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
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for the sake of watching the m anip m ention of an y family relations of
fade of day,
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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 , •
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And the m oving p h an to m s, gliding th r o ’ I
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* 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
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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,
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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.
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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 „
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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
?
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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
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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.
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— 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.