The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-08-10
THE DEMON ALCOHOL,

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TO BE PUT TO NEW AND USEFUL
sERvICE.
Made to Run Engines, Iiaht Gu,
Zones and Cook Our
Food.
All OF our readers who are familiar
with the Arabian Nights Entertain.
ments, and all who are not have miss
ed q great pleasure, Will remember a
story Of a genie who could contract
himself into space 80 small as to be
contained in o vial, but On being re-
leased, expanded like o modern OK.
plosive until he became largo giant
overshadowing tho earth. While
| con fined In the bottle he was harm.
less, but when he got out. he threat.
eued danger to all who approach.
We have often thnughtl than this
forciful narrative Of @ Ieen Schehere
zade prt figured the spirit of alcohol
The Arabians first discovered this
potential agent, which is we'll doSorib.
ed under the image Of tho demon in
the bottle. Alcohol ID not dangerous
when bottled up, but when it gots out
Of the bottle and into the man or
other animal, there Is o multiplioa.
tion of devils, like those described In
the New Testament. Is Is more than
likely that the belief In personal
devil, 80 prevalent in ancient days,
| was typified by this subtle spirit OF
such deadly potentialities. Cassie, In
ShakespeRre's "Othnllo," gives utter.
ance to this thought, when he SAYS:
"Oh, thou Invisible spirit OF wine, II
thou hast no other name by which,
you are called, let mo namo' thee
devil"
But the devilish disposition Is to be
extracted from alcohol that it may oe
| tanned to the uses Of man A marvel.
GUS transformation Ia to occur by
reason Of the law recently enacted by
Congress. BY the process known 40
denaturizing, alcoho! 1s to 5e dehorn.
ed, as 1t were, have It's teeth pulled,
have the devil taken out Of 1t. Hav.
Ing injured man 30 greatly during the
centuries, 1t is now to redeem itself
by helping him. Originally IL was
used to kindle internal fires, to set the
soul afiame, to addle the brain, to
make maniaos. Now, blessed change,
The fire Ia to be kindled on the out.
side to make heat and power. Alco.
mol is all right If left out of the blood.
1t works BEAUTIFULLY In o stove, in
heater, uuder an engine, In lamp
II will be especially beneficial for
farmers, ss IT il especially we'll adapt
ed for doing what farmers constantly
need TO havs done. In many ways
tho miSohievous old giant can be
called down, put In harness AID fore
ed to do beneficial work for the hui
man race to mako up for the damage
lSniotcd py yyss, ~ iiauaS.
A lamp Is now made that produces
a strong, h'grade light from ac)
hoi, and the exports say gallon of al.
oohol is worth two Of kerosene for
lighting purposes. The thousands OF
mall power engines heretofore run
with gasoline, can all be served better
and more cheaply with alcohol. These
enginess are especially adapted to
tarm purposes, for pumping warar,
cutting feed, flling silos. threshing
grain, and tho multiplied uses to
which stationary power on farms is
adopted. The principle objection to
gasoline, aside from the cost, is the
danger to the farm building from fire
A gasoline fire cannot be quenched
with water. Ga the other hand, water
seems to scatter the gasoline and in
crease the danger. But an alcohol
fire is easily put out by the use OF
water. Experiments show that gal,
Ion Of alcohol will produce at least 10
per cent. more power than q gallon OF
gasoline. On the subjeot of heat, the
showing is equally favorable, the ques.
tion being simply one Of relative cost
On this latter head acSurate infor.
nation was gathered by the commit.
tee Of Congress, which will 90 OF es.
pecial interest to cur readers. A large
distillery at Peoria kept q record fol
ten year, which shows an average cost
OF 42 38 cents o bushel for corn used,
rhe average production OF alcohol was
4.78 proof gallons from bushel Of
oorni The cost averaged 10 78 cents
| pOl pIOUt BGllOh VI 6slCJIlOl. u6
used In making one gallon Of proof al.
cohol was .21 of q bushel, costing 8 8e
cents; dsducting this cost from 1918
cents, the total cost Of the alcohol
we have 80 cents as the cost OF
making one gallon Of proof alcohol
over and above the cost Of the grain
There will, OF course, be variations In
price, according to the price OF corn
But other farm products may be util
ized In making alcohol, o low grade oi
molasses being especially adapted fol
the purpose. and many other things
raised by farmers will answer the pur.
pose. Thus the farmer is beneatued
In two ways, by increased demand fol
his products to make the alcohol anC
increased uses Of the latter wher
made. So it is manifest that with
tax.free alcohol, and the people awake
to prevent trusts and corners, there
will be opening to us an era of oheal
motor, light and heat productior
such as the world has not seen, ant
there is no people In the world thai
can put such things to 30 many use,
as our American farmers.
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Killing in York.
A dispa tch to The State from Yorl
says Mr. w. J. Whltner, superinten
dent Of Glenn andAllisons at Fiahint