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VOL. IV. NO. 24. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , DECEMBER 19,1901. SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS ,
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. , 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 :
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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