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THE TORCH of REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 18, 1899.
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C H A M P IO N S
OF TH E
NORTHW EST
’ were chasing the fugitive. He was !
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soon lost sight of in one of the
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One of the moet awful instances marshe3 south of Harvey.
Dykstra
rode
to
the
house
o
f
;
1 ly m O V lin £
from my Prem ium Stock, $ 2 .0 0 per 13.
of what alienists term acute idio­
pathic mania, the result of religious John Meeker, a farmer for whom
. P J. W. BROWN
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S ilv e rto n , Ore.
emotionalism, occurred on the 19th he had worked, and said: ‘‘God
of April, in the vicinity of Chicago told me to sacrifice my boy, and as
Many years have elapsed since the much as I loved aim, I had to do it
T h e G re a t
fanatic Adventist, Freeman, killed to please God. After I killed him
his sleeping daughter in obedience the devil laughed at me.”
Not waiting to hear more, Meeker
to a supposed divine command to
test his faith. At the time of the drove out in search of Constables
No Need to Suffer from A ny Disease.
tragedy the eyes of a horrified world Frank Harrington and Fred Ran-
were turned upon the insignificant dall. They arrested Dykstra and
E lix ir
B a c te r ia c id e
town of Pocasset, Massachusetts, took him before Justice De 1 ong.
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and the alienists of America and Deputy Coroner^eynolds held an
O r e - O lin e
1 M e d ic a te d S o a p
Europe made exhaustive studies of inquest and committed the man to
every phase of Freeman’s case,from jail pending an investigation by
A gent
PEARL W . GEER
his first falling under the dominion the grand jury. Immediately after
of the Adventist folly, to the rapid the verdict was found the officer
S ilverton , O regon
incidence of insanity, on to his final started to bring the prisoner to
restoration to reason. The story Chicago, driving across country to
of Dykstra is only less painful to Harvey to take a train. At 6
read because it is as yet unaccom­ o’clock he was taken to the county
panied by the details of the progress jail.
Dykstra is 35 years old and a re­
of the wretched man’s Bible-nour­
ligious enthusiast. He sat up all
ished delusion.
The story of the murder is told Tuesday night reading the Bible.
as follows by a Chicago paper:
P rediction by a P rie st.
To atone for the crime of Cain,
To sell property
Abel Dykstra, a Dutch farmer in
The Rev. Father D. J. Stafford,
To buy a hom e .
the colony at South Holland, slew
his five-year-old son Peter yester­ rector of St. Patrick’s church in
To go into business
day morning. He believed he was this city, and one of the most
To exchange real or personal property
Abraham and had a divine com- prominent Catholics in America,
w an d to sacrifice Isaac. For sev- whose name is known to almost
To work, or to hire w orkers
eral days the man had been moody every member of the Catholic
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A N Y TH IN G
and had begged his wife to remove church in this country, and who
their two children — Peter, aged 5, recently declined an offer of $40,-
W R IT E T O U S .
W E C A N H E LP YOU
and Cornelius, aged 20 months— 000 for forty lectures, made a re­
from his reach in case he became markable statement before the
twenty-fourth annual convention
A ddress, IN FO RM A TIO N B U R EA U
suddenly insane.
the Catholic Young Men’s Na­
Yesterday morning he met his of
Silverton, Oregon.
tional Union in session at Wash­
wife ard children on the way from ington, D. C. His statement was
the home of her father, Peter Van as follows:
“There is something lacking in
Drunnen, where they had gone for
safety the night before. Dykstra you young men. Your lack of
How to M ake
ambition
should
give
place
to
kneeled and tenderly kissed the energy, loyalty and interest in
boy, and, leading him by the hand, church work. I venture to say
all went home together. The that if the young men of our
The Government nationalized the
ARD
the
Money
System?
A
plan
is
told
by
C.
ELTON
BLANCHAR1
mother went into the kitchen and church will work energetically and
in his book entitled............................
was preparing breakfast, when she with the same ambition as their
saw her husband in the yard whet­ sisters, this country will be ours
U N C LE S A M ’S
inside of fifty years.”—[New York
ting a scythe, while Peter played World.” ______ ____
H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E
near him. Mrs. Dykstra ran out
____ P o stp aid for 25 C ents.
D isin terested .
and took the scythe from him.
All profits on this book will tie given to the Liberal University.
“I must do it this morning,” the
It
should
lie
in
the
bands of every thinking person. Address all orders to
Says
the
Literary
Digest:
man shouted. “God has ordered
T he TORCH OF REASON, S ilv e rto n , O regon.
“Fifteen clergymen in New
me to do it.”
Dykstra made a rush for the boy Brunswick, N. J., have informed
W ho D oes Y o u r —
t T h is O u t—
and dragged him into a shed near the people of that city that they
discountenance
Sunday
funerals,
Fill it up, and forward with
by and took up the corn knife.
not
only
because
of
the
unneces-
$1.00 to the
“Papa, please do not hurt me,”
cried*tbe C7,»DdVh71uureled
»«<« «»called-for etrain upon
L ib e r a l U n iv e rs ity C o .,
Silverton, Ore g sn
free himself from the man’s grasp, them as clergymen, but because of
Mrs. Dykstra also pleaded with her , h*> amount of Sunday labor re- If you require any
A Religious M aniac.
Rocks .
Vitæ=Ore Rem edies
T N F O R M A T I O N
BU REA U
7T
DO
YOU
WANT
Good T im es for a ll T im e
P rinting ?
husband to release the boy, but in Quit«’
1»boring
wh° nwd
.
Test.”
va,D*
of course the good pulpiteers
Holding Peter with his left hand, j)ave n0 eye on the main chance of
Dykstra drew the knife across the a generous fee for a Saturday’s or
lad’s throat. The vertebra? saved Monday’s funeral discourse. They
the head from being severed from
never afflicted that "'»71
. inn their great love for the laboring
the body. The boy ran nearly 100 man a* d the desire that he shall
feet before be fell and died.
rest on the Sabbath, doing nothing
Dykstra then saddled his horse, but listening to a droning sermon
C a rd s or C ir c u la r s ,
B ill H e a d s ,
N o te o r L e t t e r H e a d s ,
S ta te m e n ts ,
T ic k e ts , P ro g ra m s ,
I n v ita tio n s ,
To th e P u b lish ers a f the Torch
o f Reason:
Please send the T orch of R eason to
my address for one year, for which I en­
close $1.00.
Name.
B e a k s or P a m p h le ts ,
E n v e lo p e s
Post o ff ce.
iizxrvazi to
m t Lansing,
aneina «about
and
m ounted and ,1 galloped
. im m aculate
. . ., conceptions
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u
virgins giving birth to gods, is as Or any other Printing, you will serve
three miles away.
ie mo ler, |)urdensome a task as they think your own interest and help support
the Liberal University by send­
who had seen her child killed, 8i,ould be imposed upon him.
ing your orders to ns. We
hastily notified the neighbors, and Well, there is something in that.—
will execute them promptly, tastefully. State.
in a short time fifty or more men [Progressive Thinker.
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