LAND OF RUBBER
Valley of the Amazon Produces
Best in the World.
Industry, Now One of the Greatest,
Practically Dates Back to 1823,
Though Product First Came
Here in 1800.
The best rubber in the world comes |
from the valley of the Amazon, and is
known as Para, s< called alter the city
which is the principal gateway of ex
port. This region is densely forested
and intersected by a myriad of rivers.
It has a soil of incomparable richness,
is watered by never-failing rains and
warmed by the equatorial sun. 1 he
first cost of crude rubber is about T.>
cents a pound. By the time it reaches
the world's markets it is worth about
$2.50 a pound. In Brazil it is called
"black gold.” Then there are the low
cr grades of rubber. That which
conies from the far east costs on the
average about 25 cents a pound and
sells for $1.75 a pound. Of late years
a great deal of this low grade rubber
has come front the guayule plant, a
shrub which grows in the desert up
lands of Mexico. Its thick bark con
tains abou* 10 per cent, of rubber.
Certain German s and Americans aft
er many experiments, have perfected
machinery to extract this rubber gum,
and have succeeded in adding about
22,000,000 pounds to the world's prod
uct of crude rubber.
There are ten "rubber trusts" in the
world. Five of them are in the United
States, three in Germany, one in Rus
sia and one in Italy. They represent
amalgamations of some fifty of the
rubber factories of the world. There
are still about 450 that are not amal
gamated.
India rubber first came to the Unit
ed States in 1800, but although a pat
ent is recorded as early as 1813 for
making an elastic varnish out of the
strange new product, nothing seems to
have come of It until 1823, when a
Boston sea captain brought back with
him from South America a pair of
fantastically gilded rubber boots. On
his next voyage he returned with
more, which he sold at $5 a pair. It
On a Rubber Plantation.
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Trns not until Charles Goodyear dis
covered how to vulcanize rubber that
the rubber industry amounted to any
thing.
The Impression that a visitor to a
rubber goods factory carries away
w ith him is one of a lot of rollers that
seem to be doing nothing but tearing
to pieces and rolling up into shape,
over and over again, the rubber as it
develops from its crude to its final
composition. Some rollers are cold,
some are hot; some are wet, some
are dry; some fitted with calenders
that impress a pattern on the finished
sheets, and others seem little more
than laundry machines. Crude rub
ber has to be cleaned. It is softened
in boiling water for an hour or so
and then run between two rolls, one
of which revolves a little faster thiln
the other. Over both of these there
plays a steady stream of water.
The rubber comes out in long, flat
sheets and is carried into drying
rooms, where tiie air is kept in con
stant motion by fans. Every bit of
moisture must be removed, and this
takes sometimes as much as two
weeks. When throughly dried the
rough sheets go to other machines,
from which they emerge soft, and
smooth. After having been thoroughly
rolled the rubber is compounded with
various ingredients, litharge ,.nd whil
ing being the two commoner!. The s |
it is sent under still other rollers and
kneaded and worked together into a
homogeneous mass. If the rubber is
combined with a textile fabric the rub
ber and cotton cloth go through an
other series of rollers, entering separ
ately, but coming out as one.
Wolves Startle Town.
Palmyra, Mo.—Armed men and snap
ping dogs pursued a large gray wolf
through the streets the other day. Aft
er a long chase the animal was shot
and killed by Louis Nelson, deputy
game warden, w here it stood at bay in
front of a hedge row.
The wolf was captured when it was !
a cul> with six others, in the Salt riv- j
or hills of Ralls county. County As- !
sessor Milton Phillips took it home.
When it grew older it killed all the
cats on Phillips* farm. He then turn- j
cd it over to a Palmyra resident.
Yesterday the wolf broke its chain ;
and ran out on the street. It was pur
sued to the open country.
Nelson claimed the $5 bounty paid
by the state for pelts.
His Own Bills.
Butchers are not generally credited
with an especially sensitive tempera
ment, but New York has one member
of the guild whose skin must be ex
traordinarily thin. At any rate, he
goes to unusual lengths to exonerate
himself from the charge of extortion.
Above the* cashier’s window he has
hung this sign:
“If prices are high don’t blame me.
They have hit me, too. Here is the
meat bill of my own family. Head
it.” Then follows an itemized ac
count of the chops, steaks, roasts and
cat’s meat consumed by the butchr’s
dependents in one week. The prices
recorded are sufficiently aintndinou
to appease the most disgruntled cus
i turners, and they settle their own bills
with good grace.
Albino Puzzle.
The albino is still one of the pur
zles of science. Beyond the knowl
edge that albinism is due to a lack of
the normal pigment in skin and hair
! the physiologist and pathologist are
about as much at sea regarding the
real explanation of this freak of n:.
ture as they were a hundred or a
thousand years ago. As to the ulti
mate why of the problem—why the
pigment is missing in the albino—
1 there is nothing but a collection of
I unconvincing guesses. Regarding the
I statistics of albinism nothing satis
factory is ob‘finable except in two
countries. In Italy the albinos num
ber about one in every twenty thou
sand of the population, whereas in
Norway the rate is twice as high,
with one in every ten thousand.
Carborundum in Furnaces.
Carborundum, the artificial substi
tute for emery, which is said to rival
tbe diamond in hardness, is employ
ed, because of its extraordinary re
sistance to heat as a coating for the
interior of furnaces. Finely powdered
and made Into a paste, It Is applied
with a brush, like paint, to the brick
lining. It is said that a layer of only
two millmeters in thickness will pro
tect the bricks from the effects of the
highest temperature that is produced
in ordinary furnace combustion.
Carborundum is Itself a product of
the electric furnace, being composed
of silica and car! on fu. cd in the j res
enee of salt and sawdust.—li rp-er'a
Weekly.
Simple and Forcible.
Sir Richard Jebb, the eminent phy.
slclan, uns a man of irritable temper,
and when bored by the querulous m i
j plaints of some of Ills patients could
j not always force himself to return a
civil answer. A troublesome patient,
whoso illness was purely Imaginary,
1 pestered him one day with questions
us to what he should cat.
"My directions on that point,” said
Sir Richard, ' will be few and dimple.
You must not eat the sh vel, poker, or
, tongs, for they are hard of digestion;
nor the bellows, fur they are windy;
but anything else you i leasei”
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Reply Coupons.
The man %vlio boasts that ho never
writes letters has been prodded into
epistolary activity.
“It was a curious little square rod
sin; i> in dosed in a letter I r< <■< ived
from England that drove me to it,” he
said. “The stamp was marked three
pence. It was totally unlike any
stamp or souvenir I ha\l ever seen,
and I didn’t know what use to make of
it. The postman was also nonplussed,
and only at the main postofflce was
the riddle solved. It was a reply cou
pon. English stamps would have keen
no use for mailing a letter in New
York, but the coupon could be ex
changed for United States stamps.
With a reminder like that thrust un
der one’s very nose the most con
sctenccdess letter writer is bound to re
ply.”
Not the Right Kind.
“I thought you said young .Taggers
was a coward? In our automobile ac
cident, we found he was full of grit.”
“Humph! I’d like to know where
bo got it so suddenly.”
“I suppose from tho ditch wo foil
into.”
I OR ROAD OVERSEER
The Journal is authorized to an
nounce R. B. Gray as a candidate for
Road Overseer of Wycough township
on the Independent ticket in the gen.
oral election.
TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I will
attend in person, Or by deputy, at the
usual voting places in the various
townships of Independence County,
\rkansas. for the purpose of taking a
list of the personal property of each
resident of the county, and the per
capita ta:; of such as are liable to pay
the same for the year 1912, on days
and date specified below:
GainsboroTownship, at Ham School
House, Wednesday and Friday, July
d and 5,
Ashley Township, at Brewer School
House, Saturday and Monday, July ti
and X.
Jefferson Township, at Montgom
ery's Store. Tuesday and Wednesday,
July 9 and 10.
Barren Township, at Gray Schon
House, Thursday, Friday and Satur
day, July 11, 12 and Id.
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Greenbrier Township, at .Tamest*>wn,
j Monday and Tuesday. July 15 and hi.
( Greenbrier Township, at Desha,
! Wednesday. July 17.
Washington Township, at Bethc sda,
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday. July
; Is. 19 and 20.
Cushman Township, at Cushman,
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday,
! July 22. 2d and 24.
Buddeil Township, at Court House,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. July
i 25, 2<i and 27.
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And at my office in the Court House
*to and including Thursday. August *,
j afer which time a penalty of ()ne Dol
lar will attach to those failing to list.
K7 Important to School Directors.
—The law requires you to file a list of
all personal and poll-tax payers of
your respective district, and the pen
alty for failing to do so is #10. Please
furnish me such list on the first day of
assessing at your precinct.
Assess in person, if possible, as no
person can list your property unless
in' can swear to the correctness of
the same. Each person will he expected
to fjive correct number of tlu ir school
district. Where f have more than one
day in a township I will leave soon
after noon of my !a>t day there, in or
der to reach my next township.
*> < '..M. Kun.v. Assessor.
Independence County. Arkansas.
WARNING ORDER
In Justice of the Peace Po rt. Hip
Bottom Township:
C. M. Kdwards, plaintifT. v» i has.
X. Kimberlin, defendant.
rI he defendant. ( has. N. Kimberlin,
> is hereby warned to app< at- in this
court within thirty days ami fid. ans
| wet- to complaint of the plaintiff, C.
M. Edwards
Given this 3rd day of July, l'dj,
K. M. \V 11.st uN’,
J ustice of the I ’eaee
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Sold by Druggists. Price $1.00 per bottle.
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NLWARK DRUG CO., Special Agent
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j Our entire stock of sea=
sonable merchandise of
all kinds, amounting to
over $30,000.00, some of
it being damaged by
smoke and water is
The goods will be sold at remark
able LOW PRICES regardless
of cost or value, as everything must
MOVC
It will pay you to at=
tend this sale
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