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Shoemaker." A man came along and noticing it, read "A clam 

 good shoemaker." A barber put up a sign over his door and 

 it read : "What, do you think I will shave you for nothing and 

 give you a drink ?" Another man who was attracted by it, read, 

 "What do you think, I'll shave you for nothing and give you a 

 drink," and he went in to get shaved. A boy going along the 

 street with a dog was met by a minister, and he stopped to talk 

 to him. The minister said: "Whose dog is that?" The boy 

 said: "It's mine." The minister said: "What is its name?" The 

 boy said: '"Its name is Moreover." The minister said: "That's 

 a funny name; where did you get it?" The boy said: "I got it 

 out of the bible; that's the name of a fighting dog that is told 

 about in the bible." The minister said : "Well, I never came 

 across that ; where did you find it ?" The boy said : "Doesn't 

 the bible say 'And moreover the dog licked Lazarus ?' ' 



I recognize in the dairyman an important personage, and 

 he is legion ; he is untrammelled by the boundary line of any 

 commonwealth or country; his appellation is as broad in its 

 meaning as — mankind. In many sections the dairyman is a boy ; 

 in England and in Illinois the dairyman is a man. In Scotland 

 and Missouri the dairyman is a woman. A most striking illus- 

 tration of this fact was given by a man who was asked by Mis- 

 souri's Dairy Commissioner how the dairy business was prog- 

 ressing in his section, and he said it wasn't doing very much 

 good ; that the women had gotten so onerary that they wouldn't 

 milk any more and they had almost abandoned the business. 

 The dairyman's business is not the creation of a fancy; it is the 

 natural outgrowth of necessity with all of humanity; it is not 

 a new business, it dates back with the beginning of history and 

 from the time of the memorable feast by Abraham, which was 

 entirely from the dairy, up until the time of the opossum ban- 

 quet given to Taft, the dairyman's products have been the most 

 essential articles of diet at every meal. 



A preacher on his way got drenched with rain, and when he 

 reached the church door he met one of his deacons to whom he 

 said, "I'm afraid I'm too wet to preach this morning." The dea- 



