72 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



In conclusion, I have recounted some of the things that 

 have been accomphshed by the lonesome cow and she i's only 

 a cow. 



Only a drummer boy, but in many a historic battle it was 

 through the inspiration given by his music that urged a disor- 

 ganized and terror-stricken army on to victory that but for him 

 would have suffered ignominious defeat. Only a news boy, and 

 we forget his importance as he hurries hither and thither crying 

 the latest news and leaving at our door-step, while the world is 

 still asleep, messages from the remotest corner of the earth and 

 making it possible for us at breakfast to get not only the politi- 

 cal and financial situation in the new and old world, but the 

 market reports from the commercial centers of the earth. 



Only a clerk, and yet without him the wheels of commerce 

 would stop. On him rests a responsibility no one else can bear. 

 He occupies a position no one else can fill. He is the connect- 

 ing link between labor arTd capital. It is he that oils the machin- 

 ery and applies the steam that moves the great engine of com- 

 merce and transports the necessities and the luxuries of life 

 from the few to the many. 



Only a street car conductor, and yet he has in his charge 

 thousands of precious lives every day, and as the great seething 

 mass of humanity in the congested city go to and fro from home 

 to business, and from business to home, he delivers them safely to 

 their destination, and as he crowds back and forth from front 

 to rear, and from rear to front, collecting nickels and ringing 

 the bell that announces another passenger, his eager eye is ever 

 alert to dangers that surround, and with tender care he helps 

 on and off the unprotected child and the aged that are infirm, 

 and his only reward (aside from the consciousness of doing his 

 duty) an occasional thank you, and a dollar and seventy-five 

 cents a day. 



Only a telegraph operator, and through the long dreary 

 hours of the night he directs the snorting, puffing eng/ine that 

 hauls untold millions across the continent, and who would be in 

 constant danger of disaster and death without his constant vigil. 

 He who surrounded by water and in the very face of death ap- 



