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8 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 6, E. M. 300 (1900.) >000000 N E W S A N D NOTES. ) O O OO O O O OO O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O New students are coming to the L. U. O. all the time. Ralph Davis, of Grants Pass, will be with us next week. The L. U. O. Physical Culture Class is a sight to please the gods. We expect our former student, John Madden, to he with us soon. We are in the midst of an intel lectual religious war. Stand firm! Several new students will enter the Physical Culture Class next week. The grass is grow ing and the air is warm and balmy in Silverton these days. Fred. Klein is with us again This time he brought his younger brother Charlie along. Messages and Papers of the Pres idents, in ten nicely bound volumes arrived at the L. U. O. this week. We paid Twenty-Five Dollars on our piano this week, from the pro ceeds of the Thanksgiving enter tainment. Now for another! We are very much crowded and ought to build dormitories at once. Where is the money and how are we to get it ? Do not forget that the L. U. O. students and teachers will soon give that most excellent play, “The Lone Pine Mine,” for the Piano Fund. Prof, and Mrs. Rating arrived at the L. U. O. Monday. They seem well pleased with our University and will commence their teaching work at the beginning of next term, Dec. 10., E. M. 300. The Tobacco and Liquor Con tract may seem to some an extreme measure; but we cannot afford to tolerate any thing in our L. U. O. that robs us of our real freedom of thought. The girl’s class in Physical Cul ture began their lessons last week. Their suits of navy blue and crim son (our college colors), are superb, and the girls are all deligted with the work. “ What great, awkward cows we all are.” ‘ I never before realized how weak I am.” ‘'Will we ever have aoch graceful movements as he has?” are some of the expres- siona heard io the Physical Culture p, grace, but concluded to “try again” Memorial,” will be held at next year’s congress of Liberals. Thus and signed the following the question of his prominence and CONTRACT. We, the undersigned, herely ac utility in the world will be settled knowledge that we, in our weak by organizing Secular unions which ness, brought about largely by the will secure not only his name and use of the narcotic, tobacco, have fame from oblivion, but make his wrongfully and foolishly injured life a continuous power for good. Meanwhile let us require that ourselves, our friends, our L’nivers- ity’and future generations, not only every Library shall contain the by the use of tobacco, but by break Dresden Edition of his works, and ing the promise we made to the that we reduce a copy to our own President of the said University on ownership if possible. Nov. 20th, E. M. 300. And in hu Secularists would you not like to miliation and regret for our said have some letterheads printed with weakness, begging the pardon of all Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s and asking our friends not to con Freethought badge, to use in corre demn us without another trial, we spondence with your friends? We hereby SOLEMNLY promise, on will furnish them to you with your our word of honor, henceforth, not name and address printed on them for 75 cents per hundred, $1.50 per only to refrain from the use of to 250, or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let bacco in every form, but also to re the people know where you stand. frain from the use of of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. T he Ingersoll C hair. In witness whereof we have here The amounts subscribed and paid unto set our hands and seals, this in for the Ingersoll Chair are set 3rd day of Dec. E. M. 300. forth below. This sum is actually If some people were not so well in the hands of our treasurer to be satisfied with themselves other peo safely invested, the income only to ple would be better satisfied with be used. them. SUBSCRIPTIONS COLLECTED IN ENGLAND BY G. J. HOLYOAKE. Minister (after painting the glo £ s. ries of heaven): “And now, boys Mr. George Anderson, London 5 0 0 “ “ 2d subscription,, and girls, what sort of people will “ 0 Mr. Alfred Marsh, ,, reach this blessed place?” Small “ 0 “ “ 2d subscription ,, 10 Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh, Voice: “Dead ’uns, sir.” 10 Mr. Robert Applegarth, It is said of a famous usurer of Mr. Tbos. Allsop, 0 0 Leicester Mr. J. M. Gimson, Paris that when on his death-bed, 0 Mr. Arthur Gimson, his confessor presented to him a Mr. Sidney Gimson, 0 0 Yarmouth Mr. John Leach, silver crucifix with a view to awak BY MRS. HOLYOAKE MARSH. en him to a sense of his situation. The dying miser, after examining Mrs. Daniel Baker Birmingham 1 0 0 Mr. Byron Holyoake Smith 9> the cross closely, exclaimed: “Sir, I A. H. 10 1 0 can lend you but a very smsll sum Miss Julia C. Smith, Mrs. Holyoake Smith, >> 1 0 on such a pledge.” Reigate 1 0 Miss Phipson, London 1 0 Dr. G. Sworn, Mt. St. Elias has been badly Mr. T. R. Mudie, „ .. 1 0 5 shaken by an earthquake. It is Mr. A. Sumner, „ 0 said that the mountain was consid Dr. J. Wallace, (deceased)Glasgow SENT PERSONALLY. erably torn up. The shock was so Brighton 2 0 severe that a mass of ice, acres in Mr. Herbert Spencer. CONTRIBUTED IN AMERICA. extent, broke loose from the top of L. P. Maxam, Mich....................... $10.00 the mountain, and went crashing Geo. N. Hill, Boston, Mass.......... 5.00 down the sides carrying everything Eva Ingersoll Brown, N. Y............. 50.00 Prof. Daniel T. Ames, Cal............. 10.00 with it. Benj. Duval, Col............................. L00 Let us fill up the contribution box! L ater —Mr. R. C. Burt is of Mich- igan adds one thousand dollars to the above offer. At this rate we will soon be able to go ahead with our building. “A friend w’ho helps quick helps double.” S till L ater .—A friend in Silver- ton offers fifty dollars on the above plan. The amount alreadv re- celved and acknowledged in the Contribution Box, goes to help make up the balance of this fund, which now lacks only $1364.60 of being complete. L ater S till .—A friend in New Engiand has sent us a draft for five hundred dollars, which now leaves only 8864.60 to complete the fund and give “Luo” a big boost. Who will be the next? > o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o < LIBERAL MEETINGS, oooooooooooo oooooo oooooo < B oston , M ass .—Ingersoll Secular So ciety meets at Paine Memorial Hall, 9 Appleton St., Sunday, 3 p. m. Rev. J. P. Bland, Resident Speaker. L owell , M ass .—Liberal Association meets in Pilgrim Hall, Pahner street, Lowell, Mass., Sunday afternoons, at 2 o’clock, except 2d Sunday in each month when the time is 6:30. W. S. Parker, President. E. A. Howe, Secretary. N ew Y ork C ity —The Manhattan Liberal Club meets every Friday eve ning at 8 o’clock, in the German Mason ic Temple, 220 East Fifteenth street. I» S A IN T IN G E R S O LL. C oncluded from Page 5. 1. He was a Hero in the search and application of the Truth. 2. Au Emancipator of the hu- man mind and heart ,ueanB o{ lhe T,utb' 3' A ProPhet of tbe Gra»der Future ahoul be- b>' r,‘aBO" of tbe reali*a‘i°" lba Truth, Mr. W akeman proceeded to elaborate each of these grounds for Some of tbe cake walkers might reaj immOrtality for Ingersoll; : nd appropriately sing You ask what ; H[j0W that cnlv bv organization makes the darkies weep?” The fact o{Libera,Bi „„J th„ir education is that Dicky Doubt Down and Em- , he career Inger(,o„ be. ily Chloe Amos, the youngest coup- come a couliruou8 living facli and le that walked, walked off with # grea, „ ble89ing to raanUin(i UlaI1 the cake. any BBint ever placed as yet upon Five of the L. U. O. young men the calender of any faith, old or who promised to refrain from the uew. use of the “ filthy weed” fell from It is probable that an “ Ingersoll Ed. Secrest, Randolph, Kansas... Helen H. Gardener. N. Y. City Esther Herrman, New York City, J J.Chilcoat, M. D. Wash D. C. Wm. J. Chilcoat, “ “ 2.o0 1.00 1.00 3.00 1-00 > 000-0-00 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . T h is is O u r B uilding Fund C o n trib u tio n Box. Previously acknowledged.. $558.45 £ J. B. Billard, Topeka, Kan., 10.00 F. W. Hibbard, Del Norte,Col. 5.00 , o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o < A L iberal Offer. A good friend of tbe L. U. O. has offered to donate Two Thousand Dollars in cash to our institution if other Freethinkers will raise it to Five Thousand. B rooklyn , N. Y.—The Brooklyn Philosophical Association meets Sunday p. m., in the Long Island Business College Hall, South Eighth street, het. Bedford and Driggs Avenues. C hicago . III.—Liberal Society, Dr. Thomas B. Gregory, resident lecturer. Sunday lectures, 11 a. m. Corinthian Hall, Masonic Temple. Admission free. All are invited. O hio L iberal S ociety —Season of 1900 and 1901. Public lectures under the auspices of the above society are delivered every Sun day evening at 8 o’clock, in College Hall. 416 Walnut st., Cincinnati, Ohio. The program for October is as follows: The program for November is as follows : Nov. 11. Dr. B. F. Longstreet. Subject “ Natural Law in the Social World.’’ Nov. 18. Joint debate. Subject, “The Physical Phenomena of Spiritual ism can he best explained on the hy pothesis that they are produced by the spirits of thedead. Affirmative, Prof. J. Clegg Wright. Negative, John R. Charlesworth. Nov. 23, 24 , 25. Annual Congress of The American Secular Union and Freethought Federation of America, under the auspices of the society. M anchester N. H.—Freethinkers’ Association meets Sunday evenings at 6 o’clock, 8b9 Elm Street. fall season 1900. “ Without a fear of coming night We seek the truth, we love the light.” Nov. 11. George V. Hamlin. “ Munic ipal Problems.” Nov. 18. Dr. Sarah F. Whittemore Wilsey. “ The Education of Women.” Nov. 25. L. H. Carpenter. “ A politi cal Subject.” Dec. 2, Anson G. Osgood. “ Death and Immortality. Dec. 9. George R. Jackson. The Poet ry of the English Language.” Dec. 16. L. H. Carpenter. “ What is Wrong?” Dec. 23. G. S. Osgood. “ A Philsoph- ical Subject.” Dee, 30. Miss Marv Percival Stone “ Harmony and the 'Music of the Spheres.’ ”