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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1901)
. , , . ii- Conservative. thought himself her lord and master has just returned from his daily la bor , to do the chores , lick his wife and kiss the hired girl as has been his wont. There is a hitch in the program and , to cut out the harrow ing details , he soon finds himself try ing to crawl further under the sink , while above him towers a form which seems eleven inches taller than over before , and in. the voice'of an emanci pated woman she addresses him thus : "To begin , with , I am IT. I can vote a ballot as large as yours with one hand tied behind me. I no longer plead with you , I defy you. You shall not press down upon the brow of womankind this crown of mop- rags ; you shall not crucify femininity upon a cross of washboards. ' ' That is the picture , and who can doubt that she gets the nomination on the first ballot. Woman don't want to vote because she is afraid to trust the job to the sterner sex , as some of us have been led to believe , but she will no longer sit idly by and allow * herself to be classed with the drunkard - ' ' ' ard , the idiotic and the insane. We have this straight , but the name of our informant must not be discussed , as she is the writer's wife , and must not be subjected to the ridicule of those of the opposite sex who have not seen the handwritng on the wall and duly noted that it is in bold feminine hand. Ed is to be crowned and there is to be a "doings" connected therewith. Among other things a wateryeyed , hunkenshanked galoot , who never took a fencing or tilting lesson in all his wearisome and wearying existence , will don burdensome armor and ma jestio airs , both several sizes too large for him , and ride back and forth ir front of the pavillion , or judges' stander or whatever the works is to be called and in behalf of his royal patron , Ed Gnelph , challenge all the Earth to mortal combat. Of course , this i very romantic , but the thought o : what might happen if some bellicose dissenter in the crowd should an nounce his former residence as Mis souri , and ask to be shown , sends a shiver over all England. The historic exploit of the present champion's father ( the function is hereditary ) is not calculated to reassure. He per formed his duty by riding into the ring in a great suit of mail and boldly defying any and all who denied his sovereign's right to the throne to step forth and be spitted , and then prompt ly fell off his horse , and remained there until gentle hands unlaced him with a cold chisel , and thousands of loving , sympathetic voices pleadingly him to back and urped go awa-a-a-y sit down. If a Yankee scrapper waste to appear in this role , Madden or De- Ian oy , or whatever trainer was hand- ling him , would send him into the ring riveted securely to the seat of a protected automobile , with a Gatling gun on the dash board , rammed out in front , two torpedo tubes below the water line , and otherwise equipped for a rough house in case any opposi tion should develop in the district : Then lie could calmly maneuver for the windward berth , make his little spiel , and know that he was prepared to make good. BUDDED AND SEEDLING PEACHES. Wo notice a general feeling that seedling peach trees have greater hardihood than budded varieties , and doubtless thousands of farmers will this fall plant peach pits with the idea of raising trees and planting them for a chance peach crop. Going through our nursery rows today , we notice that the budded varieties ripen their wood earlier and shed their foliage earlier than the seedling trees along the side or in the same rows. It not infrequently happens that an occasional bud does not knit and grow. Thus an occasional seedling is found growing in the row with the budded trees. This gives opportunity for comparison in regard to early ripening of wood and shedding of foliage. Another point of interest , nearly all of our hardier budded vari eties have already set fruit buds entrees trees that have been growing six months only from the bud , that is , were budded in August and Septem ber , 1900 , and commenced growth in the spring of 1901. The seedling trees , however , of the age of two years in the same row , have not yet devel oped fruit buds. We notice that orch ards of seedling peach trees do not asa ' a rule fruit as early , that is , at a young an age as orchards of budded varieties. During this year , 1901 , ii our orchards , yearling trees planted in the year 1901 , in rare cases set and matured fruit in the same summer , Not infrequently our hardiest budded varieties fruited the second suinrno : and quite freely the third summer. The Duchess of Oldenburg apple i a standard as to hardihood because i invariably ripens its wood early in the fall , long before the approach o : winter. We find among varieties o : apples that those are the hardies which have the wood most completely ripened before the earliest late fall o winter periods of severe weather. An unripe tree may be damaged in Oc tober. Sometimes unripe trees ari severely damaged by the first sevejo frost or rather freeze coming in Sep tember. It follows therefore that only ripening of wood is the measure of hardihood. It is quite true that the average seedling may bo hardier than some budded varieties , notably those of the Crawford type or others of simi lar hardihood. Such varieties should bo grown only in peach districts where the winter temperature never runs lower than 10 to 16 below zero. By noticing the behavior of the bud ded peach in the nursery row we have some guide as to its hardihood. We have this day made careful examina tion of all the different varieties in nursery with a view of noting condi tions of the tree as to maturity and as a basis of comparison on the above line of thought. Varieties noted for special hardihood ripen early , shed their foliage earlier than other varieties with less reputa tion for hardihood. It requires no more time nor space to grow peach trees of the hardiest known varieties than to grow seedlings of unknown and of ttirnes of little value. The hard iest varieties of trees can now be pur chased at such low prices that it seems much more profitable for the planter to fill his ground with varieties of the utmost hardihood and of known and positive good quality. Wide ob servation show that our hardiest vari eties of grafted apple trees are far superior in hardihood to average seed ling apple tree. Likewise the rare seedling peach of special hardihood and of sufficient quality to justify pro pagation is taken up , budded , named and set out with confidence knowing that it will bo found much hardier , much more valuable every day , than the average seedling. E. P. STEPHENS. Crete , Neb. OMAHA AS A DEADBEAT. The city up the river , the metropo lis of Nebraska , has had hard times , as everybody knows , but is usually supposed to have outlived her straits. This is carefully encouraged by her business men , and it is safe to say that the public are beginning to assume that it is founded on fact. It is inter esting , though not especially gratify ing to other Nebraskans , to learn that not withstanding Omaha's credit is not the best in the world. In fact , among bankers and dealers in securities , it is said to be very bad , and getting worse. There are plenty of financial operators around the country who will not touch a scrap of paper bearing Oma ; ha's name with a ten foot pole. They have no more use for it than for con federate bonds or bills of the wildcat banks of Fontenello and DeSoto. This is not a remainder of the prejudice created in the boom days , but the re sult of a systematic course of trickery iu handling certain classes of securi ties issued by Omaha , the honoring of which seems to be a very slight matter in the minds of the city au thorities. They are very estimable gentlemen individually , but they seem to be easily misled by their official advisers. At any rate they are content to have the municipality they represent put in the position of a professional dead beat.