THE TOUCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 3, 1900.
the importance of the work of clear- a bright, industrious man and al- Liberals would subscribe. Mrs.
ing the way and breaking the ways wide awake. It didn’t take Semple is purely iconoclastic.
Luo Laudam us.
ground, for without this work the us long to inform him regarding Wherever she sees a system with
Liberal University would not have our work, and when we did you which she is not in harmony she
BY JO H N PRESCOTT G U IL D .
been possible. Mr. Palm gave me should have seen and heard him does not fear to attack it, and does
If W isdom ’s ways are p leasantness,
some of the old hills and programs enthuse. He wa.- not long in de- so effectively. She says she will do
And peace paves all her stre ets,
used in the ’70s, which I prize ciding that the L. U. O. is the best the tearing down and the Liberal
T hen Silverton is P aradise,
W here youth f
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world.
In
bii Univ•> y can do the building tip
For th ere is tau g h t th e rig h t of search
Blenda Palm Reynolds, and her earnestness he gave a dollar for the In that way we can work together
For trea su re old and new,
H u m a n ity its highest ch u rch ,
sweet little Bessie, go to make up Torch aud then invited us to follow to advantage. Help us both, please.
Its creed—w h a te ’e r is tru e.
In the evening, Mrs. Reynolds
the family with whom I have spent him. We did, and the result was
T he L iberal U niversity
so many pleasant hours. I am three more subscribers in less than and I accompanied Mrs. Semple to
Its ban n er has unfurled,
only sorry that I never met Mrs. half an hour. These three sub­ the home of Mrs. Unthank, where
And “ L uo” is its legend, too—
T rue freedom for th e w orld;
Palm. All Liberals are acquainted scribers represent three good friends I we spent a pleasant hour. Mrs.
Its Torch of Reason blazes b rig h t,
with her w’ork in the interest of to the Liberal University who will Unthank and her mother, Mrs. Soul,
A beacon u n to all,
A nd m any, w akened by its light,
our cause, especially with the child­ surely stand by our work. They talk of moving to Oregon, and I
Now list to W isdom ’s call.
ren. It is too bad she could not are Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Graeber and hope it will amount to more than
T he Sun of Science shining clear
Mr. Henderson, all business men of talk. I told Mrs. Unthank to be
have remained longer with us.
Upon g rand Oregon,
sure and bring her “Soul” with her
Bids specters of the gloomy night
It was at Lawrence, Kansas, I Lawrence.
Be sw iftly m oving on ;
We had to suspend business for and she promised she would. She
had the pleasure of meeting Miss
The m y th s of S uperstition
No m ore shall h a u n t th e hills,
Emily Wakeman, the daughter of the evening as it was closing time showed her interest in our work by
F or F re e th o u g h t’s m ighty m ission
our own Thaddeus. Miss Wake­ for the stores, so we adjourned to subscribing for the Torch of Reason.
The ghosts of folly kills.
Monday was another active day.
man is travelling with “ A Poor Re­ meet again at the Spiritualist gath­
Flow on, th e n , fair W illam ette, flow,
lation” troupe, and Mrs. Reynolds, ering at the beautiful home of Mr. We found Mr. Agle in the after­
T hy valley sm ile in peace,
For th ere th e fruitful “ knowledge tre e ” Miss Bessie and I had the pleasure McNair later in the evening. I noon aud he gave his assistance
Shall flourish and increase:
people again. Mr. Rose, Mr. Peterson
of seeing the play the evening after there met so many
By law of E volution sure,
T he p lan t will bud and bloom ;
my arrival. I uo not pose as a that I can’t begin to recall their and Mr. Pennington subscribed for
S ilv erto n ’s in stitu tio n pure,
theatrical critic, but I know when names. Mr. Henderson seemed to the Torch. Mr. Rose is well known
E ach day dem ands “ More
a play pleases me. I enjoyed this be the head of the meeting and he as a radical Liberal and is going to
Travels.
play immensely, and while I didn’t kept things stirring. It was a reg­ do all the missionary work he can
exactly like the acting of the lead­ ular experience meeting and there for the L. U. O. Mr. Peterson is a
BY P E A R L W . G E E R .
ing man and some of the rest of the were spirits in abundance. None brother of Mrs. Charlotte Palm and
troupe, the most of the players act­ came to me so I am still an unbe­ is a nice appearing gentleman. I
Mr. Moffitt referred me to other ed their parts naturally and with liever. The event was the celebra­ regret that I was unable to accept
Liberals in Seward. I called on great credit to the profession. Miss tion of the anniversary of the advent the invitation to call at his home
Mr. Brown, the real estate man, Wakeman is to be classed with the of modern Spiritualism.
in the country. I will remember
first and found him to be quite en­ best, and if all in the theatrical pro­ One of the pleasant occurrences the invitation on my next visit. It
thusiastic in the Liberal cause. He fession would play their parts as of the evening was the meeting I was great pleasure for me to meet
joined the Torch of Reason family well they would never be criticized had with Mr. Isaac Farley, who is Mr Peterson’s accomplished daugh­
without hesitation and referred me by me. I am proud to know her always full of fun and who is now ter, who lives in Lawrence aud is
to others. Messrs. Lowley, Babson, personally. I had a pleasant visit a member of the Torch family.
the wife of one of Lawrence’s most
Dunphy and Jones all subscribed with Miss Wakeman at the hotel
Next day was Sunday and I ac­ successful merchants. If the other
in less than an hour, and I was where I was kept busy answering companied the Palm family to the members of the family are the equal
ready to leave the town, well satis­ questions about Silverton and the Unitarian church, where we listen­ of this one, it will be a pleasure to
fied with the friends I have made Wakeman family. Miss Wakeman ed to a very interesting discourse meet them all.
there. 1 hope they will all feel is to spend her summer vacation in by Rev. F. M. Bennett. From my
I intended to leave Lawrence on
like giving still more aid to the Silverton. We shall all be de­ conversation with him I judge that Tuesday but Mr. Pennington per­
cause after they become better ac­ lighted to see her and have her Mr. Bennett is more Liberal than suaded me to stay so that he might
quainted with the work we are with us.
his sermon would lead one to be­ take me for a drive among his
doing.
Mrs. Reynolds was kind enough lieve. He has the appearance of friends, who might subscribe for the
In the evening I was in Atchison, to take me out into the country being a gentleman in every respect Torch. The trip was successful,
Kansas, where I had the pleasure four miles to the home of Mrs. and draws around him a congrega­ and Mrs. Shibley, Mrs. Shimmons
of meeting with Mr. John Rems- Robinson, the widow of the first tion ofintelligent, moral people, and and Messrs. Snyder, Howell and
burg, Jr. From him I learned that governor of Kansas. We had a they all work together for the Re­ W ilbur are listed as members of
his father, the president of the delightful time. The Robinson ligion of Humanity. I also had the Torch family. I took dinner at
American Secular Union, was on home is beautifully situated on a the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ben- the pleasant home of Mr. Penning­
his farm ten miles to the south. So hill with the valley and the city of nett’s mother, whose appearance ton, where I had the pleasure of
I journeyed on to Kansas City and Lawrence in the landscape view, shows that Mr. Bennett could eas- meeting Mrs. Pennington and her
then west to Lawrence, the home of Gov. Robinson was always inter- ily have inherited his intelligence daughter, who is a teacher of
Mr. A. Palm, where 1 always feel ested in the Liberal work and took aud refinement from the maternal languages in the Lawrence High
at home and never fail to enjoy an active part in the conventions, side of the house. The work of the School.
myself. Mr. Palm has sold his His wife still manifests a deep in Lawrence Unitarian church is wor­
I left Lawrence next day, and
business and will take the world terest especially in the constructive thy of more notice than I can give proudly took with me a handsome
easy the rest of his life. He work of the Liberal University, here,
souvenir spoon of the old Palm
certainly deserves to take the world Mrs. Robinson is a typical New
On our return home after the windmill and a gold dollar watch
easy for his has been an active life. Englander, a delightful conversa- meeting, I was pleased to find Mrs. charm in remembrance of its former
He has been and is of great tionalist and a splendid woman. Etta Semple, editor of the Free- owner, one of the noblest of Kan­
value to the Liberal cause. In the I wish all of our readers could meet thought Ideal, of Ottowa, Kansas, sas’ noble women—Mrs. Charlotte
days when it was possible to arouse her. She is the author of a book waiting for us. It was my first Palm. There is hope of sweet little
great enthusiasm over anti-Christ- on the early history of Kansas, a meeting with her, and how we did Bessie being a student of the L. U. O.
ian work, Mr. Palm was always fore- copy of which she was kind enough chatter the rest of the afternoon, W hen that is a fact she will be the
most in the conventions, and no to donate to the L. U. O. library, We exchanged experiences in the sunshine of our Secular home.
committee of arrangements was together with a copy of a book on a publishing business aud then Mr.
In Topeka, my next stop, I met
complete without his name. He similar subject by the governor,
Palm gave his experience as a sub­ Mr. Stebbins, who, although more
was untiring in his efforts and his
The next day Mrs. Reynolds and scriber and reader. No doubt his interested in political reform than
meetings were always a success.
I started out among the people of experience was more interesting to anything else just now, subscribed
The day of enthusiastic conven- Lawrence to see if we could find us than ours was to him.
for the Torch and expressed a de­
tions has passed and now the time any Liberals and any enthusiasm
Mrs. Semple is doing well with sire to see the L. U. O. a success.
has arrived for constructive work among them. We found both. We her enterprise and the Ideal is a
I next visited my friend Mr.
to be done. This does not lessen first came in contact with Mr. Agle, good paper to which I wish all Billard, who is a stockholder in the
F o r th e T o rc h o f R e a s o n .