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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 24. 1899. of the Winds. Oue hundred feet above towers the limestone dome, while fifty feet away pours the Luna .Fall. The irresistible force of the waters is here realized. Crossing the cavern 150 feet, you ascend the flight of stairs which bring« you out to your starting point on the narrow shelf. You have entirely encircled the column of water which thunders past you. After I had seen this, I decided that I had seen Niagara Falls, and made short visits to the Three Sis ters and Little Brother Islands, and then back to the town, where I again met my friend Mr. Level, to whom I am indebted for much of my delightful trip. There is still more to see at Niagara, but I had seen the whirlpool and rapids from the Suspension Bridge two months before, and as it was getting late I decided to return to Buffalo. A fire in the power house stopped the electric cars so I had to wait for a train, w’hich did not get me to Buffalo until nine o’clock. My good friends the Wetmores were about deciding that I had been lost, and Mrs. W. was thinking of or ganizing a search party, while her husband, tired by his day’s work, had retired for the night, and was indulging in horrible dreams about me going over the Falls and not being able to climb back. My re turn put a stop to all this, and we were all happily united again after my day’s visit to the grandest sight in the world. A Good Idea. E ditor T o r c h ok R eason : We were so well pleased with Mr. Geer’s jocose description of his visit here, that we want to distribute a few copies of the July 20th Torch among our friends. It will interest them more than my own writings, and they will probably read some thing else in the paper afterwards, and thus some unexpected new idea may get caught in their brain. So please send me 25 cents worth of the July 20th Torch. We enjoyed Mr. Geer’s visit im- menselv, and hope some other bright, likely Freethinker may sometime hunt us up. He gave me a better idea of the Liberal Uni versity, as to what respects it will differ from other schools, and how its moral lessons in place of the Bible readings have already result ed beneficially. We need more on thege points in the Torch, to awak en people to the practical needs which other schools do not supply, and how you intend to supply them. Whether the Liberal University will win plenty of friends and sup port, depends on their understand ing you. and having confidence in your ability to teach what is needed. Everybody has been taught the common school way, and don’t see that any changes are needed ex cept to drop the Bible. But if I understand Mr. Geer aright, you in- We did tend to teach instead something more beneficial. Some one came while he was explaining it, and I did not learn as much as I wanted to. Why not give us a brief lesson in • rr , , , each Torch, such as you w ill teach 3 not come here in ’49 or th e sp rin g of ’50, hut cam e here on Ja n . 16, 18».»9 To Sell Goods P opular Prices! at and S trictly one price to alt. T he old-tim e m erch an ts said, “ You c a n ’t do i t ” , but we are j oing it rig h t along, giving you b e tter goods and me more for vour $1 th a n ever was known in Silverton. For a few dava we have a line of in the school, in those lines which most of us did not get in our school FIVE S P E C IA L S course. Not a regular course, but a * lesson in this, and a lesson in that, 300 Yds Yukon Plaids at. • ic 75 Y ds. C repe C lo th , 15c, re as samples. Could we not thus g e t ,. IOC duced to ..................................... U0c a better idea of your purpose, and 100 Yds. Woolettes, 20c, reduc- , „ 250 Yds. Lawns, 10c, reduced __ also whet the young people’s desire e d t o .................... .. / .............. IO': t o ....................................................... 0 5 c to attend? Besides, it would give 3b Ladies’ Summer Skirts,- « per a bit of instruction to all your read-! re d u c e d ..................................... . uU ct . ers who can’t attend. Perhaps Mail Orders Promptly Attended to. Samples Sent on Application, this would answer too, in place of the Candle, for Sunday school les sons, till the Candle is resurrected. When Mr. Geer told me that the S IL V E R T O N , O R E G O N Candle is to be star.ed again just as PRODUCE TAKEN soon as you have help enough, so S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E . you can get time for it, it di<l me good; it lifted a weight off my T he G re a t shoulders, hope was aroused, and I have been younger ever since. I think a dozen or more persons ought to be found, who could write N o N eed to Suffer from Any Disease. Sunday school lessons, or could and should grow into it. Each should E lix ir make a specialty of some needed B a c te r ia c id e V IT Æ -O R E E u c a ly p tu s O il kind of lesson. Don’t he selfish, O r e - O lin e and think that you must do it all. M e d ic a te d S o a p We ought to encourage and help PEARL W. GEER A g en t others to develop all the talent they can. It seems to me, half a page of S i lver tö n , ( I r e o o n . the Torch devoted to competitive Sunday school lesson writing might bring forth some first-rate helpers, $ 3 — G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — $ 3 and a stimulating variety of lessons. When von have thus secured the right kind and amount of talent, why the Candle can be resurrected. Of course we may not be capable of equaling what you could -do if you had time, but I am sure we could do much better than nothing. Mr. Geer convinced me that my tract-writing was not a failure. He B new Tamllv medical Work did “rouse my spirits,” and I may bv Dr. T fi. Greer, gblcaflO’ try to write the rest of the series by il IS book is up to d a te in every p a r and by, taking my time for it how ticu lar. ever, so as to avoid hurtful hurry and worry. Or I may try my hand on Sunday school lessons, as farther reaching, because more attractive It tells you how to cure yourself than solid thought. Perhaps it is hv sim ple ainl h arm less hom e rem e d ie s. most essential too. I am glad to It recom m ends no poisonous or have the Torch again. I had to dangerous drugs. give it up for awhile, when very It teaches sim ple com m on-sense m ethods in w ith n a tu re ’s laws. nervous, but I can read it now with accordance It does n o t e n d o rs e d a n g e r o u s e x p e r im e tn w ith th e su rg eo n 's knife. pleasure and safety. V /s It teaches how to save h ealth and life by safe I think (he Sunday school writ m ethods. is e n tirely free from technical ru b b ish . ings and the Sunday schools too, It It teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is Ixitter to know can he started by your devoting a how to avoid disease th a n to tak e any m edicine re. half page of the Torch to it. Offer as It a cu teaches how typhoid am i o th e r fevers can be ing to print there the four best les both prevented and cu red , and gives th e Itest know n tre a tm e n t for la g rip p e, dip- c a ta rrh , c o n su m p tio n , ap p en d icitis and every o th e r disease. sons received each week, none to be th eria, It is not an a d v ertisem en t and has no m edicine to sell. over a half-column in length. You It m akes uncom prom ising w ar on vaccination and ri th n e a ry use Diseases of a n ti-to in x in Gen ito-U th e e . College It has B College 16 colored President’! p lates show Cestimon” ing d ifferen t ¡»arts of th e h u m an l>ody. of M edicine and Surgery, P hvsician-in- give one or more subjects in each T his Ixiok can n o t fail to please you. If « I I you ‘ “ H arv are to looking for ard h ------- ealth by th In e stitu safest p r o f w » n coo«. f«>r thirty yr»™ n*an of tb« » c |,jef u»e M ------- edical te , Torch, hut don’t write any lessons and easiest do e d not g e ttin g * it. < HK in n a t i m F h ean y a io s, - M ic a l delay ( <>Ue<e, w rit* to a n ^ has w rj ^ n n ,a n y works of value to e a u J th . o H r a . * fo w* G llo reer, th e a u th o r, is a practicin th g e physician Chicago, profession in and public. is Professor of nor suggestions yourself. You th Dr. •• I h ave e x am in ed y o u r b oo k. * A ^ h yid elan In th e p leaaed w ith I t * c o n te n t* and T his book has 800 pages is neativ haven’t time. Make us do that, t H o n o e i . . * , ' E « v m e ry l a m fa m m ily u ' h »bould kn o w how to care fo r th e liound in cloth w ith gold letters,an ti will h< a ! ih o f th e hon ebo!d, w h ich 1« a h u m an ri>rht and a tio n needed and in writing in any style we choose. I I d u n ty z u . a ir c ( t e book (rive * can th e re In a fo d rm l>e sen t p o stp aid to any address on re ily u n d er«,an d . Ic o n ceipt of price, $3.00. < ra f u la le yo u on n o t n a m in tr th e u -e o f a n y poiaon, believe it will draw forth a variety h o t a d h e rin g r t r lc f ly to th e n<*> o f non-noiftonona rem th e o r e tr u e p rin c ip le t h a t » h o n ld « ’ild c a ll of lessons, and something first rate edlc<> SPECIAL OFFER tie a tm e n t o f disease, and w h ich I h ave ad vo cated In P H Y S IC IA N IN T H E HOUSE and the TORCH m y p ra c tic e fo r f o r ty ye ars or m o re . will result. Any and all who take OF REASON for one y< ar fo r only ffO D D Y o u rs tru ly , rm. W H. 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