Year: 1867

"~- in'' sew plan however, did not seem to work
= pOH 4sly as the mendicant custom heretofore pre-


ssng OF passing round the hat and collecting straw
eoppers from the audience for only seven persons be-
side the ghous presented themselves as an audience.


Two roaring ires were 10 full blast, usual, at either
end Of the room and added their smoky exhasions 70
the natural suspicion Of suphnrous vsp1ls @nlch Nc y,
Broadway Tue ghouls we're huddled about the stove,
rubbing their hands and twining tner lons pony,
cawke arEer3 together in the glow OF the sugeesvey
hot fires aud Frnnng in CHASTITY glee over the recital
volunteered y Of the circle Of some theory or OBJ
scene repute Il the past clawed up from its dark
grave TO give .light 10 the hungry circle


The time for the opening of the argument having
passed long before and there being most dismal pros
pect OF aIlurng audience into the garrett the un
couth shades of the drear locality had entered into
speculation IN their informal way me cniei
ghoul Chany, led on, usual, and expended MS
bile OF course in preliminary outburst Of rdiculousy
impotent rage. Speak ng IN col luai way WI 70
stout party sitting in the circle, on the orpose sde ai
the tove he said thai there was likely 70 De much M
Guilty organizing public meetings, SO Tar as pre-
sent appearances vent 10 show There was great oppo
sition manifested TO Them and in the course OF the
arguments assembiages there persons among
the audience who acted II they wished 70 make
disturbance and others again grnned If these potent
deliberations TO be viewed only in the light Of
very good joke For his part he could not see n that
light at ALL He did not see why popular meetings OF
this class should not be ENCOURAGED In THIS
country They were very successful In England. He
had been there and had seen that such enterprises
suggested that the OF this that the people OF
England were more easily led by the nose than the
YaEke,s, who individually felt that even the Presi-
dental chair not beyond their reach, and therefore
were easily guided by a leader There was one way,
however in which difficulty might be gotten over,
and by leader being smart enough TO simply
suggest things he might DESIRE and thus nsdi
ousy carry his points the principle thar the dctaon
Of the premises in the peoples mind would allow an
easy predication OF their laws BY the nsdous dictator


The arful chief ghoul conceded fully in all this but
he Of the opinion that the HRRALD had bad some
thing do with making these meetings unpopular The
city editor Of that journal had climbed into the
sonnet me previously who meeting was IN progress,
and had to the conclusion that the sentiments and


ntents OF such assemblages immoral in their inf
del bent. The HkRALD had accordingly concluded that
they must be broken up or course whatever the
HERALD did not like not good, and must so down.
The chief ghoul seemed affected to the point OF
weeping when the the other side OF the
ventured few remarks calculated to give hirA
comfort He said that should not be yet des-
paired Of for the greater portion Of the reforms In the
world had originated among the ghouls Dad, in
from whence nothing good was expected to come The
chief Of the ghous evidently comored by this and
wandered or into OF the temperance


ment whose orlanizers he fondy hoped were ghouls
inasmuch they like those OF his sphere began their
carly reform by combating the press the bar and the
pulpit The poor ghou could not shake of the duness
OF the morning session and lapsed into ncoherency,
and mumbled his regrets at there being no interest
taken by the public to whe her the President by
peached not which to have been decided by the
arguments OF this occasion The fat suggested that
the people Of this country were on the point of crying
out for king to rule them. This latter event must
come soon he thought and would be for the benefit Of
the country.


The Rhoul gave here brief history Of his eventful
life. He was born in Maine, resided there eighteen
years. and spent the rest of his life NORTH west south
and east Of that locality and in foreign lands In his
youth he had been great lover Of republican nsttu-
tions but as his mind had matured he had to
slider monarchca the best form Of for any
country 10 have. He never expressed these views in
public. however for fear that he would be called
traitor TO his country, renegade and an ndel the
HERALD had already done to him. After inveighins
against all law and extong the good qualities Of free


lover who keeps settlement Of men and women in order
on the principal that the latter must obey him and live
together without marital ties being exacted-the chill
dren being aggregated in nursery, and not know


ing their parents but saluting all the residents of
the delectable settlement with the titleChaney final


~ declared that the proposed meeting fzzle and
that the sixty cents collected would be refunded by the
nfnitesma boy at the door, Tho audience. however,
though few in numbers. above such smaness and
departed without claiming their stamps, which left
behind TO cheer the hungry astrologers.