The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-02-11

Not in the dynamo but IN the garbag,
barrel, lies the great distinctive feature O
thenineteenth century. The submarine gui
the photograph and the kaleidoscope. whicl
we cannot help seeing any more than tn
Hveried attendants at the door of a sho1
or the brilliant displays of it's windows
represent only the theatres of moder1
civilization, and certainly they are NOR
attractive than a dishWasher with
smudge on the nose or the sign "Pleas
Dump Waste Here,'' just as a counte
of CONNECTIONS is more soothing to tn
aesthetic sense than a butchers bic q
with quarter of beef on it.
But for the true romance Of industrial
society we must go to the back doors O
Its great mill. There we shall find tina
the buttons we wear are made from tn
waste blood from a Chicago packing
house; the rubber in our. combs is onl,
a portion Of a kernel Of corn, once con
sidered worthless, and the weights at
tached to our windows once preserved. tn
peaches that were served on our tables
for desert.
OF the hundreds of men in the labora
'ories of our manufactures, who are doing
as great a work as the Edisons and thu
Maxims we hear little or nothing, though
we are daily enjoying benefits at thei
hands. They are paid for delving in thu
earth's garbage barrels. They are for
ever experimenting with waste product:
to find a method of utilizing them, ant
every year records some achievement O.
this kind,
By-products represent the profits Of
Of n IF a ctr
prises. Our meat is brought homo
wrapped in a by-product. We eat by
products in soups and salads and desserts
The lime used in the building of our
houses is a by-product from our tables
By-products are the comfort Of upholster:
ed chairs and keep these same chairs
from falling to pieces. Even the very
wel-to-do cannot escape wearing by-prod.
ucts, and the poor are almost entirely
clothed with by-prOductS in winter. II
we write to a friend we write on a by.
product, and the penhoder, be it of wood,
rubber or cork. and the mucilage on the
stamp which pays the carriage of the
letter to it's destination are by-products.
Soon the great sheets on which We read
the news Of the day, as we'll as the paper
in Re our billheads, Twill be made from a
by-prOduct whose prospective utilization
is to bring Joy to the home of every
farmer.
If you with to commit suicide and
choose prussic acid or any one Of mum.
Der of poisons as a means to an end, it
is a by-product that kills you. declares
the New York Press. If there were no
by-products iE the slaughter houses, your
steaks and chops would cost you twice
as much; if no by-products in gas-mak-
Ing, few of us could afford to pay our
gas bills; no by-products in the refining
of petroleum, the price Of lamp oil would
be = or cents more a gallon. ~
In the great chain of production which
gives to all classes more for their homes,
their stomaches and their backs than ever
before, half of the links are by-products.
Our ancestors knew nothing of the prac-
tical chemistry which has been respon-
sible for the utilization of waste. In
every manufacture there is one leading
product, and it's price is cheapened in
small or great mea sure by the improve
n.ent in utilizing the side products. In
some instances, as in the manufacture Of
gas, the by-products are far more Valu-
able than the main product. IT.
Were the folk Of stage coach days &C
come back to earth they could not be
more amazed at the railroad train than at
the new dignity which the germ of 9. ker-
nal Of Indian corn has assumed. Out OF
this little yellow speck, by which the
kernel reproduces itself, the Havemeyers
Pierpont Morgan and other capitalists are
making annually a million dollars, which
comes to them more easily than the
richest gold mine brought wealth to the
prUspector who found it.
Not many years ago these germs were
held in the same light as the sawdust
from a saw-mill. They might be had fol
q montreal sum from the glucose factories
or merely for the trouble Of carting then
away. They were source of bother ant
expense. Because their flavor would in
80 %1a - = -
separated from the remainder of the ker
nal.
One day, in squeezing one Of the yellow
specks between the nails Of his thumbs
a man took particular notice of the mois
ture which was the result, and shor'
were getting great quantities Of OIL out o.
their waste germs by simple hydraulic
pressure But this oil would not submit
to any of the processes by which cotton
seed and other vegetable oils are refined
It's maize flavor made it UNACCEPTABLE t
any of the uses which they serve ex
cept the making of soft soaps preparing
leather, and securing wool. Still. on &C
count of the trifiing cost of this new by
productive cost Of making something
out of nothing-the manufacturers coull
almost afford to sell their glucose at cost
AS the Germans and the French get N
by-products from their potato sugar, ou
pete with European manufacturers, de
spite European tariffs and this they di'
: with great success, selling $4,000 tons o
glucose abroad annually. ...g..rr-.y.. ID. i.
AS long as corn oil was unrofined ant
there was a practical Yankee cheruis
who was not occupied by some othc
task, it might not be allowed to remail
so without an effort on his part. One o
these chemists, after working for year
solved the problem. He was able to re
fine corn oil by process no Eiore expen
siye than that for refining other Yege
table oils. Now, 1t can be put to most o
the uses that they are Now, at dinner
we turn it out of bottles bearing the labe
OF q foreign exporter without knoWtn
the difference between 1t and the oil o
the best olives Of the South Of France
v hich it purports to be-unless some on
let's us into the secret, whereupon we fee
greatly outraged. s
This innovation changed the whole as
rect Of things for the glucose manufae
turers. When the glucose trust wa
formed with capital of S4O,OOO,O00, .
which 10000, 600 was water, the outsider
might we'll wonder why the stock was S
quickly subscribed. But Morgan and tn
Havemeyers as usual knew what the
were doing. The process of refining cor
oil was not patented, for that would hav
been as good as publishing the formul
ito the world. In order to squeeze an
rival out Of business, the trust could Sc
u Its glucose at considerably less than tn
cost of production and still have a ba
ance on the right side OF the ledger. III
probability Of competition was Quite d
3s;0 OF the question. AS matter Of fact, tl
*'.lst is able to keep the price OF glucos