range last T hursday. The interest a Secular pilgrim : “ W hat periences would furnish our people story related to a child of ours, if distance by the North Yam hill is the prevailing religion of your who think they are so highly civil- we had one. We know of several route, the one w h ic h w e to o k , is realm ,” said we, our m inds g o in g ' iz«'d m any a useful lesson, anrl if instances in winch youthful minds, about seventy miles and a v« iv back to the last subject of our anyone, be he bug, hum bug or liu- otherw ise of power and talent, were pleasant route it is, although in thoughts before we began to de- man thinks this account is not in- weakened forever by one supersti m any places after reaching the generate. “ W ell,” said our com- teresting or th at it is not true, we tious fright. m ountain, the grades are rath er panion, “ the tribes of hugs th a t will only ask him to rem em ber th a t It is very rare to find a boy or steep which com pels a conscien- five a ]j around us on this m ountain m any great religions are founded girl who has not been frightened tious person to walk, on account of 1 are heathens and their gods are all <>n dream s th a t are considered by more or less by foolish “ ghost stor- * * 1 t >urdt 1. hum bugs, hut out h«d\ religion is some people fully as absurd as our ies;” and it is also a fact, th a t such After leaving Silverton we trav- founded upon the word of the great attem pted descent t<> hugdom. is the strength of early impressions, through thiity-live miles wonderful Bug th at made this H aving arrived in Tillam ook, we th a t they are h ard ly ever destroyed, of beautiful valley country to M e-, beautiful m ountain and everything foviufi th a t our friends there had Hence alm ost every man and woman M innville, crossing the celebrated that grows. He even made us.” , been suffering from the epidem ic is to some extent infected with th is V ¡Barnette rivci at W heatland, Ibis little speech so pleased us known as a religious revival, and superstitious virus. W ho is re- where theie is a stole and postoflice. that we pioeecded to draw out his ^ e Secularists being anxious to sponsible for it, or with whom did O ther sm all villages are passed on hugship by a few questions th a t give the ppopje our a „ t idot«‘, we it originate? Not with Infidels, the way, but w hat strikes one most astonished him , for w hat seemed have consented to speak in the for they do not believe in such favorably is the gre.it fields of gold- h ard tot us to u n d etstan d was very , Opera house next Sunday evening trash; and if all children were edu- en grain, hops, and beautiful tiuit easy for him because ne had “ nothing in providence prevent- cated (as they ought to he, in order which is SO a b u n d a n t this year as brought up to it you see. So in ing.» to m ake them w hat they should be) to break down m any of the young answ er t<> our questions he went on in Infidel principles, they would trees unless th ey are propped up. to explain th at his tribe of hugs never believe in the m iserable non­ L ib e ra l U n iv e rs ity . After passing through the thriv- was trying to beetleize the other sense of ghosts, by which their ing city of M cM innville we camped tribes th a t live on the m ountain, At a special meeting of the Silver- m inds are stulified in youth and at a farm house and as it was a and as their m ethods for m any gen- ton Secular church last Sunday the torm ented in after life. We repeat, beautiful moon-light night wc arose erations had been to kill all other L ib elai hall was leased to the L ib -' this m ental poison does not come nt 2 a. in. and journeyed on, get- h u g -w h o disagr«*ed with them , as e ra j U niversity Co. for the purpose from Infidelity. It is the legitim ate ting to the mountain-« about 6 f