THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 22, 1900.
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ignorance in asking. We may rely
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or Utaki* i«a rhicka loony.
The flother Tongue.
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BY MAX V. SCHEXKENDORr.
to eh: 11 bat hatrbea et ery ?gg that can be
more and more on the divine wis
hatched.
T H Ft
dom in giving.” That is the cun
M other tongue, M other tones,
PETALUMA INCU3AT0R
vttersprachf , M u tter lau t,
ie absolutely perfert as to incubator ceeentlala—p r o p e r a p p l i c a
O, how blissful, how tru e!
ning fellow knows, and even in
tio n and d U t r lh u tlu n o f h e a t u n tl m u ta to r» *, r e f u
Wie so w onnesam , so tra u t!
The first of words th at greeted me,
t a t i o n u n tl v e n t i l a t i o n . F o r 50 to I d eggs. WE PAT
this smooth, roundabout way dares
E rstes w ort, das m ir ersch allet, The first, the sw eetest word of Love!
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Süsses,
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l'he first of sounds, th a t ere I lisped,
show that he knows that prayer is E rste r Ton, den ich gelalet,
A rt in me ringing ev er m ore !
neither wise nor beneficial, and if
K lingest ewig in m ir fort!
A h, how lowers it in my h eart,
this “later life” doctrine of his is Ach, wie tr ü b ’ ist m einem Sinn,
W H A T WE HAVE
W hen in foreign lands I roam ;
W
ann
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followed up, who can say that it
W hen foreign tongues I m ust try .
TO S E L L .
W ann ich frem de Zungen üben.
Foreign words I needs m ust use,—
wifi not first lead to less prayer,
F re m d e W orte brauchen m uss,
F:> »‘thought: Past, Present and Future.
W ords I never, can never love,
Die
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then to no prayer, and finally to
W hich a “ welcome” never say to m e.
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A h, how clear to me th y m eaning comes !
Ach, wie klingest du so klar!
Emancipation of Education.
Y et ever as I deeper delve
The time is coming and now is W ill noch tiefer mich vertiefen
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’Tw ere as if to m e were calling,
Ist m ir ’s doch, als ob m ich riefen
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akeman , D elivered on th e incor
F a th e rs from th e n ig h t of th e grav e!
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T hen ring, and th rill thou ever m ore,
K linge, klinge fort und fort,
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ity of life aud motives are needed
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H eilig ist wohl m an ch er B ra u ch ;
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E v er m ake my h e a r t’s love known ,—
G eb ’ ich m eine Liebe kund ;
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M eine seligsten G edanken
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O ctober,
w ith
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E v er will I speak as th e M other tongue.
S p re ch ’ ich, wie d er M u tte r M und.
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perhaps, even in our life time, the Liberal Translations of Poetry. sense, reason and true meaning as Forstner Auger Bit.
far as possible. The attempt was
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world may see the beautiful morn
very
pleasing
to
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and
had
The German poem printed above
ing of fair Science and Humanity
lived it certainly would have Liberal and Scientific Books
with a literal, rythmic, linear ver he
of all k in d s, See a d v e rtise m e n t
been published—indeed the matter
dawn.
sion is a lesson of the German Class went so far that the poems were elsew h ere.
of the University, and is presented placed in a printed proof before his Send all o rd ers to
W atchm an, tell us does th e m orning
T h e L ib e r a l U n iv e r s ity C o .,
Of fair Science’s glory daw n ;
as an experiment in poetical trans ¡death. Afterwards, when I)r. Paul
S ilve rto n , Oregon
Have th e eigne th a t m ark its com ing
Carus
opened
his
“Open
Court”,
in
lation which may please our read
Yet upon thy p ath w ay shone?
Chicago, it seemed to me that events
Pilgrim , yes; arise, look round th e e !
ers, especially those interested in had decreed that he should be the
. F o rs tn e r’s-
L ight is breaking in th e skies.
the
German
languageand
literature.
Spurn th e foul belief th a t bound t h e e :
publisher. But, alas! for the un
M orning daw ns. A rise! A rise!
How can intellectual poetry be certainty of human estimates! He
best translated, is a question in the held off,saying in substance that the
IS IN V A L Ü A B E TO
progress of Liberalism — far more poems selected were just the right
ones—the collection was as good as C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g ,
“flany Hands Make Light Labor’ important than most people think. perfect, but—poetry could be tran s such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e
place of chisel an d gouge; to
The English, German and French lated only by poetry, and that this
languages are now the sacred lan linear version would be chiefly used C a b in e t M a k e rs , for inlaid w ork, dow-
To the T orch F amily :
ellin g , p atch in g , rem oving splits and
We all know what a hard, up guages of “the New E ra”, much as by students as a “ pony” !—which,
k n o ts. In fact, no
hill fight the Torch and the Liberal Hebrew, Greek and Latin were of however, I would be delighted to W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m an u fa c tu r
have them do. For several years e r of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines,
University has had, and although the old. Shakespeare and the Ev I have lived under this crushing
a g ric u ltu ral im p le m e n ts, sash, b linds,
the road is a bit smoother now than olutionists have made sacred the sentence. I have never believed it
fu rn itu re , n o r
formerly, there are several little English; Goethe, Schiller and oth to be final, and I want to appeal to A n y O th e r W o o d w o r k e r , s h o u ld be
w ith o u t it.
knolls and hummocks to get over er thinkers and the scientists have the world, including the second
thought
of
the
learned
Doctor
him
yet, and as we are all interested in done the same for the German;
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
self. My claim is:
this matter (I suppose all are inter while Voltaire, Comte, Hugo and
It is th e only ronnd b it in th e world
That versions of' this kind for
ested, or they wouldn’t be subscrib- other poets and scientists have done scientific, philosophical, Liberal,
th a t will bore a SQ U A R E H O L E
an d do all th a t any o th e r
scribers), I propose that each and the same for the French. “The and even practical purposes are
b it will do.
every one of us contribute one day’s New Dispensation” of Science and preferable to versions where accu
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ual, but taken as a whole I am The prose has been or can' be well ear version is given of an exquisite
quite sure it will be felt to an ap translated. But in good poetry the poem (not Goethe’s) often attem pt
preciable extent by the Liberal heart and mind flow together in a ed in English, and Dr. Carus and o AUDI C fcopios of HK d iffe re n t l e a d i n g
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job depends upon the humor of the other. No two languages have the readers shall find more satisfactory
“boss”, and surely if I can give a same rhymes, word-mearfings, or than the one presented, which was
day’s pay some of the more inde- or even prosody. The perfect trans made offhand for our German Class.
Unless this is done, and if question- . Reliable persona o f a mechanical or Inventive mind
I»endent members of the family can lation, therefore, of a good poem is
as impossible as “the squaring of en an umpire may be appotn ed,
B a lt im o r e , M d .
do the Fame.
the circle”. No sensible person ev we shall feel called upon to publish
Hoping this suggestion will meet er expects to really succeed, yet the saitl linear version of Goethe’s
the approval of the majority, and many are unable to give up trying scientific and religious poems, un
P o i,try
less the Doctor will be the publish-■ _________________Y L" a "J6
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promising to remit on the 15th to do it well.
Progressive people should
Years ago my friend Courtlandt er himself?
inst. (pay day), I am resyectfully,
E
v
e
ry
be
satisfied w ith n o th in g h u t
The use of the words “God” and
Palmer, of New York, wished me to
R ob ’ t G arth .
th
e
liest.
K eep y o u r flock
b ird
give him some idea of the scientific “holy” in the above poem occur be
on
th
e
u
p
-g
rad e. T h a t is
Republic, Wash., Feb. 6.
and religious poems of Goethe. cause it refers to a state of mind
th
e
only
profitable
plan.
a
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This was done by placing the Ger which exists and ho is proper for
man on one page and a literal, lin poetical use and illustration. Of b e a u ty R o c k cockerels for sale a t
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