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Show Hit Disappointment. "I was talking, on my trip west, to I.uther litirbank, the plant wizard, about the thornless cactus he has sent to the N'ntlonal museum In Washington," Washing-ton," said a Washington Journalist. "Mr. Hurbank said that he had changed the aspect of many plants, but not so much, perhaps, as people thought. People expected greater changes than he could give. His achievements sometimes disappointed them even as a lawyer of Los Angeles An-geles had been disappointed one day. "This lawyer said to a friend: "Would you believe It? To-day I round out my sixty-ninth year.' "'Impossible!' exclaimed tho friend. 'Why, j ou scarcely look 68.' " |