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Most of us can only do these common things, fight the little battle.*. 

 Pew can do great and be famous. 13efore that battle at Manila Admiral 

 Dewey called all hands on deck and in a quiet way said, "I expect every 

 man to keep cool and obey orders." 



We are standing on the threshold, we are in the open door, 



We are treading on a borderland we never trod before; 



Another year is opening and another year is gone. 



We have passed the darkness of the night, we are in the early morn; 



We have left the field behind us o'er which we scattered seed; 



We pass into the future, which none of us can read. 



The corn among the weeds, the stones, the surface mold, 



May yield a partial harvest, we hope for sixty fold; 



Then hasten to fresh labor, to thrash and reap and sow r , 



Then bid the new year welcome and let the old year go; 



Then gather all your vigor, press forward in the fight, 



And let this be your motto, "For God and for the right." 



Need of a Dairy Commission and Pure Food Legislation. 



C. Y. KNIGHT, CHICAGO, III., SEC. ILLINOIS DAIRY UNION. 

 READ BY SEC. GEO. CAVEN. 



Dairymen of Illinois: Do you fully realize your power to protect your 

 own interests? I cannot believe you do .Two years ago the Illinois Dairy 

 Union showed you what could be done through the influence of a few 

 thousand of your numbers. In face of one of the most aggressive fights 

 ever put up in any legislature, the dairymen of Illinois through their in- 

 ■fluence, conveyed by letter and petition, lined up every senator represent- 

 ing farmer constituents, with one exception, and exerted practically the 



