THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 22, 1900. 5 w tn* Die Muttersprache. rnav realize more and more our own (L in ear tran sla tio n . See C o m m en t.) old h.o A J U S T A S NATURAL _______ _ H md a p - d deal more reliable. IXxen I ignorance in asking. We may rely 5,. »k i V, or Utaki* i«a rhicka loony. The flother Tongue. —« .» ' / A : 1*'* Doesn'tstay oil the neats .1 allow the egg» 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! FREIGHT ANYWHERE in th e V .S . Handsome catalog free. P e ta lu m a In c u b a to r C o., I l o i , P e ta lu m a , C a l. Süsses, erstes L ie b esw o rt; 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 ich in d er Frem de b in ; 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 ich n im m e rm e h r k ann h eb en , then to no prayer, and finally to W hich a “ welcome” never say to m e. By T. B. W akeman , w ith picture Die .licht klingen, wie ein G ru ss! self-reliance and the total over­ an d life of th e a u th o r. Price, 12 O, language b eau tifu l, w onderful, copies, $1,00; e a c h ........................ 1Oc Sprache, schön u n d w underb ar, throw of the holy spook. 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 In to th y rich n ess, th y sp len d o r— In den R e ic h th u m , in die P ra c h t; An In au g u ra l A ddress, by T. B. when men and women of sense will ’Tw ere as if to m e were calling, Ist m ir ’s doch, als ob m ich riefen \ \ akeman , D elivered on th e incor­ F a th e rs from th e n ig h t of th e grav e! abandon the old forms of worship V äter aus des G rabes N acht. p o ratio n of th e Liberal U niversity. Price................... ........................ 5 c and learn the“eausesof things”and T hen ring, and th rill thou ever m ore, K linge, klinge fort und fort, Speech of H eroes ! W ord of Love ! H ehlen Sprache, L ie b e sw o rt! Photographs of the Faculty how to answer their own and each F reshly spring from th y d e p th s as before, S teig ’ em p o r aus tiefen G rü ften , others prayers. In this great change of th e L iberal U n iv ersity , s u it­ Song of old, echoing long ago. L ängst versch o ll’nes, altes L ied! able for fram in g . P r i c e ............... 5 0 c Live thou anew in w ritings holy, L eb’ aufs Neu in h e il’gen S chriften, which is now rapidly taking place, From w hich all h e a rts m ay glow ! Dass d ir jedes H erz e r g lü h t! Torch of Reason Song Book No. 2. men and women of talent and pur­ Over all b reath es th e b reath of God, U eberall w eht G ottes H auch, Price...................................... 10c ity of life aud motives are needed H olv, may be, m any a custom d e a r; H eilig ist wohl m an ch er B ra u ch ; to bring about a reconstruction of A ber soll ich beten, d a n k en , B ut shall I ever give my th a n k s or pray, Freethought Magazine E v er m ake my h e a r t’s love known ,— G eb ’ ich m eine Liebe kund ; society under the new aud glorious for S ep tem b er, Ingersoll m em o­ All my th o u g h ts, d eep and holy, M eine seligsten G edanken rial n u m b e r; O ctober, w ith civilization. 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. W a k e m a n ’s sp eech ; N ovem ber, “ Whosoever will” can do some­ w ith p ictu re of L. U . O. facu lty . P ric e .......................................................1 5 c thing, and each doing something, 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 P rice, an y s iz e ............................... 6 0 c world may see the beautiful morn­ very pleasing to my friend, 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 PRICES. work, or one day’s pay, per month Humanity can not be well entered racy, sense and meaning are neces­ Set of five, d ifferen t sizes,p o stp aid . .$2.60 into without some appreciative sarily sacrificed more or less, if not Single b it, p o s tp a id .................................. 60 for at least six months. murdered by the inexorable exi­ That is a little thing and will knowledge of the “holy writings” gencies of rhyme and prosody. A ddress, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO, hardly be noticed by the individ­ which now exist in those tongues. To test this matter, a rough, lin­ SILVERTON, OREGON. 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 N ew spapers and M agazines sent to rest of m ankind” are respect- . _ . .r any a add d d ress University Comyany. I am only stream of indissoluble harmony of “the reas np