THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 29, 1900. 7 For the Torch of Keaaon. Six Tracis to Promote “Ouilded” Points. Scentific Wisdom 50 YEARS’ E X P E R IE N C E "LIVE Q U E S TIO N S " P atents BY BY JOHN PRESCOTT GUILD. E X -G O V . J O H N P. A LTG ELD . A B o o k fo r t h e P e o p le J Down superstition — up demon C O N M T E A S IN S S A G A E L S L T A H N E O F C A S M S O A V U S S S O P f I T I C H E M I A » U , T L H E O T R T E . R S , I R A D t m a n n a In Place of C hristianity : stration! E V E R Y IS S U E O F N A T IO N A L 'M P O R T A N C E A N O D esigns P O P U L A R I N T E R E S T E A R N E S T L Y C O N S ID E R E D . .... C opyrights A c . Anyone sending a sketch and description may 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? Au ounce of spunk is worth an T r u s t s , M o n o p o l ie s , G o v e r n m e n t Quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil ocean of drunk. invention is probably patentable. 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Toifch ©f Reason - you’ll find the door. “Misery loves company,” but it is a very miserable sort of a man who will make another man miser able for the sake of his miserable company. “Self-love and social are the same.” So said Alexander Pope, the poet-philosopher, and he sought to show it by nature’s light, as he argued that when one works for another’s good, it is because it is a pleasure to do so, otherwise no one would ever take the trouble. The theory of the actuality of disinter ested motives is a fallacy, from the fact that there is no disconnection of the realities concerned. Errata. Iu the sixth line of “The Oregon Elysium”, in the Torch of March 17, the word “nobbis” is to be read “noblis”—the noble fir. It is the red or yellow fir, the most common tree here, and comprises the bulk of Western Oregon forests. F. S. M atteson . 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