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blowing them out. Disease is caused by microbes, and I leave it to you to say what chance would a common, every-day microbe have in a Kansas wind. A man came here as full of microbes as an Arkansas dog is full of fleas. But they were all blown out of his system in less than a week, and a farmer's wife found a bunch of them sticking to a barbwire fence in her garden. This is how the people of the West conform to the principles of truth when talking to a stranger.
Once when I was hanging on to a hitching post which seemed to be firmly planted, I noticed cheerfully floating on the breeze, several women and children. I asked the men around if they were not alarmed. Not at all said they, for the wind will change tomorrow and they will all come back again. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. Chancellor, that the breezes have their advantages, because they have swept from the atmosphere the microbes which would otherwise be liable to enter our system, and the result is that when you come to the time when the wind falls, and it does sometimes, I am glad to say, you find upon the floor a tumbler full. Where is there any other state where you can go out on a clear night and see so many sparkling stars! We can on a clear moon-light night observe the man in the moon so clearly that we can see him wink his other eye, and can find out the lost daughter of the Pleiades, and see distinctly the manner in which she does up her back hair. Kansas people have taken their characteristics from the breezes. They pick up a good many good things when they pick up a university like this. I say this, my friends, because I want somewhere along the line to connect my speech with the subject in hand. I have been trying my best ever since I have started to get to it. I do not exactly see what connection my speech has with this University and with this library, but if you see it, that is all right. Each individual was expected to connect his speech with the University, and I have tried my best to do so. It is rather hard, however, to connect the subject of breezes with that of books, as no one would take a book out-in a Kansas
wind, for a man would be a fool to do so. As I said before, the people of Kansas, with all their eccentricities and with all of the breezy and windy character of their dispositions, are disposed to pick up all the good things that come in their way. Now good things should be retained, or at least we all think so.
And now coming out of the subject of winds entirely, of which I have talked quite a good deal this afternoon, would say that I have been royally entertained, and I think also that I have missed my train. I hope, as has been said before, that the time will come when this library building will be filled to its utmost capacity with good books. I hope that the time will come when the students of this University will be able to come out crammed full of knowledge on account of the magnificent gift that the friends to the University have given.
Eugene F. Ware: "The Sentiments of 'Your Orator.'"
Mr. Chancellor, Ladies and Geutlemen:—The subject assigned to a person at a banquet in Kansas represents a danger point which he should avoid, and if you will pardon me for consuming your time I will tell you very briefly of some books which I saw not very long ago, taken from the most ancient libraries of the world. The books were from the libraries of Nineveh and Babylon and were written in clay that had been baked into imperishable stone. They conld be read with as much ease as the writings of today. I saw them in the Louvre and in the British Museum, exposed in glass cases with their translations beside them. There were wagon loads of such books, documents and tablets, and it occurred to me to make memorandums of some of the topics.
There was a letter from a nobleman to the king of Babylon asking for a doctor to be sent to see a sick lady.
There was a list of Babylonian kings from the flood down. That flood was shown to be very ancient.
There was an inscription showing that Enteanna was king of Babylon 4200 years B. C.
There was a table of synonyms of Assyrian