Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-30
Tribute To The Cow.

In opening sale recently held at
Springfield, ILL.,, Col. F. NJ. Woods.
the we'll known auctioneer, delighted
his hearers with the following eulogy
on the COW:
Grand aud noble brute! Of all
the animal friends of man she is the
greatest! To her we owe the most.
Examine into all the different chsn-
nels of commerce into which she en-
tsr4 sas note the s.s should she
would then pervade the great stock
yard industries Of our large cities
and grass would grow in our streets.
Fifty per cent, at least, of the freight
that now plows the continent from
ocean to ocean would be sidetracked,
for there would be nothing for them
to do. Fifty per cent of the laborers
would draw no pay on Saturday
night. Our tables would be bare of
the greatest luxuries with which
they are now covered. Oh! you who
would abuse COW. wish that ],
as you are about to sit down to the
noon day meal, might slip up and
remove from your table what the COW
has placed thereon. I'd take the
cup Of milk waiting at baby's chair.
I'd take the cream, the cheese, the
butter, the custard pie. the cream
biscuit, the steak, the smoking roast
Of beef, and leave you to make a
meal Of potatoes, beets, pickles and
tocthpicks.
It's the self same COW that made
| the great western plains to blossom
like the rose, and were it not for
ner they would revert to the Indians
from whence they came.
None other like the COW! There
is not a thing from nose to tail but
that is utilized for the use Of man.
We use hcr horns to comb our hair,
her skin upon our feet, her hair keeps
the plaster upon our walls, her hoofs
make glue, her tail makes soup,
she gives us our cream, our cheese
and butter, and her flesh is the
greatest meat of the nation, her
blood is used to make our sugar
white. her bones are ground to ferti
lie our soil and even her paunch
she herself has put through the
first chemical process necessary for
the best white card board paper, and
they have discovered that such pap
er can be made into the finest qua
lily of false teeth.
No other animal works for man
both night and day. By day she
gathers food and when we are asleep
at night she brings it back to rechew
and convert it into all things of
which I speak.
She has gone with man from Ply
mouth Rock to the setting sun! 1t
was her sons that turned the first
sod in the settlers clearing; it was
her sons that drew the prairie
schooner for the sturdy pioneers
as, inch by inch, they fought to
prove that westward the star of
empire takes it's way" and the old
COW grazing along behind, and
when the days march was
done she came and gave the
milk to fill the mothers breast to
feed the sucking babe that was,
perchance, to become the ruler of
his country. Who says that much
of what we are we do not owe to
mans best friend, the COW? Treat
her kindly, for without her, words
fail to describe the situation.
4 ltsappears to us that the above
eulogy is good enough to be given a
prominent place in ones scrap book
Of choice literary productions. Here
is commonplace subject treated in
a very uncommonplace manner, and
the author knows whereof he speaks
as few men in this country are as
familiar with what the COW of Amer
lea has been, what she is now, and
what she is likely to become dur
ling the next quarter century as
Colonel Woods. Homestead,