That's the West Indies," interrupted Ralph.
Yes; and across the line-"

The line! What line?" inquired Alice.
Why, the equator," replied the captain.

there is any real line on the sea or on the la er; but when ships pass the equator, we call sing the line. The sailors have a great deal when they cross the line. Some of them dr oddly and get into a boat, and then pretend the ship. They give a little present to t cain, and dance on the deck, and have very rou -ts.

Perhaps you know that for a long distance. à side of the equator the weather is always ve Well, we were at last off the coast of Braz soon dropped anchor in the beautiful harbor Janeiro. It took us several days to make t age from New York - a distance, as we reckon f about five thousand miles."

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learn that in the countries south Le seasons are just the opposite of - is their summer, and their summer

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as saying, the coffee bushes, they are, about as large as small leaves of dark, shining green, and the coffee bushes were full of ripened a coffee bean, Ralph. You see this a flat side. Now, there was a twin

this one, and the two, as they grew re shut up in a soft red pulp like a egroes gather these berries in deep them on large flat stones, where the ad out to dry after the red juicy part In Brazil there are thousands of these ere great quantities of the dried coffee

ow, Uncle," said Ralph, "as you have been al the world, and know where everything grows tell me where the sugar we put into our coffe = from."

With pleasure, my lad.

Many plants contain

Millions of pounds of sugar are made from ommon sugar beet; but much of our sugar i from the sugar cane."

have seen a picture of a field of sugar cane, an egroes working in it, Uncle," said Alice. robably it was a scene in the island of Cuba f the West Indies. A great deal of the suga in the world comes from Cuba. Or the pictur have been a scene in Louisiana. But whereve s, a field of sugar cane in blossom is one of th est sights I ever saw."

That is the difference, Uncle," asked Ralph veen brown sugar and white sugar? Do they from different kinds of cane?"

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is brown sugar, and the drainings are

white sugar is merely brown sugar d over again, and worked white." Pt the sugar cane grow here?" asked

imple reason," replied the captain, - cane is a very tender plant, and will re there is little or no frost. The es only within the tropics, or on their

now lifted his silver spoon, and, look"As you have set me talking, I may that this spoon with which we stir history. We get the spoon from the

sure, as we get our coffee from the vhat of the metal before the silver

it into this useful shape? I think

an't you tell the children about the cups we ar ing from?" said the captain's sister, a littl ly. "You gave me this set of cups and saucer ears ago, when you came back from a voyage t and the children have often asked me abou

Well," continued the captain, "these did com China, though most of the ware called Chin has nothing Chinese about it except the name deed is there any need of our going to that fa nd for our crockery, when such excellent war de in our own country. Still, the name remind at the Chinese first taught us the art of makin and saucers, which, as you know, are made of white clay, ornamented and baked; but they re great skill in making."

ow, children," said the father, "you see you has shown you that for this single cup of coffe ve drawn on a large part of the world."