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gast, said to me, "You are always practical in your speech and your 

 papers." I went down to the exhibition room and got two apples, 

 because our friend Herbst said Mr. Philips was going to take them 

 along home with him. I went down to get them first. Mr. Herbst 

 says Mr. Philips takes the best he can get at our exhibit and takes 

 them to Wisconsin, where he exhibits them at their meeting and takes 

 a premium. We have a lawyer in our town who is a great temper- 

 ance man. He was present at a temperance meeting recently, and 

 he proved that he did not have a drink in twenty years. He said he 

 had had liquor in his cellar for twenty years, and that was proof 

 that he never drank. I have these apples here which I am going to 

 give to Mr. Philips, and they are my witnesses that he did not take 

 them. If he gets into trouble on this account at the Wisconsin meet- 

 ing he will have hundreds of witnesses to prove his innocence. Mr. 

 Kellogg here svv^ears to everything Mr. Philips says. We have suc- 

 ceeded wonderfully in our society, and I hope the work will not 

 stop here because we have made a success of it. We have got to 

 continue working with all the energy and means at our command. 

 We have got to work for this society until every man, woman and 

 child in the state of Minnesota is a member. Every school ground 

 in this state must be made ornamental with trees and shrubs so 

 that it will be a thing of beauty for the children who go there. Our 

 streets and roads in the country must be made to look as well as 

 the streets of Minneapolis, and a great deal better than some of 

 them. (Applause.) And more than that, we have got to have fruit 

 on every farm ; we have to have it in abundance, so that some of these 

 city people may have some of it, and that not only while the fruit is 

 in season but all the year round. (Applause.) 



The Chairman : I wish every-body might be as enthusiastic as 

 Mr. Yahnke ; there would be some wonderful things accomplished. 

 This occasion would not be complete without a word from Mr. 

 Loring. 



Mr. C. M. Loring: I must say I enjoyed this meeting more 

 than any we ever had. In a very short time, in a few years, we are 

 going to have a jubilee; it will be fifty years since this society was 

 organized, and I want these two gentlemen that come here every year 

 and enliven our meetings to keep just as far apart as possible until 

 that time, so that they may come here in good order, the one from 

 Wisconsin and the other from the southern part of this state. I 

 think the chairman is entitled to a great deal of credit for the har- 

 mony he has maintained between these two friends. (Laughter.) 

 We congratulate ourselves on having gone down to Boston and 

 taken the Wilder medal, but good gracious ! don't you know we 

 always get what we go after? Down at New Orleans we took the 

 premium for sugar, apples, grapes, butter, wheat and flour. Of 

 course, we can take the premium if we go after it. We are going 

 down to St. Louis next summer and sweep the whole board. So, as 

 Mr. Elliot has said, get ready for it, let us go down there and clean 

 them out. It has been a great pleasure to me to meet my old friends 

 here. It has been one of the grandest meetings I have known in this 

 city, one of the most interesting, and if people could only realize 

 what has been done bv this societv and could see the fruits of its 



