The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

Great Discovery-A Fuel Saving
Scheme That Gives Ashes Burning
Cards and Spades and Wins Out with
One Hand Tied Behind It-No Ex-
pense or Dust Attendant on the New
Fuels Use.
G. B. Moses writes from the eighth ward
that he has fuel-saving proposition
that makes the ashes-burnng scheme look
like 80 cents in change with a plugged
quarter in it. Mr. Moses was an early
convert to the ashes burning proposition
and kept it up until the furnace was as
full of dust as the Mojave desert in a
windstorm. In addition to that trouble,
the fire used to go out to see a man, and
Mr.. Moses stopped trying to burn ashes
except in warm weather, when he wanted
to bank the fire.
But the experience he had acquired
made him close student of the political
economy of the furnace kind, and resulted
finally in that successful scheme of fuel
saving known in the eighth ward as "tte
G. B. Moses snow consuming PLAN
In word, Mr.. Moses plan looks to
the consumption of the snowbanks that
cluster around his cottage door. Mr..
Moses says:
Il noted one day in throwing in some
snow covered coal that it burned with a
fierce heat, and In this simple fact-as
simple, yet as pregnant with meaning as
the fall OF Newton's applet found the
germ of my great discovery, namely the
snow-burning furnace. The procedure is
something like this:
II start the fire with a good layer saw
eight inches, Of black coal Before this
gets glowing, but as soon as the gas flames
begin to shoot up thru the chinks of the
coal, I throw on two or three hods of
snow. The fire in connection with the
snow forms layer of steam and pre-
vapf he mis- f,;o
into the coal and so putting out the fire.
This layer of steam becomes superheated,
giving out fierce heat and thus prevent
ing the snow above it from melting. In
this way heat is generated and fuel saved.
In looking into the ashbox I have
never yet discovered the presence of snow,
from which fact take it that the snow is
| completely consumed"
Much interest has been evinced by the
| neighbors in the experiment and the plan
| is likely to be quite generally adopted in
| the progressive eighth.
| To err is human; not to jump on the
| man who errs is divine.
John Queen, the Delmonico waiter who
took a tip and made 500, 900 in Brooklyn
| Rapid Transit in 1899, is now at work
again. He took another tip-this time
on Steel. What a waiter with 100000
should want of a tip is, indeed, mys-
terious.
Another unmarried English duke Of the
kind that the American heiress cannot be
sure whether he is proposing marriage or
telling dialect story has showed up.
Eggs have been to zoe dozen in New
York. This ought to be a good opening
for our new play.
The Washington government announces
that it wouldn't take San Domingo as a
gift Any one who wants a race issue will
lind one ready made there, with punches
! OF trouble hung all over it. -.
Any movement built like that of Dow
les, upon personality, is bound to find an
Icy spot in the sidewalk.
I The lady who makes music on the type-
1 writer had cinder in her eve Yesterday
and after some futile efforts to dislolge it
resumed her seat and her work, waiting
Tor 1t to get good and ready to. get out
There is nothing remarkable about that. 1t
is simply Womans way, but it recalls
| the actions OF the average man under like
circumstances. A sympathizing friend
Will sit by and make suggestions that har-
1 row the soul of the sufferer who, instead
OF waiting, is thinking hard and rubbing
the painful eye, while he stamps around
until everybody else is uncomfortable. too.
remedies suggested proves effective But
while that cinder is in the eye, or the hurt
lasts, he attends to nothing else The
typewriter girls are the stuff that the
martyrs of the twentieth century are
made of.
! Patriarch Miner, president of one of the
quorums of the seventies of the Mormon
church. says that there is but one negro
IN heaven. This statement was made at
the funeral OF Eugene Burns. colored, at
Salt Lake City the other day..and the
i patriarch acknowledged that Er.ene was
not that fortunate negro. The negro who
/ IS In heaven, the patriarch said, is Abel
the body servant of Joseph the prophet
The family of the coiored man who was
thus summarily turned to the spiritual
wall by the patriarchs dictum was much
aroused over the incident and the Rev. D.
a. Brown, Baptist, who was present arose
and stated that there was no such teach
ing in the Bible. In refutation of the as
sertion of the patriarch, he read. several
selections from the Bible, citing instances
! where men with black skins had been
! saved. He attempted to calm the feelings
that had been aroused by the remarks of
the patriarch, and offered assurances of
nope. The patriarch was about to reply
to Mr.. Brown, but the family preferred
Rev. Mr.. Browns more cheerful picture
OF the departeds future and arose in
] wrath, threatening to carve the patriarch
with razors. This ended the incident
Just what the Mormon teaching regarding
the colored brother is may be interesting.
| This summary is given in the words of
Patriarch Miner himself:
We believe that there are three orders of
spirits. In the first class included the
] spirits that have never been incarnated Hay-
Ing never been given a human body, they are
doomed to grope in darkness turnout eternity
1 There is no redemption for them.
The second class includes the spirits which have
been incarnated. They have been given the
privilege of coming into the world and being re-
deemed thru the plan of salvation. That class
is the whites.
/ The third and last class of spirits is the class
that fell. Because of their fall they are com,
PEELED to reside in bondage. They are given
carnate bodies, but never lift the yoke OF
bondage. That class of spirits includes the
negroes
i With this teaching the Mormon church
is not likely to be very popular with our
colored friends 1t must DE rather hard
on Abel, also, who managed to slip in by
the intercession. Of the prophet, to be all
by his spiritual lonesome among so many
white people. "A. ]. r.
the MAIN GHAMGE