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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1898)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVER'ION, OREGON, T ill RSD.\Y, JANUARY’ 20, 1>9S. That H issin g Link. 3 with the fair chamber wherein faint dreams, like cool and shadowy Nelson C. Parshall, in his lecture vales, divide the billowed hours of on the Proofs of Evolution, says, love. Again the miracle of a birth “Even today, thirty years from the —the pain and joy, the kiss of wel- time of that remarkable publication, come and the cradle-song drown- ‘The Origin of Species,’ the masses ing the drowsy prattle of a babe. —those innocent of learning on the And then the sense of obligati0!? subject, and those who study forti- and of wrong - pity for those who tied to disbelieve—cry out in chorus toil and weep— tears for the im- ‘."how us the missing links’. I his prisoned and despised—love for the outcry has narrowed itself down generous dead, and in the heart to the demand for man’s immedi- the rapture of a high resolve, ate ancestor. I hey want an ape And then ambition, with its lust who can build a fire, whistle, and of pelf and place and power, long- e<ing the Doxolog” ; though they ing to put upon its breast distinc might possibly throw off the fire tion’s worthless badge. Then keen- and the whistle.” er thoughts of men, and eyes that Sometime during the first half of see behind the smiling inask of craft the year 1896, there was in the —flattered no more by the obsequi- columns of the Youth’s Companion . ous cringe of gain and greed — devoted to Nature and Science a knowing the uselessness of hoarded R espectfully invite you to visit statement to this effect: Dr. Dubois gold—of honor bought from those th e ir estab lish m en t and con discovered the skeleton of an ani who charge the usury of self-respect vince yourself th a t they are mal iu Pliocene strata, in the —of power that only bends a cow show ing the greatest line of island of Java, which he submitted ard’s knee and forces from the lips G eneral M erchandise in Marion to Prof. Marsh, the distinguished j of fear the lies of praise. Knowing county at p o p u lar prices. comparative anatoimist and pale-1 «t last the unstudied gesture of es- Mail orders given prom pt atten tio n . outologist of Yale. Prof. Marsh teem, the reverent eyes made rich Yours to Please found it to be much more human- with honest thought, and holding like than any existing anthro- high above other things — high as poid ape and much more ape-like hope’s great throbbing star above Silverton, Oregon. than any human remains yet dis- the darkness of the dead—the love covered. In fact it could not be of wife and child ami frmnd. Then locks of gray, and growing classified as either distinctively human or ape. He-named it the love of other days and half-remem Pithicanthopos (ape-man). It is bered things—then holding wither in fact the much desired missing ed hands of those who first held -DEALERS IN- link. But now that it is found, the his, while over dim and loving eyes pious people, who thought they death softly presses down the lids wanted it so badly, never mention of rest. And so, locking in marriage vows it, they don’t want it at all. his children’s hands and crossing D. P riestley Corner Main and Water Streets, ——------------ others on the breasts of peace, with SILVERTON, ORE. Life. daughters’ babes upon his knees, ______ the white hair mingling with the Born of love and hope, of ecstacy gold, he journeys on from day to ami pain, of agony and fear, of day to that horizon where the dusk DEALERS in tears and joy — dowered with the is waiting for the night. At last, wealth of two united hearts—held in sitting hv the holy hearth of home happy arms, with lips upon life’s as evenings’ embers change from drifted font, blue-veined and fair, red to gray, ne falls asleep within AG RICULTURAL IM P L E M E N T S where perfect peace finds perfect the arms of her he worshipped and form—rocked by willing feet and adored, feeling upon his pallid G uns, F ish in g Tackle, C utlery, Sporting Goods, Etc., Etc. wooed to shadowy shores of sleep lips love’s last and holiest kiss.— SILVERTON, OREGON. by siren mother singing soft and [Robt. G. Ingersoll. low— looking with wonder’s wide and startled eyes at common things The love of truth is the begin of life and day—taught by want ning of wisdom. and wish and contact with the things that touch the dimpled flesh of babes—lured by light and flame, TORCH OF REASON and charmed by color’s wondrous robes—learning the use of hands and feet, and by the love of inimic- r\ beguiled to utter speech—releas NO. I. ing prisoned thoughts from crab We W ill Do It For You bed and curious marks on soiled and tattered leaves — puzzling the brain with crooked numbers and their changing, tangled worth—and so through'years of alternating day Than You can Get It E lsew h ere and night, until the captive grows familiar with the chains and walls KEEP THE TORCH OF REASON and limitations of a life. .BURNING.” And time runs on in sun and 'hade, until the one of all the New and selected secular songs set to fa m ilia r tunes. world is wooed and won, and all the lore of love is taught and learn T h ir t y - t w o pages. Price io cents. ed again. Again a home is built A. Wolf & Son A. WOLF & SON C u s ite r & D a v e n p o r t M erchandise Hicks & Ames Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Secularists SONG BOOK Or anybody SEND US YOUR JOBWORK Neatly, Quickly, and For Less Money We P rint A nything