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...member. In that time his politics changed from Progressivism through Independence to regular Republicanism. A frequent and violent speechmaker, in the House, he was not influential in legislative matters, made no great record. His usual seat was in the front row of the House where he sat with his cane between his knees and a large brass spittoon at his feet, into which he would spittoo with blind but unfailing accuracy. He did not mind when guides pointed him out to tourists as "the only blind Congressman...
...Sugar Cane...
Research workers, practical men, have ever been on the search for means to utilize waste material. "Bagasse," the refuse material left after the sap has been removed from sugar cane, used to present a problem because it was expensive to dispose of. This is now being made into board called Celotex, which is used as the plaster base and insulator. Reversing the old order, sugar is now the by-product in some places where cane is planted to yield the board material. Cornstalks are used to produce paper and a kind of lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw...
...restless days of the Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used...
Antioch. Marching along the seacoast the army discovered sugar cane for the first time, liked it. The initial attack on Jerusalem failed; the second was their last desperate attempt. It succeeded; the Holy City was theirs; they killed for two days. After the Battle of Ascalon secured their position, most of the First Crusaders went home, left Godfrey of Bouillon as Jerusalem's king. Christians held the city for 88 years, till Saracen Saladin captured it in his Holy...