The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-03

beetroot, from potatoes and from divers
other products they have sought to gain
a profit, which they think ought to be
theirs. All France may be compared to
watched at immense expense, where
frauds and understandings take the place
of violent resistance OF authority. The
French farmer knows all about alcohol.
He wants to make a double profit on his
products, to have winter work for his
sons, his daughters and his hired help.
For long years the result has been d
gradual letting down of barriers against
alcoholic drinks in France, until to-day,
in Paris, you can have satisfying slug
of absinthe for two cents.
Naturally, the secretary general OF the
Association pour rEmploi Industriel de
rA1cohol is proud of his mission. To at
once satisfy the farmers and the distil-
lers and give to Francs her long-sought
national light and fua--asl in removing
a great stumbling bIeel;. OF morality and
hygiene-is task to II p.oud of. Let
Frenchmen make alcohoi as they never
made it before M. h.rachequesne has
cried to the breathlessiy Interested cham
Der of deputies; 'le France distil a
hundred livres where She distills one to-
day-but not to drink The time has
come! France will have alcohol to
burn!'
One of the chief factors in the new
use of alcohol and there are many, will
undoubtedly turn out to be "carburant,'
a new discovery. AS everybody knows,
alcohol when burning disengages heat
rather than light. 1t burns dull blue.
The carburant is nothing less than sub
stance which, mixed with it, induces al
cohol to give out light OF great inten-
sity and beauty. At the same time it is
said that it has the quality of obviating
every danger OF explosion. It is this lat
ter virtue that is to make carburated al
cohol a safe, odorless, clean, economical
and energetic fuel and motive-power sub
stance. When the carburant is added to
the ordinary industrial or methylated al
cohol, it changes its color, which in
France is green, to a dark yellow.
The lamps resemble ordinary petro-
leum lamps, with wicks and chimneys.
Were it not for the softness and bril-
liancy of the light, you might imagine
you were burning headlight oil. There
is no sweating nc smoke or odor, either
during or after combustion, and the light
ing is instantaneous The wicks never
burn, so they need no trimming.
The Germans, it is said, are far in ad
vance. They have their own lamps, SIM
liar to those OF the French system. Burn
ing alcohol is now retailed in Berlin at
cents a quart, and carburated alcohol,
at 90 degrees, will soon be retailed at E
cents a quart Undoubtedly the domes-
tic petroleum lamp is seeing its last days
in Europe.
In Paris by far the .greatest sensation
has been made by the ineandescent lamps,
with which NJ Loubet is now lighting
up the courtyard of the Elysee. 1t is
the same incandescent system that is
used at Potsdam and in the Berlin Ther-
garten. Indeed, the rush for incandes-
cent burner patents is phenomenon OF
the hour in every European country.
There are incandescent alcohol burners
with wicks and without wicks, with CHM
neys and without. All have two points
in common with eaci, other and with the
gas burners of certain Etype-the. extra
ordinarily brilliant light and the extra
ordinarily fragility OF e1e manchon or
film There is not the slightest doubt OF
their successful application to alcohol.
At one of the famoIss5 o'clock teas OF
the Figaro, where the most brilliant peo-
pie of society, art and politics are wont
to meet by invitation, ! saw an incandes-
cent alcohol lamp not SO heavy but that
it could be carried by a, single workman,
that gave out flood OF light equivalent
to that produced by twelve-horse power
engine and dynamo For lighting
streets large halls, railway stations and
the like these lamps already rival cleo
tricity and gas in power with an econo-
my of rs per cent in costoyer gas. Their