T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON,
I ECEM BER 20, E. M. 300 (1900.)
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is (me of those poems (th e others
H atchets are M o(o)re easily dug
Let us fill up the contribution
being G oethe’s grand «‘Symbol cf up lhan hurried.
NEWS AND NOTES.
box!
Life,” and George E llio t’s “ Choir
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ga Herv nor a yarn m ill, Every one igan adds one thousand dollars to
in the M orning Opening Ex- t i i i
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the above offer. At this rate we
country has little news. So with front
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shonld kuow it but some don’t
c ses a j . . ., as, perhaps, the
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will
soon ue
be ao
able
to go anead
ahead with
the University th a t is working well.
greatest inspiring pne.ua of our
Lel us "<> >*ve together as hap- our bui,d in e ,<A frjend bJjo
Growing peace is not eventful.
New Era, fit to be in the heart and ij! I as we can.
. . . helps
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quick
double.”
Students not away or on the play memory of all of the “ C hildren of
S till L ater .— A friend in Silver-
are looking up th eir accinplish- L ig h t.”
R eginald, did you tell God how
ton offers fifty dollars on the above
merits. The Art D epartm ent does
B ut from two points this Psalm naughty you was this m orning?
plan. The am ount already re­
No, m am m a, I felt too much a-
not promise Miss W akem an any m ust be lifted from the a p p ......
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ceived and acknowledged in the
holiday at all.
old false illusions into the tru th of sham ed, I thought it had not better
C ontribution Box, goes to help
m
odern
science:
The
“
soul”
o’
8et
out
tbe
family.
Some of the most esteemed cor­
m ake up the balance of this fund,
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etropolitan,
m
an
does
not
find
the
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grave
its
respondents of the Torch will have
which now lacks only $1364.60 of
goal,
because
it
becomes
a
spook
to wait to see them selves in print.
being complete.
Secularists would you not like to
and
goes,
no
one
knows
where,
but
M r. J. M. Berry, the Dayton sold­
L ater S till .— A friend in New
have some letterheads printed with
because
all
of
its
life
has
been
here
ier, will appear next week.
Secular sentim ent and W ettstein’s E ngland has sent us a draft for five
correlated, and is living on in the F reethought badge, to use in corre­
hundred dollars, which now leaves
We need to cultivate a .borough g„od and glory o( ou|i BUCCegBe8> a „
spondence with your friends? We
F reethought spirit, support well the the rest of the piece shows, and as will furnish them to you with your only SS64.60 to com plete the fund
Liberal U niversity, and to vote for t |,e au lh o r
weil
nam e and address printed on them and give “ L uo” a big boost. Who
those who will respect the Uniteu
And so "The hear, within and ?°rn 75
hundred, »1.50 per will be tiie next?
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or $2.50 for 500, postpaid. Let
S tates C onstitution and
Secular Crod o er head,
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no
longer
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1 know'
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f stand,
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LIBERAL MEETINGS.
The Ingersoll Chair.
personal Spook up there, but as the
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Infinite All, moving by the unva­
The am ounts subscribed and paid
B oston , M ass .—Ingersoll Secular So­
rying laws, which are at once the
in for the Ingersoll C hair are set ciety meets at Paine Memorial Hall. 9
foundation of our life and (if we
forth below. This sum is actually Appleton St., Sunday, 3 p. m. Rev. J.
w ill) the sure means of our evolu­
in the hands of our treasurer to he P. Bland, Resident Speaker.
tion and trium ph.
As Haeckel
safely invested, the income only to
L owell , M ass .—Liberal Association
says, if T he A ll is not God, there b“ *used"
meets in Pilgrim Hall, Palmer street,
is none. Our great American Poet
Lowell,
Mass., Sunday afternoons, at 2
COLLECTED IN ENGLAND
m ay have so m eant, for he was a SUBSCRIPTIONS
o’clock, except 2d Sunday in each month
BY G. J. HOLYOAKE.
stu
d
en
t
of
Modern
Science,
and
a
W. 8. Parker,
£ S . when the time is 6:30.
Terriffic rain3were the feature of
Mr.
George
Anderson,
London
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0
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resident,
E.
A.
Howe,
Secretary.
our H appy Valley during the past great reader and adm irer of Goethe,
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“ 2d subscription ,, 5 0
Mr. Alfred Marsh,
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week, but we all escaped excepting the P an th eist and Monist.
N«w Y obs C ity —The Manhattan
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“ 2d subscription ,,
0 Liberal Club meets every Friday eve­
Blackie, one of the trio of Universo
-Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh,
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ning at «o’clock, in the German Mason­
Mr.
Rotiert
Àpplegarth,
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B erksbires.
The water was too
T he Priests of Blood,
Mr. Thos. Allsop,
,, 2 0 ic Temple, 220 East Fifteenth street.
m uch for him . The usefulness of
Mr. J. M. Gim8(>n,
Leicester 1 0
B rooklyn , N. Y.—The Brooklyn
Mr. A rthur Gimson,
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his life consists in his earnest w arn ­
The Chicago Record (Nov 3 0th, Mr. Sidney Gimson,
,, 1 0 Philosophical Association meets Sunday
ing to his fellow O regonians th a t Lilt.) has the following W ashing- Mr. John Leach,
Yarmouth 1 0
p. m., in the Long Island Business
there are tim es when even they ton news.
Coliege Hall, South Eighth street, bet.
I t is only when we
BY MRS. HOLYOAKE MARSH.
m ust keep out of the wet.
Birmingham
learn w hat Theocracy would do, Mrs. Daniel Baker
0 Bedford and Driggs Avenues.
Mr. Byron Holyoake Smith
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C hicago . I I I .—Liberal Society, Dr.
All are expected to come back in th a t we learn w hat it really means. A. II.
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Miss Julia C. Smith,
„ 1 0 Thomas B. Gregory, resident lecturer.
time for the grand Celebration of Read and let your neighbor read! Mrs.
Holyoake Smith,
” 1 0 Sunday lectures, 11 a. m. Corinthian
I t is a singular fact th a t the only Miss Phipson,
New Y ear’s Eve. Prof. W akem an
Reigate 1 0 Hall, Masonic Temple. Admission free.
Dr. G. Sworn,
London 1 0 All are invited.
is on for a short and solid address, bloodthirsty com m unications received Mr.
T.
R.
Mudie,
1 0
to hold things down; and thus b al­ at the W hite H ouse and the D epart­ Mr. A. Sumner.
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O hio L iberal S ociety - -Season of 1900
ment of S tate on the Chinese question Dr. J. Wallace, (deceased)Glasgow 1 0
lasted, the music and social dance come from m inisters of the gospel, es­
and 1901.
SENT PERSONALLY.
are expected to take an unusually pecially from missionaries. F orget­
Public lectures under the auspices of
Mr.
Herbert
Spencer.
Brighton
2
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the
above society are delivered every Sun­
nigh flight. Also Business M anag­ tin g th e geu tler teachings of Christ,
day evening at 8 o’clock, in College
CONTRIBUTED IN AMERICA.
er Geer is expected to have arrived they insist upon the application of the
Hall, 416 W alnut st., Cincinnati, Ohio.
by th a t tim e to keep things taut old Mosaic law in the punishm ent of L. P. Maxam, Mich........................ $10.00
for October
is as - .......
follows:
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the Chinese—an eye for an eye and a Geo. N. Hill, Boston, Mass........... 5.00; The . program
and safe. Im personations by masks tooth for a to o th —and the u tte r des­ Eva Ingersoll Brown, N. Y............ 50.00 ! The program for November is as follows:
m ay also be in order.
tru ctio n of the cities in which the wick­ J’r°L Daniel T. Ames, Cal............. 10.00 i Nov. 11. Dr. B. F. Longstreet. Subject
Some of the stu d ents are off to
see their parents and friends d u r­
ing the holidays. Miss Ollie Geer
is with friends at New burgh-on-the-
W illam ette. Miss M innie Robinson
is off to her parents. Jo h n n y Scott
expects his folks to visit him. Geo.
Beatty visits his parents at Chema-
wa, and so on.
edness has been com m itted. They de­
mand the lives of the em peror and em ­
press dowager and all the m em bers of
the court and the w’holesale slaughter
o f the officiais of the governm ent.
Many of them dem and th a t Pekin shall
be burned to tb« ground and th e site
sown with salt. It is the sp irit of those
who hewed Agag in pieces before the
Lord.
Aside from the regular studies,
the L. U. O. D ram atic Circle has
been preparing its C hristm as P lay,
“ The Lone Tree M ine.” It will be
the first grand exhibition of S tu d ­
ents in U niversity H all, and cu ri­
osity is on the tip-toe of expectation.
Those on the inside who know how
thorough the rehersal is proceeding
The files of the D epartm ent of S tate
predict th a t both the curiosity and are hieing rapidly filled with such com-
the expectation will be gratified m unicatiens, and th e w riters often
r h e p’ay is a strong „.e.odrama ( “
overflowing with blood and thunder,
enough to wake up all the babies
the mamas m ay bring out, but let
them come, babies and all. Tickets
25 and 35 cents.
T v “
Benj. Duval, Col...............................
Ed. Secrest, Randolph, K an sa s...
Helen H. Gardener. N. Y. City
Esther H errm an, New York Citv,
J J. Chilcoat, M. D .W ashD . C. *
Wm. J. Chilcoat, “
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1.00
“ Natural Law in the Social World.”
2.50 Nov. 18. Joint debate. Subject, “ The
1.00
Physical Phenomena of Spiritual­
1.00
ism can be liest explained on the hy­
3.00
pothesis that they are produced by
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the spirits of the dead. Affirmative,
Prof. J. Clegg Wright. Negative,
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Jo h n R. Charlesworth.
, Nov. 23, 24, 25. Annual Congress of
T O R A IS E $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 .
The American Secular Union and
Freethought Federation of America,
T h is is O u r B u ild in g Fund
under the auspices of the society.
C o n tr ib u tio n B o x.
M anchester N. H ._ F ree th in k e rs’
Association meets Sunday evenings at
6 o’clock, 8i»9 Elm Street."
FALL SEASON 1900.
“ \Y ithout a fear of coming night
We seek the tru th , we love the light.”
Nov. 11. George V. Hamlin. “ Munic­
ipal Problem s.”
Nov. 18. Dr. Sarah F. W hittemore
Wilsey. “ The Education of W omen.”
Nov. 25. L. II. Carpenter. “ A politi­
cal Subject.”
Dec. 2, Anson G. Osgood. “ Death and
Imm ortality.
Dec. 9. George* R. Jackson. The Poet-
Previously acknowledged.. $558.45 °
J . B. Billard, Topeka, Kan., 10.00
F. W. Hibbard, Del Norte,Col. 5.00
abandon th eir pacific policy and join
, G erm any in the work of m urder and
destruction.
The m erchant class,
whose com m unications are alm ost as
num erous, take an opposite view of the )< X K X X X X X X X X X )< X X X X X X X X X > < X ) I
situ atio n , and ask for an early settle­
A Liberal Offer.
m ent of the difficulty on the m ost prac­
A good friend of the L. U. O. has ’
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tical term s. The D epartm ent has re­
That “Psalm of Life.”
ceived a great deal of in teresting and offered to donate Two Thousand
u rong?”
valuable advice from m erchants who D ollars in cash to our in stitu tio n if D“ i « |
Longfellow’s “ Psalm of Life” m ay have lived in China a n d ^ w h T u n d e r
other Freethinkers will raise it to
30. Miss
seem too trite for recitation, but it . Btand the character of th e people.
Five Thousand.
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Sphere'™^’
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Phi” Opb'
Mary
Percival
Stone
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