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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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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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craw ling and other divers m aneuv- Hosinei and ....................................
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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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
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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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