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husband's aims and hopes and labor in providing us the home 

 and the home comforts that have been showered upon us. We 

 frequently wait until the dear hands are folded in the coffin and 

 then we say, '*Oh, what a wonderful husband I had." Hus- 

 bands, I am afraid that sometimes you fail to appreciate the 

 perfect devotion of your faithful wives who have stood by you 

 through sunshine and storm. I tell you it is something to stand 

 and meet life and its responsibilities and meet them cheerfully 

 and sweetly as many a devoted wife is doing, and sometimes 

 they fall in the harness, and the physicians say they died of 

 heart failure. I think a great many times they die of heart 

 starvation. There are men in this audience who are wearing 

 the button of the G. A. R. , some of them have faced the can- 

 non's mouth, they were brave enough to die for their country. 

 Are you teaching your boys and girls to be brave enough to live 

 for it.-^ Sometimes it takes more courage to live than it does to 

 die. Are you teaching your boys and girls that it must be their 

 part to take up responsibility, to stand in the face of social evils, 

 to stand in the face of the evils of intemperance, to stand clean 

 men and women, giving clean lives to their country aud its sal- 

 vation from evil.? It is our work to educate these mortal souls 

 that God has given us along these high lines, train them for the 

 work that is before them. 



VARIATIONS IN MILK. 



PROF. W. J. FRASER, URBANA, ILL. 



{^Before reading his paper the professor gave an occular de- 

 monstration of the Babcock test, using two samples of milk, one 

 full milk and the other buttermilk left from the morning's churn- 

 ing.) 



Milk has not a fixed composition nor is the amount given at 

 each milking uniform. Both the amount of milk and the pro- 

 portion of its constitutents are influenced by a variety of condi- 

 tions. Much investigation has been carried on at the different 



