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ing friend of yours, drudgery? I like to look upon all hon- 

 est labor as pleasant labor, and there certainly can be no 

 more honorable occupation than tilling the soil. You find 

 farmers to whom perhaps the word might apply. Every- 

 thing looks as though they did not care whether it was done 

 in season or out of season, and you sometimes see such busi- 

 ness men, but not often. Talk about a business man — if a 

 man invests fifty cents in a peanut stand he is called a busi- 

 ness man, but if a farmer has fifteen or twenty thousand 

 dollars invested in a good farm he does not have that title. 

 Which requires the most brain? If you should organize a 

 business men's association you would not take me in. Now 

 when men learn to designate their professions properly we 

 will hear less about this work drudgery. I do not consider 

 anything drudgery that I am engaged in. 



J. S. Stickney — I want to draw a dividing line, a very dis- 

 tinct and well defined line. A man that is master of his 

 business, his labors are all pleasant, his word is a pleasure, 

 but where the business is master of the man then it is 

 drudgery. It cannot be anything else. It all rests with our- 

 selves whether our work will be a pleasure or whether it will 

 be just a little ahead of us. There is the point. It all rests 

 with ourselves. There is no profession that will admit of so 

 much independence as the profession of farming or horti- 

 culture, or deriving support from the soil. 



H. C. Adams — I do not like to talk too much, but I have 

 been very much disappointed in this paper. I came here 

 with my mind fully made up that if this lady said something 

 I did not agree with I should pitch into her; but I haven't a 

 chance. I think the ladies work under a disadvantage. 

 Everyone seems to think that whatever a lady says must be 

 met with approbation whether you agree with her or not. I 

 do not think this a proper sentiment. After having a talk 

 with Mrs. Campbell this evening I made up ray mind to pick 

 her up on some point and I cannot do it, and I am disap- 

 pointed about it. 



Mr. Stickney says this matter of drudgery rests wholly 

 with us. I do not believe that is so. I think it rests with 



