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A MAN lili tiee San jPranoisco, .Cel., #fune 20.-Of the h andreas of?. hort^ouituristB in Ameri who haye given year? of study Ind labor to perfecting various fruits and vegetables, v^ne has ??ach? ed th oj prominence of Luther Bur ba?k, I the Massachusetts lad, who made fame in his native State, but came finally to California to establish his life work. That ho has succeed ed is evidenced hy the faot that the name of Burbank is known all over the world as ? public benefactor. Burbank is the edison bf the vege table world an?; really deserves the title of "Wizard," whioh is oftou given. The term is extremely dis tasteful to him since ho is in no sonso a magioian and ho is sensitive as is any other . scientist to bearing! a mis nomer suggettive of the charlatan. Burban!; succeeds by study and pains taking care rather than by the "magic wand,' ' but his SucoesB at times seems so marvelous that, tho public naturally falls into the habit of dubbing him the "Wisard''-more as a tributo than an unfair suggestion. Even more, snob a title comes bandy to link the names of Edison and Burbank together. Either man is honored by the comparison. Burbank's home is at Santa Rosa, tho county seat of Sonoma County, fifty miles ; north of 'Frisco. About Seven miles west, near'Sebastopol ho owns thirty acres.; It is here that days andgmonths have lengthened into seventeen years, given over solely to experimente. The first ten years was given over to nursery work and the art of money-making waa not leaking, since he cleared $10,000 e year within a few years of his start. He waa not ting $16,000 a year when he retired and turned bis famous nurseries into ex perimental grounds. He had already made fame and wealth, but, what was more enduring, had mado others pros perous through ibis ^ generosity. The orohardist had found in Burbank the true 'nurseryman whoso name behind a plant or tree was equal to a Gove/n mentbond. All of this changed, however, when Burbank, tiring of commercial lifo, retired to his "study farm" to create new fruits and vegetables. And it is here that ono finds the msn at his work as eager and determined to-day as he was in bia youth! Wealth; he hus and fame, too, bvt these doAnot stay bia hand nor his work.a moment. And little does he care for name. As soon as he has . perfected a new flower or fruit ha celia tbs? production out right, usually unnamed^ .The buyer often gives his own name to the plant, blind to the fact of the value of Bur bank's ?ame. The name of Burbank to-day lives only in the potato, . plum, lily and rose and yet there are hun dreds pf varieties of every fruit, flow er, nut, berry, tree and shrub, whioh never had being until the hands of Burbank called them forth. = The Packer man who visited ?the Burbank place but recently cannot more fitly tell of his visit than to uso the story of R. P. Toomey, conceded to be the clearest conception and most interesting description over published. It was an interesting subjeot to han dle, and needless to say Mr.. TUomey does it justice, sc that the State has econ fit to republish it in honor of this great citizen. The name and work of Luther Bur bank aire far more generally honored east of the Bookies and in foreign countries than here in California. He is the least known, personally, of any of the great scientific laborers of the age, since be possesses to an emi nent degrcfc the modesty and gentle humility of tho genuinely great soul and intellect. Notoriety is ' offensive to him; ostentation he despises; he is void of vanity and social ambition; He is the acme of oaurtosy and ami ability toward al! the world, neighbor and stranger alike, but being con et nt ly occupied with thoughts and labor? which no other human intelligence or hand -nay fitly share, his life mus! necessarily bo quite, solitary. A del ver into mysteries requiring a vast amount of,aloso study, time and atten tion lo penetrate, ho must, perforce, lead a life apart from the modern social and business whirl. Self-inviting visitors by thousand! have sought to view tbe Burbank ex persmental grounds at Santa Rosa ssc Sebastopol, expecting and not ancora monly demanding, admittance as if ti publie property. But high fencei and locked gates protect the', tract jai Sebastopol, abd warning notices ari popped about. At the home in Senti Rosa a pleasant but firm h ou sek??pei informs . tho curious visitor that i! Mr. Burbank will, seo him at all s five-minute interview, will cou $10 i also, that there in no admittance t< the garden or hot houses at any price In Mr. Burbank's annual, sometime hjcnsial, h'tt?o catalogue, ho instruct correspondents to write,their; q aerie [Busy .Breeding Varie- ! lo '/.? on ? self-addressed postal card, form ing their questions in such a way that be may answer them by a monosyll able-a "yes" Gr "no," the card to be accompanied by $5* Now, all these Severe restrictions and conditions ?ive to Luther Burbank the isolation ne cessary for the fulfilment of a- great work for mankind. The mystery that the world is most anxious to solve Concerning the sin gular work of Luther Bs rb a ak is, how he does it. Ask him and he will tell you in bia exquisite English and with his winning, boyish sniile, sil about his j methods of pollenizing, hybridising and crossing; about selecting, grafting and pruning, about fertilising, nursing and transplanting; about each succ?s Bivo yeer'o operations in the evolving (or revolutionising of his plant prog eny; about earth, air moisture' and sunshine, and the chemistry of nature generally. You discover that here is a master of tho eeorets of nature, a biologist who has. penetrated into a sphere to whioh you can find in all the libraries, extant no guide book?: nor in all the universities a preceptor. He bas gone far beyond all books] and all professors of biological soienoe. A few things that Mr. Burbank does may hy made quite clear to tho reader. For instance, how he con duots the crossing of speoies by pol (ionising. The day before ha intendt using the pollen he gathers the anth ers bearing it, dries them carefully and then dusts the dry pollen upon watch crystal. He has gathered asl much aa a pint of pollen of one kind at one time, and finds that pollen may be kept for a week or longer without losing its virtues. When the buds ho wishcB .to fertilise with this pollen are about to open, he takes a sharp knife and skillfully outs away the petals, sepals ahd anthers, leaving 'only ?he pistils. This is tb prevent bees and other inseots from noticing the bad and corning to it with un desired pollen. Then with 'his finger tip he takes up pollen off the crystal and puts it upon the pistils of the chosen bud; whioh speedily proceeds to fructify. He always prefers to use his banda in all such work, finding them immeasurable better and more satisfactory in every way than tools or instruments.. . ? The seede of the fructified buds are very carefully gathered when ripe and in due itoasoti are planted. Up spring hundreds and thousands of hybrid seedling*. Boise may resemble one parent, ?4 cae the other, some' both, some neither. He lo og ago convinced himself by study and experiment that speoies are not fixed, but that,, in stead, they tend to vary. It has tftkafynther scientists much longer to Comprehend that -great'faot, but their studies now are all along that line. 80 he looks for such seedlings as show variation in the direction of improve ment wad potnetiality. To the eye of the ordinary observer, and even of the experienced nursery man or: horticulturist, those thousands of tiny plants look alike. Not soto the perception of their prescient grow ee V With sure instinct ho seleots the r^ro half-Score, perhaps, possessing po. Abilities, and though the famous experimenter has done this selecting hundreds of times he never has made a mistake. The few plants of worth ?re most carefully tended, while the field is o?earcd of all others. At seeding time pollonizing is again euee tod as before, the seeds are plant ed, the seedlings are culled from again and again usually for years be fore the orowo of 'victory at last ia won. Ho understands and controls the life forces and generation of plants, and oreates new organisms, new gou era, new forms of plant development. I He is a revolutionizer alike of the natural life manifestations of plants and of nearly all the old established theories' and teachings about the vege table world. In his especial field he is tho Edison* nature seemingly hav ing gifted no one else in all creation with a like intuition and special faculties for his particular scientific bent. I might mention hundreds of plants he has produced-all new special which ere many years have pass?e .will be cultivated iu ali ianda. Then are apples, p^ara, plums, apricots] prunes, grapes and other fruits; roses lillies, gkdio?i, carnations, poppies, myrtles, walnuts, almohns; chestnuts berries, vegetables-co plant of ah) use to us has been slighted by him Ho is now working on coffee enc sugar cane sent him by growers ol Mexico, Arabia, Brazil, Japan anc other lands. He is about to under take bamboo growing, and is rapid); ovolving many other', new things Lately he perfected the beautifu Shanta d pSH?pttvOmbiuin( 0? thc eotuso, tall Jnpaucse field dais} ?nd the combon Hule daisy of Few England. The result ie a stately beauty ef profuse Moora, 3 feet tall and with a beautiful blosses? 2} inches ia circumference. His very singular Iceberg blackberry wac quite a start li?g aohievement-blackberries white as crystal? V Lather Burbank orestes new fruits and flowers that mankind may bs rich er and happier. Everybody knows the Burbank pota to, which , has been raised i? such quantities sinoe it was originated twenty-seven ye?rs ago that this globe of ours could have been compactly coated with the product and enough left for next year's seeding. The Burbank potato was Luther Burbank'a first oreatioc. He was ody a youth then, living in his native town of Lanoaoter, Mass., and work ing in his uncle's shop of plough-mak ing. His few leisure hours be spent in horticultural experiments, and na tho agriculturists of the time were lamenting, the poor quality and bar renness of the then known variety of tho potato, young Burbank thought he Would try hts luck at originating a now species. He planted some early Rose potatoes in his mother's garden. J nat ose ascd ball appeared upon the ripening stalks. But that tiny seed vessel contained the potent germ he Bought-;tho gorm that gave to the world the peerless Burbank seedling. Mr. Burbank believes that, as re gards tho commercial value of tho Bur bank potato compared to the value of tho latter willi when generally distri - buted and cultivated as the former has been, far surpass in importance the celebrated tuber. His newest millionmek?r, the "Sugar" prune, isa ease in point.' Fer sixteen years he labored to per fect it sod the result is a fruit that is destined to revolutionize the prune industry. The "Sugar" prune tree is strong and its fibre is tough, so that it-will support the prolific crop. The fruit is almost as large as a goose egg, heavy with sugar, tender-skinned and delicie OB, and ripens a month earlier than any other variety. It would seem that Mr. Burbank's fortune must be swelling to colossal, proportions, when we learn/that he has sold for $6,000 a few tender plants to be transported aorosB the continent at the purchaser's risk;'a single plum tree for $2.000; a clump of raspberries ? for $800; une now celia for $2,000 and another for $1,500, aud so on. But oonoerning the cost of production he says: "My fruits and flowers are mote than new, in the sense in which the word is generally used; they are new ore*? ion B produced by scientific com j bination s of nature's forces, guided by long, carefully conducted and very expensive biologics! etudy. Let it not bo supposed that they are found lings or born without labor. ."Not;, knowing the facts, people often jar^P to the oonolusion that ail new varieties ere summarily produced by crossing and withes little ceremony asa wizard would appear to do it with magio wand." And this is the. man who is doing for mankind to day what no other liv ing soul is doing-it seems to be his mieaion in life, and in years'to come when some splendid variety of fruit is tasted and pronounced perfect the only pity is that the consumer will know- little of its origin. Tho well posted horticulturist, however, will tell him Luther Burbank waa prob-, ably the creator of the variety. A visit to Santa Rosa will teaoh ono how great, can one man become over nature, not in thwarting her laws, but by Knowing them with her, and creat ing and improving alvy aye on what has gone before.-Nev? York. Packer. ' Steps Cough and Works off the Cold. L?=x??&'- jSruuio-Quihine Tablets oure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Prie o 28 cents. THE WEfLSH NEG Established in 1894. Bega a with 60 pupils. NO\ Pichi; worth $55,000. $5,0C provements. Boarding patronage has inore years. This is an indication of the ? We will take pleasure iii sehe Address J. 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Desoribe trouble, and; free medical advice sent in sealed letter. _ - A duli man occasionally makes a cutting remark. - People who get married for a joko deserve their finish.. _ 1 ' 1 , , [ * i' iT.'-' VJ?-' .' 1 : '.."J K HIGH SCHOOL, y HAS 267. IO now being spent for im lased from 24 Lo .196;in six ...vi- . . . Uiafaction it gives. I. king you our illustrated catalog. Principal, Hurtsville, S. C. MENT ! 0,000 in Six Months 1 t 'j, sssss ?g we have proven f our.... mkr O r*i Pi I / -that is. one pound of Seed will make or 420,000 pounds of eatables for your ? Semi shortly. Oet in on the "ground of Seed now. It will beat, the "East Every one of our corks is branded To protect our customers we must ex pose the dishonorable methods of unscrup ulous dealers who offer inferior beer put up in dark-colored bottles the same size and appearance as Schlitz Export bottles with no label affixed thereon. This imitation is sold to you as Schlitz Beer, under the pretest that the label has been washed off. To avoid being served with a cheap, sloppy ? beer that is liable to sour on your stomach and fill your system with germs, we here show the cork used in Schlitz bottles. Please examine the cork and see that you get what you order and are paying for. THE SEER THAT M?DE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS Executors' Sale Beal Estate. BY virtue of the last Will of O. H. P. Fant, deceased, I will sell at Anderson C. H., 8. C., ou Saleday In August next, the "Mountain View Plantation" of Bald deceased, containing 1593 acres, more or lea*, comprising several Tracts, to be sold as a whole, situate partly In Ander? son and partly In Oconoo County, lying on the Esat side of Sanoca River, adjoin ing landa of Mrs. J. W. Strlbling, VV. A. Simpson, Bf ra. Jana A? McCrary, end others. Terms of Sale-One-third cash, balan?a on 1st January next, interest after osa tnriiyat 8 per cent annnallv. - Possession given January 1,1004. Bent of the present vear reserved. Purchaser to pay extra for papers. - H. B. PANT, Exeoutor. Jnly 15,1903_4__3 THE STATE Gr SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Mrs. Sarah A. Hall and Mr*. M. T. Ker?, xl alu tlfle, against Mro. Redcmsy Hall, Mis. Adaline McConnell, E. Desitin Hall, Mis. Carolina Long, Mro. Etta Jones, -William Johnson Hall, Mia. Mollie Todd, Mn. EU? A. Hall, Dewitt Hall, Mrs. Hettie Pruitt, Sloan Hall, Mrs. Corn Car T enter, Mrs. Mamlo Bowen, Mre. Leila Kenne dy, and Guy Hall, Jay Hall, and B?salo Hall, infants over tho ag?> of iourtoen y oars, Defend ants.-Summons for Relief. (Corni taint Serv ed.) To the Defend anta n'??ro named . YOU are hereby Bummoned ?ind required to an swer the Complaint in this action, of which S copy is herewith ss rv od upon y nu, and to Ber va ? copy of your answer to tho said Complaint on. tho subscribers at their office, at Anderson,' 0. C., within twenty days after tho service hereof, ex clusive of the day of such service t and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff* in this action ?ill apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Com plaint. Dated Anderson, S. C., July 17, A. D. 1008. BONHAM a WATKINS, . Plaintiffs' Attorneys, [GILAt.] JBO. C. WATKIUS.O 0. e. P. To the absent Defendant*. Mrs. Etta Jones. MTS. Eliza A. Hall, Mrs.Cora C?*f enter, Mrs Mamie Bowen, Mrs. Leila Kennedy, ?nd Guy Ut li, Jay Hall and Bessie Hall, the ls?? three - .ung in fants over the ace of fourteen ye* rs: Tuko notice that the Sau moer and Complaint in this action vere fl ed in the office of tao Clorb of the Court of Common Fleas for Anderson County, 8. C.. oe this July 17,180S, and the object of the action Is to procure a partition and sale of the premises described in the Complaint, and an accounting (or the rents and profVa received by the Defendant. Mrs. Redempsy Hall. BONHAM a WATKINS, Flaln??V AU'je. Anderson, 8. C., July 17,1SC3. To the Infant Defendants. Gay Hall, Jay Hall and Bevie Hall : I ako notice that unless yon apply to the Court, within twenty days after the service hereof on you, exclusive of the day of service, for the ap pointment of a Guardian or Guardinis ad lltcm to represent you in this sctlon, the undersigned will apply for tbs appolEtmont of such Guardian or Guardians for you. BONHAM <V WATKHS8, Plaintiffs' Att'ys. _ Anderson, 8. C., July 17, ?OJ._8-b WOFFOBD COLLEGE, Spa*tanbarg, S. C. Henry N. Snyder, Litt. D., M. 4., Pres. Four fall Collrae conrees Favorable nurroundlur,?. Gymnasium. Athletlo Grounds. Leoture Course. Library fa otlities. Next session begins Sept. 28, 1003. For catalogue apply to J. A. 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