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four years and then victory, victory, victory! Well, so great was the 

 pleasure of those people that after all the terrors and horrors I had 

 seen, I returned with the last impression pleasant — the impression of 

 final victory won. 



Now, in this victory Americans were present, because I was not 

 the only one there. I was the only officer, but I might just as well 

 let you know that with me in the Serbian army about 10,000 American 

 boys. They were camouflaged in French and Serbian uniforms, but 

 they were there, from Chicago, from Pittsburg, from Cleveland and 

 from everywhere. You remember two years ago in the Auditorium 

 here we had a great hullabaloo when the Serbian volunteers went over, 

 when the Serbian Commission was here. Perhaps you read in the 

 papers that from Gary ten brothers went over. Thej^ gave up their 

 jobs in the works, where they were making ten or fifteen dollars a 

 day, ten brothers, all the children of one mother. They went to 

 Serbia to fight for the liberty of their nation, for the liberty of the 

 world. They went there, and 10,000 others went with them, all Amer- 

 ican citizens who voted here in this country, who had property in this 

 country, who had families in this country. I found them there, I 

 spoke to them, I brought their messages to their folks in this country. 

 I found them dying in the fields and they told me what to tell their 

 wives and children when I got home. I made their wills on the battle 

 fields. Of those ten brothers, I found two of them, one dying and one 

 wounded. And so in Serbia we have made ourselves felt and we have 

 reason to be proud. In France we have done well, and in Italy, and 

 very well in the Balkans, and wherever there was work to be done 

 or a battle going on, there was an American to be seen there. 



Now, my time is up and the other speakers are here, and excuse, me 

 because I was not prepared to talk to you at all. They just jerked me 

 up from my seat and told me to fill in the time, and I filled it in. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



The President. — I am sure we are very glad to have heard 

 Professor Jager. Now we will have an intermission of about ten min- 

 utes, during which time we will be glad to have your membership, the 

 Secretary here will be ready to take your name and your money if 

 you wish to pay your dues at the present time. Then we will have a 

 brief session before noon. You are at liberty for a few minutes. 



Recess. 



The President. — The meeting will please come to order. We 

 have next on the program a paper by Mr. C. P. Dadant, but he is not 

 here, so we will fill up the time with a substitute. We have with us 

 Mr. Krouse, of Guelph> Ontario, Canada, President of the Ontario 

 Bee-keepers' Association. We will be glad to hear from him for a 

 few minutes. Mr. Krouse. (Applause.) 



ADDRESS OF MR. KROUSE. 



{Guelph, Canada.) 

 Mr. Chairman and fellow bee-keepers: I want to admit right on 

 the start that I am not much of a speaker, it is out of my fine, but I 

 always feel at home when I get into a bee-keepers' meeting. I don't 



