| Rear Children ! i Like Plants f LLTHER BURBANK'S PLAN | p TO IMPROVE MANKIND | f v*?t'ornia'i Uofliculturd Wizard % Would Not Terrify Liltle Once With 9 the Fear of Hell, but Would Have I Their Environment Healthy and Pleasant ? Put the Beat In Them (by Contact With the Beet Outside. Let Nature Teach Leaeon of Good and Proper LivanJ 0 0 0 Americans of (Kc Future to Be ( "Morally Be&utiful and Intellec- | tually Fit" ? Characteristics of t ILacea TKat Make Vp Our Nation j Will Show In the Composite | With Many Evil Traits ICemoved. h Finished Product to Be Rn.ce of the Future # # # # # II.THEB HTKBANK. the famous j naturalist of Santa Ilnea, Cel., { ' whose extraordinary achieve ments In Improving fruits, flowers, trees and vegetables hare made him famous, recently made the following ?statement to the New York World's staff correspondent In Bon Francisco who had asked him If it was possible to cultivate the human race by moth ods similar to those with which he has transformed the plants. In my work with flowers and plants and trees I hare been led naturally to analogous problems. Man baa always figured In my calculations, and as the human ?i erttn Is the highest type of life 1 could not escape the conclusion that aa long no plant life could te con trolled by human lionde mankind might likewise be subjected to similar lnflu ?nces and the race similarly lmpcovad. I did not go out of the way to form these deductions. They cams Sharply and quickly and naturally and are as much a pert of my study today as the production of rare fruits and flowers. If we hope for an Improvement of the human race we must begin with the chlM, ax the child responds inure readi ly to environment than any creature In existence. The change may come la the first generation, ami It may not. It may not show at all for many gen erations. but patience ami constant at LUTHER HI KiiANK'S HO.VIK AT SANTA ItOSA. CAL.. WHERE UK WORKS WONDERS IN HORTICULTURE. tentlon will dually reap the reward, ?ud the fruit trill la- more than worth while. Whcu the test has been made successfully and the product attained It will be a survival of the most beau tiful. the most precious or the fittest, whichever you may wish to call It. The two forces to be considered In reproduction are heredity and environ ment. A great force is necessary to change the aspect of metals. Great beat or electricity or some suiii pow erful Influence must be brought to hear upou them. A less potent influence ?will work a complete change in plant life A minimized degree of heat, the ' ?unsliiue. the atmosphere, all will di rectly affect the growth of plants and the production of fruits and flowers. And when we come to aulmul life we find that the force or Influence neces sary to effect a transformation Is very slight. That Is why environment plays such an Important part In the develop ment of man Environmeul and heredity. Xn child rearing environment Is j equally essential With heredity. Mind you. I do uot say that heredity Is of no consequence. It is ftgreat factor and often makes ellvi#(j!!b.ent almost use less When the hereditary instincts are indelibly ingrained environment will bare a bAvl battle to ea?6( n change In the child, but that a change can he wrought by the surroundings we all ! know The particular subject may be stubborn agai st the influences of en j viroum. it, ' ri, , ?i d application to ' the same modifying forces In succeed ing gei orations will accomplish the de alred objects All animal life Is sensitive to envi ronment. You can change the oyster by gradually changing its environment, and you know the oyster Is a vefry low type of life. Take an px, a horse, a ! dog, a man, and that which oftgq counts most in the development of each Is environment. Of all animate things Hie child is the most sensitive. (Surroundings act ut>on it as the outside week aeu npon the plate In the cam en. ' -erv possible Influence acting externa.. *! leave Its impress on the child, and the traits which it Inherited will be overcome to a certain extent, In many cases almost being even more apparent than heredity. The child la trka a cut diamond, Ita many facets re ceiving Impressions not possible to a pebble, with this difference, however. that the change wrought In the child from the Influence* without becomes constitutional and Ingrained. A child absorb* environment. It la the most susceptible thing In the world to Influ ence, and If that force be applied right ly and constantly when the child Is In Its greatest receptive condition the ef fect will be pronounced and Immediate and permanent. Surrounding Change Children. There la uo doubt that If a child with a vicious temper be placed In an envi ronment of peace and quiet the temper will change. Put a boy born of gentle white parents among Indians, and be will grow up like an Indian. Let the child horn of crlmlual parents have a setting of morality and decency, and the chances are that he will not grow Into a criminal, but an upright man. Take the girl whose mother la way ward and wanton and change her sur roundings while she Is still young enough to he affected by the forces of environment, and she will develop tnto a virtuous and moral young woman. I do not aay that heredity will not some times assert Itself to some extent, of course. When the criminal Instinct crops out In an Individual It might ap pear as If environment were leveled to the ground But In succeeding genera tlons the effect of constant higher en vlronment will become fixed We In America form a nation with the bloods of half the peoples of the world within our veins. We are more crossed than any other nation In the history of the world. All the necessary crossing has been done, and now comes the work of elimination, the work of refining, until we get an ultimnte prod uct that will he the tluest human rare known. It Is no doubt this Is the coun try which will produce that specimen. Many years will be consumed before the finished work Is uttalned, but It is sure to come. The characteristics of the mauy pimples that make up this nation will show in the composite with mauy of the evil characteristics re moved, and the flnlshed product will be the race of the future. In my work with plants and flowers 1 Introduce color here, shape there, slat or perfume, according to the prod uct desired. In such processes the teuelilngs of nature are followed. Its greai forces only are employed. All (hat has been done for plants and flower < nature has already accomplish ed for the American people. By the crossing of bloods strength has In one Instance been secured, lu another In tellectuality, In still nuother moral force. Nature alone could do this. The work of man's head and hand could not he summoned to prescrlt>e for the development of a race. A preconceived and mapped out crossing of hloods finds no place In the making of iieoples and nations. But when n".ture has slrc"dy done Its 1 duty ai d the crossing leaves a product tvblch lu the rough displays the best human attributes all that Is left to bo | done bills to environment. Greatest In Man Not Yet Attained. Man has by no means reached the til- | tliuate. The Attest has not .vet stirvlv od. In the process of elimination the weaker will fall. The fittest of the fu ture Is not the fittest of the past. With proper rearing and education of the child a race will evolve which will be Ihe morally beautiful and the Intellec tually fit. I do not think that uian to day has attained the greatest that Is In bltn. We have what are popularly known as five senses, but there are men of strong minds whose reasoning hat rarsly been at fault and who are coldly scientific In their methods, who attest to the possibility of yet develop ing a sixth tense. Who Is be that can say man will not develop new senses as STolutlon advances? Psychology Is studied In the public schools through j i out the country, and that study will lead to new knowledge in psychic thought. The man of the future ages may prore a somewhat different order of being from that of the prcseut. He may look upon ua na we today look up on our forbears. Sometimes I am appalled when 1 read of the Increase of Insanity, sui cide, murder, the Ills of the flesh. Sta tistics show uiuuy lliiugs to make us pause, but after all the proper polLt of view Is that of the optimist. The time will come when Insanity will be re duced, suicides and murders will be fewer and man will become a being of few Ills and bodily troubles. Finest human Product Ever Known. Wherever you have a nation In which ihere Is no variation there Is uompara lively little InsHU.ty or crime or exalt ed morality or genius. Here In Amer ica, wheie the variation Is greatest, the statistics show a greater percentage of insanity and all other variations. As time goes 011 lu Its endless and cease less course environment will crystallize the American nation. Its varying ele ments will become unified, and the weeding out process will probably leave the finest human product ewer known. The color, the perfume, the size, the shape, that were manumitted In plants will have their analogies In the composite, the American of the fu ture. And now what will hasten this devel opment most of all? The proper rear ing of children. Don't feed the child ou dogmatic religion; give him nature. Let bis soul drink In all that is pure and sweet. liaise him amid pleasant surroundIngN If he come Into the LUTHER BUKBAXK. world with a soul groping in darkness 1st hlui see and feel the light. Don't terrify him In early life with the fear of an after world. There never was a child that was made noble and good by the fear of a hell. Let nature teach him the lessons of good and proper liv ing, combined with a well balanced nourishment. That child will grow to be the best man or woman. Put the best In him by a contact with the best outside. lie or she will absorb It as a plant does the sunshine and the dew. JAPAN'S FIVE ARMIES. How HummIu Estimates Her Foe's Strength In the Field. According to the Uusski Invalid, the Japanese armies In the held number from 500,000 to 000,000 men. That Is the Kusslau official estimate. This force consists of nineteen divisions, six of which are newly formed, and twen ty-two reserve brigades. The battai lous number from 388 to 404, giving a total of from 430,000 to 450,000 bayo nets. Leaving out the reserve and de pot force, the cavalry numbers at least seventeen regiments. General Kurokl of the First army has front 104 to 108 battalions, equal to 116,000 to 120,000 bayonets. General Oku of the Second army has 100 to 104 battailous, numbering 110,000 to 115, 000 bayonets. General N'ogi of the rtlrd army has 76 to 80 battalions, comjstsed of 85,000 to 00,000 bayonets. General Nolzu, Fourth army, occupies the center of the Japanese armies with 40 battalions and 45,000 bayonets. General Kawamura, Fifth army, eloses the list with 66 to 70 battalions, com prising 73,000 to 80,000 bayonets. All these hve armies have telephonic connection and arc so placed that they can act In quick conjunction with each other. In addition an army is mobilized for the maritime provinces. The Tent Cure In Knniiis. A strauger lu Paola, Kan.. 1 Ini pressed by the grent number >; touts In all parts of the to- . and . i. tural ly curious until 1 . to! ' :r there Is a fad there for ?. ping . doors, says a Paola dispatch It - 1 early last summer and ha.- .. -taadlly, as each one who has tried It tells of the benefits he has received from sleeping outdoors, "Since 1 began to sleep lu u tent," said a follower of the fad, "1 feel much Letter. Before I began to sleep outdoors I never felt refreshed when I got up In the niorulug Now 1 ' feel bright and am able to do my work much better." Apple* Kept Fop n Yenr In Ic+tinane. Alouzo Wolfe, a well to do farmer In Lake township. Luzerne county, Po.. has for years been trying to study out how to keep upplea for a year or more, says the Wllkes-Barre Record. Last September he put two bushels of hla selected Northern Spy apples In hla Ire house and kept them at a certain tem perature. The other day he carted them to Wllkes-Barre, where they brought a big price. They had not a ?pot or blemish on them and were as hard as a rock. They were simply per fect and the only year old apples to be had In this valley. A CITY'S FARM COLONY i Municipal Project of Cleveland to Help the Needy. i t VAST TBACT OF LAND PURCHASED < !1 Da Thirteen lluutlretl Acres a lum ber of Suitable llul Id Inga Will lie ( ?Erected For the Poor of the City? When llealrahle, Farh Individual . Will Be ialvea a Small Plot For | Cultivation. t I Tile city of Cleveland, O., bus under- ; | UtLeu u municipal experiment which If , successful will have much to do with J revolutionizing its general attitude to- i ( ! w urd the treatment of the crltninul, de- I I pendent and defective classes, says a j , Cevehuid dispatch. Eight hundred an made according to nationality and con genial tastes. Husbands and wives will occupy a I imrt of a cottage by themselves. Each l cottage or when desirable each Individ- t ual will be given a small plot of ground b for cultivation. Here will be located t not a monumental institution, but a t village of unfortunates, with homelike C surroundings, sufficient activity to fos ter a feeliug of Independence, some room for Individual whims and ca- J prices and all in the midst of the free v open country, flowers, trees and gar- 1 dens. " f y To the residents of the other lnstitu- ,j Hons will be given freedom from city temptations, the privilege of outdoor ^ life aiul of regaining the normal phys- j ical conditions which are Important open country, trees and gardens. 1 Because of mental and bodily defects ^ many of these people have been crowd ed out of the runks of the regular strenuous Industries In shops and fac- x torles. With every Industrial depres- q slon a lnrger number of them are forced into the ranks of the criminal ^ and dependent classes. Unlike the , crowded factories, the land always fur nishes opportunities for the weak and defective to do some work according to their abilities. The men past their s prime, the crippled, the feeble minded, who can give only a partial fragment- L ary day's labor, will here have a fair q chance to use their limited talents. In two square miles of land, with its T wooded hills, rolling meadows and plowed fields, with its walks, drives " and gardens, with Its cottages, shops v and barns, with its cattle, sheep and fowl, this farm colony will offer larger V opportunities for useful, happier lives for the weak, unfortunate and poor of q a great city. , a A "SUPERMARINE" BOAT. j \ovel High Sgeeu t'rnft Devised hy ^ French Engineer. A novel form of high speed boat has recently been devised by a French en gineer, M. de Eainbert, which Involves , a radical departure from all previous c designs of hull, says Harper's Weekly. B It is termed a "skating," or "superma- c marine," boat, for It is constructed to c glide along the surface of the water T rather than experience resistance by t being Immersed and passing through, p This Is accomplished by menus of five T inclined planes, which are fixed on the ? bottom of the hull and which when the q boat Is at rest are a few inches in the p water. When the engine Is started the t] hull is raised, so that the boat runs t with less resistance on the Inclined h planes, which then rest on a mixture p of air and wster. v With n twelve horsepower petroleum > motor it is reiiorted that a speed of p from twenty six to twenty-eight knots e an hour can be made, a rate not al ways attained by motor boats with eighty horsepower engines. The new boat Is also capable of being bandied s w 1th considerable facility and stopped I readily. n The attainment of high speed by mo- e tor boats which run on the surface of d the water rather than through It has a attracted some attention lately, and an c English high speed boat was built i where this Idea was considered In do- 0 signing the hull, but the use of the In- h rllned plane to diminish the resistance X as successfully carried out Is quite b novel and will be tried further. t c flew lie r Itorn For Manila. b Manila Is to have two new harbors, t one 000 feet long by 70 feet wide, the ti other 050 feet by l'H). p "HOMELESS TWENTY-SIX." Isadr Tnnll't Hn'a Orm.uUulton Forms liraurb Society ui C hicago. "The Homeless Twenty-Six," whose i -cgular habitat, as nearly as can be letermined, Is somewhere within Pitta .urg, Pa.. recently sent two wandering lel<-gates to Chicago to organize some j >f the floating population of that city | nto a local branch, apparently for no | >ther reason than that misery loves lotnpany, says the t blcago Inter Xeau. Contrary to what might be expected, he society, although labeled "home ess" and identified by a strange, un utelllgible badge worn by the mem bers which looks like an algebraic formula. Is not composed of "Wander ug Willies" and dusty tie pacers, but s made up of traveling, business and yrofesslonal men. Twenty-six Is the mystic number, be muse twenty-six traveling men, unable :o reach their homes last Thanksgiving, which was on Nov. 36, ate dinner to fetber at a hotel In Pittsburg and be ams the charter members. From a aembershlp of twenty-six the organlza lon has increased to 6,500, with tranches In several large cities The ntentlon of the members Is to add "blcago to the list. W. a Williams and Hiram Schoch >f Pittsburg, who are themselves of the >r!glnal twenty-six, a few nights ago fathered together a hundred or more >f the outcasts of Chicago who wear die badge of the homeless and laid jlans for regular gatherings, with wadqoarters at the Auditorium. No innouncement was made as to who will be the executive head of the no xtads, but undoubtedly it will be some imminent Chicago business or profes donal man. "We first feit the need of an orgaui satVn like this to promote sociability Lmmg traveling men when the origi nal twenty-six found themselves (trended in Pittsburg last Thanksglv ng," said Mr. Schoch. "We wanted to enjoy our dinner in ?oogental aompeny and got together log that purpose. Our etomaqhe start si the movement but our hearts were nook of it and we ape using onr heads o make a success of the organlxa loo." THE TWO MYSTERIES. X Poem on De?th, t>7 U? !.??? Mary Ma pee l>odK*. The death of Mrs. Mary Mapes :>odge, editor, writer of stories and >oet, which occurred recently, gives ouchlng appropriateness to this very luman poem by her on death, which, ly the way, has been widely attributed o Walt Whitman, says the New York llobe. THE-TWO MYSTERIES. (In the middle of the room, near the offln. sat Walt Whitman, holding a beau iful little girl on his lap. Sho looked torderingly at the spectacle of death and hen inquiringly Into the face of the aged wet. "You don't know what It ie. do ?ou. my dear?" said he. and added. "We lon't either."] Ve know not what it l?, dear, this sleep ? so deep and stilt; The folded hands, the awful calm, the j cheek so pale and chill; 'he lids that will not lift again, though we muy call and call; "he strange white solitude of peace that j settles over all. Ve know not what It means, dear, this desolate heurt pain. This dread to take our dally way and walk in It again; Ve know not to what other sphere the loved who leave us go tor why we're left to wonder still nor why we do not know. Jut this we know: Our loved and dead, If they should come this day? Ihould come and ask us, "What Is life?" not one of us could say .lfe Is a mystery as deep as ever death , can be. "et, oh, how dear It Is to us. this life we live and see! hen might they say?these vanished ones J ?and blessed Is the thought: So death Is sweat to us, beloved, though we may show you naught. Ve may not to the quick reveal the mys tery of death; re cannot tell us. If ye would, the mys tery of breath." ?he child who entere life comes not with knowledge or intent;, ,o all who enter death must go as little children sent. Jothlng is known, but, nearlng God. what hath the soul to dread? ind as life is to the living so death Is to the dead. Bertlllon'e "Speaking Portraits." M. Bertlllon. who created the an hropometrio method of Identifying Tlmlnals, superintended some fresh nethods at the Palais de Justice re ently, says the Washington Post's spe lal correspondent at Paris. The inno ation is known us the "speaking por ralt." One hundred and two mem era of the detective and other services rere present. To each one was given , verbal "portrait"?that Is to say, a ascription of one of his colleagues resent?and he was asked to find In lie assembly the one to whom the por ralt applied. The experiments were ighly satisfactory. Nearly all the de- | actives found their man. M. Bertlllon ras warmly congratulated by Signer ileefero, professor of criminology at he University of Naples, wh > witness- j d the tests, which took place in public. Urnrvobtirv on a Yacht. The Uev. J. Antle, a Canadian mls louary, is a smart yacht skipper. Dr. Iutton, formerly of the Gartleld Me uorlal hospital in Washington, knows nglneerlng. Together they are con ,uctlng a benevolent quest In the log ring and Ashing camps about Vnn ouver, soys the New York World. Mr. tntle had n craft built at a cost of $4. 00 to serve a.i a fouling church and loapltal. Her cabin holds a c->n*?re ration of sixty. She has two hospital sids, medicine* and operating tools. If hese are not sufficient the Columbia an carry 111 or Injured men to a base .ospltal at Rock Bny. The iklpper Ir he preacher; the doctor to the engl leer One deckhand and a cook com pete the crew. Everything is in the name wl.en it mmm to Witch Hci2c* 1 Salve. E C. De Witt it C o. of Chicago discoveled some years ago how to make a salve from Witch Hazel 'hat 19 a specific for Piles. For blind, bleeding, itching and protruding Piles, eczema, cuts, burns, bruises and all skin diseases Hewitt's Salve has no equal. This has giveu rise to numerous worthless counterfeits. Ask foi Hewitt's?the genuine. Sold by Hood Bros. Benson Drug Co. J. K. Led i letter. FARM FUR SALE. About ninety acres of land ad joining the place on which I lire for sale. Farm is on a public road; about 55 acres cleared and has two dwelling houses. Good corn, cotton and tobacco land. Some good pasture. John R. Denning, R. F. I). No. 1. Benson, N. C. FARM FOR SALE. I offer for sale a farm of 270 acres, 2% miles from Smithlield. Suitable for corn, cotton, tobac co, oats, etc. Good pasturage. Will sell for cash or on time. O. R. Rand, Smithfield, N. C. LOTS FOR SALE. . Several lots making 5% acres for sale. Would prefer to sell the land in a body to one person. Land lies in the forks of the roads near Mr. James W. Wellons and is known as the John L. Jones land. J. M. Beatv, Smithfield, N. C. LAND FOR SALE. 1 have for sale 25% acres of land partly cleared with one dwelling house on it. The land is in Ingrams township on the Smithfield road near Mr. D. W. Adams and is known as the Ceasar Gusbuhler place. I want to sell for cash. T. V. Baker, Smithfield, N C. A FINE FARM FOR SALE. 320 acres located in Johnston county, on public road between Clayton and Smithfield. One mile from Southern Railroad; 100 acres fine cotton or tobacco land; 150 acres in cultivation; 150 acres in woods. Timber enough to saw seven hundred thousand feet of lumber. A fine location for truck or stock farm. Six good mules. Gin outfit; engine and boiler; all necessary farming tools; also store with new stock of $3000 00. The store alone will pay 10 per cent, on the whole investment. Six nice dwelling houses all nicely painted. This farm must be sold by October 1st, or it will not be for sale. Reason for sell ing my time is all taken up with other business. I also have for sale a small farm of 37 acres with a good J room house on it. Address, ?Tab. A. Sanders, a2G to 1st. Raleigh, N. C. d r THE "BOSS" COTTON PRESS! SIMPLEST. STRONGEST. BEST The Murray Cinniko System Bins. Feeders, Condensers, Etc. gibbet machinery co. Colu in hie. S. C. HOLLISTtR'S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Buoy Medioina for Busy People Brings Ooldon Hoaltb and ReseweJ v'igcr A specific for Constipation, Iirii/estion, L-ve and Kidney Troubles, rtmples, Eezemn Impure Blood, Baa Breath, Sluagtsh Bowel'. Headache and Backache. It's Rnckv Mountain Tea id tab let form, !i" r ?nts a box (*onuin* mnde by Holmstrr Dauo Company, Madison. Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOH SALLOW PEOFLt DeWITT'S WITCH HAZEL SALVE. THE ORIGINAL. A Well Known Cure for Piles. Curet obstlnats sores, chapped hands, ec zema, skin diseases. Makes burns and scalda painless. We could not Improve the quality II paid double the price. The best salve that eaperlence can produce or that money can buy. Cures Piles Permanently DeWltt'a la the original and only pure and genuine Witch Hazel Salve made. Look for the name DeWITT on every boa. All othsza are counterfeit. ? ?. a. DeWITT * CO.. CHICAOO. Kennedy's Laulive Honey and Tar Cares all Coughs, tad expels Colds from ta^aystsn^yoenll^nevlntMbs^oiaisI^