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ent who had been on farm.
This lecture, he said, was the only
light one on his list of twenty. but
while humor ran through it, still there
was a stronger vein underlying the
light exterior. The reason that the
Chinese pictures never failed to amuse
was because the Celestial artists put no
shadows in them, and the pictures were
only on the outside, and so with this
lecture it would only be on the surface,
with little shadow added. He believed
that if the preachers would give more
good wholesome fun to the people, both
parties would be the better off for it.
| The speaker stated that his subject
was Old Times in the West, and added
that there were three kinds of people
who would not appreciate the lecture
First, the man who expected some
thing heavy with subtle truth in it !;
second, the man without an imagina-
ton; and third, the man who could not
see the point of a joke.
He then related amusing stories for
each OF these worthless, among others
that of the Englishman who tried to
tell the story of John @. Strange, the
Honest Lawyer, with the proverbial
result OF the Saxon's attempt at wit. :
| A quaint picture was next drawn of
the old spring house, with it's stream of
clear, cold water running around those
great moons of cream, thick enough for
a spider to cross without breaking
through, and where you skinned the
golden yellow fluid and poured it over
the mountain-lik heap of lu cious straw
berries, then to lie down under the
broad spreading maple tree to.enioy this
delightful dish, the scene being treated
as none but the speaker could describe it.
Dr.. Mcintyre next told of how the
material for the speech had been sup
piled to him by an old farmer from the
Wabash. He had been sent out to a
small town in Indiana, where the peo-
pie about the village did not relish SER
mons very much, so he was undecided
as to what be would offer. But, finally,
he selected Fun on the Farm. He had
it inserted in the weekly paper, giving
due notice to all the farmers around.
Several days before the lecture was to
have been given, an old, used-up speci
men of a man visited him, ostensibly to
find fault, but before the visitor had
gone he had unknowingly furnished the
speaker with material for his lecture.
The description of the advent of the
old man of his horse and dog and of his
indignant expostulation with the
speaker on the subject of his proposed
speech, were told in an inimitable style,
both from the point OF dialect and more
particularly from the quantity original
rustic comparisons. The old farmer at
| first failed to see how there was any fun
on farm, and told his host that he,
the host, "didn't know nothing" and
that he Couldn't be ignoranter il he had
a man to help him." After expressing
himself for a while in this manner, he
then piled him with questions of farm
ing experience, asking him if he had
ever tried to plow in stumpy field
with a pair OF balky mules, where the
stumps from all sides whacked your
shins, making them black and blue, or
whether he had run into hornets
nest and been stung to two times his
ordinary size, or if he had ever
tried to make a calf drink out
of bucket? After hearing the
old mans pessimistic views, the speaker
recited to him some of James Whitcomb
Riley's poetry, descriptive of farm life,
among Others being the Swimming
Hole. He then gradually brought to
the old fellows recollection the many
scenes and pleasures of his boyhood
uayb, anu Dy Tue Clmo Jne Ola farmer
left he agreed with the speaker that
there was, after all, some fun on the
farm.
The speaker next gave general view
of the boy on the farm, and in the de-
scription of the boys feelings when he
tried to make his first speech and failed,
and then his anguish afterward, was
quaint and true to life, but in his pic
ture of the mothers sorrow over her
harsh treatment of the boy the audience
was moved to tears.
He then diverted to more serious
view, and said that it is on the farm
that we raise our great men, and next
gave examples OF great men who had
been reared on farm.
PROF. ANDERsoN's ADDRESS.
At the conclusion of DR.. McIntyre's
lecture, the literature class assembled in
the big hall and Prof. Anderson con-
tinued with his discussion of Ralph
! Waldo Emerson. He first reviewed his
style and then told of his philosophy.
| A number of high authorities were
quoted, the majority agreeing that
Emerson's writings are of the hig hest
order and class their influence as that of
the best.