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to explore it fully with a view to getting whatever is of value out 

 of it. This is not all going to be done in one generation, — but who 

 is working for himself alone? He who undertakes to go through 

 life with that idea uppermost in his mind is the one who by middle 

 age discovers that "life is not worth living," and that his has been 

 a failure. The largest share of happiness falls to him whose con- 

 stant aim is to add something desirable to the common stock and 

 place those who are to follow in a condition to lay hold of and enjoy 

 the good things he has been fortunate enough to place within their 

 reach. Before we were born, broad-minded, unselfish men spent 

 their years in the delightful work of opening new avenues to enjoy- 

 ment for the benefit of posterity. They paid no attention to the 

 question which the Jewish money lender propounded to old John 

 Gutenberg, who was borrowing at exorbitant interest to enable him- 

 self to perfect and make practicable his great invention. Guten- 

 berg was fervidly expatiating on the immeasureable advantages 

 which a knowledge of the art of printing would confer upon poster- 

 ity, when he was interrupted by the friendly Jew, with "Tut, tut, 

 John, do not impoverish yourself with any such nonsense. Let 

 posterity take care of itself. What did it ever do for you?" All 

 that the public benefactors of whom I am speaking asked for was 

 that posterity might take half the comfort in the possession of these 

 good things that they experienced in providing them. So they con- 

 tinued in their work, bearing in mind that 



"Lives of great men all remind us 



We can make our lives sublime, 

 And departing leave behind us 



Foot-prints on the sands of time. 



* * * * 



"Let us then be up and doing. 



With a heart for any fate, 

 Still achieving, still pursuing, 



Learn to labor and to wait." 



Prof. Hansen : We have at our place over 14,000 sand cherry 

 trees. About 500 of that number bore fruit this year. The seed 

 was planted in the spring of 1899, so this is the third season. We 

 have the greatest faith in the sand cherry, and I will say that there 

 are some of these fruits that I would be willing to send out next 

 spring to people who know how to propagate. We do not want to 

 propagate for the multitude, but only for the nurserymen and those 

 who know how to propagate. 



The President : Then you think there is a future for the sand 

 cherry ? 



Prof. Hansen : Yes, for the western sand cherry, but not for 

 the ordinarv sand cherry. 



