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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898.
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1 S E W AND CURIOUS.
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The E a r t h ’s Moon No. 2.
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earth is richer th an has been
-opposed. It has not sim ply one
m«»on, hut two, and possibly a third
reddish disk with white streaks. It
is an interesting “ find”. So big
and so far away are all the heaven-
ly bodies, our fam iliar moon alone
excepted.that it makes the uni verse
seem more home like to know’ th at
our dear old planet has a second
moon, one of its late children per­
haps, only 665,600 miles away, and
weighing only 10,406,250.000,000,-
000,000 tons! The discoverv of the
H am burg
astronom er tends to
strengthen the neighborly spirit a s
well as to enlarge our knowledge,
B. F. U nderwood .
the intem perate habits th at usually
accom pany such a life cause him
more misery than would a life of
honest toil.
Act toward others as you would
th at others should act toward you,
has been the basic principle of m or­
ality ever since th at sublim e rule
was annunciated by Confucius
2400 years ago. The only way to
prevent a violation, on our own
part, of this rule of justice is to put
ourselves in the places of those on
whom we act.
If we oppress our
fellow men we make them less able
to help themselves and thus cause
them to Income a public burden,
which in the end we ourselves m ust
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The W hite C om pany, by Conan Doyle.
The Ik‘em ster, by H all C aine.
A Rom ance of Two W orlds, by C orrelli.
T reasu re Island, by R o b ert S tevenson.
T he Sign of th e Four, by Conan Doyle,
k id n a p p e d , by R obert L. Stevenson.
The B ondm an, by Hall C aine.
Mil ah C larke, by A. Conan Doyle.
S jo r t Royal, by A n th o n y Hope.
The Man in Black, by S tanley W eynian.
Beyond th e C ity, by A. Conan Doyle.
Uncle T om ’s C abin, by M is. Stowe.
W eb t e r ’s P ronouncing D ictionary.
Cosm opolis, by P aul B ourget.
P eople’s Reference Book.
Around th e W orld in E ighty D ays,V erne
In D ark est E n g lan d , b v G e n . Booth,
- itellite may som etim e be discov­
ered revolving around this planet.
The second moon of the earth,
the existence of which has long
been suspected by astronom ers, has
been discovered and its size and
motion have been ascertained bv
M o ra lity .
J)r.George W altem ath of H am burg.
It is a small satellite, its bulk be-
W hat is m orality? Simply the bear.
U n k in d n ess to o u r d u m b Ships that Pass in the Night, H arraden.
Kentucky Belle, by Greene.
ing about one-eightieth of th a t of duties men owe to each other and anim als not only brutalizes those
.
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M ark I w ain, H is Life and W ork, bv
the old moon with whose face we j to the so-called lower anim als. Re- who practice it, but also le s s e n s
Will M. C lem ens.
P aZ B’ I )V H ughes.
are familiar, and weighing only ligion has no necessary connection their ability to labor for our profit. P ? ? !^OWI?’8
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A H oliday in Bed, by J . M. B arrie.
about
10,406,250,000,000,000,000 w ith m orality.
Religion pertains
Experience teaches us th a t m an Bv R ight, Not Law, by R. H . S h ep ard .
tons. It is 665,600 miles distant to w hat is assum ed to be su p ern at­ cannot indulge an appetite or pas- The C hild of th e Law, by De A larcon.
A ddress,
from us, which is two and two- ural, while the science of m orality sion to excess w ithout bringing up­
JO N E S ’ BOOK STO R E,
third times as far away as is moon is wholly n atu ral, being founded on him self more misery than the
291 A loek S t .
PO R TLA N D , O R E .
No. 1. The newly discovered moon, upon known tru th . The true basis sm all am ount of tem porary happi­
Although there is
not yet nam ed, I believe, revolves of m orality is u tility .
H appiness ness will offset.
around the earth in an average pe­ is the only good, and m isery the no scientific basis for a belief th at I
riod o f 177 days, its daily motion only evil. The object of every one happiness and m isery will outlast !
tion being a little over three de­ is happiness. The only reason for our individual n atu ral lives, it is a '
being moral is the fact th at m orali­ fact th at true happiness m ust last
grees.
Now th at its position has been ty brings happiness.
Man has longer than the days of our youth.
fixed, this moon th a t has m anaged found hv scientific stp.Iy that there There is no sadder sight than an
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of the motions of moon num ber 1, th a t fam iliarity with such uniform ­ m ents and never to encroach upon H E A IS SOLD A I REASONABLE
which have puzzled astronom ers ity enables him to ad ju st his mode the rights of others.
J ohn A. W ilson .
RATES.
and led them to suspect th at there of living in a way to cause the least
Am esbury, Mass.
was a little stray moon somewhere am ount of friction, and consequent
putting in its work. Its shadow suffering, which is misery. Science
D rake & W ebb,
accounts for certain spots on the is the savior of ¿nankind.
Science
Silverton
O regon
disk of the sun— not sun spots. For is neither a god to worship nor a
the explanation of phenom ena to devil to h ate. It is sim ply classi­
which those here m entioned belong fied knowledge, the result of m an’s
-Ai
astronomers have been searching study of the universe.
Knowledge
nearly 300 years.
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At
Although its existence is now a n ­ it we know how to escape m any of
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T im e
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the
Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
We ha ve more eclipses of the sun appropriating property belonging
in his book e n title d ..............................
than have hitherto been recognized. | to another, finds himself disap-
Of course the little moon can pointed. The constant fear th at
eclipse only a sm all portion of the his dishonesty will lie discovered
great lum inary, but it does the very , and
punished,
the
degrading
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