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she looked she raised herself and she said, ''Hello, John, 

 how are you?" And John saw it was the sweetheart of 

 his younger boyhood. And as they came nearer John of 

 course greeted her, and she jumped out of the wagon and 

 ran to John, and with that happy greeting as sweethearts 

 always greet each other." Mark Twain says, "I have got 

 them this far, and now if you can tell me how in the hell 

 I can get the breeches on this man and get him back in 

 the buggy, I want you to tell me." (Great laughter.) 



And now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know where 

 I am going to find the dairyman or the honest-to-goodness 

 would-be farmer if I should start out, perhaps it would 

 be something of the same kind, but we have a long list 

 and I want to say, in my appreciation of being here, this 

 is a wonderful crowd, and if you come to Harrisburg next 

 year I hope that you may swing by Carbondale, the best 

 town in southern Illinois (laughter), and there you will 

 find the best normal school in the state of Illinois, and you 

 will find the town with the best churches in southern Illi- 

 nois, of the most hard roads and the people of the biggest 

 hearts of southern Illinois. Come and see us. 



I thank you. (Great applause.) 



Toastmaster: At this time we will call on Mr. R. E. 

 Caldwell, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



Professor R. E. Caldwell (Waukegan, 111.) : (Ap- 

 plause.) I believe, ladies and gentlemen, that we are all 

 trying to finish the story. I think to make a speech at a 

 banquet without telling a story would be the most unusual 

 thing I could do. I just want to say one other thing in 

 behalf of the work now being done by the National Dairy 

 Council. I believe before an audience such as this, that a 

 more thorough and full appreciation should be had of the 

 work that that wonderful organization is doing and has 

 been doing for several years past. 



Four or five years ago this organization got under way 

 in a good well organized way, and since that time have 

 been telling, as you have heard this evening, before 

 schools, before clubs, before organizations such as this, 



