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Albion House f 



Albion, Michigan, 



August Fifteenth, 



I came back to this place from Kalamazoo on the 

 afternoon train and was met at the station by R. A.. 

 Daniels, who went with me to the hotel. The intro- 

 duction at the Opera House where I lectured in the 

 evening was made by Captain Rienzi Loud, ^yhen I 

 concluded, I found that the good old custom of " pas- 

 sing round the liat'' had not yet lost favor, for two 

 gentlemen, having furnished the ^' hat," assumed the 

 role of collectors and the ^' Fund '' was within a very 

 short time substantially increased. When this cere- 

 mony was over a man in the audience rose and said: 

 " Captain Glazier ! I came in after the hat was passed, 

 but I want to give something toward the ^Monument;'" 

 and suitino- the action to the word he made his contri- 

 bution. The whole ceremony was so suggestive of a 

 certain little church up in St. Lawrence County, New 

 York, where the same custom prevails on Sundays, 

 that I came very near fancying myself the parson, and 

 if some of my comrades had not come up immediately 

 and given me a hearty greeting, I might have been 

 guilty of pronouncing a benediction ! 



As it was quite late when I reached this point, hav- 

 ing made twenty-five miles since ten o'clock, there 

 was very little time for sightseeing, but I learned that 

 here was the seat of Ames College, a thriving Methodist 

 institution adinittinn: both men and women, and 

 l^roudly referred to by the people of Albion. 



