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THE TORCH OF REASON, SLIVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 23, 1899. i Do you ta k e th e T o rc h o f R eason? O O O O O C o o o o o - c OOOOO-C 0 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 < N E W A N D CURIOUS. It is only One D ollar a Y ear, and contains reading m a tte r th a t you can not get elsew here for th re e tim es th e m oney. I t comes every week, too. Do you ta k e th e W e e k ly O re g o n ia n It is published a t P o rtla n d , ore., and contains m ore and b e tte r infor m ation in regard to th e Pacific N orthw est th a n any o th e r paper,anti is th e best news p ap er in Oregon. You get sixteen pages of good re a d ing m a tte r each w eek, including all the news of th e n atio n an d th e world, for only $1.50 a year. X W ill you a c c e p t A G ood O ffe r? You can get The Torch of Reason and T he W eekly O regonian both one year for only $1.50, th e price of th e O regonian alone. Send all orders for su b scrip tio n s and for sam ple copies to THE TOUCH OF R E A SO N , S ilverto n , Oregon. KSNNEY PORTER M a in S t r e e t S ilv e r to n , O re ' OOOOO-C OOOOO-C 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 OOOOO-C < On the basis of results of pre vious exhibitions at Paris, it is re sumed that *52,588,280 people will pass through the turnstiles, and it is possible that the total number may reach 60,000,000. LIBRARY OF LIBERAL CLASSICS Fac-simile of the Cloth Editions <a Facsimile of the Illuminated Pape» the Famous LIBR ARY OF liberal Covers of the LIBR ARY OF classics liberal classics lu m e n s a ' *** A Paris newspaper publishes some statistics which show that in a certain period only 1 death and 33 injuries were caused by auto mobiles, and during this time, 67 deaths and 745 injuries were caused by vehicles drawn by horses. A French journal tells a story about a dog which belonged to an English dentist. The dog was scarcely able to support life owing to the loss of its teeth. The den tist made an artificial set, includ ing four canine teeth aud four m o lars mounted on a plate in the or dinary way. The dog now eats meat and even gnaws bones with out difficulty, and he has gained considerably in weight. H«** TO«»» CLO TH E D IT IO N S . „ P a i n e ’ s C o m p l e t e ia / o r k s Paine’s Political Works 2vol Finest Paine’s Theological Works 1 vol.’ Paine’s Miscellaneous Works. 1 vol. Illustrated Edition, Paine’s Life. By Clio Rickman Boxed. and the editor of The Nation . Profusely ----- ily illustrated. al. 1 vol. 5 vol. 15.00 Paine’s Age of Reason 60 Paine’s Rights of Man............. ...................... ™ Paine’s Crisis.................................... ............... go Paine’s Life, by ed National. Profusely illus. 75 Paine’s Complete Life, by Clio Rickman and the editor of the National.............. j no Paine’s Principal Political Works, (1 voLL.. 1 00 p° •tJC!l1 Wor}“ >Co“ Plete, (2 vols.).. 2 00 Paine s Religious and Theological Works. 1 00 Gibbon s History of Christianity, nius...... 2 00 Chboon 3 Birth and Character of Mahomet. 50 PAPER E D IT IO N S . Paine’s Age o f Reason..................................... Paine’s Common Sense................................... Paine’s Rights of Man..................................... Paine’s Crisis.................................... 26 Paine’s Religious A Theological Works. Ills Paine’s Principal Political Works. Illus.... Paine’s Life. Profhsely illustrated............... Volney’s Ruins of Er B ps Illustrated.... Rousseau’s Vicar of Savoy, aud A Search for > Truth, by Olive Schreiner....................... Rousseau’s Social Contract............................ Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait V ie tlie r’d w lnnbe nub tU rriunift. Portrait Dickens’ Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. Bulwer’s History of a False Religion. Illus. Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait... Gibbon’s Birth and Character of Mahomet... Higgins’ Horae Sabbatic» ............................. Higgins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Illus. Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis V iardot..... Father Tom and the Pope at the Vatican....... 25 15 23 50 50 50 60 26 50 60 50 26 26 28 26 26 26 26 26 CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF Great Salt Lake is receding on account of the excessive drain made5 S chool upon it by irrigation enterprises. S u p p lie s This lake is not fed by underground springs, but by the Jordan and B o o k s and other rivers; and when the waters Voltaire's Romances. Illustrated................. 1 50 7 ----- Essays and Criticisms. Proftiselviliusi 1 60 S ta tio n e ry . of these streams are intercepted for Rousseau’s Vicar of Savoy. Portrait. Cloth 60 Rousseau’s Social Contract. P o rtra it.......... 76 irrigation purposes the water sup Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait. 1 00 V iediier’6 WHaiibe unb ■UcniniifL Portrait 1 00 Dealers in F ruits, V egetables ply of the Salt Lake is, of course, Volney’s Ruins of Empires. Illustrated..... 76 Volney’s New Researches in Ancient History 1 50 diminished so that the evaporation Reade’s (Winwood) Martyrdom of Man...... l 00 and C onfectionery. Haeckel’s Visit to Ceylon. Portrait............. 1 00 which is constantly going on is not Dickens’ Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. 50 Higgins’ Horae Sabbatic». made up by a new supply. In Higgins’. Apology for Mahomet, the IUus. 60 W ho D oes Y o u r . Buchner’s Force and Matter. Portrait....... 100 Buchner s Man in Past, Present and Future. 1 00 time it looks as if the lake will be Buchner’s kPa M nrul M o v ic o Rochefoucauld’s Moral Maxims..................... 75 only a bed of dry salt. Comte’s Positive Philosophy. P ortrait......... 4 00 p R I N 4 ! 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A « Voltaire’s Zndig, or F a te ; and The W hite Bull, a Satirical Romance.............. 26 -------The Sage and the A theist; also The Princess of Babylon......................... 25 ------ The Man of Forty Crowns; and The Huron, or, Pupil of Nature........... 28 Micromegas; The World as it Goes ; Plato’s Dr ream ; Jeannot A Colin, etc. 26 Voltaire’s Romances, containing the above 4 books in one vol. Profusely illustrated. $1 00 Christian Religion..... ------- Letters £ iE S n on h v the nf W atnrv * ..... 26 " -------“ t ó i S S h i ? ........................................... “ ____ ...................................................................♦ “ ¿ 3 V D l II CSC L /U k C C U la iT l ............... ..............• ................ Voltaire’s Essays and Criticisms contains the above 4 books, profusely illustrated....... 1 00 Goodloe’s Birth of the Republic. P o rtra it.. 1 00 Renan’s Life of Jesus. Illu stra te d .............. 50 Salt us’ Anatomy of N eg atio n.............. „...... 75 Schopenhauer’s Wisdom of Life. Portrait... 26 Saltus’ Philosophy of D isenchantm ent........ 76 ------- Cou nsels and M axims............................ 26 Fawcett’s Agnosticism.................................. 75 -------Religion: a Dialogue & Other Essays.. 26 BuJwer’s History of a False Religion....... 60 Art of Literature.............................. 25 Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait... 60 -------The in Pessimism...........................« 25 Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis Viardot... 60 -------Studies Life and Immortality of M an.... 60 Father Tom and the Pope at the Vatican 60 Gabrielle’s Davidson’s Canon o f the Bible...................... 50 Ingersoll’s Lectures, vol. I, cloth................. 3 50 Darwin’s of Species............................. 60 -------------- “ vol. I, full sheep........ 5 00- Hypatia. Origin By Charles Kingsley...................... 60 -------------- “ vol. I, half morocco.. 6 00 Bacon’s Paradoxes. Portrait ...................... 10 (Second volume in nreparation.) The Scientific Religion By Mauiel Sands... 60 Ingersoll’s Prose Poems. Portrait.... ....... 2 50 Ingersoll’s Controversy A Christmas Hermon 26 --------------- “ “ Cheaper Edition.. 1 60 Gods and otner Lectures................ 60 -------------- Gods and other Lectures............ 1 00 ----------- ----------- Ghosts and other Lectures.............. 60 -------------- Ghosts and other Lectures......... 1 00 ----------- Some Mistakes of Moses.................. 26 -------------- Some Mistakes of Moses.............. l 00 ----------- Interviews on Talmage................. « 60 -------------- Interviews on Talmage.......... «... 1 00 ----------- W hat Must we do to be Saved T....... 25 -n e ia -in g Field-Ingersoll Discussion.......... 60 ------------Blasphemy......................................... 26 -Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy 60 ----------- Man, Woman and Child. Portrait. 26 -The Christian Religion.............. 60 ----------- Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait. 28 -Patriotic Addresses ----------- About the Holy Bible, a Lecture... 26 -------------- Shakespeare, a Lecture. P< rtrait. 50 ----------- Voltaire, a Lecture. Portrait........ Renan’s Life of Jesus......................... Cloth 75 ------------Field-Ingereoll Discussion............... 25 25 Davidson’s Canon of the Bible....................... 1 00 ----------- Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy... 28 Anocryphal New Testam ent........................... l 50 ----------- The Christian Religion.................. 26 Morehouse’s Wilderness of Worlds. Illus.... 1 00 ----------- Foundations of Faith...................... 26 Taber’s Faith or Fact................... .................. 1 00 --------- —H ow to Reform M ankind..... «...... 26 Keeler’s Short History of the Bible............... 76 ------------Essays and Criticisms.................... 26 Carlyle’e French Revolution.......................... 75 Truth, a Lecture..................... • 26 Spencer’s First Principles............................. 75 ------------The Crimes Against Criminals............... 10 Spencer’s Data of Ethics................................. 75 ----------- ----------- Abraham Lincoln, a Lecture. Por. 26 1 *• Education........................................’ 75 ------------Which Way* A Lecture................. 25 Darwin’s Descent of M an ............. 75 and Miracles. 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