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out, of the old rut he has been running in; gives him a chance 
to get the dust blown off his best suit of clothes; he sees new 
! faces, puts more money in circulation, and if he is not troubled 
with big head (not lumpy jaw) he will learn something ; he 
enjoys himself and goes home with fresh vigor to again take 
up the task of life.) 
I tell you, gentlemen, in these days of microbes it is not 
safe for a man to stay away from a meeting, where he may learn 
something about that which is at the bottom of all diseases, 
for eveiything is “ germs’ now, even we ourselves are full of 
them, and to piove it, I will with your kind permission add 
something taken from the Texas Health Journal : 
Man, born of woman, is of few days and full of microbes. 
He standeth in the midst of Micro-Kock—I, and gnaweth on the 
hock-joint ol the razor-back hog until filled with trichina. It 
has been said: ‘ God made man a little lower than the angels,’ 
and he hath been a little lower ever since. In cities the food 
of man is stale vegetables, hydrant water and sewer gas ; in 
the country he groweth ‘ phat ’ on pea soup and branch water ; 
at other times he maketh himself sick on sauer-kraut and 
sendeth for the good physician, who giveth him ipecac and 
calomel until he cougheth his teeth out. Animals have in¬ 
stincts and man outstincts, neither of which smelleth like a 
tube rose. 
“ From teething to unteething is the longer life of man. 
After the latter hegummeth his soup and drinketh his dried 
beef. His younger days are filled with wind, but in his old 
the wind is knocked out of him. He drinketh bug-juice 
until his nose shineth with a ten-candle-power, and he smok- 
eth the vile weed until he snorteth—when the wind changes 
and he smelleth his own breath. Verily the seed of woman 
stone-bruiseth his heel and thumpeth his nose against the 
screen door. Yea, man is of but few days, and is filled with 
tanglefoot.” 
(^1 beg to thank you, gentlemen, most sincerely, for the 
honor you conferred on me in electing me President of this 
Association for the past year. I wish also to thank the dif 
ferent members of the Programme Committee for their great 
HUtSUs 
