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TR A C TS OF . .
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Eighty womleiful life-lik«* mov
ing pcenes will he presented by the
“ I know a m an,” said Voltaire,
j rq)»*ct<»scope at Liberal hall, F ri
“ who is firmly persuaded th a t at
Secularists,
day and S aturday evenings. Ad
the »hath of a bee, its buzzing
P. C. Mosier,will give
$50 mission ten and tw enty cents.
ceases.”
Lou Ames will give........ 50
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One man from South D akota,
A Friend will give.......... 50
The only hope for most professed
n tain in g condens«-,! arg u m en ts in f
D. Buckingham will g iv e........... 50 »me from Michigan and om* from C hristians is th at their heaven will C o voi
<»f Moral S ecu larism an d Right
L iving, and ag ain st S u p ersti
A. Slam au, M. D , will give. . . 50 Oregon came forward with fifiy dol turn out to he the Hot Springs for
tio n , Im m o rality and
R. C. Burt is will give............... 50 lars each for th e U n iv e rs ity th is lam e souls.
In te m p e ra n c e .
A Friend will g ive..................... 50 week. W ho will represent the nto-
JU S T T H E T H IN G
Do good constantly, patiently
er
states?
provided th a t
and wisely, and von will never have to h an d to y o u r C h ristia n friends. Pul,,
more men (or women)
fished m o nthly at $1.00 per y?ar no
Those men prom ising fifty dollars cause to say th a t this life is not
tra c ts each m o n th ), bv
will give the sam e each to the U niversity this week,
worth living.
am ount.
W here are leaves us in m*ed of just ninety-
THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO,,
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Yes,”
said
the
philosopher,
S ilv e r t o n
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O regon
the ninety-three?
three more in order to raise the five
thousand dollars according to the “ there are m any shining lights in
M 'M ILLAN & PITTMAN
plan of Mr. Mosier of DI. Let us the church, hut the jan ito r m an ip
ulates th em .”
report a good num ber of doners
And this is bible science:
“I
next week, and still more each suc
ceeding week until the one hundred have mad»* the earth like a sheet,
and the heavens*like a tent above
Read our offer on the 3rd. page. are found.
it” (Psalm s).
Swallow this, my
Secularists everywhere will be
The advance class in physiology
----- All kinds of choice------
dear scientific C hristians.
were given a final exam ination this pleased to learn th a t Miss Kate
H um an m orality, no more than ...F R E S H
DePeatt has entirely recovered from
week.
M E A T ...
science,
does
not
recognize
divine
her recent illness and is preparing
Always on b an d an d sold at
h is now to your J merest more
origin; it does not proceed from
to
take
up
h
er
work
oriee
more
in
than ever before to get new sub
Its rules are draw n from
t h e interests of th e cause of H u m an religions
S ta n d a rd
P rice s.
scribers for us.
ity.
She will deliver lectures on the internal dom ain i*f conscience
This fine spring weather m akes her way to Silverton, and on a r r iv and the external dom ain of observ
W e pay th e h ig h est price
us feel th at we should get to work ing here will take up the work in ation.— [B erthelot.
C a sh f o r F a t S to c k .
on the University building.
the University.
To live is to have jusdee, tru th ,
---- G iv e U s a C a l l . . . .
The Edison Co. will give a pro-I
The dram a, given by the students reason, devotion, prob’tv, sincerity,
jectoscope exhibition at Libera! ball
last week for the benefit of the Lib common sense, right and duty weld
Friday and S aturday evenings.
eral U niversity, was a decided suc ed into the heart. To live is to
The wonderful Edison projecto-j cess, and those present were su r know what on«* is w orth— what on»*
scope at Liberal hall, Friday and prised to see the students act their can do ami should do. Life is con
0 0 A W EEKLY PA PER
0 0
S aturday evenings. Don’t miss it. parts so well. Most of them were science.— [V ictor Hugo.
To R aise F iv e T h o u s a n d D o lla rs
fo r th e U n v e r s ity .
Scientific
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3 u tc h e r s —
I never in a dram a before. Civ le
Mount, as the ardent lover, acted
his part quite n atu ra lly and ap
peared to be at home on the stage,
while the object of his love, MDs
T h e Y . P. S. S. C. will hold its
Ada Page acted her part equally
meeting in the
hall T hursday
as well, to the adm iration and
evening.
A mock trial is the
am usem ent of all present. Lora
special feature of the program .
Ames took the part of “ T illy ”, a
The dram a ‘’Texas” will he rend stage-struck lass, and to say that
ered by a splendid troup at Liberal ’ she did well is putting it m ildly,
hall, S aturday evening Feb. 12th she kept her lover guessing while
in behalf of the Silverton M arine she h«dd M illikin at hay. M illikin
was tFie Irish servant who caused
Band.
the C atastrophe. This character
W h a t do you think of our offer
was very ably represented by Chas.
on th ird page of this issue? Here
Page, and brought no end of am use
is a chance for some bright, ener
m ent to the audience. Mr. Mason
getic young people to earn their
took the part of the English coach
way through the Libera, U niversi-]
m an who was in love with Tilly.
ty. Do your best, ami if you are
The oh! man was well im personated
not successful in getting the largest
by Louie Rauch. He appeared it
num ber of subscribers for us, you
the last part of the play just in
will still have the satisfaction of
time to end the “Great C atastro
doing great g<»o<l for a noble cause.
phe” in .i very satisfactory m anner
This contest ought to he the means
by forgiving all and m arrying the
of bringing us in a thousand sub
governess. This last ch aracter was
scribers.
an old maid “ with nerves” and was
Eliza Mowry Bliven requests you represented by Mrs. Hosmer. The
to send us your argum ents in a few same troup is preparing another
words on the following subjects:. dram a which they will present in
‘‘How Souls Grow and Decay’’, the near future. They have now
“ No F u tu re Life” , ami “ A n n ih ila gained a reputation as good actors,
tion P referable’’. W rite your arg u and their entertain m en ts will he
m ents in not more than fifty words looked forward to with interest.
and mail them to us for publica
tion. We want at least twenty-five
If work on the so-called C hris
to respond in tim e for next week’s tian Sabbath hurts man. we should
issue. Read Mrs. B liven's article say stop working; if it only hurts
on another page under the head of the sabbath there is no need to
“ Scientific W isdom” .
. stop.
The Corliett prize-fight
and
knockout w ill he one of the special
features at the projectoscope ex
hibition.
General history and m ental p t-
thology show th at peoples and p er
sons who have adopted m ystery
and divin»* inspiration as exclusive
guides have been precipitated at
; once into irreparable m oral, m ental
and m aterial ru in .— [B erthelot.
The S alv a’ion Army lunatics,
with their w ashed-in-the-blood-of-
the-lam l) lau n d ry business, seem t<>
enjoy a joke at the expense of th a t
same lam b occasionally. Last sum
mer they displayed in front of tln ir
barracks in D uluth, a sign which
read: “ W hy buy m utton a t 124
cents per pound when you can get
the lam b of God for n o th in g ?’’
B L. H jerm stap .
C h u rch
f le e tin g .
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hygie fie stor ies an»l lessons, le tte is from
young folks ami lessons for S ecular Sun
day S. bools. It c o n ta in s n o th in g super-
stiiio u s, and is ju st th e th in g for chil-
• licn , no m a tte r of w hat belief. If you
have no S ecular S u n d ay school th a t yon
can a tte n d , su h scrih e for th e L ittle Can
dle an d have a S u n d ay school in your
own hom e.
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