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was walking about two or three mil es in the country, when I caught up with 

 a man driving a wagon going out m y way. I got in and rode with him, al- 

 though I was going faster than he was. We drove along for a while without 

 saying a word, until finally he said: "Where are yiou going? Going over to 

 this little town?" I said "No." I told him I was going to see Father So-and- 

 so. He looked at me out of the corner of his eye, and said: "Say, you 

 hain't the fellow that doctored Squire's hog for cholera?" He thought, per- 

 haps, I resembled him in appearance, and ventured the suggestion. 



It is my good fortune, or rather I should put it the other way, it is the 

 misfortune of Colonel Turner that I should introduce him tonight. I have 

 not had time to run over numerous distinctions, or as a man of busi- 

 ness, what his peculiar fitness is in that regard, I do not know. Where he 

 got the experience I do not know. I could guess at these; I have spent some 

 little time with him this evening, and did not like to ask him these ques- 

 tions, but his reputation as a soldier we all know. I think he must have 

 gotten them fighting these bull fights down in Cuba. I have the great pleas- 

 ure of introducing you to the hero of two wars. I have been told this as a 

 fact: When Colonel Turner was with his regiment in Charleston, his sol- 

 diers in full military dress, and his medals on his breast, people along the 

 line were admiring him, and one old colored woman asked another Who 

 the fine fellow was on the fine horse? She answered her, "Dat is de man 

 dat won ce war." 



Ladies and gentlemen, I have Xie pleasure of introducing to you the 

 gentleman "what won de war." He has come back from- the second war, 

 and has a second time beaten his sword into an instrument of peace, not a 

 ploughshare, nor a pruning hook, but a churn share, and if it was used as 

 a churn, it would bring butter out of skim milk. I have great pleasure in 

 introducing Colonel Turner. 



Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Dairymen's Association, Doctor and 

 Friends of Galesburg:— I feel a little tonight, with my strength like a 

 child's and my voice gone where the woodbine twineth, a good deal as I 

 did when I was under fire. I would like to be at home with mother. But 

 I am here and glad to be here. I am pleased to meet with the Dairymen's 



