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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 21, 1899. 3 ment road, with a fine bike path all Pineapples are cultivated in the way. I got about 50 views of fields and grow very large here. I $ 3 — G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R “ the scenery and curious trees and got one lor a nickel that would plants for the Liberal University, weigh three or Jour pounds, and Oahu, the second in size of th e 1 they are delicious for a hot day and group of islands, is about 40 miles a warm biker. Cocoanuts and ba- across both ways, but has capes nanas are everywhere, wild and running out in all directions and cultivated, but the date palms are deep bays running iuland, so it is not so plentiful, although there are very irregular. There is only one quite a lot of them, too. A wild harbor where large ships can get plum grows here, about the size of fi new fam ily medical I'Jorh through the coral reef. This is a petit prune (tree like a large ap- Honolulu harbor, and the channel pie tree and leaves like the willow), bv Dr. 3. fi. Greer. CblcaaO' is so narrow that two ships can not which is very hard to describe. H IS I»ook is up to d a te in every p a r xpass at once. Small steamers and Imagine a ripe petit, with a little ticu lar. I t tells you how to cu re yourself schooners come into many little essence of cinnamon arid a little by sim ple an d h arm less hom e rem bays around the island and bring lemon juice in it, and a dash of edies. It recom m ends no poisonous or produce to Honolulu for shipment. choke cherry juice over all, and dan g ero u s drugs. Sugar and rice are the principal that is the plum. Then the pap- It teaches sim ple com m on-sense m ethods in marketable products, but quite a pia (three syllables; accent on the accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws. It does not endorse dangerous ex p erim ets w ith lot of coffee is also raised here. pi)—imagine several dozens of can- th e su rg eo n ’s knife. Most of the coffee is raised on the teloupe melons at the top of a fir I t teaches how to save h ealth and life bv safe m ethods. larger island, Hawai, about 200 pole 18 to 25 feet high and a sheaf I t is e n tirely free from technical ru b b ish . miles southeast of here. I go there of big green leaves over all; seeds I t teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tter to know how to avoid disease th a n to tak e anv m edicine today to get views of the great vol like No. 4 shot in the melons: that as a cu re. canoes (the largest in the world) is the pappia fruit. It is eaten the It teaches how typhoid and o th er fevers can be I - both p rev en ted and cured, and gives th e best know n tre a tm e n t for la g rip p e, dip- and to see the agricultural section, same as a melon. You all know tn e n a , c a ta rrh , co n su m p tio n , ap p en d icitis ami every o th er disease. the bananas and dates. They are It is not an ad v ertisem en t ami has no m edicine to sell. which is said to be very rich. It m akes uncom prom ising war on vaccination and th e use of a n ti-to x in e . Some of the view’s here are grand the same on the trees as you see i,1, . t 10 colored p lates show ing d ifferent p arts of th e h u m an body. ns book can n o t fail to please you. If you are looking for h e a lth by th e safest beyond description — that of the them in stores, only the dates are ami easiest m eans, do n o t delay g ettin g it. “Pali” especially. This is where in big clusters, nearly like grapes, l>r. J . H . G reer, th e a u th o r, is a p racticing p hysician in C hicago, is Professor of ~*lG enito-U rinary D iseases in th e College the great king of Hawai cornered- with bushels of them in a bunch, H College President’s testimony lof M edicine am i Surgery, P h v sician -in - the ancient people of this island and at the top of a palm tree. But the P W a . H. C , fop th ir ty y e a r s P en n o f th e » IChie" C hief to th ‘ e H ‘ arv ard Medical In stitu te , C i n c i n n a t i P h y s i o - M e d i c a l C o l l e g e , w rite» to cocoanuts you would not recognize and h as w ritten m any works of value to compelled them to give up or jump th e a u th o r a s l u i . i m I th e profession and public. over. It is said many thousands if you met them in the road. Im H o *• u I s e h .’ a v a e n d r- u a n m i ln » m e d e n y o p u o r .« b o ed o k . w • ith \ P Its h y r c l o c la n t n e n t In s a th n d e T his liook has K00 pages, is neatlv a m I ’.y t h o u IJ k n o w h o w t o c a i u f o r t h e of them jumped over and their agine small, smooth pumpkins, ami to h e n a e lth . E o f v e t h r y e ; l.ou-1 v hi< li 1-* a h u m a n r i g h t a n d bound in cloth w ith gold le tters,a n d wifi d u ty . Y o iir h w k g iv e » t h e Inf o n n a l i o n n e e d e d a n d In be sen t postpaid to any address on re bones are there yet. The fall is from dozens to hundreds in circles i n a g t n u l a a tr t e e y t h m e i o , n < <>, n .- e tn a r a r n n in n ip a d t h i e y , u n d e o r f s ta p n t,y d . poison Ic o n ceipt of price, $3.00. straight down 1280 feet, and the around the top of the tree, capped i « bn |f t e m - - _ lh th r r e ln ir o r s e t r i t c r u t I e y p to r i n th c e ip m l e e t o h f a n t o n s h .n o o u fs ld o n g n u tis id e rem all - SPECIAL OFFER X ’E'.’ÙÆST’.KTKÎ ea. e. a n d w h ic h I h a v e a d v o c a te d In bottom is jagged blocks of lava. by the fern-like palm leaves: these t m r c y a p t n r i a e c n t ic t r e f f <lh o r f o r t y y e a ’ s o r m o re . P H Y S IC IA N IN T H E HO USE and the s TO RCH .................................... _ ... . . OF R EASO N for one y e a r fo r only The “Pali” is six miles out nearly are cocoanuts. I think an acre of V 7 ou rs tr u ly J , D . W. H. C .” the price of the book alone. S3.Q0 north of Honolulu, The grade is one grove here would load an or steadily up and the canyon walls dinary freight train at one picking. The Great I will tell about the natives and reach up on both sides, a nearly per pendicular rock, to about 3500 feet. their food in my next. It winds around and one has no Did you ever know a sculptor or idea of the end so near until a short No Need to Suffer from A ny Disease. turn is reached and the walls break painter who, except to order, would away right and left and the great or could produce statues or paint E lix ir Pacific stretches out before you, ings of men, women and children B a c t e r ia c id e while at your feet extends a valley with blind eyes, lame legs, twisted V I T Æ - O R E ï E u c a ly p tu s O il O r e - O lin e 16 miles long and 8 or 10 wide, spines, club-feet idiot skulls, etc.? M e d ic a t e d S o a p with sugar and rice fields and cas Nay, do you think you could in duce a toy-maker to turn out such PEARL QEER Agent tor-bean plantations, spread out monstrosities, human or beastial? under you like a map, in all shades The most contemptible toy-maker S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n . of green, with the white coral reef in the world would be ashamed to in front and the dark blue waves copy some of “God’s” living and dashing up in feathery spray over suffering workmanship. If “God” made dolls and toys with all the » H How to Make it. and the still, deep water next defects and perversions of unfortun the shore Then the wall of jet ate human beings, it were bad black lava and gray volcanic rocks enough; but to make living, think- TT». .» v;n»« je >• 3000 feet high makes the frame to ing, emotional human beings so, to T he G o v ern m en t n ationalized th e Postal S y stem , why n o t also f .I c 4 - 4 t u .... make them so that they must feel th e Money System ? A plan is told by C. ELTON B L A N C H A R D one of the finest pictures I have ashamed , , of . a, i .. themselvesi—what can in b is book e n t i t l e d ................................. •verseen. gajd of guch conduct? And how U N C LE S A M ’S On that ride I passed through much longer will men, not other- miles of guava groves (wild). The wise mad, be content to worship the H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E fruit is about like the naval orange assumed author of all human and Postpaid for 25 Cents other monsters? \\ hat absolute in size and outward appearance, de da(ionI W hat a perversion All profits on th is liook will lie given to th e L io eral U niversity Should lie in th e h an d s of every th in k in g p erson. A ddress all o rd ers to with seeds mixed through the pulp of that is right and fit and The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon like a fig. It has a very high ffa- proper! Surely it is more rational vor and the outer hull is too spicy end more moral, a thousandfold, to to eat. The blossoms are small and believe that nature is without a A descriptive catalogue of all the . ii 4k n o creator and ruler, one or both, than best Freethougbt works free on ap- 'ery fragrant, as are all the flowers to beHeve tha( any creator couid Our fee returned if w e fa it A ny one sending n lieatio ll to Dellouest & AndrwtWK on the island, and the fruit is in all exjgt mad and malicious enough to sketch and description of any invention w ill 10 v e i i q u C h l Cu A iK U e W S , stages of growth, ripe fruit coming make things as th e y are,or rule and {he’pKinuwiity ofUaa°me?iO"How to°obuinna Secular Booksellers, F! Paso, Texas, all the tim e T believe I saw one run things as he is assumed to do. P aten t’’ sent Upon request. Patents secured au me ume. 1 Deiieve l saw, ouc 6 ,, through ns advertised for sale at our expense. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- a fte r n o o n o n m i o h r in e o liav as to S e lf - r e s p C C t in g b e i n g COUHl own Patents taken out through us receive a p e c ia l anernoon, enough ripe guavas t o ,, witb(„lt doin£? his best «•<«*, w ithout charge, in T h e p a t e n t r ec o r d , fill all t h e i e l l v o l« H « e s in the U nit- . Q w im oui uoing n is oc-u. an jnustrated a n d % ldc,y circuIflted ¿OUrnal, * t n e j e l l j g lasses n t to improve it; and of course no such consulted by M anufacturers and Investors, ed States. They are as free as air b(.illg cuU|d have made it or can be, .Add'e"' Reliable persons of a mechanical or Inventive mind to anybody, and I “didn’t do a running it. 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