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serve him a variety of purposes.
THE ROYAL PALM OF CUBA. "
ATree Called Blessed, of Which Every
Part is Useful.
Not only is the climate of Cuba fav-
rable to the planting of crops when-
ev ei the farmer chooses to plant them.
and the lands so 1ich that no fc1tiliza-
tion is ever required, but nature seems
ot have, with a beneficent hand,
reared 11' any strange trees and plants
.to- supply the wants of man without
the necessity of his planting them
himself. First among these are the
palms, some twenty-six varieties of
which adorn the fields of Cuba, giving
shade, food and life. At the head of
these stands the royal palm. This
majestic tree consists of a tall,
straight trunk of fibrous wood, sup-
porting a cluster of pennated leaves,
like a bunch of plumes on a long stick.
It is a marvel of beauty and utility,
yet it is one of the most common of
all trees in Cuba.
The palm has been called the
blessed tree, for every part of it has
its usefulness to mankind. Certain
medicinal qualities are claimed for its
roots, and its trunk is easily split into
strips, making excellent boards for the
siding of houses, benches and even
tables. As the trunk is without any
bark, and its sentre is very porous, in-
creasing in density toward the outer
surface, which is nearly as hard as
glass, it is only the outside hard shell
of the trunk which furnishes these
boards. From this hard, fibrous wood
some very pretty canes are made,
which take a most beautiful polish.
The leaves of the palm from the
centre of the trunk, first in the form
of a delicate spire shooting up, which
gradually unfolding itself, forms a new
leaf. These leaves continue to grow
from the centre spire to a great length,
forming the cluster which, in the case
of the royal palm, resembles so much
a bunch cf enormous plumes. The
leaves, when they cannot grow any
more, drop to the ground from the bot-
tom of the cluster, thus making room
for the new ones which are always
coming out of the centre. The bud or
root of the centre spire, from which
thé leaves grow, consists of a tender
substance buried deep down within
the cluster of green leaves, and forms
a very palatable food, either in the
raw state. or cooked as a vegetable, or
made'into' a preserve with sugar.
, One of the peculiarities of the royal
palm is the stem of its long leaves. It
is a semi-circular , stem, which em-
braces the trunk of the tree and holds
the leaf in place until it withers and
drops to the ground. The stem is
called the “yagua.” It resembles a
thin board, often as long as a man is
tall, and the Cuban insurgent, now
struggling for independence, makes it
For
example, while I was in the field it
frequently served me as a. plate, by
simply cutting off a section-of it. By
soaking it in water it’ is rendered plia-
ble, so that it may be folded almost as
readily as a piece of stiff paper. Thus
softened it is folded at the ends, some-
thing after'the fashion of a baker's
paper hat. and fastened with wooden
pins. In this shape it is called a
“catarro,” and serves the Cuban farm-
er as a. waiter-bucket, or a wash-basin,
or. a receptacle for milk, lard, cheese,
eggs, or whenever a receptacle of any
kind may be needed. I have seen a
group of rebels using a “yagua” thus
folded as a kettle in which to cook
their breakfast of beef and yams. The
water kept: the fibr‘dus wood from
burning, and I was assured that the
food thus cooked required no salt oth-
er than that which was extracted from
the “yugua’l in the process of cooking.
-—Robert Blight, in Current Literature.
Fun on the Outpost.
It is related of an Irish recruit on
sentry “duty at Chickamauga, one
night, that'hechallenged a figure in
the darkness with the usual “Who
goes there?" The reply, “The officer
of the day.',’ was something he was
not p1epared for, so he responded,
“Then, phat the divil are yez doin’ out
here at night?"——St. Louis Globe Dem-
ocrat. ,,
NOTES FOR DAILY THOUGHT.
Strive daily and hourly to be calm;
to stop yourself forcibly and recall
your mind to a sense of what you are,
where you are going and whither you
ought to ‘be tending. This is most
painful discipline, but most w’hole—
some. .—Reformed Church Messenger.
He is most my friend who teaches
me self— reliance; and self-reliance, .in
the last analysis, is reliance on those
laws and principles which can never
be severed from us.—Trinities and
Sanctities.
“There are people who can do all
fine and heroic things but one: keep
from telling their happiness to the.un-
happy.”—A Mark Twain Maxim, in
“Following the Equator.”
He that hath so many causes of joy
and so great is very much in love
with sorrow and peevishness who loses
all these pleasures, and chooses to sit
down upon his little handful of thorns.
Enjoy the blessing of this day, as God
sends them, and the evils of it bear
.patiently and sweetly, for this day is
only ours; we are dead to yesterday,
and we arenot yet born to the mor-
row.—Jeremy Taylor.
A Christian is always “on duty”—
never “off duty.” He must always let
the uniform of holiness appear. He is
set apart for the service of his Master
unremittently. Into his life there has
entered, a something which reminds
him that he must always be on his
best behavior, and must always be
seeking to live not to himself, but to
Him whose he is and whom he serves.
His actionsare. ever a matter of con-
eern to his Lord, and he takes pleas-
we in noting that the life is one of
complete self surrender, in little things
and in those of greater consequence.
—-Moravian.
How HE BECAME TREASURER.
Mr. Fouenden Greatly Surprised When
Chosen for This limes.
Congress was about to adjourn, aft-
er a long and anxious and laborious
session, in which Mr. Fessenden had
borne the conspicuous and responsible
part of leader in the Senate, where he
had been charged with all revenue
measures and the financial policy of
the government, says Ainsworth R.
Spofiord in the May Atlantic. He was
worn with daily and nightly labor, and
had looked forward longingly to the
accustomed rest of the summer vaca-
tion. He went to the White House
one morning (it was five days before
the adjournment) to' confer with Mr.
Lincoln as to the measures of legisla-
tion then in their final stages, and to
consult as to a proper candidate to be
proposed for the Treasury Depart-
ment. It was all-essential to secure
some one who would command public
confidence at such a critical juncture.
Mr. Lincoln put hishand upon Fes-
senden’s shoulder,. and declared that
he himself was that man. Surprised
and'almost confounded, the Senator
told the President that he could not
accept, that he was nearly worn out
with the responsibilities and toil of
the protracted session, and that for
him to assume the onerous duties of
the Treasury in the burning heat of
Washington, at such a moment, would
be dangerous, if not suicidal. He
could not. would not accept it, for,
besides his frail health, he did not feel
himself qualified for the oflice, Mr.
Lincoln replied with feeling and ener‘
gy, in a strong appeal to Mr. Fessenw
den’s patriotic impulses, with assur-
ances that he had the confidence of
the financial'interests of the country,
that he should have the way smoothed
by the aid of able lieutenants, and
closed by telling him that the nomina-
tion had already been sent to the Sen-
ate. In fact. Fessenden’s appoint-
ment had already been unanimously
confirmed.
He at once resolved to sink personal
considerations, and to enter upon the
office, with the proviso that he should
be at liberty to withdraw whenever a
fit successor should be found to re-
lieve him. He himself said .of it, “I
took the office reluctantly and as a
matter of duty, and vacated it just as
soon as I could. —A. R. Spaiford in At-
lantic Monthly.
THE MEpRlTS 0F» SEAWATER.
AWonderful Tonic for the Liver—Good
Advice to the Bathers.
A physician proffers advice to per-
sons who are fond of sea bathing. He
says that each man ought to learn for
himself the length of time it is advisa-
ble for him to stay in the water.
Many people stayin half anthour,
when they should not be mere than
five minutes or less, and the harm
they thus do to themselves may in
the long run be serious. Personswho
have low vitality and a slow, reaction
after the bath should make their bath
shorter, until they secure a‘ reaction-
ary glow immediately on. leavingvthe
water. Another bad , practice that
many people indulge in is to take a
drink of/whisky or other spirit as soon
as, theycan get into their clothes, for
the purpose of taking, out ,of their
months the taste of the sea water they
may have accidentally swallovved. In
this way, they are undoing a great deal
of the good the bath Is intended to do
them. As a matter of fact, one of the
most beneficial features of a sea bath
is the salt water inadvertently swal-
lowed by'the'bather. It is a wonder-
ful tonic for the liver, stomach and
kidneys. It is said that in manyvcases
it'will cure bilionsness when all drug
preparations have failed. It is pecu-
liarly efiective in ordinary cases of
indigestion, disordered stomach and
insomnia, and has been known to pro-
duce excellent results in many cases
of chronic dyspepsia. Clean sea wa-
ter is full of tonic and sedative prop-
erties, and two or three big swalloWs
of it, far from hurting anybody, is of
positive and distinct benefit to .nine
bathers out of ten—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
'l‘he Temptation too Great.
A pious old Indiana farmer was as-
signed to the duty of teaming, proba-
bly by mistake. The roads were mud-
dy, and the rest of the teamsters were
literally bombarding their charges
with oaths. Itwas against the old
manis principles to swear, and he held
his peace, albeit in impotent rage, At
last one of his hind mules balked and
refused to advance a step. The old
man used every endeavor to urge the
beast along, but to no purpose. At
last he roared, in a loud and solemn,
voice: “Oh, Lord. you know where this
mule ought to be, as well as anybody.
This whole army knows where he.
ought to be, oh, Lord; and if he
doesn’t move in a minute, I intend to
say so, by gum!”
Quick Cure.
“I’ve cured my husband’s
nia.”
“How did you do it?"
“Pretended I was sick, and the doc-
tor left medicine which Henry was to
give me every half hour all night
long.”—Chicago Record. ‘
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The Boasts of Love.
“My girl‘s band is as white as the
driven snow.” ,
“Pooh, that’s nothing; my girl’s
heart is as deep as a driven well.”-
Detroit Free Press.
Elimination.
“Say, w hat would you do if you had
a skeleton in your closet?"
“The best thing to do is to make no
bones of 1t”—-Ind1anapol1s Journal.
-A cup of very hot milk taken at bed-
time will, it is said, effectually prevent
sleeplessness.
HOW'CHAMBERL'AIN MET HIS WIFE.
He'Wasn’t Afraid to be the Only Man
Among a Number of American Beauties 1
Many persons can recall the visit
which Mr. Joseph Chamberlain made
to Washington in 1887 as chairman of
the Fisheries Commission. He was
the social lion of the hour. A Balti-
more lady who met him tells the fol-
lowing story:
“He was a big, burly man, caring so
little for his appearance that at one
of the most fashionable dinners of the
season his cravat got turned to almost
under his ear arid his shirt stud came
unfastened, and he sat calmly obliv-
ious to either accident. His brains
and charm in conversation won him
f1iends wherever he went.
‘ One day he called on a lady who
happened to be giving a girls’ lunch-
eon. She went out at once to see him,
and laughingly said that if he did not
mind being the only man present she
in the dining room and take the va-
rant place of one of her young friends
who did not come. He was not afraid
to face a lot of ‘American beauties,’ so
he accepted gayly, and the vacant
place happened to be next that of Miss
Endicott. daughter of Secretary of
War William~ C. Endicoft, 'of Massa-
chusetts, a dove-like, slender girl, one
of the greatest belles of the day.
“The outcome of this was the mar-
riage of the English statesman and
the ‘Puri‘tan maid,’ as she was often
called, his neighbor at an entertain-
ment to which he had only been bid-
:‘ien by that ‘fate which shapes our
ends, rough hew them as we will.’ "—
BaItimore Sun.
QUEZZEL, A BIRD OF LIBERTY.
It Dies Almost Immediately if Captured—
Has Two Doors to Its House.
,On all postage stamps of Guatemala
is engraved a somewhat distorted rep-
resentation of the quezzel, which is
rightly called the bird of liberty, as it
dies almost immediately when cap-
tured. So extreme is its love of free-
dom that if captured and in a few sec-
onds restored to liberty it would seem
as if the contamination of the band
could not be removed, and it will? drop
lifeless after flying but a few yards. If
It is caught in a trap it is always found
dead, and when the young are taken
from the nest they die at once. It is
country, and is seldom seen live, since
it cannot be kept long in captivity.-
h-aving two extremely long tail feath-
ers and a superbly crested head. It
is said that its pride in its tail feath-
ers is greater than its love of life, for
if one of them accidentally become
broken the bird goes to its nest and
"dies from grief sud-'mortific’ation. It
builds a round-roofed nest, having two
holes on opposite sides, so that the
quezzel literally “goes in at one door
and out at the‘o‘ther," and thus-avoids
consequently heart-breaking, by never
turning around in order to make its
exit from the nest.
,.
THE JOKE WAS ON THE TEAMSTER.
He Ordered General Sherman to Brush
Bil Mules. J.
A good story is told of one of Gen-
eral Sherman’s Missouri teamsters.
He had just joined the service, 'a raw
recruit, and was assigned to the task
of drivinga six-mule team: When the
army halted for the first night he was
wearily unharnessing his team.
“Hullo, there," said the wag of the
company, in passing. “What do you
mean by taking care of those mules
yourself? Why don’t you have the
hostler do it?"
“Why, I thought every man had to
take care of his own team," said the
bewildered teamster.
“You bet he doesn’t. We’ve got a
hostler for that. There’s his tent,
right over there. He’s a lazy, contra-
ry old cuss, and he may not want to
do it; but’you swear at him and he'll
move off at double quick,”
The Missourian strode over to the
tent indicated, which happened to be
General Sherman’s headquarters.
“Here, you son-of-a-gun,” he roared
fiercely, “get out of here and brush
those mules.”
Needless to say, the teamster spent
the evening in the guardhouse.—Chi~
cago Inter-Ocean.
Whore NoFio“ are Are Allowed.
“Flowers can play no part in a mili-
tary funeral, the rules of army or
naval burials forbidding them,” said
an army officer. “ thile I was down
at Chickamauga recently, it was ru-
mored that one of the soldiers in a
camp there had died. Indeed 'it was
suit was that on the following day a
large quantity of flowers were sent by
sympathetic ladies and others with a
request that they should be placed on
the coffin of the dead soldier. Now the
fact was that no soldier had died and
the officers had the flowers sent to
their quarters. If there were a death
in the camp the flowers could not be
used, for they are not military in any
sense. The only thing allowed on the
coffin of a soldier or sailor is a flag.
That has been decided to be decora-
1tion enough, and among military men
‘1 have never heard the slightest objec-
tion to the custom, which has always
prevailed.”——Washington Star.
\
, An Insulting Innuendo.
“Don’t this old injury hurt you
when you attempt. to run?” asked the
examining surgeon of a candidate for
enlistment, '
“Course. it does. If yer lookin’ for
soldiers what's goin’ to run, jest count
In China the detection of false coin:
is a skilled, prosperous profession
known as “Shromng.” and is taught in
1 special schools.
1
would be delighted if he would ,come
found only in a small portion of the-
I-tlis a. bird of beautiful plumage,
and necessity for tail-breaking. and.
so printed in a local paper. The re-
OUIRDEBT TOI'BUMBLE-BEES.“
The Part These Busy Workers Play in tht
Fertilization of Flowers.
The work of the bumble bee in bring-
ing about the cross fertilization of flow
ers is as important as that of the honey
bee, and these two stand at the head
of the line of insects_useful in this re:
spect. Each has its flower which it
alone visits, but there are many flower:
on neutral ground, visited by both.
So we may say of the bumble bee, as of
the honey bee, the more bumble bees
the more seeds; the more seeds the
more flowers; especially wild flowers,
as the tall bell 110mm,
Solomon‘s seal, gentian, 'Dutchmen’s
breeches, and turtle head. But proba-
.bly the most important work this in-
sect does for agriculture is upon the
fields of red clover. There Is abundant
proof that this plant will not produce
seed without the co-operation of the
bumble bee. It is impossible for the
wind to bring about the fertilization of
the seed, as it may do in. the one of
Indian corn, grain, and some forest
trees. The tube of red clover blossoms,
too, is so long that other insects (in-
cluding the honey bee) are not regu-
lar visitants.
Here is proof that this plant must
have visits from the bumble bee. This
insect is not a native ofrAustrallia, and
red clover‘ failed to produce seed there
until bumble bees were imported. As
soon as they became numerous the
plant could be~ depended upon for seed.
Again, the blossoms of the. first crop of
the “medium red clover" of our own
country are just as perfect as. those of
the second crop, but there are too few
bumble bees in the field, so early in the
season, to produce fertilization; hence
little or no seed in this crop. If bum-
ble bees were sufficiently numerous
there is no reason why much larger
yields of clover seed might not be ex-
pected than at present.--B. H. Standish
in St. Nicholas.
LIVING IN MANILA.
.An Establishment Maintained at a. Very
Low Cost.
A correspondent of the New York
Post says: It probably costs less to
live well in Manila-during peaceful
seasons--than in any other capital of
the East or West. Take the case of my
'messmate and myself for instance: 'We
had a. good house, with three bedrooms,
parlor and tiled floor diningroom; a
hallway, reading room, kitchen, boys'
quarters and bath room, with tiled tub
and shower. A small stable, garden and
ten-foot iron fence to keep out the bur-
glars, who used to grease themselves
and prowl around naked at dead of
night, seeking to steal ponies or even
carriage lamps, completed our estab-
lishment. Our cook, to be ready for
unexpected guests, served dinner each
evening for four, . and got but forty
cents to provide enough raw material
for six courses, including the firewood
necessary. At the end of the month
everything going into the general mess
account--house rent ($15 a. month), wa—
ges of three servants, food, drink. ice
and light~~was added up and divided
by two. The result was astonishing,
as $29 was the sum total of my month~
1y share. To live in such state and en-
tertain one’s friends for less than an
American dollar a. day absolutely spoils
one for subsequent existence ‘in this
country, and it is no wonder that many
a. Britisher--returning from Manila to
England via. the states--has been so
overwhelmed by his first laundry bill
in San Francisco that he has taken a.
through train for New York and sailed .
by the first outgoing liner, without
stopping even to see the bridges at Ni-
"agara. or the winter garden at- the As-
toria. '
”Milk.
Showed Ofl’ to Disadvantage.
A young organist living in Chicago
was fortunate in securing permission to
practice on the big organ in the Audi-
torium. One morning he ’sat at the
higher keyboard, trifling with the mu-
sic, improvising and playing odds and
ends. An elderly man walked in and
took a. seat a. few rows away from the
musician. The young organist noticed
him and was encouraged to “show off"
and do a. few tricks of playing for his
audience. He rambled on for an hour
and the elderly man sat there. appar-
ently impressed.
The young man tired at last and was
about to lock the organ, when the el-
derly man approached him and said in
broken English that he wished to play
for a few minutes. ‘
“They don’t allow anyone but an ex-
perienced organist totouch the instru-
ment,” said the young man loftily.
With a little gesture, suggestive of
meekness and humility, the stranger
presented this card:
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ALEXANDRE GUILMANT,
PARIS.
Then it was time for the young or-
ganist to swoon. He had missed the
chance of his life. For an hour he had
been entertaining the great master
with home made drivel.--Chicago Rec-
ord.
Couldn’t Tall Her Anything.
An old gentleman speaking to a
young lady, and commenting upon her
freshness and good looks remarked:
“Ah, my dear, may you long retain
them. Yours is a happy period of life;
you know nothing yet of the jealousies.
the rivalries that beset the pathways
of existence.”
“Don’t I, though,” she interrupts.
“I want you to understand that I be-
- long to a church choir.”
me out.”—Detroit Free Press. 3,4,.
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Mrs. Strongmind—“Why don’t you
go to work?”
Weary Willie -— “Please, _mum,~ I
made a solemn vow twenty years ago
that I’d never do another stroke of
work till women was paid the same
wages as men.”
touch-me-not,
' m? are”:
Norwalk Chronicler