Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1922-09-22
RUNS HIS CAR ON CORN
MEAL AND RAISINS

Perpetual motion may still await
discovery, but something approaching
it has been hit upon by North Caro-
lima genius, as related in special dis
patch to the New York Times. The
man, we solemnly are informed, has
perfected car which carries its own
still, and produces moonshine fuel so
fast that, in place of having to fill
the gas tank from time to time, the
motorist frequently has to stop in or
der to empty his tank of the excess
fuel produced while he runs. He uses
the radiator as part of his still, and
the exhaust from his engine heats the
"mash" to exactly the proper tempera-
ture to produce the grade of moon
shine needed to give 30 or 40 miles
to the gallon. Like Captain Jinks of
the Horse Marines, who fed his horse
on corn and beans, all this motorist
has to buy is corn meal and yeast, ac-
cording to his story. AS the Times
correspondent gravely relates in dis
patch which appears to have been sent
received and published in good
faith:
A young business man from Hick-
ory, who was driving with his family
over the new highway, stopped at Car
penter's Knob to change the air in one
of his tires, when a young man in a
big roadster drew up alongside and
inquired if he might be of help. The
Hickory man, who had been trying
half an hour to make seventy pounds
of air grow where only fifteen were
before, was glad to turn the pump
over to the stranger, and was resting
his back. He walked over and looked
at the roadster, the engine of which
was still running.
Noticing the clear snap to the ex-
haust and the absence of any smoke
or odor, the Hickory man said: "that
! is pretty good gasoline you are u.s.
ing"
"That's not gasoline, that's moon
shine," replied the stranger.
"Moonshine ?" questioned the Hick-
ory man. "Do you mean moonshine p
eyes, moonshine, red-eye, liquid
joy" answered the young fellow, TAX.
ing key from his pocket. Here, lei
me show you something"
Then the young fellow unlocked th'
lid from the big deck on the bacl
of the roadster and, raising it up, dis.
closed not the customary tumble Of
tools and tire chains, but a shiny, cop.
per still, which was bubbling away as
merrily as if it were hidden in the
mountains.
He explained to the Hickory mar
that he had disconnected the hose run.
ming from the cylinder block to the
radiator and had piped the hot water
to a double-jacket copper vessel sur
rounding the still and had also taker
off the muffier from the exhaust pipe
and had run the hot gases through
a copper tube which was immersed il
the outside jacket in order to super
heat the water and in this way gener
ate enough heat to operate the still il
a very efficient manner, while thu
yapor from the still instead of being
carried off through the familiar
'worm," was piped direct to tn,
radiator, which formed perfect con
denser, from the bottom of whicl
the precious fluid was conducte,
through small copper tube back t.
the gasoline tank from which it wa
drawn to the earburetor in the ordin
airy manner. The Hickory man say
he told the stranger he did not know
a gas engine would run on corn Ii
quor, and the man replied:
Ordinarily that's true, but tn
carburetor on this cars my own in
lvention."
The young man explained the ex
traction of fusel oil and the numbe
of thermal units in a calory, ETC., un
til the Hickory man was lost in
maze of technicalities. He learne'
however, that about thirty or fort.
miles could be gotten from one gal
Ion and that instead of having to stol
at every service station to lay in
fsupply of gas, the new car had to stol
every two hours to have the surplu
drawn off from the tank at the real
as the outfit generated the fuel taste
than it was consumed. He also learn
Cd that /. was only necessary 20 sto
at country store once in Will
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