'Cbe Conservative *
Mnny merchants
ASK FOR IT. placard their salesrooms -
rooms with : "If
you do not see what you want nsk for
it. " And Congress almost declares to
special industries , seeking subsidies by
enactment , "If you cannot do business
without special and favorable legisla
tion , petition for it. "
Thus lobbyists innumerable are hov
ering about the corridors of the capital
and infesting committee rooms for the
purpose of securing anti-oleomargarine
and pro-butter enactments by the fed
eral congress.
In fifty years , if
PLANT TREES. the present rate of
consu MI p t i o n of
lumber continues , there will not be a
saw-mill running nor a ripe saw-log
standing and growing in the United
States of North America.
' . The Bible says : "The leaves of the
trees are for the healing of the Nations ,
, and the trees of the field are man's
life. "
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' If every reader of The Conservative
will plant a tree this fall and another
next spring a forest will result , a large
forest.
The zeal and en-
A WISCONSIN t h u si a sm with
SAMARITAN. which Governor
Hoard takes up the
cause of Dairy Butter calls to mind the
gentleman who went down from Jeru
salem to Jericho and fell among thieves
just as the Governor says the advocate
of butter does when he goes from Wis
consin down to Washington.
"But a certain Samaritan , as he journeyed -
neyed , came where he was ; and when
he saw him , ho had compassion , and
went to him and bound up his wounds ,
pouring in oil.11
But according to Gov. Hoard
and Knight and possibly in the
belief of butter philanthropists
generally the man who used "oil" on
such an occasion was a fraud and a
cheat. Had he been a dairyman in
stead of a manufacturer of oleomargarine -
rine , he would Have spread butter on
the wound.
A correspondent
THE SAME. of The Couserva-
tive is i 11 f o r in e d
that the Starch Factory , the Cold Stor
age Warehouses , the Cereal Mills and
the Packing House and Stock Yards at
Nebraska City do employ about five
hundred persons and that all the con
cerns named are controlled and operat
ed by the same men , whom Col. J. Ham
Lewis , General Oldham and the peerless
Presidential Populist Candidate for the
Presidency in 1900 denounced as con
spirators against the industrial classes
generally and those of Nebraska par
ticularly. The same men who were
said , by that aggregation of oratory , to
be too weak mentally , morally and
financially to keep these institutions
running are still on deck , in command ,
and promptly paying good wages.
Hereafter a dealer in off-hand proph
ecies , speaking to his zealous dupes , at
the court house in Nebraska City will
bo obliged to have his forecasts under
written by responsible parties , before ho
can make them current. De-verified
prophecies , decayed forecasts on finan
ces , and smelling-biid declarations on
economics are not easily sold in a
market still fragrant with Oldham &
Co.
The S o 111 h e r n
COTTON. states have been
greatly benefited
by the by-products of the cotton plant.
The seeds of cotton were formerly
thrown away but now cotton seed oil
is an edible and useful vegetable fat.
It is used for salads and also for
cooking doughnuts and potatoes. It
enters likewise into refined lard and
into oleomargarine. But the lawmaking
ing power of Congress is invoked to
lessen the demand for cotton seed oil
and Wisconsin , among the dairy states ,
leads in the prayer for this restrictive
legislation.
Besides demanding enactments to
prevent cotton seed oil from being
mixed with tallow ,
Wool. lard and stearin for
commercial p u r -
poses it is now proposed to ask for laws
which shall prohibit the manufacture
of cloth containing wool and cotton
mixed. In other words , the tariff
against foreign wools having failed to
make wool as high and profitable as
desired by sheep herders , it is proposed
to legislate against cotton and for wool.
The federal congress is seemingly wait
ing only for petitions , persuasion and an
energetic lobby , before beginning the
raid against cotton.
When one reads
CLEVELAND , in the newspapers
of the United States ,
their universal condemnation of extrav
agant and unmitigated calumniation of
Presidents of the Republic it is impossi
ble to repress the recollections of their
slanders upon Grover Cleveland , while
he was chief executive. He was charged
with corruption in the gold purchase of
the Morgan syndicate. It was boldly
declared that he was making millions
out of that purchase and there was no
limit to the lies told and slanders circu
lated about that one official act of liis
an act that saved the credit , the honor
and the prosperity of the whole Ameri
can people.
Again when he put down armed in
surrection and open incendiarism in
Chicago by federal arms Cleveland was
assaulted as dictatorusurper and despot.
Some Republicans and allBryanarchists
joined in shouting slanders , lies and
calumnies of all sorts against that Presi
dent who today holds a higher place in
American history than any of his revilers -
vilers may ever attain. If false charges
could have inspired assassination , Grover
Cleveland was put in jeopardy by the
voiy men who are now most deprecat
ing denunciation of officials.
With regard to
THE CARE ( he science of
OF BOOKS. book-keeping , as
taught in the pub
lic schools , it may bo said that ,
whether it does good or not , it can do
Uttle harm. But there are two re
lated arts which receive rather too lit
tle attention. The children should
bo taught that any books which they
may design to keep should be kept as
clean as possible , and they should be
given some instruction in the gentle art
of returning books , which is of no less
importance than that of keeping thorn.
It is perhaps not too much to say that
many children have never seen a clean
book in their lives ; they get them al
ready dirty from former users , and
pass them on as much dirtier as they
can well contrive , to the next. Each
teacher Should keep a reasonably sani
tary book somewhere , and ( after learn
ing some other method herself ) in
struct her pupils how to turn over its
pages otherwise than by the vehicle
of a wetted thumb ; telling them many
pretty stories , which she can readily
invent to suit her circumstances , of
authentic cases of nostalgia , appendi
citis , strabimus , talipes and other de
vastating pestilences , directly trace
able to that abominable practice.
The returning of books is a matter
which concerns grown people rather
than children. Fortunately , there
are more determined lenders of books
than there are hardened borrowers ;
and it is sometimes held that a man
who insists on lending you a book ,
has only himself to blame if you drop
it in the first alley. This , however , is
needless cruelty. If you have a friend
who is addicted to this vice you
should , while being firm with him ,
practise the utmost tact and consider
ation in dealing with him. * lit would
be well if you could send him anonymously - '
mously , on his birthday , an illumin
ated motto reciting that "a man can
lend more books in five minutes than
he can recover in six months. ' ' But
when ho has once fairly run you
down , you should in every case carry
the book all the way homo ; then you
should immediately enfold it in sever
al thicknesses of clean paper , and tie it
firmly with a stout cord. You should
then keep it in plain sight for a per
iod varying from two days to a week ,
according to the number of pages ; and
at the end of that time , carefully un
wrap it and return it to its owner ,
with suitable expressions of appreci
ation and gratitude to him. Or if he
is a lady , it is proper to open the
book in half a dozen places and write
1' How true' ' on the margin ,