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HENNEPIN 



pasture land. When the retting process is com- 

 pleted the stalks are crushed and beaten with 

 a heavy wooden hand break, by which the 

 fiber is freed from the stem and roughly 

 cleaned. A skilled laborer can break about 

 250 pounds of hemp a day. To break an aver- 

 age crop of fifty acres requires the services of 

 ten workmen for two months, and the cost is 

 about $500. In Kentucky, machines are now 

 being used which break the stalks and clean 

 the fiber much more rapidly than is possible 

 by hand labor, but these have not as yet fully 

 taken the place of the hand break. After the 

 breaking process, the rough fiber is tied into 

 bales weighing 150 pounds each and sold, the 

 prices ranging from three and one-fourth to 

 five cents a pound. 



Uses of Hemp. Hemp fiber is exceedingly 

 strong, a quality which adapts it admirably to 

 the manufacture of ropes and cordage. Twines, 

 carpet thread and yarns, sailcloth and coarse 

 grades of woven goods, such as sheeting and 

 toweling, are also made from it. Refuse fiber, 

 called oakum, is often used to fill the seams 

 of vessels. Hemp seeds contain from thirty 

 to thirty-five per cent of oil, a substance used in 

 cooking and as an ingredient of varnishes. 

 Hemp seeds are also in common use as a food 

 for birds. 



The name hemp is also applied . to various 

 other fiber-producing plants, such as Manila 

 hemp, sisal hemp, and bowstring hemp. See 

 SISAL. B.M.W. 



HEMP, INDIAN. See HASHISH. 



HENDERSON, KY., an important tobacco 

 market and the county seat of Henderson 

 County, situated on the Ohio River in the 

 northwestern section of the state. Evansville, 

 Ind., is twelve miles north by rail, and Cairo, 

 111., and Louisville, Ky., are respectively 100 

 miles southwest and 103 miles northeast, by 

 water. The Louisville & Nashville, the Illinois 

 Central and the Louisville, Henderson & Saint 

 Louis lines provide railway transportation. 

 Electric lines serve the city from all directions, 

 and there is regular steamboat connection with 

 Louisville, Evansville, Memphis and other 

 river ports. Its population was 11,473 in 1910; 

 it was 12,192 in 1914, by Federal estimate. 



The city is twenty-one feet above the point 

 reached by the highest floods, and consequently 

 is locally known as The Floodless City. At 

 this point the river is spanned by a steel bridge, 

 built by George W. G. Ferris of Ferris Wheel 

 fame. The territory surrounding the city is 

 an agricultural and mineral region, rich in tim- 



ber and coal deposits, and well adapted to the 

 production of dark, heavy-fibered tobacco, cot- 

 ton, fruit, wheat and Indian corn. Its indus- 

 trial establishments include cotton and woolen 

 mills, grain elevators, hominy mills, tobacco 

 stemmeries, planing mills, box factories and 

 coal mines. There are fifteen large tobacco 

 houses. The city has a Federal building, 

 erected at a cost of $100,000, a Carnegie 

 Library and a well-equipped sanitarium. At- 

 kinson Park, covering 130 acres, is one of the 

 chief attractions of the city. 



Henderson is one of the oldest cities on the 

 Ohio River. It was known as Red Banks in 

 1790; in 1797 the name was changed to Hen- 

 derson, in honor of Richard Henderson, a 

 statesman and lawyer, who laid out the town. 

 The place was incorporated in 1810, and the 

 city charter was granted in 1854. In 1905 the 

 boundary lines were extended to include Edge- 

 wood and Audubon. E.B. 



HENDRICKS, hen'drix, THOMAS ANDREWS 

 (1819-1885), one of the most famous of the gov- 

 ernors of Indiana and a former Vice-President 

 of the United States. He was born on a farm 

 near Zanesville, Ohio; was educated in the pub- 

 lic schools of Indiana, studied law in his uncle's 

 office, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. 

 He was elected to the legislature in 1848; to 

 the national House of Representatives in 1851, 

 and in 1863 to the United States Senate; was 

 a candidate for the Democratic nomination 

 for President in 1868, and in 1872 was elected 

 governor of Indiana. He was nominated for 

 the Vice-Presidency by the Democratic party 

 in 1876; was again a candidate in 1884, with 

 Cleveland as the candidate for President, and 

 was elected. Mr. Hendricks was the fifth Vice- 

 President who died during his term of office, 

 his death occurring November 25, 1885, at In- 

 dianapolis. 



HEN HAWK. See HAWK. 



HENNEPIN, hen' e pin, Louis (about 1642- 

 1706), a Belgian missionary, one of those ex- 

 plorers about whose names clings much of the 

 romance of early days of adventure and dis- 

 covery in the Mississippi Valley. He had 

 preached and won many converts in France 

 before he set out, in 1675, with La Salle to carry 

 the gospel to the American Indians. As soon 

 as he had made a slight acquaintance with 

 their language he began preaching to the In- 

 dians at Fort Frontenac, but the call of further 

 adventure was strong, and in 1678 he set out 

 with La Salle on an exploring expedition. In 

 a boat which Hennepin had built the party 





