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be Re-christeued Horticultural Hall?" He said: I was much pleased 

 to hear Supt. Penderg-ast say that this is your institution. I want to 

 remind you that you have another institution near this that belongs 

 to you in the same sense that this does. Those that have this other 

 institution in charge are trying' to take good care of it. It is work- 

 ing in harmony with this and other institutions of the state, doing 

 practical educational work. I refer to the State Fair. This year we 

 expect to have a larger exhibition than usual. Applications for 

 space are already coming in, a very unusual thing at this season of 

 the year, and we anticipate a very large exhibition this fall. Here- 

 tofore the agricultural and horticultural displays have occupied 

 the same building, but we have found tliat this will be no longer 

 possible. The agricultural exhibitors have consented to occupy the 

 space under the anaphitheatre, and now you will have Agricult- 

 ural Hall to be occupied wholly by the horticultural exhibit. This 

 will make it possible for you to have a larger exhibit than you have 

 ever had before. Agricultural Hall has already been re-christened 

 " Horticultural Hall," and its future belongs to you. 



Pres. Underwood: We can safely rely upon the Horticultural 

 Society not allowing the occasion of the coming fair to pass by 

 without doing justice to the horticultural interests of the state. 



HON. CHAS. H. WOODS. 



Hon. Charles H. Woods, a representative of the Minneapolis Park 

 Board, and a guest of the occasion, was called out. He said he did 

 not expect to be called upon to make a speech, but he nevertheless 

 entertained the society in a few pleasant remarks: "The one thought 

 that has been upperinost in my mind as I have driven over the state 

 farm and enjoyed myself in this social way with you is, Wh}' was I 

 not a farmer? Why, instead of fretting through thirty-five years of 

 a lawyer's life I did not go to work like a man and try to earn an 

 honest living, I do not mean to imply that a man cannot earn an 

 honest living as a lawyer, notwithstanding the suggestion that 

 some one once made. A stranger passing by a cemetery saw a per- 

 son apparently much agitated over a certain grave. Supposing, of 

 course, he was mourning the loss of some dear friend, the stranger 

 paused. On the headstone was inscribed this legend: 'An able 

 lawyer and an honest man.' The stranger remarked, 'This man 

 must have been a relative of yours.' ' No,' he said, ' I was only won- 

 dering why they put those two men into one grave.' (Laughter). 

 Until the gentleman spoke on 'Drawbacks,' I thought I made amis- 

 take in choosing the lawyer's profession. When I was a young man 

 the foundation was laid to make me a farmer. My father was a 

 clergj^man in a New Hampshire town where he could not make a 

 living for his family. Just on the edge of the village there was a 

 pasture on a side hill which he purchased. He plowed it up as 

 much as it could be and turned us boys into it to pick stones^ 

 There I cultivated an acquaintance with the soil under those ad- 

 verse circumstances for a number of years. If I could have had the 

 advantages which the young men in Minnesota have todaj^ I think 

 I should never have been a lawyer. When I see all these attractive 

 things, it seems to me that between the two courses of life, uotwith- 



