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from last page: un- pleasant truth, that they invariably more or less partake of the nature of a job.

On their first formation, there are the offices requiring talented men to fill, who of course cannot be expected to devote their energies to the society, without pecuniary compensation of respectable amount.

These are fruitful subjects for difference of of opinion, rival interests, and party feeling.

Then the establishment must be respectable, next 2 words underlined: and comfortable. Secretaries -- friends of influential members, must have good salaries, which from time to time must be increased, as the funds of the society flourish. Something too must be effected to make the public aware of the existence of the institution. Expensive journals must be published, and course next word underlined: edited, which eat bodily into the funds, with no adequate benefit or return.