Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-07-12

closed the breeze Is blowing family through
the lattlces; and the clcalas are chIrpiug
thoir very loudest on the big sand-tox tree
just outside the door. Cicalas always chirp
most vigorously on the hottie mornings;
and golden green lizards put their heads
out of holes in the wall to listen 10 them
and bask in the sun, for lizards dearly love
but two things, music and sunshine
If you look at them they turn up their eyes
sideways At You, with sort OF knowing
WINK, and disappear at moments notice
down bel ween the mortar. 1t Is blazing
hot morning, surely, and glass of COCO
nut water Is delicious refresher, with the
ice bobbI1g up and down In the centre,
and clinklng pleasantly as il bobs against
the side Of the tumbler. Thomas, too,
looks 50 delightfully."- co0l and summerlike;
he is handsome mulatto boy. with clean
white linen Jacket and trousers; and when
he opens the door. salver in hand and white
teeth all showing, his loose attire gives one
soft OF vicarious sensation of GOODNESS,
wholly impossible In the subjective form
TO any man doomed to wear the black cloth
coat and ught-fittlng waistcost of British
official respectabiliiy. But outdoors the
dust is flying, the streets are baking, the
very negroes are skulking down the shady
side OF the road, aud only the little black
pigs and the little black babies are basking
together in the sweltering sunlight.
Coco-Gut water is indeed a magnificent
institution. 1t doesn't in the least resem-
bic that sicsly, strong-havored coco-nut
milk that people in England get out OF the
full-grown nut. Ii is a purs, clear, limpld,
colorless fluid, not TO be distinguished from
wafer by the eye, and with hardly more
than suspicion OF nut,y SAVIOR even 10
the palate. You buy your green coco-nuts
IN the lump once week, dozen for three
halfpence-three halfpence is the singular
unit Of value Throughout all the British
West lndles-and you use them as you
want them They are knocked down from
the palm less than half ripe, and sold husk
and all for consumption on the premises.
Wnen you open one, you take knife anu
slice through the green fibre, shell inclu-
ded, the whole being still tender enough TO
cut clean across without difficulty. Alter
siiclng eff u layer or two from the top, you
come upon the water, which you turn out
mic iumbler, ard throw the rest of the
nut away. New comers often eat the pulp
with Il spoon, and it IS certainly pleasant
and delicate enough, forming q mere film
of soft, Jelly like lining round tie inside
of the shell. But cOco-nut is iudlgestible
| In any form, though less so when young
than In its dry state, and old hands seldom
taste the pulp at ali; for a man must save
his digestion i'll these low latitudes, if he
wishes 10 keep any for his latter days. The
ripe nuts are only fit for making oil. To
the English world, 10 doubt, it seems
Shocking waste to open whole coco-nut
merely for tie sake of drinking the juice;
but probably the small children hanging
about the yard always annex the empty
shells az their peIquisiie, and make a good
meal, too, OF the pulp. Nobody ever knows
what becomes OF waste things in a hot cll
male; it Is no good trying to keep them.
and there are Innumera5ie hangers on III
the back regions. VINO can always find q
satisfactory use for UnconsIdered trItos.
The water Itself, however, is universal
beverage with all sober people. Even
when no Ice can be had, as On the noun
tains or in country estates, il keeps deli
clously cool and fresh within its own thick
green covering OF shell and fibre. Then 1t
Is naturally strained and filtered, drawn up
by the roots from the malanOus surface
drainage OF the lagoOns, but purified by
pa :slng through all the vessels and cells OF
the stem, so that it makes at last very
valuable drink IN a country where all the
wells are moIe or less hideously polluted
by neighboring sewage. In this you=g
stage 1t contains bat little OF the material
for forming the pulp, and is only very
slightly sweetisn, with faint and agree
able flavor of the cOco-nut. Hence the
Youngest nuts are tie best; as che fruit
rlpens the fibre becomes stringIer, the shell
grows thicker, the pulp hardens, and the
water turns INTO rather indlgestible whitish
milk Some mistaken people put III q
spoonful or two of rum; but this is an er
ror; rum before lunch never did anybody
good IN any climate, and least OF all in
where most people die OF yellow fever OF
of highly concentrated bilious attacks The
pure water alone, with lump OF ice in it,
can do nobody any harm; it contains a
small quantity of food, and II quenche;
Thirst better than even cold tea. In fact,
green COCO nuts are one of tie verv few
real luxurles OF the West Indies. The lus-
clous fruits and delicious sweetmeats are.
of course, the purest humbug; there are
really no good tropical fruI wor. men,
tiouing, save only those that We have al
known from childhood upwards al COvenI
Garden; but an exception must be made
in favor o. mangoes and green COCO nuts
Unfortunately, they don 'teasily bear trans
portatlon; TO eat them at the.r btst they
should be opened within week or ten day.
of the time they are piucked from the tree
Besides, they would not seem so good, nj
doubt, In any ether climate. 1t is thei
admirable adoption TO the circumstances o
the case that makes them SO delicious IoI
look up from your bundle of green-tape'
papers on the desk, over which you hav'
been fuming yourself bodily away IN steam
and you see that glass of cod natural wa
ter standing invitlngly before you, W. tn 1t
! lump OF ice bobbing gaIly up and down II
. the tumbler, like glimpse of Europe ou
of place. That is what gives cocc-nu
water its peculiar charm. Take II to Lon
don, and offer 1t TO thirsty mortais at
club, and they would probably much prefe
ApolllnarIs. In hot climates, however
there is only one thing to compete with il
, and that Is lemonade made from iIes
green lines, without sugar, about as re
freshlng ami cooling q drink as human in
genuity ever Inyented. Uuhappiy til
colonial world, as rule, despises thes
modest beverages, and mixes itself larg
S jug of mainsheet every morning instead
Mainsheet is weak rum and water, read
laid ON In a porous earthenware vesse
evaporation from the surface keeping
cool, and it seems to derive it quantity e.
1 pressive name from the native habit
taking constant pulls at it all day long,
sort of universal stimulus or general prin
I motor power to human acton.
81 Rowland Hill.
The bronze statue whichis is to comm
moIate Sir Rowland Hill, the author
n the penny postage sy ten, will be
L colossal size the fipure belnp nine fe