7 T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV E R T O N , OREGON, A P R IL 6, 1899. L adies’ Bazar! was no danger from sm all guns, Do you tak e th e but they were shelling us heavily, .A Fin© Line of. E ditor T orch of R eason : the shells bursting in the trenches -Torch of Reason? It IP IV is V only JIIIV Vllv One D ollar 4 a * Y ear, M and il'i 1-hould have w ritten to th e Torch q u ite near to us. Two hurst so near contains reading m a tte r th a t you can M i l l i n e r y , L a d ie s ’ a n d C h il d r e n ’s uitr ago, but I have neglected to me as to throw sparks over my not get elsew here for th ree tim es the m oney. I t comes every week, too. G oods, N o tio n s o f A ll K in d s . , , I sincerely hope th a t you arm s. I begun to think my lime will accept this poorly w ritten and had come, although I do not remem- yO U t a k e t h e incorrectly composed letter as an ber calling on the Lord to save me, ten em en t. Notice the word or offering up any kind of prayer. W e e k I y O r e g o n i a n , Dressmaking, Tailoring, Dyeing, Cleaning I t is published a t P o rtla n d , ore., and Repairing. -atonem ent’’— this is w hat a good On August 13th we m arched in and contains m ore and l>etter infor­ Christian would say. As the dis- and captured the city of M anila, m ation in regañí to th e Pacific N orthw est th a n any o th e r pa per,an d rance traveled since leaving the from th a t date to the 5th of T ebru- is th e best news p ap er in Oregon. OLD H A TS M A D E N EW . Siates is so great, the tim e so long ary things ran on quite sm oothly, You get sixteen pages of good rea d ­ ing m a tte r each week, including all ,nd the objects of interest so var- although we looked for an outbreak th e news of th e n atio n and th e ied, I will not attem p t to give a of the insurgents most any day. ‘ w orld, for only $1.50 a year. Produce Taken in Exchange. On Feb. 5th we fought them all the full account of all. I will begin from the time we landed on the forenoon behind their trenches, hut W ill you a c c e p t finding th a t we could not rout them Phillippine Islands. A Good O ffer? C hilders &. S m ith We arrived in M anila Bay on in this wav, our com m ander con- For the n ex t six ty days, you can Water Street, June 30th, 1898, and on Ju ly 2nd eluded to m ake a charge in the af- get T he Torch of Reason and The Under Photo Gallery, W eekly Oregonian both one y ear for landed at Cavite A rsenal, where ternoon. The charge was made as only $1.50, th e price of th e Oregon­ SILVERTON - OREGON. ian alone. This is only a lim ited we remained ju st one m onth. Ma­ directed and proved a com plete su c­ offer. You should tak e advantage nila Bay is considered one of the cess, as we routed the Filipinos in of it at once. finest harbors in the world. I can tw enty m inutes. The charge that Send all orders for su b scrip tio n s and for assure you th at it is a pretty place. we m ade is considered a great one, sam pl copies to as we were against big odds. It the It is twenty five miles from the city T H E TOUCH OF R E A S O N , of Manila to the ocean. Cavite A r­ Filipinos were good shots or had S ilv e r to n , Oregon. senal is the place th a t A dm iral any pluck at all, there would not IS IN V A L I)A BE TO have been enough of us left to tell Dewey cap tu red , with all of its m a­ C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , chine shops and appertauences, and the tale. The F ourteenth Infantry such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e place of chisel an d gouge; to it certainly is a valuable piece of | lost in the d a y ’s engagem ent, 1 AND C a b in e t M a k e rs , for in laid w ork, dow- jroperty. R ight in front of Cavite ! officer and 13 enlisted men killed, elling, p a tch in g , rem oving splits and is where the great b attle took place and 36 enlisted men wounded — k n o ts. In fact, no between the Am erican and Spanish the greatest c a s u a ltie s of any or­ Main S treet Silverton, Ore W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r­ er of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines, ganization engaged. fleets, the result of which is too ag ricu ltu ral im p lem en ts, sash., blinds, We have extended our lines so CARRY A C OM PLETE STOCK OF well known to you already to re­ fu rn itu re , nor th a t the distance covered by us is quire a description, hut t will say ! A n y O th er W o o d w o rk e r, should be w ith o u t it. that the American people do not th irtv miles. All we can do now is School realize and can not im agine the de­ to hold w hat we have until re-en- AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. struction done by our ships. It forcernents arriv e from the States, Suppl ies, It ’8 th e only ronnd b it in th e »vorld which should be soon. The Tw en­ must he seen to he appreciated. th a t will Ixire a SQ U A R E H O L E Books and and do all tl.a t any o th e r While lying at Cavite we became tieth In fa n try has arrived already, b it will do. acquainted w ith the Spanish mode and we a rt anxious th at enough S ta tio n e ry . PRICES. Set of five,different sizes,postpaid .. $2.60 of warfare, an d soon realized th at should arrive in time to settle the Single b it, p o s tp a id ..................................60 if they pursued the same tactics m atter before the hot and wet seas­ with us we would have t.o trouble on comes on. D ealers in F ru its, Vegetables * i ♦ t 4 A ddress, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO. If the people in the States think in whipping them . 1'he S paniards S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . and Insurgents would have a fight th a t a soldier’s life in the P hillip- and C onfectionery. at night and sleep in the day time. pir.es is a picnic, they are sadly We have been in the It was am using to see the natives m istaken. leaving Cavite in the evening, then field now tw enty-one days without returning in the m orning, after a change of clothing, and have to ighting all night, ju s t as workm en keep our clothing on all the time, One thing is in our favor just now, would return from a factory. In the latter p art of Ju ly we es­ however— the w eather could not he O ur Spring Goods are^Arriving Daily. tablished troops at Cam p D ew ey,; finer. just across the bay from Cavite. To ; The Filipinos are generally a low BIG L IN E OF* this cam p most of the Am erican and m iserable class ot people. They troops rendezvoused in a short are so treacherous th a t you cannot time. The organization to which I tru st any of them . I hose who CORSETS AT 50c. belong, the F o u rteen th In fa n try , claim to he our friends and have GINGHAMS AT 5c. landed here on August 3d. From white flags Hying from their houses O U TIN G FL A N N E L AT 5c. that date to the present tim e we will shoot us whenever an op- have had a h ard tim e of it. p o rtu n ity arises. They are even _ _ p s e b a TCI a i FIS SO O FI p a S S S W a y , The P ennsylvania regim ent en- burning their own houses, thinking » h u t b iO C tC F O flG S f o l l w ! "aged the S p an iard s on Ju ly 31st, th a t in this way they are injuring .________ us, when the poor devils are only , , rp F tpa >ur first b attle with them after cu ttin g Off th eir noses to spite their M a i l O r d e r s P r o m p t l y A t t e n d e d T o . S a m p l e s b e n t F r e e anding. On A ugust 5 th , it fell to faces. W hen the trouble with them OR A p p l i c a t i o n . he lot of the F ourteeuth In fa n try ;o engage them again. I can as- m ay end no one can predict, but I D R E Y E R & C R A IG SILVERTON. OREGON. ture you «• th honestly believe we will have trou- * aa * a * t v the xz engagem w ~ ent was --- - — - — — — _ PRODUCE TAKEN uite interesting for about forty-five hie with them as long as we hold L———— ———— ninutes. Our loss was two killed the islands, i hese islands are the Luant tnd four wounded. This was my g r e a te s t‘‘white e le p h a n t” th e Unit- O l I T J O D U G p a r t m O n V ALW A YS G IV E S irst tim e under fire, and I m ust ed States has ever had on its lay th a t for a short tim e I was hands. nuch frightened, but after the fir- \\ h at can you expect of these ug had progressed awhile I was all poor, priest-ridden fools? I he BEC A U SE IT G IVES ight and became as cool as possi- C atholic church has nad full sway HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP )le. We soon realized th a t there Concluded on 8th page. A Soldier’s Le»ter. ». KINNEV PORTER The Largest Store ... in town . . . SPECIALS SEE OUR z __ Satisfaction