T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV E R T O N , OREGON, JU N E 8, 1899.
6
S T R IC T L Y O N E P R 1CE.
Dedication of the Paine Bust. m onum ent.
PRODUCE
TAKEN
D R E Y E R & C R A IG
The trip back to the station and
on to the city was enjoyed with the
(Continued from 3d page,)
Paine was the author of every a d ­ rest of the d a y ’s proceedings, with
ave you ordered vour S pring Suit
vanced idea of civilization in the the exception that the railroad
Our
yet?
The fact th a t we are the
world to this day. Mr. W akem an com pany, as is usual, played a
clothiers of Silverton, we would
ra n k s as one of the best lecturers trick on us bv delaying us nearly
N
ew
on the Secular platform . H is a u ­ an hour at the station an d tu rn in g
run a great risk if we did n ot know our
our
special
train
into
an
accom
mo­
dience alw ays learns som ething
clothing, for we g u aran tee it, and only
Carpets
and he is always ready to speak on dation tra in , and going into the
2ood clothing can hear such a guarantee.
anv topic of the day. Mr. \ \ ake- city at a “ snail gallop.” But we
are
man was the first to suggest the got there all right, and after bid­
If you w ant to get acq u ain ted w ith us
ding
good
bye
all
around
we
took
idea of the Paine bust, and now
w ithout spending m uch,
Big
he is proud th a t his prophecy has cabs, trolley cars and elevated
trv one of o ur ready
railroads, or allowed them to take
come true.
us to our respective homes; and Sellers!
m ade suits a t................
Dr. Foote eulogized Mr. W ake- we all fee! th a t the d a y ’s occasion
m an foi his excellent speech and was a success and our duty to t h e ,
H um anity
th en introduced Mr. H enry Row- A uthor-H ero and
pleasant one. Let us hope th a t
ley, of the Brooklyn Philosophical
Thom as Paine will go on m any
OREGON
Society, who interested the a u d i­ ¡another bust and we will see them I S I L V E R T O N
ence for some time with a lively in governm ent buildings and pub­
radical speech, which wa3 closely lic parks quite as frequently as the
T h e G re a t'
followed and loudly applauded by m onum ents, statues and busts of
P il C oddy .
th e assem bled audience. No one other great men.
New Y ork, May 31.
goes to sleep while Rowley speaks,
and th e d u llest can see the point.
A Biblical Puzzle.
No Need to Suffer from A ny Disease.
M. Florence Johnson “ furnished
Genesis 11: These are the gener­
th e cream between the layers of
Í E lix ir
intellectual cake” with her recita- ations of Shem: Shem was an h u n ­
B a c t e r ia c id e
V IT Æ -O R E
E u c a ly p tu s O il
tations, which, as usual, were well dred years old and begat A rphaxad
two years after the flood. Ar­
O r e - O li ne
received. “Thomas P ain e’s In te r­ phaxad lived 35 years and begat
M e d ic a te d S o a p
view with Saint P eter” is splendid Selah; Selah lived 30 years and
Agent
PEA R L W . G EER
and never fails to amuse an audi­ begat E ber; E ber lived 34 years
and begat Peleg; Peleg lived 30.
ence.
ypars and begat Reu; Reu lived 32
S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n .
After the program , the lunch years and begat Serug; Serug lived
baskets were again opened and ap ­ 30 years and begat N ahor; Nahor j
petites satisfied. Most of the peo­ lived 29 years and begat T erah;
ple enjoyed a pleasant walk and Terah lived 70 years and begat
visit to P ain e’s old house on the A bram .
Genesis 17:5: N either shall thy
hill, a q u arte r of a mile from the nam e any more be called Abram,
m onum ent. When the state of but thy name shall be A braham .
New York gave Mr. Paine this es­
Jo shua 24:1-3: And Jo shua g a th ­
ta te of 300 acres a splendid house ered all the tribes ot Israel to
was situ ated n ear the site of the Shechem , and called for the elders
To sell p roperty
of Israel, and for th eir heads, and
m onum ent, but while he was in for th eir judges, and for th eir of­
To buy a hom e
F ran c e the house was burned. On ficers, and they presented th em ­
his retu rn he built the present, selves before God. And Joshua
To go into business
said
unto
all
the
people,
Thus
say-
sm aller house, where we were p er­
To exchange real or personal property
m itted to enter and see the rooms eth the Lord God of Israel. Your
fathers dwelt on the other side of
To work, or to h ire w orkers
in which he once lived and wrote- the flood in old tim e, even Terah,
We saw the window through which the father of A braham and the
A N Y T H IN G
one of P ain e’s form er employes father of Nachor; and they served
shot a t him. W hat a lucky shot other gods. And I took your
W R IT E T O U S .
W E C A N H E L P YOU
father,
A
braham
,
from
the
other
to miss its m ark! N ear th is w in­
side of the flood.
dow, on a stan d , lies a large Bible
A ddress, IN FO R M A TIO N B U R E A U
Genesis 7:21: All flesh died th at
of the regulation fam ily size. T his moved upon the earth , both of fowl
W a te r S t r e b t ,
Silverton, Oregon.
< »ppoeite L iberal H all.
book now contains a copy of the and of cattle, and of beasts, and of
Torch of Reasou, slyly placed there every creeping thing th a t creepeth
while the lady of the house was ex­ upon the earth , and every m an.
How did T erah and A braham es­
How to Make
plaining a picture of M artin L uther
cape the flood?
M. M. T.
which hung on the wall, which our
friend from B razil had m istaken
for a picture of Thom as Painel C ut This O u t—
The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also
the
Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
O ur friend from Oregon m ade an
Fill it up, and forward with
in his book entitled...................
equally bad break by asking if a
$1.00 to the
m odern bicycle in the corner was
U N C L E S A M ’S
L ib e ra ! U n iv e rs ity C o .,
the one rode by Mr. Paine. Of
S ilverto n, Oregon
H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E
course, we had to visit the well and
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-- Postpaid for 25 Cents.
take a d rin k of the pure, cold
All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University.
w ater. No foolish questions were To the- P u b lish e rs a f the Torch It should lie in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to
f Reason:
asked about th a t, b u t we all rel­ o Please
The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon.
send the T orch of R eason to
ished the drinks. T his farm is my address for one year, for which I en­
now for sale, aud th e F reethinkers close $1.00.
Our Job D ep artm en t
m ust see to it th a t it is m ade
/f a m e ..................................................
always gives
“ P aine P a rk ” and kept as a ren­
dezvous for F reeth in k ers and all Post office...... ..................................
who adm ire Thom as Paine. A
m eeting was called of the in terest­
BECAUSE IT GIVES
ed ones, an d steps were taken in
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th e direction of protecting the \ S ta te .
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