l8o ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



" Well, Greenville ain't so different from heaven after all.'' His 

 escort told him, '' Ed, you are not in heaven." 



Mr. Marple was exceedingly kind in his compliments to 

 Illinois and in his invitation for us to visit the great city of St. 

 Louis during the world's fair. He said so many pleasant things, 

 I won't tell a story on him. 



I said I lived down in that part of Illinois near the gateway 

 of St. Louis, the battle ground of the commercial traveler for St. 

 Louis and Chicago. We have a saying when a man moved from 

 Illinois to Missouri he bettered both states. 



We are proud down in Egypt to welcome you milk men from 

 Northern Illinois. We some of us have been up there and in 

 Southern Wisconsin, where the land is so rich and fertile. If 

 we had it down here we would sell it by the peck. What's pret- 

 tier than Rock River and Fox River with its fair crystal water 

 and the grass growing down to it on eather side, a magnificent 

 country and a great people, a great industry, wonderful schools 

 and churches. Coming down to Egypt we feel like as if we were 

 not in it with you. Sometimes we feel we had not been blessed 

 with all you are blessed with ; sending your boys and girls from 

 farms to the universities of the world. Yet after all, as Burns 

 says, " A man's a man for all that." Down here in Southern 

 Illinois — did you ever think what makes Egypt and how the 

 boundary was formed. What is the boundary line? Because 

 the town of Cairo is here, that is not it. In olden times there 

 was a great drought and the people up north raised no corn. 

 Then there was no Illinois north of Springfield before the '30 or 

 '40s; they had to come down to Egypt to get corn, and they 

 come on the old Vincennes trail. Today it is marked by the O. 

 & M. railroad. A few people are ashamed of the name of Egypt 

 and always say, " It is the next county south of us." Then they 

 hunted for a living and wore coon skin caps and the untanned 

 shoes. Steve T. Logan was one of them who ran about the 

 streets of Springfield. He was the brightest of all Illinois law- 

 yers. He had that slipshod way. He would go about Spring- 

 field with an old coon skin cap on and a plush coat that belonged 



