THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON OREGON, JANUARY 11, 1900.
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of than the officer who uses great who make of the rostrum a “cow-
G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — 3 $
opportuuities for self-glorification ard’e castle”. In this respect the
or aggrandisement.
Spiritualists won his admiration,
Four children, a girl and three as they nearly always gave him an
hoys, were bom to Mr. and Mrs. opportunity to propound to them
Priestley only one of whom, Schuy- knotty questions, which have not,
ler, lived to reach maturity. Mr. I believe, up to this time, been sat-
Priestley talks little of himself or isfactorily answered. The Theoso-
family, but to an intimate friend phists, also, had frequently to wres-
he spoke as follows of his dead son tie with his quaint queries, and
Elam: “Elam lived until he was equally unsuccessfully.
thirteen. He was maturer in mind
Though an unobtrusive and even
fl new Tamllv medical Work
than nine out of ten persons ever get diffident man, Mr. Priestley always
bv Dr. 1 B. Greer. Cblcaao
to be. I never felt that any one courts and challenges discussion of
H IS book is u p to d a te in everv p a r­
ever understood me as he did. His subjects supernatural, and has on
tic u la r.
kiss was the most crushing blow I several occasions drawn the enemy’s
I t tel Is you bow to cure yourself
by
sim p le an d h a rm less hom e rem ­
ever received; and to add to it, I fire. He never indulges in person-
edies.
had to listen to an orthodox preach- ality, nor in anything that could be
It recom m ends no poisonous or
d angerous d ru g s.
er at his funeral. If I had believed called abuse. To an opponent who
H teaches sim ple com m on-sense m eth o d s in
in hell, it would have had no ter- does indulge in that sort o f“argu- accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws.
not endorse dan g ero u s e x p erim e ts with
ror for me after that.”
ment”, as most theologians do, such th e It su does
rg eo n *8 knife.
Intellectually, Mr. Priestley is a a course is particularly exasperat- I t teaches how to save h ealth and life bv safe
m ethods.
combination of poet and critic, and ing.
I t is e n tirely free from tech n ical ru b b ish .
while the latter quality is domi-
One of Mr. Priestley’s ambitions It teaches p rev en tio n —th a t it is b e tter to know
now to avoid disease th a n to ta k e anv m edicine
nant, it is no doubt due to greater has been to write a “Life of Jesus”. as
a cure.
cultivation. He has written con- He thinks no writer has yet done It teaches how typhoid and o th e r fevers can He i
siderable verse, some of which, in thorough justice to this Bible char-
k, X 7 „ ^ z ' ^ or la grippei dif*
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my opinion, is of no mean rank, acter. He told me a few months
t u not an a d v ertisem en t am i has no m edicine to sell
In his later years, intellectual ac- ago that he intended to devote the
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’by th e safest
tivitv has taken the form, largely, present winter to this’subject, even
of criticism of the dominant super­ if he didn’t “hit anything higher
J . H. t.re c r, th e a u th o r, is a p racticing physician in C hicago, is P rofessor of
stitions. But his Muse did not en­ than the ‘Star of Bethlehem',which
f l College President's testimony
L Y ?M ? r L-rinary, ? i8easee’ ‘J’ the. College
p r o f W „ II. COOK, for th ir ty y ears Dean o f the I C h ^ f t o t h e
tirely forsake him even in this is the only star with a Christian
c i n n a t i P h y n io - M e d i c a l C o lle g e , writes to
* . H arv ard M edical In s titu te ,
work. He rendered in verse some name, and Science has not yet dis­ C th in e author
as fo llo w s
.a n d h as w ritte n m an y works of value to
humorous parts of the Bible— for covered it”!
I have exam in ed your book, ‘ A P h ysician In th e H-he profession aild public.
11 k mid
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H ouse,’
am .......
m uch 1. pleased 1 w 1 ith a its
This book has HOC pages, is neatl
tone.
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know
how
fo r th e
instance the meeting of Jesus and
Mr. Priestley is a student of so­ health o f th e h ou seh old , v hich is a hum to an care
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rig h t and
bound
in cloth w ith gold le tte rs,a n d w i.,
Y our ho, k g iv e s th e in fo rm a tio n needed and in
Zacheus, where, in the crowd that ciology, as of theology, and has lent duty.
be sen t jAostpaid to any ad d ress on re­
1 n g u a g e t i e peof.le can read ily understand. Ic o n
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of price, $3.00.
had gathered,
his pen and voice to discussions of but Adhering strict ly to I he use o f non-nofsonous rem-
e-lie- the O’ e true p rinciple that should gu id e all
“ . . Z acheus, being sh o rt, vou know’, many social and political questions. I treatm en t c f d isease, and w hich I have ad vocated in SPECIAL OFFER
my p ractice for fo rty years or m ore.
S K iU S
t o vuvn
rS
To see him stood no t halt a show .
A poor man and all his life a hard­
Y ours tru ly ,
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D r . w . h . C ook .”
So he ju st scram bled on«before
th e price of th e book alone.
53.00
working man himself, his sympa­
And clim bed in to a sy cam o re.”
Another instance is a part of the thies are naturally with “the
T h e G re a t
book of Job. To thoroughly quali­ under-dog in the fight”, and is in­
fy himself for the work of the crit­ terested in any proposition for the
betterment of the condition of the
ic, he has acquainted himself with
a wide range of subjects. I have common people. He says the uncer­
No Need to Suffer from Any Disease.
met few men more conversant with tain feature of the sociologic prob­
lem is the human animal himself;
the works of the eminent scientists.
E lix ir
From these and from the great po­ that he could construct an ideal so­
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a c t e r ia c id e
ets he appears to be able to quote cial system if he could have men
VITÆ-ORE E u c a ly p tu s O il
made to order.
O r e - O lin e
at will from memory.
M e d ic a t e d S o a p
At the age of 64, our friend is
And here I am reminded of de­
settled on a littie farm near New­
PEARL W. GEER
lightful occasions in Portland in the
Agent
burg, on the Willamette, where the
early nineties, when a small group of
good wishes of many friends attend
S il v e r t o n , O r e g o n .
mutual friends, with Mr. Priestley
m, and let us hope that here he
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IN THE HOUSE
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Vitæ=Ore Remedies
streeto in conversation. The “con­
versation”, I may remark, was just
sufficient to keep Friend Priestley
“wound up”, then we quietly enjoy­
ed a feast of wit, wisdom and song.
Not only his own opinion and crit-
icism, bright and incisive as these
always are, but Tyndall, Huxley
and Spencer, Tennyson, Whittier
and Ingersoll, we enjoyed.
may live long to wield his human­
itarian pen.
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