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the diffcrenco between Arthur Sewall
and Toni Watson. And now tlmt
Sewall and Watson are retired from
view no difference remains between the
Chicago disciples of fiat money and the
St. Louis apostles of the same fallacy.
Therefore the unanimity with which
fused and welded , soldered and brazed ,
conventions of populists , free-silver re
publicans , Chicago convention demo
crats , prohibitionists , protectionists and
communists reaffirm their faib'i in the
money fallacies is not at all phenomenal.
No matter how continuously events
have .tauntingly given the lie to th lr
prophets ; no matter that hundreds of
millions of gold are piled up in the treas
ury and the banks of the United States ,
and millions more are constantly coming
into the country to pay for exported ag
ricultural and other products they reaf
firm tlmt there is not gold enough in all
the world out of which to make a stan
dard of value 1 !
The fusion party platforms are
re-liable. They lied in 1896 and * they
lie again in 1898. The gigantic audacity ,
the magnificent effrontery with which ,
in the midst of liquidation of debts , sur
rounded by money begging to be bor
rowed at from three to six per cent per
annum , the candidates and advocates of
the fusion fallacies of finance reaffirm
their sophisms have never been paral
leled in history.
If the Millerites who proclaimed the
end of the world reaffirm the truth of
'that proclamation fifty years later with
the globe still moving in * its sphere un
impaired are they any more audacious ,
any more contumacious or mendacious
than the free-coinage-of-silver- - six-
teeu-to-one fanatics of 1896 who under
present financial and industrial condi
tions reiterate the fallacies , prophecies
of disaster and forecasts of calamity
which they delusively and fervidly pro -
claimed in 1896 ?
A Canadian paper
NEPHEWS AND
ALL THAT. per has a severely
critical article on
discipline in the United States army ,
telling among other things , how one
regiment , drawn up to bo reviewed by
its now colonel , gave him a kindly wel
come. "Hello , Billy , " the soldiers cried ,
and quite omitted the more usual salute.
Political influence , wealth or connec
tion by family ties do not really appear
to be fitting grounds for preferment in
the army of a nation like this. The
American idea has been to esteem a man
in proportion to his own achievements ,
not to those of his friends and relations.
The many reproaches tlmt are heard , to
the effect that military offices have been
bestowed upon men without military
experience , would seem to indicate a
departure from this principle , and per
haps on inclining toward that other plan
which "Washington deprecated and
Franklin laughed at , of instituting a
hereditary aristocracy. Appointments
of sons of able men to posts reqxiiring
personal ability in the occupant , to
gether with the rapid increase that is
observed of Societies of Sons of This
and That , remind one that Spain is
known as the Land of the Hidalgo , and
that the hidalgo the hi jo de algo is
simply the son of somebody.
"We have no occasion to adopt Spanish
methods. It may bo further noted that
our navy , whoso affairs , from start to
finish of our late war , have been con
ducted in a way that has commanded
; ho hearty approval of this most practi
cal of peoples , is said to bo free from
the kind of appointments in question.
CONSERVA-
STORAGE
RAIN. TIVE has been a
consistent advo
cate of deep plowing in all the loess for
mation of the Missouri river valley. For
more than forty years the editor has
resided upon and cultivated a quarter
section of land adjoining Nebraska City
on the west. From his personal exper
ience and from extended and close ob
servation he long since came to the con
clusion that shallow plowing with the
old-fashioned mouldboard plow is an
enemy to fertility and also to the conservation
vation of the top soils upon these undu
lating prairies.
Some years ago he called for some
new agricultural implement to take the
place of the old-fashioned plow which ,
in twenty centuries , has been improved
less and changed less from its original
typo than any other implement of util
ity used by the human family. After a
great deal of discusssion in the agricul
tural press and newspapers the argu
ments in favor of a system of discs with
subsoil attachment produced an impres
sion upon the inventors of the different
plow manufacturing establishments of
the country. Among them , the John
Deere factory of Moline , 111. , seemed to
approximate perfection in producing a
disc plow , double and single , with sub
soil attachments.
In the present issue of THE CONSER
VATIVE will be found an advertisement
of this plow which is called "The Sec
retary. " Mr. Charles H. Deere , a long
time and highly valued friend of the
editor , who is at the head of the Deere
manufacturing plant at Moline , under
date of September 1 writes concerning
this now implement :
"Wo are having quite a satisfactory
trade on this plow , but it is running to
the single plow with subsoiler. We
have made a bettor slant of inclination
of the disc , helping us in the draft of
the plow , and its operations are quite
satisfactory where it has been most used.
Wo have quite a trade on the plow in
Yirgina and are now sending a largo
number to Richmond. The principal
trade on them has been in Colorado and
California. "
Citizens of Otoe and adjoining coun
ties of Nebraska who desire to see the
work of this new soil stirrer may be
gratified by stopping at the Joy Morton
farm , one and one-half miles northwest
of Nebraska City , where a double "Sec
retary" plow is turning a furrow 25)
inches in width and 14 inches in depth ,
pulverizing the ground in a most satis
factory manner and leaving the surface
in such condition that no flake of snow
no drop of rain falling thereon will ever
be able to escape except through the
pores of growing plants. It is abso
lutely impossible to lose any land ,
plowed in this way , by erosion. With
this system of tillage on the rolling
prairies of Nebraska and western Iowa
there never will be any loss of surface
soils from torrential rainfalls which ,
where the plowing is shallow , often
washes away all fertility.
TREES NOTED FOR SPECIFIC VIR
TUES AND USES.
ALDER , good for water-pipes and piles ,
capital for the foundations of buildings
situated upon bogs ; it becomes black as
jet and almost imperishable when used
for piles in swamps or under water. The
Bialto of Venice is founded on alder.
It is excellent for clogs , shoe-heels ,
wooden shoes , cogs for mill-wheels , tur
nery , chairs , poles , and garden props.
It is said that fleas dislike it.
Alder nourishes whatever plant grows
in its shadow.
ASH , the Venus of the forest.
Used for all tools employed in hus
bandry , carts , wagons , wheels , pulleys ,
and oars. It bursts into leaf between
May 18 and June 14.
Grass will grow beneath it.
At Donirey , near Clare , is the hollow
trunk of an ash tree 42 feet in circum
ference , in which a little school used to
be kept.
In Woburn Park is an ash tree 90 feet
liigh , 15 feet in girth (8 ( feet from the
ground ) , and containing a grand total of
872 cubic feet of timber.
The ash tree at Carnock , planted in
1596 , supposed to be the largest in Scot-
laud , is 90 feet high and 19 feet in girth
(5 ( feet from the ground ) .
Dr. Walker says ho measured an ash
tree in Lochaber churchyard , Scotland ,
58 feet in girth (5 ( feet from the ground. )
ASPEN TREE. No grass will grow in
its vicinity. The legend is that the cross
of Jesus was made of this wood , and
hence its leaves were doomed to tremble
till the day of doom.
All ! tremble , tremble , aspen tree !
Wo need not ask thee why thou shakest ;
For if , as holy legend saith ,
On theo the Saviour bled to death ,
No wonder , aspen , that thou quakestl
And till in judgment all assemble ,
Thy leaves accursed shall wail and tremble.
E. C. B.
BEECH TREE , employed for clogs , tool
handles , planes , mallets , turnery , largo
wooden screws , sounding boards of
musical instruments , scabbards , band
boxes , book-covers , coffins , chairs , and
bedsteads ; but for chairs and bedsteads
it is not fit , as it is a favorite resort of