.VU..UH music-oox set to play pleas- consciousness sets in, as the mys-
BO O K S BY H E N R Y G E O R G E .
ar|t airs when the child is put to bed. terious force we call life slowly T h e S cien ce of P o litic a l E c o n o m y .
M EW A N D CURIOUS.
Cases of chronic night terrors have takes le a v e o f its last citadel the Thi.work.in .il nminessentialsfiniah-
been
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m r etp was begun in 1891, an d was intende«
c u re d by j( w h e n all other heart, an d what is has become by H en ry G eorge to be th e crowning
ach iev em en t of his life. W id er in scop«
The boatwomen of C hina have no m eans have failed. O ther nervom w hat was. Thii
tb a n th e w orld-fam ous “ Progress an«’
n- ed to agitate for women’s rights— -jn ' a lid* have also found the box Cyrus Edson.
P o v e rty ” , it is w ritte n in th e sam e lucid
n
a p h ic sty le.
t p re se n ts political
they posses them . The boatwom au, e
t° promote sleep. It produc-
If m e n w e re n o better t h a n t h e i r econom y in th e new asp ect of a c lear ant'
e tb e rs h e b e a single woman, a * V
* }‘ ,r’nH,,lzi,ng etrect reliuo.ins tin world would be a h . ’u fascinating science; a science which
nee«!? no tech n ical know ledge or special
W ile , Or a W ieiO W , la L iiv Lead of t l i e i cn ^he n e ru n b system and a > o i i u d - indeed.— [W . K. Clifford.
learn in g to stu d y and w hich a p p ea ls t«
th e v ast m ajo rity of m en liecause it
house, th at is to say, of the boat. er, more peaceful repose.—[Journal
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with the passengers, collects the
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train of thought, lest it should land
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e r ty in L a n d .
from below will fix them mure firmly that the celestials look askance at
A N orth Carolina m ountaineer P r A o p controversy
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P ajier, 20 cen ts.
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they shall be air-tig h t. Then as thinker.
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M oham m edanism is spreading phere and the hem isphere come to­
does not capsize, the confined air far more rapidly th an C hristianity gether. T h at produces a great pres­ Property in Land, The Condition of Labor,
The Land Question.
will give her a chance at least of in Africa. Sixty m illions of Afri- ! sure, and causes the earth to sweat.
Bound to g eth er in one volum e. 12mo.
floating. At present hatches are cans have been converted to the T he sweat we call fog.’’
clo th , $1.00.
put in from above and are designed faith in Islam. W hat is more, ev­
JONES’ BOOK STO RE,
A Fond du Lac little girl had a
to exclude deck-w ater,not to retain ery follower of the prophet of A ra­
- Portland, Oregon.
present of a “ch ild ’s Bible.” After 291 Alder Street
air. An air-tight hold would m ake bia is treated as a brother by every
conning it a while,she was observed
it possible to force out water down Moslem.— [F reethinker.
to count som ething on the first
to the level of a leak by pum ping in
Some preachers have asked the page. “ J d o n ’t like that hook,” she j
air.
question,“Can Agnostics he saved?” said,“ it’s too G od-dy for me.”
AND
An instructor at Colum bia Uni- and have answered it in the affirm-
Rem em ber if you send us the
versity has for a year or more been ative. Thus are m any sincere Ag- nam es and addresses of 25 of M a i n S t r e e t
S ilv e r to n , O re
conducting experim ents in g ra ftin g : nostics robbed of their fondest y o u r Liberal friends and ac q u ain t­
together different insects so as to hope, which is that the orthodox ances, we will m ake you a present
CARRY A CO M PLETE STOCK OF
make composite forms. H is ex p er­ heaven m ay i lu d e t h e i r g r a s p . of a copy of the Torch of Reason
iments have alm ost all been per­ W h at shall we d o to he d a m n e d ? — Song Book No, 1. 'I'his will only
S chool
formed on bombycid m oths. The [G. E. M.
cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
two-cent stam p.
S u p p lie s ,
process consists in cu tting two
One of the best features of pagan
chrysalids, pu ttin g the cut edges
B ooks and
together and fastening them by civilization — religious freedom —
S ta tio n e ry .
brushing the line of union with was destroyed as soon as C h ristian ­
i t y gained an ascendancy. “ From i
melted paraffine, which at once
| the very m oment the church ob­
hardens and holds the pieces firmly
D e a le r s in F r u i t s , V e g e ta b le s
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together. About ten p e rc e n t of the tained civil power under Constan- i
S’
; tin e,” says Lecky, “ tic* general
a n d C o n f e c tio n e r y .
insects operated on have lived to
principle
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u sam e Jew s, the her«*tics and the pagans.”
S T h e o n ly jo u rn a l w h ich presents fu ll ac-
dividuals selected
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•5 ' cou n ts o f th e progress o f the c o lo n i­
o, • „ and , much , sm aller,
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zation m ovem en t a lo n g the lin e s o f ]
species,
about
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u r n a l that g iv e s full exp lana-
six per cent, when they were of d if - , Bishop T urner of t h e A fric a n 5 '2 The tio o n n ly o f jo all
th e various th eo ries
fo r
social im p ro v em en t.
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sions o f social and relig io u s subjects.
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How to M ake
by means of the music-box. Night hum an beings are unconscious for
terrors never occur when the child several hours before death comes to
is sound asleep, but only in its first them. All the m ajesty of intellect,
stages. If the stom ach is overloaded, the tender beauty of thought, or
T |,e G overnm ent n atio n alised th e P ostal S ystem , w hv n o t also
th
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the crude, half-digested food irri- sym pathy, or charity, the very love
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nervous sym ptom s which term in ate all w aking thoughts, disappear. As
U N C L E S A M ’S
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