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
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each Torch, such as you w ill teach
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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.
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75 Y ds. C repe C lo th , 15c, re
as samples. Could we not thus g e t
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a better idea of your purpose, and 100 Yds. Woolettes, 20c, reduc- , „ 250 Yds. Lawns, 10c, reduced __
also whet the young people’s desire
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to attend? Besides, it would give
3b Ladies’ Summer Skirts,- « per
a bit of instruction to all your read-!
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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.
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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
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