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ring song someone would step forward and in a few 

 words relate his religious experience and encourage 

 others to do the same. Almost within hearing distance 

 of these revivalists was a much larger crowd listening 

 to a fiery political speech, the subject of which was 

 the pending election. In the middle of the next group, 

 and it was not a small one, a tall, lean, long-bearded 

 man was discoursing on personal magnetism, illustrat- 

 ing his smooth talk with crudely drawn pictures. He 

 explained to the gaping men, young and old, the mys- 

 teries of love and how to prevent shipwrecks in the 

 matter of the selection of a partner for life. He had 

 fathomed the human heart to its very depth and evi- 

 dently had his share of this world's experience. For the 

 time being he gave his advice free and liberally, but 

 undoubtedly at the end of his harangue he supplied his 

 audience with his address so that they would have no 

 difficulty in finding him to obtain further details. Sev- 

 eral fake physicians were expounding the virtues of 

 their specific remedies, which would cure all kinds of 

 chronic diseases which still baffle the skill of the medi- 

 cal profession. These men had their stuff with them 

 and were lining their pockets with silver. The next 

 orator was talking to a large crowd of laboring men 

 on the evils of monopolies and our billionaires received 

 their full share of condemnation. The Salvation Army 

 and temperance people were also well represented in 

 this complex of gratuitous humane endeavors. In the 

 evening the great thoroughfares presented a similar 

 spectacle. Australia has more than its share of orators 

 who firmly believe in the power of eloquence. 



"Nothing appears to me nobler than to keep 

 assemblies of men entranced by the charms of 

 eloquence, wielding their minds at will, impelling 

 them at one time, and at another dissuading them 

 from their previous intentions." — Cicero. 



The orderly behavior of the people and the close at- 

 tention they paid to the speakers is deserving of well- 



