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Show pierces the Uaf at the spot where ; the water is stored. Tlie water 1 then flmvs down into the vessel 1 held beneath it, and the traveler is enabled to continue his journey, i cheered and refreshed by the Tee- I Mils liquid nature has so kindly provided fur his use." I WATER TAKEN FROM "A TREE. ''There is a tree which grows in Madagascar called the 'Traveler's Tree which is of the greatest service ser-vice to the tired and thirsty travelers travel-ers in that tropical climate," said Professor Wilbor G. Stebbins of Richmond, to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat Globe-Democrat reporter. "This wonderful wonder-ful tree has no branches, the leaves growing from the trunk and spreading spread-ing out like the sections of a fan. These leaves, of which there are generally not more than twenty-j twenty-j f-mr on a tree, arc from six to eight feet in length and from four to six feet broad. At the base of each leaf is a kind of cup containing contain-ing about a quart of cool, sweet I water. The natives save them-'sdves them-'sdves the trouble nf climbing the tree by throwing a spear, which , |