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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1902)
T3be Conservative. CARL. Ho is not thorol Wo carry flowers , these ho loved , And place thorn on his grave. Snow white It lies today. The hillside lone Wears glitter of the winter's light Hois not thorol Ho is not there. And still 'tis sorrow's yearning wish Some loving thing to do for him , Again to drop the fragrant rose , To weep until the eyes grow dim- He is not there. For yet ho lives. In summer's golden morning hours When birds their carols sing , His voice scorns laughing through each peal , Its echoes blithely ring And still he lives. For yet he lives. Within his children's deep , brown eyes We see the same bright gleams Of sunny mirth and boyish glee So like , it surely seems In them ho lives. Wo see him still. In all sweet , thoughtful looks That search each human face With eager sympathy and wish To lend some helpful grace , We see him still. We see him still. In all kind deeds that come Within our daily view , When hearts grown faint find gifts That bring them strength anew , We see him still. Yes , still he lives. Rose after rose we drop today Till crimson petals hide the mound , Then turn to see in all fair things Reflection of his life is found , And still he lives. MARY FRENCH MORTON. Arbor Lodge , January 9th , 1002. The skies were IT WAS gray and dim , and SNOWING ! there was a silence so supreme in all the air that sounds seemed banished forever. The trees and shrubs upon the lawn were fringed with clinging , moist , fluffy snow , as brides for weddings and little children for Christmas carols are garbed in white. The piazzas of the old home , where he had been born , were festooned with snow and its roofs cov ered with white , BO that folds of it hung over the eaves and depended like blank ets from a bed. The light came timor ously into the windows and lingered tenderly upon the face of the dear dead , as with a human wish for a last caress. Sorrowing widow and little children , his brothers and his father , and other near and loving relatives looked again and again through tears upon the calm , still face and the strong head which had so often and so faithfully harbored thoughts for the good of others. There in the room where he had been born more than thirty-five years before , rested from useful life and good works a noble son , a devoted husband and father , a faithful brother , reflecting , even in death , the refined features and sturdy character of his competent mother. Neighbors and friends came and looked and wept and wont away. Many had known him from his boyhood , and there was nothing in his career that one wished to forget. His care for others , his desire to help and to please others had been always a marked characteris tic , and now that he was dead , his altruism lighted up all the path from the beginning of an intensely active life , down to its end. And when , by his request , made when ho was dying , his brother Mark told the multitude that "Carl wished none of them to stand un covered at his grave , because it could do him no good , and might harm them , " all gratefully remembered his generous care for others. And , at last , in sorrow and tears the dear one was carried out from the old home into the falling snow that muffled every sound , and the gray skies , in pity , lighted dimly the far way to Wyuka , "the place to sleep and rest forever. " Sorrow saw the earth envelop him , and white flakes cover his grave in purity. It was January 9th , 1901 , and it was snowing when we buried Carl. It is now a year A YEAR IS since Carl Morton GONE. died. A year has passed in which none of us has heard his voice nor looked into his keen and kindly eyes. How many in that time have missed his strong hand and act ive brain ; how many , of rich and poor , of the leaders of great industries and the boys and girls in the mills , have felt that his was the touch that was needed to set every tiling right ? How much he would have accom plished in this year ; and how the color went out of things , many things , when his participation was withdrawn ! One year gone ; but there are many yet to come. We are all a year older , but he is not. We shall grow old and gray , some of us , but Carl will al ways remain the same. His voice sounding in our aging ears , will al ways be that of a young man in the fullness of his strength. It is his courageous young spirit that we who will remember him will have with us , instead of his mature aid and counsel. January 7th. A. T. R. Many of us have NEW LIGHT , lone : been taught to revere the memory of Solomon , King of Is rael , in an especial manner. In church and in other places of public instruction we have been taught that he was the wisest of men , who in connection with Hiram , King of Tyre and othei distinguished persons , did some remarkable things' in architect ure and other lines. But now it is represented that to Solomon must bo laid the present desert condition of Palestine. In his building operations , though ho was sparing of the metals , using neither axe , hammer nor any tool of iron , lie consumed a great deal of timber ; the vessels in which his bold sea cap tains made voyages to Ethiopia and other seaports were also built of wood ; and his lumbering operations , being conducted improvidently , resulted in all the trees being cut down and all the dirt being washed into the sea , so that there was none left to raise corn , wine and oil on any more. King Solomon omen is therefore better entitled to fame as a destroyer than a builder , and the naked hills of the Holy Land are his monument , more permanent than his temple would have been if Nebuchadnezzar had kept his hands off it. We fed fifty - RAZOR BACK eight cross-breeds RETURNS. one hundred and fifty-eight dollars' worth of corn at market price of De cember , 1901 , and sold them on De cember 28 , at $6.80 a hundred and they brought seven hundred and eighty-two ' dollars and forty-nine cents. Up to the last of November they ran wild in the woods and upon alfalfa fields , which had been three times cut during the season. These swine were crosses from ] the razorbacks - < ' ' backs of Florida upon ] Poland China , ' Jersey Bed and Berkshire. They work ed , and made a good living and growth by rustling , until put up on Saturday , November 28 , to be fattened. The ancient swine of the forests never indulged , so far as we know , in hog cholera ! A number of our OMAHA'S CREDIT , excellent friends in Omaha , who have nothing of the dead beat in their make-up , object to our using that term in connection with their city , and point out that Omaha's bonds are selling readily and commanding a premium. We did not say that Omaha was a dead beat ; we know that she is not. We say that some of her city officials are willing to have the city appear in that light ; and our Omaha friends know that to be the case also. Oma ha's bonds are handled without hesi tation by professional dealers in such securities ; so are those of every cross roads school house. There are , how ever , a great many private investors all over the country , who have lost con fidence in Omaha's city government , through unfortunate experiences , and are afraid of anything that comes from that source. The good men of Omaha , who are jealous of their city's reputa tion , should blame their councilmen and responsible city officials for allow ing this condition to exist ; not those who call their attention to it.