THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 10, 1900. A son, whose first name I can’t recall, was staying with his mother in the absence of his wife, and he »hows the intellect of his mother. He is a very pleasant gentleman and an excellent business man. spent sou.- thoi Mis. Oregon a few years ago, where she is remembered and well liked by all. She has many fond recollec tions of that trip and says we may still look for her in Oregon. I hope we shall not look in vain. Q O Alice, through disappointment in a girlish love affair took refuge in $ 3 — GREAT SPECIAL OFFER- $ 3 a convent and has never been heard of since. Sammy teaches the orchestra and Clay the band, which are without i... ..... ¿vuvv Ph-c--Vco-i in I'he laud: Sidney and Owen, the German correspondents for the institution, do not mix with the common people, ‘‘because dey talk nix but Dietch,” you know. f l Dew Tamllv medical W ork Elvin Ames is head book-keeper bv Dr. 3. R. Greer, Cbicaao' in Rob Downs’ wholesale drug store HIS book is up to date in every par­ A Prophecy. and Miss Georgia Davenport is his ticular. 7 first assistant. It tells you how’ to cure yourself by simple and harmless home rem­ Read at the Closing Exercises of the Chas. Page, that terrible book­ edies. Liberal University, Friday, May 4, worm, studies from morn till night 1900, by Miss Ollie K. Geer. It recommends no poisonous or dangerous drugs. and thus manages to keep out of t teaches simpie common-sense methods A. D. 1920. After so many years everyone’s sight. accordance with nature’s laws. does not endorse dangerous experimets with Henry Fisher, though very busy the It surgeon have passed I was induced by s knife. Lora Ames, still my old chum, to with his clients in New York, does It teaches how to save health and life hv safe not forget to write to let his old methods. revisit Silverton. It is entirely free from technical rubbish, I just begin to realize bow long I friends know that he is satisfied it teaches prevention—that it is better to know iow to avoid disease than to take anv medicine have been gone when I come back with his choice of life. as a cure. Those quack doctors, Messrs. ItReaches how typhoid and other fevers can be to find all these changes. Lora, | now in her prime, still lives at the Wolf and Mount, are traveling " 8ease- foot of the hill and supports her through the country selling native It is not an advertisement and Las no medicine to sell parents by selling her far-famed herbs and horse medicine. Give . , , s paintings. I never have enjoyed a them a quarter when they come ,1!.......— - ■■■•• visit like I am enjoying this one— along. — ■ k Greer, the author, is a pra c t i c ing physician in Chicago, is Professor of Della Davenport, alias Sibyl talking of old schoolmates, learn­ B Colkfl« President’i Cestimonr nfe?flTORCH TORCH Nearly everyone now enjoys the Y ours tr u ly , _ ...... enjoying life immensely. Da. w . h . C o o k .” íi,. ¡ ¡ Ä M K r ,or oalr J34W ' Reber, the grass widower, who same luxury. The paved streets lives in Sammie’s old place, is, after are always well lighted at night three years of loneliness, still griev­ and every few blocks a beautiful How to Make ing for Ada, who absconded with park rests the tired eyes. The Liberal University has 500 Pervine before they had been students, and 300 of these board at married five years. Grace does not write often, but the new dining-hall. The race The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD track is literally covered with bi­ the last heard of her she was shear­ in his book entitled............................ ing sheep on a large sheep ranch cycles every recess and noon and UNCLE S A M ’S near Caleb, Oregon. Aubrey aud an interesting ball game can be Dick are the owners, so 1 think seen at most any time. If Silver- HOMILIES ON FINANCE. there is no danger of Grace working ton and the Liberal University con­ . -------------- Postpaid for 25 Cents herself to death. Again it seems tinue to improve as fast as they o. ,, u . p™fita on this book will lx? given to the Lioeral University as though I can hear the ring of have in the past twenty years since Should be in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to I he TORCH OF REASON, S ilverton , Oregon I attended school here, they un­ that merry peal of laughter. Howard Melson, Joseph Brewer, doubtedly will attract the attention John Scott and Rudolph are run­ of the world to their beautiful .F o rstn e r’s . . Do you take the ning the bowling-alley in the base­ surroundings and modern conven­ Torch of Reason? ment of Roscoe’s store; and, if re­ iences. It is only One Dollar a Year, and ports are true, it will not be many IS INVALÜABE TO contains reading matter that you can “ E nglish Secularism . years before they will be able to re­ not get elsewhere for three times the Carpenters and Joiners, for mortising money. It comes every week, too. Hueh a8 ,etting in locks’ afi R tire from business. By George Jacob Holyoake, 146 D o y O U th e place of chisel and gouge; to I was astonished though when pages, neatly bound in cloth, post­ told that the four merry girls who \A /f*«*L rlv 1*1 Ca^.lnet ta k e r s , for inlaid work, dow- paid, 50 cents. Twenty-two excel­ W e e K i y v jr e g o n ia n elling, patching, removing splits and boarded at the dining-hall in 1900, It is published at Portland, ore., knots. In fact, no lent chapters, together with Secu­ the same year that I did, were and contains more and better infor Wagon or P attern Maker manufactur­ larist ceremonies on Marriage, mation in regard to the Pacific »till living. And yet there are two er of pianos, organs, sewing machines, Northwest than any other paper,and Naming Children, and Over the agricultural implements, sash, blinds, ways to account for this. They is the best newfc paper in Oregon. furniture, nor Dead. No Freethought library is You get sixteen pages of good read­ were taught the hygienic laws by ing matter each week, including all Any Other Woodworker, should be complete without it. Sent free with Professor Leonard, and one of the the news of the nation and the without it. yearly subscriptions to the Torch world, for only $1.50 a year. natural laws is, that it is only the AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. g°od who die young. They are of Reason. Will you accept It is the only round bit in the world now doing France on bicycles. that will bore a SQUARE HOLE A Good Offer? Professors Drake, Madden and Remember, if you send us the and do all that any other You can get The Torch of Reason bit will do. of 25 names and addresses of Carter, of the L. U. O., teach re­ and the Weekly Oregonian both one year for only $1.75, little more than PRICE. spectively drawing, botany and your Liberal friends and acquaint the price of the Oregonian alone. Set of five, different sizes,postpaid.. $2.60 ances, we will make you a present mathematics. Mr. Madden is in- of 60 Single bit, postpaid............................. copy 01 of tn the e Torch of Reason Send all orders for subscriptions and for j , . . . . . . , , : or a a copy sample copies to ^ebted to a botanizing tour through gong Book No. 2. This will only Alaska with Prof. Hoffmann, for co8t you a few minutes’ work and a TH E TORCH OF R E A S O N , Address, LIBERAL UN IVER SITY CO his success in this particular branch.1 two-cent stamp. | SILVERTON, OREGON. SILVERTON OREGON. A PHYSICIAN IN THE HOUSE m Good Tim es fo r all Tim e ttJTT