17 :£ T orch VOL. 2. For the Torch of Reason. SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1897. Principles of Society. and having fourni the means of ob taining within a small com pass and without removal, plentiful subsis tance and durable stores, they es tablished them selves in fixed h ab ita tions; they built houses, villages, and tow ns; formed societies and nations; and self-love produced all the developements of genius and of power. Thus by the aid of his own faculties, man has raised him self to the astonishing height of his present fortune. Too happy if, ob serving scrupulously the law of his being, he had faithfully fulfilled its only and true object! But, by a fatal im prudence, som etim es m istaking, sometimes transgressing its lim ns, he has launched forth into a laby rinth of errors and m isfortunes; and self-love, sometimes unruly, sometimes blind, became a princi ple fruitful in calam ities.— Ruins of Em pires. ¿¿a No 1. their visitors hesitated to decline th eir invitations, which subsequent By A lonzo Leora Rice. By C. F. Volney. ly, indeed, became rath e r su p er “ S urren d erin g up th in e individual be \\ andeiing in the woods and or. ing, sh alt thou go to m ix forever with fluous. The children of the w ilder the e le m e n ts.” — B rvant. I the banks of rivers in pursuit of • ness u n h esitatin g ly prefer the game and fish, the first men, beset “ At last th e rootlets of th e trees hardships of winter cam p to the Shall find th e prison where she lies, with dangers, assailed by enemies, atm ospheric poisons of our tenem ent And bear th e buried d u st they seize, houses. Sham yl Ben H addin, the In leaves and blossoms to th e sk ie s.” ' torm ented by hunger, by reptiles, —H olm es. Circassian war chief, whose iron by ravenous beasts, felt their own constitution had endured the vicis “ I had ra th e r th in k of those I have individual weakness; and, urged by loved, amt lost, as having retu rn ed to situdes of thirty-four cam paigns, e a rth , as having become a p art of th e a common need of safety, and a pathetically protested against the elem ental w ealth of th e w orld; I would reciprocal sentim ent of like evils, pest air of his Russian prison cell, rath e r th in k of them as unconscious th e y united their resources and their and warned his jailers th a t, unless d u s t; I would ra th e r dream of them as gurgling in th e stream , floating in th e strength; and when one incurred a his dorm itory was changed, clouds, bursting in light upon th e shores H eaven would hold them responsi danger, m any aided and succored of o th e r w orlds.” —Ingersoll. ble for the guilt of his suicide. I him; when one w anted subsistence, I cannot help hut th in k how richer far have known country bovs io step Are you, my friend, who paid long another shared his food w’ith him. out into a shower of rain and sleet years ago i 1 bus men associated to secure th eir to escape from the contam inated The debt that, I, as m ortal, too m ust atm osphere of a city workshop, and pay. existence, to augm ent their powers, after a week’s work in a spinning I never th in k of you as gone; b u t! to protect their enjoym ents; and mill return to the penury of their changed, sell-love thus became the principle T ran sm u ted from the d u st to e a rth - m ountain homes, rath er th an p u r born things, of society. Instructed afterw ards chase dainties at the expense of By w ondrous crucible w ithin th e e a rth , by the experience of various and their lungs. And clear alem bic of m eandering The word frugality, in its original repeated accidents, by the fatigues stream s. sense, referred literally to a diet of A ir claim s a p a rt of your sw eet p res of a w andering life, by the distress tree-lruits, in distinction to c a rn i ence; buds Lessons of Instinct. of frequent scarcity, men reasoned T h at open by the w ayside and the rills, vorous fare, and nine out of ten Or sta r th e azure m eads; your beauty with them selves a n d 's a id : By F. L Oswald. children still decideillv prefer ripe bides “ V V by consum e our days in seek N ature has guardeJ the health fruit and farinaceous dishes to the In delicate d rap eries w herein ttie moon Enfolds herself, when over L a tm u s’ hill ing scattered fruits from a i narsi- of h e r creatures by a m arvelous richest meats. They as certainly She looks down on her fair E ndym ion, m onious soil? Why exhaust our prefer easy homemade clothes to system of protective intuitions. Who hears, like me, the m ortal th rall the constraint of fashionable frip of life. selves in pursuing prey which eludes The sensitive m em brane of the eye peries. I he main tenets of our And you are with me everyw here I us in the woods or w aters? Why resents the z intrusion of every dn-’s-reformerx are anticipated in tu rn ; not collect under our hands the a n i foreign substance. An intu itiv e the sensible garm ents of m any half- In clouds th a t brighten in th e u p p er Boys, within air, m als th a t nourish us? Why not sense of discom fort announces civilized nations. Or blush when the long day goes out apply our cares in m ultiplying and reach of a free bathing river, can every injurious extrem e of temper at la s t; dispense with the advice of the h y We will feed on ature. To th e un perverted taste o dropathic school. They delight in The snow ’s w hite san ctity , th e crystal ' preserving them ? dew, their increase; be clothed in their anim als in a state o f nature whole exercise; ihey laugh at the im agi And m ists th a t curl from alters of th e m orn. skins, and live exem pt from the some food is pleasant, injurious nary danger of fresh air «lraughts, And when th e rain is gone, and clouds fatigues of the day and the solici substances repulsive or insipid and the perils of barefoot ram bles repose tude for the morrow’.” C aptain K ane found th at only the in wet and dry. They would cast In fair and pleasing visions of th e east, their vote in favor of the outdoor And men aiding one another, rage of fam ine will tem pt the foxes pursuits of hundreds of occupations The sun comes out, and over hill and vale, seized the nim ble goat, the timid of the Arctic coastlands to touch which custom , ra th e r th an necess From ra in d ro p a n d th e vapor of th e sky, He weaves the arch th a t spans th e sheep; they tam ed the patient spoiled m eat. In times of scarcity ity, now associates with the d isad world w ith lig h t; camel, the fierce hull, the impetuous the baboons of the Abyssinian vantages of indoor confinem ent. And th ere I see vour presence shining : still, horse; and, applauding their own m ountains greedily hunt for edible The hygienic influence o f arboreal vegetation has l»een recognized by W ithin th e rain b o w ’s splendor, seven industry, they sat down in the joy roots, which an unerring faculty the ablest pathologist of m odern fo ld ! of their souls, and l>egan to taste enables them to distinguish from times; avenues of shade trees have And m yriad m in istratio n s yet w illcom e repose and com fort; and self-love, the poisonous varieties. The n at been found to redeem the san itary And kindly offices th a t never cease, As still th e years pursue th e ir endless the principle of all reasoning, he- u ralist Tschudi m entions a troop of condition of m any a grim y city, course. and the em inent hygienist, Schrodt, I he beauty of the blossoms th a t bedeck ! came the incitem ent to every art, half-tam ed cham ois forcing their holds th at, as a rem edial institu I he bride, and load th e breeze with and to every enjoym ent. way through a shingle roof, rather lion, a shady park is worth a doz odors rare, When, therefore, men could pa-s th an pass a night in the stifling en drug stores But all these les Is yours. The w axen flowers th a t are held long days in leisure, and in c o m atm osphere of a goat stable. sons only confirm an often m ani W ithin th e senseless hand of him t h a t ’s m unication of their thoughts, they Man in his prim itive state had fested, and too often suppressed, dead. Speak of a resurrection soon his own. . began to contem plate the earth, his full share o f those protective instinct o f <»ur young children: heir passionate love of woodland I heur your voice at nightfall in the the heavens, and their own exis instincts, which still m anifest them sports, th eir love of tree shade, of pure tence, as objects of curiosity and selves in children and N ature- greenwood camps, of forest life in V ernacular of the com m uning leaves, I hat w hisper lullabies to my sad soul, reflection; they rem arked the course guided savages. It is a m istake to all its forms Those who hold th at And charm me w ith th e old-tim e m el of the seasons, the action of the ele suppose th a t the lowest of those “ n atu re” is hut a synonym of odies. “habit ’ should witness the ra p The lapse of waves along the wooded m ents, th e properties of fruits and savages are nfcturally fond of a r ture of city children at first sight shore, plants; and applied their thoughts d en t spirits. The travelers P a r k ,1 of forest glades and shady meadow W hen I sit down at eve to w atch th e stars, to the m ultiplication of their enjoy G erstaecker, V’am hery, Kohl, lie brooks, and com pare it with the E n trance th e dusk with countless w hite • m ents. And in some countries, Focquevifle, and Brehm agree th a t city-dread of the Swiss peasant lad resolves, Is still the sound th a t pleased me long having observed th a t certain seeds the h ist step on the road to ruin is or the American backwoods boy, sickened by the fumes and the u p •go. contained a wholesome nouri-h- alw ays taken in deference to the ex roar of a large m anufacturing town. I bide m v tim e ; till interfused and merit in a sm all volume, convenient am ple of the adm ired superior race, A thousand years of vice and a b m ixed, The elem ents th a t know corruption here for tran sp o rtatio n and preservation, if not in com pliance with direct norm al habits have not yet silenc Shall p u t off »lull m o rtality , am i Bleep they im itated the process of nature; persuasion. The neyroes of the ed the voice of the physical con F orever in a close and clasped em brace Ami l»e com panions to the sta rs, am i they confided to the earth rice, Senegal highlands shuddered at the science th a t recalls our steps to run the path of N ature, and will not barley, and corn, which multiplied first taste of alcohol, hut from a ■ T hrough all the generations of the perm it us to transgress her laws flow e r s ! to the full m easure of their hope;, wish to conciliate th e good will of unw arned. The Bible of Nature. The O ther Life.