THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 5, 1900. 6 Mrs. M. W. Barnhouse, of Caleb, tiori to assert their rights when it on the aims and objects of the Oregon, sends us a $10 donation becomes necessary. school, and received much encour N EW S AND NOTES. this week with the kindest of words J. B. B eattie . agement from the members present. ) O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O and encouragement for our “good I wish all the Liberals of Chicago Our musician, Prof. Cooley, is cause » would attend these meetings. They with us again. Travels. are held each Sunday morning at Our regular school work will close The late examinations showed II o’clock, in Corinthian Hall, May 4 this year. This will give us [C oncluded from 5th page.l some excellent work. Labor Omnia more time to get our building fin for the future prosperity of the 17th floor of the Masonic Temple. Vincit. ished and to prepare for a grand Magazine and the Graens are hope Dr. Gregory was at one time a An extra good program is ex campaign next year. Our school ful and cheerful. The paper is in Univerealist but has now stepped pected at the Y. P. S. S. C. next will close with a large number of. deed a credit to the Freethought out on to the broad platform of Friday evening. enthusiastic students who will bring cause and ought to be read by every Liberalism. He says that in a Every subscriber get one new one. many others with them next year. Freethinker. April 12th is “ Dona world of nature there is no room tion Day” for the Freethought for prayer nor God. This will double our subscriptions I am in Omaha at this writing, Magazine and I hone that all who S ilverton Thought Exchange. and divide the work. read this will remember Mr. Green but I saw and did too much in Mr. Geer is meeting with many Chicago to tell it all in this letter. with a donation to assist in the Sunday, April 1, the April show friends in the East and our work We will have the rest in my next. this year is sure to he a great suc ers were on hand with a profusion summer’s work or a subscription to After visiting Kansas and Missouri of blossoms and the promise of a the Magazine. Let the money roll cess. I will go farther east until I reach hopeful season. So “the New Hope” in at 213 E. Indiana St. on that day the great Atlantic. The Silverton Improvement and and give the world to understand Entertainment Society is awake and was the subject of Prof. Wakeman’s that Freethought is still alive. the results which are bound to fol lecture. This lecture followed up Secularists would you not like to E. C. and W. G. Reichwald are “The New Life,” which was a lec low their efforts will astonish us all. ture delivered at Salem, both of still at the old stand on South have some letterheads printed with New classes are organized in the which were founded upon “Our Water Street, where Freethinkers Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s Liberal University at any time. New World,” the lecture in exposi are always welcome. The walls of Freethought badge, to use in corre This gives students a chance to en tion of the new astronomy of Co the room are covered with pictures spondence with your friends? We ter at any period of the year with pernicus, Bruno and Galileo. As of the leading Freethinkers and will furnish them to you with your out loss of time. this “New Hope” lecture will be Freethought journals are on the name and address printed on them for 75 cents per hundred, $1.50 per The subject at the Thought Ex printed in the Torch in due time it tables. It is through this office 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let change is Electricity for next Sun will not be anticipated by present that the American Secular Union the people know where you stand. day evening. Percy Brown, a man report. Next Sunday Mr. P. L. arid Freethought Federation does who is well known as a practical Brown will give a lecture upon its work, and secretary Reichwald We believe th a t c ard s like the follow ing copy, “Electricity and its Applications.” is always on the alert for class leg neatly electrician, is the speaker. p rin te d a n d d istrib u te d all over th e U n it ed S tates, w ill help us to b u ild th e L iberal U ni islation of various kinds. He kills R eader, how m any can you d is trib u te to Any of our old subscribers receiv It will be interesting and instruct the Sunday law’s and prohibits the versity. good advantage? 3 his w ill cost you n o th in g b u t effort, and may help th e cause of Free- ing a copy of the Torch marked ive beyond measure and all should Bible from being read in the public a ( b little o u g h t very m u ch . x . y . z . “Sample Copy” need not be offend be on hand. schools. t®. X ...F IV E ... 4, Kto ed but pass it on to some one they I spent several nights at the T" % REASONS WHY T “ English S ecu larism .” think will be interested. YOU home of Mr. E. C. Reichwald, where " l i U The L. U. O. does not graduate By George Jacob Holyoake, 146 1 had pleasant visits with Mrs. a student in any branch until he pages, neatly bound in cloth, post Reichwald and Miss Josie. Mr. R. w ft ft 8 hould H e lp to B u ild has the requisite amount of know paid, 50 cents. Twenty-two excel is a jolly, fun-loving man, and one ledge. This puts a premium on lent chapters, together with Secu cannot help enjoying the hospitality ^ L ib e r a l U n iversity intelligence and careful, accurate larist ceremonies on Marriage, of his wife and daughter. The AT S ILV E R TO N , OREGON. Naming Children, and Over the work. Dead. No Freethought library is maidenhair fern I sent from Oregon The Woman’s Social Science Club complete without it. Sent free with is growing nicely and Mrs. Reich 1 I t will h e lp m an y young m en and young women to a h ig h er education who will meet Saturday, April 7th, at yearly subscriptions to the Torch wald is very proud of it. otherw ise wili grow u p w ith o u t its great Sunday I had the pleasure of a advantages. 3 p. m. at the residence of Mrs. Lou of Reason. 2 I t will educate w orkers for th e g reat visit with Mrs. Bones, who was on forw Ames. The subject will be “The ard m arch of F re e th o u g h t an d Pro her way from Yankton, S. Dakota, gress. Chicago Liberal Society. History of Oregon.” The paper forever silence th e accusation to Washington, D. C., to join her th 3 a t I t S will will be given by Mrs. Ames. ecu larists have never done a n y E ditor T orch of R eason : husband who has been appointed th in g . The Blackbird Pie and the posing The Chicago Liberal Society had to a government position. Mrs. 4 I t will h asten th e tim e w hen Reason n d Love will reign, and w hen su p e rsti at the Y. P. S. S. C. last Friday a good meeting today (March 25). Bones is an enthusiastic Liberal a tion and h a te will be forever gone. evening, as well as the dance which Dr. Gregory gave one of his charac and an interesting conversational 5 I t will give you an o p p o rtu n ity to build yourself and o th ers a m o n u m en t, followed, were excellent. These teristic lectures on “A Substitute ist. She has been quite prominent w hile you yet live, th a t will do a m illion Friday evenings will be long re for a Church God; or, Can a Ra ly connected with the Woman’s tim es m ore good th a n th e m ost costly membered as bright spots in the tionalist Worship?” Mr. Gregory Suffrage movement in the past. one of cold, senseless m arb le. lives of our students, teachers and defined a Rationalist as “one who Her son Tommy, who accompanies friends. in the final analysis tests all things her, is a very bright lad w’hom it is I f a ll h e lp a lit t le , w e c a n a c c o m p lis h m u c h . W ill you h elp A thousand extra copies of this by reason”. “Belief,” he said, “is a a pleasure to meet. a lit t le ? During my stay in Chicago 1 at issue go out all over the world to question of fact.” He defined God make more friends for the L. U. O. as an idea of power, wisdom, good tended two meetings of the Chicago JUST AS NATURAL old hrn » Wand a good deal more reliable. ness and justice, and said, “All that Liberal Society and heard Dr. We hope all receiving copies will ■Wbrrak its t g r t or make ita chicks lou-? Doean'tatay off the neatand allow the egg* God is theoretically, Nature is in Gregory deliver some well prepared to c h ill but hatch's every egg that can be carefully examine them and, if hatched. THE fact”. lectures, which are indeed interest their consciences approve our work, PETALUMA INCUBATOR Mr. Gregory is a decided opti ing; and if the society continues to la t i o abeolntely perfect as to Incubatoressentials— p r o p e r a p p l i c a they will subscribe and get others n a n d d is tr ib u t io n o f h e a t a n d m o is tu r e , r e g u l a t i o n a n d v e n t i l a t i o n . For 50 t o 350 eggs. WE “AT mist. He claims that there is more i work along the lines adopted, there FR E 1 0 H T A MT W H E R E in th e U. S. H an d som e c a ta lo g free. to do the same. good than evil in Nature. If there is an opportunity for it to do a vast P e t a l u m a I n c u b a t o r Co., B o x a P e t a l u m a , C al. The notice in last week’s issue was not, we would all perish. amount of good in Chicago. The jhe W iley B. concerning the donations of our One pleasing feature of the Lib work corresponds exactly with the Allen Co English friends would be better eral Society is that more sociability plan of the Oregon Secular church T he O ldest ! the understood as follows: Mr. George is manifested than in the old Secu es. I am glad to see it begun and Largest ! Music Anderson,£5; Mr. Alfred Mar.-h, £3; lar Union of this city. Time is hope it will continue. S tore. T ra d in g Pi anos an d Organs. Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh, 10s.; Mr. taken each Sunday after the lecture At the first meeting I attended 209-211 F irs t S t., Thomas Allsop, £1; Mr. Robert to shake hands, chat and get ac- Dr. Gregory was kind enough to PORTLAND, OREO. Applegarth, 10s.; Mr. J. M. Gunson,i quainted. Freethinkers are thus invite me to make a few remarks U P I R copies of IOC d iffe re n t Leading £1, Mr. Arthur Gimton, £1; Mr. brought into more intimate rela- on the work of the Liberal Uni O Q A n m i L L N ew spaper* and M agazine* *ent to any ad d ress ap o n receip t of 10 cents to pay for Siduey Gimton, £1, tionship and are in a better posi- versity. I spoke for ten minutes I m ailin g U . 8 S u b s c r ip t io n A o s n c T, 126 N. L ib erty S t., In d ian ap o lis, In d . > <XXXX)-0<XH>0-0-0<H><XX><> O O O O O O 9 f