EMPORIA 



2029 



ENABLING ACT 



ton and West Virginia the employer must 

 contribute to a state fund, out of which claims 

 are paid, and in California, Michigan and Ohio 

 * there is a state insurance fund in competition 

 with private companies. 



The New York law is typical of the most 

 advanced legislation on the subject of com- 

 pensation. A commission appointed by the 

 governor has charge, and employers must in- 

 sure in a casualty company, in a mutual organ- 

 ization or in a state fund. At the option of 

 the commission, however, large corporations 

 need not insure if they can furnish satisfactory 

 proof of their ability to pay claims against 

 them. The compensation for total disability 

 is two-thirds of the average weekly wage, and 

 for partial disability two-thirds of the weekly 

 wages are paid for a number of weeks, vary- 

 ing with the character of the injury. W.F.Z. 



Consult Barnett's Accidental Injuries to Work- 

 men; Labatt's Master and Servant. 



EMPORIA, empo'ria, KAN., the county 

 seat of Lyon County, in the east-central part 

 of the state, is sixty miles southwest of To- 

 peka, the state capital, and 116 miles south- 

 west of Kansas City. It is on the Neosho 

 and Cottonwood rivers, and on the Atchison, 

 Topeka & Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas 

 & Texas railroads. The area of the city is 

 two square miles. In 1910 the population was 

 9,058; a Federal estimate of 1916 reported 

 9,622. 



Emporia is the seat of a state normal school, 

 the College of Emporia (Presbyterian) and 

 the. Emporia School of Music and Art. It has 

 Fremont and Humboldt parks, attractive 

 homes and churches, a fine Federal building, 

 a Carnegie Library and a railroad library, and 

 two hospitals. The city is the commercial 

 center of a rich agricultural region, has a large 

 cattle-shipping business, and has railroad yards, 

 foundries and machine shops, corrugated-metal 

 works and cold-storage plants. 



Emporia was settled in 1856 and incorpo- 

 rated in 1870. The commission form of gov- 

 ernment was adopted in 1910. 



EMS, or BAD, baht, EMS, a watering place 

 in Prussia, in the district of Wiesbaden, prov- 

 ince of Hesse-Nassau, situated on the Lahn 

 River, ten miles southeast of Coblenz. Ems 

 was known to the Romans as a bathing place, 

 and was celebrated in Germany as early as the 

 fourteenth century. It is noted for its many 

 warm mineral springs, belonging to the class 

 containing soda. These springs are famous for 

 their curative powers, especially in lung dis- 



eases. Every year in normal times over 10,- 

 000 patients and many tourists visit the city, 

 which has an approximate permanent popula- 

 tion of 6,500. Important silver and lead mines 

 are found in the neighborhood. In 1172 the 

 counts of Nassau gained possession of Ems, 

 and in 1866 it was united with Prussia. 



E'MU, a large Australian three-toed bird, 

 ranking in size between the ostrich and cas- 

 sowary. It is distinguished by the absence of 

 a casque, or helmet, and its head and neck are 

 well feathered. The plumage is blackish or 



THE EMU 



brown, and is very plentiful, there being two 

 plumes to each quill. The wings are concealed 

 in the plumage, and are so small they are use- 

 less for flight. The emu digs its nest in the 

 sand, and feeds on fruits, herbs and roots. 

 The feathers have no commercial value, and 

 the flesh is eaten only by the natives. 



EMULSION, emul'shun, in medicine, is a 

 term applied to a preparation in which an 

 oily substance is broken up into very fine 

 particles. These are suspended in a liquid in 

 which they are insoluble, or incapable of dis- 

 solving, thus producing a milky substance. 

 Emulsifying agents, such as acacia or yolk of 

 egg, envelop the small particles of oil and 

 prevent them from running together. Emul- 

 sions are excellent mediums in which to ad- 

 minister medicines having a disagreeable taste, 

 such as cod-liver oil and castor oil. 



ENABLING, ena'bling, ACT, the name for 

 any law which authorizes or enables persons 

 or corporations to do things which they were 

 not previously permitted to do. In particu- 

 lar it is an act of the United States Congress 

 preparing the way for the entrance of a new 

 state to the Union by fixing its boundaries 



