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Show W lit Oily for Oratorical Effect? New York Continent. Looking over the files of a daily newspaper of 186 I chanced a few days ago to come across the report of an address ad-dress delivered by Colonel Ingersoll before the American Secular union in (.'bickering hall iu October of that year. What I particularly notice was the eloquent elo-quent colonel's concluding promise that lie would devote the remainder of his life to the serv ice of the working classes; class-es; would plead their cause, study how-to how-to remove the evils which oppress them and do all in his power to make lite brighter, wiser and happier for the men and women who toil for a living. And then I wonder if he ever chuckles as he : thinks of the pathos with which he made that promise. |