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IcUtar contractions. The landlady we could not w alk it without grade into Antelope at 9.3 ■ a.
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none \f r Ttputv « h o has crown house for our entertain m en t and
Entered at the poetofflee at Silverton, who was absent, is a a i n i ( , a n
F reethoughl, lecture, and as we write the people e
Oregon, as s e c o n d s mad matter.
she ¡8 not free to thm k for herself gray tn the service of b eHhougn
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| after all She would like' to sub- c '.m . «cross the log, took th e bikeI of thia lively little burg can
scribe for the Torch, hut did not and, carefully balancing himself, I see ... every direct.,.,. neatly print-
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on we go till wt come to the Tygh
In clubs of live or m ore, one year,
Valley grade, which is too steep to
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Money should t e sent by registered ride down on what an old Indian
le tte r or m oney order.
whom we met called our “ skookum
walked easily across. The
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“hitched” across, and by conning,
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wife, assisted by Louis
ers we were all at last safely landed, Rauch and Chas. L. Page. E very
We reached W am ic before dark body cordially invited.”
And now we fix up the school
horse.” As we walked down this and soon found th at this is indeed
Notice!
winding dugway, what a beautiful a Liberal com m unity. The friends house, practice, hurriedly write
this account and wonder “ what
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes B’ght met our eyes! The hills of F reethought m ade us welcome,
th at your su b scrip tio n h as e x p ire d . looked lik e great bubbles of melted entertained us, secured the church, will the harvest he.”
You are e arn estly requested to re
new so th a t you m ay receive th e p a rock, as, indeed, they are, only which, by the way, does not belong
per w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . W e have de they have cooled. Beautiful be exclusively to orthodox people, and Denounced th e “ H ig h e r C r iti
cided th a t it is beat for all concerned
th a t we do not send papers longer th a n yond description is the scene as we circulated the news far and wide
c is m .”
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. looked up on the smooth, brown th a t the next evening there would
T his will prevent any loss and we will
m ountains and saw the grazing be an entertain m en t and lecture.
The following is from a New
know just w here we sta n d .
We request you to send us th e nam es cattle, which in the distance look After a very pleasant visit at the York press dispatch:
of Secularists who m ight becom e s u b
“ H igher criticism ” was bitterly
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. like little toys. Spread out before home of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. D river,
ns is a valley altern atin g with who are known far and wide as attacked by the Rev. Doctor L. \\ .
green and brown and gold of field radical F reethinkers, and after be M unhall, an evangelist from P hila
and prairie, and on the right, only ing introduced to m any others who delphia, at the Methodist m inisters’
a short distance away, Mount are very much interested in the meeting at No. 150 Fifth avenue
ALL ABO ARD!
Hood, in its dazzling white splen greatest cause which ever engaged today.
H e declared th at the
hum
an
thought,
we
hurried
to
the
church’s enemy was now in her
It began to raiti in the a fte r dor, loomed up above the sun-
church, where a large and in telli pulpits. He asserted th a t in two
noon and the Secular pilgrims at tinted clouds.
A t last, weary with studying gent audience greeted n s. W hether of the theological schools Old Tes
D ufur began to feel “ blue,” th in k
our efforts pleased our friends or tam ent professors were giving the
ing th a t there would be no one these beautiful scenes, we moved ou
not, we can only judge by the tact students all the objections to the
a t the hall in the evening to hear and our conversation turned in a
th at they staved some tim e after Bible’s au th en ticity , w ithout a t
the “ New, New Story of Science different direction. “ They say this
the lecture, giving us an oppor tem pting to answ er the objections,
m d its Love” ; but the rain ceased, is a great country for rattlesnakes,”
tu n ity to become acquainted with and he related instances of young
ind although it kept some from rem arked Charlie, and we had not
some of the most* prom inent people men who had become Infidels after
?oming from the country, there was long talked about snakes before
in this part of the country, and en attending M ethodist educational in
a good audience for a sm all place. buzz-zr-zr went a rattler not half a
thusiastically congratulating us on stitutions.
We find th a t there is no Free- dozen steps ahead. Then the poor
our lecture and entertainm ent.
A lthough a vote of th an k s was
th o u g h t organization in this little little creature had, like everything
These people are nearly all en th u s accorded to Dr. M unhall for his
city nestled in the hills, but the th a t conies between the hum an
iastic Secularists.
address, it was not until after
m ajority of the people are Liberals, family and progress, to forfeit its
Wc met Mr. End and his son, sharp criticism had been made.
and our anxiety about paying ex life. A well-directed rock from the
penses was soon dispelled. One hand of our young Freethought John, who talks of coming to the Doctor J c h n R. Thom pson, of
friend here, who certainly cares cham pion, Mr. Rauch, soon put a L iberal U niversity next year, Mr. B rooklyn, characterized the a d
more for the principles of S ecular quietus to the danger from this C handler, Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock dress as “ the most dangerous paper
ism than for “ sounding a trum pet venenious reptile. But oh! if we and son, Mrs. Zum walt, Mr. and heard here in a long tim e,” and
before” himself, dropped $5 into could as easily dispatch the old Mrs. Swift, Mr. Cam pbell and th anked God th at the prevailing
the h at. We would like to know who serpent of superstition, which still m any others, who encouraged and type of M ethodism was not th a t of
this friend is th a t we m ight thank craw ls out in the sunshine of our assisted the Freethought bicycle Doctor M unhall.
Doctor Buckley declared th at
him or her. This, with other gen present day civilization and h u r travelers in their cam paign against
erous contributions, more than paid ries its fangs into the tender m inds h u m an ity ’s great enemy. Our ex some of th e bishops were getting
at W am ic was
alm ost too in tim ate with wealthy men
of young travelers. We have great pense
our expenses.
In the m orning, after paying our hopes for our young F reethinkers nothing, and we received enough who endow the colleges.
Doctor W. F. Anderson declared
bills, m ending a punctured tire and and the good they will do, and Mr. financial aid to put us all in good
securing a num ber of subscribers Rauch is in the front rank of our spirits, and bright and early the th a t Doctor M unhall was guilty of
next m orning we wheeled away heresy in p u ttin g the text of the
for the Torch of Reason and Right expectations.
Time and space prevent our tell south toward Bake Oven and An Bible higher than the living Christ,
Living, we “ m ount our noble
steeds and lead our hand some ing all our experiences on this telope. Mr. J. W. Beaty, to whom and Doctor George P. M ains said:
“ No such vague charges as have
m ore.” Over the hills to W am ic memorable occasion, but let us re much of our success at W amic is
we plod our weary way, and hills late one more. The wagon road due, went as far as Bake Oven with been made here against an in stitu
tion near New York ought to be
they are indeed. One is said to be crosses the river at a num ber of a team and carried our baggage.
Reaching Bake Oven, a little made. They should either be w ith
seven miles long, and we h a d n ’t places, and there being no bridges,
enough backbone left to dispute it bicyclists have some trouble in get ham let and stage station, too late draw n or else made specific, and
when we reached the top and s ta rt ting across. In one place we were to attem pt to go on to A ntelope, we they should be followed by an of
ed down the other side. But there obliged to “ coon it” along a nar stopped for the night. Cold, ficial investigation.”
is alw ays some way for “ G od’s row’ hoard which was placed on hungry, sore from hard up-hill
D arw in, Proctor and Spencer
n/|..v to
iw gw
J tup of a mill flume. C arrying our riding and utterly disgusted at the
people”
get through, ___
and - a very
leasan t surprise was in store for loaded bicycles along this narrow, grum py old landlord and his high have som ething to say to the world
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w . n Beaty,
eaiy , having
naving heard
neuru rowing
irm i u over
w r a«
uimiug ' prices,
pi
no i felt
m pretty
p i m j “ blue,”
»’mo, nuu
s. Mr. J. W.
rotting trail
sw uwy-i
iftly-running
we
and more im p o rtan t than w h at Paul,
_ road, deter-
1 X I water
A was no easy job,
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.1 getting
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aat we were on the
the
up __ at 3:30
m., we strapped 1 Peter and John said. [The Boston
lined to catch us. He was with a hardest was yet to come. At the* our big packs ou our wheels and Investigator.
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