Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-08-22
VUGCANlzED RUBBER.
How Charles Goodyear Made the Original
 Discovery.

How Charles Goodyear Made the Original Discovery.
 1t is a bitterly cold night about the 1 year 1840. Around the cracked, unpol, ished kitchen stove of one of Boston's humblest homes are huddled man, his wife and family. The surroundings are of tho plainest possible. Of furniture there is scarcely q piece that would | bring anything at pawnshop, but of evidence Of squalor and want there is abundance. Part of the two remaining chairs has just been broken mp to keep the fire from dying out, and as the l flames craekle with renewed life the man picks from the floor 3 dark looking substance and gazes at iT with q longing that is pathetic. He holds it up and studies it with many sigh that cuts the heart of his faithful wife and bis 1 loyal children. h changing this sub stance from one hand to the other it drops upon the hot stove. There is sudden filling of the room with pun gent, offensive odor before the man, with startled cry, can snatch the now half scorehed substance from the stove. But there is marked change on the mans face as he examines the burned spots He feels the SD ubstance with new and intense interest. Is he near the end of years of labor, suffering and dis appointment? Thanks to the cold out side, it will not take long to decide The burned substance is hung outside the door. h an hour the cold has not affected it. In two hours it still retains the properties most desired. In the morning no change has taken place. A great discovery is complete. Charles Goodyear has found the process of mak- ing vuleanized rubber.
 Here, then, was Goodyear, after years of varying hopes and unvarying i'll for tune, ill possession of a secret that was destined to place his name in the high est niche of fame. But this knowledge did not bring him immediate fortune in fact, this he never secured. He had lost the confidence of all who had help ed him, and for two years his sufferings surpassed even those of the years of ex perimenting. At this time he moved to New York, and it was said of him, s'If you meet & man who has on an india rubber coat, cap, stock, vest and shoes, with an india rubber purse, without cent in it, that is Goodyear. ]" He had to pawn all his furniture for food, and he pledged an um brella with Vanderbilt to secure few ferry tickets to the city. At last enough money was secured to put his invention on the market, and Goodyear's process very soon made the manufacture of rubber goods one of the principal industries of the world. But although others made immense fortunes out of vuleanized rubber the inventor got little share of it. He went to Eng land and France exhibiting bis products. He was awarded the great council medal at the exhibition of all nations at London in 1851, the grand medal of honor to the worlds exhibition at Paris in 1885, and was presented with the cross of the Legion of Honor by Napo- leon III. Yet with all these honors he died comparatively poor man at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York July |. 1860. 0.--Chioago Post.
 Antiunion Legislation.
 The great engineering strike in Eng 1uu1 lS 41h61y bO i6du bU nOLub lulDOFCdlU legislation bearing on the authority of the trades unions. Bills dealing with the question of picketing and the legal responsibility of trades unions in regard to their benefit funds are being drawn up under the supervision of commit tee acting on behalf of the federated employers. The bill on picketing will seek to make it penal for any person to intimidate, frighten or alarm an indi. vidual i'll such way as to cause him to leave his work or refrain from seeking employment, intimidation being de. fined as something done by "aet, word or gesture, with these objects in view. The second bill is intended to secure the compulsory registration, under the friendly societies act, 1875, of all trades unions in which any part of the con- tributions of members is collected for the purposes of sick pay, pensions or other provident purposes. In this way the provident funds would be vested in trustees and be within the complete jurisdiction of the registrar of friendly societies, so that they could not be utilized for the purposes of labor dis putes. s.--Exehange