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Show A Strange "God Tree." What is a god tree? Nobody knows or had ever heard of such a thing until, un-til, not long ago, an ethnological explorer ex-plorer came across quite a lot of thorn on certain little known islands along the west coast of Sumatra. The god tree is carved out of wood, with curiously fashioned branches of the same material. On these branches are hung strings of bright colored bits of cloth and tiny baskets filled with grains of rice. The whole affair is not more than three feet high. According to the belief of the na- , tives of the islands aforesaid, a god lives in the tree. He is not a partic-ularly partic-ularly good sort of divinity and, if he , ' takes a notion to leave the tree he j-s"' liable to do folks a mischief. The best way to persuade him to slay at home in the tree is to make the latter attractive by adorning it. in the manner man-ner described and by supplying rice in baskets for the god to eat. The god is a household god and the tree which he inhabits is kept in a corner of the family dwelling |