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Of thought and work, rather than TO those
who in the nature of the case can never get
beyond the average i'm knowledge and abili-
ueS2 Wisdom and not charity should be-
the controlling factor i'm the ARRANGEMENT
of the school curricula. Every teacher OF
experience knows that not a few OF his
brightest pupils have been seriously checked
IN their educational development by the
fact that they were compelled to advance
slowly in order that their weaker class
mates might keep up with them. We be-
lieve that it will be conceded by all teach
ers acquainted with the condition of affairs
In the secondary schools that the more
gifted of the pupils could readily finish the
nine years course in six years, and in this
way enter the universities at the age of If
teen instead of eighteen. as is now generally
the case, and thus enter professional life
fully three years earlier than they can
under existing circumstances. True this
innovation would demand the appointment
of some special teachers; but the results
would amply justify the additional costs.
Let the state try the experiment of arrang-
ing special courses or schools for those who
are gifted enough to do the work in less
than the ordinary time.
This proposal of Petzoldt finds an enthu-
siastic advocate in DR.. Bruno Meyer of Be-
lin, who publishes his article in the most
prominent general scientific journal in Ger
many, the Beilage or supplement TO the
Allgemeine Zeitung of Munich. He de-
clares that the proposed innovation would
inevitably win the favor of educators, and
mentions number of cases In his own eX-
perience showing how harmful 1t is 10 keep
back gifted pupils Other educators are not
quite as sure that such schools would prove
an undivided blessing. w. Won Massow, IN
the same journal (No- 220), publishes a re-
ply to the article of Bruno Meyer. He de-
clares that if education consists merely in
tho acquisition of facts; then such an
Innovation must be approved; but ne cons
terds that the highest ideal OF education,
at least in the stage of the secondary
schools, is the development Of intellectual
strength and acquisition of culture. For
this time is needed, and the superf1uous
time the bright student has at his disposal
and that is not needed for his school tasks
can be used for independent reading ana
study outside of the regular course, all OF
which contribute@to the realization OF this
ideal.
The idea here advanced is not altogether.
new in American educational circles. A.
number OF college men have advocated 4
system by which the student can graduate
ami secure his degree in three years, or,
evfn In two, instead of four. but no definite
experiment in this direction has yet been
made.
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SCHOOLS FOR THE GIFTED.
Special Instruction for Unusually Apt
Pupils in Germany.

+ rom TIE Literary Digest
In Germany, where general educational
ideals have been undergoing material
changes and the practical interests of life
have been making themselves felt as never
before in the higher educational institu-
lions, a unique problem has come into the
forefront of debate in the shape of de-
mand for special schools for bright and
gifted pupils The claim is not made for
the common schools but for the secondary
schools, namely, the classical gymnasium,
the Semi-clasSical real gymnasium and the
purely scientific Oberrealschule, each with
a nine years course leading up to the uni
versity. The chief protagonist of the new
scheme is DR.. ]. PetZoldt of the gymnasium
in Spauden, near Berlin, who first published
his discussion on the subject in q leading
educational review of the country, the
Neue Jahrbucher fur Paedagogik, but is
sued his paper also as special brochure
in the publication concern of B. G. Teub-
ner, Leipzig and Berlin, under the title,
Special Schools for Those Particularly
Gifted" His line of thought is practically
the following:
"All along it has been the custom of the
state and other organizations In control OF
schools to make special provisions for those
who are intellectually weak and are not
able to keep up with the progress OF those
with average endowment of mental powers.
There is not a particle of doubt in reference
to the wisdom of such special courses and
schools. and the underlying motives for
their establishment cannot fail to win the
approval of all fair-thinking people But
do not those, too, who are particularly
gifted deserve special consideration at the
hand of educators? Should not the strong
as well as the weak find their needs met IN
the establishment of our schools 1t GER
tainly is a fact beyond dispute that in one
and the same class there are those who can
do the work assigned in half the time which
1t takes the weaker members of the class
to do II. Should they not have the opportu-
nifty TO do so? Or rather. should not rather
special attention be paid to- those who
promise to become the leaders ia the world
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are polished after being deprived of their
flavor. We getting from all over the
world new varieties of rice for trial in our
special experiment stations In the Caro-
lnas, Louisiana and Texas. We hope to
introduce these and improve upon the Hon.
duras rice now grown here.
X *
Another thing which we have picked up
abroad is the turpentine tree Of southern
Australia. Its timber is believed TO be
proof against the 'toredo.' that little mol
lusk which destroys the piles of piers built
OF these for the Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco. From Uruguay we are intro
ducing a potato supposed to grow well in
have found a drouth-ressting grain which
fail for lack of water; and from Bohemia
ready in New Jersey is yielding a ton more
per acre than the native species.
Have you any men now travelling
abroad"
Frank Meyer, one of our explorers, is
varieties of peaches representing an en-
tirely different race from the American.
North and west of Picking he is finding in
the mountains a large and perfectly hardy
persimmon four inches in diameter and
which will grow here far north as New
York He is also finding new varieties of
pears, grapes, chestnuts and walnuts."
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. .
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its iusipid flavor. For some years it will
be difficult of COurSF, to educate our peO-
pie to the fact that there IS as much diff
ference in species among n2angoes as among
other plants. They do not stop to inquire
into this. The first mango which they eat
is insipid therefore all others must be
Having eaten the East Indian mango al
ready thriving eXceilently in Florida, they
will think differently. The western va
rieties are not fit to eat because almost
all are seedlings
"A great mango industry will grow up in
Florida. Besides the East Indian species,
already successful there, we will soon be
receiving others from India, Philippines,
East Africa and Tahiti.
Here are some men in the Carolinas
whose lands they say aren't worth any
thing. They want to know II there isn't
some foreign plant which they can expert
ment with. We are going 10 introduce on
this land the 'chayote.' a large fruit
somewhat pear shaped, but rough on the
surface, and growing upon perennial
a flavor more delicate than that of the
cucumber and a texture little like that
Of the squash but an excellent flavor far
superior to either. 1t has been introduced
from the West Indies and has been already
grown on a small scale by Creoles near
new Orleans. 1t is absolutely unknown IN
the northern markets, although 1t will -four
ish anywhere within belt from Whining
ton. y. c., down to the gulf and back 30
miles from the sea in the lowlands. 1t
yields crop every year, and the vegetable
come more vigorous year after year. To
my personal knowledge two vines grown
upon our soil produced 100 fruits apiece.
To start a demand for it Immediately after
its introduction went to Mr.. Hilliard, man
ager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and laid
the matter before him. 1t is now upon his
menu, baked. boiled and sliced for salad.
took it also to the Belevue-Stratford peo-
pie in Philadelphia. who say that 1t makes
the best salad which they ever tasted. Here
are recipes for cooking the chayote as
PURGE saute or as fritters; for frying it.
stuffing it, baking in cream, cooking it Ia
Lyonaise, a In BarigOule etc Chayotes
are already growing in South Carolina,
upon a farm near Georgetown.
X
X Z.
a new salad plant which we are intro
due!ng from Japan IS the lido While
over there I saw in the market peculiar
vegetable shoots entirely new TO me, and
upon inquiry l learned that they were
priced not only by the Japanese. but by
the American colony in Japan, as a salad.
These shoots are short, something like those
of asparagus, but are much more crisp like
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KING EDWARDS
BUSINESS METHODS
Special Correspondence of The Star.

LONDON, January II, 1906.
King Edward is one of the largest users in
England of American business conveniences
and labor-saving devices. 1t seems that
quite recently he adopted the American
card-index and letter fling system in deal
ing with his vast daily correspondence, be-
sides having speaking tubes of American
make installed in Buckingham Palace,
American typewriters, roll-top desks and
office furniture are used extensively not
only at the royal residence in London, but
at Windsor Castle and Sandringham House,
the kings country seat in Norfolk.
That King Edward is one of the busiest
men in Europe most people are aware, but
the exact methods by which his majesty
dispatches his daily work are little known.
In his private office everything the king uses
is methodized, so to speak, down to the last
degree His tables are arranged at a GER
tain angle and everything on his desks has
its fixed place. This table arrangement is
followed wherever the king goes-whether
at Sandringham, Windsor, or even when
travelling on the continent. On each desk is
a tray of note paper. classified according to
size and purpose This is always at the
left hand of the king. Other trays, of spe-
cial shapes, are used for letters to be an
swered and for those ready to be signed.
By writing his notes and letters on sheets
which are not to be folded the king has
managed to save his staff considerable time.
On certain of the letters the king writes
species of cryptic signs, the Interpretation
of which is known only TO the staff. This
is a kind of shorthand which the king is
said to write very rapidly. 1t is a we'll
known fact that letters sent to the king are
answered with the utmost promptness-that
import TO require ministerial advice.
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All the desks at Buckingham Palace are
of the typical "roll-top" variety, and the
king carries in his pocket a small master
key which will open any of them. The
same key fits the desks at his other seats
Windsor, .ietc.
Another time-s saving scheme introduced
by the king into his work is the use of
and colored envelopes are used extensively
for all kinds of Work coming under special
heads.
Considering all the kings pet time-saving
ideas 1t might truly be said that he is one
of the most methodical and rapid workers
in the world today. Equipped with all the
lightning devices of the twentieth century,
he is enabled to dispatch a marvellous vol
ume of business in g given time. The pop
ular idea that the king has what might be
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3D1.aI c-1,-I5aI-rc- u Tho SUI.

LONDON, January Is. 1906.
~ r. Cornwall Round. a medical prac-
uhoner in London. claims to have
discovered how 90 live forever
- barring accidents. As he is only
forty years old himself il cannot
be said that in his own person he
offers even presumptive evidence OF the
truth of his theories. But that is no rea-
son. he thinks why he should not start a
lot Of other people living forever and he
has Just coutided TO The Stars correspond
ent how the thing can he done.
According to Or, Round dying Is simply
q bad racial habit which we have all got
ten into and should strive our utmost TO get
out or AS matter of fact" he said, we
each have the free will to create our own
ideal Of longevity, and according to our
faith IL VIII be done unto us Those who
cannot muster faith enough to persuade
themselves that they cannot go on living
indefinitely should endeavor 10 emulate
Methuselah. who. Dr. Round reminds us,
lived 10 be 800 wears old. surely said
the doctor. chat is a better ideal than the
equally authoritative" And II people can't
convince themselves that they may equal
Methuselah's longevity record they might
fix their ideal on Moses. who. according 20
Scripture. was an hundred and twenty
years old when he died; his eye was not
dim nor his natural force abated'
The thing to be fought against Snd elm
mated is what DR.. Round calls the death
instinct" That II appears. Is something
which has been transmitted TO US by our
benighted ancestors. who, because they OBJ
served that all lives ended in death. were
Illogical enough 10 assume that there was
no way OF stopping It. In getting rid OF
this death instinct and laying the founda-
lions OF perpetual life 4 great deal depends
upon getting the solar pleXus to behave
itself properly.
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fornia, Louisiana and Georgia and have
found that they withstand those climates.
We will cooperate with the wealthy gentle
man in the Carolnas and see if he cannot
raise II there. The greatest cork oaks of the
world are grown in Algeria, Sicily, Sardinia,
Corsica, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
Spain alone exports 200,000,0g0 champagne
corks year.
Another man, in North Carolina, has
5000 acres on which he wishes TO expert
ment. L have suggested that he grow the
japanese paper plant. We have thousands of
these recently imported in our California
station. They will grow in the United States
as far north as Washington. d. c. From the
inner bark is obtained this white fiber which
Is macerated first into cardboard, then into
sort of ch3mois skin, and then treated
with oil until it becomes what you see
here-an excellent substitute for leather.
You could not tell this cigarette case or
that card case from finished leather, unless
you examined them closely. Here is n Jap
anese rain coat made of the same paper
treated in different way. 1t is very like
the oil skins Of our fishermen, only heavier.
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burrows on his brow. That may be due to
the fact that he constantly impresses his
solar plexus with the idea that he feels and
looks younger day by day Or 1t may be
that his great discovery really involved no
hard thinking.
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a cessation of all unpleasant discussion-in
fact, the less said the better.
so, when assimilating food and drink
we should as far as in our power lies, have
congenial surroundings and think our high
est thoughts. and in this way salt our
bread with our own best ideals"
This seems fairly easy. In fact, most of
DR.. Rounds tips for Immortality are easy.
Rich and poor alike can practice them. We
can even utilize our olfactory organs to
keep our solar pleXi up to the mark.
Smell, amongst all our Senses" he says,
seems to be the one that has the longest
memory for associated ideas. Thus we can
also make the sense of smell an avenue for
healthful impressions by mentally connect
ing some chosen ideal with particular
odor. For instance. write on incense paper
health Is natural or some other affirma-
ton which you wish to impress on YOURSELF
ignite the paper and hold yourself in mem
tally relaxed passive condition. then the
perfume will tend to convey the associated
suggestion to your solar plexus
The best time says DR.. Round, for con-
veying life-r renewing impressions to the
solar pleXus is on awakening or falling
asleep. AS one of the means of attaining
perpetual life he advises hanging on the
wall near the bed placard containing this
inscription in white letters on black back
ground: Il feel and look younger day by
day"
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termed "a lead-pipe cinch will scarcely
hold good when one considers the business
he transacts each day, to say nothing of
the various and often boring functions
which he must attend in person; each one
of which requires a special dress, and often
a special attitude of mind
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This should be looked at hard. very hard,
just before going to sleep and just after
waking in the morning. If the solar plexus
should carry out the suggestion to Its log
zeal conclusion it would follow that in the
course of a few years adults would not only
renew their youth, but go back to the bottle
stage of infancy However, it may be as
sumed that the cultivated solar plexus may
be depended on to exercise some Judgment
in the matter, even If the individual ego
doesn't.
II people got the living-forevar habit and
continued to rear children and teach them
the trick, 1t is obvious that long before any
reached Methusalehs age this earth would
become so densely populated that it would
be impossible to move around without
treading on somebody's toes. and the strug-
gle for existence would lead to universal
cannibalism. DR. Round was asked If he
had considered what an awful future he
was preparing for the human race. He
answered, somewhat loftily, that as a dis
coverer he had not concerned himself with
the ultimate consequences of his discovery.
He is a chubby-faced man. There are no
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LONDON DOCTOR TELLS
HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

ton of his anatomy. and thereby won the
fstic heavyweight championship. But ac-
cording to DR.. Round there is a deal more
in the solar pleXus than Bob Fitzsimmons
ever found out. 1t is the abdominal
BRAIN It controls the sympathetic or in
voluntary nervous system" which has a
whole lot to do with the emotions. And the
man who gets it to obey the behests of the
brain, working tremendously with it instead
OF kicking against 1t. may, If DR.. Rounds
discovery amounts to anything, live long
enough to beat Methuselahs record out of
sight.
1.-THE diseases of everyday life" said DR..
Round, ARE the solar plexus' attempts to
throw off effete poisonous matter from the
system and so right a wrong-a former sin
against ourselves that we have knowingly
or unknowingly committeeman at the
same time by painful symptoms give us a
friendly warning that we are miscOnducting
the internal affairs of the body and should,
therefore, set our house OF flesh In order"
SO the important thing IS to So train and
treat the solar pleXus that II won't give in
when old age and disease tackle us The
solar pleXus. the doctor tells US, is remark
ably amenable to suggestions 1T will"
he says, carry any suggested idea TO its
logical conclusion Chat Is evidently what il
did when Fitzsimmons hit II so hard), and
by means of the sympathetic nervous sys-
TEN II will tend to rebuild the body accord
ing to the logical result deduced from the
accepted suggestion"
According to DIR. ROWS, we should fight
shy of burialS. They --yEVev suggestions
that are very bad for the solar plexus We
should avoid also reading tales that end
badly, or witnessing maudliu dramatic
tragedies, or recapitulating them in our
thoughts. In fact. such mental virus, which
Is the expression OF morbid minds, should
be, as noxiouS drugs are, marked with a
poison label in the interest of the unwary."
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partment has three experimental date or
chards two in Arizona and one in Califor-
mia. Up to date we have imported for these
1900 date palms costing as high as $40
apiece. Fresh dates a few days from the
tree will be a new delicacy for the Aneri-
can table. There is the same difference be-
tween a fresh and dried date as between a
fresh and dried plum.
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americans have never become great rice
eaters because the millers supplying them
polish off from the rough rice thin layer
OF favoring substance left on by all other
nations. Rice served in America COM
pared with that served in Japan is
mushy, tasteless mass. We also eat paraf-
fin with our rice, for with that the grains
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THE question of growing commercial
camphor in this country is going to come
up. We have distributed camphor trees
from seed imported from Japan and scat
tered them over the south. They will grow
as far north as Charleston, s. c., and the
first industry will be the extracting of
camphor from the leaves and twigs. In
less than five years we will be manufacture
ing camphor in this country.
I'VE are introducing banboos into the
gulf states, Florida and California, having
obtained it from China and Japan. We
are planting the japanese mating rush in
Texas and the CaroIinas. Already there
is a firm here which weaves mating, but it
has to import its rushes from Japan.
Here is letter from a wealthy man
down in the Carolinas who wants to grow
cork oak We import into this country
every cork that we use and we pay over
81 CG0, coo a year for this product Yet there
isn't a cork oak forest in this country. We
have introduced a few cork oaks into Cali
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(Coryrls1t. 1906. hy John Eifreth Watkins)
zw rv7 OW Uncle sam is securing the
earth to it's far.hcst corners in
1TT search OF delicious now things to
eat and then making them grow
Within the shadow of old glory Is
n story which am going to tell you with
the assistance OF Mir. Davte Grandson
Faircbld. lutan'St and explorer for the De
partmcnt of Agriculture's new office OF
ulant introduction This euterprising young
Michisauder after having been born IN
the ag-i.ul,u college of his state, was
graduated at that Of Kansas and took post
graduate studies at Naples, Bresl1u, Berlih'
Munster Bonn and Buitcnzorg Java.
Since then he has explored the Dutch East
Indies. South sen islands, Siam, Australia,
New Zealand West Indies. South America,
Egypt, Ceylou. New Guinea, Japan. China,
Africa and the Persian Gulf, in each in
stance searching for plants to be introduced
into tie United States Today he has charge
of the entire exploration work IF DR.. Gal
loways excellent bureau of plant industry
and has other men rausackiug the earth
under his direction.
There is no crop that | know of that
can't be grown in some part or other of
our possessions he told me this morning.
ours Is the only country, except England,
of which this is true Not even vast Rus
STA can boast as much, and certainly not
France or Germany.
ITO best give you an idea as to our cur
rent work of introducing plants into the
United States proper | will pick up. one 10y
one, this pile Of applications from people
scattered throughout the country applying
to me FOR some foreign plants which may
be adaptable to the soil and climate of their
states. Let me explain i'm the beginning
however. that with the meIgor appropria-
ton allowed US for this work by Congress
we can afford 10 distribute these Imported
plants only among those private expert
mentors whose regulations are well known
to us-who, we know from experience. Will
experiment scientifically.
Is s.
Here IS such man very anxious TO
grow mangoes in Florida. Having collect
ed maugocs from an parts of the world
we now have iu our greenhouses the best
varieties grown. and most delicious Of these
Is the East Indian species. II tastes like
delicious cEstard. whereas the West In
Nan variety which alone Americans have
eaten up TO date, has prejudiCed many by
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1--WE are also" says the doctor very sug-
gestable when eating and drinking, as our
attention is. or should be, at these times
fully occupied, with nothing to spare for
self-defense. At meals there ought to be
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Many people In America first heard of the
solar plexus through Bob Fitzsimmons, who
knocked out Corbett by landing on that por-