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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1909. ft Established ISJX Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S, BELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Wy uafl, per year . u..$7.00 iy currier, per month ,,,...,. & WEEKLY ASTORIAN. ffy BU-H, per yeir, in idvtnce..,..t.",.. .......... ...$1.50 ! Eetered u second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the post office at Astoria, Oregon, under tin act of Congress of March J, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence er place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Aay irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office 9t pnbticat-loa. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. CONQUEST OF RUBBER .1 1 SOUTH PREVENTS ACCIDENTS KEEPS ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FROM BURNING OUT ,THE WEATHER Oregon. Washington and Idaho Fair; generally warmer. "CLEANING-UP" WEATHER. The weather for the past week has been of an insistant sort; it has been warm and clear and clean, and every hour of it was ripe with suggestion (and opportunity) for "cleaning up", publicly, and privately, all over the city. Yards and lawns and sidewalks and ' streets; fences, house-fronts, rearages, walls and windows; every thing that needs brightening and furbishing and amendments; it is rime to he donning the civic summer-1 dress; the spade, rake, mop. duster,! broom, paint-brush, sprinkler, tnm-ming-shears, clothes-lines, water, soap sand, and good old muscle,' all are in urgent demand just now, for Astoria must don her attractive gear, as well as her people. The season, and the swelling throngs of travelers, tourists, visitors, make it essential. When people leave other tidy, handsome towns to resort here dur ing our incomparable summers they do not fail to note the measure of our thrift in, this line; coming to a place that hails them with every promise of delight they are quick to size up ' our ensemble and comment upon its failures. A summer city, on summer waters, with summer instincts, pleas ures, and ideals, must, above all else, be fresh and clean and wholesome, lest the charm fail and the summer lure lack response in people, dollars and high repute. While the health of Astoria is about as perfect as any ordinary city may aspire to, it can be tampered with and made manifestly bad. Dirt and filth are no respecters of persons nor constitutions, and are allied with dis ease and weakness in the campaign of evil that fattens upon the condi tions it sets up. We must be clean to he healthful, healthful to be decent, decent to he attractive, and attractive to win friends and patrons. The people have always been the v'ctims of transportation jobbery, and always through their own laches. They are waking to the situation ev erywhere and gradually reducing the limits and facilities for predatory pressure and organizing for their own defense. Their devoted interest in all progressive means and measures has led them to shut their eyes to many of the grosser elements of spoliation and confiscation, and in no direction have they been exploited to such a paralyzing degree as in the vast department of transportation. They have given aboundingly to the nurturing of these tremendous agen cies and have been robbed and bled and defied to the pass where even stupid human nature may not remain j blind any longer. And this is a case in point. If the inland farmers can open the Astoria gateway to their great grainaries and send the product out to the world at a saving of hun dreds of thousands of dollars per an num, " every man in Oregon should lend aid and comfort to the rational and economic program. Take down the bars everywhere! The proposition to levy a ta on pistols, dirks and bras s knuckles ought to be amended so as to in clude hat pins. A rabbit runs in a circle because it is a rabbit, a fact which may have some bearing on Castro's effort ta return to Venezuela. One feature of the money question will never be changed. There will al ways be a man with money to loan and another who wants to borrow. Oklahoma is not neglecting its mili tia system and. in a pinch, unlike Nevada, is not compelled to call on the National Government to preserve order in the state. Thirteen years of litigation has re duced the 5,000,000 estate of Austin And for the sake of the traveling Corbin to less than $1,500,000. In heritance taxes look small compared public, let us begin the work of mu nicipal cleaning at the pier-head line, I with some other contingencies, and work back to the hills, in order to meet the flagrant ratios first and lessen the task as we move inshore- "TAKE DOWN THE BARS." President Taft is !urging the engi neers on the Panama Canal to push it through by 1913. It is gratifying to know that a man so well informed on I the canal believes that the feat is The kaiser observes that "among the 60,000,000 of Germans there are 70,000,000 of opinions." This country has not made an actual count, but is inclined to think that Bourke Cock ran can beat the score single handed. It is the duty of all Oregonians to'P08s!We- stand squarely behind the Farmers' Union of the Inland Empire in its effort to secure the extension of the common point rate on grain to the Astoria gateway. The movement is based upon the theory of economy and profit of a huge industry, and in volves the vast increase of the marine commerce of the State of Oregon, the I Weston says some of the roads he warding off of its loss to Puget has just passed over in Eastern New Sound. It will compass an immense York were in the worst cbndition he saving ; i-ri ally to our own people a ever saw. Perhaps the state has been well a " our neighbors, and at th: ripping them up preliminary to same time secure for. all time an in- spending the $50,000,000 voted for creased, and increasing, maritime their improvement. presume for the Columbia river and valley ami put i: ! 'v;r hcyoi.1 tli? Wilbur Wright states that the art tampering and shifting influences of of flying can be mastered in two any one city or section to disturb or hours. His brother Orville would be defeat. The state-and-country-wide apt to advise a longer period of study ac: ls 'premising enough to arouse on the subject of avoiding accidents. Portland herself, to the scheme, and we believe she will be its best and A mountain near' the south pole has boldest sponsor, before many months been named for Queen Alexandra. f ' w 'I f Tfeeonly Baking Powder v t;: yY)f made from Royal Grape - "i .fci J Cream of Tartar ( -V . Absolutely . A Next to copper and iron, rubber the most important material in the electrical industry. It is used exten sively as an insulating material, being one of the best insulators of electric ity in the world. Nearly all the wires that carry electrical current are pro tected with rubber insulation. Rub ber prevents the electricity escaping through contact of the wire with other conductors, it prevents accidents, fires and keeps the electrical apparatus from burning out and destroping it self. Besides being used for insula ting wires and cables at the plants of the General Electric Company rubber is used in the manufacture of motors, switches, generators and nearly all electrical machines. The story of rubber is the story of the conquest of the tropical jungle.; the fights against diease, poisonous reptiles and insects, man eating ani mals, hunger and thirst and the dang er of being lost forever. Civilization first heard of rubber in Herrera's account of the second vov age of Columbus in the year 1493, where he speaks of elastic balls made by the natives from the gum of a tree. The first authentic account of its practical use was recorded in 1745 hy the leader of a French governmental expedition returning from South America who reported that the natives secured from the juice of a tree a cer tain gum which was very elastic, im pervious to water and ued in making bottles, shoes and squirt guns. Thirty years later it was introduced to commerce when an Englishman brought from Assam, fndia, a soft spongy substance which would erase lead pencil marks and which after wards became known as India rubber. Many primitive uses were found for this wonderful gum, but owing to its susceptibility to changes of tempera ture, which rendered it sticky and more or less fluid, rubber did not come into its own until early in the last century. At that time it was dis covered, after a great deal of expert ment. that by mixing sulphur crude rubber and subjecting it to a high degree of heat, these former de ficiencies were eliminated and a ma terial was produced which was both tough and elastic, and would retain those properties under varying tem peratures. This process of curing was called vulcanization and is the basis of rubber making today. So great has been the development of rubber manufacture since that time that its products now exceed a value of five hundred million dollars annu ally. Contrary to the popular impression rubber gum is not derived from the sap. It is secured from the milky juice or latex which is found only in the bark. This latex contains a sub stance known as caotchouc (the act ive principle of rubber), together with certain albuminoids, resins, etc, which upon the evaporation of moisture coagulate, forming a thick, spongy substance. The percentage of caout chouc, in proportion to other ingred ients contained in the latex deter mines the quality of the rubber. The region from which rubber gum is secured form an irregular belt in the tropic and sub-tropics extending around the earth, the quality procure! varying greatly according to the spec ies of plant, the soil and the climate. Great quantities are produced in Af rica, Mexico, Ceylon and the Malay Islands, but the most desirable rub ber for resiliency and wear resistance is secured from a tree found in the Amazon River district. South Ameri ca. This rubber is known as -Para, the name being derived from its chief city of export. It not only contains as high as 95 per cent, of caoutchouc,, but the methods used by the natives in preparing it for market arc so much superior that it is selected in prefer ence to all others far manufacturing purposes. Rubber gathering in the Amaaon River district is a hatardous and dif ficult undertaking. The supply comes from wild trees scattered throughout dense forests, to which paths must be cut through the tangled and luxuriant undergrowth. Even then, the trees ,can only be reached during three n Ittve months of the year, as through )Oui me wet season tne lorestt are .completely inundated. The cliiuafe i , unhealthy that white men cannot no this work and it is necessary to j rely upon the native blacks, who at best are undefendable and lay. Their j reluctance to join rubber gathering expeditions can readily be understood when it is remembered that out of Season's expedition perhaps only half will return alive. When a rubber tree is found the na live gatherer cuts a series of gashes into the bark with his machete, en circling the tree from the ground up. as high as he can reach. Cups are fastened to catch the latex as it oozes out. When sufficient quantity is collected it is removed to the tempor ary hut where a dense smoke-producing fire is made of certain nuts and palm leaves. Then taking his woodea paddle the native dips it into the latex and holds it over the fire, turning it round and round until the latex coagu lates. As soon as it is hard a new layer of latex is added and coagulated as before. This process is continued until the mass has grown too large for handling, when the paddle is taken out and the rubber set aside for ex port. The process of coagulation and fumigation with these specially selcc: ed nuts and leaves prevents decay and adds to the lite and wear resistance of the manufactured product. Tapping the tree for rubber doei not necessarily dctsroy them, nor is it believed to materially shorten their lives; but unfortunately many thous ands of trees are annually rendered useless by careless and improper methods. Although the source of crude rubber gum is practically inex haustible, the limited native labo- supply and the difficulties encountered up to the time of marketing it hav tended to keep down the supply and maintain a mgn standard of prices. TELLS OF iODJESKA'S T ART FINE APPRECIATION GIVEN OTIS SKINNER, THE ACTOR. IS Me,s.liu t'uiT teem!) locttr.i German l.i !:;' that or.inc.f. German;,-, avd for a Ion - .il: i-ttPtl r-.rly In 111 ulnp .1 new writ! for Hi It W-M ClMIII tiHT MIT.' Lrst flil;il i) !h. fruit wan l;now jif'ir I'.h mi vent : with ' "nl'rel aus M:--.!!!a'- apple from Me sina. Alter ui:;n.r year "apfil aw SlWhlsta" t'l i:it.! Into "apfel Mrs nisia." mid finally It btvitmc "imfe! sine," the name by which nrnngew nre still known ninons Orman speaking people. Quite Sufficient Mrs. Jones (Inspecting a milllner'e wlndowH-I don't see what It Is that keep those women' heada turning aronnd all the time. Mr. Jones Why, my dear, Just a bonnet Itself Is anffl. elent to turn nny woman' bead. Llp- pmcott Magazine. The Danish princess whose smile won the heart of England deserves a sun nier monument than can b found in Antarctica. Keep Fit Your brain, muscles and nerves depend upon good physical condition. Secure it by using yLLiiyiiiij j Pll THROW OUT THE LINE Give Them Help and Many Astoria People Will be Happier. "Throw Out the Life Line' The kidneys need help.' They're overworked can't get the poison filtered out of the blood. They're getting wrse every minute. Will you help them? ' Doan's Kidney Pills have brought thousands of kidney sufferers back from the verge of despair. Will cure any form of kidney trouble. George K. Parrish, 3721 E- Oak St., Portland, Ore., says: "Not a symptom of kidney trouble has ever returned since I used Doan's Kidney Pills some years ago and I am pleased to confirm the statement I gave in their favor at that time. Prior to using them suffered a great deal from dull, heavy pains in my back and kidneys, this trouble having' resulted from a Severe cold. I was eradtiallv arrowing worse when Doan's Kidney Pills were brought to my attention and being impressed with the good reports con cerning them, I procured a suppl. As stated above they completely dis posed of my trouble." , Plenty more proof like this from Astoria people. Call at Charles Rog ers & Son's drug store and ask what customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents. Fostcr-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. ' , . Remember the name Doan's and it: u w I fcSi taSili 5- 8n!d EvorrwWi!. In Wmi in. n K, 10 'I Every Woman Will be Interested If you will send your name and ad dress we will mail you FREE a pack age of Mother Gray's Australian- Leaf, a certain, pleasant herb cure for Women's ills. It is a reliable rel ator and never-failing. If you have pains in the back, Urinary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, use this pleasant union of aromatic herbs, roots and leaves. All Druggists sell it, SO cents, or address, The Mother Gray Co., Le Do M V SAN FRANCISCO, April 9Oti Skinner, the actor, in a signed article in the Call this morning, says of Ma dame Modjeska, who died yesterday at her country home near Los An gele: 7 "Where Madame Modjeska' art was greater than that of any other actress was in its womanliness, its joyousnest and its limpid purity. She played Camille, even, with such serene sweetness that the unworthy in the character was forgotten and only the intrinsic womanliness of the role was presented, 'Rosalind was, in my mind, her best part- In that role she had scope for those characteristics which chiefly identified her, Her Rosalind bubbled with tlje exuberance of truth fulness; it shone with a spiritual mer riment; it was blithe as a spring morning and it was vital with truth- Next to her Rosalind, on the line of Madame Madjeska's picture gallery, rests her portrait of fie.-ttrice. Her certain art. with its sparkling, facets, made her Meatrice a thing of scintil lating beauty. In Mary Stuart I think hht struck a deeper note than Kllcn Terry could have done had he ever essayed the role, though Ma- lame Mojcska had less of that sprightly shiftiness of mood that the English Actress poeci). As her soul mirrored her imaginary charact ers it was but natural that she should send them forth touched with the quicksilver of her own personality, I have been thrilled many times on the stage when playing opposite someone by a bit of acting which has carried me beyond myself, but never iave I been so stirred as I was when. as Laertes. I stood before her Ophe lia. I entered full of fire and words and tight; crammed with a craving for revenge. Suddenly Ophelia entered. Never had I seen so mad an Ophelia, I was frozen with terror and an un nanieable seu-ation of horror obses sed me. The truth of her scene, the jangled verity of her songs; the back ground of pathos before which this white robed woman stood, formed an ensemble of effect which rooted me to the stage and stopped my speech." 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