60 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



WEDNESDAY, 8 P. M. 



Music : Orchestra. 



Song: Miss Julia Gorsline, Peoria. 



THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME COW. 



W. W. Marple, Chicago. 



Mr. President, Members of the IlHnois State Dairy Association, 

 and Friends of the Lonesome Cow : 



I want to acknowledge the wonderful privilege it is to 

 chaperon the most distinguished of the animal aristocracy at 

 this assembly of her admirers, for I appreciate it is no small 

 honor, and yet I feel like the man that was ridden on a rail. He 

 said, if it wasn't for the honor, he believed he would rather 

 walk. The obligation under which she has placed me, the 

 earnest appeal of your efficient secretary, George Caven, and 

 the persistency of my friend John Nelson places me in a posi- 

 tion I can't refuse, and yet, aside from embarrassment, because 

 of the importance of my client, my position is exactly like the 

 boy who had learned to swear by associating with his father, 

 and it was a source of grief to his mother. After Employing 

 every means at her command to break him of the pernicious 

 habit and to no avail, she finally told him, as a last resort, that 

 she couldn't have a boy around the house that swore, and the 

 next time she heard him say a bad word he would have to leave. 

 The habit had been formed and it was not long until he broke his 



