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Mr. C. P. Farrell, Liberal pub cool down, till the evolution of
Let us fill up the contribution
lisher, 117 E. 21st St., New York land, growth of plants, animals and box!
N EW S AND NOTES.
City, has sent us some beautiful man, could proceed in the earth’s L ater —Mr. R. C Burtis of Mich-
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lithograph engravings of Col. R. G. equatorial regions, while the slower igan add3 one thousand dollars to
“Under Two Elagsl”
Ingersoll and grand-children, with moving new poles would become the above offer. At this rate we
See the play at Liberal Hall, the prose poems on “Life” and glacier bound.
will soon be able to go ahead with
Saturday evening.
“Love;” also the poem “The Dec Thus each revolution of our Solar our building. “A friend who helps
A great many people evidently laration of the Free” and “The System through its mighty orbit, quick helps double.”
voted the Republican ticket last Creed of Science,” printed on heavy would bring about all the changes
S till L ater .—A friend in Silver-
cardboard for framing. These works of evolution, continuously through ton offers fifty dollars on the above
Tuesday.
of art are thankfully received and out all E tern ity .
plan. The amount already re
Mr. Wrn. Cline made us a very
will
occupy
conspicuos
places
on
Brooklyn, Conn.
ceived and acknowledged in the
pleasant visit last Sunday, remain
the
walls
of
the
different
rooms
of
The above is a fair speculation Contribution Box, goes to help
ing for the night.
the L. U. O.
from a fair correspondent. Like make up the balance of this fund,
Editor Wakeman and Manager
all similar hypotheses it has to as which now lacks only $1387.75 of
Geer expect to leave Silverton for
G uilded P oints.
sume its peg to hang on: The revo being complete.
Cincinnati next Monday, Nov. 12.
L ater S till .—A friend in New
lution of our sun about any thing,
BY JOHN P. GUILD.
Arrangements are being made
has yet to be ascertained.—Editor England has sent us a draft for five
for Prof. Wakeman’s classes to he
hundred dollars, which now leaves
Torch.
Necessity has no comparison.
conducted without interruption
only 8887.75 to complete the fund
during his absence.
Pride and vanity have their uses
and give “Luo” a big boost. Who
The Ingersoll C hair.
“Under Two Flags” is the title and excuses, but envy and jealousy
will be the next?
of the play to be given by Silverton are intolerable.
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home talent at Liberal Hall, Sat
When a man jeers his fellow for
in for the Ingersoll Chair are set
urday evening, Nov. 10th.
L IB E R A L M E E TIN G S .
his poverty, such a one is fit only
forth below. This sum is actually
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The Assembly Hall of the L. U. for the fellowship of sharks.
in the hands of our treasurer to be
O. was used as a polling place on
Jacket an ignoramus with a lit safely invested, the income only to B oston , M ass .—Ingersoll Secular So
election day and some of our stud tle authority, and he will prove
ciety meets at Paine Memorial Hall, 9
be used.
Appleton St., Sunday, 3 p. m. Rev. J.
ents were given practical lessons himself an infernal jackass.
SUBSCRIPTIONS COLLECTED IN ENGLAND P. Bland, Resident Speaker.
in civil government.
BY G. J. HOLYOAKE.
I would rather be a wood sawyer
Home talent of Silverton will in the Liberal University than high
£ S. L owell , M ass .—Liberal Association
George Anderson,
London 5 0 meets in Pilgrim Hall, Palmer street,
shine forth again at Liberal Hall priest in a Temple of Superstition. Mr.
“
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“ 2d subscription , , 5 0 Lowell, Mass., Sunday afternoons, at 2
next Saturday evening. This time
Mr.
Alfred
Marsh,
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o’clock, except 2d Sunday in each month
An intelligent enemy will not “
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2d
subscription
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3
it will be in the production of dare do some things to another’s Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh,
when the time is 6:30. W. S. Parker,
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President. E. A. Howe, Secretary.
“ Under Two Flags.” Reserved injury, which a foolish friend will Mr. Robert Applegarth,
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Mr. Thos. Allsop,
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seats at Brooks’ Drug Store.
N ew Y ork C lT Y T h e M a n h a t t a n
do thinking to give a benefit.
Mr. J. M. Ginison,
Leicester 1 0
Mr. A rthur Ginison,
„ 1 0 Liberal Club meets every Friday eve
Mr. J. H. Morris, the former fore
I would rather be poor all my Mr. Sidney Ginison,
1 0 ning at «o’clock, in the German Mason
Mr.
John
Leach,
Yarmouth
1
0
man in the Torch of Reason office, life and speak my honest thought,
ic Temple, 220 East Fifteenth street.
is with us again after spending than own a “tin store” and flout at
BY MRS. HOLYOAKE MARSH.
B rooklyn , N. Y.—The Brooklyn
several months on his farm. Mr. every radical remark.
Mrs. Daniel Baker
Birmingham 1 0 Philosophical Association meets Sunday
Morris will remain with us during
Mr. Byron Holvoake Smith
, , 5 0 at 3 p. m., in the Long Island Business
’
„
10 Coliege Hall, South Eighth street, bet.
the absence of the editor and busi A Problem for th e A stro n o m ers. A. H.
Miss Julia C. Sm ith,
,,1 0
Bedford and Driggs Avenues.
ness manager of the Torch while
Mrs. Holyoake Smith,
,,1 0
BY ELIZA MOWRY B L IV E N .
M i s s Phipson,
Reigate 1 0
they are attending the Liberal Con
C hicago . I I I .—Liberal Sociaty, Dr.
Dr. G. Sworn,
London 1 0 Thomas B. Gregory, resident lecturer.
gress in Cincinnati.
Mr. T. R. Mudie,
,,1 0
D. K. Tenney’s reasons, (in “The Mr.
A. Sumner,
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5 Sunday lectures, 11 a. m. Corinthian
M iss Clara Wakeman returned Earth Not Created,”) for the Glaci Dr. J. Wallace, (deceased) Glasgow 1 0 Hall, Masonic Temple. Admission free.
All are invited.
to Silverton last Monday evening al Period here, and the evolution
SENT PERSONALLY.
after a three months’ stay in New ary changes, to our temperate
O hio L iberal S ociety —Season of 1900
Mr.
Herbert
Spencer.
Brighton
2
0
and
1901.
York City. Her class in painting climate with its growths, is not
Public lectures under the auspices of
and drawing will begin its work at satisfactory to me. Is not the fol
CONTRIBUTED IN AMERICA.
the above society are delivered every Sun
the L. V. O. building next Satur lowing theory more reasonable?
L. P. Maxam, Mich.........................$10.00 day evening at 8 o’clock, in College
day morning. The students and
Our whole solar system must re Geo. N. Hill, Boston, Mass........... 5.00 Hall, 416 W alnut st., Cincinnati, Ohio.
professors are pleased to have Miss quire millions of years for its revo Eva Ingersoll Brown, N. Y.............. 50.00 The program for October is as follows :
Prof. Daniel T. Ames, Cal.............. 10.00
Wakeman return and have given lution around some gigantic star- Benj. Duval, Col............................... 1.00 The program for November is as follows:
Secrest, Randolph, K an sas... 2.50 Nov. 11. Dr. B. F. Longstreet, Subject
her a glad welcome.
sun immeasurably distant. In Ed.
“ Natural Law in the Social W orld.”
Helen H. Gardener. N. Y. City
1.00
Nov.
18. Joint debate. Subject, “ The
some parts of this mighty orbit, Esther H errm an, New York City, 1.00
Among the visitors to the L. U.
Physical
Phenomena of S piritual
J J. Chilcoat, M. D. Wash D. C.
3.00
our
sun
comes
nearer
to
its
lode
ism
can
he
best explained on the hy
, Wm. J. Chilcoat, “
“
1.00
O. last Sunday were, Mr. and Mrs.
pothesis
th
at
they are produced by
J. K. Mount, Mrs. Hibbard, Miss star; and nearness to its mighty at > < H X X X > O < S X X X > O o o o o o o o o o o o o o
the spirits ofthedead. Affirmative,
Prof. J. Clegg \\ right. Negative,
Mascher, and Mr. and Mrs. Will traction would cause increase of
Job
n R. Charlesworth.
T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
•Tack. They all seemed pleased speed, increasing heat till all the
Nov. 23, 24, 25. Annual Congress of
The American Secular Union and
T h is is O u r B u ild in g Fund
with our buildings and equipments planets might become nearly or
f reethought Federation of America,
£
C o n tr ib u tio n B o x.
and admired the scenery and dec quite incandescent.
under the auspices of the society.
J he counter attraction to our ^< x k x x x )< x x x x x > o < x >< k x )<>< k x x x >
orations in the Assembly Hall.
M anchester
X.
H.— F r e e t h i n k e r » *
. $535.30
We are pleased to have friends visit sun, probably also changes the O Previously . acknowledged.
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Association meets Sunday evenings at
J. P Bale, Ft. Wavne, Mich 2.00 £ .6 o’clock, 8.»9 Elm Street.
us and enjoy showingthem around. polarization of all the planets. Our
H. C. Willies, Wash., D.C.
5.<X)‘ 0
FAt“ 8EA"O-V 1900.
equator, thus passing across where
in n o $
"
ithout
a fear of coming night
M. E. Peck, Odessa, Wash.
The Y. P. 8. S. C. will hold its the poles now are, with the heat
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We
8eek
the
tru th ’ w<?love the light.”
J. G. Francis, Portland, Or
g
Nov.
n
.
George
V. Hamlin. “ Munic-
meetings in the Assembly Hall of and rotation, would flatten the
M. Boehmer,Madison,Wis.
1.09 X
ipal Problem s.”
the L. U. O., beginning with next earth at the new poles, and bulge
C. W. Meyer, Mitchell, Or.
I N Ur. Sarah F. W hittemore
Wilsey. “ The Education of W omen.”
Friday evening, when Captain ¡tout at the new equator, crushing
A friend...........................
Nov. 25. L. H. Carpenter. “ A politi-
Mills will lead off with a splendid up the present crust, and changing
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program. Captain Hoffman closed the oceans to steamy atmosphere. oo<xx>oo-o-o<xx>o<xx><>oO<xx>o-o-oo T
Dec- 2, Anson G. Osgood. “ Death and
at Liberal Hall last Friday even
A Liberal Offer.
Dec. ».’"Genrae R. Jackson. The Poet-
But the increased speed of the
ing with a program that surprised Solar System, would increase its
A good friend of .he L. U. 0. has
i8
all present, and the audience was centrifugal force: this would carry offered to donate Two Thousand
Wrong?”
unusually large. The young Peo it farther from the huge load star; Dollar« in cash to our institution if
s ^ j ^ 00'1' “ * PhiloeoPh-
ples’ Social Science Club has become then the whole Solar System would
other Freethinkers will raise it to
30• Miss Marv Percival Stone
very popular.
L‘i1Rrmo??. au'’ the ‘Music of the
gradually decrease in speed, and F iv e T h o u sa n d .
Spheres.’ ”