< T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 7, 1897. A W o r th y E x am p le. E ditor T orch of R eason : Inclosed please find draft for twenty-six dollars, -$1.00 of which is for tracts of Scientific Wisdom, and $25.00 toward the building of the Liberal U niversity. I am glad to be able to contribute this w ithout ever expecting a per­ sonal benefit resulting from it to gestion, and that there is nothing of a su p ern atu ral character about them ;— T h at any considerable num ber of persons should believe these and sim ilar phenomena to la? owing to the intervention of what they arc pieased to call “ sp irits” is an indi- cation of a want of intelligence on their part which in this enlightened age is tru ly deplorable.— In v esti­ gator. me at this distance. I could use it to prom ote my personal welfare, but I do not expect to take all I : ► ►£ ► ► [ ; W h a t W e See. ......................................................................... i E . M ., 297. Liberal U niversity C om pany, ! S IL V E R T O N , OREGON. Enclosed f i n d .......................................D o lla rs assist in th e Y o u rs for Progress, C u t th is o u t, o r copy it; enclose w h a t you can, and fo rw a rd to J. E H O S M E R , P re sid en t, weak-m inded th at he rarely visits a poultry yard without being detected and kill» d. to C o n stru ctio n of th e L ib e ra l U n iv e rs ity a t S ilv e rto n , O regon. The S k u n k . The skunk is the onion of the have with me when I cease to be, anim al kingdom. H e is a thing of P and it is doubtful w hether the leav­ beauty th at is not a joy forever. He L ings will be expended in as grand a is not a joy after you sm ell him. ; cause as the upbuilding of a nursery He is so very strong-scented and ► of un tin ctu red science and mental liberty. I wish many others could see it the same way and contribute what they can. The beginning appears sm all b u t it promises much. Secularism has not grown more because its principles have not been understood by the masses. It has had but meagre presentation and has been much abused and m isrepresented from every m onu­ m ent of superstition. Now we have an op p o rtu n ity to organize our­ selves around an institution th at (if we m ake it a good one) will give us standing and show th e superior­ ity of our principles over those of our enemies. It is not ju s t for us to shirk our duty, and as soon as we loosen th e chains of supersti­ tion from our intellects through some self-sacrificing liberals, to feel self-content and refuse to support th a t which would break the chains from others. Each one of us could at least give as much as what would be exacted from us for the propagation of orthodoxy. W ith the best of hopes for the future, I am , Sincerely yours. Dakota. A. S eaman . : ^»¿< S ilv e rto n , O regon. Since he only eats th e brains and drinks the blood ofi chickens be is a most expensive m a­ rauder and no mercy is ever shown him. People who believe th a t the * H o w to M a k e Good l im es for all Time. skunk is the handiw ork of an 0111- nip »tent G<»d of infinite lovt The G overnm ent nationalized die Postal S ystem , whv not also th e Money System ? A plan is told by C. ELTON BL ANCHARD mercy have strange reasoning in his liook e n t i t l e d ........................... . . powers. If there were no other quadruped on e a rth but skunks U N C L E S A M ’S these sort of people w-ould still see H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E . nothing but goodness and mercy in _ Postpaid fo r 25 C en ts. the w'orld. These pious folk- who ; 1 j c i_ 1 j • 1 1 A ll p r o fits on t h is liook w i ll be g iv e n to th e L ilt e r a l U n iv e r s it y com pile readers for school c h ild re n It should lx* in th e hands of every, th in k in g p erso n . A ddress all orders to ” collect m any stoiies about squirrels I he TORCH O F R E A S O N , S ilv e rto n , Oregon. and rabbits, foxes and beavers, rats and mice, hut not a word about s k u n k s ; th e y a re a fra id some bright little fellow will wish to know why God m ade such anim als as skunks —E. L. M errill in Independent P u lp it. E ©i?Gh of l /IE R ’cason HARDESTY, Will practice in all courts of th e state. Special a tte n tio n given to collections and n o tary work. R oom 3, W olf B lock . OREGON. T h at extrao rd in ary interest has S IL V E R T O N , been excited among m any of the citizens of Springfield, Mass., in th»* case of Josephine W ands, the eleven-year-old daughter of Rufus P. W ands, of No. 37 Holyoke Street, who, as many of them pro­ S a le m , O regon. fess to believe, is a spirit m edi­ LRA D IN G N E W S P A P E R , D A ILY ANI) um ;— W E E K L Y , OF W E ST E R N OREGON T h at on every night for the last tw’o m onths strange rappings have Its daily consists of eig h t pages am i its weekly of tw elve. The been heard on the wall near the weekly is recognized as the leading g irl’s cot which have been so loud farm p ap er of its section. The daily plays second fiddle to no th a t they have disturbed the fam i­ pafso in th e U nited S tates printed lies in the upper tenem ents of the in a city of S alem ’s size. house: her parents have been kept Its circulation is grow ing con­ sta n tly . awake night after night; and she It is read am i valued hig h ly by has herself become so hysterical a w idespread constituency . th a t nobody can do an y th in g with It has a b attery of linotypes amt o p erates a photo-engraving p lan t. her;— Its a d v ertisem en ts are regularly That an investigation of the case read by th e m asses, because they read th e S tatesm an for th e news by several physicians and special­ it c o n tain s, am i th e accurate and ists in nervous diseases reveals the In terestin g m an n er of its telling. fact th at the girl produces the raps C. B. IR V IN E . Manager herself while under hypnotic sug- S o n g Book R© 1. The S ta te sm a n “ Keep th e Torch of Reason B u r n in g .” * P rice, Ten cents. The above shows the exact size of the little song book we have ju st com pleted. It co n tain s thirty-tw o pages. The songs are set to fam iliar tunes and should be in every F reethought home and Sunday school. Send us an order. Price. 10 cts T ry the Torch for Jobw ork.