70 ILLINOIS STATE DAlKifMBN S ASSOCIATION 



ADDRESS OF W. W. MARPLE, CHICAGO, AT SOUTH- 

 ERN ILLINOIS NORMAL UNIVERSITY. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



When Mr. Caven advised me that I was expected to talk 

 last evening and this morning and this evening, I felt like the 

 prisoner upon whom sentence had been pronounced by the 

 judge, and the judge asked him if he had anything to say and 

 the prisoner responded: "Nothing', /except I think you ore 

 mighty liberal with another man's time." 



I was told before I came in here that all the students at 

 this University were not interested directly in Agriculture and I 

 am in the same class as the president of this association, A'Ir. 

 Mason, who just talked to you. That part of my life that has 

 been devoted to any interests in any branch of agriculture, has 

 been on the side of dairying, so I want to say primarily that I 

 am in the position of the new policeman that was appointed in 

 the city of Boston and he only had been on the force a few 

 days when he found a dead horse on Koscioska street and he 

 wxnt to headquarters and reported to the sergeant that he had 

 found a dead horse. "Where?" queried the sergeant. "On 

 Koscioska street," responded Mike. "Make out your report in 

 the regular form," said the sergeant. Mike sat down at a desk 

 and commenced and when he got to the name of the street, he 

 asked the sergeant how to spell Koscioska and the sergeant 

 said : "You are making out that report," so he tried again. 

 Then again he asked the sergeant who replied : "Don't bother 

 me, I am busy, you are making out that report." Whereupon 

 Mike picked up his hat and went out. "Where are you going?" 

 asked the sergeant. "I'm going to move that horse on to Myr- 

 tle Avenue," was the reply. So I want to say to you this moni- 

 ing that what little time I take in talking to you I will move 

 those of you who are not interested directly in Agriculture on 

 to Myrtle Avenue. 



I notice on the program and that has been emphasized 

 once or twice by the secretary, that these are short talks. I 

 would regret very much in connection with the gentlemen who 

 are to follow me, to put this audience into the condition that 

 the congregation of the old colored preacher was put in relative 



