TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER IO N , OR EG N, J l LÙ 2«», 1*W.
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P .n n .rv or »I the'i<>»i‘ <lutv o fe x tractin g C o n n e cticu tt a.,v kind enters inln tl.eir diet, Kr,i
“ ' “shorV eepeH ally in the Bummer dir» fron, New E ngland g arm e n t.. I.hey nee h u t little eugar an d sal,.
A broad.
HP a
elderly m an, The table ¡8 well filled with de-
tim e. Providence is quite a ’T,8*!
B ^ e 'a n d an » cham pion at licious food, tastefully prepared, and
by p . w . g eek .
city, is nicely situated, and has the q u ite ’
,,
n w ls to go .w a y from the
i chic^ „ ® cow . nnd horses, tending table w ithout a perfectly satisfied
There is one thing I forgot to say api-earaoce o fc le a n lm e s .
about Boston. There are several
At seven o clock in
,
evt'" 1" p ,|,c
(¡„ d e n , in fact, he can do most appetite. At this season I can live
.hinge I d id n ’t say, but only one the tram started for Black, ton , a n y th in g th at a mao is supposed to on a vegetarian diet and enjoy life.
Kings 1 m an i
j
an y th in g th a i a m an i-
hing I forgot. I have reference to and I decide» o ge a 1 ‘
(j <>* H is m in(j ¡H as a c tiv e a« his hut I don’t know bow it would be
tb
leans. An account of Boston would slide t o ^ ^ ° ° k
‘
w 0on - body, and I have read some in ter- io the w inter. I have no doubt
beans
)e incomplete without a m ention of mg.
< pas.»»
’
, d id esting articles from his pen. He that with Mrs. Bliven as cook, and
be
‘Unston B aked B eans.” New E n g socket ju st at d a rk t so th a 1
ied
o n sid e ra b le , a «od
n d the Mr. Bliven as provider, one would
has lra
tra v w P le
d c considerable,
‘Boston Baked Beans.” New Eng
landers do not consider their meals " ot ¿ et
" '" '. j
' account of his trip s to Oregon and farew ell.
com plete S atu rd ay evening and At Blackstone 1 wa,,ed ’
. 1 C alifornia some years ago is very
E arly next m orotng, Mr. Bl.ven
Sunday m orning without beans, c e n ts for a ‘ r a l" *° ‘ "
the interest,ng. I watched with inter- took me In his nice new buggy, be-
Of,e„ they do not eat them , but staid oyer night there an,I took t
p a ,ience of my friend in hind a lively horse, and we s,,ed
beans m ust form a part of the menu early m orning tram or an
.
f(>r hlade? ))f graas am „ r g „ ay over the hills to C haplin Sta-
just the same. B ostonian, are great On my a r r ,v .l here, I m a d e i n
Mrs. Bliven gave me a beau-
people to do things through force of quiry for the ■ Bliven
home,
>r 1 job was com pleted ........................
, i f „ l tiful
h ,m e hunch
h of flowers,
an d and
after after
we we
«
. viowrv
we went to the
of flowers,
•a rc . of
o f Eliza
E liz a
Mow y Jfc
where we exam ined the style ! had both expressed satisfaction and
was in search
Mowry
Bliven. I " y f " " ^ ? j , r; ^ lvn i ota rc h i,e c t i..e o ith e l,u ild ln g . Mr. delight a. having m et, I hade her
ing, the driver
the e Brookly
riv e r of th
B ro o k ly n
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t
in bp u b lp tn spp
, i
on
wheel
essary
and the B ostonians, hut I am sorry
the
such m istaken
.ne people
people have
nave .......................
ideas. I wish they could see Sil-
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irtn H
H ills
ills mice.
verton ami tuv,
the \V
W u aldo
once.
A trip to Boston would he in c .m -
plete without a plate of beans, so
The d ollar and I soon
dollar.
tinuhtiiny
parted com pany, an
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and I were on . our way . over the
,.
hills, and soon interested ... a d e
cussion of religion, when I found
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hnest
tr »w berries,
nerries, aim
inn unrov
■
finest s straw
an»l the
most an
of tall.
them , I ever ate in mv life.
It re-
The road to C haplin leads through
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—
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linn of
. ..a of W indham County, and
un/1
m inded
me of eating peaches
at the 1 heart
Uncle H e m a n ’s last year, in Ore Mr. Bliven took me over some of
gon. W e next gathered some peas the highest hills in order to let me
before leaving I went to a re s ta u -, my friend to agree wt1
' for dinner, and after taking them get a view of the country. The lay
ra n t and orde.ed some. They were ..early every point. At
.u lla g e
wfi of the country is like th at ot Iowa
sim ply su per-natural. H aving eat- of Brooklyn I “ changed cars, and
went o u t to visit the pond below and p arts of the W illam ette valley.
e„ ,,.y fill of beans I left Boston for Mrs. S palding, who was also splen-
the barn. M r. Bliven waded out Different varieties of trees and
Brockton, where I arrived in less ! did com pany, took me and her pet
into the w ater to gather some beau underbrush grow lu x u rian tly . I
th an an hour, and found the G ruber dog in a buggy, behind a lively
tiful white w ater-lilies, while I sat don’t see how an y th in g can grow
fam ilv at home. It was supper horse, and drova me over to the
on a large rock and scratched a where there is so much rock. They
lim e and I was Invited to join the Bliven home.
frog’s back. I had heard of the USP stone to build fences, and it is
fam ily and have some more beans.
I found Mrs. Eliza Mowry Bliven “ frogs »>i \\ indhain, an»l this one a raie th in g to see a field of more
It was S aturday night you k n o w ,' ¡n her garden. She decided that had evidently heard of me, for he th an ten acres. Even building so
and I was glad of it. The next the long lank,being clim bing out of was not one bit afraid, and sat con m any fences does not utilize all the
m orning was Sunday, and I was the buggy was her friend from Ore- tentedly while I scratched his hack. rocks, and occasionally you see a
glad of th a t too, for we had m ore gon, and she gave me a friendly E verything on Mr. B liven’s place is pile of them as big as a good-sized
beans. Mrs. G ruber is a Secularist, greeting, which cans» »1 me t<> feel at gentle—the cows, calves, horses,
house.
and lives for th is world. No one home.
I was escorted into the chickens, and even the frogs are
New E ngland is no agricultural
will ever go hungry at her home, house, where I deposited my valise
pets.
country. The farm ers make a liv
nor will visitors fail to enjoy h e r 'a n d had a few m om ents chat with
I spent most of the afternoon in ing selling m ilk, fruit, and vege
kind hospitality.
It is possible, my friend in the library. Torch
the com pany of Mrs. Bliven. Me tables to the people who work in
and even probable th a t the G ru b er readers are acquainted with the
talked about the past, present and factories. If New E n g lan d should
family m ay move to Oregon some writings an d w»»rk of Mrs. Bliven,
fu tu re of F reeth o u g h t work—an in lose her factories, w hat would peo
of these days. They all express a and I wish all of them could see
W hy is New England
exhaustible subject. Mrs. B liven’s ple do?
desire to do so, and why not ? New her in her home. She is a tall,
work of w riting, publishing,and dis such a place for factories? What
E ngland is a nice place part of the spare-built, m iddle-aged woman,
trib u tin g the tracts of Scientific is the use of shipping the raw mate
time, but Oregon is a nice place all exceedingly active
in body and
W isdom , has proved of great value rial so far to he m ade up, and at
of the time.
m ind. She works
hard a t her
the sam e tim e ship flour and other
After having a good visit, and ex- household duties,
cultivates her to our cause, and had her health
not failed her, she would have ac provisions even a longer distance to
posing myself to a kodak
in the flower garden, and assists her hus-
com plished much more. She is feed the people engaged in manu
h a n d so f Miss Grace, who fired three band at picking berries and gather-
Living is cheaper on
now in better health, and 1 hope facturing?
volleys at me, I boarded an electric ing vegetables. I found her in the
my visit has helped to “ rouse her the Pacific Coast, while at the same
car for P rovidente, R.I., while Miss m idst of a week’s washing, which I
time it is nearer to most of the raw
Grace and Mr. Dellquest went in did not wish to in te rru p t, and my s p irits ;’’ and if she will not attem p t
to do it all at once, she can still ac- m aterial, and there is w ater power
the opposite direction to N autasket offer to assist in the job was de
com plish a great deal. I he sus- unlim ited. The m arkets of the
Beach. I hope their ride was as clined with th an k s (m uch to niy
pension of the L ittle Candle alm ost world are g radually growing nearer
enjoyable as mine. The »lay was delight). Mr. Bliven was in the
deiightful, and the ride over the field, back of the barn, wielding killed her, and when I assured her th e Pacific Coast, which will some
th a t we would sta rt it again at the d a y be the great commercial and
low grass-covered hills, along the the scythe, and dodging th e rocks
first o p portunity, she was greatly m anufacturing centre of the world,
old stone walls, am ongst the trees, in his efforts to save a scant crop
pleased, and will look forward to j do not w ant to work against
was indeed pleasant. I arrived in of hay.
It was there th a t Mrs.
the com ing resurrection with great t be interest of the people of New
Providence a little after noon, and Bliven escorted me, saying th a t she
hopes.
H er home is beautifully E ngland, b u t I am prophesying
as I could not get a train for Put- would see if I was cordially re-
situ ated am ong the hills and trees what will surely follow in the wake
n&iu, Court., un til evening, I s p e n t, ceived, and if so she would leave
(an d rocks) of C onnecticutt, and of civilization, and shrew dest one?
my time viewing the city. P rovi me in her h u sb an d ’s com pany,
her lib rary is well filled with valu- will go W est in advance of the rush,
dence is now the capital of the little while she returned to her washing.
able books, while her head is filled
\y e arrived at C haplin a few ni°'
stale of Rhode Island, and a beau- I don’t know what she calls cor
with excellent ideas. The collec- m ents before train tim e, and 1 had
tiful capital building is in process dial, but I know th a t I was never
tion of m inerals and shells in the a njce visit with the Jew itt family»
of construction. Sunday is a poor treated better in my life; and I
who are Secularists, and are now
dav •r to visit an eastern city, for bus- guess Mrs. Bliven was satisfied, for library is indeed interesting.
Mr. and ......
Mrs. Bliven -----------
are strong
members of the Torch of Reason
mess IS
iiiiir y , ru
rciuiiieu to uic
v u p c , where
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iness
is sUSpenut’ll
suspended annuo*
alm ost e entirely,
she r returned
the ij house,
¡and the residents who do not go to we found her a few m om ents after- tem perance workers, an d both are fam ily. Mr. Jew itt has a in -
ch u rch (by far th eg reater m ajority), wards, busily engaged in the lab o r-' practical vegetarians. No m eat of I lection of ancient fire-arms, sw