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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1898)
i THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1898. NEW AND CURIOUS cotics, tonics which affect the nerv ous system in whatever wav, reduce the truthfulness of sensation, thought and action. Toward in- sanitv all such influences lead; and their effect, slight though it be, is of the same nature as mania. 1 he man who would see clearlv, think truthfully and act effectively must avoid them all. Emergency aside, he cannot safely force upon . . 118 system even the small- . nf . . , v°tis . est falsehood. And here lies the one great unanswerable argument for total abstinence: not abstinence from alcohol alone, but from all nerve poisons and emotional ex cesses. MAIN STREET B utcher é KINNEV PORTER Q o . -o ° ° AND A writer in ‘‘Knowledge” de- A. G. McMILLEN, Proprietor. M a in S t r e e t S ilv e r t o n , O re .cubes the great belt of clouds,some three hundred miles in breadth, CAKBY A COMPLETE STOCK O r -----All kinds of choice----- which surrounds the earth a little north of the equator. Within this School ...F R E S H M E A T ... belt rain incessantly falls, some- Always on h an d an d sold at S u p p lie s , rimes in sheets, and the wind sel- D f dom stirs, Before the invention of B o o ks and S ta n d a rd * P rices. steamships, vessels becalmed in the S ta tio n e ry . ch»ud-helt sometimes drifted help We pay th e hig h est price less for weeks. Even now the cross ing of this belt, where everything is Cash fo r F a t S to c k . Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables surcharged with moisture, is a dis and Confectionery. .. . . G i v e U s a C a l l . . . . agreeable experience for voyagers. The belt can be traced across equa- Since it is believed that the rays . . . . T R A C T 8 OF torial Africa and the American of ^he sun do not penetrate beyond isthmus, and the great rivers, Am- a depth of two hundred fathoms, it azou, Orinoco, Niger, Nile and Con- follows that fishes living below that go, arise in these rain-soaked re- depth must possess special organs gions , which are like exhaustless jn order to pursue and capture E D IT E D BY reservoirs, ¡because of the equa- their prey. Thus we find many ELIZA MOWRY BLIVEN CASH PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF FAT STOCK, torial cloud-belt is connected with deep-sea fishes with luminous C ontaining condensed a rg u m e n ts in fa- HIDES, PELTS. ETC. the trade winds, and in the course glands or plates situated on the voi of Moral S ecu larism and R ight Living, and ag ain st S u p e rsti of a year it oscillates north and t,ead, tail and gill-covers. One spe- tio n , Im m o ra lity and south over a distance equal to about ejeg has a brilliant headlight ex- Intemperance. HEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE three times its own breadth. tending along the side of the upper JU S T T H E T H IN G RATES. The cochineal insects furnish the jaw, and nearly to the eye. An to hand to your C h ristia n friends. P u b most gorgeous carmine, crimson, other species of the same genus has lished m onthly at $1.00 per y ear (50 tra c ts each m o n th ), bv scarlet and carmine lakes; the cuttle | » lantern on its tail; and in some D rake &. W ebb, fish gives sepia, which is the inky forms there exists two veritable THE LIBERAL U N IVER SITY CO,, • . • Oregon Silverton Oregon fluid which the fish discharges when sidelights located on the gill-covers, s.iverton attacked. Indian yellow comes These fishes have been taken from from the camel; ivory chips produce depths ranging from thirty-three the ivory black and hone black; the hundred to nearly ten thousand cdF C A .\V c lV exquisite Prussian blue comes from f™t, and both species have b e e n ---------------------------------------- Z2---------------- exq fusing horses’ hoofs and other found oil the coasts of the United animal matter with impure pot States. Other species have their Some nice Yard-Sticks to remind you that we have bodies covered with phosphorescent assium carbonate; various lakes are derived from roots, harks and gums; spots, by which the water below blue-black comes from the charcoal them is illuminated. Others have of the vine stock. Turkey red is eyes on the top of the head, and are made from the madder plant, which called star-gazers. In many fishes Of Furniture, Carpets and Wall Paper. grows in Hindostán; the yellow sap that live only at a depth of about of a Siam tree produces gamboge, ^ve hundred feet, the eye is larger while raw sienna is the natural than in those living near the sur- earth from the neighborhood of face. I he eye appears to increase Sienna, Italy, and raw umber is i» size in proportion to the depth an earth from near Umbria. India °f the fish’s habitat. ink is made from the burnt cam- ___________ © M P P w @ © S &F© 4 ^ ® ojcX phor; mastic is made from the gum J ©MU’ ( ^ © @ á s &P® tîj® l ä s s t of the mastic tree, winch grows in Six lr;,cts to Pr,,t"o,e Scientific; the Grecian Archipelago. Bistre is Wisdom in place of Christianity: the soot of wood ashes; very little ^ an *>e Ought n. 2. Does Christianity or Science ultramarine as obtained from the precious lapis laxuli,is found in the Promote Civilization? 3. Is Religion or Science More market; it is made artificially. Ch inese w hite is zinc, scarlet iodide Reliable? 4. Evolution and Comparison of B U R E N & H A M IL T O N , of mercury and Vermillion is from Religions. quicksilver ore. C o m m e r c ia l S t r e e t , 5. Does Belief in Miracles Ben SALEM Says Prof. Jordan in the Popular efit? OREGON Science Monthly: The influence of 6. Immortality or Annihilation? all drugs which affect the nervous Just the thing to hand to your N ■ s, i , , . »* -■ ¿ ** * ■*AX**’ L <« : H *•-* » v_ f— -vstem must be in the direction of Christian friends. Send two cents \ X 7 a te r Scientific W isdom . S treet.. M arket A L a rg e S to c k disintegration. stands in clear and normal rela- tions with nature. It feels pain as pain. It feels action as pleasure. 1 he drug which conceals pain or gives false pleasure when pleasure does not exist, forces a lie upon the nervous system. The drug which disposes Io reverie rather than to work, which makes us feel well ^ ve tracts, to Eliza Mowry Bliven, Brook|yn, Conn.; or send ten cents for fifty of either kind, or an assort- e(j package of fifty, to the Liberal University Company, Silverton, QregOn. __ ________ What is called secular — that is, r . u : .. -12 when we are not w ell, d e stro y s th e <d th is w orld 'unity of life. How to Make The healthy mind f()r t|)e six> or H;x cent8 for twenty- UOOd I lfT ie S ~ . TOT a l l I I I T ie Z l ' * The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also _ the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD in his lxK>k e n title d .............................. U N C L E S A M ’S H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E 2 = —^.___ Postpaid for 25 Cents. „11 »hat m «apred r . . . All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal U niversity is a ll t a , ft should be in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to All stimulants, nar- —[Investigator. The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon.