And often when 1 am gazing 



On peaks that pierce the clouds, 

 On mountain roads amazing 



Roamed by the tourist crowds, 

 I sigh like all the nation 



Forgetting where I am, 

 ( To see the Katy station 



And look on Sodens dam. 



We hear the grand old singers 



Whose stanzas are sublime 

 And though we know they are dingers, 



They tire us out in time 

 And then we want a story- 



By some plain, common skate 

 And so for old Empory 



Methinks I'll emigrate. 



THE CHAIR]\rAN: I Avant to make one announcement 

 hefore we enter into the discussion; that is, this afternoon 

 the meeting will start at'one o'clock in this room instead of 

 1.30 in order to give ns a chance to take in some of th*^ 

 other meetings that are going to take place this afternoon 

 and which will be held in this room also. 



Now, the remarks that T*rofessor Sears has made have 

 j-robably made some of lis think, and perhaps some have 

 questions they would like to bring up on the different sub- 

 jects mentioned. One or two things that I noticed while he 

 was talking may be not of any real value, to anyone, but 

 the impression on my mind after hearing about the various 

 troubles they were having out West and so forth it might 

 come to some of our minds that we were getting off pretty 

 (Jisy here in the East in the way that we were growing fruit, 

 and perhaps if we took it too seriously about the difficulties 

 they were having we might think we could go on in the same 

 May we are going on and still get by forever. I do not be- 

 lieve that can be true and T think the time is coming when 



