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PAPERS READ AND ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE 

 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FARMERS NORMAL IN- 

 STITUTE. HELD AT BUTLER, PA., MAY 24-27 1910 



ADDEESS OF WELCO^fE 



By HON. JAMBS M. GALBRAITH, Butler, Pa. 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Institute: I am very glad on 

 behalf of our town and our county to welcome the Institute to But- 

 ler. We have been looking for your coming for some weeks; in 

 fact, there have been two events scheduled for about this time in 

 the month of May, both of which we have been looking forward to 

 with a degree of pleasure and, I suppose, some of our people, with 

 a degree of apprehension, not of this event but of the other. I speak 

 of the coming of Halley's comet which has been scheduled at the 

 same time as the meeting of this Institute. I don't know that any 

 of our people in the apprehension of what may happen from that 

 have made their wills, but I am sure none have because they thought 

 this Institute would come. They knew this was a good class of 

 people to come into our neighborhood and so have been looking for- 

 ward with pleasure to make jxjur welcome, as our Chairman has 

 said, what it should be and give you a good time. 



To illustrate how highly Butler people think of their own town, 

 I will tell you a story: A man of our town had a dream a few 

 years ago. A friend of his had died some weeks before and in his 

 dream his friend returned and he met him face to face and was 

 very much surprised, and he said to him: "Why, I thought you 

 had died some weeks ago and were in Heaven." And so he was, 

 his returned friend explained, ''but I want to say to you there is 

 no i)lace like Butler." So you see that we esteem ourselves pretty 

 highly, and we hope tliat before you go away you will have a feeling, 

 probably not quite as high as that of Butler, but with a good opinion 

 of our town. We are very glad to welcome you here to-day because 

 of wiiat you represent. You represent the oldest calling that man 

 has ever entered into. We read in Sacred Writ tliat away back in 

 the beginning, when that beautiful Garden was framed and con- 

 structed for the habitation of man, that the Creator placed our first 

 parents in charge of it to care for it. I am willing to admit that 

 he I'ossibly did not make a very good job of it in some respects, pos- 

 sibly because Adam was unfortunate in the choice of a wife, — but 

 however that may be, no matter. He was placed in charge by the 

 Creator who had made him, and that is a compliment not only 

 to the man but to the occupation which was given to him, that of 



