HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1922-10-12, Page 7PATIENCE AND HARD
WORK ARE HIS
“SECRETS.”
Good Health Maintained Through
Rich, Red Blood.
everyday things
which they are not
instance. They have
name, for they are
!
is to take Dr. Williams’ Pink
There is scarcely a nook or
in Canada where someone will
found who will tell you the
they have had through the use
espe-
chief
years
the seeds under all sorts of
of climate, soil, and nour-
The products of these ex-
are in turn improved until
Worked Wonders in Plant-
Life, Producing Seedless
Potatoes and Shell-less
Walnuts.
While I was making my “tour of in
spection” through California I took the
opportunity of visiting Luther Bur
bank, says an English writer.
Burbank is one of the marvels of the
age in his own line of business. He
has Improved upon Nature almost
past belief. His speciality lies in mak
ing plants of all kinds much more per
fect than they ever were before.
What is Luther Burbank’s secret?
There isn’t one. He has simply used
intelligence and patience in crossing
plants, and has brought out more
varieties of plants than any other man
in history. But it has taken him half
a century of labor and some 100,000 ex-,
periments. The seedless potato which
he evolved some fifty years ago has
had a greater effect on the world’s sup
ply than any single plant.
Horticulturists and floriculturists
have been doing the same thing for
centuries. Luther Burbank has been
more successful than any of them be
cause he possesses the capacity for
taking infinite pains, and that is an
other way of saying he is a genius.
Weird Walnuts.
Patience and hard work, and
cially patience, have been the
factors to his success. For fifty
he has thought of nothing else.
Deciding first what he wishes to
create, recreate, or improve in the
vegetable world, he begins by select
ing specially fine speciments, allowing
them to go to seed, and then experi
ment with
conditions
ishment.
periments
the desired result Is obtained.
Far be it from me to belittle the
fame of Luther Burbank. But I want
to dispel the idea that he possesses
any supernormal powers, just as I am
anxious to dispel the stories of “black
magic” on his part. The truth about
this really great man is much more In
teresting than are the wild tales told
about him.
The cinema is often spoken of as one
of the greatest benefactors of man
kind. Well, Luther Burbank has done
more for his fellowman than all the
film stars going. He has added to the
wealth of the world to an extent that
we cannot yet estimate.
Only he doesn’t employ a Press
agent, so the world doesn’t hear much
about him and his wrork.
I returned to my first question—
how he had produced the spikeless
cactus. For those who do not know
this armor-plated plant, I just wish to
say that the cactus is thorns and then
more thorns. At least, it was until
Burbank got busy with it.
“How did you do it?” I asked.
“I simply experimented with the
seeds until I got what I wanted,” he
replied, casually dismissing years of
work. “It took time, and I don’t know
how many experiments. In the end I
produced a new and better variety of
cactus—and that’s all.
“And that is what I am trying to do
—to produce better grains, nuts, fruits
and vegetables,” he w'ent on. “I am
not only striving after new forms, col
ors and flavors, but for a better food
supply for the world with less waste.
My new wheat has been awarded a
first prize in Canada. It is the finest
wheat in the world. I have also a new
oat and a new barley which will add
millions to the world’s wealth.
“Just now I am devoting most of my
time to new’ varieties of fruits and
nuts. You know, before I produced my
plums it was impossible to export any
California plums, as they got spoiled
on the way. So I just grew a thicker
skin on them!
I also developed some walnuts with
out any shells, but the birds ate them
off the trees, so I had to grow the
shells back again. I want to show
you my walnut trees. I think they are
one of the finest
duced. 44
The Old,
He led me out
which, by the wray, are not exception
ally large, and only boast of a green
house no larger than many of the con
servatories one sees in the grounds of
ardent amateur flower-growers. Here
he pointed out to me a huge tree.
grew that tree in ten years, and
as large as a two hundred and
year old tree,” he explained. “It
cross between the black and the
There are many men ffnd women
who, every few weeks, have spells of
weakness, during which time they are
little better than invalids; yet at other
times they feel very well. Why does
their health fluctuate so?
In the case of men worry and over
strained nerves are usually respon
sible for this state of unfitness and
inability to face the anxieties of daily
life.
As for women, her back aches, she
is dizzy with sick headaches, and of
ten has stabbing pains in the side.
The only real health is all-the-year-
round health; and the secret of it is
good, red blood and plenty of it. One
way to keep the blood in good condi
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Pills.
corner
not be
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through the improved condition of the
blood they strengthen and tone up the
nerves of worried, enfeebled men and
women, and at the same time have
given new vigor to pale, delicate girls
and thin weedy boys. The value of
these pills in all run down conditions
is shown by the statement of Mrs.
Lawrence Brown, Walton, N.S., who
says:—“When I began taking Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills I was in a weak,
bloodless and nervous condition suf
fering from all the depressing symp
toms that accompany this run down
state of health. I had taken much
medicine but it did not do me any
good, and as I had a family of small
children, I was much discouraged.
Then, reading about Dr.
Pink Pills, I decided to try
I can honestly say that I
pills have saved me from
misery. My health is now
we now keep the pills in the house for
use as a family medicine.”
You can get Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
through any dealer in medicine or by
mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes
for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams’ Medi
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Australia exports 24,000,000 rabbit
skins every year.
Williams’
them, and
feel these
prolonged
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Did You Know This?
Many ordinary,
have names to
really entitled.
Take tins, for
no right to the
made of sheet iron, -with only the thin
nest coating of tin.
Nor is “galvanized” iron really gal
vanized; it is merely dipped in molten
zinc to give it the galvanized appear
ance.
The camel has nothing to do with
the camel-hair brushes so beloved of
artists, for they are made principally
from squirrel’s hair, and sealing-wax
does not contain an atom of wax. It
is made from shellac, cinnabar, and
turpentine. It is the same with lead
pencils, which contain no lead, and
kid gloves that have no connection
with young goats but are made from
sheepskin.
From its name, one would think that
the tit-mouse was a rodent, instead of
a harmless, dainty little bird. The
nightingale is not by any means only
a night singer; its sweet song is heard
just as frequently by day.
Small flies are not baby flies ; they
never grow any bigger, for the size
of flies does not vary once they are
fully formed. The dragon-fly is often
accused of sting; in reality, it is per
fectly harmless.
It is a fallacy to suppose that a cat
can see better in
daylight, for it
powers of sight
highly developed
and many of the humbler creatures.
A beef-eater does not get his name
from the fact that he eats nothing
but beef, The original word was buf-
fetier, a French word, meaning a man
who waited at the Royal table or buf
fet.
Perhaps you have thought that it is
steam which you see coming out of the
kettle spout when the water boils.
Steam is invisible; what you see
condensed moisture.
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Timely Warning.
The newly-appointed manager
banking branch was being introduced
to his employees.
He singled out one of the men at
the cashier’s desk, questioning him in
detail about his work.
“I have been here forty years,” said
the cashier’s assistant, with conscious
pride, “and in that time I have only
made one slight mistake.*'
“Good,” replied the new manager.
“But hereafter be more careful.”
I
the dark than in the
cannot, though its
at night are more
than those of man
things I have pro-
Old Story,
into his gardens,
“I
it is
fifty
Is a
English walnuts. Its timber is nearly
ten times as valuable as that of the
ordinary walnut. Think what that
means. A forest of them would be
worth a fortune.”
As we walked about he pointed out
to me various experiments which were
under way.
And as we talked I got an insight in
to his philosophy of life, which was
even more interesting than the plant
wonders he had shown me.
Luther Burbank is an o-ptimistic pes
simist.
“There is as much in life to hope
tor as there is to fear,” he told me.
“Life is self expression, with action in
•ertaln definite directions, based on
Baechanical or chemical change. You
<^nnot get away from the facts of evo-
taVon.”
A Devout Oriental.
While on a special mission to the
United States, a Persian official was
entertained by a wealthy American,
w’ho invited the Oriental to his coun
try place near the national capital. On
the morning of the Persian’s arrival t
his host visited him in his apartment1
and was astonished, so the story runs,I
to see the Persian hopping about the
floor in the most curious way. The'
host ventured to ask the reason for
this extraordinary conduct; whereup-1
on the Persian said: , A
“This rug is, as you see, green in
color with pink roses here and there.
Now, green is a sacred color with Per
sians, so I am obliged to hop from rose ;
to rose. It is very good exercise, but I
somewhat fatiguing.”
read
and
Diplomacy.
Young six-year-old Walter was
ing a book far beyond his years.
He looked up (he often did)
said:
“Papa, wrhat does diplomacy mean?”
“Diplomacy, Walter, means doing
the right thing at the right time.”
The boy was silent for a minute.
Then suddenly he spoke again.
‘Then, I suppose,” he said,
diplimacy last night?”
“How was that?” asked his
“Why, when mother came
the castor oil last night,
Johnny over into my place, and then
rolled him back again before she got
to the other side!”
“I used
father,
in with
I rolled
SAVED BABY’S LIFE
is
of a
Surnames and Their Origin
HARKER
Racial Origin—English.
Source—A given name.
An older but obsolete form of this
family name would be ‘Harkerson, or
perhaps “Harbison,” for it really be
longs in the classification of surnames
which end in “son” and which origin
ally indicated the parentage of their
bearers.
In a sense the name can claim great
er antiquity than the English names
of Norman origin, for it comes not
from a Norman given name but from
an Anglo-Saxon name which was in
wide use prior to the Norman inva
sion, and w'hich persisted even through
that period, just as many other Saxon
names did. As a matter of fact, how
ever, it is likely that the family name
wrns formed just about the same time
the others were, and it is only as a
given name that we can pick it up
prior to the Norman invasion.
“Hardgaer” and “Heregaer” were
the spellings which the Anglo-Saxons
gave the name, and if you’ll try it
yourself you’ll see there is really lit
tle difference between the pronuncia
tions of “barker” and “hardgar.” The
meaning of this given name was
“strong spear,” or in the more general
sense, “strong weapon.”
DOLAN
Variations — Dooley, Dowly, Doolan,
Dulan, Dowling.
Racial Origin—Irish.
Source—A clan name.
There is conflicting testimony re
garding the origin of the Anglicized
forms of the Irish family name which
we know as Dolan, Dooly, Dooley,
Dowly, Dulan- and Dowling.
Some authorities claim that the
ji-ame comes from a chieftain who was
a descendant of one “Fiacha Snidhe,”
a brother of that famous Irish High-
King known as Conn of the Hundred
Battles.
But a greater weight of evidence,
however, indicates that there aie real
ly two names of Dolan or Dooley.
There was a Dolan or “O’Dubh’.ein”
clan in what is now the barony of Tul-
laghagh in Cavan County, and this
clan, it is pretty certainly established,
derives its name from
Dubhlen,” a chieftain
times.
The other Dolan clan is
known under the name
Prior to the English invasion it held
che territory of Fertullagh in West
meath. The name came from that of
“Dubhlaodh,” the founder of the clan,
and the Irish spelling of this clan
name is “O’Dubhlaoidh.”
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In Proportion.
For- weeks Perkins had been ill in
hospital. With the beginning of con
valescence he called loudly for food,
declaring that he was being starved.
“The doctor says you may have
something to eat to-morrow,” said the
nurse soothingly.
Now Perkins realized that there I
would be a restraint to his appetite;
yet in his mind he could behold a
meal, albeit a modest one, at his bed
side.
On the morrow nurse entered and
announced: “Here’s your dinner.” And
she gave him a spoonful ;of tapioca,
adding, “The doctor says .that every
thing else you do must be in the same
proportion.”
A little later nurse was summoned
to Perkins’ bedside.
“Nurse,” he gasped, “I want to
some reading; please bring me
postage stamp.”
do
a
“Eochaidh
of medieval
more widely
of Dowling.
Says Indigestion
Was Entirely
Overcome
Hope for the millions of unfortunate
men and women who are victims of
stomach trouble is sounded by Mrs.
O. E. Smith, of 169 Yarmouth Road,
Toronto, Ont. Mrs. Smith was a vic
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health by taking Tanlac. She says:
“I suffered terribly from indigestion,
headaches and dizzy spells. My kid
neys also bothered me, and my back
and legs hurt constantly. But since I
took Tanlac my digestion is
and I never have an ache or
any kind. In fact, I feel just
the time.”
Undigested food ferments
stomach and soon the entire system is
filled with poisons. Tanlac was de
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Real Expansion.
“Now,” said the physician who was
examining an applicant for life insur
ance, “I shall have to ascertain your
chest expansion.”
'“My what?” asked the applicant.
“He means,” said a friend who had
come along, “the difference between
what you measure when your chest is
not inflated and what you measure
when it is inflated.”
“Oh,” said the applicant, beginning
dimly to understand. “Ten years ago
I measured around here”—indicating
his rotund stomach—“only thirty-two
inches. I measure forty-eight now. I
guess what you call my chest expan- i
sion is sixteen inches.”
Never Mind What Granny Did
Remember—You’ re You!
MANY people refuse to believe
that tea or coffee can possibly
harm them, because they have used
these table beverages ever since they
outgrew the health rules relating to
children.
If you are free from headaches,
nervousness and indigestion, if you
never lie awake at night, if you know
that your health is unimpaired—then,
perhaps, you are an exception, too.
like !
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Playing It Safe.
In navy circles there is told the
story of an old sailor named Bill Tay-'
lor, who, while under court-martial,
had been so impressed with the in
structions of the young officer detailed
for his defense that he was deter-
mined to exercise all care as to quali
fying evidence when he was not abso
lutely certain. So, when ihe Judge
Advocate asked him his name he re
plied:
“My name is William Taylor—or
words to that effect.”
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is
precious as
separate a
from a mo-
identical so
We five in
“Nonsense!” they say, “Why,
Granny has been drinking tea or cof
fee all her life.”
It’s true that some folks drink tea
and coffee without apparent harm.
These are the exceptions. But to
most people there comes a day of
reckoning.
BUT —it’s well to know that, when
you do find something the matter
with your nerves and digestion, there’s
a happy, healthful, table beverage
made from roasted wheat. Its name
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“There’s a Reason
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Saving Time Lengthens Life.
Think of the tremendous efforts and
pains business men take to attain the
highest possible efficiency in manufac
turing, in handling and selling, in
building, the cutting off of unneces
sary steps, studying the science cf
short cuts and effectiveness; but how
few pay any attention at all to the
time efficiency, the saving of the min
utes and the hours as precious success
products.
There is nothing so
time, because we cannot
particle of our existence
ment of time. They are
far as we are concerned,
what we call time.
Now, I presume that the majority of
people could save at least one hour a
day during their whole active careers,
by rearranging their life schedule.
Most of us sleep too much. It doesn’t
follow that because we are sleepy
when our usual time arrives to get up
we need more sleep. If we lie abed
nine hours or eight hours, and even if
we sleep most of the time, it does not
follow that we would suffer if we
should cut off an hour of this precious
time, because we would naturally sleep
better during the shorter time we al
lowed ourselves.
I believe that seven hours of good
sound sleep is enough for anybody, ex
cept small children and babies. I
doubt if any healthy adult needs more.
If those who are strong and in good
health only allowed themselves this
much time I believe they would get
all the sleep they needed.
Just think what it would mean to
save an hour a day for self-improve
ment, for good reading, for self-cul
ture in different directions! How we
could enlarge and enrich our lives
with all these saved hours a week!—j
O. S. Marden.
ISSUE No. 40—'22.
Hurry mother! Even a sick child,
loves the “fruity” taste of “California
Fig Syrup” and it never fails to open
the bowels. A teaspoonful to-day may
prevent a sick child to-morrow. If con
stipated, bilious, feverish, fretful, has
cold, colic, or if stomach is sour,
tongue coated, breath bad, remember
a good cleansing of the little bowels
is often all that is necessary.
Ask your druggist for genuine “Cali
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for babies and children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother! You must
say “California” or you may get an
imitation fig syrup.
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Many Times It’s a Guide to
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Women—Read It
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