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The Marshall republican., 1907-12-13

In the matter of road peti.
toned for by Thomas Bryan
ct al, cause continued to the
February term of this court.
|. In the matter Of road petit
toned for by Martha A. Bal
lew ct al, cause is continued
to the February term Of this
court.
Commissioner directed to
view and report as to con-
crete culvert on east and west
road in 26-52-19.
Commissioner directed To
view and report as to concrete
culvert on east and west road
in 9-5l-19
In the matter OF Salt Branco
Drainage District, IL is order.
ed by the court that a sup
Elemental assessment TO Sl.OO
per acre on all land in said
district be and the same is
hereby levied.
Court adjourned 10 meet at
10 o'clock on Monday, Dec. 90
1907.
The Marshall republican., 1907-12-13

One morning when Rufus
Choate was in England his
clerk informed him that a
gentleman had called and
wanted him TO undertake a
case. sab, and did you col
lect the regular retaining
fee?" II collected only TWEEN
'ty-tive guineas $685. of it,"
The regular fee was fifty
'guineas, and Mr.. Choate said
that was unprofessional
yes, very unprofessional!''
"But, SIR" said the clerk
alphabetically, II got all he
had" "Ah!" said Mr..
.Choate, ''that was profession.
al; yes, quite professional
The Marshall republican., 1907-12-13

The Republican National
Committee Friday elected
Harry =. New to I'll the un.
expired term Of Secretary
Cortelyou, resigned.
The Marshall republican., 1907-12-13
TERMs: 81. 90 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.

Less than two weeks u,
Christmas! Do your shop.
ping early.
The Marshall republican., 1907-12-13

II Is claimed indigestion 10 the Ma
tionsl disease. That's why the de-
mand for Rings Dyspepsia Tablets
keeps Increasing because they do the
work. Stomach trouble, dyspepsis
Indigestion, bloating, etc., yield
quickly. Two days treatment free.
Ask your druRgist about them. Sold
by p. n. Franklin.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30
SCIENCE NOTES.

A cube of air 81 feet on each side
weighs over ton.
Electric power from the Canadian
side of Niagara Falls is now propelling
the street cars of Toronto.
An electric bath in which the patient
is deluged with electric sparks a foot
long, is announced to work wonders by
the celebrated French scientists, DR..
Moultier and Professor d'Arsonval.
Hardening of the arteries, cerebral hem
orrhage and heart LESSONS are declared
to yield to the treatment.
Automobiles are getting TO be quite
handy. The latest accessory is an cleo
trio cigar lighter which is guaranteed
to work in a hurricane.
There are now more than $50 motor
omnibuses in London. Eighteen months
ago their number was under so. No
fewer than 1874 1000 900 passengers are,
it is said, now being carried annually.
The earliest authoritative instance of
a windmill in England was one which
existed at Bury st. Edmunds as long
ago as 1871.
The City Engineer of Toronto states
that il has been found from experience
that concrete sidewalk at Is cents
per square foot, having life of at least
20 years, is much more economical
walk to lay than plank
The use of windmills for generating
electric current has given favorable re-
suits in the tests for the Danish Gov
eminent made by Prof. La Cour The
four-wing wheel proves TO be the best
form. With such a wheel having Is
square yards of surface, he obtained
two-horsepower from a wind of 20 feet
per second and 10-horsepower from a
wind Of 80 feet per second. The plant
will feed $50 incandescent lamps, with
some arc lamps and motors.
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BETTER THAN GOLD.
Continued from first page.)

ests to Mr.. Bryan. an American mil
lionaire. 1t is said that the company
which Mr.. Bryan represents will con-
tinue the business with a humanity in
strong contrast to the methods of the
Belgian contractors. 1t is even pro-
posed to collect the rubber gatherers,
house them properly and give them suf-
ficient good food. The Belgians claim
that much severity was necessary with
the negroes since they were absolutely
lazy and improvident and would not
work except under strong compulsion.
The American manager says he does
not hope to change the nature of the
negroes. but by fair treatment gain
their confidence and finally induce them
to work in a systematic manner which
will be more productive than the old
system of cruelty and the lash.
Extensive rubber plantations have been
started in various parts of the worll
and a great quantity is now being; fur
niShed by them, but it is claimed that
this is much inferior to the rubber
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A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY

1 have berries. grapes. peaches and
apples two years old. fresh when
picked. Do not heat or seal the fruit,
just put it up cold; keeps perfectly fresh
and costs almost nothing. Last year /
sold directions to over 120 families in
one week. AS there are many people
give you my experience, feeling confident
anyone can make 500 around home in IL
few days. / will mail bottle OF fruit
and full directions to any Of your read
of bottle. fruit. mailing. etc. Address
Francis X. Turner. 10 to 172 Eighth
Avenue. New York. Let people see and
taste the fruit and you should sell hum
dreds of directions at 81 each.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30

It is estimated that five-eighths of Ill
the automobiles exhibited this year are
equipped with Akron tires. The BUSH
ness is developing there with the great
est rapidly. The shareholders recent
" authorized an increase of the Dia-
mOnd Rubber Company's capitalization
from S3.500,O00 to 100000. but all
most at once it was decided 10 go still
farther and raise the capitalization to
s., 900, 900. This stock is in dema / /
and readily taken up by those in Akron
or near who are watching for the OPP
pertunity. The Miller Rubber Conn
pany recently put on sale $4,000 Of
preferred and common stock, all of
which was at once taken by local buy
ers. The Faultless Rubber Company
is erecting large factory at Ashland.
o., to which place it will transport its
employees.
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Court Plaster,

Soak isinglass in a little warm water
for "A hours, then evaporate nearly all
the water by gentle heat, dissolve the
residue in a little proof spirits of wine
and strain the whole thru a piece of
open linen. The strained mass should
be stiff jelly when cold. Now stretch
a piece of silk or sarsanet on a wooden
frame, and fix it tight with lacks or
packthread. Melt the jelly, and apply
to the silk thinly and evenly with a
badger hair brush. A second coating
must be applied when the first has
dried. When both are dry apply over
the whole surface two or three coatings
of balsam of Peru. Plaster thus made
is said to be very pliable and never
hra lie
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REGAINS HIS HEARING.
United states Patents Granted on Inyis-
ible and Successful Ear Drum.

New York. May 10.-Mr. A. o. Leon
ard, a son of DIR. A. b. Leonard, whose
offices are at No. 1865 Broa dway, Suite
$50, has invented a simple yet effective
little ear drum resembling a miniature
megaphone. He had for over thirty
years a very complicated case of deaf
ness which specialists had failed to re-
lieve, yet so remarkably successful is
his invention that one could scarcely
believe him to be deaf man.
Mr.. Leonard is now prepared to help
those who are afflicted with deafness
and will gladly give full Information by
mail. He has made the price so low
that no deaf persons can afford to al
low this opportunity to pass.
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latest reports are that she IL still al
her work In a telephone exchange.


latest reports are that she IL still at
her work In a telephone exchange.
Guayile Rubber.
The latest sensation in the rubber
business isuthat of the Guayule-pro-
nounced WV-yu-la. For centuries the
Mexican Indians, have known that they
could extract rubber fros:: the bark of
the Guayule shrub. They usually did
this by chewing the bark, when the
rubber separated. and in the course of
a couple of days they could get enough
to make small playing ball. Some
times they ground the bark on stone
as they did grain, and by washing away
the crushed fiber secured the gum. I'm
doubtedly the Aztecs did this for hum
dreds of years,nI The matter did not
come into general notice, however, I'M
til within the last few years. when Para
rubber rose to "a cents a pound and
the quest fer a substitute became &C
tive. In 1900 began the erection OF
plants to extract the rubber and also
began floods of patents for its extrac-
ton. The first serious work, however.
seems to have been as late as 1901,
when a company was formed to extract
the rubber on a commercial scale,
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Rubber Substitutes.

Another result has been the busy
work of inventors to find a substitute
for rubber and at least weekly come
reports that someone has discovered a
method of making rubber. Sometimes
this is an American, who has succeeded
in making rubber out of corn or wheat;
sometimes it is a Swede, Norwegian
German, Engiishman, or Frenchman
who has found some other substitute
that can be rubberiZed. Rubber is in
the nature of resin, it is constantly as
ISOLATED with resin and the chemists
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have hoped to Synthetic" ribbcr out
of some of the turpentin, bodies. \
few years ago chemist accidentally
did this in test tube. but unfortunately
he forgot what he had put into the
tube and he has been since trying to
recall 1t and to produce again the same
combination.
Miss Mabelle Newland of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, claims that she has, after
years Of study and work, perfected a
substitute for rubber and has received
patent for it. She claims that it will
do anything that can be accomplished
by the best Para rubber and can be
manufactured at one-fourth the price
If Miss Newland has done such a thing
she can at once begin to associate with
the Goulds and Yanderbilts, but the
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Fer,i,ix,nr Value of Leaves.

An examination of the fertiliZing
value of the dead leaves compared with
that of ordinary manure shows the fol-
lowing results: A pounds of pear
leaves, so pounds of poplar, 81 pounds
of peach, SO pounds of locust, 80 pounds
of elm and ia pounds of vine, respec-
lively, are equal in nitrogen to 100
pounds of manure
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Hiding Fine Cracks I'm n Wall.

To hide fine cracks in wall use plas
ter and whiting, mixed with glue size
says the Master Painter. Brush tn
mixture well into the wall so that TIL
cracks are filled full, and when dry
smooth off lightly with sandpaper.
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work of the Worlds Busy Brains Discovering Invenng and
Creating

Another bright idea of which the tele-
phone company will receive the benefit
is that of an extensive meat and grocery
firm in Moosup, Conn, ordering so tele-
phones to be put in their customers
houses at the expense of the firm. The
firm expects that it will more than re-
coup itself for the telephone company
fees by a reduction in clerks salaries
and the expense of teams in carrying
orders. 1t is expected that the custom
ers will order directly from the store;
that these orders can be tabulated and
arranged for a simultaneous delivery,
and thus reduce greatly the number Of
delivery wagons required.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30

The engineers are arguing the ques-
ton whether the low-hung electric
motor, with its center of gravity so near
the track, is not more dangerous than
the steam locomotive, which has its
weight hung high, and is therefore
more yielding to the curves. The ter
rible Woodlawn accident on the New
York Central is said to have resulted
from the dead weight of the electric
motor striking the curve like cannon
shot
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For the week ended May 81, the Pat
ent Office isued 764 patents, six de-
signs, ia trademarks, Is labels, 10
prints, three reissues making a total of
'94S, of which $50 patents and designs
and 1872 trademarks went to citizens
of the United States and So patents and
designs and Is trademarks went to
citizens of foreign countries.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-30
A Cure for Colds.

Editor National Tribune: I have a
good recipe for colds and coughs 1t
has been in our family as long as /
can recollect. Take one teacupful each
of hops and horehound, put in a quart
of water, boil down to one pint, strain;
add one pint of Orleans molasses; let
simmer over a slow fire 10 or - min
utes; then cool and add two ounces of
paregoric; keep in a cool place; dose, a
wineglassful three times a day. c.
Morris Dayton, Wis
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For once there was no non-refillable
bottles patented last week, but there
were four rotary engines. The non-re-
fiIlable bottle inventors are only taking
q resi-, however, and we may expect
another series of them soon.
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the rubber. while the others say that 1t
was learned from the ranchmen who
found their stock dying from some mys-
FERROUS disease. Upon dissection they
found in the stomachs balls of rubber.
The stock had browscd the shrub. and
the woody portions had been digested.
leaving the ball of rubber To clog the
stomach and starve the anislal to death
This led to a touching little epitaph
upon the goat. written by the editor OF
the India Rubber World:
The Rubber Goat.
Patter, patter. little feet.
AS you search for food to eat,
Cactus. sage brush. cast-off shirt,
Nothing could your stomach hurt,
Till you browzed on gray .yuayule.
Which 1t killed you. pronto, truly.
And it was your prompt post mortem
That, and nothing else, that taught
'em
How to take the desert shrubber
And turn it into --- good rubber.
Thus your masters fortunes win.
Just because you butted in.
Prices of Rubber.
The following are the April quota
tiOns for rubber in New York City.
which gives an idea of the relative
values of the various kinds of the gum:
Para April I. 1906.
Islands. fine. new. 1910 l25
Islands, fine. old ...none h"rc.
Jpriver. fine, new .......... 129 ~ ] 30
Upriver. fine, old 1870 a 81
islands. coarse, new. T3m =;
islands, coarse. old. ....... none hero.
New York
.Sumber of factories. as
capital 4.152 $50
Salaries paid Authenticated. 1929
Average number of wage
e.rners 2.692
Wages paid .......1 .1133S1
Miscellaneous expenses. 6S1. 700
Cost of materials ... 4.g99..l4
Value of products ... S,265 $50
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Vehicle Cleaning Device.

Burton H. Pugh, Topeka, Kan, has
received a patent for a cleaning device
of the fountain-brush type. 1t has a
tubular handle thru which the water
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The Pennsylvania Legislature at the
instance of the Retail Grocers Associa-
tion past a stringent food bill based
upon that of the United States, and
ton
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guard 1t has a tread pivoted upon
the guard which flops over when the
COW steps upon it and at once firmly
discourages her from going any far
ther
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Copies of any patent issued by the
United States Patent Office will be sent
to any address in the United States by
The National Tribune upon receipt of
10 cents.
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oa.O " center.
II Will be surprising to Tlany TO
learn that the center of the rubber in
dustry in the United States and possi-
bly, in the world Is at Akron, o. The
following statistics as to the rubber in
dustries in the United States show how
far Ohio is in the lead of the others.
and most of this is in Akron and neigh
boring small towns:
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there Were 100000 pounds exported.
| In the last half of 1906 the exports
| reached 100000 pounds, and last Jam
uary 100000 pounds were sent abroad.
| Rubber manufacturers were at first
somewhat afraid of guayule, because
| of its softness and slow vulcaniZing
qualities. AS they learn more about it
they like II far better. They find it
very excellent for a great many varie-
ties of goods and it combines well with
better rubber. 1t gives a gloss To ebo-
mite, which makes beautiful goods. and
does very well with reclaimed rubber,
and intractable gums, such as balatd.
Methods of Extraction.
There are almost as many different
methods of extraction as there are
plants, and each one has some jealousy
guarded secret. More than 100 patents
have been granted in the past TWO years
for these methods. The first methods
employed were extraction by gasoline
bisulfid of carbon. or some similar SOL
vent, after the shrub had been shred led
by devil" Now, probably, most of
the work is being done by an adaDta-
ton of the old-fashioned pebble mill
In a revolving cylinder are number OF
iron balls. and stream of water runs
thru. The shrub is beaten to pieces by
the balls, and the woody fLer washed
out, leaving the rubber. There is Il
dispute as to how this process origi-
mated. which takes sharpness from IN
yolving in some degree the validity of
the patents.
One side claims that it was learned
from the practice of the Indians and
Mexicans chewing the bark to extract
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passes. brush body fixed on the end
of the handle. a continuous spiral
groove in its outer side, upon which IS
arranged a continuous band of cotton.
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Cattle Guard

Thaddeus Ellis, Tacoma, Wash. has
received q patent for a complicated and
what seems to be an effective cattle
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Rubber Plantations.

Rubber Plantations.
Much the best of the cultivated rub
Der comes from plantations established
in Ceylon and is called Hevea rubber
from the name of the tree. The ex-
ports from Ceylon and the neighbor-
hood rose from 397,347 pounds in 1905
to 1,190,S79 pounds last year. The
manufacturers claim, however. that
the quality of this rubber is far below
that of the Para rubber. 1t Is very I'M
even in quality, the fiber is exceedingly
short. its tensile strength is lower and
it deteriorates seriously when put in
storage, while the Para rubber i'm
proves. Something of the same COM
plant is made of the Mexican rubber,
known as castilioa.
Reclaimed Rubber.
Another result of the high prices is
the gathering up all over the world of
rubber wnich has once been used. This
has become a far more important in
dustry than gathering rags. iron and
bottles, and cast off rubber shoes are no
longer suffered TO lie in the alley An
enterprising gatherer is sure to see
their worth Of three cents a pound to
him and garner them in. These scraps
are sent to great retaining factories
and converted once more into useful
ness. The India Rubber World says
that without the help of the reclaimin,s
processes the rubber industry would be
greatly crippled. There are 81 large
reclaiming plants in the United States,
and old rubber is more carefully gath
cred up in this country than in any
other in the world. In addition to it
we buy some 10000 tons year of re-
claimed rubber from Europe. Russia
has one great retaining factory which
employs some 1000 people. The fol-
lowing New York quotations for rubber
scraps in carload lots may be interest
ing:
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soil. Abial B. Roundy. Winslow, Ne,
comes to the relief of the mixer of the
pestered COW in fly-time with a piece
of useful wire bent into such sha pc
that it will hold the cows tail during
the milking operation and compel her
to endure with what equability she can
the torments of the flies.
Razor Strop Fastener.
Even SO trifing a matter as n swivel
for razor strop fastener has not e5-
capped the attention of the inventors,
and William Whiteley, New Britain,
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from the naturally grown trees. 1t
softer, stickier. has more resin in
and other faults which depreciate great
ly its value.
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Cow Tail Holder.

If the annoyances about rural life are
not measurably removed it will not be
the fault of the active inventors who
have their eyes on everything which
disturbs the horny-handed tiller of the
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Positively of Great Value.

charts and certificates have been made but
Rebellion Comrade of
OF
ndeachs prne beautiful o
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If you had this distinction


certified under You should and
himself
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prising an eye, an arm and an engaging
device which will afford greater facility
Rnd security in hitching and drawing.
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Armand Karrer, st. Joseph, Mo-, has
received a patent for thread cutter to
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Swift Increase in Exports.

In all the years prior to 1905 there
mad only been 100000 pounds of quay
rule exported from Mexico. In 1905
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combination of two blades worked by
the forefinger to engage and cut the
thread
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the inventors, and Harry A. Steiner,
Pittsburg, Pa, has received a patent
for little device to lie on the desk
and save the fingers from ink blotches.
Swingleiree Hook.
Benjamin +. Emery, Thayer, Iowa,
has patented a new device for a hook
to be mounted on a swingletree COM
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Description of Charts.

of
deal
atiicly heavy paper suitable for
framin
Any TRIBUNE one uear 81 90
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
SENATOR BRIGGS.

Senator Frank o. Briggs. who now
begins a six-year term in the United
States Senate, will have to submit to
the rule of Senatorial courtesy and
'tarry in Jericho until his beard be
grown New Senators, like small
boys in we'll regulated families, are sup
posed to be seen and not heard" The
courtly Jersey Senator will be ure to
respect the traditions of the Senate.
But he will become popular with his
fellow Senators and at Washington.
A man of fine presence, urbane man
ners. we'll cultivated mind and tastes
and dignity of character, Mr.. Briggs
will soon make his mark and be talked
about. His West Point training will
naturally attract to him the represen-
tation of the army and navy, and he
can be in the Senate an invaluable aid
to the two services in explaining their
needs and procuring necessary legis-
lation.