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was the shabbiest I have yet received. The committee met 

 me three of them and a carriage was ordered. We all rode 

 to the hotel, five minutes' walk, and I had the pleasure of 

 paying for the party one dollar. Accommodations at the 

 hotel were fair, charge perfectly exorbitant. After the 

 lecture the secretary came up to me and handed me a roll 

 of bills, muttering indistinctly the word " seventy-five." 

 His manner was that of a sneak who was doing something 

 he was ashamed of. I said nothing, of course. There is 

 not a shadow of doubt that they had stipulated to pay a 

 hundred dollars, but chose to make twenty-five dollars by 

 this process. Well, if they can stand it I certainly can. 

 They will want me again, but will fail to get me. 



I lectured in Ashtabula the other night in a howling 

 snowstorm ; had a crowd, and, although it was a small 

 place, they paid me seventy-five dollars, and earnestly 

 begged me to promise to come again next year. A teacher 

 drove over in his gig ten miles in the cold gale to attend 

 the lecture. He came to the tavern afterward and intro- 

 duced himself. He was a very fine, bright young fellow. 

 I commiserated his folly in coming out such an inclement 

 night. " I would not take five hundred dollars," he replied, 

 " for what I have learned this night, and I must hear that 

 lecture again." Next day I got a dispatch to come to 

 Geneva the first vacant night. He said the lecture gave 

 him the first " view " he had ever had in science, and would 

 be the turning point of his studies. 



I go from place to place, getting into good quarters and 

 into all sorts of diabolical holes. At Mansfield I was to be 

 called for by the omnibus at five and a half A. M., to get the 

 train at three-quarters and off at six. At a quarter to six it 

 had not come. At ten minutes of six I started, with a negro 

 boy to carry my valise, ran all the way, and jumped on to 



