{hit REET TT Qu AND LIGHT FROM FARM CROPS. Wonderful Possibilities of Denatured Alcohol, Provided {i HEA 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 thi. 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 Northern 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 country, in particular, such a development would be of instant, universal and in- ri YET FU LL VIORLES TTT EE ET CYT YEES dill Hoon hi Wille ¥ Ji for by Congress. GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. heating, cooking and lighting. A bush- el of potatoes will produce 0.85 gal- lons of alcohol. We now raise po- tatoes almost exclusively for human food, and we plant only those var.cties which have the finest flavor for tk: 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- son 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 piy to haul them far. But as soon as they can be used as a source of heat, light and power, factories wil spring up in country neighborhoods where SUGAR BEETS WILL PRODUCE ALCOHOL FOR THE WEST, calculable 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 be shared by the whole people as con- sumers, and by hundreds of thousands of them as producers.” There is scarcely a nameable limit to the pro- duction of potatoes. WOULD USE UP WASTE PRODUCTS. Potatoes, beets, corn—the sta®s as well as the grain—and the waste pro- ducts of our molasses factories may run our engines, took our meals, heat and light our 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 manufactured at less than 10 cents a gallon. At this rate it can sup- plant both gasoline and kerosene, than which it is also safer and much cleaner. The 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, coal is now expensive, and large areas of potatoes will be grown for cheir g .test possible yield of alcohol. The sweet potato and yam would furnish about the same proportions of alcohol as the white potato. ALCOHOL FROM CORN AND + STALKS, An acre of corn—fifty bushels—will furnish 130 gallons of absolute alcohol: a bushel of corn, two and four-fifths gallons, An acre of potatoes thus > @ Yo, dn Ape "ga 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 a 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 it to make it undrinka’ and 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 and produce from it about a half mil- lion gallons of absolute alcohol. But this by-product of our beet sugar fae- tories generally goes to waste in other states. Yet we sit by and bemoan the decreasing supply and increasing price of coal, the diminishing 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 solar engines! Moreover, the production of eastern petroleum a] off and practically no gasolin®is being found 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 iy one element of fertility from the soil, CO-OPERATIVE DISTILLERIES., That the farmers in all corn-grow- ing sections of the country should establish co-operative distilleries for the sole purpose of producing this ue- natured” industrial alcohol, is the (OLD-FASHIONED SOUTHERN SUGAR MILL. light and furnish power for our Northern states; the sweet pe*-to, the yam and the waste from the molasses factory can do the same for our Southern states, while in the great West the sugar beet and Indian corn can turn the wueels of the factory, farm and conveyance and banish from the home the chill of winter or the blackness of night. Such is the state- ment of Prof. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the government's bureau of chemistry. Sugar and starch, when fermenting, yield about half their weight in a so- lute alcohol. About one-fifth the weight of potatoes, nearly three- produces munch more alcohol than an acre of corn, when only the grain of the latter is taken into consideration. But corn stalks if harvested before they dry out contain large quantities of sugar and starch, enough to pro- duce 100 gallons of commercial alco- hol per acre, according to the estimate of Secretary Wilson. In 100,000,000 acres of Indian corn the making of ten billion gallons of this alcohol therefore go largely to waste annually. Secreta y Wilson predicts that the time is com- ing when we will utilize this ism.-:nse source of energy. According to Dr. quarters the weight of corn and al- Wiley the fermantable material in the A GERMAN CO-OPERATIVE DISTILLING PLANT... most one-sixth that of the sugar beet are these fermentable sugars and starches. POTATO A COOD ALCOHOL MAKER. The potato will be our chief source of this undrinkable commercial alco- hol. A good yield of potatoes—300 bushels—will produce 255 gallons of such fuel for running automobiles, farm motors and other engines; for stalks could be removed hy the presses now used to extract the juice of sugar cane. And speaking of commercial alcohol from corn, it might be of in- terest to add a statement from Dr, Wiley, that twenty times more power can be obtained by burning the alcohol in corn than by burning the corn it- self—as has been done in the West in times of coal famine. Tt is also estimated that the value of the hy. products of corn after the industrial proposition of Nahum Bachelder, master of the Nationa: Grange, wav was pressing the passage in the in- terest of the 800,000 farmers of his organization. These co-operative dis- tilleries would be under 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 ut. 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. Carmanvy has far surpassed in all of these inventions, which were largely mothered by necessity, for the father. land has no natural gas or petroleum, But its broad sandy plains produce cheap and abundant crops of potatoes, from which every farmer nn manu- facture a vast quantity of raw alcohol. Inventors andscientistshave been busy with improvements in farm distilleries motors, lamns, cookine and heating apparatus. Their “epirit motors” are being turned out in all. formg—up- right and horizontal. stationary, por. table and locomotive. Alcohol loco- motives pull trains of a dozen cars on large farms, sugar plantations and engineering works. The army has had built ten horse-power alcohol “en. gineers’ wagons,” each with a speed of ten miles an hour, carrying tools and apparatus for a regiment of en- gineers. The cost of converting this dena. tured (or undrinkable) aleohol back into its original condition would be much more than for making pure al- cohol anew, according to br. Wiley. He thinks the best method of maxing 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 ot the internal revenue tax. SOME NEW PARISIAN LINGERIE. Colors in Blouses Very Fashionable, Especially the Delicate Tints. 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 are open A NEW UNDERGARMENT nearly to the shoulder over the fore- arm, where they are loosely tied with a succession of ribbon bows. In lin- gerie garments the square neck is preferred to the round this year, and this is always finished with a band of lace or embroidery. fashionable for chemises, but, while it is a pretty cut, it needs to be made of very fine material clse 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 extra width at the waist-line. A pretty finishing to take the place of sleeves and shoulder parts on a garment to be worn with decol- lette dress, consists of ribbons which tie on the shoulders and may be un. tied and slipped beneath the bodice when 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 naingook are being constructed. These are entire- ly accordeon pleated, except for a por- tion of the sleeve. Lace and insertion surround the throat, and for those of Empire cut, a band of the same marks the high waistline in back and in front rises over the bust to be fastened with ribbons. Some of these lingerie tea jackets have broad and elaborate collars which reach over the should- ers. 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 which a long or short jacket forms a part. Lingerie petticoats are 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. Violets. The roses T sent were red, My rival sent her white; My heart is torn 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 heart! Whose violets are those? ———— ee —— 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? - —— re The Pope’s Wardrobe. A large number of women are ems ployed at the Vatican solely in keep= ing the Pope's wardrobe in perfect condition. No spot or stain may dis- figure his garments, 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, as male attendants are not considered suitable for the work. Only the most delicate materials are used—moire silk in summer, and a specially woven fine cloth in winter, The empire form is, of course, very | *¢ Vineless”’ Potato Held i cgud: A special to the liecord ror Says that a fraud order has been issued against the Vineless Yotato Company, ol Pullman, Ill. "Lhe company aaver- used to sell territory or individual riguts for a vineless potato, which would grow in bins above ground in SIXUly days. After investigations by lie departments of Agriculture, Jus- tice and Postoffice, the fraud order was issued and W. D. Darst, discoy- crer 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” wa merely sulphate of potash, worth 25 cents, and his vineless potatoes worth- less commercially less ally the order as Jon y rder was THE MESSAGE. “Listen,” said Raleigh, and suddenly seized my hand. “hat is nothing but the alarm clock in the next room,” I said. He did not seem to hear what I said, but kept on listening to the strange, rattling noise, and I saw beads of coid perspiration on his forehead, while his hand turned cold as ice. Nevertheless there was in-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 L Didn't you?” “Well, then, the time has come. Tor 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 the alarm clock to do with your death?” He looked at me with the same won- derful expression in his and said: “Well, I will tell you what I have never told any one before.” “You remember that Lora died three 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 at 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 with you.” “With me! Oh! but you don’t Eiow, 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 eyes. “You know how her father hated me and why. But she loved me as I loved her, and so we married secretly a few weeks before she died. I was not at her deathbed and would not have known had not the mainspring broken in that very clock we just heard with just the same peculiar noise. At the moment it hap- pened a feeling of deadly terror over- powered me. I rushed to her house, but 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 my senses again I was here. How I got to my rooms I do not know, but I do know that she was with me and at my side, pale as a ghost. ‘“ ‘Lora,’ I cried. She turned to me and said: ‘Wait for me, dear, the clock will eall you.’ *“ ‘Lora,’ 1 cried aga. woman stood at my side. lirious,” she said. icebag.’ “Now you have heard it just as I did, The clock has called and I must 0.” “But, Raleigh »? 1 began. He interrupted me. “Do not say anything,” he whis- pered. “I know it and 1 am ready. 1 Lave 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 you see her? There at the door! 1 am coming, I am coming, my darling.” A tremor went through him and he was dead.—The Oklahoman. rg was ———— Need Pare Food Law. 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