And there the poets, in thy praise,
Should night and morning frame new lays,—
New measures sung to tunes divine;
But none, O palm, should equal mine!
—Bayard Taylor.
LINNÆUS, the great botanist, has not inaptly called palms "the princes of the vegetable world." The most perfect of the order have a tall, cylindrical stem, which shoots upward from the earth, without knot or blemish, springing to an immense height, and yet so symmetrical that its slenderness conveys no idea of feebleness. The summit bears a crown of emerald green plumes, like a diadem of gigantic ostrich feathers; these are frequently twenty feet long, droop slightly at the ends, and rustle musically in the breeze. In the desert it forms an object of peculiar beauty, as it soars, erect and graceful, near some welcome spring of living water, a landmark to the wayworn traveler. Under the natural screen which the thick green feathery branches supply, the orange and the lemon, the pomegranate, the olive, the almond, and the vine, flourish in wild luxuriance, and pour forth an abundance of luscious fruit.
The valley of the Amazon rejoices in an infinite variety of these beautiful trees. Among them a foremost place must be given to the fan-leaved palm, which abound in the islets and on the banks of the mighty river and its tributaries. Their stems are huge, smooth cylinders, three feet in diameter, and about a hundred feet high. Their crowns consist of enormous clusters of fan-shaped leaves, whose stalks alone measure seven to ten feet in length.
Humboldt christened the fan-leaved palm, the "Tree of Life." It is the chief, almost the only, nourishment, he says, of the unconquered nation of the Guaranis, at the mouth of the Orinoco, who skillfully stretch their mats—woven from the nerves of the leaves—from one trunk to another, and during the rainy season, when the delta is inundated, live like apes in the tops of the trees.
These habitations are partially roofed with mud; the women light their household fires on a flooring of the same material; and the traveler, ascending the river at night, gazes astonished on the hundred spiral shafts of flame and smoke which seem kindled in the very air!
It is astonishing to what a variety of uses the Amazonian Indians apply the palm. It provides them with house, food, drink, raiment, salt, implements, weapons, fishing tackle, and even musical instruments. The rafters of their huts are formed, perhaps, of straight and uniform palm; another kind is brought into requisition for the roof; and the split stems of a third species furnish the doors and frame-work. The wide bark which grows beneath the fruit of another species is woven into an apron. The comb with which many of the natives adorn their heads is made from palm wood, and their fish-hooks from its spines. Caps for the head and cloth for the loins are manufactured from the spathes of the palm. These, too, supply the native with his hammock and bowstrings. Various species of palms yield oil and edible fruit; from eight kinds an intoxicating liquor can be distilled; and from the palm, by burning its small nuts, he procures a substitute for salt. From the spinous processes of one variety he makes his arrows, and arms himself with lances and harpoons from another. The long blowpipe through which he hurls the envenomed dart at birds and animals comes from the palm; from the stems of various trees he fashions the harsh, bassoon-like musical instrument employed in his worship; and, finally, the great woody spathes provide him with cooking vessels.
In Ceylon and Malabar one of the principal palms is the remarkable umbrella-bearing palm. It is straight as a giant's spear, five feet in circumference at the base, and tapering towards the summit, where it terminates in a magnificent crown of enormous palmate plaited leaves. Each leaf, near the outer margin, is divided into numerous segments, and united to the trunk by spiny leaf stalks. It usually measures about eighteen feet in length, exclusive of the leaf stalk, and about fourteen feet in breadth; so that a single leaf will form an excellent canopy for a score of men.
Vegetable ivory, now manufactured into many ornamental articles, is the hardened albumen of the corosso. It is clear and liquid at first, then milky and sweet, and finally solid.
Wax is obtained from several species of the palmaceæ.
From the calamus verus we obtain the well-known canes called rattans; and the sago palm, which flourishes in the swampy districts of the East, supplies us with a farinaceous food of great value. A native of Victoria, Australia, yields a profusion of fan-shaped leaves, which are employed in the manufacture of straw hats.
The palm oil, largely used in the manufacture of soap and candles, and in the preparation of the peculiar compound with which the wheels of railway cars are greased, is expressed from the nuts of the Elais palm, a native of Guinea. The catechu palm yields the celebrated betel nuts, so largely masticated by the Hindoos. From these nuts our chemists obtain an astringent decoction, useful in dyspepsia and many other diseases.
What would become of the wanderer in the deserts of Arabia and Barbary if Providence suddenly decreed the extinction of the date palm?—Thousands of human beings would inevitably perish, for the inhabitants of Fezzan live wholly upon its saccharine and delicious fruit for nine months in the year. In Egypt, Arabia, and Persia it forms the principal food of the people, and a man's wealth is computed by the number of date palms he possesses. When dried, the fruit becomes an important commercial staple. Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded until solid enough to be cut with a hatchet, supply the provision of the African caravans on their toilsome journey through the sun-lighted Sahara. The young leaves, or palm cabbage, are eaten by the Persians and Arabs. The date stones, or seeds, are roasted as a substitute for coffee, or ground for the sake of their oil, and the residuum given as food to cattle. Bags and mats are made out of the leaves; the fibers supply a rude, rough cordage; and the leaf stalks, all kinds of basket and wicker work.
The date palm is the palm tree alluded to in Scripture, and in the oasis of the Great Desert springs up, a fountain of life, for the refreshment of the traveler.
In Egypt we meet with the Doum palm, a tree of shorter stature, but remarkable for the repeated forkings of its stems. From the sweet and yet pungent flavor of its fruit, it has been properly called the gingerbread tree.
What the date palm is to the Arab the cocoanut palm is to the Polynesian. It is the crown and glory of the coral islets which stud the sapphire expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
The uses of this tree are manifold, and its valuable properties claim man's gratitude. Its hard, agate-like, polished timber, known as palmyra and porcupine wood, is prized by the cabinet maker; the hard nut which incloses its fruit, the savage carves into handsome bowls and goblets; the milky liquid within has a sweet and delicious flavor, and is very wholesome, refreshing, and digestible; the fibrous husk can be woven into sails and cordage, or used for stuffing mats and cushions; the terminal bud, or palm cabbage, is delicate eating; the central part of the stem, when young, affords a sweet and excellent food; the fermented sap yields the spirituous liquor so well known as arrack; the dried leaves can be employed for thatch; and every boy knows that the nut itself is a popular and justly-prized dainty.
Commercially speaking, the most valuable product of this all-important tree is the oil or butter obtained from its kernel, and largely used in Europe in the manufacture of candles. In the East it is employed as an unguent, and for illuminating purposes. It is liquid in tropical climates, but in colder temperatures solidifies into a white, butter-like oil. Compression separates it into a more liquid part called olein, and a more solid part known as cocosin, or cocostearin.
The cocoa palm ripens in about seven years, and continues productive for seventy13or eighty, each tree bearing annually from eighty to one hundred nuts.
What rice is to the Hindoo, what wheat is to the European, is the banana to the inhabitants of the tropical islands. They would perish without it, or be reduced to feed, like the beasts, on the herbage of the fields. But the banana supplies them with a wholesome and abundant food, with a pleasant drink, with a valuable medicine, with materials for clothing, in a word, with almost all the necessaries of their simple and easily contented life. It is now understood to be a variety of the plantain.—W. H. D. A., in Sunday Afternoon.
The Home Circle.
THE LAND OF NOWHERE.
Do you know where the summer blooms all the year
round;
Where there never is rain on a picnic day;
Where the thornless rose in its beauty grows,
And little boys never are called from play?
Oh! hey! it is far away,
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
Would you like to live where nobody scolds,
Where you never are told, "It is time for bed;"
Where you learn without trying, and laugh without
crying,
Where snarls never pull when they comb your
head?
Then oh! hey! you must hie away
To the wonderful land of Nowhere.
If you long to dwell where you never need wait,
Where no one is punished or made to cry,
Where a supper of cakes is not followed by aches,
And little folks thrive on a diet of pie,
Then ho! hey! you must go, I say,
To the wonderful land of Nowhere.
You must drift down the river of Idle Dreams,
Close to the border of No-man's Land;
For a year and a day you must sail away,
And then you will come to an unknown strand,
And ho! hey! if you get there—stay
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
—Selected.
STARVING THE TEETH.
By American Analyst
TEETH are just as easily starved to death as the stomach. In one way it is a blessing to have been born of poor parents. What food the poor give their children is of the variety that goes to make strong bones and teeth. It is the outside of all the grains, of all cereal foods, that contains the carbonate and phosphate of lime and traces of other earthly salts which nourish the bony tissue and build the frame up. If we do not furnish the teeth of the young that pabulum they require, they cannot possibly be built up. It is the outside of corn, oats, wheat, barley, and the like, or the bran, so-called, that we sift away and feed to the swine, that the teeth actually require for their proper nourishment. The wisdom of man has proven his folly, shown in every succeeding generation of teeth, which become more fragile and weak. These flouring mills are working destruction upon the teeth of every man, woman, and child who partakes of their fine bolted flour. They sift out the carbonates and the phosphates of lime in order that they may provide that fine white flour which is proving a whitened sepulcher to teeth.
Oatmeal is one of the best foods for supplying the teeth with nourishment. It makes the dentine, cementum, and enamel strong, flint-like, and able to resist all forms of decay. If you have children never allow any white bread upon your table. Bread made of whole wheat ground, not bolted, so that the bran, which contains the minute quantities of lime, is present, is best. To make a good, wholesome, nourishing bread, take two bowls of wheat meal and one bowl of white or bolted flour, and make by the usual process. Nothing is superior to brown-bread for bone and tooth building. This is made out of rye meal and corn meal. Baked beans, too, have a considerable supply of these lime salts, and should be on your table, hot or cold, three times a week. In brushing the teeth always brush up and down from the gums instead of across. Brush away from the gum and on the grinding surface of the teeth.
Health and Temperance.
POINTS FOR PROHIBITION.
THE physical effects of the use of intoxicants are of such a character as to lessen the capacity to labor and the will to labor, and, therefore, the individual power to contribute to the general prosperity. Every person who consumes more than he is able to supply is a hindrance and a burden on society. Idiocy, insanity, drunkenness, disease, incapacitate men for the serious business of life. That which tends to produce or increase these afflictions is at war with society and the State. Drunkenness contributes to the increase both of idiocy and insanity as well as of other diseases. Delirium tremens is a form of temporary insanity produced directly by the excessive and habitual use of alcoholic beverages. There is an abundance of medical testimony showing that drunkenness is a prolific cause of insanity and idiocy.
Dr. E. T. Wilkins, Commissioner in Lunacy for California, says (1872) that intemperance is a far mightier cause of mental diseases than all other causes combined. Dr. Lewis D. Mason states (1883) that in a study of 600 cases of inebriety treated at the Inebriate Asylum at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., he found that 166 had attacks of alcoholic mania. Dr. Baer, of Berlin, says that in Germany the census report of 1871 shows that the number of the insane is largest wherever the consumption of alcohol is the greatest. Dr. Finkleburg, of the Russian Public Health Commission, says alcoholic liquors cause two-fifths of all the insanity in Russia. Another European physician, Dr. Lunier, estimates that fifty per cent. of all the idiots and imbeciles in the large cities of Europe are the offspring of notorious drunkards. Dr. T. S. Clouston, superintendent of the largest insane asylum in Scotland, says in a lecture to the students of Edinburgh University (1883):—
"We know as a statistical fact that from fifteen to twenty per cent. of the actual insanity of the country is produced by the excessive use of alcohol. . . . For every one of the really insane there are no doubt a large number who have become partially affected in mind."
Earl Shaftesbury, who was connected with the British Lunacy Commission over fifty years, stated (1877) in the House of Commons that "fully six-tenths of all the cases of insanity to be found in these realms and in America arise from no other cause than intemperance."—Independent.
TWO BEGGARS.
By Central Baptist
An old man rapped at the door of the writer and asked the privilege of working for a breakfast. The meal was given him and he ate it with a relish. Rising to go, he stood with his gray hair uncovered, with his hard face touched with a bit of emotion, and said, in substance: I thank you sincerely for this food. I was hungry. And while I thank you, I want to warn you against coming into the condition I am in. When I was young I worked hard and made money. I spent it in the saloons. I put hundreds of dollars there. Now I am too old to work. I must wear rags for clothes and beg for a living. The saloons drive me out and give me nothing. Last night I was driven from one and would have been in that terrible storm but for the kindness of a man who let me sleep in his shop.
A few days later another man of about the same age came begging for a dime. He claimed to be a cripple; the hospitals were full. The dime was given him. In an hour he was seen buying beer at a neighboring bar.
These are but samples of what may be learned every day by a little inquiry. There are thousands of old and young men reduced to beggary by drink; licensed saloons tempt and rob and curse them till they are penniless, and then send them adrift to beg from sober people or to steal. And in a good many cases these pauper makers stand behind their bars receiving the money which Christian charity has given these victims. Through the poor besotted beggar, whom he has reduced to beggary, the saloon keeper reaches out to rob sober people and fatten off of the sympathy which his own curse kindles. A business like this cannot buy respectability by any amount of taxes, and in God's sight no number of signatures and votes can relieve it of the deepest infamy.
Faith Shining Through Weakness
By Julius Charles Hare
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.—J. C. Hare.
PRIMITIVE TIME-PIECES.
By Editor
THE story is that King Alfred had no better way to tell the time than by burning twelve candles, each of which lasted two hours; and when all the twelve were gone, another day had passed. Long before the time of Alfred, and long before the time of Christ, the shadow of the sun told the hour of the day by means of a sun-dial. The old Chaldeans so placed a hollow hemisphere with a bead in the center that the shadow of the bead on the inner surface told the hour of the day. Other kinds of dials were afterward made with a tablet of wood or straight piece of metal. On the tablets were marked the different hours. When the shadow came to the mark "ix," it was nine o'clock in the morning. The dial was sometimes placed near the ground or on towers of buildings.
But the dial could only be used in the daytime, and even then it was worthless when the sun was covered with clouds. In order to measure the hours of the night as well as the hours of the day, the Greeks and Romans used the clepsydra, which means, "The water steals away." A large jar was filled with water, and a hole was made in the bottom through which the water could run. The glass in those days was not transparent. No one could see from the outside how much had escaped. So there were made on the inside certain marks that told the hours as the water ran out, or else a stick with notches in the edge was dipped into the water, and the depth of what was left showed the hour. Sometimes the water dropped into another jar in which a block of wood was floating, the block rising as the hours went on. Once in a while some very rich man had a clepsydra that sounded a musical note at every hour.
Another way of measuring time among the ancients was by the sand or hour-glass. This was made of pear-shaped bits of hollow glass, with a very small opening between them. It held just sand enough to run from the upper into the lower pear in the space of one hour. The glass was then turned the other side up and the sand ran back, also taking an hour. You have seen glasses of this kind where the sand runs out in three minutes; they are used in boiling eggs. King Charlemagne, a thousand years ago, had a glass of this kind that ran for twelve hours without turning. It was marked on the outside with red lines to show the escape of the sand.—Ed.
News and Notes.
By Editor
SECULAR.
—It costs $750 to fire a shot from the dynamite cruiser, Vesuvius.
—A destructive cyclone swept over Lamar County, Texas, on the 4th inst.
—It is estimated that the Leadville smelters will produce $15,000,000 this year.
—The great telescope at Lick Observatory in California enables one to see 100,000 stars.
—The Bank of Omaha, incorporated last fall for $100,000, has failed. Bad loans are the cause.
—Heavy strikes have been recently reported from Bohemia. Several thousand hands are already out of work.
—Since 1871, 2,500,000 emigrants have left Germany, and 2,000,000 of these have settled in the United States.
—It is reported that the American exhibit at the Paris exposition is behind even the second-rate countries of Europe.
—By the sinking of the schooner Thomas Houston, six miles off Milwaukee, the morning of the 1st inst., seventeen lives were lost.
—President Harrison has issued an order abolishing all Sunday duties for soldiers except the parade for personal inspection.
—One life insurance company of New York will have to pay claims amounting to $420,000 on victims of the Pennsylvania disaster.
—Hon. John H. Gray, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, died at Vancouver, June 5, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
—The contest over the will of the late A. T. Stewart has been settled by a compromise between Judge Hilton and the heirs, and is practically ended.
—It is reported on good authority that General Lloyd S. Brice is to succeed the late Allen Thorndyke Rice as editor of the North American Review.
—On the 6th inst. the aged Marchioness de Chasteler, of Belgium, was shot through the heart while in bed at her home near Brussels, by an unknown assassin.
—According to the Chicago Express the municipal government of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, is in the hands of women, the mayor and aldermen all being of that sex.
—Political relations are reported as being somewhat strained between Germany, Russia, and Austria. The hostile policy of the Czar is beginning to show itself.
—Fish are dying in large numbers in some of the rivers of California. It is believed that they are poisoned by the sawdust discharged into the streams from the numerous sawmills along their banks.
—It is believed that Tassott, the murderer of Amos Snell, the Chicago millionaire, is in China. Mrs. Snell still professes to be willing to give $50,000 to anyone who will deliver him in this country.
—The wealth of seventy-two of the richest American millionaires exceeds by $33,000,000 the total money circulation of the United States. Their wealth is $1,433,000,000, or an average of $20,000,000 each.
—Acres of rock lying on Holkham Bay, Alaska, formerly supposed to be utterly worthless, have turned out to be rich in silver, assaying as high as 500 ounces to the ton. Great excitement prevails over the discovery.
—A preliminary survey of the boundary line between Alaska and British America is soon to be made, looking forward to the establishment of definite boundary marks between the two sections, which has been rendered necessary by the mining interests lately developed there.
—The police seized thirty million blank Chinese lottery tickets at San Francisco the 4th inst., and this was only a portion of the amount on hand. The aggregate weight of the tickets seized amounted to nine tons. Judging from this, the innocent Ah Sin is not far behind his white brother in the gambling business.
—Venezuela, South America, is suffering from extreme drought, only two showers of rain having fallen in the last fifteen months. In consequence, the yellow fever is creeping into the higher mountainous districts, ten per cent. of the population of some towns being at present suffering from that deadly disease.
—New Yorkers are considering the feasibility of increasing their present water supply by the erection of a colossal dam at Quaker bridge, near Croton Lake. The proposed dam, if built, will be 1,500 feet long, and 274 feet high, with a thickness of 216 feet at the bottom. Perhaps the Johnstown disaster will lead to a more careful consideration of the subject before definite plans are settled upon.
—Seattle, Washington Territory, was almost wiped out of existence by fire June 6. More than sixty acres were burned over in the very heart of the city, and only one business house remains intact. The losses will foot up $15,000,000, and hundreds of people are destitute of the necessities of life. Several persons are thought to have perished in the flames. Assistance is being rendered to the destitute by the surrounding country.
—The excitement still continues in Chicago over the case of Cronin, the murdered doctor. A great conspiracy is thought to exist in certain Irish-American circles, and it seems apparent that Cronin met his death at the hands of some of this clan, but the facts have been so artfully concealed that the proof is hard to get hold of. Rumors were circulated on the 8th inst. to the effect that Cronin was alive, but the fact is generally discredited.
—A Catholic congress recently assembled in Portugal for the consideration, among other things, of the following objects: To discuss the best means to be adopted for combating the Protestantism and the free thought which some are strenuously endeavoring to propagate throughout Portugal; to invite the Portuguese Catholics to adopt a policy of moral force to secure the liberty and the independence of the Holy See; and to offer a universal protest against the outrages and insults to which the sovereign pontiff is daily subjected.
—Recent dispatches from London state that the followers of the Mahdi have made Western Abyssinia almost a desert. Towns have been devastated and herds and flocks destroyed in large numbers. Over 2,000 Christians have been butchered, and hundreds of the best inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves, in spite of the provision of the treaties. The Italian Government has the matter in hand and will execute summary vengeance upon the Abyssinian chiefs and their followers who are responsible for the atrocities.
—Later news from the calamity at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, show that the disaster was slightly overestimated. But thousands of bodies have been buried, while thousands more are still entangled in the acres of débris which cover that portion of Conemaugh Valley. Owing to so many bodies being swept away by the flood, it will never be known exactly how many lost their lives. In scores of cases whole families were drowned, leaving neither kith nor kin to tell the tale. The most conservative estimates of the loss of life at this writing, place it at not over 5,000. Money, provisions, and clothing have been and are still being sent into the flooded district in large quantities, so that present necessities are being supplied. The gravest source of danger, however, is from the contagious diseases that are breaking out, owing to the stench and malaria caused by the rubbish and the hundreds of putrifying bodies covered up in it. There are 10,000 men at work on the mass, but it will take at least four weeks to get over the ground, and it seems probable, at present, that self-preservation on the part of the survivors will soon make it necessary to burn this accumulated matter in order to prevent the further outbreak of disease.
The Curse of Novel Reading
THERE are four great evils of to-day which are sapping our sociological life, and not the least of these is the craze and the curse of intemperate, indiscriminate novel-reading.—Sel.
Obituary.
By J. W. Scoles
DOUGLASS.—Died at Woodland, Cal., May 24, 1889, of an aggravated form of typhletus, after an illness of two weeks, Sister Sallie A. Douglass, aged 47 years and 2 months. Sister Douglass was a consistent member of the Christian Church for several years previous to her acquaintance with the Seventh-day Adventists, and when the truth was preached in Woodland sixteen years ago, she accepted it with that whole-heartedness which characterized her entire life work. She was always ready to visit the sick and relieve the afflicted, and while, by her death, the church loses a warm supporter and a devoted, earnest member, we know she sleeps in Jesus, and we confidently expect, if faithful, to have the privilege of meeting her in the glad reunion of God's people around the great white throne. The family, consisting of a husband and three daughters, were not members of the church, but we trust they may so see the importance of living up to the light they have received that they may rejoin their loved one hereafter in the kingdom of God. A large concourse of sorrowing friends attended the funeral services. Words of comfort were spoken from Job 14:14.
J. W. SCOLES.
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SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS.
By Editor
At the last session of the International Sabbath-school Association, the following resolution was adopted:—
Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested to have a series of lessons prepared upon the subject of Tithes and Offerings, to begin in July, 1889.
In accordance with the above resolution, a series of thirteen lessons on the above-named subject has been prepared for use in the Senior Division of our Sabbath-schools, commencing July 6 and continuing through the quarter.
These lessons will be issued in pamphlet form as No. 8 of the Bible Student's Library, size of page about 4 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches, a convenient size to be carried in the coat pocket. Our object in issuing these lessons in connection with the Bible Student's Library is so that we may avail ourselves of the pound rate of postage.
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TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH
By Editor
Number 33.
Full of timely warnings in regard to the dangers of our times, and replete with encouragement for every Christian.
The following Table of Contents shows the scope of the work:
Unity and Love in the Church.
Behavior in the House of God.
Religion and Scientific Education.
The Education of our Children.
Dangers of the Young.
Suitable Reading for Children.
Advice to the Young.
Worldly Mindedness.
Practical Godliness.
Worldly Influences.
Needs of Our Institutions.
Our Institutions at Battle Creek.
Christian Influence in the Home and the Church.
An Impressive Dream.
Daily Study of the Bible Necessary.
Education of Workers.
Unholy Ambition.
"The Appearance of Evil."
Love for the Erring.
Church Duties.
A Letter.
God's Love for Sinners.
Acceptable Confession.
Erroneous Ideas of Confession.
God's Presence a Reality.
The Nature and Influence of the Testimonies.
Unfounded Reports.
A Miracle Counterfeited.
The Mysteries of the Bible a Proof of Its Inspiration.
The Impending Conflict.
The American Sentinel and Its Mission.
Workers in the Cause.
The Inestimable Gift.
The Character of God Revealed in Christ.
The Word Made Flesh.
God's Care for His Work.
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