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^ ":*rv / - rw**- ' . ;•£%;' " ' ^ ^r *.' *«• * „•* - -.v iV >« •' ;*•" '- , \ " > * ' '- TAFT WANTS FAIR * > m-.r.* . s$s p* '% & fl:' ; JBIPPPf* •6 ^ - .^'C' ' • |t:4".-A, MWfc*" *«' ** ^ ? n~x <> V V A -V ..ViVk̂ * 't-'-STS :•?«•<• 1 ̂ f.$ * ^ Q£>I , < i "V -^fx •'-?. -.-'v ; < \ . r*,^* ' -s-y '* -*-$ jj thee® days when bo much is said about the conservation of our nat­ ural resources and the utilisation of products that are neglected and wasted, it is strange that no ac­ count is taken of the marine for- .ests and gardens that fringe our sea coast. Yet, since seaweeds are the only vegetation found over three-fourths of the superficial area of the earth, it must be ob­ vious that their place in the econ­ omy of nature must be far from being insignificant. In their native element the most Important fun<5tion of these seaweeds is the same as that performed by ordinary forms of vegetation on land---that of rendering animal life possible. They take the elements existing in water as impurities and transform them into ma­ terials essential to animal life. It is evident, therefore, that the seaweeds are not quite as use­ less as they are supposed to be. Along the coast of New England, the British Isles and western Europe they are used as fer­ tilizers. In many countries they are fed to swine and cattle. In Holland they have been employed Transmits Report of Liability Commission to Congress. OUTLINE OF BILL IS MADE resident Recommends the Enact msnt 9* Law Which Ha Balieves Will End Contsntlon Between Employers and Employes. j%54&23TPA&!xi pjy~ m In the building of dykes. Sometimes they are Seed to stuff mattresses, cushions and upholstered furniture. Experiments have been carried on to use them as a substitute for wood pulp in the manufacture of paper. But the Japanese have attained the climax of utility in the employment of the seaweeds. In the bay of Tokyo 2,500 acres are planted every year with the red laver, a sea plant, which is transformed into a dried and toasted powder which is of highly nutritious value, being rich in proteids. These weeds are planted In a very curious manner. In October and No­ vember bundles of bamboo or brush are prepared and taken to the grounds in boats at low tide. Deep holes are made in the muddy bed of the bay by thrusting down through the water an elongat­ ed conical wooden frame with two long upright wooden handles. Into each of these holes is placed one of these brush bundles, forming long tows that project above the water. The brushes afford a lodging place for the spores of the red laver and they become attached to the twigs and develop within three or four months into plants which are fit to be harvested. They are then cut, dried, pressed, toasted and ground into a powder. This red laver grows abundantly along the coasts of the United States. Of greater importance than this is the manufac­ ture of a seaweed isinglass which is exported from Japan to all the countries of the world. There are not less than 500 establishments in Japan which are making this Isinglass. It is prepared from seaweeds of the genus Gelidium. They are boiled, strained and filtered in order to separate the gelatine from the other materials. The ready product is white, shiny and semi-transparent and Ib used in making jellies, soups, sauces and to purify the wine of the natives, which is made from rice and is called "sake." In the United States it is chiefly employed in food preparations where gelatine is required. It is also used for the sizing of textiles, the stiffening of the warp of silk, the clarifying of wines, beer and cofTee, the making of molds in the manufacture of paper. In all civilized countries the Japanese gelatine, under the name of agar-agar, is used exclusively as the culture medium in bacteriological work. Large shipments of this gelatine are also sent to the schnapps factories in Holland. The most abundant of all seaweeds are the kelps, distributed along -every coast line. From these the Japanese prepare "kombu," which en­ ters Into the dietary of every family in Japan. It is used as a vegetable, cooked with soups, fish sad meats, it is also made into confections and beverages. Iodine has been manufactured from kelps for many years, but the price has been so rjeduced by the working of the nitrate fields of Peru that Its manufacture from kelps in the United States can be made attractive and profitably only by utiliza- tlon of the by-products such as chloride of potash, algin, cellulose, dextrin, mannite and other salts, including sodium alginate. The United States, however, has one seaweed industry of commercial importance in Irish moss, a form of alga that grows abundantly along the Atlantic coast, particularly north of Cape Cod. The center of the Industry is at Scituate, Mass., where it has been exploited for over three-quarters of a century. The average annual output at pres­ ent Is about 800,000 pounds, valued at $25,000. It is used chiefly for making blanc mange, and is also employed In making cough remedies, jellies and puddings. It is also used for clarifying beer and In sizing fabrics. In Romkn times an alkaline dye was prepared from seaweed, probably from fucus veslculosus, the common bladderwrack. The "seaweed pic­ tures" sold at watering places almost invariably contain a large proportion of the dried external skeletons of plant-like animals, such as the sea- mats (flustra) and sea-firs (sertularla). Between twenty and fifty fathoms seweeds are rare, beyond that depth their occurrence Is excep­ tional. The principal natural means of distribu­ tion are, of course, ocean currents; but man counts for something, inasmuch as species are brought from port to port on the bottom of ships. Among the chief barriers must be reckoned stretches of deep sea, coast deserts of sand and mud, and the irruption of fresh water lowering the salinity of the neighboring tidal water. Prob­ ably the oldest seaweed known Is one of slphon- eous structure, described as from the Devonian rocks Besides being used in the manufacture of iodine, the coarser brown seaweeds are also collected for manure, and the vralk or wrack harvest, or cut­ ting of these weeds in the Channel islands, forms an Important part of the farmer's work at certain times of the year. Laver, prepared from a spe­ cies of porphyra, is valued as a delicate condi­ ment In the west of England, and a similar -prep­ aration from ulva latissima is known as green laver. Dulse (rhodymenla palmata) and tangles (the young stalks of laminaria digitata and L. saccharina) have been used for food in times of scarcity, but must be .difficult of digestion. The last named species yield mannite. Among the best known forms of green seaweeds are the tubular entermorphia, or pipe-weed; the branched cladophora; ulva, or sea lettuce, with flat spread­ ing fronds; the feathery bryopsis, like a minia­ ture palm tree; and the button-like codium, or sea purse. The brown seaweeds are arranged in three groups--phaeoBporeqe, fucaceae and dictyotaceae, --according to their mode of reproduction. In all there are about 170 genera, chiefly from the colder seas, and varying in size from the minute ectocarpus growing on species of fucus to the gigantic macrocystis and lessonia of the Antarc­ tic. The floating thallus of the former may reach a length of a thousand feet, and the branching tree-stadk of the latter is several yards high, and as thick as a man's arm. Sargassum, or gulf- weed. is Included here. These belong to the first group, in which a sexual reproduction is effected by swarm-spores; sexual reproduction also takes place by the conjugation of cells, usually differing from swarm-spores only by their fusion. Here alBO belong the tangles (laminaria), with fronds borne on a stalk that shows some advance in structure. In the fucaceae, of which the bladder- wrack (fucus), sea-oak (halidrys), and sea-thongs (himanthalia) are common examples, the female cells are non-motile, and the male cells free- Bwlmming; a sexual reproduction does not occur. The common Dictyota dichotoma and the rarer peacock weed (padina pavonia) may w<»ll repre­ sent the third group. A sexual reproduction is effected by non-motile spores; the male and the female cells are also non-motile. A single cell is produced in, and ejected from, the female or­ gan; the male cells do not bear cilia. According to Strasburger the process of fertilization has not been observed. The third group contains nearly 300 genera, mostly from tetnperate and tropical seas. The vast harvest of the sea, as represented by the algae that grow to maturity and then decay along our extended coast lines and are wasted, Is capable of adding tens of millions to the wealth of the nation, of supporting numerous Industries that would give permanent employment to many thousands of people, and of relieving American manufacturers from dependence upon foreign sources of supply for chemicals and other mate­ rials used in various arts and industries. His Magic Wand Not Waved Money King Apparently Asked Lead­ ing Question Only as a Matter of Information. John D Rockefeller gets a lot of fun out of his money Ot late years he haB cho«en as his friends several young newspaper writers, and one day, playing a game of golf with a re­ porter, he out this howl: "I enjoy being with young men ko much that 1 wish I could seek thelh society more freely, but it is a hard thing for me to do. You gee, I meet people, and begin to like them, and Just when I do that they hit me in the back with a contribution box " The young man agreed with the millionaire that such a practice was discouraging, not to say disgusting. appalling and frightful. This cheered Rockefeller immensely. "By the way," said the oil mag­ nate graciously, "how are you getting on financially?" The reporter immediately had a vision of tumbling into a pile of money, but he w,a8 too crafty to give any sign of his elation. "Oh." he said airily. "I'm doing about as well as a man of my age could expect." Then Mr. Rockefeller, without crack­ ing a smile, resumed the game.-- Popular Magazine. Farmer (to horse dealer)--No, I don't bear ye no malice I only hope when you're chased by a pack of rav- tshiu' ungry woives you'll be a-drtvlng that 'orse you Bold me--Tlt-Blts Why Price of Coffee Soars Growers Have Quit Raising the Bean and Have Turned to Cultlvstion of Rubber. Motor cars are partly to blame for the higher price of coffee. One may not be able to own a motor car, but because of them one may soon be too poor to have a cup of Rio for break­ fast. Coffee growers have quit raising coffee and are cultivating rubber, the Los Angeles Examiner says. The mo­ tor car has boomed the rubber market until there is big money In producing the raw material, while the price of coffee for 15 years has been so low that there WBB little or no money In it. That is the explanation the coffee brokers give of the sudden advance in the price of the bean without which an American breakfast Is a tasteless thing. There has been some talk of a short­ age in the supply of raw rubber, but according to consular reports the se­ ringa rubber district in the Amazon valley In South America would be suf­ ficient by itself to supply the growing needs of the world's consumption if it could be worked economically, which Is only possible with a far greater population than that at present avail­ able and better means of transport. At present, except In the Aere, s©L rings rubber has practically only been touched to a distance of about six miles on each side of rivers navi­ gable by Bome sort of craft. Washington.--President Taft sent to the senate the report of the employ­ ers' liability and workmen's compensa­ tion commission and in the .message accompanying It the president ex­ presses the hope that the bill recom­ mended by the commission will be- >me a law. The message follows: 0 the Senate and House of Repre­ sentatives: 1 have the honor to transmit here­ with the report of the employers' lia­ bility and workmen's compensation commission, authorized by* joint reso- ion No. 41, approved June 25, 1910, "to make a thorough investigation ot the subject of employers' liability and workmen's compensation, and to sub­ mit a report through the president to the congress of the United States." The commission recommends a care­ fully-drawn bill, entitled, "A bill pro­ viding for an exclusive remedy and compensation for accidental injuries resulting in disability or death to em­ ployes of common carriers by rail­ roads engaged In interstate or foreign commerce, or in the District of Colum­ bia, and for other purposes." This bill works out in detail a compensa­ tion for accidental injuries to em­ ployee of common carriers in inter­ state railroad business, on the theory of insuring each employe against the results of Injury received in the course of the employment, without reference to his contributory negligence, and\ without any of the rules obtaining In the common law limiting the liability of the employer in such cases. The only case in which no compensation Is to be allowed Is where the injury or death of the employe is occasioned by his wilful intention to bring about the injury or death of himself or of another, or when the injury results from his intoxication while on duty. They provide for a medical and hos­ pital service for the injured man, for a notice of the injury to the employer, where such notice is rot obviously given by the accident itself; for the fixing of the recovery by agreement; if not by agreement, by an official ad­ juster, to be confirmed by the court, and, If a jury is demanded, to be passed on by a Jury. The amount of recovery is regulated In proportion to the wages received, and the more or less serious character of the injury where death does not ensue, specific provision being made for particular in­ juries, insofar as they can be speci­ fied. The compensation is to be made In the form of annual payments for a number of years or for life. The rem­ edies offered are exclusive of any other remedies. The statistical Inves­ tigation seems to show that under this act the cost to4 the railroads would be perhaps 25 per cent, more than the total cost which they now incur. The report of the commission has been very able and satisfactory, the Investigations have been most thor­ ough, and the discussion of the con­ stitutional questions which have arisen in respect to the validity of the bill is of the highest merit. Three objections to the validity of the bill of course occur: In the first place, the question arises whether un­ der the provisions of the commerce clause, the bill could be considered to be a regulation of interstate and for­ eign commerce. That seems to be already settled by the decision of the Supreme court in the employers' lia­ bility case. The second question is whether the making of those remedies exclusive and the compelling of the railroad companies to meet obligations arising from Injuries, for which the railroad would not be liable under the common law, Is a denial of the due process of law which 1b enjoined upon congress by the Fifth amendment to the Con­ stitution in dealing with the property rights. This question the report takes up, and in an exhaustive review of the authorities makes clear, as it seems to me, the validity of the act. The third objection Is that the right of trial by jury, guaranteed by the Seventh amendment Is denied. As a matter of fact, the right is preserved In this act by permitting a Jury to pass on the issue when duly demand­ ed, in accordance with the limitation of the act I sincerely hope that this act will pass. I deem It one of the great steps of progress toward a satisfactory so­ lution of an important phase of the controversies between employer and employe that has been proposed with­ in the last two or three decades. It must be awfully unlucky to walk under thirteen ladders. Railroad Methods in France m j f , • There Is an old woman who lives •n* fa a Paris suburb to whom the West- >ro State railway is acting the part of jfc<a munificent Providence. A friend In -Brittany sent her a sack of potatoes. She got notice that the potatoes had been wnt, and to her astonisnment received three sacks instead of one. a,«Belug an honest old woman, she wrote •/ ^ ito th? company and an inspector called * to make Inquiries. He begged the old lady not to make a fuss and to keep the potatoes. This method, he ex­ plained, would be much simpler than trying to find out the real owner of the extra two sacks. A few days after­ ward the woman got another sack. She has been deluged with potatoes ever Bince. She is receiving on an av­ erage three Backs a week and has enough to ls^t her out her entire iife- i time. Origin of Curious Names The attack In a French railway train on Mme. Cahen d'Anvers may cause interest in the origin of the curious name she bears. The founder of the family was called Cohen. Hap­ pening to reside at Antwerp, he as­ sumed the name of Cahen d'Anvers on his own sole responsibility as a marto of distinction which he considered to be due to him, ^nd handed it down to bis descendants as a possession for all time. It is related that once, when corresponding with a college friend Of his, a Herr Otto, he signed himself O. d'Anvers, whereupon the other humor. 1st duly replied with a communication subscribed O. de Cologne.--Pall Mall Gazette. The fool is never so stingy with hit folly as the wise man Is with his wl» dom. And Thenl Consider the way of the little green cucumber, which never does its best fighting till it's down. -- Stanford Chaparral. Varying Degrees of Endurance. A condor can exist without food for 40 days, the eagle under the same cir­ cumstances will exist 20 days. First Breach of Promise Case. The first trial for breach of promise was held In England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Not With Us He Isn't. The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of Jthat class of Irrational bipeds who hurt only them­ selves.--Maria Edgeworth. The One Failure. There Is only one failure In life that Is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.--Farrar. -V i Cant Keep From Harping on It. Generally the trouble with a mas who does another a favor Is that he can't forget It. STEPHENSON IS HIT FIVE 8ENATOR8 FILE MINORITY REPORT AND DECLARE WIS­ CONSIN MAN GUILTY. SAYS CHARGES ARE PROVEN Declare the Evidence Showed Conclu- elvely That Voters Were Paid to Be Mt the Polls and Big 8ums Spent. Washington.--Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin Is not entitled to hip seat in the opinion of five members of the senate committee on privilege: and elections, who filed a minority re port with the senate. The majority re port on the Investigation of Senator Stephenson's campaign expenditure* was submitted February 12. It held that the charges of corruption In the primary of 1908 were not proven. The minority report is Bigned by Senators Kenyon, Clapp and Jones., Republicans, • Lea and Kern, Demo­ crats. It contends that enough evi­ dence was adduced by the inquiry to warrant the senate In declaring Sen­ ator Stephenson's seat vacant. Referring to the fact that the sena­ tor through his lieutenant spent $107, 793 in his campaign and that candi­ dates for the ptate legislature spent proportionately large sums, the report quotes from the majority report: "Such expenditures were in viola­ tion of the fundamental principles un­ derlying our system of government, which contemplated the selection of candidates by the electors and not by the selection of electors by the can­ didates." Quoting again from the majority re­ port, which after summarizing the election, declared that if they had been used by a candidate for a state ofllce in Wisconsin "it would be diffi­ cult to justify such conduct under the laws of the state," the minority re­ port continues: "This statement we indorse. It warrants our opposition to the conclu­ sion of the majority. If I t would be difficult to justify a campaign l ike this by a candidate for a state office why Is It not equally difficult to justify it on the part of Senator Stephenson? He was not compelled to go into the primary. He elected to do ,so and he should be held to the same degree of accountability as any other candidate In that primary. "If he used methods--and the ma­ jority says he did--that it would be difficult to Justify in behalf of a state candidate, then it is equally difficult for the senate to justify such conduct on the part of a candidate for a seat In this body and preserve its integ­ rity and hqnor. In our judgment it cannot do it." "All this is admitted," says the re­ port, "and we feel that we have a right to assume from these admitted facts and actions that corrupt methods and practices were used in connection with said primary election. To hold otherwise is to establish a precedent that would authorize an expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to debauch the electorate to secure a seat in this body. To do this is to notify the world that we are careless as to whether 6eats In this body are to be bought and sold as so much mer­ chandise to the man with the largest purse." LAW OF INITIATIVE UPHELD U. 3. Supreme Court Holds Only Con­ gress Can Change Referendum Statute of Oregon. Washington.--The cause of direct legislation by the people won a de­ cisive victory here when the Supreme court declared constitutional by im= plication the initiative and referen­ dum amendment to the Oregon consti­ tution. It refused to take Jurisdiction of the test suits contesting validity of the legislation. Many states in which agitation for direct legislation is before the people are affected by the decision. Oregon's courts have declared constitutional the initiative and referendum, in two cases heard. One was brought by the Pacific Coast Telephone and Telegraph com­ pany, which refused to pay a tax of two per cent, on Its annual gross re­ ceipts, provided by a law adopted by the people under the direct legisla­ tion amendment. It held that the ini­ tiative and referendum were repug­ nant to the federal Constitution.. Justice White delivered the opin­ ion. "The Issues are political and gov­ ernmental, and not therefore within the reach of Judicial power," he said. 'It follows that the case presented Is not within our Jurisdiction, and the writ of error must therefore be and it is dismissed for want to Jurisdiction." The decision was unanimous, and leaves the Oregon laws in free and untrammeled operation until some hindering action is taken, if at all, by the national congress. PugiMet Dies of Injuries. Chicago.--Joe Ketchel, a Chicago pugilist, died in the United States Training Station hospital at North Chicago as a result of injuries be­ lieved to have been suffered in a box­ ing contest in which he engaged with "Billy" Walters. Memorial University Is Sold. Mason City, la.--The Memorial uni­ versity of Mason City, founded by the sons of veterans, was sold to Arch­ bishop Keane of the Catholic arch­ diocese of Dubuque. Moving Pictures for Schools. New York.--Free moving picture shows are to be established in at least 100 of the larger public school build­ ings here, if an urgent appropriation demanded by Superintendent Maxwell Is approved by the board of education. Foss Pardons 81 In Year. Boston.--Governor Foss has broken all New England records for the use of the pardoning power, having re' stored 81 prisoners to liberty during his year in oflce. His pardons Include eleven murderer*. 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A table dainty, made of white Indian corn--present­ ing delicious flavour and wholesome nourishment in new and appetizing form. The steadily increasing sale of this food speaks volumes in behalf of its excellence. An order for a package of Post Toktties from your grocer will provide a treat for the whole family. "The Memory Ltn&en'9 Postum Cereal Cot&pa&y, Limited Battle Creek, Michigan i