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Science Notes BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES. INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY “The Nation’s Business,” the month ly publication of the United States Chamber of Commerce, is perform ing a noteworthy service in empha sizing the achievements and the con- > tinued progress of this country in matters of science and efficiency. This paper has recently spoken of the progress made in America in the mat ter of industrial chemistry. A few illustrations may indicate what our in dustrial chemists are doing in many lines. Grape-growing, now a large indus try in this country, was disturbed by an insect which attacked the roots. Chemists concocted a fertilizer which w'ould nourish the plant in a way to produce a stock too tough for the in sect. Incidentally, grape-growing thus became, also, much less dependent on good or bad seasons. How to get rid of thousands of tons of raisin seeds was a problem which developed in California. A chemist found tannin in the seeds, which now are not burnt but are util ized in a way to be of service to leather manufacture. Hulls from cottonseed used to go back to the fields, partially to re store the fertility which the plant had taken out of the soil. Then the oil was extracted but wastefully. The ! hulls were burned; later the ashes | were used for the manufacture of I potash. Now they are one of the chief ! ingredients in a balanced ration for j cattle. Besides this, use, the once! despised seeds present, as the result j of the industrial chemist’s researches, j such by-products as salad oil, soap, glycerine, paint, roofing tar and a cooking fat. Through the agency of the chemist j corn is made to produce sugars, syr- j ups, gums, starches, dextrins, oils, ; glycerine, acids and salts. Twisted wood pulp is going into ! towels, rugs, cordage, wrapping twine,j and into furniture that simulates fur niture made of reeds or willow.; Waste tanbark, from which all the tannin has been extracted, is now supplementing and replacing rag stock in tarred felt roofing. Some of it is going into wall paper and some into pipe conduits. Chemists are studying now the possible use of corn stalks for paper pulp. Aluminum, as “The Nation’s Busi ness” points out, furnishes a startling example of what our industrial chem ists have done. Twenty-five years ago the principal ore of aluminum, bauxite, was not even mentioned in a list of useful minerals, published by the government. In the past ten years the use of aluminum in this country has risen from ten million to one hundred million pounds a year. —The Omaha Excelsior. ELOQUENT SPEECH DELIVERED BY LATE DR. RICKETTS. (Continued From First Page) to remind him of Bull Run or Gettys burg, so long as the conditions as laid down at Appomatox remain un complied with, so long as there re mains a single citizen in this repub lic who is denied the right of political liberty, just so long should that bloody shirt be waved. “We have turned toward Washing ton, the seat of our general govern ment, for protection, and from both the president and the senate we have been told that the government is pow erless to protect in times of peace men who offered their lives to pro tect the government in its hour of im minent peril. An Ideal Choice “The man of my choice believes that if republicanism stands for anything it stands for the right of every Amer ican citizen to walk beneath the folds of his country’s flag to the ballot box to cast one vote and have that vote counted. He believes a republican should have as much protection thrown around him in the exercise of his political rights in Mississippi as a democrat has in Maine. He believes ] that if Mr. Crisp is premitted to pre side over our national house of rep resentatives that General Weaver and Mrs. Lease should be permitted free dom of speech in Georgia. Mr. Pres ident, if government is a science and history has a philosophy, neither has ever been more tersely put than when the great philosopher of Rome stood upon the magnificent ruins and broken columns of its departed greatness, and with a voice of doom said: ‘No republic can long stand whose founda tion stone rests not upon the pillars of eternal liberty and liberty of its citizenship.’ Man of Broad Intellect “The man for whom I vote is broad enough of vision to see that continual disregard of law breeds anarchy, and that any government which recognizes the principle that might makes right must necessarily maintain a large standing army. So true an American is he that above the dollar he places the man, above the protection of the products of labor he places the la borer, above reciprocity he places civil and political liberty, above policy he places principle, above all other con siderations he places American man hood and American citizenship. His election to the high office of United States senator would honor Nebraska by placing beside the eastern million aire our grandest specimen of western manhood and western brains. It would insure to us of this great common wealth a representation irresistable in logic, matchless in eloquence, ripe in scholarship and unsurpassed in pa triotism. Always a Kindly Word “For my people he never loses an opportunity of saying a kindly word, and before the court of public opinion, the supreme court of any republic, he has been for us at all times and under all circumstances a faithful advocate. To those of you who have had the pleasure of hearing him preach the doctrine of republicanism, and have heard his indescribable peroration up on what some call the force bill, I appeal to bear me witness that I do not draw the picture too strongly when I say that it is then that he equals in eloquence Demosthenes, who won his fame by hurling his powerful invectives against Philip of Macedon; it is then that he equals Cicero, who used the magic of his eloquence in ex pressing the sentiment of Cataline against the liberties of Rome; it is then that he equals Patrick Henry, as he sounds the alarm against the en croachment of Great Britain upon the liberties of Americans. “Sir, when the muse of history be gins to write the names of the great champions of liberty, humanity and justice high among that bright con stellation of illustrious men, such as Wendell Phillips, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Owen Lovejoy, Fred erick Douglas, John Brown, Charles Sumner and the immortal Lincoln, will be written the name of my choice for United States senator, the Hon. 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