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The Norfolk
RAILROAD TREE- News makes re-
PLANTING. ply to THE CON
SERVATIVE and
adheres to its former high valuation of
landscapes as a means of entertaining
the traveling public. This is its article :
"In reply to the suggestion of The
News , that patrons of the railroads
might not like to have their view ob
structed by a continuous grove of trees
railroad's THE
along a right-of-way
CONSERVATIVE says : 'Passengers can
live in health and prosperity without
viewing landscapes. But all animal
existence on this globe will perish when
all forests have been destroyed. As
between human life and landscapes from
car windows , THE CONSERVATIVE pre
fers life. ' This is quite a radical view
of the question. If human life depended
upon the foresting of railroad rights-of-
way , this paper would bo the lost to
raise an objection. There is an abun-
dnnco of land obtainable for forest pur
poses , especially in Nebraska , without
depriving travelers of their pleasures ,
and again there are landscapes which
should bo hidden from the eyes of , the
ordinary railroad passenger and a screen
of trees would prove welcome and
beneficial. The News is a worm friend
of arboriculture and would be pleased to
BOO the railway companies and other
corporations that use a largo amount of
wood material , become prime-movers
toward forest extension and preserva
tion and when it comes to a matter of
life and death , will favor the use of
every foot of railroad ground for the
growing of trees , but until that time
arrives this paper will stand up for the
rights of the sconsry-loviug traveler.
The forestry question is important to
health , to climate , to building schemes
and for many other purposes , but there
are millions of acres which should be
employed in growing trees that are now
of little or no value and until this is
used there will be small excuse for oou-
tinnoxiis rows of trees along railway
trucks. The railroads could acquire
title to largo tracts of land and grow the
timbers they require economically and
beneficially , and The News hopes they
will do so. "
THE CONSERVATIVE insists , neverthe
less , that there are thousands of acres of
railroad right-of-way in Nebraska which
ought to be planted in catalpas at once.
These acres are profitless , useless , now ,
but when planted , will , in twenty years ,
pay a big dividend in utility and cash.
This globe must bo re-afforested in
another century or become unin
habitable.
At the corner of
WORDLESS Tenth street and
EULOGY. First avenue in
Nebraska City
may bo seen , on the south and the east
sides of the Fulton residence some beau
tiful elms. They were set out in 185G
by the Hon. Hiram P. Bennett. Later
on ho sold the property to Major Denui-
sou , agent of the Otoe and Pawnee In-
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dinns , located at Nebraska City , and the
title ran from him , as THE CONSERVATIVE -
TIVE remembers it , to Mr. William
Fulton , the present owner.
Hiram Bennett was a man of ac
knowledged ability and high character
for integrity. Leaving Nebraska City ,
in 1859 or 1860 , he became a resident of
Auraria , on Oherry creek in the terri
tory then called Jefferson. Ho has not
changed his geographical position , but
is nomenclature has been changed , and
ho lives in Denver , state of Colorado ,
without having moved since his original
settlement on Cherry creek , in the ter
ritory of Jefferson. Judge Bennett was
soon recognized among the hardy miners
and pioneers of the Rooky Mountains as
an able and trustworthy man. Consequently
quently ho was made their delegate in
congress , and subsequently elected a
judge. His career has been useful ,
varied and eminent , but he never per
formed any act which perpetuates his
name and gives wordless eulogium
upon his character so forcefully , elo
quently and faithfully , as the planting
of the trees around his first home in
Nebraska. There are no other planted-
out shade trees in the state of the same
variety to compare with those which
the hands and care of Judge Bennett
made to grow on the northwest corner
of Tenth street and First avenue in Ne
braska City. They are symmetrical and
their overspreading arms are a shelter
and consolation to every pedestrian who
walks beneath them. They are also
teachers of the esthetic and utile in
combination. They instruct all thought
ful persons to follow the example of
Judge Bennett and plant out trees , in
order that they may be remembered by
those who follow them in this short
journey of humanity from the cradle
to the coffin. A tree well planted , well
pruned , well shaped and disciplined in
its early life , grows into a living and
perpetual laudator of the person who
planted it ; and in the hot , scorching
sunshine of summer it extends its shade
over the wayfarer while its foliage
whispers wordless eulogy of its planter ,
more touching , more tenderly eloquent
than those vocalized by human beings.
In a delightful
BIXBY. letter to the Lin
coln Daily Jour
nal , dated at Chicago , July 8th , Doctor
Bixby says :
"Yesterday I was discussing the tim
ber question with a resident of Dixon
and remarked that our great need in
Nebraska was more shade and fruit
trees. 'Yes , ' said he. 'yon should have
a day set apart each year for that pur
pose , the same as we do , and urge all
the farmers and those who own town
property to plant trees.1 "When I in
formed him that the Arbor Day notion
was of Nebraska origin , and that J.
Sterling Morton was its author , liis
astonishment was amazing. "
Evidently the resident of Dixon
"treed" the wrong man.
Some days o f
CONSTANT HEAT. June weather ,
even in Nebraska.
will bo remembered as illustrative of the
fact that during the summer of ninoteen-
aundred and one there was a lack of
xiikilotherrnio forces in the atmos
phere.
There seem to
OHIO. . be a few conserva
tives among the
alleged democrats of the state of Ohio , v
if recent accountsof their convention
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at Columbus con be accepted as truth-
ful. Is it possible that the free coinage
of silver at 16 to 1 has been omitted *
from a declaration of policies at an
Ohio allegedly democratic convention ?
Stars have been
SEEING THE looking down up-
' WORLD. on so many gen
erations of mil
lions of men and women and seeing
their after-snn-down pranks and follies ,
that it is no wonder that stars have
formed the habit of blinking and wink
ing. Seeing the world only in the day
time has given the habit of blinking at
violated laws even to clergymen and
judges ; and winking at the mere sug
gestion of wicked things is a common >
habit among the worldly-wise , every
where. y
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Sometimes the
TREES. wonder iswhether
trees are capable
of thoughts and memories. And if
they are sentientdo they remember and
love the hands that planted , pruned ,
trained and directed them in early life ?
In any event , trees inspire love and shed
sweet memories in their shade and
shelter for those who did plant , shape ,
and grow them. Trees tell without
words of the conspicuous altruism of
of those who set them out , and pruned
and fed and watered them in the begin
ning of their beautiful usefulness.
It is very poin-
"THEY SHALL NOT ful to observe that
COMB BACK. " certain Bryan-
archiste in a n d
about Cleveland , Ohio , are reported to
have bolted the recent proceedings of
the allegedly democratic convention of
that state , and to have gone out from
the midst of that sanhedrin "to serve
their country , their party and their
God under some other flag. " It is time
for John R. McLean , Judge Harmon
and other members of the regular
Columbus crowd and convention to
quote the famous speech made at Richmond
mend , Va. , in which Col. Bryan so mer
cilessly denounced all those democrats
who refused to vote the regular Chicago
and Kftiisnf ? City platforms and nomina
tions , concluding his excommunication
by stating : "They shall not come
back ! "
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