164 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Illinois citizen (regardless of his religious faith) can not help 

 but feel proud of his who was dubbed by Europe, America's 

 silver-tongued orator, and they have placed on the roll of illus- 

 trious citizens the name of Robert G. Ingersoll. 



I wonder if these men are so plenty they become common 

 to you. I wonder if the wonderful achievements of great men are 

 so frequent among you that you fail to appreciate them. I am 

 reminded of a circumstance said to have occurred in a Chicago 

 hotel. A gentleman and his bride went to Chicago to spend a 

 few days, and when the man went up to the counter of a hotel to 

 register while his wife waited in the lobby, he remarked to the 

 clerk that he was on a little wedding tour, and would probably 

 be there several days. The clerk smiled and called a bell boy 

 and told him to to show the gentleman to the Bridal Parlor on 

 the first floor and at the same time said to the man, "$15.00 a 

 day." The man touched the clerk on the shoulder just as he 

 was turning around and said to him "This is my third wife." 

 The clerk hollered to the boy, "A back room on the top floor," 

 and said to the man "$4.00 a week." It is unnecessary to sug- 

 gest that this policy in this particular case appeals to every man 

 here as being mean, and yet, I venture that some of these ladies 

 have a faint suspicion that that happened, and that there are 

 some men that would do that. 



You remember Josh Billings said "The more he got ac- 

 quainted with men the better he liked dogs." He would not have 

 said this had he lived in Illinois, but outside of this state and 

 possibly in some sections of this state there is a great deal of 

 selfishness, and to these good ladies I am going to acknwoledge 

 that the most of this selfishness is among the men. I noticed 

 in the paper the other day an occurrence that illustrates some 

 men's dispositions. A man was telling a friend of some con- 

 troversy he had been having with his wife about the purchase of 

 some sheets or towels, or something of that kind, for the house. 

 He said she wanted linen and he wanted cotton. After consid- 

 erable discussion he said they compromised. His friend asked 

 him what on. He said on cotton. If there is a man here to- 



