Evening journal., 1912-01-23
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Free Gift to the Ameri-
Can People
By Holland.

From the time of our acquisition OF
the Philippines as one result Of orr
war with Spain until his death in 1905,
Edward Atkinson of Boston, was prob
ably the countrys leading anti-im-
perialist But years before he gained
notoriety as an opponent OF the gov
ernments Philippines policy, he had
gained an international reputation as
an economic statistician. He was able
not merely TO quote figures or to go to
places where figures could be obtained
and secure them, but he also possessed
in. superlative degree the power to
dig out the meaning which lay behind
masses of statistics For instance, he
was able, from q study of the statis-
tics Of the production of wheat in this
country. to apply the lesson contained
in the statistics which was of value to
the farmers. At the time Of MIR. Atkin-
sons death, it was said that his name
would become traditional as that OF
the greatest American master Of sta
tistics
A friend, bearing in mind the high
Importance OF Mr.. Atkinson's econ
omic study of statistics, once asked
linn what he regarded as his most
valuable work
"One evening" said Mr.. Atkinson,
Il was working in my library with
student lamp which had a double
burner. | found that the heat from the
lamp aided very greatly in warming
the room. Now, you we're born and
brought up in the great oil-producing
center of the United States. There you
have plenty of coal, and coal for
household purposes is about as cheap
as fuel can be made. But IN my part
OF the country. aud in many other
sections, the item of coal is consider
able housekeeping charge. So, when
discovered that that student lamp was
helping to heat the room very materi-
ally, / made experiments and discov-
cred what was the degree OF heat
which a double burner student lamp
would furnish.
Nov, each OF the burners contain
ed nearly a pint Of kerosene oil,
found by a simple appliance placed
over the lamp that J could in a few
moments boil a pail Of water What %
said J to myself. Two pints of oil,
that do not cost much more than a
cent, will boil a ateakettie of water?
If they can boil water. they can do
other cooking.
80 | went TO work and invented a
stove or oven and found that by us
ing two pints of oil as fuel I could
do as much cooking of all kinds with
IL as il would take fifteen pounds OF
coal to do. Moreover, there was no
waste Of the oil as there is Of coal in
cooking When the cooking WAS ended
the oil fire WAS turned out--fuel ex-
pense ceased.
II said TO myself: What boon this
would be TO people who are compelled
10 count every penny if they could
have a cooking oven which would cook
a meal for them at cost of less than
one cent So perfected my oil stove
aud there Il is. And I am confident
that Il my name is remembered at all
it will be remembered because Of that
stove"
Said the friend There must be
thousands of the stoves sold every
year now and your income from the
sales must be very handsome one.
"lncome!" cried Mr.. Atkinson, IN
come! ] would no more have patented
q thing Of that kind, which was TO be
of benefit to thousands Of people. than
I would have sold my birthright No
I gave it freely to the American peo-
pie. and ] think that it will consti-
tute my best service to mankind
Copyright, 1912. by e. J. Edawrds
All rights reserved)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell OF
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