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J. DfXnVAT. Editor and Proprietor. OFFICE-Cob. Front Washington- Streets I Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs TERMS, IN ADVANCE: of the Masses.

One $3 00 175 1 00 Six Three Free Speech, Free Press, Free People. Correspondents writing over assumed signa tures mnst mako known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to their communications. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable "VODCTTME XOXTI.AJVr, OREGON, FRIDAY, J1, 187G. ierms. 6rs 2 MADGE MORRISON, The Molalla Maid and Matron.

By Mrs. A. J. DUNI WAV, AUTHOR OP "JUDITH REID," "ELLEN DOWD, "AMIE AND HENRY LEE," "THE HAPPY HOME," "ONE WOMAN'S SPHERE," ETC, ETC, ETC Madge sat at her piano trilling a mourn- ever undertake to try tbe ful rouudelay. Pearl bad wandered into your assumption, madam." the veranda with her favorite kitten, "What would you advise me to do?" and was sitting upon a rug, toying with cried Madge, wringing her hands.

the blue ribbon at its throat. "Why. submit gracefully, as I said legality of words into her darling ears, none but a She could not be prevailed upon to mother thus bereaved may know. leave her darling's clay for an instant. "If this were a free country, a just "Let me clasp the casket while I country, a country for the protection of may," she said, bending over the inau- women as well as men, I might regain imate body.

"The angels have pos- Suddenly a carriage stopped below the before. Self-abnegation is the crowning my child and imprison us miner lor we session oi ine jewel now, anu ueorge th Btrppt MadPfi'H soul plorv of a woman, madam the crown- crime or abduction, bub luuugui. -xjul nanson win rou my exuuequer uever- liniiRp. nnnn cn. with thn and shfi did not intrcrlorv." I have no such opportunity.

hr a man ran hastily im thfi walk. "Then. 'Souire Lawmaker, see here! Douglass thought it very hard that he A messenger was dispatched for the rEntered. according tn Art nf fTnnrnRS- in ihr, frlnnrwl furfivplv through th dranerv Before God. and this right band, I call should be deprived of his person.

0f thB onen window, where Madee. in you to witness that I spit upon your robbed of my child, which is lar dearer but he did not come. 1 1 I A. l-tl I I .1. A 1 I HTIfl A At.

1 1 I A wumaiuuuivuusreHiu nauuiiwui. nr nn' nptv. riprpst. and abhor tliem to me tUan UIV own uereuu, auu lucre in i --vuat me uuvu uossesseu me orut Fred more." I am father that he might attend tbe burial; CHAPTER XXXL Patient reader, let us convey you very briefly over tbe next two and a half yearb of our history, during which fortune had smiled propitiously upon the rustic settlers upon tbe "Western Shore. The new town, anticipated by George Hanson, and for which he had married the unsuspecting and honest heroine of this o'er-true tale to get possession of, was a myth no longer.

Men of capital and enterprise bad secured a title to the the superb instrument. Whispering to himself, "I'll have the old one yet the stranger grasped the little one and ran speedily away. Pearl, though astonished, was not afraid. No unkind word or look had ever, been Inflicted upon her, and she naturally trusted every one. "Drive like hell!" said the abductor, who was none other than the legal father of the child.

"By be exclaimed, as soon as they were started, "I'll pinch this pup, and then the mother will be glad There is no justice in them. Women, like negroes, have no legal rights that men are bound to respect. But they have natural, inherent rights, and by the Eternal God. I'll tear this hot-bed of tbe dowdy crone who kept the third of oppression called a free country up- rate boarding-house where herchild was, side down Tbe women of this land of The little Pearl was tear-stained and despotism will yet rise in fury, like neglected. "Upon her tender body were tigers robbed of their whelps! And not cruel marks of angry lingers, and sue one stone shall be left upou another, of sat apart from the other children, heav all your strongholds of oppression, if ing now and then a deep, heart-break you fail to grant the mothers of men lug sigh.

no legal redress for me in all this land that it should was his mental of sovereigns." comment, as be learned that the one Morning came, and Madge, as Tom- legal link that had bound a wronged Aravaa wna olDPtol, RpPrntnrw 1 I A T. I 1 1 iit I my, tue waiter wouiuu io mm uy ner ueartsiriuBS was committee of three J. H. Etran. of LIBERAL CONVENTION.

Portland, July 5, 1876. Pursuant to notice heretofore given by tbe Liberal Association of Portland, Oregon, the Liberals and Free-Thinkers of Oregon, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Idaho met in convention in Good Templars' Hall, Portland, Oregon, July 5th, 1876, at the hour of 10 A. and were called to order by- J. B. Garrison, President of tbe Liberal Association of Portland, Oregon, who, upon motion, was elected temporary Chairman.

Mr. A. McAu- broken. Concluded next week.) see the old one She's living as elegant as Cleopatra, and by my soul, she's every whit as voluptuous looking! Quite a contrast between the elegant grass widow of to-day and the rustic simpleton who yielded to tbe enforced existence of this yellow-haired whiffet with so much resistance more than three years Did I ever tell you all about it, Gus?" "No "Well, it was the jolliest joke! The, rustic simpleton fell in love with me. Not the first woman, nor the last one that's done it, either.

A fellow can't help it if he's deuced handsome, you jewel, that I might protect her!" site, paying therefor to the legal heirs of erj0Ugh to come yelping to ray kennel. Mark Morrison, deceased, a sum that But Jehosophat! Gus! You ought to naa more man 8ausnea tueir mou est aspirations. Thanks to the will-power and supreme executive ability of Madge, as recorded in a previous chapter, Mrs. Andrews had long been sole owner, in fee simple, of tbe estate of her first husband, and Jason Andrews no longer had the power to hold her possessions for a calf pasture, thereby keeping his family in peuury, as bad been bis wont, while crowding those who were willing to pay for the land and use it, away to the foothills, as has been his ambition. "Hen-pecked" the keepers of dramshops and faro-tables styled him.

But the "hen-pecking," if such it were, was for his good, as his altered fortunes plainly testified. A commodious and quite pretentious dwelling already occu pied the old grounds, where we last left our friends in possession of the cabin which Jason and Madge had built. The elegant grounds were well adorned with flowers and shrubbery; the children of both families were given all the advantages of modern schools; Mrs. Andrews grew contented and peaceful, and her new surroundings added a wonderful charm to her silvering hair. Alice was assigned a lovely, vine-embowered cottage, where she could engage in a little business to enable her to rear and provide for her growing trio of the so-called supporters of women.

Sara Perkins and her foster mother occupied a square-topped boarding-house on the river bank, which they had built by funds received from an unknown source, though Sara strongly suspected whence they came. The gossip concerning her little boy had well-nigh run its course, and many were the offers of matrimony that she received, the suitors being in need of servants to whom they would not be compelled to pay wages. But Sara Perkins still clung to the love of her youth with a tenacity worthy of a better object. Her sweet, sad face bore traces of a mighty sorrow, but her love for her boy, in whose soul the stain of illegitimacy had left, as yet, no perceivable consciousness, was tbe love that is born of despair and desolation. She idolized the child.

Tbe boarders petted, the foster grandmother spoiled him. Out of tbe great agony and shame of her life had come to her a a sweet, sad restfulness that sustained her through tbe bitterest humiliation a woman may know. But what of Madge Morrison, the Molalla Maid and Matron In an elegant suite of rooms in her mother's commodious house she had settled herself; her little one and her books and music fill- that recognition of ownership in their minor children which alone will make them free indeed My Pearl had never known sorrow. Her many wants had always been anticipated. She was sur rounded by everything that love could gather for her interest.

Behold her now! In the infernal custody of an ig norant, brutal, overworked woman I see her placed, and even now she cries for bread. With my shut eyes I follow her from one dingy apartment to another. Her companions are coarse, profane, and drunken men, her playmates coarse, ignorant, filthy children. Sara Per kins, another victim of that bad man's protection, would to God I were as free as you Would to God the stamp of ii legitimacy were upon the brow ol my "Would you like a waiter boy, ma'am?" asked Madge, in a feigned voice, tremulously. "Indade, an' I might be wantin' that same.

"What wages would ye be afther?" "I'm not particular. Wages not so much an object as a situation." 'An' would ye mind lendin' a helpin' hand between whiles wid the childer?" "Not at all, ma'am. Indeed, If you'd let me mind the children for my board, ma'am, I'd not care for any particular wages. I want a home." 'Ther's a lot of 'em," said the hostess, The Antiquity of Man. Prof.

Dawkins and the Bev. Mr. Wells recently sent a paper to the British Geological Society concerning the traces of man in Bobin Hood's Cave. It con- llrms tbe views of some eminent geolo gistsamong them Sir William Guise and Bev. Mr.

Symonds as to the traces discovered two or three summers ago in tue JJoward Oaves, near Monmouth, and particularly so as regards one of them known as King Arthur's Hall. In these caves, beneath the relative layers of debris between three stalagmitic floors, which bad been blown up, and resting also upon a fourth, were found remains (In excellent preservation) of tbe mammoth (in various stages of development), the long-haired rhinoceros, the reindeer, Irish elk, bison, beaver. hyena, the great cave lion, and the cave That man was Here associated Portland, H. C. Leiser, of Forest Grove, and Hon.

J. S. VanCIeave, of East Portland was appointed on organiza tion. An opportunity was given for persons to sign the roll of membership of this Convention, whereupon eighty-four signatures were obtained. A committee of seven, consisting of G.

W. Lawson, of Salem, Hon. J. S. M.

VanCIeave, of East Portland, Dr. J. L. York, of San Jose, K. M.

Gurney, of Douglas county, and John B. Garrison, Dr. Mary A. Thompson, and A. C.

Ed munds, of Portland, was appointed on Declaration of Demands, Objects, and Jfrlnciples. The Committee on Organization re' ported a constitution, which, after some amendment, was adopted: The Committee on Declaration of Ob pressing her broad hand to her aching proved by the chipped flints and peb-ntrlp. ah filio Rnnkp. "an' thprn's a crintle- bles, the work of his hand, being found man from Californy as has brought a le7'u uuu8 erejui little delicate mite of a creetur, which by siUe with them, sealed up by the makes more trouble tnan ever witn an same stalagmitic noor, hpnr. That man wns with the cave animals was abundantly jects, anu Principles, reported know.

I didn't intend to marry the charmer. She was as ugly as mud, and as awkward as a mud fence! She was smart, deuced smart! but the disposi tion of the very old Harry possessed her, and I was ouly in for a good time. But tbe vixen would be married according to the law of the land before she'd allow me privileges Khe even made roe promise that I'd let her go right back to her mother as soon as the ceremony was over an old hag with a young one, you know. I caged my bird with pretty promises, but Lord, I couldn't hold her! She stayed with me, though, under lock and key, for three days, uuder the roof of the parson that tied us up precious scamp, that parson and then rati away; and she's avoided me ever since. But I've struck a rich lead now.

I've got the pup. Possession's nine points in law. The old one will be ready to ca pitulate pretty shortly." And then the two law-makers aud protectors of the voiceless and powerless half of a sovereign people laughed long and loudly. The little one began to cry. "Dry vp!" said the tender parent, sternly.

"I 'ant my mamma lisped the child. "jDamn your mamma! You're' not hers, but mine She's weaned you, and there's an end. Another squall and you'll catch It!" The man's coarse language was Greek to the child, but his manner terrified her into silence. All tbe afternoon and night they drove, reaching Portland by the next day's dawn, where the famished baby was given over to tbe tender mercies of an old dowdy woman who kept a third-rate boarding-house, and dispensed cheap food and villainous whisky. Pearl had been missing for several minutes before Madge was aware of her abduction, so absorbed had she been in her music.

Suddenly, however, the Madam," said 'Squire Lawmaker, sternly, "all this is very unwomanly. You don't know what you're talking about." "You'll see," paid Madge, as a sudden idea possessed her. "I know what I'm thinking about. I'll take care of my baby if I have to follow her iuto the very jaws of the bottomless pit to do it." "What a she-tiger she is!" said Squire Lawmaker, looking after her as she ran homeward. "I'm sure she isn't the clanin' an' bother." "You'll employ me, then "Yes, if ye don't expect wages." "All right.

Where's the soap and water, and the California baby's clean clothes?" "Bless ye, there ain't any clean clothes." Madge clasped ber baby to her heart, while it seemed that she would die, so eager was she to embrace it. The child was not frightened. 'Tate me to my mamma!" she Man evidently went occasionally for shelter into the older dens used by tbe hyenas as a larder, wherein they kept tue prey tney nad dragged tnitner, and bad left his handiwork as evidence of those visits. These caves are now some 300 feet above the level of the Wye; but resting upon the lower stalagmitic floor, minded with the remains of extinct animals and the chipped implements of the old stonemen, were round river silt and sand, and river boulders of the same character as those to be round in the bed of the Wye to-day. These caves, moreover, bore evident traces of the glacial period.

Ou the occasion referred Mr. bymonds concluded an nrnnap nnrcnn linva tlio nuofrwlir nf I n1nn.1...l lnn.iinvn KnntM. alnli I liqt IU6 JVeV by saying: We know absolutely nothing as yet truth flashed upon her, as though tele- ing her soul at times with quiet satis- graphed from an unseen world taction. The baby Pearl was a jewel of rare promise. The erewhlle delicate beauty of ber father and the strong will and impetuosity of her mother were strangely and beautifully blended.

It was as though nature, realizing the barrenness of Madge's life, had concentrated all her efforts to bestow beauty, intellect, and bealtbfulness upon the precious bud that had been bequeathed to her in her hours of greatest darkness. "Pearl! Pearl! my precious jewel she cried, in terror, "come to mamma!" But mamma called, in vain. Tbe lit tle one was the legal property, and was now in the sole possession of its father, who nad never bestowed upon it an hour's thought ora moment's love. The whole truth fell upon Madge like a thunderbolt. Sbe understood as by in spiration.

"I'll consult a lawyer she cried, "Bun! Jason. run! Tell 'Sauire Law- Jason Andrews fairly worshiped the maker that must see hlm at once. little jewel. Indeed, both mother and Butstay! I'll accompany you uauu oecame to mm a tangioie, powerful presence that filled his spirit with constant longing to deserve their love and confidence. It was wonderful, the progress Madge was making in personal culture.

Naturally gifted far beyond tbe ordinary lot of women, she absorbed, tbe lore of ages as by inspiration. Always a seer in the estimation of those who knew her best, she was now an oracle. But ber soul was oftentimes clouded with a sad unrest. She was very frequently beset by tbe premonition of impending calamity. Her friends laughed at her superstitious fears in vain.

her husband's child. It had better re main with its father." Madge was not at home to the throng of expectant company that at four o'clock assembled in ber elegant parlors. Alone in tbe seclusion of her chamber, she laid herself down to think aud plan. So strange that I did not see that George was coming!" she thought. 'But I was entirely off my guard doubtless for some wise purpose.

I will not despair. I have a work to do that in tbe luxury and seeming security of my present life I bad well-nigh forgotten. 'Tommy, the waiter served me a good turn once, and he shall wait upon me again." Her resolve thus taken, though feebly defined, was sufficiently defined to some what calm her agitation, and she soon slept soundly. In her dream she sought tbe child and found her. Over the long road be tween her home and Portland she seemed to wander afoot.

After a long while she reached the thriving young city in her ideal wandering, and then a thread of electric ligbt seemed to reach out to her, so fine and impalpable that none but she could see it. She entered tbe room where her child was sleeping. It lay prone upon a filthy pallet, where vermin were busily sucking its life blood. Other children, so filthy that it seemed their very touch would be pol lution, layslumbering near. In her joy at finding her jewel, but ere she could seem to clasp and rescue it, sbe awoke to consciousness.

The clock was strik' ing four. 'Ine clothing sbe had worn as "Tommy, the waiter boy," hung in her wardrobe, placed there and preserved as a souvenir of by-gone troubles. Her mother was called to her assistance, and pierced her mother to the heart, "Let Tommy be Pearly's mamma. Won't I do?" asked Madge, her voice husky with emotion. The child clung to her from that mo ment.

During the long, hot mouths that followed, tbe disguised mother drudged for the obstreperous half-dozen belongings to tlie overworked crone with unflagging patience. George Hanson rarely visited the child. She shrank from him always as though he had been a serpent, and he failed to feel for her a single thought of affection. Autumn came, and the child, wholly unused to the bad air and unwholesome food the miserable place afforded, grew sick unto death. Tommy plead for a long time in vain for its life, by entreating that it be re turned to the pure air of the country, where it might enjoy the care to which it had, before its abduction, been ac customed.

George Hanson was inexorable. "I'll have you know, Tommy, that that's my child! and, if you don't keep a civil tongue in your head and mind your own business, I'll have you discharged, orl'll take the brat where you won't want to follow." I beg your pardon, sir; but the child's goin' to be awful sick, and you'd find it a heap cheaper to send ber to ber mother till she gets better. You can take her again whenever you please, you Know, ahe's yours, according to law." Tommy's right!" cried the over worked crone. "The young un's got scarlet fever, I'm sure, and I can't keep it here with all these children, for they'll get it." I know Pearl's mother," said of the lapse of time which separates us irom tue cave periods, wneu tlie old men and animals here Mr. Symonds meant pre-historic whose haunts we have visited to-day lived and died Even the 'everlasting hills' have mold ered and shed vast masses of debris: the climate has changed; cities rise where flowed the salt sea water; land has become sea, and brooks run where rivers ran before rivers have shrunk in their beds, and the reindeer and the musk ox have retreated to the distant north since tlie last hyena dragged into the Do ward Caves his last morsel, or the last glacier melted among tue moun tains of Wales." as follows, which was adopted: Whereas, The necessity of organi zatiou of the Liberal people of tbe North Pacific Coast has long been ap parent, and we deem tne present occa sion auspicious for that purpose; there fore, be it Jiesolvea, Tliat we, tlie Xitberais and Free-Thinkers of Oregon, Washington Territory, British Columbia and Idaho, here now represented and assembled, do adopt the following articles for the above purpose: Jiesolvea.

That our objects are the largest liberty in the diffusion of knowl edge, tbe free and unbiased discussion of all questions affecting the welfare of society, the promotion oi whatever may tend to elevate man, aud the suppression of every form of vice, ignorance, and error that may degrade and retard his intellectual and moral advancement, Article 1. Therefore, endorsingthese purposes, we demand that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall no longer be exempt from just and equal taxation with all other proper ties, rights, anu values oi tue people, ART. 2. We demand that the em ployment of chaplains in Congress and in state Legislatures, in the iNavy and Militia, aud in prisons, asylums, and aud all other institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued. ART.

3. we iiemami that all public appropriations for educational and char itable institutions of a sectarian char acter shall cease, and that the children of tbe Republic shall have tbe benefit of a common school uinu tor the tree euu cation of all, untainted and unmixed with sectarian bias, bigotry, and cou celt. Art. 4. We demand that all re ligious services now sustained by the government shall be abolished; that no national or stale exhibitions or juouees shall ever be subject to sectarian rules and control; that the use of Sunday about sleepi.essxess.

to take a hearty meal just before retiring, is, of course, injurious, because it Is very likely to disturb one's rest aud produce nightmare. However, a little food at this time, it one is hungry, is decidedly beneficial; it prevents the gnawing of shall be free to the people under all cir- an empty stomach, with its attendant cumstances, and upon all occasions (lis restlessness and unpleasant dreams, to severed from all sectarian control; that say nothing of probable headache, or of the use of the Bible in the public nervous and other derangements, the next morning. One should no more lie down at night hungry than he should lie down alter a run dinner: the conse quence ol either being disturbing and hurttui. A. cracker or two, a bit of bread and butter, or cake, a little fruit something to relieve tbe sense of vacu ity, and so restore the tone of tbe sys tem is all that is necessary.

We have known persons, habitual sufferers from restlessness at night, to experience material benefit, even though they were not hungry, by a very ligbt luncheon before bedtime. In place of tossing about for two or three hours, as for merly, they would grow drowsy, fall asleep, and not wake more than once or twice until sunrise. This mode or treat ing insomania has recently been recom mended by several distinguished physi cians, and tbe prescription has gener ally been attended with happy results. again ner luxuriant nair was given as a Tommy, "and I'll promise to go home wi.nug sacrmce to tne aire necessities with her and see that she's well taken of her position. Her mother sighed as Care of, and it shan't cost you a cent.

sue severea ner tresses irom nersnapely Her mother won't mind the i i I A ml or If nroo of loaf nrrnnrrarl ut it long in iront, and give it a Madge climbed into the stage with her Butstay! I'll accompany you. Come lamenng witu aihaune soap, suffering charge, and did what she on 80 it Will JOOK UHKempt and ShOCky," CMM to mako her comfortable durinir Jason could not keep pace with the stud the wily rebel against existing laws, the long, hot, and dusty homeward bereaved mother. She ran like the -ine oia ciotnes nttea her as betore, the ride. wind. Bursting into the lawyer's ofllce old hat slouched wickedly over her eyes "Tommy's" clothes were laid aside like a whirlwind, she stood panting be- as of yore, and the jaunty air of a care- aud her own substituted, her luxuriant fore that worthy, her white robes soiled less rover which sbe assumed became hair being in part atoned for by a coro with trailing in tbe dust, ber bair dis- her finely.

net of curls. beveled, and her lips colorless. "I'll get my baby back, for I feel It in But Pearl was death-stricken. The "Be seated, ma'am. We'll see what my bones," sbe said, as she descended power which had served her mother so can be done for you," was the conde- the stairs to wash her hands and arms remarkably in restoring Jason Andrews scending remark of tbe limb of the law.

in a decoction of oaken bark to stain had fled. Madge was paralyzed in them to a necessary brown to suit her purposes. Then, snatching a hasty meal, and concealing sufficient coin about ber person to serve her in case of need, she "Of what age is your child "Two years and a half." "She is weaned "Yes." "Then, madam, as a friend, allow me "I know the darkest hours of my life to suggest that the best thing possible left the mansion, sought the highway, are yet to come, for I feel the fact in my under the circumstances will be quiet three miles distant, by taking a short bones," she would say, decidedly. submission to your bereavement. By cut across a field, and there awaited the She was constantly busy with some the law of the land the child belongs to outgoing stage.

quaint device for little Pearl. Shemin- your husband. He has an inalienable istered unto the child by day and night, right to its custody, and your only hope and her devotion to her passed into a of ever seeing it hereafter will depend proverb. upon your graceful acquiescence in his One day the suite of rooms belonging plans for Its maintenance." to her were open for company. Theday the child is mine! all mine!" wailed the distracted mother.

The lawyer" smiled. "According to nature, that's true was warm. Bare flowers filled the air with choice perfume. Birds sang in the conservatory, and a silvery fountain played at bide and seek within a herbarium that filled a large bay window. enough, iiut according to law it's a I great mistake, as you will find if you nerve and brain.

My Pearl will be far better off with the angels than anywhere that her father may place her," she said, in the calmness of her despair. The little one cooed with delight KnZj 1. .1 U. and faces in her mother's home. Her pet kitten only seemed to awaken in Her destination was reached at mid- her a momentary remembrance of by- night.

"Tommy" was readily recog- gone terror, and she turned from it to nlzed by the old Inmates of the hotef shrink closer to ber mother's bosom. that once before had shielded and shel- A day or two, and all was over. The tered her. little 'body that still bore upon the She could with difficulty await the tender flesh the purple spots that cruel coming dawn. But again she steeled fingers had made while the child was her soul to patiencecNever, until this away from its mother, was clothed In calamity, had her Pearl slept out of her snowy robes, and laid away for burial.

Two men were hanged In this State last week, and tbe execution of one was attended with unusual horrors. After prolonged discussion, tbe public mind was convinced that the spectacle or a public hanging was demoralizing and it was then sagely imagined that the public vengeauce could be satisfied without disastrous consequences, 11 tne 'majesty of the law" were vindicated in tbe close precincts of the jail-yard, and in the presence ot a tew select wit nesses. But the matter is not mended Theaccountsof these executions, dressed in tbe highest style of the sensational art, are spread before the public eye, and tire the popular indignation more than the actual spectacle would do. With the barbarous details displayed in the daily papers, the -executions are brutalizing in their effects, and they may breed more crime than a hundred such spectacles could possibly prevent. What can weooy we cannot muzzle the press: that would be wrong if it were possible.

A Christian State should find other employment for Its resources than that of stirring up the most savage and brutal passions by legal shows. And yet this barbarism is perpetuated schools, whether ostensibly as a text book, or avowedly as a book or religious worship, shall be prohibited. Art. 5. We demand that the ap pointment by the President of the United States, or by the Governors of the various States, of all religious festivals and fasts, shall wholly cease.

Art. 6. Wedemand that the judicial oath in the courts, and in all other de partments of the government, shall be abolished, and that simple aftirmatiou, under the pains and penalties of per jury, shall be established in us steau. ART. 7.

we uemanu mat an laws m-rectly or indirectly enforcing the ob servance ot Sunday as the baooatn shall be repealed. Art. 8. We demand that an laws looking to the enforcement of "Christian" morality shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to tbe requirements of natural morality, equal rights, and Impartial liberty. art.

a. we uemanu mac, not oniy in the constitutions oi tne uuiteu States and of the several States, but also in tbe practical administration of tbe same, no privilege or auvautage shall be conceded to Christianity, or any other special religion; that our entire Dolitical system shall be founded and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes snail prove necessary to this end shall be con sistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made. Art. 10. We demand equality of privilege before the law and respectful consideration by the press that we largely patronize.

Art. 11. We demand that no other god or goddess shall ever be placed in the Constitution ot the united states but the Goddess of Liberty, Art. 12. We demand equal rights for our wives and daughters with our selves and our sons in regard to prop erty, to honors and oflices, and to all public franchises.

Art. 13. We demand liberty in all things not trenching on the rights of others, unity in things proven, anu me largest freedom or thought. Wherefore, in accordance with our was elected Secretary, and H. C.

Leiser, of Forest Grove, Washington county, was elected Corresponding Secretary. The following named persons were elected Vice Presidents: Dr.Tolmie, Victoria; B. M. Gurney, Ten Mile, Douglas county; H. Shroeder, Ott, Coos county; G.

Buford, Forest Grove, Washington county; Lee Laughlin, North Yamhill, Yamhill county; John B. Garrison, Port land, Multnomah county; H.Flickinger, Corvallis, Benton county; B. J. Devine, Eagle Creek, Clackamas connty; Ell Cooley, Marion county; Thoma3 H. Drury, Westport, Clatsop county; H.

G. Crawford, Albany, Linn county; Henry Cooper, Polk county; James H. Browni Eugene, Lane county; Dr. J. W.

Gl vens, Union, Union county; Dean Blanchard, St. Helens, Columbia county; George A. Barnes, Olympia, Thurston county, W. J. W.

WoodB, Tacoma, Pierce county; Joseph Whealdon, Oysterville, Pacific county; H. S. Yesler, Seattle, King county; Eldridge Morse, Snoho mish, Snohomish county; John Cra- dlebaugh, Vancouver, Clarke county; Alfred E. Comegys, Kalama, Cowlitz county; Mr. Seavey, Port Townsend, Jefferson county; Colonel Mortimer Thorpe, Eliensburg, Yakima county; Mr.

Warbus, San Juan county; and O. P. Lacy, Walla Walla. It was resolved that this Convention recommend Dr. J.

L. York, A. C. Ed munds, and Mrs. Johns as "workers" in the cause of Free Thought.

A committee of three, consisting of H. B. Nicholas, Mrs. Dr. Thompson, and G.

W. Lawson, was appointed to draft constitution to suggest to auxiliary asso ciations. Mr. T. B.

Coon suggested that some action be taken to determine tbe numer ical strength of Liberalism. Mr. G. W. Lawson offered the follow ing, which was, upon motion, adopted.

The Northwestern Liberal Associa tion, desiring to ascertain tbe numerical strength of Liberalism, hereby authorize each Vice President of the Soci ety to obtain and forward to this Society the signatures of all persons above the age of 18 years to the following charter of principles and rights: Perfect liberty ol conscience, ireedom of education from sectariau interference in schools, no public money to be used for sectarian or religious purposes, the absolute divorce of church and state, and the equal and just taxation of all property church aud secular. The Committee on Form of Organization for Auxiliary Associatoina reported, recommending the Constitution and By-Laws of the Liberal Association of Portland as the basis of such organization, which, upon motion, was adopted, and copies of such Constitution and By-Laws ordered printed in blank form for distribution. By motion, tlie Secretary was instructed to attach the roll of membership of this Convention to tbe Constitution heretofore adopted. Speeches were" made appropriate to the occasion by Hon. J.

S. M. VanCIeave, J. A. Bicbardson, G.

W. Law-son, Dr. Hewes, and Dr. J. L.

York. Ordered that the Secretary be instructed to furnish copies of the proceedings to the press, with request to publish. Moved aud carried that this Convention recommend July 5th, 1877, as the and the rooms of the Liberal Association of Portland as tbe place for holding the next annual Convention. The President and Secretary were in structed aud authorized to invite such speakers and writers as they may think proper to attend the next annual Convention. J.

B. Garrison, H. B. Nicholas, Pres'tpro tern. Secretary.

out of nious deference to a Hebrew text. and one. too. which Jesus expressly re- beliefs and demands as above alleged, we adopt this constitution anu ruies oi Tbe day of fettered limbs and gagged tongues is gone by. Men will not be ruled by men as they have been.

Tbe children of tbe future will call no man master. They will think out their own faiths and consecrate their own lives. W. II. H.

Murray. Tolerance comes with age. 1 see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. Goethe. bosom at night.

How her mother soul longed to clasp ber and whisper cooing The household was in agony of mourning. Madge alone was tearless. Professor to student "Define a cylin der." Student "A cylinder 18 a vac uum surrounded by a curved surface." government, Hon. T. W.

Davenport, of Marion county, was elected President. Dr. Tolmie, of Victoria, was appointed to conduct tbe President elect to the chair. Mr. Davenport, upon taking the chair, made a short speech appropriate to the occasion, and asked that he be excused, on account of indisposition, from serv ing as Chairman of this Convention, and that J.

B. Garrison, temporary Chairman, continue in that position So ordered. H.B. Nicholas, of Multnomah county, Washington Widowers. Another Treasury girl, says the Cleveland Plain-dealer, has found a permanent situ ation, where board aud clothes are promised.

When the powers that be ordained a reduction of forces every where, several clerks in the Second Auditor's oilice were discharged. They instantly formed themselves into indi vidual committees on means and ways of reintatesnient. One young lady energetically vibrated from Senators to members witu but hi success, mere was one magnate whose influence she desired, and he was to be reached only through a Senatorial oilice whose wid ower's crape was not very fresh. The lady is gracerul, bright, and ratner pretty. She rouud the mourner in a mood so susceptible that her charms made serious havoc at the first visit.

At the second there was total surrender and absolute laying down no, a stretch ing out of arms on both sides. Alter this ceremony definite terms of capitulation were arrauged, and tbe young lady went home duly "engaged." She still exists in that blissful state, but the wedding is not far oil. Looking down with admiration at the carefully combed hair of that man tbe other day, I wondered if it would be so smooth if sbe should comb it herself, and if he had yet taken the weed off his bat. Of course, it is all tbe effect of Senator Christiancy's example. I am told that the Senator's girlish bride is putting on matronly airs, and avows that she would never advise any young lady to marry a public man, since such gentlemen were quite too much engrossed iu the aflairs of state to pay proper attention to their better halves.

There are ten widowers left in the Senate. Do you suppose for a minute that Mrs. Christiancy's advice would weigh anything, should one of those distinguished men propose An old Baptist minister enforced the necessity of differences of opinion by argument: "Now, if everybody had been of my opinion, they would all have wanted my old woman." Oue of the deacons, who sat just behind him, responded "Yes; and if everybody was of my opinion, nobody would have.