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VOL. 2. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, ¡898. F r ttæ Torch of He ison. NO. 19. with m athem atical precision. The erally surrounded by crowds of with ns. After all the strain in g of \<»ung an t needs no instructor to young rustics, who forego the pleas divines to m ake the most of th e Ca aid her choice of proper building ures of nutting and nest-hunting BY ORACK E. ORl'BEK. na m arriage, and of all incidental . ■ » ¡ , ♦ • 1 1 ,n aterial, of proper food to be stor..............- « » w u in g m e innnip- for the sake of watching the m anip m ention of an y family relations of fade of day, ' ' At for w inter use or distributed in tilations tions of a new handicraft. Even Evei the disciples, there rem ains an u n When N ature pain ts h e r canopy w ith the nurseries of the la rv a . The in alter years the instinct of con questionable vacancy in regard to A rtist8Pih"v c’ ^ n o t p i^ u c e it; painters ?'°U" g » » hoU f » « e r >S8U- structiveness frequently breaks the the passions and affections w hich thev hold not th e a r t; dig from the shell of the chrysalis shackles of etiquette, and princes They yhX n o „ d| ; g i hv e’i ,Dpe» rrnd ta'ent’ j <=“ " ¡‘* »¡ngs as well as a t the and prelates have defied the gossip are of the most im portance in our life. I t is not necessary th a t there 1 hey have tried to p aint th e tinges, and e ” d o f the sum m er, and displays of their flunkeys by getting a set of should have been either teaching or to reproduce th e hue, »}w M m o ^ ¡ i , • * • ' And the m oving p h an to m s, gliding th r o ’ I * * a i 1 in steering its way tools and passing whole days in the sentim ent in regard Io the dom estic the opal and the blue, through the maze of a ta n g le d for- retirem ent of an am ateur workshop. institutions which are still of high . -------- 1- Tviiivu ¿ n r s u n o i n ig n Aii'l the golden rays of su n set, sin k in g , ,*s t he em peror H enry I. invented a im portance am ong us: such as the sinking out of sight, * * F . ___ Seem to mock their every effort, for they Y o u n g birds, on the other hand num ber of ingenious hunting-nets conjugal and p arental as at pres do not paint it rig h t. ' have t<( acq„ ire aooom p|isl|.’ and bird-traps. Mohammed II., ent existing; because these, and all While it fades behind a mountain of ex- m ents by long practice I n s te a d o f the conqueror of C onstantinople, groupings into households by the pansive, spheric space, i • • , chain armor. rule of m arriage and blood relation It just Lints th a t N a tu re ’s w aiting to Grlv,nP them hack to their nests, forged his own give evolution p lace; ll.eir parents e n c o u r a g e 11,eir n t. ( harles \ the arbiter of Europe, ship, may be easily conceived to be It will lii<le from "g till m orning, th e n , , , 'twill slowly, slowly rise, i le,,ipts at longer and longer flights, preferred watch m aking to every a m atter of rule and arrangem ent, And will reproduce such b eau ty th a t and seem Io know th at occasional other pastim e. C ardinal de Retz and therefore of lim ited duration; doth hil us w ith su rp rise. • . ... For tho’ beauteous was the sunset, where j ,n,8haPs W,U prove a useful lesson ’blighted in the construction of but the passions and affections of its brilliant shadows fall, for future emergencies. The m other autom atons. Peter the Great was which these arrangem ents are the I-ar more beauteous th e su n rise an d th e I r „ ■ scenes it doth e n th r a ll: fox carries half-crippled game fo the best ship-carpenter of his em tem porary form, seem not to be rec fo r it lights the spacious canvas and re- her burrow and sets her cubs sc a m pire.— [ Bible of Natn re. ognized by C hristianity,—or, if at E v o lu tio n l l l l t jects th e tin ts of grev I v a B-v ? _ . 1 a • . I’liat were changed by evt solution at the l’e r ,n £ ln p u rs u it, allo w in g th e best all, not in any proportion to th eir I heology and Science. ru n n er to monopolize the tidbits relation am ong our faculties. Yet O how w ondrous are th e changes evolu \ oung kittens practice mouse catch more striking, perhaps, isth e ignor tion guides us th ro u g h , B Y H A H Hl KT M A H T IN E A U . ing bv playing with b ills; puppies Ami if e ’e r it d isarranges, it can also ing of the faculties, and their ac well co n stru e; run after grasshoppers, young squir All! how true it is that C hristi tion, which are concerned in the kadi and every lorce of N ature is com rels play at nest-building by gath- pelled to th u s bestow i r- - r o ---- anity has not, as you say, Chris- pursuit of science and speculative Every gift, for evolution lias arran g ed r t 'i n g h a n d f u l s of le a v e s and m o ss. tru th . But there is no need to H e a ri'a u re ’ that Time don’t varv, and ' " ‘" » '¡ 'H s t, who h ad do- t ’».ini zed the world! There is some thing curious in the spectacle of dwell on the p articu lar omissions, we m ortals, like a cloud, m esticated a young beaver, one dav the em barrassm ent of every sect of while the fact is before us th a t n j,‘ eid ; 7 k e X : u d ; COl° ri,,g' tO W eara c a u g h t h i” r e t '» u ild in « a d an , ( hristians in accounting for this C hristianity has not C hristianized W e know these things will happen while acro ss th e floor of his stu d y . T he fact. I know’ no subject on which the w’orld, nor has the slightest N’a tu re holds her place, And the n atu ral laws of n a tu re will all little engineer had dragged up a there is more m iserable flounderin'- prospect a t present of doing so,— o th er laws erase. cart load of hooks, papers, sticks of am ong incom patible views and u n failing even to produce the rem ot O just picture all the splendor th at dam e wood, etc., and piled them up t<> tenable assertions. From those who est likeness of itself where it is N ature d oth bestow, best advantage, placing the heavier with a foregone conclusion set about most loved and honored. From And she never m akes d istin c tio n , let the volumes in the bottom stratum and ra ik lie high or low; estim ating how much C hristianity some once C hristian nations it has >lie Langs m any a gloomy c u rtain o ’er the the lighter ones higher up, and has done for the world, to those avowedly died out: and am ong us t h e archw ays hung with w ealth, filling out the interspaces with let And in m any a lowly cabin we find s u n who give the m atter np and declare [E ngland], and in Am erica, where shine, joy and h e a lth . ters and journals. Every now and the de^hy to hr* a m ystery of provi it is supposed to be held in its h ig h In her giving ami her taking, we will then he would “ .-land off” to scru dence, I find none with whom I can est p u rity , it fails to m ake men less find th e jov. th e woe — Lut the sunny gleam s will brig h ten e v tinize the solidity of the structure for a moment agree. To me. the wor^ b ’> more sincere, more cour- ery cloud she m ay bestow . and return to mend a m isarrange- - ature s wed to evolution, and its force wonder would be if it had Chris ageous, or more kindly, than they ( affects each cause, tn m it here and there. At — home have tianized the world. Its unfitness are elsewhere. -------- --- — we uo»c I or tis born ot a religion, nam elv, all ( hildren m anliest early sym p- for saving the race—for a universal bishops living in palaces, while tne n a tu ra l laws. Infants reception by m ankind—seerns to be Hundreds and thousands of the ^ ct we find far, far too m any who are tom s of a sim ilar instinct. b iiul amt w ill not sec. oi two «»r three years can he seen shown clearly enough hv the rise of Pe°pl« »re neither tau g h t uor prop- Ami rcj.-ci th. se facts f«n fiction whicii -quaitiiig in the sand, excavating M oham m edanism , and by the er,y b d : and in America we see the they know could never he. I Ley gaze an I sec the sunlight in all its tunnels, or building prairie-dog spread of that faith so far beyond clergy »•'<! prayerful m erchants splendor rise, Young Indians insist on the extent that C h ristian ity ever an.(1 Proi«88i°nal men taking the V l they will not see th a t N ature holds towns. the privlege of breaking colts; the attained as to include, in our day a ari8tocratic 8' ,,e. the slavery the torce of all su p p lies; 1 '«y would fain em brace a p h a n to m , y .in .g .te rs of the Bermuda Island« fifth p art of the whole hum an race, g r a c in g " a t' weal’th ar°d i S T ’ fading of the day. dressed in fairy tales ami Haws, aim reject ta c ts’ tru e assertio n , h o ld in g ah th e n a tu ra l laws. know th a t evolution w ith its n a t ural light will show the Haws w ithin th e archw ays w here leligioii’s sha<lows grow. hi'L-kton, Mass. Skill by Instinct. By K. L O sw iM . • h e organic faculties of each spe T h at religion, im perfect as we see it to lie, met needs and gratified fac- ulties among certain races of men, which C hristianitv wholly neglect- in a conceit and boasting as h lt'e com patible with the sp irit of the gO8PeI aH the rnarch of a caravan to Mecca’ ,,r l ,‘e. fet,eh riteB o f the sav- American boy a tool-box is a m o re’ed. We are not of the races whose welcome pr sent than a velvet needs could be supplied by Moham- cop5 of I lore s Illu stra te d Bible, m edanism ; nor are we supplied, Swiss peasant lads practice sharp- even on the most superficial view, shooting with self-constructed bows, by w hat C hristianity offers'us. As The old English law which requir- the omission of a provision for the ed the son of a yeom an to practice antagonistic at once with the tatal- archery for three hours a day was j islic faculties of men made Mol. am- probably the most popular statute m edanism necessary, so the neglect, of the British code. On new rail- am ounting to discountenance, bv m ade bridges, etc., artisans, plying C hrist, of the domestic paanion.’and m u c h ' hap- pily, of the breaking out of the higher as of the lower im pulses of ,n opposition to C h ristian ity or independence of it. We 1 have “ nature bursting through theology” in an upward as well as a dow n ward direction. W hat an insult it is to our best m oral faculties to hold over us th e promises an d threats of beaver, and hell, as if there . X were us higher Ihan h h nothing o p ^ a o d in M trj strad d le a plank and paddlenround with a piece of driftwood, if their parents are too poor to afford them a canoe of their own. To a normal ' anim als are m arvelously ad- , y '1 to 1,8 peculiar mode of life, "■•Iy in the lower creatures the '■ exercise of those faculties ap- l " 'r s to be an inlsir 7' gift. The young bee builds its fir ir r t hexagon th eir trad e in the open air, are gen- affection,., nullifies its operation E n g lan d , 18.50.