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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.
