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this afternoon. I appreciate the conditions, — I used tO' be back- 

 there myself and would be glad to be back there again, but it 

 is very annoying to the speakers when they feel that only about 

 half their audience is listening. I hope I will not be put to the 

 necessity of calling the boys in the back part of the room "down'' 

 the way I did this afternoon. 



The first number on the program this evening is a violin 

 solo by Miss Nellie Smith Richardson accompanied by Professor 

 Leo. 



The Chairman : We are fortunate in having this year 

 the same as a year ago, a man from Michigan with us, Professor 

 Clinton D. Smith, who will now address you. 



Professor Smith: — Mr. President,, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 Who shall come after the queen? It is not surprising what an 

 Iowa girl can do with her bow when she has him on the string? 

 She can almost make him speak and that is the hardest part of 

 the whole proposition. Here I am a man weighing two hun- 

 dred pounds and this little slip of a girl can do things I cannot 

 dream of, which teaches me one thing that we are all at home 

 in one family, — we enjoy music. Alas for that poor man, the 

 pillar of whose soul is not moved by music, and when it is so 

 delightfully rendered as this was this evening, it is indeed a 

 pleasure for everyone except the one who has to succeed her 

 her and jump from the sublime to the ridiculous, so I dread the 

 question, I wish that I might say that you dread to have me not. 

 but there is only one end of my speech that you will rejoice at 

 and that is the ending. 



THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MILK PRODUCER. 



Prof. C. D. Smith. 



It would certainly be carrying coals to Newcastle to bring from the 

 state of the twin peninsulas, the country of cyclones and, to the state of 

 Iowa, the land of corn and cows, any instruction as to increasing the 



