TOBACCO LEAVES 



dium of smoke. The commerce means 

 more than the exchange of money. It 

 involves the exchange of men, of goods, 

 and of ideas. In the business quarter of 

 Havana are shrewd merchants from every 

 civilized land. In its storehouses are the 

 products of every clime. In its libraries 

 and book-stores are representatives of the 

 great modern literatures. And every- 

 where in daily use are the latest inventions 

 of the four leading nations, America, Eng- 

 land, Germany, and France. 



Without the Vuelta, Havana and Cuba 

 would be famous. The product of its 

 sugar-cane, the fruits and esculents of its 

 fertile soil, the tobacco of Santa Clara 

 and other provinces would give it high 

 industrial rank in the roll of the nations. 

 But with the Vuelta and its magical leaf, 

 Cuba holds a unique position in the affec- 

 tion and regard of mankind. 



