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.’ ”