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Show BLESSINGS OF ISLE NARRATED BY TAFT Washington:, March 26 some of tho history and tales of the delightful de-lightful life of Bermuda which ho recently visited, wore told last night by former President Tnft in a lecture beforo tho National Geographic society. soci-ety. Direct taxes, he said, are lighter there i ban anywhere else In the world Anolhor of the Island's claims to distinction Mr. Tnft said, are "a precursor pre-cursor of a famous national delicacy, tho Virginia ham. for Its discoverer. Juan Bennudes, en route to the Island and multiplied " "Coffee, Indigo, cotton nnd tobacco." tobac-co." ho continued, "aro of spontaneous growth and In no placo In the world does the castor oil plant grow more perfectly than there." The formor president quoted Mark Twain s saying that "the onion Ih tnc prldo nnd Joy of Bermuda." "The Bermudlan weeping over the departed," depart-ed," he said, "exhausts praise when he - lye 'lie was an onion.' The Ifer-inudlan Ifer-inudlan extolling tho living. bankrupts bank-rupts applause when he says IIe Is an onion.' " |