8 Conservative.
Biipposecl to take his crown from the
hands of a viilet 1 There nro his gloves ,
withal ; he always wears gloves , as
much as a Saratoga fine lady , and would
no sooner touch anything without
gloves , than such a lady would a glass
of Congress water.
Among the ideal stage-drivers of New
Hampshire , before the advent of the
railroads , were Charles Sauboni , of
Pittsfield , who drove between Centre
Harbor and West Ossipeo , and H. P.
Marden , who drove between Plymouth
and the Profile HouseWhite Moxintaius ,
during the summer months , and also
James F. Langdon , of Plymouth , the
three being among the last to give up
the reins and the whip , when called to
that far-away country "from whence
no traveler returns. " In 1861 , Mr.
Sanboru drove between Centre Harbor
and North Conway , a distance of thirty-
five miles. He drove over that route
eleven years , at first requiring but forty
horses , while in 1872 , no less than 120
were in constant use , besides a large
number of coaches , wagons , sleighs , etc.
Oil one of his round trips , Mr. Sanbom
took $350 in passenger fares alone , while
the express business was proportion
ately large. Of course all this seems
small to those who know little or noth
ing of the days before railroads ran
by every man's door yard , but those
who have "staged it" in the old times
will understand what a busy time the
driver on such a route must have had.
Mr. Sanborn was over six feet in height
and of Herculean frame , his broad
shoulders and sturdy gait betokening a
strength , which gave his passengers the
greatest confidence in his ability to
carry them safely through any accident.
Ho seldom lost his temper , even under
the most trying circumstances , but was
a jolly man withal , whose jollity was of
the solid kind , like his person , and
shook his portly form with a depth of
power which reminds one of the rumb
ling of the earthquake. On his route
he had the good will of everyone , and in
Pittsfield , where he always made his
home , he was highly esteemed for his
sterling character and strict integrity.
Maori girls in the North island of New
Zealand are being tattooed by a Uroweru to-
hunga for $15 apiece.
This should be looked into at once by
the Tattooers' Union. It is worth $18 of
any man's time to tattoo a Maori girl ,
and $20 if a verse of scripture is in
cluded. The Union cannot afford to
have business demoralized by any old
Urewera tohunga cutting rates on them.
MOKE TROUIJLE. There has been
a certain pleasure in reading the papers
of late , for even if you did not care to
study the war news , you could look up
and down the columns and bo glad that
no naked prizefighter was thrust in
your face. But no sooner is peace de
7 * clared than those industrious artisans
conio forth once more. A domestic
occurrence which wiped out the family
of one of the profession reduced that
gentleman to tears , we are told , and
may cause a postponement of an encounter -
counter ho was thinking of having
shortly with a friend of his. Now we
shall have much reading matter about it ,
with pictures of him feeling bad , pic
tures showing how ho would have looked
if ho had fought , and many other pic
tures.
One might almost wish it had not
liappened.
SOME PUZZLKS Our peaceable
OF THE WAR. fellow-citizens of
religious tastes have received so many
new ideas lately , that they have hardly
loiowu sometimes what to think of this
war.
It appears that the battleship Iowa is
commanded by a Mr. Evans , who is
called "Fighting Bob. "
This causes a shudder.
But he got this name in his school
days , by successful resistance to a su
perior who woxild have had him remove
a Sunday-school motto , which he wished
to display upon the wall of his room.
That is better , excellent , indeed.
But someway he appears to have said
"Damn" several times since the war
began.
Dear , dear still in the excitement of
battle
But then there is Mr. Sampson who
postponed an operation against the
Spanish , on one of his captains saying
"Why , Commodore , tomorrow is the
Sabbath. " And there is Captain Philip ,
who held religious services as soon as
the Spaniards were all beaten.
Yes , but Captain Evans was just
going to do the same thing , when some
body told him there was more enemy
approaching. And he has sent to New
York for an Aeolian , to use at prayer-
meeting if his organist has Ins fingers
shot off.
Well , but they were not at worship
when they ought to have been on the
first Sunday in July. The Spanish
came out jxist at church-time , expecting
of course to find them in prayer , but
found them at anything but that.
True. But war is hell , and hell has
always been hard to explain.
STORAGE FOR All the States
RAINFALL. west of the Mississippi -
sippi , and especially those west of the
Missouri , should have deeper plowing
and more pulverization of their soils.
Nebraska and Kansas have , to a limited
extent , tried deeper plowing and with
most satisfactory results. The loess
formation prevails throughout nearly all
of the counties in Nebraska and Kansas
which are bounded on the east by the
Missouri river. The soil along the banks
of this stream is very similar , except in
color , to that found in the valley of the
Rliine , and because of its being loess , re
quires for the more perfect development
of its fertility deep plowing subsoiling.
The fields in eastern Nebraska , in Burt ,
Washington , Douglas , Sarpy , Cass ,
Otoe , Nemaha and Richardson counties
which have boon plowed deepest have
made the best return in cereal , root and
fruit crops. Deep tillage makes a stor
age for the rainfall. Shallow cultivation
with the old-fashioned mouldboard plow
brings smaller pay for the labor be
stowed. The draft on the mouldboard
plow is downward. The earth is the
fulcrum , the plow is the lever , and the
furrow turned over is the weight lifted
when that plow is used. The bed or
bottom of the furrow is indurated , by
the down pressure at the end of the plow
beam , into a subterranean drain and
thus the water is conducted off from in
stead of into the undulating surface.
The demand of intelligent and thinking
farmers on these gently rolling prairies
is for a plow which shall deeply cut into
and pulverize the soil and leave it in a
receptive and retentive condition for the
rains and the melting snows.
Such a plow will bo and must be a
complete innovation. It must have no
down pressure with which to compact
the earth and make it almost impervious
to water. It must stir up and grind , as
into a flour of fertilization , every clump
and lump of soil. Therefore this coin
ing plow must be of the revolving disc
variety. The draft may be heavier but
the work will be better and the result
ten times more satisfactory than that
obtained by the old-style plow. No im
plement of husbandry has improved and
changed so little in twenty centuries as
the plow. It is time for an entirely new
soil mover and pulverizer. A new im
plement for the primary preparation of
the earth for the reception of seed is im
peratively demanded. Revolving discs
are already at work advantageously in
Nebraska. Can they be improved ?
With such discs running to a depth of
fourteen inches , a storage for precipita
tion will be secured. No water that
falls on fields thus tilled will be wasted.
No torrential rainfall can then pass
through indurated troiighs , to the val
leys and creeks and take with it tons of
fertile loess. Then there will be no di
minution of fertility by erosion. Thd
loss of arable land from erosion alone in
only the state of Ohio has , in twenty-
five years , amounted to more than seven
hundred thousand acres. Let TIS with anew
now and practical plow prepare a stor
age for the rainfall. With such deep
tillage , cereal crops can be grown with
a precipitation of twenty inches that
shall out-measure and out-sell those
grown with twenty-eight inches of rain
on fields which have been shallowly
plowed.
The days wasted by idle mortals in
each year are enough to make what
might have been a life of plenty for a
million of people yet unborn a life of
poverty and distress ,
