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T H E TORCH OF REA SO N , SIL V E R T O N
O REGON , JA N U A R Y 11, 1900.
S ilv e rto n T h o u g h t Exchange.
stories as th a t of seeing a fence
through the ghost of a dead m an
NEW S AND NOTES.
Continue«! from 6th page.
walking, or seeing the “ em enation”
)0 0 0 0 0 0 O O O O O O O O O O O O o o o o o o <
speaker. He had as a stu d en t of of a living m an in another city
Mr. D. E. Sw ank, of A um sville,
medicine and physiology found it from th a t in which he was living,
Ore., visited the L. U. O. M onday.
too plain to dispute th a t the m ind were only instances of the subject­
The G erm an class has m ade a was the action of the brain.
How ive im age, m ade w ithin the excited
good start and the stu d en ts are could any one explain aw ay the brain, being projected as of an ab-
deeply interested.
fact th a t as the brain was part- jective form outside the eye. All
C an’t you help us to double the ly injured the m ind ceased, and I senses were subject to this inver-
Torch of Reason subscription list when the brain ceased to act the tion. T his was the cause of all the
mind wholly ceased? As to the ghosts or spooks ever seen, and
before the close of Vol. 4?
im m ortality belief, there was no ev­ there was now no m ystery about
Miss Georgia Davenport entered
idence of it. It accom plished no th at. T he belief in im m ortality,
the Business D epartm ent of the
good purpose, and was the one thing founded upon these spook stories,
Liberal U niversity this week.
th a t arrested progress on this E arth. was one of the worst of their evil
Miss C lara W akem an, instructor
Then the venerable gentleman consequences.
I t prevented any
in Art in the Liberal I Diversity, returned to the charge with anoth- realization of the true position of
visited in Portland the first of the er long detail of facts, such as ‘’spir- man in th is w’orld, or hope of m a k ­
week.
it em enations,” so th a t after a m an ing possible an ea rth ly paradise.
The dram a, “ Topsy T u rv y ”, is died he was plainly seen walking The speaker became quite spirited
being rehearsed by home talen t and beside a fence with a body so tra n s­ in some of his rem arks, and finally
will soon be staged a t Liberal H all. lucent th a t the fence could be declared the whole spook brood and
plainly seen through his legs. E m ­ consequences as so much rot, from
W atch for the date.
enations of living persons also oc­ which every healthy m ind should
We had a very pleasant visit
curred so th a t a person could be keep clear. T his was said with a
from Mr. H a rry Bailey of P ortland,
seen in one city while actually liv­ stam p of the foot as if to shew them
last week. He is very favorably
ing in another, etc. The Society out of the hall. A nd did they go?
impressed w ith Silverton and the
for Psychical Research had proved
The lecturer said he did not know
surrounding country.
“ no end of facts,” and were still at w hether he was alive and in the
Mrs. Em ily L. W akem an will it.
flesh or not after Prof. W akem an’s
read a paper on “ T he H istory o f 1 T his last budget of facts seemed diatribe. H e th o u g h t the word rot
W om an’s Suffrage” at the T h o u g h t' to have been too m uch for P rof . was no argum ent; but as his wife
Exchange Sunday evening. A gen­ W akeman .
had told him not to indulge in s a r­
He backed up against the stage casm, he would let the Professor go
eral discussion will follow.
and “ went for” the whole sp iritu al
H e questioned Pres.
M aster Thom as C arter and his business w ithout gloves. H e was this time.
sister M argueritte, late of S alt Lake u tterly astonished at the old talk H osm er’s charge of confusion, or
C ity, U tah, arrived from Spckane, he had heard in the intelligent city anarchy, ag ain st the spirits, and
W ashington, Tuesday noon and en­ of Silverton. The scientific discov­ Mr. Geer’s query how, if the soul
rolled as stu d en ts of the Liberal ery th a t life was the action and re­ was not dependent on the brain, it
ceased acting when the brain was
U niversity.
action of the vital processes of pro­
injured, by saying th a t the spirit
toplasm
had
ended
the
m
atter.
C aptain Geer gave first program
was dependent on the brain p a r­
of the term a t the Y. P. S. S. C. last This discovery stood ju s t like the tially for its m anifestation, a t the
F rid ay evening. C aptain D aven­ Copernican A stronom y; the discov­ sam e tim e it m ust exist indepen­
port is working hard to win and ery th a t heat and light were modes of dently of the brain.
the program n ext F rid ay evening m otion; and th at lightning and the
Then the choir gave a touch of
will be interesting.
“ th u n d erb o lt” waR not “ a th in g ” at
W hen th e audience
all. It was sim ply idle to keep on harm ony.
The stu d en ts and teachers of the talking as though the sun revolved reached the door, behold it had
L. U. O. gave a farewell p a rty °<> »round the ea rth , or light was a cor cleared up w ithout as w ithin, and
Tuesday evening to Mr. Jo h n Steel- puscle, or thought a ghost or en tity the stars of love and hope were
ham m er, who is soon to leave us for of some kind. N ature can never do shining as clear as ever.
M innesota. All report a pleasant one thing in more than one way,
Next S u n d ay Mrs. T. B. W ake-
tim e, though a tinge of sadness was for the law of correlation, which m an wiH pPeak on “ The H istory of
noticeable.
was the fu n d am en tal law of Sci- W om an Suffrage, and its F u tu re .”
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