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right, I will just send you down in the pasture to milk the cow." 

 He said he would go, though he had never done anything like that 

 in his life; so he went down in the pasture, with a stool in one 

 hand and a milk pail in the other, to milk the cow. It was a long 

 time after he left the house and he had not returned with the milk 

 and the lady became uneasy. She waited awhile longer and he did 

 not come, so she sent one of the boys down in the pasture to see 

 what was the matter. The boy went down and found the lawyer 

 following the cow from place to place, and he asked, "Haven't you 

 got that cow milked yet?" The lawyer replied, "No, sir; I can't 

 get the old fool to sit down on this stool to give me a chance." 



Every boy and girl should be taught that agriculture is one of 

 the most important callings that any man or woman can en.ter 

 into, and that is one of the things that I, in my humble position 

 as country editor, am trying to instill in the minds of the readers 

 of my paper. Not only that, but I believe if you take the country 

 newspapers of Missouri, 95 per cent of them will usually be found 

 right upon the moral questions affecting the State of Missouri. 

 They are usually manned by men who have come from the farm. 

 They are manned by men who have at heart the interests of the 

 great State of Missouri and the coming generation. 



My fellow Missourians, I believe that the farmers, newspaper 

 men and the educators of this State can co-operate in a way that 

 will redound to the honor and glory of Missouri. 



I am glad, indeed, that I have had this opportunity of address- 

 ing this distinguished conference. My fellow citizens, if there is 

 one thing about which I am greatly concerned at all times it is for 

 the growth and prosperity of this great State of ours. I say to 

 you if there is any time or any place where' I can, lift my voice or 

 use my pen to aid in the betterment of the) industrial or agricul- 

 tural interest of this State, I am willing and ready to do whatso- 

 ever I can. I say to you that our interests are one, and the rela- 

 tionship of the newspaper men, the farmer and the school men 

 should be most pleasant as they travel hand in hand down the 

 highway of life. They have the public for an audience, and are 

 speaking fifty-two weeks in every year to that audience, and wield 

 an influence that is felt, either for good or bad; and I have re- 

 ferred, my fellow citizens, to the influences that I feel the great 

 majority of them have been trying in, their humble way to wield 

 for good. We have never had ambitions to sit among the high and 

 lofty. 



