The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-10-19
To make Cheap Gas-light for
Country Homes

out extra charge, which used any ore Of these 70
Acetylene Generators it had found safe, and effective,
just as it permitted houses to be piped for City Gas,
or wired for Electricity, under proper conditions.
Now, the Insurance Companies ought to know
whether or not these 70 different makes of Acetylene
Generators were absolutely Safe to use.
Because, they have to pay the bnls, II Fire OF Ex-
plosion occurs, from any one of the Acetylene Gener-
And. here's a proof of their good judgment.
Though there are now Two Million people using
Acetylene Light in America, there have only been tour
Fires from it in one year, against S0o5 Fires from
There have also been 46o1 Fires from Electricity,
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candies.
Besides these there have been 20 Fires from the
Suns rays, But,-only four Fires from Acetylene.
That shows how carefaI the Insurance Board was
in its examination of Acetylene Generators, and in
permitting" only the 70 makes that were G6ovc S"s-
bicion, out of the 600 experiments that were once on
the market.
Werl-the boom in Acety1ene Lighting made lo7cer
Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic.
Today, Acetylene Light is a full third cheaper than
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power.
1t is not more than half the price of Electric Light,
nor three fonrths that of City Gas.
faction nv name is not "Acetylene Jones.
But Acetylene is more than the safest and cheapest
Light of the year 1905.
= 1t is also the Whitest Light-the nearest to natural
Sunlight in health-giving Blue and Violet rays ana
because of this, with its freedom from flicker, it is
the easiest of all Artificial Light on the Eyes.
1t is so much like real Sunlight that 1t has made
plants grow "a hours per day in dark cellars where no
ray of Sunlight could reach them. 1t made them grow
toUice as fast as similar plants that had only the Sun-
light of daytime, viz, half the time. s
That was proven by Cornell University IN a three
months experiment made this very year.
Now, I've saved UP for the last a point more I'M
portant to you than all the others about Acetylene
Light.
Orygeu from the Air of Living rooms or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Light consumes.
That's a tremendous difference in a lifetime marx
ou-three-fourth of a difference.
Because,-Oxygen is Life.
And every bit of Oxygen stolen from the lungs OF
Women, Children and Men, through Lighting, is a
loss that can never be made good again.
A "a Candle Power Acetylene Light costs you only
f7Uo-ffths of a cent per hour.
That's about $585 per year, if burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp Of equal capacity wouid cost you
a third more. viz: hyee-ffths of a cent per hour tor
Kerosene alone, or $875 per year.
That's exclusive of broken lamp chimneys, new.
wicks, and the everlasting ~drudgery and danger OF
cleaning, filling and trimming daily.
want to bro1e these figures to you, Reacer, II you
are a HORSEPOWER or storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and III tell you
what it will cost to light them with brilliant, beautiful,
Sanitary, eye-saving Acetylene.
Write me today for my Free Book about Sunlight
on Tap"
Just address me here as
"Acetylene Jones"
9 Adams St,
Chicago, Ills.