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iu f tU i u t REASON HIAEKIGA OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1897.
There seems to be something that’s Again if we divide 1056 by 9, the
always pushing a fellow down. I number of patriarchs, we find their the writer of the above mentioned
S IL V E R T O N
paper get his data and detail o f
wonder if there is a devil.”
average ages to have been 117J facts.
“There's something as bad asone; years, entirely contradicting the
SHOP.
The following is the key to the B A R B E R
but, with courage, we can get the bible account itself. Now as the
better of it. There’s as much g<>od preachers are fond of saving we problem: From Adam to Noah 1056
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years.
Flood threatened 2448,
luck as ill luck.
infidels garble scripture, and if we which date is only useful as refer­
“Then I must begin to have heaps read anything in the bible we don’t
a r t is t ic w o r k .
of good luck, for all my life I ’ve understand it, I hereby challenge ence. Gen v n : 6 dated 2439, 100
years later, and verse 6 says, “Noah
had nothing but bad.”
any preacher or biblical scholar to
“ You are young yet. I guess • elute the truthfulness of the above was 600 years old.” Now 600 and W hen you w a n t a Good Sm ooth S have
1 *.r a h irs t Class H air-cu t Call On
you’ll have a good ending, in spite figures. That the flood (Gen. vii. 100 are 700, which number added
of your beginning. Here’s a bag of and vin.) is notliing but a myth, to 1056 makes 1/56, the date of the
E. E. TA Y LO R ,
g<dd to take along with you. Don’t can be proven by the bible itself year when the flood was threatened,
and
if
it
commenced
in
the
600th
lose it. xIt’s the best friend you (Joshua xxiv: 2-3) which says,
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v ear of Noah s life the date of course
will ever find.
“and Joshua said unto all the peo­ must be 1656 B. C. when the flood
SILVERTON.
“Excepting you. I owe you my ple, thus saieth the Lord God of
OREOON.
commenced.
Any
one
can
now
life, at the risk of your own.”
Israel, your fathers dwelt on the
“That’s all right. I did it to other side of the flood in old time, figure out the rest if he uses Gen.
satisfy my own conscience. I ’d even Terah, the father of Abraham, vii . as a basis. Whoever will read
been a mean fellow, if I hadn’t. and the father of Nachar; and they the story of the flood, will perceive
You can pay me back some time.” served other gods. And I took that there are two distinct and en­
colored w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N ”
tirely different accounts. The first
“I hope so.”
your father Abraham from the
Dyes will m ake beautiful Car-
“ Hullo! I believe that’s Big other side of the flood, and led him account commences Gen. vn: 13
p e ts and Rugs, an d , u n lik e
Dick away off on the mountain throughout all the land of Canaan, and ends Gen. vii : 22. The sec­
o th e r dyes, th e colors ob tain ed
ond
and
different
account
com­
will not wash o u t or fade.
there,” burst out Morton, while and multiplied his seed, and gave
mences
Gen.
vii . and ends with the
I hev a re sim p le and econom ­
looking through his field glass. him Isaac.” Thus we have not
ical to use, and th e new ‘•P er­
“ He’s a couple of miles off. “I t’ll only the infidels and other intelli­ /th verse. The first account again
fection v/otton Dyes are espe­
take him, over that rough road, at gent persons doubting th e story of commences abruptly at the 8th
cially
ad ap ted for Rugs and Rag
verse
of
this
chapter,
and
is
contin­
least twenty minutes to arrive here.
C arpet m aking.
universal flood in the days of ued to the 24. I will now proceed
1 he train is due, and in ten min­ Noah; but also God Almighty him­
For Sale By Ail
to show by the above chapters
utes more you are safe.”
self, and the holy bible itself into
d r u g g is t s .
are clearly two
Morton bent down and put his the bargain emphatically denying that there
GUISS & SON,
accounts mentioned. Gen. vi: 19-20
ear on the track.
the story, in unmistakable words.
Wholesale Agents.
“It’s coming,” said he. “Dick’ll Laying aside anything that may says, “and of every living thing of
all flesh, two of every sort shalt
silverton ,
just miss his game, 1 guess.”
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cause ridicule or doubt as to the thou bring into the ark, to keep
The train rattled up. Little story of the flood, or the truthfull-
Pete jumped on board. Morton ness of the writer thereof, it is them alive with thee; they shall be
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pressed his hand and hade him clearly seen by the bible itself that male and female, of fowls after
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good bye, and soon he saw the it finally became incumbent on the their kind, and cattle after their
train winding around the crag, and Jehovah of the Israelites to deny kind of every creeping thing Force and M atter, B uchner, cloth $1 00
of the earth after his kind; Locke on H um an U n d erstan d in g
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then it disappeared.
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this absurd story, by the mouth of two of every sort. Nothing could An Ideal R epublic, p a p e r........
A risto tle’s E thics, G illies, c io th ’ ' 1
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“I wish I ’d gone too,” said he. iis servant Joshua the ancient
N atu re C ure, Dr. C onger,(new )
“I begin to feel lonely without that \\ eyler. But the lie is still taught be more explicit or plainer than I he
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the above instructions
little chap.”
Sarne as last in le a th e re tte
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to Christian Sunday school chil­
V obrey’s R uins, clo th , 76c p a p e r, i i 60
I
will
now
produce
the
proof
of
He turned and met Big Dick and dren, notwithstanding the denial
\ ital ro rc e , A. C l.evannes, “ . .
20
his party galloping up to the sta­ and the plain statement in the the second account. As I said be­ A risto tle ’s Politics, E llis.c lo th . . . 60
fore it commences Gen. vii : 2 and T rials an d T riu m p h s of L abor, B er­
tion.
nard!, p a p e r ..........................
book of Joshua.
says,
“of
every
clean
beast
thou
shalt
H
y
p n o tism , Plow it is Done, its
“Too late again, by God,” said
Any one who has never read the take to thee by sevens, the male
I ses and its D angers, Ja m e s R.
Dick.
Cocke, M. D., d o t h . . . . . .
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bible carefully cannot be aware of and his female; and of the beasts
Dialogues of P lato, tra n sla te d bv
“ ^ou should get up earlier in the number of lies and the amount
c lo th ............................
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gQ
the morning,” said Morton, “or ra­ of obscenity contained within the th.it are not clean by two, the male Del Care M v, ar’s
H istory of M onetary
ther you shouldn’t go to bed. I pages of this so-called holy book; and his female. Verse 3, says “offowls System s, c lo th ................................ o 00
R e n an ’s Life of Jesu s, p a p e r............
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didn’t. Your goose is cooked; but and for the benefit of the memliers also of the air by sevens, the male M
olecular H ypothesis of N atu re.
26
you’ll have to eat it in San Fran­ of the \ \ . C. I. U. who recently and the female. ’ The first account L o c k w o o d ....................................
H
andbook
of
C
urrency
and
w
ealth,
says two of every kind male and
cisco.”
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applied to the school directors at female, and nothing is said about
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a
p h ea l’s Astrological A lm anac and
“I’ll make you pay for this. Eugene, to allow or compel the
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W hat right had you to interfere school teachers to read the bible in clean or unclean animals. The L anguage
of th e S ta r s ........................
second account says sevens of clean W h ith e r are We D riftin g as a N a­ 50
with the little cuss?”
the public schools of Oregon or and two of unclean beasts and tio n , W iley, p ap er ........................ 50
[ to be continued .]
that part of the state in their fowls. We thus see by figuring We keep u p w ith th e tim es in L iberal,
neighborhood, I would respect­ out the account of the flood that the I roirressive and Reform l/ooks, and ask
For the Torch of Reason.
fully inform them, that it is now on antiquity of Genesis has vanished; you for all y o u r lx>ok o rd ers; will fu rn ish
The Flood.
you any book you w ant a t th e lowest
record in the courts of the state of its authenticity and holiness must
, A‘,<,reP8 al1 o rders, W. E. Jo n es,
In Genesis v. will be found the Kansas, that the so-called holy
291 A lder s tre e t, P o rtlan d , Oregon.
genealogy from Adam to Noah, bible is an obscene book, and that also follow it, for I have proven by
the words of God himself, that the
Who can think
with the ages of the patriarchs. the proofs can be forwarded to them
o f some simple
1 he list begins with Adam, created if needed. But to return to our story is not true. But the lying
r . one thousand \ Inventions
fi.ww wanted.
prize
B
P**® O
offer
1004 B. C. and ends with Noah subject: we find according to Genesis preachers will still continue to 2nd newYuu&lkA.:/?!:
teach otherwise, in spite of the fact
-448 B. C. From Adam to the vn. vin. that the flood was threat­
that the bible says God himself
birth of Noah (verse 29 dated ened in the year 1756 B. C. The denied
the fabulous story. It can
-948B. C.) the number of flood began Dec. 7, 1656 B. C. also be proven by I. Chronicles,
years was 1056. The same Water remained on the earth 377 that Genesis, is copied from Chron­
number of years will also be days or 377 days after the rain icles, and as Homer is older than
''md if one will add up the ages of ceased. The ark rested on Mount Chronicles, the very first book in Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat­
bible is not as old as Homer by ent business conducted lor M oocratc F e e s .
'b»‘ patriarchs, when they became Ararat May 6, 1655 B. C. but Noah the
O ur O r r ic c is O rrosit < U, 8 . PATCNTOrner
>00 years. Therefore Genesis must and
we can secure patent in fess time than those
‘ »1 hers of their first sons. But the did not leave it until the 18 of Dec. I>econsidered traditionary and fabu­ remote
from Washington.
4^.en<iw iodei drawln* <* Photo., with descrip.
'¡m total of the ages of the patri­ 1654 B. C. (St. Louis Republic.) lous, and of no authority whatever; ' A ,; -
advi*e’ ’^Patentable or not, free of
charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured.
and
like
the
baseless
fabric
of
a
archs as given in this chapter (Gen. Now as the dates given above do
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cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries
dream,
it
fades
away
and
leaves
y ) will be found to be no less than not agree with the dates given in
sent free. Address,
’035 years, a most glaring error. the margin of the bible, how did not a rack behind.
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