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proposition of Nahum Bachelor,
master of the National Grange, M4o
was pressing the passage in the in
terest of the 100000 farmers of his
organization. These cooperative dis
tilleries would be .nder close govern
ment supervision, and the alcohol
would be rendered unfit for bevera ge
purposes before leaving the distillery
warehouse. In this way the cost to
the farmers of this material for light
ing, heating, cooking and motor fuel
purposes could be kept at the lowest
point.
In Great Britain alcohol made un-
drinkable by the addition of 5 per mt.
of wood alcohol and a much smaller
proportion of mineral naptha is now
sold freely without tax. Since 1887
Germany also had untaxed alcohol for
industrial purposes. France, witzer-
land, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Russia
Sweden. Norway, Austria-Hungary
Portugal and six Latin-American re
publics exact no tax on this ''dena-
tured'' alcohol. already regarded as
one of the necessities of agriculture
manufacture and general indus+~v
In these ''free-alcohol countries" there
are being used many varieties of al
cohol engines. alcohol automobiles, al
cohol motor boats, alcohol m
motors, alcohol lamps and alcohol
stoves.
ALREADY SUCCEEDS IN EUROPE
Germany has far surpassed in al
of these inventions, which were largely
mothered by necessity. for the father
land has no natural gas or petroleum
But its broad sandy plains produce
| cheap and abundant crops of potatoes
from which every farmer n manu-
facture vast quantity of raw alcohol
Inventors and scientists have been busy
with improvements in farm distilleries
motors. 1ampS COOKING and heating
apparatus Their s.Snirit motors are
being turned ont in all forms-un
right and horizontal stationary, por
table and locomotive Alcohol loco
motives pull trains of a dozen cars or
large farms sugar plantations and
engineering works The army has had
built ten horsepower alcohol zen
gineers' wagons" each with a speed
of ten miles an hour. carrying toels
and apparatus for regiment of en-
gineers.
The cost of converting this dena
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Colors in Blouses Very Fashionable
Especially the Delicate Tints.
BERTHA BROWNING.

In the new Paris lingerie, the
fashion is to have sets of chemise,
drawers and short petticoat of the
same material and type, and all
trimmed in the same manner. Main
sock and very fine batiste are the ma
terials usually employed for their con-
struction, the mode of silk underwear
being for the time abandoned. There
are two new fabrics called silk main
sock and silk chiffon, both cotton, but
of very fine weave, and which do not
lose their glossy appearance in wash
ing. These materials have much the
appearance of silk and in garments
made of them lace is profusely used.
The lace composes much of the upper
portion of the chemise and the sleeves
which are of bell shape reaching al
most to the elbow. These are open
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A NEW UNDERGARMENT

nearly to the shoulder over the fore
arm, where they are loosely tied with
| a succession of ribbon bows. In lin.
| gerie garments the square neck is
| preferred to the round this year, and
this is always finished with a band OF
| lace or embroidery.
The empire form is, of course, very
fashionable for chemises, but, while
it is a pretty cut, it needs to be made
of very fine material else its straight
form will lie in folds beneath the cor
set Most chemises nowadays are
shaped in under the arms so as to do
away with this extra width at the
waist-line. A pretty finishing to take
the place of sleeves and shoulder parts
on a garment to be worn with decol-
Iette dress, consists of ribbons which
tie on the shoulders and may be IN
tied and slipped beneath the bodice
when worn with the evening gown.
The Japanese nightgown of quite
loose cut is a decided novelty. This
has rows of little tucks descending
from the shoulder and extending half
way down the figure. A double band
of insertion starts at the foot of the
gown, passes by the side of the tucks
over the right shoulder and around
the neck at the back, meeting in the
centre of the front at the waistline.
The sleeves are loose and flowing as
BELTS a garment of this nature. Few
nightdresses have collars, most of
them being finished with straight
bands of embroidery or lace.
CHARMING DRESSING SACKS.
Some very jaunty little dressing
sacks of silky batiste or nainso0k are
being constructed. These are entire
ly ACCORDION pleated, except for a pOr-
ton of the sleeve. Lace and insertion
surround the throat, and for those of
Empire cut, band of the same marks
the high wafstline in back and in
front rises over the bust to be fastened
with ribbons. Some of these lingerie
tea jackets have broad and elaborate
collars which reach over the should
ers.
Another new conner is the blouse
waistcoat of embroidered linen, batiste
or mousseline de sole. This is made
without sleeves and drawn in about
the waist with a tape to adjust the full
ness in front. These are designed to
be worn with lingerie suits of which
a long or short jacket forms a part.
Lingerie petticoats are of increasing
daintiness. They are for the most part
deliberately trimmed, the top portion
being of sheath-1ike cut and fitting
without a bit of fulness. They are
completed with broad fiounces of
tucks, embroidery and lace. Some of
these f1ounces show several frillings
of lace or embroidery, while others
are elaborate with hand-embroidered
designs.
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The Pope's Wardrobe.

A large number of women are en-
ployed at the Vatican solely in keep
ing the Pope's wardrobe in perfect
condition. No spot or stain may dis
figure his garments, and, as he always
appears in white. even a few hours
wear deprives the robes of their fresh
ness. Women are permitted to serve
the Pontiff in this one respect only
as male attendants are not considered
suitable for the work. Only the mos
delicate materials are used-moire sllF
In summer and a specially woven fine
cloth In winter.
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Wonderful Possibilities Denatured Alcohol Provided
for by Congress.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

heating, cooking and lighting. A bush
el of potatoes will produce 0.S5 gal
Ions of alcohol. We now raise DO
tatOes almost exclusively for human
food, and we plant only those var. eties
which have the finest flavor for tt ;
table, independent of their yield per
acre. But there are potatoes yielding
many more bushels per a, than
these esteemed for food. They are
such as are grown for cattle food in
parts of the old world where corn is
scarce. Secretary of Agriculture Will
son estimates that there would be no
difficulty in obtaining 500 gallons of
alcohol per acre from such a variety
Potatoes can now be grown here as
commercial crop only within a short
distance from market. 1t does not
pa, to haul them far. But as soon as
they can be used as a source of heat,
light and power, factories vii spring
up in country neighborhoods where
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THE MESSAGE.

Listen" said Raleigh, and suddenly
seized my hand.
That is nothing but the alarm clock
in the next room,' l said
He did not seem TO hear what / said,
but kept on listening to the strange,
rafting noise, and saw beads of cold
perspiration on his forehead, while his
hand turned cold as ice. Nevertheless
there was in his eyes a far away look
of expectancy, of dawning joy.
1T is nothing at ALL L repeated. II
do not understand what is the matter
with you. Tell me-"
"Oh, never mind" he answered, "but
surely you heard it as well as l.
Didn't your
We'll, then, the time has come. For
hours, days, years, / have expected it.,
have ofttimes longed for, and still,
now, when it has come, it seems hard
to leave this world so suddenly"
Nonsense" I said, what has the
alarm clock to do with your death?''
He looked at me with the same Won
derful expression in his eyes, and
said:
"WclI. 1 will tell you what 1 have
never told any one before"
you remember that Lora died three
years ago"
"She died at exactly twenty-three
minutes of five in the afternoon. Look
at your watch and see what time it
is now"
l looked at my watch.
"Just twenty minutes of five.''
Eyes, and three minutes ago that
alarm went off, just at the hour and
minute of her DEATH
looked at Raleigh in establishment.
''Well, even if that is so, 1 do not
see what Lora's death has to do with
you"
with me! Oh! but you don't glow,
even my dearest friend. How should
you know that Lora was my wife.
Nobody knew it but ourselves"
''Lora was your wife,
eyes, my wife," he replied, with
tears in his eyes. "YOu know how her
loved me as L loved her, and so we
married secretly a few weeks before
she died. | was not at her deathbed
and would not have known had not
the handspring broken in that very
clock we just heard with just the same
peculiar noise. At the moment it hap
pened feeling of deadly terror over
powered me. | rushed to her house.
but they would not let me in. l cried
that she was my wife, but they
slammed the door in my face, and l
swooned away.
when l came to my senses again
was here. How l got to my rooms
do not know, but l do know that she
was with me and at my side, pale as
ghost.
'Lora,' I cried She turned to me
and said: Wait for me, dear, the clock |
will call YOU
'Lora,' l cried again. Another
woman stood at my side. He is de- |
lirious,' she said. we must renew the |
icebag'
"Now you have heard it just as |
did The clock has called and L must |
co.
But, Raleigh" l began.
He interrupted me.
do not say anything" he whis- |
pered. Il know it and l am ready. i
have been waiting so long-oh, so |
long. Good byer'
He reached eagerly forward, as if |
to embrace some one, but suddenly |
fell back into my arms, his face trans |
figured into the most beautiful ex-
preston l have ever seen. do you |
see her? There at the door! | am |
coming, l am coming, my darling"
A tremOr went through him and he |
was dead.-The Oklahoman.
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produces much more alcohol than an
acre of corn, when only the grain of
the latter is taken into consideration.
But corn stalks if harvested before
they dry out contain large quantities
of sugar and starch, enough to pro-
duce 100 gallons of commercial alco-
hol per acre, according to the estimate
of Secretary Wilson. In 100,OO0,0O0
acres of Indian corn the making of ten
billion gallons of this alcohol therefore
go largely TO waste annually. Secrets. y
Wilson predicts that the time is COM
ing when we will utilize this i.u---nse
source of energy. According to Or.
Wiley the fermantable material in the
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SUGAR BEETs Will PRODUCE ALCOHOL FOR THE WEST.

calculable benefit; but to every man.
no matter where he lives, ii would be
of some Importance" Saws the Louis
vile Courier Journal, after quo ms the
Philadelphia Records tribute to the
coming great and almost universal
blessing: And potatoes are only one
of hundreds of things from which this
useful product would be distille if
the tax were removed. Such q step
would create in this country a prac-
tically new and vastly beneficial in
dustry, whose benefits would be
shared by the whole people as con-
sumers and by hundreds of thousands
of them as producers" There is
scarcely nameable limit to the pro-
duction of potatoes.
p WOULD USE Up WASTE
PRODUCTS.
Potatoes, beets, corn-the stalks as
well as the grain-and the waste pro-
ducts of our mOlasses factories may
run our engines, cook our meals. heat
and light our homes. The present tax
of 81 10 per gallon on commercial al
cOhol renders its use for power, fuel
and light absolutely out of the Ques-
ton, although for these purposes it
can be manufactured at less than 10
cents a gallon. At this rate it can SIP
plant both gasoline and Kerosene than
which it is also safer and much
cleaner. The only opponents of the
bill We're the wood alcohol and Stand
ard Oil interests, which would be the
losers. Farmers, especially, insisted
upon its passage.
The white potato can readily heat,
light and furnish power for our
Northern states; the sweet To to.
the yam and the waste from the
molasses factory can do the same for
our Southern states. while in the great
West the sugar beet and Indian corn
can turn the wheels of the factory,
farm and conveyance and Danish from
the home the chill of winter or the
blackness of night. Such is the state
ment of Prof. III. w. Wiley, Chief of
the governments bureau of chemistry.
Sugar and starch. when fermenting,
yield about half their weight in So
lutte alcohol. About ont-fifth the
weight of potatoes. nearly three
quarters the weight of corn and al
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tured (or undrinkable) alcohol back
into its original condition would be
much more than for making pure al
cohol anew, according to Dr. Wiley.
He thinks the best method of making
it undrinkable would be the addition
of ten per cent wood alcohol and one
per cent. of '.pyridine." According to
the bill as it passed, the denaturing
ingredients are left to the discretion of
the internal revenue tax.
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stalks could be removed by the presses
now used to extract the Juice of sugar
cane. And speaking of commercial
alcohol from corn. it might be of in
terest to add statement from DR..
Wiley, that twenty times more power
can be obtained by burning the alcohol
in corn than by burning the corn it
self-as has been done in the West
in times of coal famine. Tt is also
estimated that the value of the by
products of corn after the industrial
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Need Pure Food Law.

In the Philippine Islands some OF
the Cinnamon are extremely clever at
swindling, one of their tricks being to
remove whiskey from a bottle and sub
stitute an adulteration without break
ing the seal. They do this by soaking
off the label and drilling a tiny hole
in the side of the bottle. They then
take out the whiskey and substitute
a liquid similar in color, fill up the
hole, and cover it with the label.
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Then the Cook Cut In.
9 cook was GOING

AA4U NOOh WIS BUIuB.
How shall / word this recommended
ton, Marie?' her mistress asked. "You
know l can't touch upon industry, and
on the question of neatness the less
said the better, while as for culinary
SKILL
We'll, ma'am," the cook cut in, Sup
pose you just say I stood this place
four weeks. That will do me, think"
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alcohol is extracted win pay the cost
Of distillation.

falcohol is extracted win pay the cost
Of distillation.
SUGAR BEETS AND MOLASSES.
An acre of sugar beets will produce
pa gallons of alcohol. Our vast irri-
cation projects in the West are water
ing lands which win soon produce
sugar beets more profitably, perhaps,
| than any other crops and the molasses
from these crops can readily be turned
into alcohol a waste product of the
ca e sugar mill, known as ''base mo-
! lasses," would be another available
source of our commercial alcohol sup
ply. Millions of gallons of this pro-
duced in all the Central and South
American countries and the West In
dies are now largely burned, fed TO
animals or destroyed, although a por-
| ton is dumped on our shores at almost
any price above freight. At New Or
leans, Boston and Brooklyn it is be-
! ing worked up into inferior LIQUORS
The alcohol made from it has a dis
| agreeable odOr and taste. But if re-
pulsive matter must be added to It
| to make it undrinka' al tax-free.
under the new bill, it will serve as
| well as any other alcohol thus manu-
| featured for power, heat and light
| Already in Cuba such alcohol from
| this base molasses is being made al
| 10 cents per gallon. The base mo-
lasses itself can be had at New York
at 3 cents a gallon. A similar grade
of base mOlasses is turned out as
by-product by our beet sugar factories
Ten factories of Michigan send their
produce to a distil1ery in that state
and produce from it about a half mil
/ lion gallons of absolute alcohol But
this by-product of our beet sugar fac
tories generally goes to waste in other
states. Yet we sit by and bemOan the
decreasing supply and increasing price
of coal, the diminishing supply of
wood, wonder where we shall turn
next for power, heat and light
whether we shall harness the moon
with tide motors or the sun with solar
engines! Moreover, the production of
eastern petroleum is falling off and
practically no gasoline is being found
in the petroleum of Texas and the
West. And yet, according to DR..
Wiley, our farmers can grow any
amount of starch and sugar that may
be wanted for any purpose in the
world and not a pound of it would
take one element of fertility from the
soil.
COOPERATIVE DISTILLERIES.
That the farmers in all corn-grow-
establish cooperative distilIeries for
4
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TiOIetS.

The roses sent were red,
My rival sent her white;
My heart is torn with doubt and fear
Which will she wear tonight?
l hear her step upon the stair,
All. Fortune, now disclosei
MY lady comes; stand still, my heart!
Whose Yiolets are those?
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One More on Mary.

From Technical World,
MARY had a little lamb,
Just thirty years ago;
The chops we had for lunch to-day
Were from that lamb, we know"
@. E. D.-How old is Mary?
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POTATO A GOOD ALCOHOL
MAKER.

The potato viii be our chief source
of this undrinkable commercial alco-
hol A good yield of potatoes-300
bushels-will produce 255 gallons of
such fuel for running automobiles.
farm motors and other engines; for
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-27

A sixty-ton vessel, with a crew Of
twelve men, can earn about $4,000 in a
season at cod fishing.
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coal is now expensive, and large areas
of potatoes viii be grown for their
test possible yield of alcohol. The
sweet potato and yam would furnish
about the same proportions of alcohol
as the white potato.
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COOPERATIVE DIsTILLERIEs.

That the farmers in all corn-grow-
ing sections of the country SLo17 I
establish cooperative distilIeries for
the sole purpose Of prouuclhs, LIS Oe-
natured'' Industrial alcohol, is the
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sTENoGRAPHFRs Bright young men who csr
take dictation RAPIDLY and do rapid work or
machine; salary $s56 70 start Write to-day. Onlces
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ALCOHOL FROM CORN AND
STALKS

An acre of corn-ffty bushels-wilI
furnish 1870 gallons of absolute alcohol;
a bushel of corn, two and four. hfths
gallons. An acre of potatoes thus
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SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY
keeps waist down all around no pins or hooks to
tear send 25C. with waist measurement over corset
and ask for white black. Felix Corset co. Ii3
Pine Street New York.
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WANTED A Hundred Firemen and Brakemcn on
different railroads Age % TO 80 good sight and
hearing. Experience unnecessary. Firemen $40
monthly. become Engineers and earn 5000 Brake
men t1O monthly, become Conductors and earn Ei50
Positions awaiting competent men Send stamps for
particulars. Name position preferred Railway
N Y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04

centrate a working force at the No. IA COL
liery,six miles north of here, The Erie is so
far the most aggressive Of the coal COM
panies in trying to work, and the Delaware
and Hudson is a close second.
The Erie to-day laid off 200 carpenters and
repair men at its Dunmore shops in addition
to the 500 recently suspended owing to the
prospect of the coal strike. A number of
trainmen on all the coal carrying roads have
also been suspended indefinitely.
An effort was made to-day by contractors
employing rock miners in this valley to get
them to work by offering them the full adj
vance demanded for them by the mine
workers scale committee, s3.25 instead of
So a day and an eight hour workday, but
the men decline TO work until they are di-
rected to do so by President Mitchell. Most
of the rockmen Of the other districts belong
to a union of their own.
Several of the coal companies are posting
notices f%orbidding trespassing upon their
properties under the amendment passed
last year to the game law. This provides
a fine Of SO or ten days in jail for any one
found walking upon property where the
trespass notices are posted and is expected
by the operators to be a most effective legal
weapon to prevent the gathering Of crowds
about their collieries.
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PLAN TO GUARD THE MINES.
Erie Company Gcts Heady to Resume Work
-NOn.JnlOn LabOrPr %SluEged.

WukESRARRF, April 3,-The first violence
following the Suspension of mining in the
Wyoming district occurred this morning
while non-union men were on their way to
work in the collierics. The attack was
upon a laborer named John Mitchell, en-
ployed at the Mineral Springs colliery of
the I.shigh Valley company. A number
Of Italians lined the roadway to the colliery
and as he passed they stoned him. He
escaped with severe bruises. The company
has the names OF several Of his assailants
and will prosecute them This is to he
lone IL each case of interference or assault
instead Of trusting the injured luen TO do 90.
Owners of several of the washaries made
an effort to work the washcries this morning
hut failed. Their men did not report for
work hut several of them said they would
work, if a strike occurs, They will not
however. take a chance now Of being known
as anti-strike men. The wasi : owners
declare that if their own men do not respond
10 the order 10 work they will import men.
The large companies in this district mean
to d. the same thing, and officials OF the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad are pro-
uounced in their determination 10 run the
washeries.
The Ere Company is planning TO guard
lite coilieries IN the upper part Of the valley,
ana as soon AZ icnce, nov being built around
them are completed an effort will he made
10 gather men. Efforts will be made to con-