The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-08-10
TILE DEMON ALCOHOL
TO BE PUT TO NEW AND USEFUL.
SERVICE.

TO BE PUr TO NEW AND USEFUL
SERVICE.
Made to Run Engines, Tisht Our
Homes 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 o great pleasure, will remember q
story OF q genie who could contract
himself into q space 30 small as to be
contained in q vial, but on being re.
leased, expanded like o modern OK.
plosive until he became q large giant,
overshadowing tho earth. While
confined In the bottle he was harm
less, but when he got OUT. he threat.
ened danger to all who approach.
We have often thought THAI this
forciful narrative Of Queen Sohehere,
zade pre- Figured the spirit of alcohol.
The Arabians first discovered this
potential agent, which ia we'll desorib.
ed under the image of the demon In
the bottle. Alcohol ID not dangerous.
when bottled up, but when 1T. gets out
OF the bottle and into the man or
other animal, there Is q muItiplica.
tion Of devils, like those d~escribedin
the New Testament. 1t Is more than
likely that the belief In o personal
devil, 20 prevalent In ancient days,
was typified by this subtle spirit of
such deadly potentialities. Cassie, in
Shakespenre's "Othello," gives utter.
ance to this thought, when he says:
"Oh, thou Invisible spirit of wine, If
thou hast no other name by which
you are called, let me name thee
devil"
But the devilish disposition is to be
extracted from alcohol that 1T 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 az
denaturizing, alcohol Ia to BE dehorn.
cd, as 1t were, have its teeth pulled,
have the devil taken out Of 1t. Hav.
Ing injured man 30 greatly during the
centuries, 1t Is 0 to redeem itself
by helping him. Originally it was
used to kindle internal fires, to set the
soul atlame, to addle the brain, to
make maniacs. Now, blessed change,
The fire Ia to be kindled on the out.
side to make heat and power. Alco.
mol Ia all right If left out OF the blood.
1t works BEAUTIFULLY In o stove, in a
heater, under an engine, in q lamp.
Ii will be especially beneficial for
farmers, as 1t Is especially we'll adapt |
ed for doing what farmers constantly
ueed to have done. In many ways
the misohievous old giant San be
called down, put In harness AID fore
ed to do beneficial work for the hui
man race to make up for the damage
Fi2fiiotc6sa DEasssss4nIausS
A lamp is now made that produces
a strong, high.grade light from &C
hol, and the exports say q gallon Of a.
cohol 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 Waror,
cutting feed, filling silos. threshing
grain, and the multiplied uses to
which q stationary power On farms is
adopted. The principle objection to
gasoline, aside from the cost, liz the
danger to the farm building from fire.
a gasoline fire cannot be quenohed
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 q gal
lon 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 uues.
tion being simply one Of relative cost.
On this latter head accurate infor.
nation was gathered by the commit
tee OF Congress, which will DO Of es.
pedal interest to our readers. A large
distillery at Peoria kept a record for
ten year, which shows an average cost
Of AZ 38 cents o bushel for corn used,
The average production OF alcohol was
4.78 proof gallons from a bushel of
corn, The cost averaged 10 78 cents
per proof gallon Of alcJhol. TIE corn
used In making n gallon Of proof al,
cohol vas .21 Of o bushel, costing 8 IS
cents; dSducting this cost from 10. 79
cents, the total cost Of the alcohol,
we have l 80 cents as the cost OF
making one gallon Of proof alcoho,
over and above the cost Of the grain
There will, OF course, be variations ir
price, according to the price Of corn,
But other farm products may be util
ized In making alcohol, q low grade Of
molasses being especially adapted fol
the purpose, and many other things
raised by farmers will answer the pur'
pose. Thus the farmer iB benefitued
In two ways, by increased demand fol
his products to make the alcohol anC
Increased uses Of the latter when
made. So 1t 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 chear
motor, light and heat production
such as the world has not seen, and
there is no people In the world that
oan put such things to 80 many uses
as our American farmers.
killing I'm York.
A dispa tch to The State from York
sage Mr.. w. J. Whitnor, superinten.
dent OF Glenn andAllison,s at Fishino