l6o ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



a little faster, and tonight there are billions on board and you 

 have assembled for yourselves and in the interest of the state 

 which you love. 



To discuss means by which you can make this journey more 

 attractive, more interesting and more profitable is the reason of 

 your presence here. To discuss what might have been is past. 

 This is not the age, and you are not the people to stand on the 

 banks of a mighty river and yearn for the water that has gone 

 over the dam, for you know the mill will never grind with the 

 water that is past. 



The opportunities of 1903 are beyond the possibility of our 

 embrace. The mistakes of last year have been charged to our 

 account and can never be erased; but (except as we may use this 

 experience as a lamp to guide our feet) we will blot from our 

 memory the mistakes and omissions and errors and shortcomings 

 and failures of the past, and behold with a brighter vision a 

 greater interest, a firmer determination and a universal resolve 

 the glorious futtire as it unfolds to our imaginative minds a 

 ■field more beautiful than we have ever seen and results we have 

 never yet attained. 



A preacher met a boy with a dog one day, and he said : "Is 

 that your dog, little man?" The boy said, ''Yes sir.'' The 

 preacher says, ''What do you call him?'' The boy said. "His 

 name is Moreover." The preacher said, "Moreover, that is a 

 funny name for a dog." The boy said, "I don't think so." The 

 preacher said, "Where did you get that name?" The boy said, 

 "You ought to know. That's the name of the dog in the Bible." 

 The preacher says, "You must be mistaken. I never heard of a 

 dog named Moreover in the Bible." The boy said, "Well, there 

 is and he's a fighting dog." The preacher said, "Where do you 

 find it?" The boy said, "Don't the Bible say 'and moreover the 

 dog licked Lazarus." It is very easy to destroy the sense of a 

 paragraph by leaving out a part of it, and it's just a&^easy to 

 destroy our lives in our own estimation and find room for com- 

 plaint by only taking a partial review. The result for weal or 

 woe, so far as our lives are concerned is changed very materially 



