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r-y N these days wbcn so much Is said ' : about the conservation of our nat- , .m r..,,,mv, ural resources and the utilization ..-. .V V1 ? M ' : ' ; t) of products that are neglected and fv xxiwf -"we v' I wasted, it ia strange that no ac- waw- .rffSS If count is taken of the marine for- x , , x , IS-2' - ftLJ h cats and gardens that fringe our f rrv ' aw A Swnt sei coast. Yet, since seaweeds ' VT ' ' " ;-fsT S yfJSyM are the only vegetation found over - , tSft. - , "W LfjtfS&W three-fourths of the superficial ' ' $4? area of the earth, it must be ob- V-& . vlous that their place in the econ- . V4 'C cray or nature must be far from A"Sf$X S W V V V' being Insignificant. In their native element the ; jYrmA P ' , most Important function of these seaweeds is the f V - Aft I, -- ; same as that performed by ordinary forms of C .KWW:'' ' $t? ' " vegetation ori land (hat of rendering animal 'lire fclj' c-YM1" v&&i& ' y'fjS 'V possible. They take the elements existing in $J&i&i ' 'L vL" water as impurities and transform them Into ma- r , , v J?l terials essential to animal life. It is evident, H-S ,fV.-VjS? :iWrJ therefore, that the seaweeds are not quite as use- f& $&tmZ M' ' WV U,? less as they arc supposed to be. ( " v y-' f-V4 JV" Along the coast of New England, the British f VrtL-- T-- -gST ' Isles and western Europe they are used as fer- j t: NS " V '4- ' tlllzers. In many countries they are fed to swine t ' " X--&2S.: VcC5tffcZ5 - 'S ; ' and cattle. In Holland they have been employed www inPtsaf?T' ' . ' " f"Jl f J:l BOATMAN HAD HIS OWN IDEAS Absence of Expected "Tip" Brought Out Excellent Sample cf Real ! Irish Wit. A good story of Irish repartee has been published concerning John Dright. He was always ready for sal mon fishing, and on several occasions went to Ireland with Mr. George Pea body, the American philanthropist. One day Mr. Hrlght, noticing a po liceman on the bank. Inquired of him what sum the boatmen were entitled to ask for rowing up the (Shannon on a day's fishing. He eald that from seven shillings and sixpence to ten shillings was the usual payment. Mr. liright said to Mr. Peabody, "Have you three half-crowns? I have no change." Mr. Peabody produced the money and gave it to the boatman. Ho v;as dissatisfied, and said: "And is that all ye're giving me?" "That's all," replied Mr. Peabody. "Well, that bates all I ever hoard." answered the boatman. "An they call ye Paybody. Faith. I should call ye Pay-nobody!" WHAT HE WAS DOING. In the building of dykes. Sometimes they are used to stuff uuttresses, cushions and upholstered furniture. Experiments have been carried on to use them as a substitute ror wood pulp in the xnanuracture of paper. Hut the Japanese have attained the climax of utility in the employment of the seaweeds. In the bay of Tokyo 2..r00 acrea are planted every year with the red laver, a sea plant, which Is transformed into .1 dried and toasted powder which is of highly nutritious value, being rich in proteids. These weeds arc 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 U placed one of these brush bundles, forming long rows that project above the wafer. 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 tht 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 f00 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 tb gelatine from the other materials. The ready product Is white, shiny and semi-transparent and Is used In making jellies, soups, sauces nnd 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 coffee, tbe 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 and meats. It Is also made into confections and beverages. Iodine has been manufactured from kelps for many years, but the price has been so reduced by the working of the nitrate fields of Peru that its manufacture from kelps In the United States can be made attractive and profitable only by utiliza tion of the by-products such as chloride of potash, algin. cellulose, dextrin, mannlte 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 tenter of the Industry is at Scituate, Mass., where It ha3 been exploited for over three-quarters of a century. The average annual output at pres ent Is about S00.000 pounds, valued at $25,000. It U used chiefly foY 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 Roman times an alkaline dye was prepared from seaweed, probably from fucus vesiculcsus. tho common bladderwrack. The "seaweed pic tures" sold at watering places almost Invariably contain a large proportion of tho dried external skeletons of plant-like animals, such as the sea mats (flustra) and sea-firs (sertularia). 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 tho 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 bMng used in tho manufacture of Iodine, the coarser brown seaweeds are also collected for manure, and the vraik or wrack harvest, or cut-t ting of these weeds in the Channel islands, forms ati 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 lCngland, and a similar prep aration from ulva latissima is known as green laver. Dulse (rhodymenia palmata) and tangles (the young stalks of laminarJa digitata and I saecharina) have been used ror rood in times of scarcity, but must bp difficult of digestion. The last named species yield mannlte. Among the beat known forms of green seaweeds are the tubular cntcrmorphia, 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 phaeosporeae, fucaceae and dlctyotaceae 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 cctocarpus growing on species of fucus to tho gigantic macrocystls and lessonla of the Antarc tic. Tbe floating thallus of the former may reach a length of a thousand feet, and the branching tree-stalk of the latter la several yards high, and as thick as a man's arm. Sargassum, or gulf weed. Is Included here. These belong to the firs', 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 also belong the tangle.s (lamlnarla), 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 (hlraanthalla) are common examples, the female cells are non-motile, and the male cells free swimming; a sexual reproduction docs not occur. The common Dictyota dichotoma and the rarer peacock weed (padina pavonia), may well 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; tho male cells do not bear cilia. According to Strasburger the process of fertilization has not been observed. The third group contains nearly GOO genera, mostly from temperate 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. Of late years he baa chosen aa his friends several young newspaper writers, and one day, playing a gamo of golf with a re porter, he'let out this howl: "I enjoy being with young men so much that I wish I could seek their oclety more freely, but It Is a hard thins ror me to do. You see, I meet people, and begin to like them, and Just when I do that they hit me in tbe 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 was too crafty to give any sign of his elation. "Oh." ho said airily. "I'm doing about as we!! s a roan of my age could expect." Then Mr. Itockefeller, 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 Ishln' 'ungry wolves you'll bo a-drivlng that 'orse you sold me. Tit Bits. Why Price of Coffee Soars Growers Have Quit Raising the Bean and Have Turned to Cultivation 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 en may soon be too poor to have a cup of Bio for break fast. Coffee growers have quit raising coffee and are cultivating rubber, the Los Angeles Examiner 6aya. The mo tor car has boomed the rubber market until there is big money In producing raw material, while the price of "offeo for 15 years has been so low that there was little or no money In it. That Is the explanation the coffee brokers give of tho sudden advance la 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, se ringa rubber has practically only been touched to a distance of about six miles on each side of rivers narl gable by some sort of craft. , i Health And Success arc such intimate relations that no one can be expected to be well acquainted with success who does not keep good hold on heaLth Most serious sicknesses ttart inV minor troubles of the digestive organs. Thousands knenr by actual experience that health and strength and therefore success Are Increased By Use of Bercham's Pills in time, and be fore minor troubles become deep seated and lasting. This famous family remedy will clear your sys tem, regulate your bowels, 6tir late your liver, tone your stomacn. Then your food will properly nourish you and enrich your blood. You will be healthy enough to resist disease strong enough to take due advantage of oppor tunity after taking, as needed, BEECHAET8' Sold every whert la box 10c, 28a. PI It must be awfully unlucky to walk under thirteen ladders. "Did you fall, my son?" "Naw! 'Course I didn't! I'm jest takln a mud bath by me doctor's or ders 1" LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA "While attending school at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1SS2, I became alSicted with bolls, which lasted for about two years, when tho affliction assumed tha form of an eczema on my face, tho lower part of my face being inflamed most of tho time. There would be water-blisters rise up and open, and wherever the water would touch it would burn, and cause another one to rise. After the blister would open, the place would scab over, and would burn and itch r.o a3 to be almost un bearable at times. In this way th.i sores would spread from one place to another, back and forth over the whole of my upper lip and chin, and at times the whole lower part of my face would be a solid sore. This con dition continued for four or five years, without getting any better, and In fact got worse all tha time, so much so that my wife became alarmed lest It lrove fatal. "During all this time of boils and eczema, I doctored with the best phy sicians of this part of the countrr, hut to no avail. Finally I decided to try Cutlcura Remedies, which I did, tak ing the Cutlcura Resolvent, applying tha Cutlcura Ointment to the sores, nnd ftslng the Cutlcura Soap for wash Ing. In a very short time I began to notlc Improvement, and continued to use the Cutlcura Remedies until I was well again, and have not had a re currence of the trouble since, which Is over twenty years. I have recom mended Cutlcura Remedies to others ever since, and have great faith In them as remedies for skin diseases." (Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at-Law, Greenville, O., Jan. 17, 1911. Although Cutlcura Soap and Oint ment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-pago book, will be mailed free on application to "Cutl cura," Depl. L, Boston. Mean People. Henry Runaell, the head of the Bos ton opera, was describing his foreign tour in search of talent. "They were mean people," he satd of the singers of a certain city. "I could do no business with them. They thought only of money." Mr. Russell smiled. "They were as bad as the man who discovered the 'Blank tneater tire. "The first intimation the box office had of this Are came, at the end or the third act, from a fat man who bounded down the gallery stairs, stuck his face In at the ticket window and shouted breathlessly: "Theater's afire! Clmme me mon ey back!'" lI IC 11 3 t ifl BREAD FLOUR one of the World $ Bfst Jor Bread. 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