* T H E TORCH OF REASON •It-us promised bis follow« hevt>nJ r»na> •; , SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , F E B R U A R Y 17, 1898. o , ■ , rs .ba««l,ey should work greater commit err/.rs, b u t' th 'v '»1R give F R miracles than he did. Dr. D rum m ond says, ‘ Take a man and show h,m a m iracle, with h,s own eyes, then lie will b eliev e-> Vm bet lie m l . And why should lie believe u ntil he sees one? he prescribed; “ I have not wrestle«! with my God As Jacob did of old, Except by p reacher on his knees, As we are often told. . .. , . C»nd lias not w alked m eardon At morn cool; m orn or evening co o l; And if I said I ’d seen him th ere You’d take m e fo ra fool. m in e “ My dead were never brought to life, W hen friends around them grieve: Such wonders I have never seen Then why should I believe?” -------------------- -----■--------------------------- U I T I O N v IN ------- F H K R E E ’ -1- -«»VJLJJ2J. * THE LIBERA 1 UNIVERSITY it prescribes itself if it gets a chance. The greatest ene­ my of tru th is organized self-inter- esL Theology did not object to This is a R em arkable Offer! n ra n .» J Some One is G oing to be B enefitted! ‘ c n s m inds if it could only nave their souls; but the politician would do it in order to get their votes. Good will come out of evil, I From F ebruary 1 to A ugust 15, 1898, we have decided to however, if the lesson is brought home to the popular m ind th a t ed­ nake this R e m a rka b le O ffe r. The p arty sending ucation and politics are two things u- the largest n u m b er of Yearly Subscribers to th e T orch th a t should have as little as possi­ "i I i E asox , a, the regular subscription rate of One D o lla ra ble to do with one another. ¡¡H.r;.d ' • r— ! F re e a t th e Thinking the above passages, y T ' t T 1S,ty’ at !?lIvert,)n. Oregon, for One School |h e person sending the Second Largest n u m b er of from the J a n u a ry Popular Science l eai. M onthly, well worth a place in the subscribers at one d o llar a year, will receive Fre> * ‘I have not seen e x h au stless oil In cruse or any dish, Nor m an, when sailing o ’er th e sea, Take passage in a fish. W arfare A gainst Science. inspiration <.« i 11 i judgm ent of th eir p u p i l s ,, t „ m ake them incline to sound and reason»- hie views. He who is teaching by prescription will never teach with • ■ conviction. li'iith does m t need to ---- ----- E E . ’ ------ T L IS T E N ! i * R E A D !! * T uition and B oard The w inners of these prizes m ay The warfare of science with th e­ T orch of R eason , I send them to T u itio n one year. choose any course of study given in the U niversity. ology has been am ply and im press­ y ou. M rs . M. M. T urner . L em em her th e Liberal U niversity is the O nly School of ively related by such w riters as Buckle, Draper, and president An- T he M urder an d R obbery of Jew s, tlie kind, and an offer like th is is Indeed Remarkable. drew White; and m any have sup­ posed th at science, having accom- December 5th Bucharest, in plished the warfare and come out ho u m an ia, was the scene of an at- will receive free tuition for a year and free hoard besides. victorious, had no other foe to fear. taek 0,1 the Jews, which reminds Another enemy has appeared in the “ ne °* those frequent assaults on! field. T hat enemy is p arty politics, ,he people throughout Christen-! will receive free tu itio n for a year. and the science it especially attack s ^ orn d u rin g the Middle A ges and ,1 * R U LES * O F * T H E * C O N T E S T * is the highest science of all — th»j 1,1 ^ ’e’’ centuries. At Bucharest it j All subscriptions Diiint I«* pui<| in jtdvHih'e. science of society in its various ’s eighteen were killed or fatal-j Wonfiy m u st be forw ardeil w ith th e order. branches. *.v injured and large num bers were! All orders must be mail« «1 t«> us an.l I...up , i,(. ¡xwtmarlc at the office of mailing ihe very essence of scientific a,en a,,(l robbed. S tudents of teaching lies in its freedom. Teach- ^ ie u n ’versity started the row’ and not later th an M onday. A ugust 15, 1898. ing that is not free can only usurp rollMller clem ent continued and -a the name of science. If the word ^ r’lshed the work of m urder and S ni nl'1 yOUl eLt nr Jl,at you vv ish to e,,ter the contest. means anything, it rneanH .Sim ple copies will he sent for tw o cen ts each. means the ^ ’^ age" A hundred of th e Jew A ddress all letters and m ake all orders p ay ab le to growth of the hum an m ind toward baiters were arrested by the police, t r u t h , toward a true com prehension but most <- ser\e, exam ine, tabulate, co-ordi­ Jewish rabbi, and editor of the nate those facts, and ex tract from American Israelite, referring to the them their widest and deepest B ucharest affair, says: As long as R oum ania was T u rk ­ meaning. Science does this in the nothing of • the kind interest of m ankind, in order th a t ish, „ . • !"" kl"i1 occurred « « u rre d T > > .. . _ . • . . , „it , , But now it m an independent Chris- weall m ay understand the condi- tian state, and there exists no cause turns surrounding us in the world, why those sem i-barbarous hordes d apply our energies in the most sboub^ »<>t slay and plunder the profitable m anner for the promo- J e " s’ when their more enlightened tion of our own and oth ers’ h mni- co' rellg,o" i8t8 . 'n A ustria do the lh>s ' Pl same, and their most enlightened / . , . confreres in G erm any preach loud- I-'Tiring this in m ind, we may see ly and em phatically the doctrine of an ominous sign of the times in an (‘xterm inatinii. It is evident that article which appears in the Octo drristendoin has turned stark and t - r num ber of the American lour- mad, deaf m the voice llai c • i , ... Jo u r of reason and conscience, blind to . f sociology, desenh,ng how the the rights of man and hum anity "pulist party in the state of Kan- hke the steers in the arena of a 'as, having captured the state leg- ^P a ,,i*h hull-fight—not among the idature, proceeded to m ake a raid loW?r ClaSS ° f criminaIt,> but among on the i. i r, students, and political lead- lh. «tofu .,«« A gricultural College, ers. This priests is the sham e of Christen- J J a I I V I O -------------------- ----- -- ------------------------ SO M EON E A N O TH ER 1 in i r e Q r a -A n t/> J I. .. X L 1 • A. Wolf & Son re, after some prelim inary man- rs, they dismissed a consider«- portion of the faculty, including 1 K* president, in order to insure t,,at the doctrines tau g h t therein ould be in line with Populist pol- lt,(* ’ * 1 political control in such m at- t r- is bad. I he only way to have great teachers is to seek out men dom at the close of ihis century, If C hristian nations should use their combined influence to prevent such outrages in Christendom they would so<»n cease; but the anti-Jew - if-h feeling is still strong in some of the most enlightened C hristian na- lions, and until this abates probab- b ’ little will be done, by concentrat- ’ action to prevent these disgrace- °L «ho have profoundly studied their h" ',ed,aP ,in«‘ ,h® t- i t • . Jews, whose sefferings by |/ersecu- rol subjects, and whose inter; tion have surpassed Those of any several „ l ; ''"8 in expounding them is other people on the earth, b . f . u . , R espectfully in v ite you to visit th e ir estab lish m en t and con­ vince y o u rself th a t they are show ing the g reatest line of G eneral M erchandise in M arion county at p o p u lar prices. Mail orders given prom pt atten tio n . Yours to Please A. WOL F & SON Silverton, Oregon.