VOL. 1. Beyond th e Grave. S IL V E R T O N , O R EG O N , T H U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 7, ¡897. NO. 49. " ith injurious and even deadly his thirst with acidulated grap - cabbage have all to he artificially products, often closely resem bling juice. Poppy fields need no fence; By A P. M artin. acquired; and in regard to the se Beyond th e grave—m ost ch erish ed of the favorite food-plants of anim als, tobacco h aves are in no dung- r of lection of our proper food, the in h e r creed— T here gleam s a b rig h te r w orld, from which in a state of n atu re are nev being nibbled by browsing cattle. stincts of our young children could sorrow free, ertheless sure to avoid m istake and N ature seems to ha ve had no occasi* >n teach us more than a whole library So m ost m en h o ld ; b u t, a h ! it seem s select their food by a faculty of for providing instinctive safeguards to me of ascetic twaddle. Not for the But th e m ere reflex of o u r e a rth ly recognizing differences th at m ight against such out-of-the-way things sake o f “ m ortifying the flesh,” h u t greeds, escape the atten tio n of even a as certain m ineral poisons; yet the on the plan of recom m endation of VS e deem th is life too narrow for our needs, trained ootanist. The chief m edium taste of arsen ic, though not violent! v the n atu ral senses th a t prefer p a l And so d em and h e a v e n ’s high fe of th a t faculty is the sense of smell repulsive (like that of the more atable to disgusting food, the pro licity, B ut of our afte r life w hat sign have in the lower, and the sense of taste common, and therefore more dan geny of Adam could he guided in we? in the higher anim als. In m on gerous, vegetable poisons), is cer the path of reform and learn to In vain m an prays and tells his fu tile beads. keys, for instance, the olfactory or tain ly not attractiv e, hut ra th e r avoid forbidden fruit by the sym p A las! he never h ears th e faintest gans are rath er im perfectly devel insipid, and a short experience to m s of its forbidding taste.— Bible sound Of voice div in e in an sw er to his oped, and I have often seen them seems to supplem ent the defects o f of N ature. cries. peel an unknow n fruit with th eir instinct in th at respect. T rappers H e know s full well, th e n , w hen at Dawn Of the New Day. length he dies fingers and then cautiously raise it know that poisoned baits after a H e m u st be laid w ith grief in burial to their lips and rub it to and fro while loose th eir seductiveness, and By H. O. Ingersoll. g ro u n d ; If in celestial glory he shall rise, befere venturing to bring their teeth old rats have been seen driving Beyond the universe th ere is W hy do th e weeping m ourners sta n d into play. The prelim inary test, their young from a dish of arsenic- nothing, and w ithin the universe a ro u n d ? however, alw ays sufficed to decide poisoned gruel. tin* su p ern atu ral does not and c a n the question in a couple of seconds. Temperance by Instinct. C ertainly no anim al would feel not exist. The A byssinian m ountaineers who any n atural inclination to seek- The m oment these great tru th s By F . L O sw ald. catch baboons by fuddling theln arsenic or alcohol for its own sake, are understood and ad m itted , a be Instinct is h ered itary experience. with plum brandy, have to disguise and there is no reason to suppose lie! in genera) or special providence The lessons derived from the repe the taste of the liquor with a large ‘bat m an, in th a t respect, differs becomes impossible. From th a t tition of pleasant or painful im pres ad m ix tu re of syrup before they can (from every known species of bis in-tjint men will cease th eir vain sions have been tran sm itted from deceive the w arning instincts of Tellow-creatures. Our clerical tem efforts to p le a s e an im aginary be an infinite* num ber of generations, their victims. \\ here copper mines perance lecturers ran t about “ the ing, and will give their time and till im pending dangers have come discharge their drainage into a lusts of the unregenerate h e a rt,” atten tio n to the affairs of this world. to proclaim them selves by instinct water-course, deer ¡mil other wild ¡ th e “ weakness of the flesh /’ the They will abandon the idea of a t ive dread, opportune benefits Io anim als have been known to go in ^danger of yielding to the prom pt- tain in g any object by prayer and instinctive Jesire. The shudder quest of d istan t springy ra th e r than ings of ap p etite,” as if N ature h er supplication. The elem ent of u n th a t w arns us to recede from the quench their th irs t with the pollu self would tem pt us to our ruin, certainty will, in a great m easure, brink of a steep cliff is felt even bv ted water. and the path of safety could be be removed from the dom ain of the persons who have never personally T h at protective instinc.s of that learned only from p retern atu ral future, and m an, gathering courage experienced the peril of falling from sort are shared even by the lowest revelation. But the tru th is th a t to from a succession of victories over the rocks of a precipice. M ountain anim als is proved by the experi the palate of a child, even the child the obstructions of nature, will a t breezes are more attrac tiv e th an ment of the philosopher Ehrenberg, of an h abitual d ru n k ard , the taste tain a s.-rene grandeur unknown to swam p odors; the fumes of a foul who put a drop of alcohol into a of alcohol is as repulsive as th a t of the disciples o f any superstition. dungeon warn off a child who has bottle of pond water, and under turpentine, or hitterwood. Tobacco The plans of m ankind will no had as yet no o p p o rtu n ity to ascer the lens of his microscope saw- a fumes and the stench of burning longer he interfered with by the tain the danger of b reathing con swarm of infusoria precipitate them opium still nauseate the children finger o f a supposed om nipotence, tam inated air. A few years ago I selves to the bottom of the vessel. of the habitual sm oker as they and no one will believe th a t natio n s bought a pet fox, with a litter of A nim als in a state of nature would have nauseated the children or individuals arc protected or d e cubs, who were soon after orphaned rarely or never eat to an injurious of the p atriarch s. The first cigar stroyed by any deity whatever. bv the escape of th eir m other. They excess; the apparent surfeits of dem onstrates the virulence of nico Science, freed from the chains of had to he fed by h an d ; and, am ong wolves, serpents, vultures, etc., a l tine by vertigo ami sick-headacbes; pious custom and evangelical pre other proceeds of a forage, mv ternate with long fasts, and are the first glass of beer is rejected bv judice, will, within her sphere, he neighbor’s boy once brought them a digested as easily as a hunter, after the revolt of the stom ach; the supremo. 1 lie m ind will investi bundle of lizards and a dead ra ttle missing his breakfast and dinner, fauces contract and writhe against gate w ithout reverence, and pub snake. For the possession of those would be able to digest an ab u n the first dram of brandy. N ature lish its conclusions w ithout fear. lizards there was at once an an im a d a n t supper. In stin ct indicates records her protests in the most u n Agassiz will no longer hesitate to ted fight, hut at sight of the serpent even th e most propitious time for m istakable language o f instinct, declare the Mosaic cosmogony u t the little gluttons turned tail and indulging in repletion. The noon and only the repeated and co n tin terly inconsistent with the dem on retreated to the farth er end of heat of a m idsum m er day seems to ued disregard o f th a t protest at strated tru th s of geology, and will their kennel. T hey were not a suspend the prom ptings of appe last begets the abnorm al .crav in g cease pretending any reverence for m onth old when I bought them , tite; cows can he seen resting drows of th at poison-thirst which clerical the Jew ish scriptures. The moment and could not possibly have seen a ily at the foot of a shade tree; deer blasphem ers ascribe to the p ro m p t science succeeds in rendering the rattlesn ak e before. <>r known the! doze in the m ountain glens and ings of our n atu ral appetites. T h e y church powerless for evil, the real effects of its bite fr un personal e x come out to browse in moonlight; m ight as well m ake us believe in thinkers will be outspoken. The perience; but instinct at once in p an th ers cannot afford to miss an a n atu ra l passion for dungeon air, little flags of truce carried by tim id form ed them th a t an encounter opportunity to slay th eir game at because the prisoners of the Holy philosophers will disappear, and with a reptile of th a t sort had noon, but are very ap t to hide the Inquisition a t last lost • Ic-ir'love of the cow ardly parley will give place brought some of th eir forefathers to caicass and come back to devour it liberty, and came to prefer the to victory— lasting and universal. grief. in the cool of the evening. stench of their subterranean black* The vegetable kingdom , that pro The idea of certain su p ern atu ral i he products of ferm entation are holes to the breezes of the free vides food for nine-tenths o f all liv gifts being conferred upon certain so repulsive to th e higher anim als m ountains. men is the common error of the ing creatures, abounds with an end th at only the distress of actual , T he craving for hot spices, for most advanced races, as well as of less variety of all kinds of edible starvation would tem pt a monkey strong m eats, aud such ahom ina- fruits, seeds, and herbs, but also to touch a rotten apple, or quench tions as fetid cheese, and fermented the most degraded peoples of a n tiq u ity .— R enan.