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Guessing Songs.
My house upon my back 1 bear,
And so, however far I roam,
By climbing backward up my stair
In half a minute I'm at home.
I travel slow, and never speak;
I've horns—but never try to shove,
Because my horns are soft and weak,
Like fingers of an empty glove.
iL.
Two servants listen, two look out,
Two fetch and carry for their share,
And two are sturdy knaves and stout,
Wel used their master’s weight to
ear.
And may I not be proud and bold,
With €ight such servauts, tried and
true, + &
That never wait until tney're told,
But know themselves what they've
to do?
—Henry Johnstone, in St. Nicholas.
Time Misused is Abused.
Mrs. Leigh stepped out to the porch,
unfurled her white parasol and glanc-
ed at her daughter who was sitting
on the steps.
“Won’t you come with me, Mar-
jorie?”?
“I should like to, mother, but I
haven't time,” answered the young girl
looking up from a blouse she was
mending. “I must get this waist in
shape to wear tonight for all- my
clothes are soiled.”
“I thought you were going to repair
it yesterday, so it could be pressed
this morning.”
“Why, 1 did intend to, bue I hadn’t
time.”
“The same old cry, Marjorie, that
I've heard from you for years. I won:
der, dear, when you are going to learn
to have time.”
“How can one learn,” asked Mar-
jorie, with a little vexation in her
tone, “when one has a thousand things
or so to do eyery day?”
Mrs. Leigh looked at her daughter
wistfnlly for a moment and then, clos-
ing her parasol, sat down beside her.
“I thought I was in a hurry to go
downtown,” she said smiling, “but I
have plenty of time for afew minutes’
chat with you before I go.”
“You always seem to have time for
anything you want to do.”
“It's because I neither waste or
misuse it. I don’t play in my working
hours or work in my leisure moments.
If 1 work, I work. If I play, I play.
Now you are different. Yesterday
when you got out your blouse to
mend, you had scarcely taken a stitch
before you dropped your work to read
a magazine that lay temptingly near.
Of course before you realized it, the
afternoon was gone and the little task
was still unfinished. That is just one
small example of your mismanage-
ment of time. I want you to remember
that you have all the time there is and
if vou don’t seem to have your share,
it ig because you don’t make the
proper use of it. Bacon says that
‘to choose time "is to save it’. fry
choosing time for a while and see if
it doesn’t make your days longer. De-
cide what you want to do at a certain
hout and. do it, instead of taking up
first, one thing and thep another,
spending but a few moments at each
and really accomnvlishing nothing. I
have a theory that all of us have plen-
ty of time for everything that we
ought to do, if we only know how to
use it.” 2588 :
“you certainly do/ .said: Marjorie,
looking ,admiringly at her pretty moth-
“er, who was always calm, and unflur-
ried no matter how numerous were:
her cares for her. household, and who
always had time for her -family,
friends and pleasures: as well as for
her duties, which" were never neglect
ed.—Little Chronicle.
Little Indians at School.
{n the autumn the little Indian boys
and girls of the great northwest take
their farewells of the paternal lodge,
and, mounted on their ponies. in com-
pany with some near male relative,
who conducts them across the wide
prairie, they travel for days over mesa
and river until they arrive, weary
and dust stained, at the mission school.
Bach. morning the teacher stands
in the doorway of the schoolroom and
looks out over the mesa to see what
she can see, and on the upper mesa
appears, after a time, ‘a long black
line that seems to be moving in her
direction. She shades her eyes with
her hand, and the line grows larger
and blacker as she continues to look.
Now she is certain that it is nol the
horizon, but the children whom she
has been eagerly expecting for some
days, and she turns around in the
doorway to tell the children in the
schoolroom that they may join her at
the door to give their little comrades
welcome.
Soon the small company is painted
moccasins and gala attire, with great |
bunches of ripe fruit tied to their
saddle bows, and with ears of red and
yellow corn hanging from their ponies’
sides, all intended as gifts to the teach-
er, draw slowly near. In front is their
leader. Two Suns, a chief and a
brave warrior who has been lucky in
his wars with hostile tribes and has
taken from them many ponies. Three
of Two Suns’s children are on ponies
behind him, and he is very proud of
the fact that he is bringing three
pupils from his own family to swell
the ranks of the mission school. Five
of the little company are Two Suns’s
grandchildren, and the rest are the
shildren of Black Antelope and of
White Foot, brothers of Two Suns.
{ kind hearted teacher accepts the gifts |
"a tired boy who has his ‘“‘nighty” sec-
“who look extremely neat in their well-
‘ while they are busy in factory and
re wes
Stand in a circlé Défore the mission
door until Two "Stuns maRés a sign
for them to-dismeunt, and orders them:
to lay their presents of fruit and corh
at the feet of their tcagher, who has
come forward to meet them. . Shyly
and awkwardly they obey, and the
with a gracious smile and leads the
way into the mission school.
From that morning all is changed’
in the daily life and habits of the In-
dian boys and giris who have be-
come pupils at the mission school.
First, the matron of the school takes
them to the dormitory and the greas-
ed hair of the little heads is washed
in soapy water until it is thoroughly
clean and odorless. The paint is
scrubbed from their foreheads and
cheeks, the many colored collars of
small beads taken from their necks,
the buckskin trousers of the boys
and the leggings of the girls exchang-
ed for the ordinary dress of the white
child in such quick order that in a few
moments the transformation is com-
plete, and without a word the silent
little people stand looking at one an-
other and wondering at the strange-
ness of it all.
Next the Indian boys and girls have
to learn how to eat. At home they
have been accustomed to scramble for
roasted ears of corn in the intense
heat of a Dutch oven or to div their
fingers in the meat pot for the biggest
piece of meat they could clutch in the
swimming gravy and then to run oft
with it to a corner.
At school they sit at a table, and
wait for grace to be said, and as the
meal proceeds, no matter how gnaw-
ing the appetite may be, or how great
the temptation to throw away knife
and fork during the progress of the
dinner, no one does it. Each little
fellow considers the plate that he has
eaten from, and the knife and fork and
mug beside it, as his individual prop-
erty, and he wants to carry these
things up to the dormitory after each
meal and hide them under the mat-
tress of his cot.
These little savages dislike very.
much to pull off their clothes at bed-
time and get into a ‘“nighty.” So it.
often happens that the matron as she
passes through the dormitory scrutin-
izes each little little sleeping figure
tucked away under the coverlets; spies
the blue-checked shirt and .overalls. of
him, and helps him to undress and
gét back into bed, when he is soon
dreaming again that he is shouting |
around: the camp fire of his father’s
lodge at evening time with a 1Iat,
brown papoose on his back and his
favorite dog barking at his heels.
‘On coming to the mission school
each boy and girl receives an Amer-
ican name, by which he and she are
known from that time on. The idea
is to separate the children, as far as
possible, from every Indian custom
and to civilize them in dress and man-
ners. They are made to wear shoes
and stockings instead of moccasins,
and the girls must comb and braid
their hair instead of wearing it hang-
ing loose down their backs. Usually
4 blue checked gingham is chosen for
the dresses and aprons of the gorls,
if. under the pillow. She awakens
fitting garments, which ‘have been cut
and put together by some of the old-
er girls. The long sewing room is oie
Jf the most interesting. features of
the mission school. It is always half
filled with painstaking little seamstres-
ses bent over their work. BM A 33
The little Indian proves an apt pupil.
He learns English readily, and: is Hot
allbwed to use his own language with-
in the hearing of his teachers. =
The instant a slate and pencil:are
put into his hands he hegins to. draw
in rough outlines the tepee, his pony,
his dog, his bow and arrow, oL any
one of the familiar objects he was
wont to see at home. Often he shows
remarkable talent as a draughtsman,
and is encouraged by the best instruc-’
tion from his teacher. :
He is a born mathematician, and
adds, subtracts and multiplies num-
bers with astonishing rapidity. Music
is the chief delight, and it is net un-
usual to see an Apache boy of 16
years of age play on a flute with the
skill of a master, while another boy
accompanies him on the violin. The
banjo is a favorite instrument with
them, and many of the boys have be-
come expert players and- are permit-
ted to appear at concerts in the school
chapel. Most of the older girls play
the piano and the organ, and several
play the violin and the flute. Con-
tests are often arranged between the
boy and girl players, and judges pass
upon the merits of each.
A few of the best pupils, girls be:
ing selected, as a rule, are trained as
teachers, but the majority are expect:
ed to earn their living by manual lab-
or. The boys are taught to be farm-
ers, veterinary surgeons, carpenters,
stone masons and wood carvers, and,
workshop the girls are in dormitories
making up the beds, sweeping the floors
and cleaning the windows, or in the
kitchen cooking the dinner. Every:
body is busy, and everybody is happy.
Everybody smiles and everybody has
a pleasant word for his comrade.
Cherfulness fills the air as the mid
day sun falls upon the slanting roof
of the mission school that stands far
out on the mesa, with only the white
sky overhead and the varched buffalo
grass, crisp and brown, as far as the
eye can reach, covering the ground.
When the Indian children grow up
homes are found for them as far dis
tant as possible from their tribes, in
order that they may be removed from
the influence of their Indian life.—
New York Tribune.
Of the population of European Rus-
sia 86 percent are farmers.
The. newly, arrived litte. Indinps 3 A SERMON. ROR SUND
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AN: ELOQUENT DISCOURSE 8Y THE
REV. C.. CAMPBELL. MORGAN. D. D.
Subject: The Attractiveness and Exclu-
siveness of Jesus—Listen to the Call
of Christ—He Will Brook No Division
of Your Loyalty,
LoxpoN, Exgrasp. — The foligwing
sermon, ‘entitled * The Attractivéness and
Exclusiveness of Jesus,” was preached
here on a recent Sunday by the Rev. T.
Campbell Morgan. D. D. He took for his
text: Then said Jesus unto His disciples,
deny himself and take up his cross and
follow Me.—St.' Matthew 16:24. .
There were two facts about Jesus Christ
which no one can read the Gospel re-
cords without recognizing; facts which
appear te be contradictory, but which, as
a matter of fact, are complementary, and
the understanding of which reveals for
all time the method of the Master in
dealing with men. I refer to facts of
the attractiveness and exclusiveness of
Jesus. 5
There can be no question about the
former; there can equally be no question
about the latter to those who have care-
fully read the records and have seen the
methods of Jesus while He was here
among men. He was constantly drawing
eople to Him, and Ie was perpetually
holding them aloof. By the very win-
someness of His person, He was drawing
men and women of all sorts and condi-
tions, at all times and in all places to
Himself, and yet by the uttering of words
so severe, so searching, so drastic, making
us tremble even to-day, He held men
back from Him.
I venture to say that the words I read
to you this morning from the Gospel of
Luke come to those who are most familiar
with them bringing a sense of surprise.
We never read them without feeling more
or less startled by them — “Unless you
hate father and mother, husband and wife,
parent and child, you cannot be My dis-
ciple.” We have attempted to account for
these words, but I do not hesitate to say
that in some senses they have staggered
the faith of many, and yet there they
stand.
And not there only, but through all
His teaching there is evident the same
method - of Christ, that of holding men
back just as they ware approaching Him;
drawing them to Himself by multitudes
and then holding the crowd as they
pressed upon Him, and sifting them with
such surprising words as these. Now there
must be a reason for this, and it is for
that reason that I want to look, with you,
a little this morning.
But first allow me to say a few words on
this fact of the attractiveness of Jesus,
because the more clearly we recognize and
understand that, the more clearly shall
we understand, as I think, the other truth
of *His perpetual method of holding: men
back and. excluding certain persons from
close companionship with Himself.
Také first, then, this great fact of His
attractiveness, ‘the most- fascinating sub-
ject on which to speak. Remember, I
pray you, that if the Gospel records re-
veal one thing more clearly than another
they reveal that Jesus was, somehow or
other, a Person that drew men to Him
irresistibly.
T go back to those silent years at Naza-
reth concerning which we know so very
little. - You will remember that on those
days Take opens for us just a little won-
dow through which we look when he says,
“He was subject to His parents, and grew
in favor with God and with man.” g do
not stop one moment ‘to dwell on the
statement that He grew in favor with
God, although it is a very interesting
statement, but just for a moment, for the
sake of our argument, listen to the other
part of it: “He grew in favor with man.”
Take that as it is simply stated, and you
at once see a picture of the boy growing
up to be a youth, and passing from youth
into young manhood until He became the
Carpenter of -Nazereth, known to all the
little town that nestled among the hills,
just removed from the highways of life.
This is all the truth that is revealed. If 1
may reverently put it, Jesus was a favorite
‘in’ Nazareth. Tamnot sure that that doesn’t
almost startle vou, because somehow or
other we have come to think that holiness
is almost always: accompanied: by angular-
ity, and there is a:popular idea that if a
mah is good he never can be a favorite. It
is a great mistake. It is by the measure
in which a man lacks holiness that a man
is not in favor: ¥ tN Abe =
. Here is a. man hye in Nazereth, and
He, is, a favorite. , 1: do not want to Jiit
that into’ a super-spiritual realm, but if
you have no findgination’. you tah just: go to’
sleep--for: tavo, smiputes swhile ; I. imagine I
penter at His wo
gee. *He is a“favoritet + I'see children tak-
ing their. toys to. Him: to be mended, ami
am. quite sure He mended them. . I see
‘Young nien going at eventide to take their
fhrohlens wish them because they know
fe is sane, honest and: pure. I think Tsee
ight that never was on land or.sea,” talk-
fay to Him because He has such a wonder-
ful way "of "talkihg about” “My” Father's
house” and ‘the many rhansions;’* a favor-
ite, sane and strong, and -purg, and attract-
ive as to personality.
I know full well that a little later on
{hese same men took: Him to a hill and
tried to murder Him, but that was the re-
later. The pure, human, simple. life of
Jesus was, in itself, attractive, and Luke
says, “He grew in favor.”
Leave those hidden years and look at
Him just for one rapid moment as He
treads the pathway upon which a fiercer
light falls than ever fell upon a throne—
the pathway of the public teacher, and if
you read these oh stories the one thing
that strikes you is the fact of the multi-
tudes around about Jesus Christ. Wher-
ever He went they followed Him. If He
went out into the city the country people
crowded the streets to be near Him; if He
went out into the country place the city
men and women flocked aiter Him, follow-
ing Him so far that at times there was no
chance for them .to provide themselves
with food, and He had to feed them; for
in their eagerness to follow they had for-
gotten food and had forgotten distance.
And wherever He went they came after
Him.
I am not saying that these multitudes
crowned Him; that is not my. point, but
He drew the people after Him. The one
thing they could not do with Jesus was to
let Him alone; they came, whether to crit-
icise Him or crown Him is not now the
question; the point is, that He drew men
and women after Him in all those days of
His earthly life, ‘They came after Him, all
sorts and conditions of men, the scholars
and the illiterate, the learned and the igno-
rant, the debased, the depraved, they all
came. Of course, there were more poor
people came than rich because there al-
ways were more poor people than there are
rich, and, of course, there were more of
the illiterate than of the learned for the
self-same reason, but I protest against this
idea -that Christ only attracted a class.
There is something about Him that at-
tracts all kinds of men, and it is true in
those old days.
Come, if you will, outside the Bible, and
from the day that this Man walked among
men in Judea until now there has never
been so attractive a personality in human
history as Jesus. And I want to say this
superlative thing abcut Christ. No cen-
tury, whatever its peculiarity, or quality,
or quantity, has produced any person who
was so popular as Jesus Christ. He has
always towered above His fellows, above
those historical personages that the centu-
ries look back to, or to those imaginative
personages that the centuries give to us in
AY:
if any man will come after Me let him-
look into that window: and I see the Car-.|
rk, and I tell you what I’
old men; upon whose, brow already. *‘sat |
sult of something ‘else to be discovered’
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literature. Jesus has been the most ate
tet ip ie fe always.
a
e to this very hour. "Who, is the {
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= attractive personality in the world at
this hour? Let me take a narrower circle.
Who is the most attractive personality in
Tngland at this hour? TI -answer without
fear of contradietion—Jesus Christ.
I am not saving that the majority of
people have vet crowned Him. Tet me
take my illustration to the lowest level.
Can you think of any person in history,
dead ‘or alive, or anv person in imaginative
literature, that will be talked of, and
thought of. and sung of. .and discussed,
and criticised, and abused and crowned as
Jesus Christ? There is not a single theatre
in Manchester or London that can run
Shakespeire's plays continualiv. I am
glad vou look ignorant, and can assure vou
1 don’t speak from any inside knowledge,
but every one knows it to be true. There
is not a single theatre that can exist with-
out variety. There must be change; some
other genius than Shakespeare must be
forthcoming. And yet, with all our wail
about the decadence of the church afd the
failure of Christianity. every Sunday in
Manchester more people are gathered to-
gether to sing the old hymns and hear the
old sermons—I beg your pardon, to hear
sermons on the old texts—and listen to
the old, old story of the cross than for any
other purpose.
Let us begin with the last. When Christ
was as fond of a phrase as He evidently
was of that phrase “Foilow Me,” there
must be some deep signification in it.
have been going through my New Testa-
ment during the last few months, tracing
that phrase. It has been a very interest-
ing study to see how constantly Christ
used it. Tt was the almost perpetnal for
mula of His call to individual soul—“Fol-
low Me!”
Now what is it to follow? Two things
are involved. Neither of them covers all
the ground, taken alone. Both are re-
quired.
Tirst. to follow, I must trust. JT shall
never follow any one I haven’t confidence
in. I may trust and yet not follow.
Secondly. not only is trust necessary, but
obedience is necessary. Christ confronts
the individual soul, bringing that soul out
from the crowd, as He is calling some man
here this morning. He says, “Would you
trust Me? Them obey Me.”
How am 1 going to do it? What does it
mean, this trusting and obeying? *Deny
vourself, take up the cross— It seems
to me that is the point which must be ob-
served first, that to deny self is the only
wav in which you can follow Christ. How
shall T follow Him? Deny thyself! The
two things are intimately related, and it
seems to me that everything is said when
“Follow Me” is said, and yet it is neces-
sary to say the other in order to under:
stand what He means by following Him.
What is it Christ calls me to? To deny
myself! Not to practice self-denial; that
is a very cheap business, but to deny self—
a very costly matter. He says, “Deny
yourself. Listen no longer to the call of
your self, but listen to My call. Don’t con-
sider any more whether this thing wilk
minister to your pleasure or to your ag-
grandizement, or answer the ery of your
ambition. But Me first.” Christ says,
“Deny yourself and follow Me. Put Me on
the throne and dethrone yourself. Don’t
let the question of the morning be, What
shall I like to do, but What will Christ
have me do: not Will this pay me, but will
it hasten the coming of the kingdom of
God. Don’t let the underlying, mastering
passion of your life be your own selfish
desire; crown Me, follow Me.”
It is a superlative cail, and the call of
Jesus is always imperial, He will brook no
division of your loyalty, and that is what
He means. “You must hate father, moth-
er, wife, child. That means that when the
soul comes into contact with Me I must be
absolutely first.” Let me stop here to say
that whenever a soul does that he gets
back a hundredfold lands and fields and
mother and father and children. Jesus
Christ said He must be first, and He has
never lowered that standard, and the re-
ligion that is simply an addendum is worth
nothing to Him.
Jesus Christ comes and says, “Deny
vourself,” but there is the other word,
“Take up-the cross.” Well, what is it?
Christ's cross? No. No man can carry
Christ’s cross. . What then? Your own.
What is this cross? I don’t think that it
is ever the same in two persons. . The
cross is that in your life which immediate
ly costs you something if you .crown
Christ. There is a business man here this
morning who is saying in his heart, “Weil,
it that is Christianity, I will have to .go
home and change my method of business.”
That is yvonr cross. There is a young man
‘here says that, “If that is Christianity, if
it means’ putting Christ first, then I will
have to go ‘home and give up that compan-
iopship.” .- That is your cross. . Some one |.
hére says, “If that is what Christ means,
~that I am not to listen to’ the call of my {’~
_own life, I shall:have to go home and say
I was wrong "and confess my wrong to
those to whom it is so hard to confess it,
That is yomr cross. And somebody else
A
T | says, “Ii” that is Christianity 1 shall have
to go back on my history; throw up every-
thing I am doing and-go into the minis-
try.” . That.is your cross. .
You know what your cross it. Don’t let
any one come and ask me. You know that
“thing “which right in front of you this
morning challengesyour allegiance to Jesus
J: Christ. You canpot play tricks with God.
You cannot deceive your own conscience
‘when you stand in the clear light of the
¢all of Christ. He says, “Deny yourself;
take up that eross (and you know what it
is) and follow Me.”
3ut why are Christ’s terms so drastic?
“For two reasons. First, no man ever gets
.to Christ but by the way of the enthrone-
ment of Jesus Christ. It is possible to ad-
mire and cheer Him, possible to patronize
Him and never to know Him. It is not
the crowd that gets to Him, but the cross:
bearing soul. And if you read on you wi
say, “Whosoever would save his life shall
Jost it; whosoever will lose his life for My
sake shall find it.”
Christ confronts the soul and says virtu-
ally this: “You don’t understand your own
life, dear heart. You cannot realize your
own kingdom. You cannot build your own
character and carve out your own destiny,
but I can do it, though I can only do it
when you have put Me absolutely on the
throne for your own life’s life. For its
founding and ennobling and developing
you must come to Me, and by the way of
a whole-hearted surrender.”
3ut there is another reason why Christ
makes His terms drastic. He wants men
and women upon whom He can depend in
the day of battle. I am quite sure there
is nothing Jesus Christ wants at this mo-
ment so much as men and women who will
go through darkness and death for Him.
You remember that picture of Jairus be-
seeching Jesus to save his child who was
dying,.and how, with the people thronging
about” Him, the Master suddenly ex-
aimed, “Who touched Me?”
Now. don’t let us be angry with the dis-
ciples. We should have said the same
thing. “A hundred people have touched
vou 1in.the last five minutes. The multi
tude throng Thee and press Thee, and say-
est Thou, who touched Me?”
But Jesus Christ always knows the dif-
ference between the crush of a curious
mob and the touch of a needy soul that
has come near Him. And this morning as
this service closes I hear His voice speak-
ing once again—the attractive Christ that
has drawn this crowd — this exclusive
Christ—and He says: “Who touched Me?”
We have all jostled Him this morning.
We have all looked into His face again.
We have all had a new consciousness of
the infinite music of His voice. Have you
got anything out of Him? Has any virtue
healed you this morning? If not, even
now stretch out your hand and touch Him.
And to do that you must deny yourself,
crucify your pride. Having done that, lis-
ten to the ery of your own life, and listen
to Mis imperial call and crown im Lord
of all.
“scale in that state. “The sapodillas
are fruits that are greatly enjoyed in
-tropical. countries, and there. ig . a
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PORTO RICO REGENERATE
TROPICAL SPECIALITIES THAT
WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE
ISLAND.
The Prosperity Must Always Rest on
Its Agriculture—The Litchi Tree—
Prospects for Sapodillas—The
Cashew Tree—Ylang-Ylang Oil.
Tropical Porto Rico is to be revolu-
tionized. American influences there
may not always have been for the best,
but the process of adaptation is steadi-
ly progressing. When this is complet-
ed there will be a new future for
Porto Rico. The prosperity of the
island must always rest in its agri-
culture; but this must be brought up
to date, and made to yield its quota
of the world’s goods that are in special
demand. !
Under the scientific directions of
the department of agriculture it is
proposed to make Porto Rico an
island of specialties—specialties in
tropical commercial fruits. Sugar,
tobacco, and a few other staple pro-
ducts will not be abandoned; but the
island’s salvation appears to lie in oth-
er directions. It needs more variety
of industries—more materials out of
which to weave a solid, substantial
prosperity.
The soil, climate, and other condi-
tions are all there, and even the pro-
ducts in some instances but there
have been lacking the brains and
the ability to adapt nature to the de-
mands of the day. For some time
now government experts have been
studying the botany of the island, and
incidentally experimenting with some
of the native and important plants of
commercial value. The opening of
the prosperity of Porto Rico will be-
gin with the cultivation of these
plants according to the most recent
scientific methods. Many of them are
indigenous to the island, but either
through lack of proper culture, or ig-
norance of their commercial value,
they have been of little real use to
the natives. Others are to be im-
ported from the Orient and transplant-
ed to the island for cultivation. They
are eminently adapted to the soil and
climate of Porto Rico, and hence there
is little doubt, in the minds of the
scientists having the matter in charge,
about their success.
One of these new plants to be trans-
planted from southern China or Brit-
ish India is the litchi tree (Litchi
chinensis), which is eminently adapt-
ed to a climate and soil such as fur-
nished in Porto Rico. Specimens of
these trees have been brought to this
country and experimented with in the
Washington greenhouses, and planta-
tions of them are expected to be plant-
ed in Porto Rico by the government
experts within the next year. A litchi
orchard once started should prove a
source of income for the owner for a
lifetime. The fresh fruit has a delici-
ous flavor, and dried the fruits resem-
ble raisins in appearance. A few of
these dried fruits are imported from
the Orient every year, and they sell
as high as 50 cents a quart. In the
far east, however, they are eaten chief-
ly in their fresh, acid condition. En-
ormous quantities are consumed, and
they, are considered -by natives and
visiting foreigners in southern China,
British. India, and the Malay Peninsula
as most excellent fruits. The cultiva-
tion of plantations of these fruit trees
in Porto Rico should open a market
here for their products, and in a short
time -the industry should prove a most
paying and satisfying one. =
The sapodilla tree is one that visi-
tors to Florida see at times, but it
has never been raised on a commercial
growing. demand, in our . northern:
. :
Porto Rico on a large commercial
scale is not:a doubtful or: visionary
one. : It is believed that: there is a
great. future for the trees when they
are raised in sufficient *@ antities to
make it worth while to introduce the
fruits in our cities. These fruits coull
be brought by steamers diréct to this
country, and if properly refrigerated
in transportation they would offer a |
tempting fruit to the millions of con-
sumers in the United States. In Porto
Rico there’ is no frost to endanger
the life and production of the trees, |
and a plantation should continue to
produce for upward of 20 years. When |
too old to yield a good crop, the trees
furnish a most excellent and costly,
close-grained wood that sells for near-
ly as much as the cost of starting and
cultivating the grove for the first few
years. /
The tree which produces the cashew |
nut of commerce is a tropical growth
that can be raised in Porto Rico on a
large scale, and it is estimated that
plantations of this tree alone should |
add many millions of dollars to the
island’s income within the next half
century if its cultivation is wisely and |
faithfully attended to. The cashew
nut is of superior flavor, and of great
value in candy making. Its flaver is
delicious, and the oil expressed from
it is considered for many purposes
superior to almond oil. The few
cashew nuts brought from the West
Indies to this country are readily ab-
sorbed, but their imports have been so |
small, and the prices so high, that |
they have never received the popular ;
attention they deserve.
From the juice of the cashew tree
many commercial products are made,
such as muslige, chewing gum, and
various lotions and anaesthetics. The
use of the products of the troe is so
varied that ti would require a good
deal of descriptive text to explain
them. The wood of the trees is ex-
cellent for commercial purposes, and ;
has a close, compact, unyielding grain.
Plantations of these trees should rep- :
| street railway has
[ by electricity.
resent an agricultural specialty proof
‘against nearly every kind of local dis-
aster, except possible hurricanes.’
A tree known as Cedrela odorata,
but commonly spoken of in tropical
countries where it grows as ylang-
ylang, thrives wonderfully well in
Porto Rico. It is known in that
island as the West Indian cedar, and
its wood is more compact and beau-
tiful than the best Central American
mahogany. From different parts of
Porto Rigo this tree has been foolish-
ly cut down and wastefully used for
cabinet work and house-building. The
flowers of this tree are beautiful and
fragrant. From them is extracted a
commercial product almost equal to
the famous attar of roses. This attar
of ylang-ylang is what makes the
trees most valuable. It sells as high
as $5 per pound. Ylang-ylang oil has
been held as an exclusive monopoly
by France and Germany, but a steady
cultivation of the trees in Porto Rico
should lead to a change. The oil is
extracted by simple processes, and
without the sue of chemicals, and
from 75 pounds of the flowers a pound
of oil is usually produced. In Europe
the oil of ylang-ylang is used as the
basic essence of the best perfumes
as much as the famous attar of roses..
—QGeorge E. Walsh, in the Scientific
American.
JAPANESE PAPER.
Varieties Superior to Ours Made
From Bark of Trees and Shrubs.
From the bark of trees and shrubs
the Japanese make scores of papers,
which are far ahead of ours. The
walls of the Japanese houses are
wooden frames covered with thin pa-
per which keeps out the wind but lets
in the light, and when one compares
these paper-walled “doll houses” with
the gloomy bamboo cabins of the in-
habitants of the island of Java or the
smatl-windowed huts of our forefath-
ers. ong realizes that, without glass
and in a rainy climate, these ingenious
people have solved in a remarkeable
way the problem of lighting their:
dwellings and, at least in a measure,
of keeping out the cold. Their oiled
papers are astonishingly cheap and
durable. As a cover for his load of
tea when a rainstorm overtakes him,
the ‘Japanese farmer spreads over it
a tough, pliable cover of oiled paper,
which is almost as impervious as tars
paulin and as light as gossamer. He -,
has doubtles carried this cover for:
years, neatly packed away somewhere
about his cart. The “rikisha” coolies
in the large cities wear rain mantles
of this oiled paper, which cost less
than 18 cents and last for a year or »
more with constant use. An oiled
tissue paper, which is as tough as
writing paper, can be had at the sta- .»
tioner's for wrapping up delicate :ar- ==
Grain and meal sacks are al- .
ticles.
most always made of bark paper Ain
Japan, for it is not easily penetrated
by weevils and other insects. But per-
haps the most remarkable of all the
papers which find a common use in
the Japanese household are the leath-
er papers of which the tobacco
pouches and pipe cases are made.
They are almost as tough as French
kid, so translucent that one can near-
ly see through them, ‘and as pliable
and soft as calfskin. The material of
which they are made Is as thiek.3s?®
cardboard, but as flexible » assckKid.mivof
David G. Fairchild in the ‘National
Geographic Magazine. yb ge
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
There are more blind people among
the Spaniards than among any other
Furopean raed. “IT TT THA
Fra ee era we
The blind delight in races of all...
sorts. They do not run toward a tape,
as the seeing do, but toward a bell
‘markets ds they are ‘better appreciat-- ‘that jangles briskly.
ed. The question’ of raising ‘these -in |
There is a board of guardians in the
south of Londen that allows inmates
who have seen better days to don the
silk hat when they go out for a hol
iday. ,
A trolley representing the latest typ
of modern car building embodies the
Semi-convertible idea; that is, the win-
dows when not in use disappear in re-
| ‘ceptacles in the roof.
The director of the Berlin (Germany)
received an .un-
stamped letter, on which he had to pay
twopence postage. The sender inclosed
| two penny stamps which he said he
owed the company.
Fishermen on the lake of Neufchatel
are using automobile boats. They are
driven by a benzine motor and lighted
They are flat bottomed,
| glide noiselessly over the water, do
| not frighten the fish and are a great :
success.
Although the Caspian and Aral seas
have no outlet and receive large rTiv-
ers, especially the Volga, the Ural and
scores of streams from the Caucasus,
both have for many years been get-
ting shallower. Evaporation exceeds
! the inflcw.
“Whistling” trees grow abundantly
in Nubia and the Soudan. They are a
species of Acacia. Insects form a sort
of globula bladder on the tree. After
they emerge they leave a circular hols
in the swelling which played upon by
the winds sounds much like a swest
toned flute.
English War on the lvy.
War is once more being declared in
Wngland on ivy and an elder bushes
near cathedrals and other fine build
ings. The ivy is accused of being “a
destructive boa-constrictor weed,”
while the elder is condemned because
ita roots have a naughty habit of fore-
ing themselves in the masonry chinks.
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