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potato, have all passed through many transformations beneath 

 his magic wand — while the lamented Carman gave to the world 

 a group of newly-shaped potatoes, evolved in their entirety from 

 his resourceful brain. 



Nearer home, the northern wizard, Prof. Hansen, is, "as he 

 likes it," bringing, among other things, hardier perfection to 

 our smaller fruits, and the coming generation will revel in berries 

 that have defied King Winter's blustering blasts. 



Far across the waters we find Le Moyne re-creating the beau- 

 tiful shrubs just "as he likes them." That "grand old man," Glad- 

 stone, even in his younger days, was firm in the belief that each 

 for himself must trace and complete the picture on life's moving 

 panorama, and this is the story of his conversion : When a boy 

 he was invited to dine at the home of a famous duke ; as this 

 was his first outing among the nobility, his father being very 

 anxious he should appear at his best gave his this parting ad- 

 vice, "Watch the duke and do as he does." The house was 

 reached. Dinner announced and shortly after they were seated 

 at the table the duke turning in his chair blew his nose. Young 

 Gladstone immediately did likewise. This slightly annoyed the 

 duke, but when he gave an order to the butler, and the boyish 

 guest at once duplicated it, this was more than he could bear, 

 and turning to him he demanded why he did the same as he did. 

 With a sinking heart Gladstone answered, repeating to him his 

 father's advice, "Watch the duke and do as he does." In comment- 

 ing upon it Gladstone says, "I then and there resolved one could 

 not literally follow the doings of great men, and as the years have 

 passed on the conviction of that trying hour have deepened with 

 my growth, and in a broader sense I realize one must for him- 

 self study, strive, create, hewing out untrodden pathways." 



Thus has it been and ever will be. Success crowns individual 

 eflfort, the doing "as you like it," and from the environment of 

 nature, wherein the farm home proudly holds sway, have come 

 forth men and women who have dignified every station in life, 

 even to that that is the highest in the gift of the people, for only 

 at the hearthstone of the farm did Abraham Lincoln glean his 

 lessons of success, in after years completely sweeping away the 

 saying of Emerson "that from the farm could not come scholarly 

 wisdom." The ringing master words of the famous Gettysbury ad- 

 dress, the solemn admonitions of his second inaugural, that were 



