The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-08
THE DFMON ALCOHOL
TO BE PUT TO NEW AND USE cUL
SERVICE.

Made to Bun Engines, Light Gu
homes and Cook Our
GOOD.
All OF cur readers who are familia,
with the Arabian Nights E 1tertain
ments, and all who are not have miss
ed great pleasure, will remember a
story of a genie who could contract
himself into a space so small as to be
contained IN a vial, but on being re-
leased, expanded like a modern ex-
plosive until ne became large giant,
overshadowing the earth. While
confoed in the bottle he was harm
less, but when be got out he threat
ened danger to all who approach
We have often thought, thai this
forclful narrative Of Q leen Scnehere,
zade PIE figured the spirit Of alcohol.
The Arabisns first discovered this
potential agent, which Is well describ-
ed under the image Of the demon In
lhe bottle. Alcohol Is not dangerous
when bot tied up, but when it gets out
OF the bottle and into the man OF
other animal, there Is . mpltiplica.
oion of devils, like those described in
the New Testament. Il Is more than
likely that the belief In a personal
devil, so prevalent In ancient days,
vas typifed by this subtle spirit Of
such deadly posentialities. Cassie, In
Shakespeare's 'Othello," gives utter.
ance to this thought, when he says:
"Oh, thu invisible spirit Of wine, II
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 it may oe
samed TO the uses OF man A marvel.
GUS Transformation Is to occur by
reason Of the Law recently enacted by
Congress. BY the process known as
denasurtzing, alcohol Is to 5e dehorn
cd, as it were, have It's teeth pulled,
have the devil taken out OF it. HaV-
ing injured man so greatly during the
centuries, it is now to redeem Itself
oy helping him. Originally 1t was
used TO kindle internal fires, 20 set the
soul afsne, to addle the brain. to
make maniacs. Now, blessed change,
he fire is to be hndled on the OUT
dde TO make heat and power. Alco-
aol is all right If left out Of the blood.
It works BEAUTIFULLY In a stove, In
heater, Under an engine, in a lamp.
It will De especially beneficial fol
tanners, as it Is espt tcislly well adapt
ed for doing what farmers constantly
ased to have done. In many ways
The miscnievous old giant can be
called down, putt In harness a. d forc-
ed to do beneficial work for the hu-
nan race TO make up tor the damage
Inflicted by agss Of misuse.
4 lamp Is now made that produces
4 strong, high grade hghb from ac)
aol, and the experts say gallon OF g.
,ohol Is worth two Of kerosene for
lighting purposes The thousands OF
small poasr engines heretofore run
With gasoline, can all be served better
and more cheaply with alcohol. These
snxiness are especially adapted TO
tarn purposes, TOR pumping wa1er,
cutting teed, filing silos. threshirg 6
grain, and the 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
q gasoline fire cannot be Quenched
g1uh water. Ol 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
ION of alcohol Will produce at least 10
per cent. more power than gallon OF
gasoline. On the subject OF heat, the
showing is equally favorable, the CUES
tion being simply one Of relative cost.
On this latter head accurate infor-
nation was gathered By the commit
Zee OF Congress, which will be OF es-
oecial interest to our readers. A large
distillery at Peoria kept a record fol
zen year, which shows an average cost
of ~ 36 cents a bushel for corn used,
The average production Of alcohol was
4.7s proof gallons from a bushel OF
corn: The cost averaged 10 78 cents
psr procJ gallon OF alconol. Toe corn
used in making one gallon OF proof al
cohol was .2l Of bushel, costing 8 IS
cents; dsdIcsing this cost from 1913
cents, the total cost OF the alcohol,
ne 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 II
price, according to the price OF corn
But other farm products may be IT'LL
u ID In making alcohol, low grade o1
molassss being especially adapted fol
the purpose, and many other things
raised by farmers will answer the pur
pose. Thus the farmer Is benehureo
ia two ways, by increased demand fol
his products to make the alcohol ane
increased uses OF the latter Wher
made. So it is manifest that With
saz-ftee alcohol, and the people awake
10 prevent trusts and corners, ther'
will be opening to US an era Of cheaI
motor, light aid heat production
such as the world has not seen, ant
there is no people in the world tina
can put such things to so many use
as our American farmers.
Killing in York.
A 5isp2 tch to The State from Yorl
| says Mr. W. J. Whitner, superinten
| dort of Clam and A ]lison's at Fishing