Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — Conservative and Progressive. [ARTICLE]

Conservative and Progressive.

A Mexican paper says that some of the old conservative business houses of the city of Montezumas cling te eighteenth century ways as persistently as do a few such establishments In London. Several of them are still using tallow dips. A bookkeeper, we are told, may be seem making his entries in a great ledger by the light of a single candle, and the wealthy proprietor may be found bending over his big mahogany desk flanked by two tall and stately candelabra. While Mexico holds on to the good old times and ways, farther north we do not know how to move fast enough, and the invention of yesterday must stand aside for the improvements of to-day. In California fruit-growers are no long*, er content to let nature take her own way, and freeze up their crops when she has a mind so to do. They now prevent damage by frost by forcing hot water through a number of furrows among their groves. The air is heated by the rising of the water vapor, and thus the temperature cannot cool to the degree of frost. Every country has its own methods.