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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1893)
TALENT NEWS. VOL. •) fa- • TAIÆ.VT, OREGM', AIGLST lilh, lSfl ri.. ... i / ,,i ii 'i.n.1 il.n The 1ALENT NEWb is , published the 1st. and 15th. of each month. EI)WAR1) ROBISON, Em ro r . SUBSCR1 PiTON RATES. One year.... 25 cents, Six months. . . j of a dollar, Three months Two bits. Au. II. hristian or any rt'ligton, ha • I n rn ( f rotn his yout ;a other niat,.riJl |Mt. H but e xa-afull ' believer in evoluì on—that, however slow the process may I v, the world in m»t only gruwir g I wiser but in. tier. He believed I that religion -which to him was synomymous with superstition has ever been a drawback to human pro gress and that by the decadence of relig ion— for he looked upon it as declining may be largely measured the ad vane* ment of the race. He could hardly be » Itimi 0" lì. f. called an agnostic of the Huxley type for he was a radical unbeliever in iHiothtr B. C. Goddard, who was living alone state of existence. To Inm there was at his place on Wagner creek, was sud ample evidence against, and little in denly stricken down with paralysis while favor of, a conscious existence beyond milking early in the morning of the 3rd this life, lie has often been heard to re inst. He crawled to the house, a dis mark, in substance, that all there is of us tance of a few yards, where, about four — moral, mental and physical begins hours later he was found lying on the and ends in this world. To many, such porch by a sewing machine agent who a/ Views would seem cold and cheerless, but once went for assistance. Dr. Geary was I with those who hold them thev * form tbe summoned but he had little hope from the basis of the highest ideals of humanity. Possessed of a remarkably retentive first. For about two days he suffered greatly, then sank gradually into a coma memory and being a great reader, the de tose conditi in from which it was diffi ceased was a man of unusual intelligence His accurate knowledge of history, an cult to rouse him, and died at 9 p. m . on the following Wednesday. The burial cient and modern, has often been a sur took place at the Wagner creek cemetery prise to me. Having had also, a varied last Friday, attended by a large number experience in many lines of business ami of relatives and friends. The following being a grc.it observer of men and thing brief address was read by W. J. Dean at and, withal, a careful and logical reason- er, the judgement of “Squire Goddard,” < the grave:— Again the fell destroyer, Death, has taken he was often called, in matters of inter«»’ from uh a valued citizen. Again w e are brought I to individuals or to the community, was face to face with “the great mystery t iat often sought after and generally consul shrouds this world.” cred as unasaiiable. Death, terrible death, with mystery is rife, I »K - But is it not equalled by the mystery of lit '? The whence and the whither, the why and the how Have been mysteries ever and are mysteries now. Ask the wise or the simple, the king Or the slave, The proud »rthob»w!v, the saint or the knev •, But the invut» ry of death, of life and of birth Will ever remain the problem of earth. We are gat^ere I here to pay the last t r luftes of respect to o ic who has ever l«een held m highest rate »in hv all w ho knew lorn. I n -rd not dwell at length upon the worth and virtues of the departed. He wa-» know n too well to ren der thia necessary. Asa Lin I husband and fath *r, as a g hi to is an I obliging neigli- l»or and exemplary citizen he will long !><• re- membered He was a man of great i. tit tide of character. Strictly honest in all his dealing , it was difficult for him to imagine from whi m-r arises tin* iintiube to pursue a uniform oppo »ite course. While hr could forget mid forgive an occasional deviation from the rule of right, lie bad little patience with |srsi-tent evil d.s-r, —those who make no effort to reform. Although l»orn of Christian parent.-, tlie.fr- •ca-sd haw ever hern an ultra-unG liev i in tin Min C. Goddard, the snbjt ct«»( this memoir was horn in Chrm.ngocounty, Yew York, May 2otn IS22, having ih.iefoie, passed tli. tli.« score-and-ten mil • '.one of lift. His fatlu r James ' ioddttrd, v a« a soldier ami quarter muster in the war of ¡st?. It is worthy of m t« that the steelyard» that he turd in wc>ghic>. out rations to ti e r* in that war hnv« de.« • -:idc I as an ;i • r-l"O n to th • dec ’.is? I and have ever sima* K-en loq ( as an inter.- tn g r* I ic in his family, 1'hr dr eras, <1 I -ft hi» put. i mil home at t..«• age of sixteen aid made h.» way to the then * Ont tv est” state of Mi-souri. Hr w uh married to I »< mari- McClain in 1s t I and twenty vein . at.» r cro «.| t! e plains wit1 his family, to Ja*k». n county, < ’i• n, and I. cate I m r Phoenix In 1 • > be pi I i» <1 th. larm on Wegner creek w here he re-ide.I th • r tnaimler of liir life. Being mi exerllcnt cur penter he followed ihat trade for the m i-t p ,*• until about 15 years ng.». In 'di O'.ri be justice of tli« ’s .ice for svvi nd year» when h< acquired the sobr .»m t <>( “Sqicre.’ and was n r four y< urs usu s-or in thi» co inty, in whit, Official cap icitV hr gave the higliv»t sati»facti"l Two sons, Ifcndrick and Kern», rnd tw daughter», Mrs. M. II Cuietuan and Mrs. W .1 I »can,-in vi\ c hi a, an I w h >. together wit' all who kmw him, will ever c!wri»h hi« m. rn
