North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-06-01
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Elder Twiss.
In the early settlement of Southern
Michigan, prominent part was taken b
"Old Elder Twiss,' an eccentric Baptis
clergyman. He was jealous not only i,
the affairs Of his own denomination bu
in philantropic movements, and especiall,
in the anti-slavery cause.
The Union City Register says that eide
Twiss used to relate story illustrative o
the lack of confidence some people hay'
in special providences.
Away back in 1912, when railroad,
were scarce and telegraphs were not, ,
soldier was returning to his home on fur
Tough, when he was stopped at every plac,
where seen and interrogated al to the
news from the seat Of war. He answered
these questions until his patience was ex
hausted, when he made up his mind thai
the next person who interrogated him
should have some news. It happened to
an old lady who propoundcd the usual
question, and he replied:
"The Indians have got prizes under
Lake Erie, and are about to tip the lake
bottom upwards and drown the world ~
"No! Du tell OLord - and away
she hastened to inform her minister OF
the terrible condition of affairs.
He tried to calm her fears as much as
possible by assuring her that the Bible
said that the world should not again be
dsluged by food.
'Itell ysu the Lord hain't got nothing
to do with it. 1t is them pesky Indians ~
Another is told of him, wherein the
old elder rather got the joke turned on
himself.
One day he was riding along on horse
back, in company with the Rev. Mr..
Hedzie, formerly pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church at Union City, and coming
to q clear running stream, the old elder
(who, by the way, was great immersion
ist) remarked:
"Brother Kedzie, l never cross beau.
tiful stream like this but what l think
what splendid place to celebrate the
ordinance of baptism"
"And l." remarked the other, "never
cross stream like this without thinking
what beautiful place it Is to acash sheep
in
Elder Twiss was so much amused at
this retort that he used to tell Of it.
The Cheese Business.
A Wisconsin exchange says: To Ger.
tain extent the State of Wisconsin is run
ming to cheese-that is to say very many
enterprisins gentlemen are establishing
cheese factories. Every paper that comes
to us tells of new ones being built and
speaks of the prospects thereof. Near
Summit large factory is being built by
Milwaukee men, and it will use up the
milk of five hundred COWS in the manu-
facture of cheese. Of course the factory
people do not own all these cows, but
purchase the milk of farmers about, who
are engaging in the business extensively,
it to be more profitable than
raising wheat, the fluctuations Of the
wheat market considered. At Summit
and at other points the factory people pay
'ne dollar per hundred pounds for milk
delivered at the works. This is two cents
per quart to the farmer. One farmer
talking to us, figures this way. He pro-
poses to keep fifty cows. On an average
hey yield ten quarts of milk per day for
eight months in the year. Here are twenty
,ents a day as the result of the cows
Efforts, or S4S for the season. From the
lows the farmer would receive the SUM of
g, 400. Aside from this he would have,
say, forty calves which he would sell ut
four dollars, making his net profits say
$1,000. Still further, all the time his
and devoted to pasturage, now pretty
we'll worn out, would be growing richer
md richer, and very soon would be ready
10 give him fine yield Of wheat. How
much would it cost farmers to take care of
ifty cows, to pasture them during the
summer and hay and feed them in Winter,
we leave for each farmer to figure out for
himself, after which he can easily decide
whether raising milk for cheese factories
IS as profitable as raising farm produce
Usages In England.
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