and about every team
from every ranch in the county would be out on that occasion. As the
committee had well advertised more than a week ahead, that Penloe would
deliver a public address, the news reached to many parts outside the
county, so that when the day came for the meeting to be held a number
of strangers from different parts of the state were seen in Roseland.

We will copy from a San Francisco paper a report of the meeting, as that
paper had a special reporter there who gave a full report of the
address.

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AN IMMENSE CROWD

LISTENS

TO PENLOE'S ORIGINAL ADDRESS.

Meeting Opened by the Mayor of Roseland.

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If a stranger had been in Roseland to-day he certainly would have
thought from seeing the livery stables crowded with teams from the
country, and every vacant lot and square also filled with teams, and the
crowds of people on the streets all going in one direction, that some
great attraction was going on, and he would be under the impression that
if he went out into the country he would not expect to see a person or a
team, for there never was any occasion before that brought such a large
gathering of people to Roseland. Long before the time of commencement,
the seating capacity of the building was taxed to its utmost. Promptly
at 2 P.M. the Mayor of Roseland and Penloe appeared on the platform. The
Mayor opened the meeting by introducing Penloe in the following words:
"Ladies and gentlemen:--It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you
this afternoon a gentleman whom you all have heard and read so much
about. Whatever your views may be about his teaching, I can positively
assert the lecturer is a scholar and a gentleman, every inch of him.
Very often a speaker's remarks fail to have the full weight they are
entitled to because persons say he has an axe to grind, or, he is paid
to talk that way. Now I have not the least idea of the subject the
speaker is going to talk to you upon, but this I can say, he is here
this afternoon only because he was invited to come and speak. He refused
all offers of money for his services, saying, he wished his labors to be
a free will offering to you. Therefore I hope you will give him your
closest attention, remembering he gives you the best product of his mind
acquired through years of study, thought and observation; and that is
the richest gift one can give another.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I now have the honor of introducing to you the