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able next year, and I think it is a matter of congratulation to our 

 host, our officers and friends in their ability to make this con- 

 vention such a success." 



Mr. Marple: 



"A lady went into an insurance office to investigate how 

 she could insure her house for $i,ooo. The agent told her that 

 he could insure her house for $i,ooo for $5, and if her house 

 burned down she would get the money. 'I will get the $1,000 

 and I pay only $5, if my house bums down?' she inquired. 'Yes,' 

 responded the agent. *Do they make any investigation as to 

 how the fire caught?' she persisted. 'Oh, yes, we do that,' he 

 replied, Sve make a rigid investigation.' 'I knew there was a 

 catch in it, somewhere,' was her response. 



A young lady was suffering with a boil on her knee and it 

 got pretty bad and it was decided that they had better have a 

 physician and instead of calling the family physician, they called 

 in a man who passed by their house each morning with a little 

 medicine case. He came in and looked at the boil and she said : 

 'What would you suggest ?' 'I would suggest that you see a doc- 

 tor, I am a piano tuner.' (Laughter.) 



I am going to ask a friend of mine, and like all the rest — 

 without any authority. He is not a piano tuner, he is a doctor, 

 and that is a gentleman from our neighboring state, the president 

 of an Association, Mr. Rich of Vincennes, Indiana. (He is 

 gone). 



I told you in the beginning that we had about forty-five 

 speakers that I would call on, but I have come to the conclusion 

 that the girl did when the young man asked her to marry him. 

 He was working for $13 a week and she told him that she would 

 not marry him until he had accumulated $10,000. So he started 

 in to get this accumulation for he had no idea of giving up the 

 proposition. Three weeks later she met him and asked him how 

 much he had saved, and he told her that he had saved $14. 'Oh, 

 well,' she said, 'that's near enough.' (Laughter). 



We are about to close this part of the exercises and I will 

 ask the quartette to sing and then I have an announcement to 

 make, which will wind up the exercises here. 



