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T H E TORCH OF REA SO N , S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , A P R IL 12, 1900.
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etc., then for lighting and heating, be controlled by a railroad agent would investigate thè work of thè
then the telephone, telegraph and and a church will never do as a Open Court.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Address Dr. Paul
the wonders of wireless telegraphy. precedent. The eduoational affairs Carus, 325 Dearborn St., Chicago
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Of course it is not possible to give of the S tate are laid out too broad
I left Chicago for Rochelle, where
A nother recitation room has been his interesting diagrrns and ex p lan for th at. Let us think a m om ent I spent two days with O tto W ett
ations here.
Rut here are a few how th a t is, and so foreea t the stein, his wife and son a t their
finished in the L. U. O.
crum bs from the table, some of danger.
beautiful and happy home. N early
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was a visitor a t the L. U. O. this from the audience after the lecture. adm irable common school system , Otto W ettstein and his business,
The way to be safe, when around which we are all bent upon su stain but only a few know w hat a lovely
week.
electrical laboratories, power bous ing to the utterm ost. T h at pro wife and happy home be has. I
T he last heard from our business es, or electrical m achinery, is to be
vides for the education of all in the am glad to be one of the fortunate
m anager, he was still on the wing, careful not to stand on iron,earth,or rudim ents of learning for business,
few. Mr. W ettstein has sold out
but had not yet reached C incinnati. wet boards, and keep one hand in ro preparation for w hat is known
his store and is now tu rn in g his a t
your pocket. T h er you will not be as a higher or unive1 sity education. tention to the mail order business.
L. Wolf, who has been attending likely to make a “circu it,” Wh> n
T his higher education is now pro If Liberals want an y F reethought
P o rtlan d Medical College, entered on electric cars or motors, don’t go
vided so as to be obtained by nearly badges, or Ingersoll spoons, or any
the Liberal University last M onday. running or ju m p in g about and fee'- every one who desires it, bv a
other jewelry, w atches,or diam onds,
N atu ral Philosophy and L atin will ing things, but sit in the car where num ber of universities representing
they ought to write to Mr. W ett
be his special studies.
you belong, and let loose wires and most of the various phases and p u r
stein and see w hat he can do for
iron alone.
poses
of
education.
In
this
way
them. H e can convince you th a t
The cake walk, the farce, the
The former way of considering they form w ithout special design a
there is no God or future life and
m irth drill, the little talk on Shakes electricity was th at it was a kind of
large co-operative system of u n i th a t this is the tw entieth century,
peare, and everything altogether fluid, or rath er two fluids—one pos versities, in which every student
m ade the pragram at the Y. P. S. itive and the other negative. Now m ay have the special train in g or and at the sam e tim e save you so
S. C., last F rid ay evening, one of we consider it as the vibration of course he m ay desire, and in a b et much m oney on jew elry, etc., th a t
the very best.
the ether, an ultim ate form of force ter and freer way than if these it is equivalent buying yourself
rich. Mr. W ettstein has a large
and m atter, which we use to ex universities were S tate institutions.
hpad th a t requires a h at 8 | inches
The Southern Pacific R ailroad plain things, but which we do not
All
these
in
stitu
tio
n
s
are
brought
in
diam eter. This head was not
does not realize how m any th o u yet very well u n d ersta n d — ho as to
into conference by the T eachers’ m ade in vain, for it requires all
sands of dollars it will lose if clearly realize it. T h at it is “ som e Association, of which all or most of
the agent here has his way in thing is shown by the fact th at it th e professors and teachers in the this room to hold these w onderful
reference to the L. U. O., or they fills the best vacuum we can make, S tate are members, and which holds thoughts and argum ents, and there
would investigate.
so th a t the Roentgen rays pass special and local meetings, as, for are no “ rooms to let.” Mr. and
through it. We can only think of instance, the one at Silverton. The Mrs. W ettstein are very proud of
th eir children, and from the pic
The E x tracts on our first page the ether, therefore, as filling all
fact
th
a
t
all
phases
of
education
are
tures I saw I judge them to be ju s t
were referred to in our last Torch, space. The affections of this u lti
thus represented and confer, for the ly proud. M aster B ry an t W ett
and should be carefully considered m ate substance we know as heat, general good of all, in these m eet
by all thinkers. Reade gives the light, electricity and m agnetism . ings, makes them of the highest stein, the youngest son, is a t home.
best statem ent of “ which im m or These are all found to be converti value— they m ake the esprit de He is a bright fellow an d bids fair
tality ?” and Alexander gives the ble into each other as “ modes of m o corps of the education of the State. to be “ his fa th e r’s own boy,” while
scientific answer.
tion,” and m ay be converted into But in order to continue such they at the sam e time he resembles his
mechanical m otion, and so made to m ust be kept free from personal m other. Mrs. W ettstein is not be
hind her husband so far as know
The W om an’s Social Science Club take the place of steam in working
vindictiveness,
sectarian
bigotry
ledge
and common sense is con
will m eet a t the residence of Mrs. our m achines, running our cars, etc.
and official interm eddling.
cerned, while in beauty and a t
T. W. D avenport S aturday, April By thus harnessing the lightning
It seems th a t a vindictive Station tractiveness she far excels him . The
14, a t 3 p. m. Miss France.- R auch there is no end to the power we are Agent and a M ethodist fanatic get
two m ake an ideal p air an d have
will read the paper of ttie day. Sub learning to use.
them selves on the School Board at an ideal home.
ject, “ E conom y”.
The lig h tn in g and the “ th u n d er Silverton, and refused the usual
The second day at Rochelle the
bolt” are now found out not to be use of the school house for the
w eather was beautiful, and Mrs.
J u s t as we go to press the news things or entities at all, but “ modes
Association
meeting,
if
President
W ettstein was kind enough to escort
comes th a t Prof. Lewis, principal of of m otiou.” The old views to the
H osm er of the Liberal U niversity, me to n neighboring town, where
the public schools at this place, co n trary were illusion? which we a ch arter m em ber of the Associa
Mr. D. A. R oberts and wife have a
whose nam e figures so conspicuous m ust outgrow. Instead of caloric, tion, was allowed to speak, after lovely home. H ere is an o th er ideal
ly on our editorial page, has been fluid, entity, thunder-bolt, etc , we his name had been placed on the couple. Of courpe it is useless to
dism issed in disgrace. The offense speak or think only of modes of mo program and publicly announced. add th a t they are enthusiastic
seems to be drunkenness and an a t tion, or vibrations, processes, c u r They caused th e president of a Liberals and took a deep interest
tem p t to enter a la d y ’s cham ber rents of change, etc.—all correlates M ethodist U niversity to be im port in the Liberal U niversity.
Mr.
w ithout permission. We think this of each other — all a unity of ed to take the time, and to give a Roberts joined the Torch of Reason
sad affair is all traceable to the changes.
long address on E nglish, French
An hour or more was spent in and A m erican history, which was fam ily and m ade a nice donation
work of the “ m ain m em ber” of the
to the Liberal U niversity.
We
school board, who thought he could questions, bringing out inform ation E nglish , A nti-A m erican and a n ti dined a t this home and spent the
injure the L. U. O. by hiring an ot this kind, in which Profs. H os republican from beginning to end. afternoon.
The tim e to return
Infidel with which to fight Infidels, mer, Hoffman and others took part. It should never be given before cam e all too soon; and though we
but there are, as we have said be Prof. W akem an called attention American teachers or scholars u n had to p a rt com pany let us hope
fore, Infidels and Infidels. Prof. to the entire change which had less some Am erican is there to a n th a t our friendship will only change
K raps, the former principal, was an come over the world by this “ mode sw er it on the spot.
by increasing.
excellent m an, but he could not be of m otion,” and this discovery of
The professors and teachers of
Mr. and Mrs. R oberts and Sport,
used as a c a t’s-paw and was th ere th e“ process n a tu re ”of things,w hich, the Liberal U niversity have at the dog, accom panied us to the
fore dism issed. W e w rite this re he said, included life and mind. He Salem , and everyw here and in every train , and I had the crowd pose for
port with regret. No one knows moved a vote of th a n k s to the lec way, been received in all Teachers’ a picture, which I took w ith my
better than we do the loss the pub tu rer for his able, interesting and Meetings on a par with every other
kodak, and I am anxious to learn
lic su stain s by such work, arid instructive lecture, and the motion m em berof the Association, and they
th a t it is a successful one, for it
although they d id n ’t play fair with was carried unanim ously by a ris ask no more tn d no less. This
will be a group of which I shall be
us we have the kindest feelings ing vote, and all departed more in stupid and b ru tal discourtesy at
very
proud. For fear th a t the dog
tow ards both Mr. Sm ith and Mr. telligent and happy th an they came. their home m ust rem ain “ sin g u lar,”
was left out of the group I took
Next Sunday Prof. Hoffman will
Lewis, whose weaknesses are de
or the injustice and usurpation of an o th er shot at him , and then we
feating the great good they m ight lecture on “ C ranks”— all kinds, so it will sadly affect the independence,
had to bid good-bye and take the
do.
come one and all!
x. y . z .
fairness and usefulness of the whole tra in for Rochelle again.
system of education in the State.
t . b . w.
Silverton Thought Exchange.
tne
A Singular Discourtesy.
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M r . P. L. B rown on E lectricity .
Every friend of free speech and
Things went very well a t the unbigoted education will certainly
T hought Exchange on Sunday
regret the singular discourtesy
night, when Mr. P. L. Brown led a shown to P resident Hosm er, in
goodly audience through the won striking his name from the program
ders of the electrical world d isp lay at the last meeting of our Silverton
ed. H e is a practical electrician, T eachers’ Association, as stated on
and went rig h t into the explanation
our editorial page. W hat was done
of the modes of producing electrici i to him m ay be done to others, and
ty, and th e m easure of it, by volts, if this discourtesy does not rem ain
am peres, ohm s, wats, etc. Then he (“ sin g u lar” it will be the end of free
took up the applications of electric education in Oregon.
The idea
ity, for m otors, cars, m achinery, th at any Teachers’ Association can
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and a pood deal more reliable.
Travels.
[Concluded from 6th page.l
to do iudispensable work for the
Liberal cause. Dr. C arus, to show
his liberality and his love for the
Liberal U niversity, has donated
m any of his books to our library
and now has presented the Torch
of Reason with one hundred copies
of H olyoake’s“ English Secularism ,”
which will be given as prem ium s to
yearly subscribers.
I wish the
friends of the Liberal U niversity
Doeen t
bri-ak I te eras or make Ita chicks lou»y.
Itoeen’tetay off the neetand allow the egh
to chill but hatches every err that can be
hatched.
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