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Show 1 Luther Burbank. When Luther Burbank was a baby in his cradle he was given a flower to play with. A petal be-, be-, came detached. Baby that he was, ho tried to fit ' the petal back into its place in the flower. When a year and a half old, his delight was to carry about a little potted cactus plant, and when he clipped and fell, breaking the pot and tho flower, he was inconsolable. When scarcely twenty ho produced the Bur-bnnk Bur-bnnk potato, which has made a dozen men for-, for-, tunes and added an inestimable blessing to the I poor of two continents. When a lad a group of farmers and mechanics i tried in vain to put together a ploco of agrlcul- i tural machinery. When all had failod ho stopped forward and suggested that a certain piece of tho machinery bo put in a cortain place. Tho problem prob-lem was solved and ho was asked what suggested to him that uso of that bit of machinery. His reply was, "You couldn't put it any placo olse." I 0 Iu childhood ho had a passion for exporiment-1 exporiment-1 ing with plants. Ho nearly starved through pur suing his experiments. He lived for a long time on tho scraps of moat tho butchers gave him j scraps they had tossod aside for the dogs. All j his friends urged him to givo up trying to make a living in his nursery. ' A bigoted fool of a preacher one day asked j him to attond a sermon which ho proposed to de vote to Burbank's work. He wont filled with hope, thinking that maybe he was finally to havo recognition. recog-nition. Tho sermon had been widely advertised. Imagine how Burbank must havo felt when this so-called follower of Christ poured forth a torrent of denunciation upon the working dreamer who i had never had a thought except in lovo for his kind and for flowers, declaring that Burbank was seeking to usurp the attributes of God by attempting attempt-ing to create new forms of plant life; that if God ' had wished these new forms produced, he would have created thorn himself rather than havo as-, signed tho work to Luther Burbank. That preacher ought to have been stripped bt his clothing right there and told that If God had intended him to wear olothing he would have pro-vlted. pro-vlted. It as he had for other anas. Now se tho, list .Of a few tilings that Luther Burbank s done. Ho has by pollination caused the seejl of one corner of the poppy plant to grow an annual plant; of another corner a perennial; from another corner whilo poppies;, from another section orlmaon poppies. He has produced oho typ.O of poppy that is of dull (orange color with a white cantor and smooth edge;, another one pure whito with a green center, t" whole surrounded sur-rounded with a fringe. He has crtdsed the plum with the apricot and produced the piumcot. . He has . produced plum trees bearing so abundantly that one tree had to be stripped of 22,000 greon pums to keep. the tree from being destroyed,-and then the plums left were all the tree could stand iil under. Ho has produced plums with the fragrance fra-grance of flowers and others with tho flavor of Bafylott pear. Aj scientist who called upon him, while ad-mittihgjhis ad-mittihgjhis miraolQs with plants and flowers, ventured ven-tured ho belief. that he could do nothing with trees, a he would have to wait so long for results. re-sults. Tlie,n Mr.. Burbank pointed to half a dozen walnut trees,-Whioh had boon planted on tho roadside road-side and had received no .care. They were tho result of crossing ' the -English walnut with the California black walnut. Across the street were English walnut trees and black walnut trees 30 years old. They wore not more than, six inches through and . fifteen feet high. Burbank's trees, on the opposite side, were 14 years old, they stood eighty feet high, and their spreading branches covered seventy-flvo feet, their trunks were from one to two feet in diameter, and their wood was almost as hard as mahogany. He has developed de-veloped the v"1 California Calla until its flower covers 1 feet, then worked it back to a flower only 1 Inches across. Tho wild Calla produces sometimes seven flowers per plant; Burbank's sometimes forty. The bulbs of some of his Hllles aro worth ten times their weight in gold. Ho crossed tho old English, Japan and American H ; J. S. BRANSFORD, for Mayor. I J. B. MORETON, for Recorder. GIDEON SNYDER, for Treasurer. I A STRAIGHT TICKET VOTE IT B I daisy and produced the Shasta daisy, with a H ! flower rom six to seven inches In diameter, and H j whloh, when kept in water, remains fresh from H Thanksgiving to. Christmas. H Tho flower of the Amaryllis he has developed from a fow inches to a foot across, with colors varied from crimson, pink and scarlet to blondings of them all. The bulb he changed from two or three inches in length weighing a pound to one B, fifteen inches in length and weighing eight pounds. The old bulb produced from four to five , other bulbs. The new one from forty to fifty. He M- ' has crossed tho California and Oriental poppy, Hj made the now plant stand as tall as men, and produco white, yellow and crimson flowers ten ! inches in diameter. The eliostnut tree begins to bear nuts at from ten to fifteen years. Burbank's chestnut trees are in full bearing at eighteen months from the seed. He has yollow violets growing on trees, B; grain with two heads, doubling the crop. His wild cacti is maclo as smooth as velvet Upon tills cattle tyavo lived for ten months with no B water save that produced by the plant itself. And B it will yield from ninety to throe hundred tons B per acre, and cattle fatten upon it more readily B than on meadow grass. His prune doubles tho riB usual crop and is vastly improved in flavor. B' Most of the above facts we have taken from B; New Thought, but they are not a tithe of what ho B has accomplished. He is a wizard. He was born B with a longing to make flowers more beautiful B and plants more and better food producers. He B nearly starved before he could begin to give his B thoughts expression and show their worth, but it B did not matter. Tho little cacti which he played PS with as a baby is about to revolutionize stoVk H raising. .He gives to men better fruits, more beautiful flowers, doubles their grain crops, and, beyond all, gives to mortals glimpses of what may be when the world is perfected. One such man is worth an army of dull souls. He Is now sixty yeafs of age and it is a misfor-HB misfor-HB tune that he' cannot" fllscover for himself the elixir that will keep him performing his miracles on plant and tree and flower for a thousand years to come. : |