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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1901)
Cbc CornKftattvc VOL. IV. NO. 24. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , DECEMBER 19,1901. SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS , PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOB. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK , 13,950 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year in advance , postpaid to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The . Morton Printing Company. \ Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska * City , Nebraska. Advertising rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the post office at Nebraska City , \ Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898. . , In company -with A PIONEER the late Andrew J. PASSED ON. Poppletou , in the year 1868 , the edi tor of The Conservative visited Beatrice - rice and thence drove to Swan Greek , and thence along the Bine Valley up to the present townsite of Crete. On our journey we stopped for a time at the home of Tobias Castor , who was already planting trees about his hum ble domicile and carrying on quite a . bit of farming. His neighbors were ' v very few and very far apart. His income - / come had been principally from trap ping mink , otter , beaver , and other fur-bearing animals , which had abounded along the valley of the Blue. On one trip the peltry and furs which Mr. Castor brought to Nebraska City were valued and sold for more than $300. $300.Mr. Mr. Castor was born with an active , able and comprehensive brain. He never had educa- Character , tional advantages beyond a few months at a country district school. "educate" literally But the word means ally ' ' to lead out , ' ' and no matter what the schools may be , or may not be , they can never develop or lead out capabilities which are not born in the individual. Mr. Castor achieved in the school ol practical business affairs and in per sonal and political experience a bet ter education for all the purposes of this life than nine-tenths of tne col legians acquire. His personal habits were unexceptionable. He used neither stimulants nor narcotics. His fidelity to friends was beyond question. Hi devotion to political principles and to economic truths was as unwavering as the magnet to the pole. He was adroit and judicious in the use of jower and in the handling and in the molding of opinions of men and in controlling their actions. Few citi zens in the commonwealth of Nebraska mve better demonstrated , in a career of more than one-third of a century , he value of absolute truthfulness and honest dealing in business affairs. Mr. Castor in his life experienced many serious reverses and afflictions , do mestic and otherwise ; but under all circumstances and in all places , ' he was absolutely faithful to truth , to ustice and to square dealing. For many years he held a fiduciary posi tion under the Burlington manage ment and in all instances discharged his duties with great efficiency and consummate skill in the interest of his employers , and always with due regard to the rights of those with whom he was called upon to deal. He settled questions where vast sums of money and stupendous interests were at stake and settled them with wis dom. As a political forecaster , he was the peer of any citizen of the state. He could give a better estimate of the possibilities of a political campaign and of the ultimate voting at its close than any man we have ever known. He was a useful citizen ; he was a de voted husband and father. He was a faithful friend. His loss will be pro foundly felt in many counties and in many homes throughout the state. And those who knew him longest and best will miss him most and longest. The procession of the pioneers of the commonwealth marches onward with ever thinning ranks to that quiet , silent rest which nature has kindly provided for all the children of men. Farewell , a long farewell , old friend ! We all follow on thy trail. Occasionally one NONE FORhears compla i n t , GOTTEN. from aged persons particularly , that friends and often kindred seem to have forgotten them. It is lamentable that social intercourse , and often cor respondence , becomes more and more infrequent between those who in early life were closely intimate , even mem bers of the same family. But there is one force in nature which never for s gets anybody , neither the rich nor the 'f' , poor , nor those 'in humble nor those . Tin / in exalted station. , Death has never forgotten to touch with his hypnotic wand , any single individual in all the long-gone cen turies. The world has no record of any person of the tenth , the fifteenth , the seventeenth , and very few of even the eighteenth century , whom this kindly , rest-giving , peace-bestowing and equalizing despot has forgotten to call to rest and sleep. Nature 1ms so constructed the human organism that with advancing years the capabilities for enjoying the things of this world are numbed , de-appetized , dulled , VJ > I mralyzed. And with the capacity for enjoyment gone , the desire to linger upon this beautiful and attractive globe fades into almost absolute eras ure. ure.In In youth Death is a hideous and frightful figure. In middle age , its hideonsness has been softened and toned down , and if one has passed liis three score and ten , Death is re garded as a coming and friendly host who , sooner or later , will kindly in vite those fatigued with a long life's / journey to come into his hospitable $ f : 18 ? and quiet cloister for everlasting , ; peaceful rest. Experiences in living are a constant succession of experi ments , some of them bringing joy and pleasure and some of them bestowing sorrow and pain. Every human be ing can tell of pleasures , joys , pains , sorrows , woes , passed through , but no one experiments with Death but once. Therefore no one knows what it is to die nor what sensations dying brings. We know only that after Death there is neither anguish , nor suffering nothing but repose and rest. Every night , for hours , in sleep the senses are dead and we are dead as dead can be to all the outer world ; and as we sleep for the relief it brings , for the rest and quiet it gives from cares and toils , why should we fear its elder brother Death , which grants , instead of temporary , eternal repose ? _ The very inter- NOT SYNesting , instructive ONYMOUS. and virile message of President Koose- velt contains one particularly partisan error to which the Conservative calls attention. In his discussion of the tariff he says : "The duties must never