THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVER'ION, OREGON, T ill RSD.\Y, JANUARY’ 20, 1>9S.
That H issin g Link.
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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
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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
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Corner Main and Water Streets,
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others on the breasts of peace, with
SILVERTON, ORE.
Life.
daughters’ babes upon his knees,
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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
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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
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