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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON. OREGON, THURSDAY, JU LY 14, 1898.
looking at biin, and glancing up
he saw that he was surrounded by
N a tu re , Science,
Hygiene
hostile Indians, and th at the lead
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er of the hand, in w ar-paint and
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feathers,w at bending over him in no
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amiable mood. He to k in the sit-
The war has boomed the tattoo- uation at a gla n c e _ . knew h is iin .
,.r’, languishing business in New m ediate danger and had no m eans
y (l,k into unexpected prosperity. of averting it; neither di(i he u n .
TG men-of-war’8 men are ru s h in g : Verstsnd a word of their language,
to have up-to-date devices em broi- But },e was self-possed, knew the
dei»d un theii persons. I he intro- universal language of nature, and
duetion of electricity enables the believed that even under w ar-paint
process to be performed very rapid- an <j feathers “a m an’s a man for a ’
|v, so t h a t a design which in the th a t”. He fixed his clear, hold eye
old way would have taken two or upon the Indian, and — smiled!
three sittings of two or more hours G radually the fierceness passed
e ac h , c a n now’ be done in less than away from the eye above him, and
half an hour. Trne-lover’s knots, at ]ast an
answering smile broke
full-rigged ships, anchors, mer- over- the face. Both were men —
maids and hearts are no longer in hot h were brothers
and he was
vogue, the first place being now saved! The savage took him under
taken by the stars and stripes, and his protection, brought him to his
the second by the Cuban Hag. Can- wigwam, and after a few days re-
non are also popular, as well as a stored him to his friends,
representation of the M aine.
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MAIN STREET
AND C L R IO IS
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Six T rails to Promote
Ç o . S c ie n tific
W is d o m .
A. G. McMILLEN, Proprietor.
In Place of C h ris tia n ity :
-All kinds of choice-
...FR E S H M E A T ...
Alwavg on b an d and sold a t
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1 Can ins be Forgiven?
2 Does Christianity or Sd Cu vö Promote Civil
ization?
3 is Religion or Science More Reliable?
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
P ric e s .
We pay th e hig h est price
C ash f Qr p a t StOCk.
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JU ST T H E T H IN G
to h an d to your C h ristia n frien d s. S en d
2 cen ts for 6, or 6 cen ts for 25 tra c ts ,
to E i . iza M owry B liv en , B rook
ly n , C onn., or sent! 10 cents
for 50, e ith e r kind or as
sorted kinds, to
THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.,
Silverton
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C u s i t e r <Sc I ) a v e n p o r t
DEALERS IN-
G eneral
M erchandise
An explorer in the Russian fur
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, in his “ Good
seal islands tells the following sto
H ealth” departm ent in the New’
ry of the natives’ love of liquor:
York Voice, answ ering a corre
They don’t w ant isolated drinks.
spondent as to the reputed value of
A little, they say, only excites the
fish as a brain food, says:
desire for more. They w ant it all
A chemiealex am ination of fish
a t once. They d rink for the effect Corner Main and W ater Streets,
SIL V E R T O N , O R E .
shows th a t it contains a considera
~ the liquor produces, and they don’t ____________________________________________
ble am ount of phosphorous,
. call it getting d runk, but “ p r o m e
chemical exam ination of the brain
shows th a t it also contains a con nading”— literally, loafing—having
a good, easy time. The women are
. Agents for»'.
siderable am ount of phosphorous.
quite willing th a t their husbands!
From this fact the chem ist jum ps
should drink. In th at condition
to the conclusion th a t fish m ust be
they are more tractable. One wo-
especially good as a brain fo o d ;,
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1111111 fold me th a t if her Imsband
hut there is not the slightest exper-
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unental evidence to support this :.
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m the general store, he would buy
theory. On the other hand, it is a
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any th in g she wanted. D uring my
well-attested fact th a t those com- ■ J
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first w inter on the island, when the
inimitiés and tribes of men which
governor or ad m in istrato r (N. G re b -:
subsist the most largely on fish are
nitski) was away, I found myself
the lowest in the scale of hum an
alm ost the only white man on the
developm ent. The T erra del Fu-
island. The governor had been ac
gians live alm ost exclusively on
customed to treat the whole male!
raw fish, and are perhaps the low
population to a drink on church
est of all hum an beings. A young
holidays, and I was expected to
student in a western college once
take his place in this benevolence.
wrote to A rtem us W ard asking
I told the old men th a t if they
how much fish he thought he ought
would come to my house I would
to eat to supply his daily mental
give each of them a sm all dram . I
needs.
The wit replied th a t he
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was scarcely prepared, however, for
thought a sm all whale would be
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the response. After service the P A C IF IC
about suited to his requirem ents.
T H E BEST IN T H E M A R K E T FOR T H E PR IC E . . .
whole village marched to my place,
the men bringing their wives, ino-
A w riter in L ip p in co tt’s for April thers, sisters and children perhaps
tells a queer story of how self-pos- -
’n a ^* I noticed that as soon
session and a smile saved a m an as they had d runk, the women a n d '
C o m m e rc ia l S tre e t,
from harm by hostile In d ian s in the young folks became sigularly silent,
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early havs:
and the family departed hurriedly.
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When the country was a century O ntside the house t h e y fe ll at once
younger, and the In d ian was yet in to kissing the paterfam ilias and the
the land, a gentlem an upon the rest of the men. It turned out that * \ >1 How to M ake
then frontier was h u n tin g with they had actually kept the liquor
friends, got separated from them , in their mouths, and, during the
and com pletely lost his way.
Ev- kissing, had transferred it to the
The G o v ern m en t n atio n alized t h e Postal S ystem , w hv not also
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M oney System ? A p lan is told by C. ELTON B L A N C H A R D
ery offort to retrieve his steps led m ouths of their husbands and
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him still fu rth er into the wilderness, sweethearts.
and night overtook him in a dense
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forest. Overcome with fatigue, he
lay down under a tree and slept
Strong opinions on weak founda-
Postpaid for 25 Cents.
profoundly. In the m orning he tions have ever been one of the
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All profits on th is book w ill be given to th e L ib eral U n iv e rsity
awoke with a start, with th a t inde- leading characteristics of 1 h< C h ris« it should be in th e h an d s of every th in k in g p erso n . A ddress all o rd ers to
BUREN & H AM ILTO N
“I M P E R I A L ” a n d “ P A C I F I C
B IC Y C L E S
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B U R E N & H A M IL T O N ,
Good T im e s fo r a ll T im e
U N C LE S A M ’S
H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E
scribable feeling that some one was tian religion.—C. T. Gorham.
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The TORCH OF' REASON, S ilverton, Oregon.