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these stands the royal palm.
its a ”Semi-circular stem,
Ebraces the trunk of the tree and holds
jithe leaf in place until it withers and
;drops to the ground.
"called the “yagua.”
thin board, often as long as a man is
'tall, and the Cuban insurgent, now
struggling for independence, makes it
sevrvé'hlm a. variety of purposes.
example, while I was in the field it
simply cutting off a section ofit.
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THE ROYAL PALM OF CUBA.“-
ATree Called BlesSed, of Which Every
Part is Useful.
Not only is the climate of- Cuba fav-
orable-to the planting of crops when-
ever the farmer chooses to plant them,
and, the lands so rich that no fertiliza-
tion is ever required, but nature seems
0t have, with a beneficent hand,
reared many strange t1ees 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 heaghof
IS
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
bank, 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 of enormous plumes. The
leaves, when they cannot grow any
Imore; dropto 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
BNTEB‘
the~ leaves grow, consists of a. tender
substance buried deep down within
the cluster of green leaves, and forms
Ea. 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
I which em-
The stem is
It resembles a
For
frequently served me as a plate, by
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 isfolded 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
“catarm',” and serves the Cuban farm-
er as a watterlbucket, or a wash basin,
or a receptacle for milk, lard, cheese,
eggs, or whenever a receptacle of any
kind may be needed. . l; have seen a
group of rebels using a “yagua” thus
folded as a kettle. in which to cook,
The.
water kept: the fibrous wood from
their breakfast of beef and yams.
burning, and I was assured that the
food thus cooked required no salt oth-
er than that which was extracted from
the “yagua” in the process of cooking.
-—Robert Blight, in Current Literature.
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Fun-on the Outpost.
It is related of an'lrish recruit; on
sentry duty at Chickamauga, one,
night, that be challenged a figure in
the darkness with the usual “Who
goes thete?" 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,
whc1e you are going and whither you’
ought to be tending. This is most
painful discipline, but most whole-
some—Reformed Church Messenger.—
Hc is most my friend who teaches
me self— -reliance; and self- reliance, in
the last analysis, is reliance on those
laws and principles wlgch. can never
_ be: severed from us. -‘-Trinities and
Shnctities.
“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
withsorrow and peevishness who loses
all these pleasures, and chooses to sit
down upon his little handful cf 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 are not 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 hlways 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 actions are over a matter of con-
cerii to his Lord, and 11 takes pleas-
ure; in noting that the life is one of
complete self surrender, 11 little things
and in those of greate consequence.
-Mornvian.
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,How HE BECAME TREASURER.
Mrfil’ouenden Greatly Surprised When
Chosen for This Office;
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 Alnsworth R.
Spofford in the May Atlantic. He was
worn with daily and nightly labor, and
had looked forward longin‘gly 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 his hand 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 toll of
the protracted'session, and that for
Ihim to assume the onerous duties of
the Treasury in the burning heat of
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 ofiice. Mr.‘
Lincoln replied with feeling and ener-
gy, in a strong appeal to Mr. Fessen-
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 thatheishould
be at liberty to withdraw whenever a
fit successor should be found to re-
lieve him. He himself said of it, “I
took the oflice reluctantly and as a
matter of duty, and vacated it just as
soon as I could—A. R. Spaiford in At-
lantic Monthly.
THE MERITS 0F SEAWATER.
A Wonderful Tonic for the Liver—Good
‘I Advice to the Bushers.
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.
when they shOuld not be more than
five minutes or less, and the harm
the long run be serious. Persons who
have low vitality and a slow. reaction
after the bath should make theirbath
shorter, until they secure a reaction.
ary glow immediately on leaving the
water. Another bad practice that
many people indulge in is to take a
drink of whisky or other spirit as soon
as they can get into their clothes, for
the purpose of taking out of their
months the taste of the’ sea water they
may have, accidentally swallowed. 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 inadvertent‘ry swal-
lowed by the bather. It is a wonder-
ful tonic for the liver, stomach and
kidneys. It is said that .in many cases
it will cure bilionsness when all drug
preparations have failed. It is pecu-
liarly effective in ordinary cases of
indigestion, disordered stomach and
insomnia, and has been known to pro-
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
bathcrs. out of ten—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
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The Temptation too Great. i
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 _chargcs
with oaths. It was against the old
man’s principles to swear, and he held
his peace, albeit in impotent rage. A1
last one of hishind 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 solemp
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, 1 intend to
say so, by gum!”
Quick Cure.
“I’ve cured. my hnsband’s insom-
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.
The Boasts of Love.
“My girl‘s hand is as White as the
driven snow.”
“Pooh, that’s nothing; . my girl’l
heart is as deep as a driven well.”-
Detroit. Free Press.
; Elimination.
“Say, what would you do if you had
a skeleton in your closet?"
“The best thing to do is to make no
bones of it. ”—Indianapolis JouInal.
A cup of very hot milk taken at bed-
time will, it is said, effectually prevent
-—-—
Ileeplessness.
Washington, at such a moment, would ‘-
den’s patriotic impulses, with assur--
duce excellent results in many cases;
Many people stay in half an hour ;.
they thus do to themselves may in
' II have never heard the slightest objec.
’ tion to the custom, which Has always
dies from-"grief undemortificationr' It
._quezzel literally “goes in at one door
l special schools. ,
x'I‘n-E .E v En 1 NGG A ZE "em I, ;, .
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now CHAMBERLAIN MET I-IIsIWIFE.
He Wasn’t Afraid to be the Only Mon
Among a Number ct American Beauties
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 and his shirt stud came
unfastened, and he sat calmly obliv-
ious to either accident; His brains
and charm in conversation won him
friends wherever he went. I
“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
would be delighted if he would come
In the dining room and take the va-,
cant 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 ‘Puritan maid,’ as she was often
called, his neighbor at an entertain-
ment to which he had only been bid-
den by that ‘fate 'which shapes our
ends, trough hew them as we will.’ ”-
Baltimore Sun. ; t
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QUEZZEL, A BiRD OF LIBERTY. !
It Dies Almost Immediately if Captured—-
' Ban Two Doors to Its House.
On all postage stamps of Guatemala
ls engraved a somewhat distorted rep-
resentation of the quezzel, which is
rightly called the bird of liberty, as it
lies 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 hand
could net be removed, and it will drop
lifeless after flying but a few yards. If-
t-t 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
found only in a small portion of the
country, and is seldom seen live, since
it cannot be kept long in captivity.
It is a bird of beautiful plumage,"
having 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
builds a round-roofed nest, Having two
holes on opposite sides, so that the
and out at the other," and thus avatar
and necessity for tail-breaking, and
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
a" “11"" m.
A good story is told of one of Gen-
eral Sherman's Missouri teamsters.
He had just‘jolned the service, a raw
recruit, and was assigned to the task
of driving a 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 guafdhouse.-—Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean. ,
Where No Flow or . AreAlloweda
“Flowers can play no part in a mill-
tary funeral, the rules of army or
naval burials forbidding them,” said-1
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
so printed in a. local paper. The re-
sult was that on the IfollOwing day a,
large quantity of flowers were sent by
sympathetic ladies and otherswitha
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 Equarters. 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 isa fl-ag.
That has been decided to be'decom—'
.tion enough, and among military men
prevailed.”—Washington Star.
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AurInnulting 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
me out.”—Detroit Free; Press.
In China the detection of false coins
in a skilled; prosperous profession
known as “Shrofllng,” andris taught in
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- ounpeer~ TO BUMBLE-BEES. “*1
The Part These Busy Workers Play in tin
Fertilizntlon 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 or insects usefulin this re.
spect. Each has its flower Which it
alone visits, but there are many flowers
on neutral ground, visited by 1301:11-
So we may say of the bumble bee, as oi
the honey bee, the more bumble beer
the more seeds;
more flowers; especially wild flowers,
as the tall bell Iflower, touch-mehnot,
Solomon's seal, gentian, Dutchman's
breeches, and turtle head. But proba-
bly the most'important werk this in-
sect does for“ agriculture is upon the
fields of red clover. There is abundant
proof that fills plant will not produce
seed without the c0~operation of the
bumble bee. It is impossible for . the
wind to bilng about the fertilization oi
the seed, as it may do in the case of
Indian corn, grain, and some forest
trees. The tube of red clovér 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 of Australia, 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-
Ang Establishment Maintained at a Very
Low Cost.
A correspondent of the New York
Post says: It probably costs less to
live well in Manila-gdurlng peaceful
seasonsuthan in any 1other capital of
the East or West. Take the'cas’e'of‘my
messmate and myself for instance. We
had a good house, with three bedrooms.
parlor and tiled floor dining room; 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
unexpectedi‘guestsx- 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 aster-llamas.
as $29 was the sum total of my monthe
1y share. To live in such state and on:
tertgin one 1 friends for less than all
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-hasfbeen so
overwhelmed by his firstvlaundry 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. ~71. . .. “31'“
a ,‘r: M . .
Showed on m 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 th-‘e 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
{,4
broken English that he wished to play
for a few minutes.
“They don’ t allow anyone but an ex-
perienced organist to touch the inStru-
ment,” said the young man loftily.
With a. little gesture, suggestive of
meekness and humility, the stranger
presented this card: . .
on-o-oo
o-oo-n-nauo-ouco-ua-o-eoocno-o
ALEXANDRE GUILMANT,
PARIS.
auc-o-u-a-o-soc-nnos-aco-oQ-aooooculo
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 Toll Her Anything.
An old gentleman speaking to I
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 ”
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
-7 work till women Was rigid the same
‘- _ wages as men.” ' .. . "
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the more seeds the'
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