T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, N O V EM B ER 29, E. M. 300 (1900.) )<><XXX>O<X>OO<X>C><XXXXX><XX>^ o< NEW AND CURIOUS. > ÍKXHXXOO-tXXXXJCKXXO-O^OKXXXO-O < In E arth ’s Depths. tion of the dread th a t some people have of fresh air in their sleeping rooms. In the western part of the state a few years ago lived a fam ily w ho were accustomed to keep doors and windows all tightly closed. 1 he head of the house was a c a r penter, and one fall, undertook to remodel a p art of his dw elling. 1 he task was not completed when w inter set in, and the fam ily to their horror, had to endure an am ount of fresh air that filled them with alarm . The wife, speaking about it afterw ard, said she ‘‘d id n ’t know how they could have stood it if it h a d n ’t happened th a t they were all in better health than u su al.” . .F o r s t n e r ’s. . nt®» ■ IS IXVALUABE TO DO W o rth OT MAGAZINES FREE ! “ S ecular S cience and C ommon S e n se " p o in ts th e w ay to th e g o a l of Several holes have been flog C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , y o u r a m b itio n . A m a g a zine of A d v an ced F ree such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e deep enough into the earth to en T h o u g h t, L ib e ra l an d I'laee of chisel an d gouge; to M odern Id ea s of R efo rm and N a tu ra l L aw . counter physical conditions very Devoted to p ra c tic a l d e m o n s tra te d tru th s . u m a n ity is u n d e rg o in g im p o r ta n t p h y s ic a l, different from those usually found C a b in e t M a k e rs , for in laid w ork, dow in H te lle c tu a l, a n d social c h a n g e s . P ro g re s s de e lin g , patching, rem oving sp lits and m a n d s th e re n d in g of s la v e r y ’s c h a in s . T h is on the surface. Some of these holes m agazine is a ste p p in g -sto n e to su ccess in a ll knots. In fact, no of life’s u n d e rta k in g s , a s it d ev elo p s pow er of are in the form of wells, which are in te lle c tu a l p e rc e p tio n so t h a t la te n t an d a c tiv e W a g o n o r P a t t e r n M a k e r m a n u fa c tu r en erg y w ill be p ro p e rly d ire c te d , in s u r in g a a mile deep in the older rock. er ol pianos, o rgans, sew ing m ach in es c le a r head in a sound body. N o th in g lik e it o r so good a n d p ra c tic a l. T h is r a r e tre a t sent ag ric u ltu ral im p le m e n ts , sash , b lin d s h a a w lf hole At Paruschow itz, near Reibnik, y e a r, to g e th e r w ith s a m p le s of o v e r SO fu rn itu re , nor o th e r v a lu a b le p a p e r s a n d m a g a z in e s of »5.00 in Eastern Siberia, there is a well valu e, fo r o n ly >1.00. A n y O th e r W o o d w o rk e r, sh o u ld be Send a t once a s th is offer is lim ite d . S a m p le which is now 6,70(5 feet deep. U n copy w ith an in te re s tin g book of o v e r ICO page» w ith o u t it. free fo r 12 c e n ts in s 'a rn p s . A d d re ss questionably this is th e deepest a r tificial hole in the world. AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED. SECULAR SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE M any of these deep holes have I P.E. 532 Atlas B Ik, Chicago, 111. been made the subject of scientific It <8 th e only ro u n d b it in th e w orld I th a t will bore a SQ U A R E H O L E investigation. T em perature m eas an d do all th a t any o th e r urem ents are being m ade in all the b it will do. 1 he chem ical com position of the (he W iley B. wells as they are drilled. In this atm osphere differs but little, w her PRICE Allen Co. co u n try the heat increases on the ever the sam ple m ay be taken. Set of five, different sizes,p o stp aid . .$2.60 T h e O ld est! th e average about one degree for every I lie London Lane t considers th a t ' Single b it, p o s tp a id .................................. go L arg est ! M usic S tore. L ead in g P i 60 feet of depth. anos an d O rgans. the favorable effect of a change of Address, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO. In the ocean bed there are holes air is not due to the change in the 200-311 First S t., PORTLAND, OREO. SIL V E R T O N O R E G O N . so deep th a t if the highest m oun proportion ot gaseous constituents. tain s in the world were to be One im p o rtan t difference, however, j dropped into them , there would is the bacteriological one. The air still be plenty of room for ships to of high altitudes contains no m i sail safely over their sum m its. crobes, and is in fact sterile, while At the bottom of a 5-m ile pit in nearer the ground they are a b u n the ocean which yaw ns between d an t. In the air of tow ns and the Kerm adecs an d the F riendly crowded places, not only do the A t $ 1 0 . 0 0 For a S u it. Islan d s, the tem perature stays al- m icrobe im purities increase, but I bese Suits are Double or Single B reasted Sacks in w ays near the freezing point of other im purities are found, such as O X FO R D G R EY S, BLACK CLAY W ORSTEDS, water. Low tem peratures are the products of com bustion of coal, E N G L IS H C H E V E O T S . ch aracteristic of all the subagu- etc. Several investigators have eous deep holes. Besides the found traces of hydrogen and cer A t $ 1 4 .5 0 , S p e c ia l! ch a sm sin the ocean bed, the holes tain hydrocarbons in the air and A G E N U IN E E N G L IS H M ELTON S U IT . R egular in the land are as pin punctures, especially in the air of pine, oak Price $20.00, a t for more th an half of the whole sea and birch forests. It is these bod floor lies two miles below the s u r ies, which doubtless consist of face of the water. One eighth of traces of essential oil, to which the Strictly One Price. Produce Taken. this latter area is depressed below curative effects of certain health three miles. This eighth contains resorts are ascribed. Thus the vi basins which dip in places over five cinity of a fir forest is said to give Our Job D e p a rtm e n t miles below the surface. Only relief in diseases of the respiratory -A LW A Y H G IV E S three soundings of five miles or tra c t; but these traces of essential more have been made. The deep oils and arom atic products m ust be est of these holes exist in the South counted, strictly speaking, as im Pacific, to the east of the K erm ad purities, since they are not a p p a r -----B E C A U S E IT G IV E S ----- ecs. It is 5155 fathom s deep. The en tly necessary constituents of the HONEST STOCK, FINEST INK AND EXCELLENT WORKflANSHIP soundings th a t went to its bottom air. Recent analyses have shown represents the farthest reach of h u th a t these bodies tend to disappear man hand tow ard the center of the in the air as a higher a ltitu d e is earth . Yet what came back with reached, until they disappear a lto the rod was meager in view of what gether. It would therefore ap p ear m ight have been expected. A lit th a t microbes, hydrocarbons and tle globigerina ooze, a little of th a t entities other than oxygen and curious red clay which covers n ea r nitrogen, and perhaps argon, are ly half the sea floor, a few m anga only incidental to the neighbor nese nodules, some m inute m ag hood of hum an industry, anim al F all term b e g in s M on d ay, O ctober I, E. M. 300 (A . D. 1900.) netic spherules of cosmic origin, life, dam p and vegetation. th a t was all; these and the posi NEW BUILDING WILL BE READY. tive assurance of intense darkness Dr. T hom as Wilson, speaking at Students given board and rooms at the L, U. O. Dormitory at low rates and b itter cold. T he ooze was w hat was left of anim al carcasses the recent meeting of the A m erican COURSES. sweeping dow nw ard through ce n Association for the A dvancem ent of K indergarten. Scientific. turies; the clay was plastic rem Science, argued th at the celebrated P rim ary. Norm al. n an ts of even earlier periods; the theory of Lombroso, associating P reparatory. Law. Commercial. certain types of crime with definite spherules were representatives of Classical. Courses in M edicine, etc., will be added as soon as p racticab le. meteoric particles which had physical characters, was based upon D octor' plunged through im m easurable u n tru stw o rth y statistics. T H E O N L Y IN S T IT U T IO N O F IT S K IN D IN T H E W O R L D distance from outer d ark to inner W ilson thought it would be more correct to say th a t crim e determ - | d a rk .—[W ashington Star. ST R IC T L Y NO N -TH EO LO G ICA L. ices the physical stru ctu re than vice versa, and th at environm ent is For Catalogues and further p articulars, address: A M assachusetts physician re more responsible for crime th an is J. E. HOSMER, President; or PEARL W GEER, Secretary, cently gave an am using illu s tra h ered ita ry character. i Clothing Sale! Jam es C raig’s, Silverton, Ore. . . . 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