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The days of suppleness and youth, the careless gay days, when there was no thought for the future, no anxiety about education, when the day began with a wild dash across country and ended with a dinner and dance -were they over, then, for us all? Major Burbank's battery of light artillery came over and enlivened the quiet of our post occasionally with their brilliant red color.
But does romance disappear from the farm with machinery and scientific agriculture? There are farmers who follow Luther Burbank's experiments with plants, with all the fascination which used to attach to alchemy and astrology.
Is there another subject as important for the city school as agriculture is for the rural school? Mention some school subjects that are closely related to agriculture. Show how each is related to agriculture. Is Luther Burbank's work to be regarded as botanical or as agricultural? Why? To which of these sciences do plant variation and improvement properly belong?
Fame like Burbank's and fortune awaits the one who is a good self-advertiser and can find the use of the poetic daisies, goldenrod, and thistle, the all-pervading "pusley," and such other vegetable vermin.
If one or two aged persons complained that they could not sleep as sweetly during sermon-time in the now clear atmosphere of the church, and that the parson's eye was keener than before, why, that was a mere detail, and could not be avoided; what was the loss of a little sleep compared with the discoloration of Mrs. Jere Burbank's white ostrich feather and the smarting of Mrs. Jere Burbank's eyes?
"Very well. What is it?" He passed his swollen hand across his forehead. "What is it?" he repeated. "It's the limit, this time, if you want to know. I'm all in." "Roulette?" raising her eyebrows without interest "Yes, roulette, too. Everything! They got me upstairs at Burbank's. The game's crooked!
For instance he took away the ugly, thorny insipid cactus and replaced it by a beautiful smooth juicy one which is now making the western deserts blossom as the rose. The name of this man is Luther Burbank whose fame as a creator of new plants has become world wide. The basic principle of Burbank's plant magic comes under two heads, viz.: breeding and selection.
The very signs on the streets spoke of the boom. It was "Lumber, Coal, and Real Estate"; "Burbank's Livery, Feed, and Sale Stable. Office of Burbank Realty Co."; or "Thronson & Larson, Grocers. Choice Lots in Thronson's Addition."
Merriweather went to Woodruff, and Woodruff reported to me Scarborough's friends in Indianapolis all agreed that he did not want the nomination and would not have it. "We must force it on him," said I. "We must have Scarborough." Immediately after Burbank's nomination, Goodrich concentrated upon nominating Judge Simpson. He had three weeks, and he worked hard and well.
I had expected the other side to act stupidly, but I had not hoped for such stupidity as they exhibited. Burbank's year of bathing in presidential flatteries and of fawning on and cringing to the multi-millionaires and their agents hedging him around, had so wrought upon him that he had wholly lost his point of view.
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