THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, OCTOBER 11, E. M. 300 (1'J' iuj N EW S AND NOTES. The people of the L. U. O. are busy as busy can be. Mr. L. D. Leonard is digging a well for the University building. Our business manager was in Portland Monday and Tuesday. The most beautiful weather i n i ­ maginable is being enjoyed by the people of the Willamette valley. The captains of the Y. P. S. S. C. chose their sides last Friday evening and are all ready for busi­ ness. Miss Mills will lead off next Friday evening with a good p ro - gram. As we go to press a telephone message comes that a Freethought sister, Mrs. West, of Scappoose, Oregon, has just died. One of the L. U. O. faculty will deliver the fu- neral address. We have just purchased a 2o- horse power boiler for steam heat­ ing purposes in the L. U. O. hull - ings. Steam will also be utilized in running printing machinery and water works. géant at arms, Ada Page; Cap­ tains, Miss Kitty Mills, F. W. Hofl'mann. A W ell Pleased Subscriber. E d ito r Torch of Reason: — Dear F riend: English Secular­ ism came to hand in good condi­ tion and it is a good friend and companion. I am much pleased with it and the Torch. If only people would read some of the Liberal literature, we would have nothing of narrow mindedness and creeds aud dogmas. I, for one, am glad that I have bursted the bonds of mental slavery. With many thanks, I remain one of you. Mrs. F. E. Luce. Philadelphia, Pa. It Is C onstructive Now . The Ingersoll Chair. D. E. The amounts subscribed and paid _____ in for the Ingersoll Chair are set At the recent convention of the forth below. This sum is actually Oregon State Secular Union, Pro- ju the hands of our treasurer to 1* fessor Wakeman told us that the safely invested, the income only to destructive period in Liberalism be used. £ a. had passed, and the era of con- George A nderson, E n g lan d 5 0 3 0 struction had arrived. It was easy yjr A lfred M aish , LO work to demolish the old theolog- 10 0 ical systems, and scatter their idols j. -q G u nson, 0 to flinders. It rnaj ue ™ Mr. si < > C < > < X X X X ) o o o o o o o o o o o o ably with all men.” by TO R A ISE $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . Circulate the Petition. T h is is O u r B u ild in g F u n d C o n tr ib u tio n B o x . oooooo oooooooooooooooooo A petition numerously signed Previously a c k n o w le d g e d .. $435.90 should be sent to President Mc­ H . Row ley, New Y o r k ........ 50.00 Kinley urging him to withdraw O. T. G len n , C in c in n a ti----- 25.00 This number goes to one thous­ the American missionaries from O- E d. Secrest, R an d o lp h , K s.. 2.50 and Freethinkers who are not yet 1.00 China in settling our present diffi­ M rs. M. A. R eynolds, K s . .. lo.ooS subscribers. We hope that many M. P ritc h a rd , Cali f o r n ia .. . . culties with that country. It is of the thousand will join in our Minnie Page Hosmer. well known that the aggressive na­ rapidly increasing “Torch” light State Sup’t Secular Sunday Schools. ture of Christiauity is the cause of procession and help spread the oooooooooooooooooo oooooooo the present trouble. Let that gospel of Science and Humanity. Mrs. Minnie Page Hosmer, whose clause be abrogated which guaran­ A Liberal Offer. We regret to say that we will not portrait appears above, has been tees protection to Christians and A good friend of the L. U. O. hfti be able to paint the University actively engaged in the Liberal missionaries there, and they will building this year unless we re­ work in Oregon for the past five at once withdraw, or, if desirous to offered to donate Two Thousand ceive more money. How many of years. She was elected vice presi become martyrs, will remain at Dollars in cash to our institution if our readers will pay for one gallon dent of the Oregon State Secular their own peril. It is but just other Freethinkers will raise it to of paint each? Paint is $1.25 per Union at the seventh annual con­ to China that her choice in this Five Thousand. Let us fill up the contribution vention held in Portland, E. M. gallon. matter should be regarded. We box! 295. The following winter and exclude from this country certain The many improvements we L ater —Mr. R. C. Burtis of Mich­ spring she, with her husband, con­ have made on the buildings and ducted the work in the Portland classes of Chinese that are not ac­ igan adds one thousand dollars to grounds of the L, U. O. this year Secular church and Sunday school. ceptable to us and by all means let the above offer. . At this rate we require the expenditure of a great They then moved to Silverton us grant a similar privilege to will soon be able to go ahead with them. Somebody stait the peti­ amount of money and we hope our to our building. “A friend who helps assist in founding the friends will remember to help the Liberal University, where Mrs. tion. Fifty millions of people in quick helps double.” the United States are ready to building fund. Hosmer is exceedingly active in S till L ater .—A friend in Silver- sign it. Mr. Henry Browne, wife and two the work and devotes nearly her ton offers fifty dollars on the above children, of Wisconsin, have ar­ entire time, in school hours, to plan. The amount already re­ Our offer to give a copy of George ceived and acknowledged in the rived in Silverton, where they will teaching. Outside of school hours reside in the future. Mr. Browne she devotes herself to books and Jacob Holyoake’s English Secular­ Contribution Box, goes to help is an expert printer and will be various lines of work, aud is always ism with a year’s subscription to make up the balance of this fund, seen slinging type and kicking on hand to assist the members of the Torch of Reason for one dollar which now lacks only $1514.10 of press in the Torch of Reason office. the Y. P. S. S. C. in arranging and has met with such a hearty re­ being complete. practicing for entertainments. She sponse that we have decided to L ater S till .—A friend in New Miss Sophie Wolf, our former has been one of the principal work­ renew the offer. I his book is cloth England has sent us a draft for five professor of elocution and music, ers in the Silverton Sunday bound, gilt top, 150 pages, and left last Monday for Boston, where school and her experience along sells for 50 cents. We give it free hundred dollars, which now leaves she will spend the winter in the that line certainly fits her for the with a year’s subscription to the only $925.60 to complete the fund Emerson College of Oratory. Miss office of State Superintendent of Torch of Reason, or a renewal. We and give “Luo” a big boost. Who Wolf’s many friends will miss her Secular Sunday schools in the Ore­ have only a limited number, so will be the next? during her absence from Silverton gon State Secular Union, to which order at once. Secularists would you not like to and hope for her safe return, have some letterheads printed with office she was elected at the con­ Send 10 cents in silver or stamps sentiment and \\ ettstein’s The following officers were elect­ vention just closed. Anyone con­ to the Liberal Subscription Agency, Freethought badge, to use in corre- ed at the Y. P. S. S. C. meeting templating starting an organiza­ 128 Locust St., Ottawa, Kas., and spondence with your friends9 We tion or wishing information re­ receive (luring the next month will furnish them to you ’ «h your last Friday evening: & name aud address printed on them President, Charles L. Page; Sec­ garding the Secular Sunday school copies of all leading Freethought, for 75 cents per hundred, $1.50 per retary, Minnie Robison; Treas­ work will do well to address Mrs. | Liberal and New Thought papers 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let urer, Elvin Ames; Sergeant at Hosmer, in care of the L. O. U., , . 1 the people know where you stand. Silverton, Oregon. 1 and magazine«. I arms, L. Rauch; Assistant Ser-