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probably have been found both coasts and
the eastern and western islands of tropical Amer
lea equally.
Eighth.-No ancient data of the existence Of
the cocoanut in America have been found, but
Its presence In Asia three to four thousand years
ago is proven by several Sanskrit names.
From these facts the most ancient habitation
in Asia would be in the archipelago and in Amer
lea in the islands west Of Panama. It's introduce
ton into Ceylon, Indian and China De Candole
states, does not date further back than three
thousand years, but the transport by sea to the
coasts of America and Africa took place perhaps
in a more remote epoch, although posterior to
those epochs when the geographical and physical
conditions were different from those of our day.
In early botanical works cocoanuts are men,
toned being derived from East Indian word
COG or cocuc, used to indicate the fruit of the
cocos Nucifera, or cocoanut of fancied resem-
blance of the three circular depressions to the
race OF monkey, whose conversational powers
are limited to uttering a sound like "coco"
At the present day, on the islands of the Bay
OF Panama, such as Coiba, Coibita, Jicaron, Mon
tuosa, Ladrones, and along the southwestern coast
OF Ch1riqui in Panama. and Punta Burica and
dol1o Dulce IN Costa RIGA, are found dense groves
OF Wild cocoanut palms, the fallen nuts piled IN
around their base, in many instances to a depth
OF two and three feet, washed back and forth
oy the swirl OF the great tides Of these coasts
until hurled against some Jagged rock the pro-
tect1ng husk is torn away and the tender kernel
becomes the prey of the myriads of soldier crabs
patroll1ng these great sandy stretches at low
tide. Others ave carried by swift currents to
nearby coasts, where thrown high on the beach
at flood tide, they may terminate and take root.
others come as floating mama and becalmed
pearl-fsh1ng crews supplying at once food and
drink to the divers whom the tides carry far
from their base of snpplies--an analogy to the
aphorism Of the ill-wfnd
Accepting De Candolle's theory as correct this
same process Of distribution from the low.,vine
coasts OF the eastern archipelago to these islands
OF the Bay OF Panama, mentioned by Dampier
a anu vancouver IN their explorings. might have
been seen taking place thousand wears h.r,ro
the Christian era, or by Columbus successors
in the Dukedom of Veraguas, off which coast
they l1e thence carried by human agency -
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Lawmakers Are Besieged by Women

session until It's close they-these
women in waiting" as one congress-
man facetiously calls them-are to be
seen. Some of them are there for q
short while only or, maybe, single
visit, but the majority are as firmly
intrenched as the Rock of Gibraltar.
A few are so new and dif1ident that
the pages who take In their cards to
the congressman have to tell them
what to write and where to wait They
come for million reasons, real and
imaginary, and every shading Of hui
man pathos and comedy is exhibited
in their self-imposed, though none the
less arduous, task of waiting.
There are young girls, slender and
fair, who come in groups, properly
chaperoned, from boarding schools
just to say 'good.day" to the member
from their home state. They are
frankly curious and vastly excited
over the novel experience.
There are women with the battle
SCARED faces Of the unhappy aged.
Some of them are in rusty black and
make no attempt to conceal the pow
erty that drives them to this lost
hope of winning the sympathy of a
man who can get them government
position or aid the passage of GER
tain bill. They are ION duty" each
day, from noon to adjournment. in the
sitting little room on the house side,
which is merely columned niche to
the left Of statuary hall. From it an
inclined rallied walk, not unlike gang.
plank, leads up to a short hall direct
ly opposite the central door at the
house.
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100000 In Gold Awaits Claimants

e Tackled in one corner of the steel
- ribbed vaults of the United States
treasury, 100000 in gold coin is going
begging. The government canot give
it away; yet none of the rightful own
ers can be induced to take it. It
represents unclaimed interest on the
public debt.
Somewhere in hooks and crannies
and out of the way places are the gov
ernment's interest checks for the
money, which never have been cashed.
Some of them never will be presented,
others may be brought around in time,
and Some are being held by cautious
investors.
From time to time the treasury at
tempts to call in the checks and the
vagaries of human nature are shown.
One citizen has more than 100000
waiting for him and holds the checks
for It. He was recently invited to
cash in and made a trip to Washing
ton to tell treasury officials the checks
were his property, he would cash them
when he pleased, or burn them up II
he wished. II he does the latter, his
money will be held in the vaults until
eangress. perhaps. might dispose Of
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w ASH1NGTON.-T a member of
" congress spends his days in work.
Ing for or against such momentous
projects as tariff reduction. Canadian
reciprocity, appropriations for this or
that and other kindred subjects, is, to
the popular mind, precisely what he is
sent there to do. But that he also
consumes goodly portion of his work
Ing day In receiving or avoiding wom-
en-. Will be, perhaps, a more or less
surprising statement to the average
voter.
And yet-don't censure the con-
gresham for doing so. Nine out of
ten times he's more eager to dodge his
feminine callers than to see them.
This business Of basking in feminine
smiles and being sought after by
Milady Fair may be all right in story
books, but it doesn't go In congress.
If he could do so the average mem.
Der would turn over the job of re-
cetving Phyllis and Cousin Mary from
the country and Mrs. Home Slater to
any one who wants tin jify!
They can be found either in the re-
ceptfon room of the house of repre-
sentat1ves or in the marble room of
the senate. chiefly, however, on the
house side. From the opening day of
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farther shores, north into Central
America and Mexico. south into what
is now Colombia and Ecuador, and
across the 1sthmus of Panama to the
Mosquito coast, Venezuela and tho
West Indies, there to meet with those
brought over from Africa by either
ocean currents or early explorers.
In the Americas today the cocoanut
is an important product OF Mexico
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, San
Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colon
b1a, Ecuador as far south as Guaya-
quill, Venezuela, Guiana and Brazil;
and in the West Indies, Cuba, Santo
Domingo, Haiti, Bahamas. Jamaica
and Trinidad. Cocoanuts are being
planted more extensively every year
in southern Florida. and within few
years will doubtless constitute an I'M
portant product of that state. Pacific
America sends cocoanuts to the San
Francisco market from the Hawaiian
islands, while copra, or the dried
kernel, and oil expressed therefrom,
reach this market from the orient.
Along the coast of Brazil there are
wild cocoanut groves over 200 miles
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M5s:Ab10lhy {. lnE0er~

nected with the university until his
death in 1882.
Doctor Draper has frequently been
described as pioneer in the science
of prismatic analysis. His discovl
cries in this field covered a wide
range. He even anticipated the mean
descent light Of Edison when he sug-
gested as standard for photometry
for white light piece of platinum foil
of given area and thickness heated ia
fncandescent by an electric current
Of specified strength.
Capillary attraction was the subject
OF his first researches and from them
arose his discovery as to how the
blood is purified, a mystery which had
baffied the scientists up to that time.
1t was In 1847 that he explained the
circulation and publication of the
blood in work that attracted wide
attention.
Doctor Draper is still remembered
at New York university as one Of the
most prodigious workers ever known.
Besides his extensive research work
he found time to publish more than
hundred hooks, monographs and adj
dresses. He wrote a history Of the
Civil war In three volumes and HIS
History Of the Intellectual Develop
ment of Europe" was translated into
every civilized tongue.
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Argument in favor of an American origin an
stated by De Candole, is as follows The trade
winds of the Pacific, to the south and yet more
to the north of the equator, drive floating bodies
from America to Asia, direction contrary to
that OF the general currents. It Is known more
over, from the unexpected arrival Of bottles con-
tanning papers different coasts, that chance
has much to do with these Transports
His arguments contrary to an American origin
OF the cocoanut palm and in favor of an Asiatic
are as follows:
First.-A current between the third and fifth
parallel. north latitude, flows from the islands
OF the Indian archipelago to the Gulf of Panama
To the north and south of this are currents
which take the opposite direction, but they origi-
nate In regions too cold for the cocoanut and
do not touch Central America, where it is sup
posed to have been long Indigenous
second-The Inhabitants of Asiatic islands
were far holder navigators than the American
Indians. 1t is very possible that canoes from
the Asatc islands, containing provisions of cocoa
nuts, were carried by storms or false maneuvers
to the Islands of the west coast Of America: the
contrary is highly improbable.
Third-The area for three centuries has been
much vaster In Asia than in America, and the
difference was yet more considerable before that
epoch, for 1t Is known that the cocoanut has not
long existed in the east Of tropical America
Fourth-The Inhabitants of the islands Of Asia
possess an immense number of varieties of the
palm, which indicates very ancient cultivation
oAume euomeIdteS eighteen Vdrlet1eS IN Java and
adjacent islands, and thirtynine in the Philippines
Nothing Of a similar nature has been observed
in the Americas.
Fifth'-The Of the cocoanut are more
varied and more habitual in Asia.
Sixth.-1t Is not probable that the ancient Mexi-
cans and Inhabitants of Central America would
have neglected to spread the cocoanut in several
directions had it existed among them from a
very remote epoch. The little breadth of the
1sthums Of Panama would have facilitated its
transportation from one coast to the other and
the species would soon have been established in
the West Indies, as it has since become natural
lied there since the discovery of America
Seventh.-If the cocoanut in America dated
from a geological epoch anterior to the Plocene
or Eocene deposits in Europe it would
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long, and millions of nuts shipped annually
from this country to the United States and
Europe Mexico reduces much of it's product to
oil and ships to the United States in this form,
although good trade in nuts is maintained.
or those exported from Cuba, Honduras, Mica
ragua, Panama and jamaica the greater part is in
the raw state.
Trinidad reduces much Of its product to copra,
Tor Europe, and OIL principally for the local
consumption Of its large East Indian population.
In 1908 the approximate estimate Of area I'M.
der cultivation In the cocoanut palm in all parts
OF the world was. 3140,000 acres
Ot this vast area there are probably 220. 900 900
palms bearing fully 7,000,000O00 nuts annually,
the majority Of which are consumed for food pur-
poses where produced
The cocoanut palm fourshes near the equator
and as Tar north as 80 Degrees especially along
low coasts, although many are found in India
at an elevation Of 5000 feet and Gases are
known where the palm does well at an elevation
OF $500 feet above the sea.
AS rule cocoanut tree throws out spatAe
and leaf every month. each Towering spike
yielding from 10 to rs ripened nuts The product
OF healthy tree properly tended may be from
SO to 12o and even $50 nuts annually,
me principal products Of the cocoanut palm
are raw nuts, from which the desiccated meat
Is made; copra, or the dried kernel from which
In turn oil IL expressed; poonac or the residue
after extracting the oil, and corr
The uses OF these products as we'll as of every
portion OF the palm itself, are almost innumerable
Twenty:eight per cent Of all the cocoanuts
raiser IN the world are grown in the Americas,
where, however, they are scattered over much
greater area for each palm than Is the case IN
the orient, thereby making the work of collecting
and shipping more difficult and expensive. Due
principally to this fact, the vast stretches Of
cocoanut groves of Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico
ana the western coast of Central America have
never been extensively exploited for cocoanuts.
Increasing demand, higher prices than in former
years, and the approaching completion of the
Panama canal, which means new markets brought
about by improved transportation facilities. are
rapidly bringing these fields within the radius Of,
prontaoe exploitation, in addition to stimulating
tie scientific culture of this main, +hro,ha+ $3.50
ical America IVY
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no MATTER J
, WHAT THEY \
7 ENCRAvE on TNE
7 SILVER SERVICE ~
y 6E A PRETTY
| COCO FIGHTER !

e ENATOR REED SMOOT of Utah,
- who is an apostle Of the Mormon
church, in spite of all the attacks he
has weathered since his advent into
public life, cannot get used to the
campaigns waged against his religion.
The protest against placing the like
ness of Brigham Young upon the sill
yer service that is to be presented to
the battleship Utah by the citizens of
the state caused Senator Smoot to
make call upon the secretary of the
navy recently and explain to him the
facts in the case.
. The proposition is to have engraved
upon the silver service likeness ST
the pioneer monument that stands at
the head of Main street, Salt Lake
City. This monument was erected at
the very spot where the pioneers of
that state. 142 in number, camped
when they went into that wilderness
to carve out new empire. All of
them were Mormons and Brigham
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31

it. The treasury can do nothing su:
keep it.
The contractor who laid the first
pavement upon Pennsylvania avenue
from the capitol to the White House
las $4,000 waiting for him. It has
been there many years, but the treas
TRY has never been able to find the
rightful payee. as the contractor
failed and his affairs became involved
in litigation which has never been set
tied
The amounts Of this seemingly own
erless fund range from thousands Of
dollars down to few cents. The
smaller amounts are all held for those
who owned government securities at
some time or other and probably have
forgotten to collect their latest inter.
eat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31
A Lazy Mans Job.

Tip, since his early wanderings On
the plains, has always said that the
softest lazy mans job on earth vas
raising sheep. Sheep are bush feed
ers. They will thrive on eating any
thing from dead sage-brush to railroad
snow fences. They will tunnel their
muzzles through snow to get a stick
underneath for food. OF course they
eat the snow when they get thirsty,
Now Tip learns from an official gov.
eminent report that san island OF the
coast OF Nova Scotia has been 4 great
success. Not an attendant with food.
not copper cent Of cost to the own,
ers, and through two bitterly cold
hard winters those sheep have Fat,
tened and flourished to splendid form
and fleece. New York Press.
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New Statesmen Are Economical

IN this new house OF representatives
there are number of members who
have come here with full realization
Of the fact that they are one-termers.
They know that according to all hui
man probabilities they will not be re.
turned, and so they propose to make
all they can out of two years in Of
fee. No expensive hotels for them:
on the contrary, they are figuring how
they can live on their mileage and
clerk hire, and save their salaries
The result is that the superintend-
ent OF the house office building has
had hard work to keep members from
putting cots In their Offices for Sleep
ing there. It is said to be fact that
some of these "close" congressman
have insisted that they be given the
right to move their trunks into the
house Office building and sleep there,
though they have not yet proposed do
ing light housekeeping.
Speaking of committee rooms, the
shift caused by the change in the po-
litical complexion of the house has re-
suited TN embarrassment to some of
the members who have been in the
habit CT taking their nips regularly
during the day.
Gosh, but I'm dry, and tired, and
need drink" remarked a statesman
as he stood in the corridor the other
day. "'But blamed if I know where to
get it. Last session l had lots of
friends who kept bottles in their com.
mittee rooms, and suppose there are
just as many now, or more, but l
don't know where to locate them"
There seems to be no reason to
doubt that the bottles are just as
plenty in this congress as they ever
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31
Is watermelon a Fruit?

When you eat an apple you know
that you are eating fruit, and when
you partake Of cabbage you are Ger
tain that you are doing away with
vegetable; but what are you eating
when you sink your face in a nice,
big, juicy watermelon? The fact of
the matter is that II you confined your
diet to fruit, and nothing else. you
could not indulge in the ravishing of
this most luscious product Of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31

MS neaa on one side with a cho,
neard all over the ring"
"A shower Of blows on his alread,
,.d ms brain seemed added from thu
lncessant hammerinng of Barlea,,
mawleys upon his sconce Hall.
retrospect of Long Life.
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porter, 263. is both fruit and a
Vesetable.-From the Docket.
Language Of tho Rlno In 1a3o

The Language of the ring" had =.
pecul1arlt1es and the sporting reporter
invented modes Of expressions that
were emlnently in keeping with the
demoranzfng and deprayinx exhibi.
tioas they described.
I quote a few illustrations from tha
newspaper reports of the period:
"A nasty crack on the left Jaw rat
tied the Crispin's worries and knocked
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southern field, which is at once a 1o7
to the northern millionaire and st
the same time affords full and serene
satisfaction to Uncle Sambo" and
his brood Of pickaninnies.
And again, If you believed in a
strictly vegetable existence, you would
still be barred from the watermelon
patch. because watermelon, accord
Ing to the opinion in Massey W. City
of Columbus. 70 southeaste.n Re.
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The Latest Theory.

james was attending his drst Christ
mas service. After listening to the
cn1ldre es pieces about Jesus he sau
santa come out with his pack Of xifts
He sat very quiet for some time and
then turning to his mother. whiS.
pered: Mother, does Santa Cia.s RI
In Jesus back yard r.
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As our present moral activity 70
LAKES, the things done in the mast r7,sh
IN ana assam us; and, woe to him wha
caves tne door Of his heart open toi
the past to sntsr and dssntaase -. 3.
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countries, this king of low tropical
countries furnishes man with food,
drink, medicines, domestic utensils.
materials for boat and house build
Ing, oil for cooking, lighting, and
'Iubricating, and innumerable other
purposes, and is of all the palmaceas
the one that yields the greatest vari-
said that of the cocoanut palm ship
can be built and laden, too.
De Candolle. in Origin Of Guilt.
waited Plants" does not consider the
cocoanut palm a native Of the western
hemisphere, but places its original
habitat in the Eastern archipelago,
somewhere in the neighborhood OF
Sumatra and Java, and surmises that
nuts tloated thence both east and
west; eastward to the islands Of the
Pacific and the coast of Central Amer
.aca, and westward to Ceylon and the
east coast of Africa. He places its in
production into Brazil, Venezuela and
the West Indies by missionaries about
three centuries ago. De Martius says
that the Portuguese introduced 1t on
the coast Of Guiana about the same
time. The navigators Dampier and
Vancouver found it at tho beginning
OF the seventeenth century in groves
on the islands of Panama bay, as
well as on Cocos island, 800 miles off
the Pacific coast Of Costa RIGA. At
that time these islands we're unin-
habited. Later the cocoanut palm Is
reported on the west coast from Mex
leo to Ecuador, and Seeman reported
having seen the palm both wild and
cultivated on the 1sthmus of Panama.
In 1926 Oviedo wrote that the cocoa
nut palm was abundant on the Pa
ciflc coast in the province Of the
Cacique Gilman, now Darien. Panama.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31

T has been commonly
remarked that the
uses OF the cOconut
palm (cOcOs Nucifera)
are numerous as the
days Of the year.
Found nearly every
where within the trOp-
les, almost the sole
dependence for food
Of the palmivorous in
A4Ask1-A~ - v~~o1Hy
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On 2prerin6e forf6aer at if

@n 2ererinoe forigger at for
flare @o6erne, bpao ser %foritaacs
beo rSSnabiloning". Sngen al Dem
begriber ct Sr6 al set belle. Saa
fortiatter bun meo fine @fSempler::
rMu luffer leg 9inene og fortaller
Ser, 6bao leg fan ie. Seq fer eli
|Sg. @n Mengoe 8iger og 9ren-
&c leber poo Sfgjter. Ser ct en-
lille 8ige, iom fal6er, % EN- Greng
bi9lper ben6e op."
Sun aabner 9jnene % iperger:
u&ba6 bill S MI faI6e 6et?"
Gn &oono fIpper til &eirs.
rMaa, en6elig!" r0brpoer. 2arcr-
inoen lettet, Zig mig iaa, bpao Set
err"
On bel Roie fulo al llanobeo,
Grpfenl"
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minneapolis.

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Sc 6eittaler.
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5ro Dafota.

-Statens 8ooro Of CHARITIES an1
Corrections far tilbu6t &ansl1ltruo,
/ fin Ti6 Stots Sfoleiupertntenoeltt
@tillingen iom superintendent for
@tatens 8lin6eifole / @rap; men
ban bar en6n11 lite antoget Stillin=
gen. Set antages, at l1itr,to life
6nifer Soften mes Sen 1uberen0e
2g11 al $95 Maane6en.