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PO. r~ OPP HEAT Wonderfu Should even a portion of the bene ficent results predicted from the pass age of the bill removing the tax from denatured alcohol be realized, that measure will ring in a new industrial era not only in the factory but more particularly the farm, and the home. No other work of the Fifty-ninth Con gress, not even excepting the railway rate act will compare with th. in general beneficence, if half, even a quarter, of what is claimed for it shall come to pass. "Alcohol." says the Philadelphia Record, "might be dis stilled from potatoes in quantity suf ficient to light, beat and supply power to all the No-thern States of the Union, and at such a low cost as to supplant kerosene and gasoline. This alcohol would be incapable of use as a bever age. To the dwellers in the countr3, in particula r. such a development would be of instant, universal and in SUGAR BEETS WILL PRODUCE ralculable benefit; but to every man. no matter where he lives, it would be of some importance." Says the Louis ville Courier Journal, after quo .ng the Philadelphia Record's tribute to the coming great and almost universal blessing: "And potatoes are only one of hundreds of things from which this useful product would be distille if the tax were' removed. Such a step would create in this country a prac tically new and vastly beneficial in dustry, whose benefits would bg shared by the whole people as con sumers, and by hundreds of thousands of them as; producers," There is scarcely a niameable limit to the pro daggien of potatoes. ' WOUL D USE UP WASTE PRODUCTS. Potatoes, :>eets, corn-the stains as well as the grain-and the waste pro ducts of ou-- molasses factories may run our engi nes, cook our meals, heat and light ou:: homes. The present tax of $1.10 per gallon on commercial al cohol renders its use for power. fuel and light absolutely out of the ques tion, although for these purposes it can be man ifactured at less than 10 cents a gallon. At this rate it can sup plant both gasoline and kerosene, thanr which it is: also safer and much cleaner. TL e only opponents of the bill were the wood alcohol and Stand ard Oil interests, which would be the losers. Farmers, especially, insisted upon its passage. The white potato can readily heat, light and furnish power for our Northern states: the sweet 1-n'to, T the yam and the waste from the a molasses factory can do the same for t our Southern states, while in the great I West the sugar beet and Indian corn t can turn the wueels of the factory, C farm and co:2veyance and banish from d the home the chill of winter or the I blackness of night Such is the state- c ment of Prcf. H. W. Wiley, Chief of a the government's bureau of chemist-y. 1 Sugar awy starch, when fermenting, a yield about half their weight in a so lute alcohol. About onL.fifth thei weight of potatoes, nearly three quarters the weight of corn and al- ' A GERMAN CO-OPERATIV most onesixth that of the sugar beet r are these fermentable sugars and starches.I POTATO AGOOD ALCOHOL MAKER. The pota to will he our thief source of this undrinkable commercial aleo hol. A good yield of potatoes-300 bushels-wil produce 255 gallons of such fuel for running automobiles, farm motors nd other engines; for NND LIGHT FROM FARM I Possibilities of Denatured Alcohc for by Congres. GUY ELLIOTT MITCMIELL. eating, cooking and lighting. A bush el of potatoes will produce 0.S5 gal lons of alcohol. We now raise po tatoes almost exclusively for human food, and we plant only those var.eties which have the finest flavor for th b table, independent of their yield per acre. But there are potatoes yielding many more bushels per a. - than these esteemed for food. They are such as are grown for cattle food in parts of the old world where corn is scarce. Secretary of Agriculture Wil qin estimates that there would be no difficulty in obtaining 500 gallons of alcohol per acre from such a variety. Potatoes can now be grown here as a commercial crop only within a short distance from market, It does not pz; to haul them far. But as soon as they can be used as a source of beat, light and power, factories wil spring up in country neighborhoods where ALCOHOL FOR THE WEST. oal is now expansive, and large areas )f potatoes will be grown for cheir . test possible yield of alcohol. The weet pptato and yam would furnish bout the same proportions of alcohol is the white potato. ALCOHOL FROM CORN AND , STALKS. An acre of corn-fifty bushe1s-will ~urnish 130 gallons of absolute alcohol; bushel of corn, two and four-tifths alons. An acre of potatoes thus . ( (OLD-FASHIONED SOU rouces mbuch' more alcohol than an cre of corn, when only the grain of e latter is taken into consideration. ut corn stalks if harvested before bey dry out contain large quantities sugar and starch, enough to pro uce 100 gallons of commercial alco o per acre, according to the estimate Secretary Wilson. In 100,000,000 cres of Indian corn the making of ten illion gallons of this alcohol therefore largely to waste annually. Secrets y Vilson predicts that the time is com rig when we will utilize this iaanse urce of energy. According to Dr. iley the fermantable material in the E DISTILLING PLANT. ~talks couli! be removed by the pressen ow used to extract the .iuice of sugar ?ane. And speaking of commercial lcohol from corn, it might be of in ret to add a statement from Dr. IViley. that twenty times more power an be obtained by burning the aleohol ni c-orn than by burning the corn it ~elf-as has been done in the West n times of coal famine. It is also ~stimated that the value of the by 0C AA CPOPS. 1, Provided alcohol is extracted will pay the cost of distillation. SUGAR BEETS AND MOLASSES. An acre of sugar beets will produce 224 gallons of alcohol. Our vast irri gation projects in the West are water ing lands which will soon produce sugar beets more profitably, perhaps, than any other crops and the molasses from these crops can readily be turned into alcohol. A waste product of the ca .e sugar mill, known as "base mo lasses," would be another available source of our commercial alcohol sup ply. Millions of gallons of this pro duced in all the Central and South American countries and the West In dies are now largely burned, fed to animals or destroyed, although 4 por tion Is dumped on our shores at almost any price above freight. At New Or leans, Boston and Brooklyn it is be ing worked up into Inferior liquors. The alcohol made from It has a dis agreeable odor and taste. But If re pulsive matter must be added to 1t to make it undrinka' anl tax-free, under the new bill, It will serve as well as any other alcohol thus manu factured for power, heat and light. Already in Cuba such alcohol from this base molasses is being made at 10 cents per gallon. The base mo lasses itself can be had at New York at 3 cents a gallon. A similar grade of base molasses is turned out as a by-product by our beet sugar factories. Ten factories of Michigan send their produce to a distillery in that state ;inp produce from it about a half mil lion gallons of absolute pleohol But this by-product of our beet sugar fac tories generally goes to waste in other states. Yet we sit by and bemoan the decreasing supply and increasing price of coal, the diminisbing supply of wood, wonder where we shall turn next - for power. heat and light whether we shall harness the moon with tide motors or the sun with colar engines! Moreover, the production of eastern petrolepm is falling pff and practiealy noiaspline is'being f imd In the petroleum of Texas and the West. And yet, according to Dr. Wiley, our farmers can grow any amount of starch and sugar that may be wanted for any purpose In the world and not a pound of It would take one element of fertility from the soil. CO-OPERATIVE DISTILLERIES. T1lat the farmers in all corn-growV ing - sections *of the country should establish' co-operative 41stilleries for the sole purpose of producing this ae natured" industrial alcohol, is the TEERN SUGAR MILL. proposition of Nahum Bachelder, master of the National Grange, wi?O was pressing the passage in the In terest of the 800,000 farmers of his organization. These co-operative dis tilleries would be ..nder close govern ment supervision, and the alcohol would be rendered unfit for beverage purposes before leaving the distillery warehouse. In this way the cost to the farmers of this material for light ing, heating, cooking and motor fuel purposes could be kept at the lowest point. In Great Britain alcohol made un drinkable by the addition of 5 per uit. of wood alcohol and a much smaller proportion of mineral naptha is now sold freely without tax. Since 1887 Germany also had untaxed alcohol for industrial purposes. France, , witzer land, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Austria-Hungary, Portugal and six Latin-American re publics exact no tax on this "dena tured" alcohol, already regarded as one of the necessities of agriculture. manufacture and general indus+-v. In these "free-alcohol countries" there are being used many varieties of al cohol engines, alcohol automobiles, al cohol motor boats, alcohol f rm motors, alcohol lamps and alcohol stoves. ALREADY SUCCEEDS IN EUROPE. Gemn hne far- sur assed in all of these Inventions, which were largely 'mothered by necessity. for the father hand has no natural gas or petroleum. But its broaid sandy plains produce cheap and abundant crops of potatoes. from which every farmer '1 mlanl fneture a vast ounutity of raw alcohol. Tventors anulscientistshalve been busy with improvements in farm distilleries. motors. lamnis. cooking and heating nonaratns. Their "snirit motors" are heing turned ont jn n11 forms-up right and horizontal. stationary, por thle and locomotive. Alcohol loco motives pull trains of a dozen cars on lnrge farms. suaar plantations and oneineering works. The army has had built ten horse-power alcobol "en !ineers' wagons." each with a speed of ten miles an hour. carrying tools and apparatus for a regiment of en gineers. The cos. of cone.ing this 0n. tured (or undrinkable) alcohol back into its original condition would be much more than for making pure al cohol anew, according to Dr. Wiley. He thinks the best method of making it undrinkable would be the addition of ten per cent. wood alcohol and one per cent. of "pyridine." According to the bill as it passed, the denaturing ingredients are left to the discretion of the internal revenue tax. SOME NEW PARISIAN LINGERIE. Colors in Blouses Very Fashionable, Especiaaly the Deicate Tintb. BERTHA BROWNING. In the new Paris lingerie, the fashion is to have sets of chemise, drawers and short petticoat of the same material and type, and all trimmed in the same manner. Nain sook and very fine batiste are the ma terials usually employed for their con struction, the mode of silk underwear being for the time abandoned. There are two new fabrics called silk nain sook and silk chiffon, both cotton, but of very fine weave, and which do not lose their glossy appearance in wash ing. These materials have much the appearance of silk and in garments made of them lace is profusely used. The lace composes much of the upper portion of the chemise and the sleeves which" are of bell shape reaching al most to the elbow. These ?N . eq A NEW UNDERGARMENT nearly to the shoulder over the fore arm, where they are loosely tidd with a succession of ribbon bows. In lin gei-ie garments thie square neck is preferped to the round this year, f~nd this is always finished with a band of lace or embroidery. The empire form is, of course, very fashionable for chemises, but, while it is a pretty cut, it needs to be made of very fine material else its straight form will lie in folds beneath the cor set. Most chemises now-a-days are shaped in under the arms so as to. do away' with this 'extria width' at ~ the waist-line. A pretty finishing to take the place of sleeves and shoulder parts on 4. garment to be wor'n with decol lette dress, consists of ribbons which tie on the shoulders and iay be un tied and slipped beneath the bodice wen worn with the evening gown. The Japanese nightgown of quite loose cut is a decided novelty. This has rows of little tucks descending from the shoulder and extending half way down the figure. A double band of insertion starts at the foot of the gown, passes by the side of the tucks over the right shoulder and around the neck at the back, meeting in the centre of the front at the waistline. The sleeves are loose and flowing as befits a. garment of this nature. Few nightdresses have collars, most of them being finIshed with straight bands of embroidery or lace. CHARMING DRESSING SACKS. Some very jaunty 'little dressing sacks of silky batiste or nainsook are being 'coistructed. These are entire ly accordeon pleated, except for a por tion of the sleeve. Lace and insertion surround the throat, and' foi- those of Empire cut, a band'of the ~same; marks the high waistline in back and in front rises over the bust t~o be fastened with ribbons. Some of these lingerie tea jackets have broad and elaborate collars which reach over the should Another new comer is the blouse waistcoat of embroidered linen, batiste or mousseline de soie. This is made without sleeves and drawn in about the waist with a tape to adjust the ful ness in front. These are designed to be worn with lingerie suits of w,hich a long or short jacket forms a part. Lingerie petticoats p~re of increasing daintiness. They are for the most part elaborately trimmed, the top portion being of sheath-like cut and fitting without a bit of fulness. They are completed with broad flounces ''of tucks, embroidery and lace. Some of these flounces show several frillings of lace or embroidery, while others are elaborate with hand-embroidered designs. V'iolets. The roses I sent were red. My rival sent her white; My heart is t'orn with doubt and fear Which will she wear to-night? I hear her step upon the stair, Ah, Fortune, now disclose! My lady comes; stand still, my heartt Whose violets are those? One More on Mary. From Technical world, "Mary had a little lamb, Just thirty years ago; The chops we had'for lunch to-day Were from that lamb, we know." Q. E. D.-How old is Mary? 'The Pope's Wardrobe. A large number of women are em ployed at the Vatican solely in keep ing the Pope's wardrobe in perfect condition. No spot or stain may dis figure his gariffents, and, as he always appears in white, even a few hours' wear denrives the robes of their fresh ness. Women are permitted to serve the Pontiff in this one respect only. s male attendants are not considered suitable for the work. Only the most delicate materials are used-moire silk in summer, and a specially woven ane cloth in -winter.. THE MESSAGE. "Listen," said Raleigh, and suddenly seized my hand. "That is nothing but the alarm clock in the next room," I said. He did noL seem to hear what I said, but kept on listening to the strange, rattling noise, and I saw beads of cold perspiration on his forehead, while his hand turned cold as ice. Nevertheless there wasin his eyes a far away look of expectancy, of dawning joy. "It is nothing at all," I repeated. "I do not understand what is the matter with you. Tell me." "Oh, never mind," he answered, "but surely you heard it as well as I. Didn't you?" "Well, then, the time has come. For hours, days, years, I have expected it, have ofttimes longed for, and still, now, when it has come, it seems hard to leave this world so suddenly." "Nonsense," I said, "what has tho alarm clock to do with your death?" He looked at me with the same won derful expression in his eyes, and said: "Well, I will tell you what I have never told any one before." "You remember that Lora died tbree years ago." "She died at exactly twenty-three minutes of five in the afternoon. Look at your watch and see what time it is now," I looked at my watch. "Just twenty minutes of five." "Yes, and three minutes ago that alarm went off, just al: the hour and minute of her death." I looked at Raleigh in astonishment. "Well, even if that is so, I do not see what Lora's death has to do wkh you." "With me! Oh! but you don't Elow, even my dearest friend. How should you know that Lora was my wife. Nobody knew it but ourselves." "Lora was your wife!" "Yes, my -wife," he replied, with tears in his cyes. "You kn. iv how her father hated me and why. But she loved me as I lovcd her, and so we married secretly a few weeks befoe she died. I was not at her deathbed and would not have known had not the mainsphag broken In that- very chok' we Jdst heard with just the same peculIar noise. At the moment it hap pened a feeling of deadly .error over powered me, I rushed to her house, bnt they would not let me in. I cried that she was my wife, but they slammed the door In my face, and I swooned away. "When I came to. ;ny- senses again I was here. How I got to,/my rooms I do not know, but I do know that she wag with me and at my side, pale as a ghost. "'oLr,' I cried, She turned to me and said; 'Walt for me, dear, the clock will call you.' "'Lora,' I cried again. Another woman stood at my side. 'He is de lirious,' she said. 'We must renew the icebag.' "Now you have heard it just 4s I did. The clock has called and I must go." "But, Raleigh-" I began. He interrupted me. "Do not say auftbing," he whis pered. "I know it and I am ready. I have been waiting so long-oh, so long. Good bye!" .He reached eagerly forward, as If to embrace some one, but suddenly fell back Into my arms, his face trans figured Into the most beautiful ex pression I have ever seen. "Do yen see her? There at the door! I am coming, I am coming, my darling." A tremor went through him and he was dead.-The Oklahoman. FRECKLES e~ ~ m oR E 0V *Th a atrong .aertion, but - ~ sIIeund yearae{Iraot Dept. "0" Aurora, III. BOYS INDIAN1 WriW t4 feet high, 5 feet dian . . ing, Colored Cap and Genuine India Des US oe Centre Pole. A to-day P y',eurI Do it g-a -for it I noW. - -very r< now. arway tional - Indiar - These 4 4' and y 6 heurs Usefu and va - ,s. diarnV - --- -TRUE PALISADE. The *o "Vineless" Potato Held j ruud. A special to the Recoru-nierald says that a fraud order has been issued against the Vineless Potato Company, of Pullman, 111. 'ine company adver tised to sell territory or individual riglits for a vineless potato, which. would grow in bins above ground in siXtY days. After investigations by the departments of Agriculture, Jus tice and Postoice, the fraud order was issued and W. D. Darst, discov erer of the wonderful process, will be excluded from the use of the mails. He proposed in reply to inquiries pro voked by his advertisement to license for $25 any individual to grow vine less potatoes, and said that for $100 he would sell unlimited territory. He also offered "potatine" at $4.50 a pack age. Because his "potatine" was merely sulphate of potash, worth 25 cents, and his vineless potatoes worth less commercially, the order was issued. Need Pure Food Law. In the Philippine Islands some C the Chinamen are extremely clever at swindling, one of their tricks being to remove whiskey from a bottle and sub stitute an adulteration without break ing the seal. They do this by soaking off the label and drilling a tiny hole in the side of the bottle They then take out the whiskey and substitute a liquid similar in color, fill up the hole, and cover It with the label. Tben the Cook Cut tAk The cook was goiAg "How ehall I word this recommenda tion, Marie?" her mistress ssked. 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