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Show THE VALUE OF A MAN. Secretary Wilson of the Treasury De. partment has recently made n. sta(e-ment sta(e-ment which emphasizes tho Importance of the Individual man, the mm who enn do things ln tho erfnrts of tho De-pnitment De-pnitment towntd practical help for the faimtra of the countiy, tobacco raising inmeiindei Intestlgnllon, It una found, lhat while we exported thirty million dollars worth of tobacco yeaily, wo Imported fouijeeit million dollars' woith, the Imports; being six million dollars worth of Sumatra wuippcm mid eight million of flllerH lioin Culm The question w is why could we not pioduce both Iheso winppers nnd Illleis. Theia wis a man who had been hooted out of Ocrmany aa n crank, because he claimed th it ho could analyze not only (he soils bul also (he Juices of plants, and fiom Huse anilysrn determine what soils piniiuce the cpeclal Juices that innki the elKferrnee between one lorm of plants and another of (he same species spe-cies He was put to work on the lo-ha. lo-ha. i i pinblem by the Depaitmcnt of An I. uliuic He found that differences In Hi Hnor6 of teihii.cn wio lo bo tiaie 1 to ellifricnt feimentn In the leaf, mil not to different Imetciii ns hail In n supposed a soil In Connecticut 's found Just right Tor tho production of Hie Sumatra winppcr tobacco, and i-o wc now Inipcut that no moie Then came ti,e question of tho Cuban filler toiucio Thla unbiuo chemist foujid small areas of soil In Texas nnd In some other Slates thai would pioduce the Cuban lear nm t,t ,herP ,n() ,cscnrch stnpreil The nleit Japanese heard of this woniiertul man, and offeied him 17000 a yeni to take chatgo of ngrl- uliiiinl experiments for (heir government govern-ment Oui !wb did not peimlt nnre-'iiy nnre-'iiy Wilson to compete, so thla txpert went In Japan Since his departure, Secretary Wilson has rent In every seat of learning In the wnrll lo find a successor suc-cessor for him hut there Is none In all the wnild Perhaps soum day ho will gltc up Mb secret, but up to dnte ho Inn not done so Jt Is douhlless best to hnte hard and fast llmltadona nn salaries hut It really seems that In special ras s it wq be advantageous to .HI., v mm, latitude. i ,,S cnBe(, the letenllrm of the expert chemist would huvo been worth to this oounlry ft hundred times the tnn year that took him aviay R. Japan. Doubtless ten thouiu; would have made him a fuv, country, and at lhat salarjt, hate been the most proltabt the country in Its whole itrTh |