The Daily Express. (Chickasha, Indian Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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AGE OF
Motor Enginea. With Alcohol as Fuel. Will Soon Furnish
Power for Both Land and Ocean Travel
Science Is Bometlmes thought to bo
a profitless search after hidden truth
that rewards Its seekers and human-
ity but scantily. Yet applied science
revolutionized the world In the nine-
teenth century by developing the
steam engine the telephone the tele-
graph electric tranHportatlon engin-
eering and chemical manufacturing.
There are signs abroad now that eco-
nomic science Is going to work an-
other revolution in the twentieth cen-
tury as great If not greater than any-
thing In the nineteenth century.
Former Naval Constructor Lewis
Nixon now declares that the age of
steam Is at an end that the power
that will drive vessels of all sizes from
a launch to a battleship Is the gas
engine anfl the kind of motors used in
automobiles and autoboats.
Another revolution in our domestic
( and commercial affairs Is about to
come. Alcohol Is to be the new clean
fuel to talie the place of coal gas
kerosene and gasoline In heating
cooking and lighting In the household
as wx-11 as for driving all sorts of
motor engines especially automobiles
and autoboats.
It Is but a step farther to the 500-
foot passenger ship. Such a ship with
about half the draught end displace-
ment of a steamship of the same
length would make a gaiu in speed of
one-third over the present rate of
ocean liners. This Is an estimate
made by R. F. Kelsey. the motor boat
expert of Boston. If the autoship
should muko thirty miles an hour in-
stead of twenty miles an hour the
present average of fast liners the
trip from Boston to Liverpool could
be made in four days. The American
autoboat Onantio owned by Commo-
dore Harrison B. .Moore of the Atlan-
tic Yacht club made a record of
twenty-eight miles an hour last year.
The autoship will be a queer look-
ing craft. She will be long and nar-
row somewhat like a torpedo boat.
She will have no masts nor rigging
except a single spar by the bridge for
carrying lights and flying pennants
and signals. She will have no smoke
stacks but Instead a row of huge ven-
tilators. Her hull. In the middle and
hind part will be almost that of the
whaleback type. Most of the draught
will be forward where the engines
will be placed. Her flat bottom will
taper upward toward the stern and
be scarcely deeper than a river boat
In fact she will follow the model of
the successful small autoboat of to-
day only on an enormously enlarged
scale.
Her bows will be high to prevent
the water coming aboard as she splits
the sea with her furious speed. Seen
at a distance she will look almost like
the present day torpedo boats except
that she will not be belching forth
clouds of smoke from funnels.
The cause that will bring about the
autoship will be economy. Mr. Nixon
has shown that the limit has about
been reached In the speed and capac-1
Ity of steamships; that every fraction
of a knot of increased speed is gain-
ed at enormous cost of machinery and
fuel. But the auto motor changes all
that. With no heavy boilers no big
coal bunkers no large stoke rooms
a passenger ship can be made as light
as a pleasure craft. At one bound
speed can be Increased one-third.
She can be operated with about half
or quarter the working crew of a
steamship. This opens up the vision
of faster cheaper trips to Europe
than any one has even dared hope
for before.
The automobile on land has been
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making as great strides ns the a'.ito-
boat has In marine affairs. The iv t
notablo recent achievement of the
motor car Is to got itself put on r;lls
In competition with the steam engine.
The first step in this direction was
the railroad inspection car. This is
very much like an ordinary automo-
bile runabout mounted on car wheels.
It has been adopted by several west-
ern railroads In place of the former
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STEAM NEARING END
observation locomotive with which
superintendents and Inspectors go
over their roads. These fast-running
cars can go 100 miles without replen-
ishing their gasoline tanks.
But a more important and far-
reaching adaptation of the automobile
on rails is now in operation in Eng-
land. The London & Southwestern
and the Great Western railroads about
two years ago began experiments in
this direction. They now have rail
motor cars In "regular operation. They
are run by gasoline motors. The
Northclstern and Great Northern
roads in England are now experiment-
ing along this line. The latter road
has a 32-passenger coach running
over a nlnc-mllo branch. This motor
car can draw a light trailing car mak-
ing a motor car train on a small scale.
It Is cow proposed to build a heavier
motor car that can draw several trail-
ers or a "horse box" when necessary.
RAILWAY
MOTOR
A special train of this sort can be
made up and started out at any time
for there Is no engine to fire up.
These experiments have shown that
when the automobile is put on tracks
it can make its way in spite of snow
or any kind of weather and outdo the
steam locomotive In light work speed
and economy. Moreover it is a
great grade climber. It can travel
with ease over grades of five feet to
the hundred while four feet to the
hundred Is the limit for steam loco-
motives which even then have to
crawl at a snail's pace.
In France automobiles are run in
trains on ordinary roads by an Inven-
tion of Col. Renard of the French
army. His motor car does not drag
the trailers by sheer force like a
locomotive. Instead It generates the
power which is transmitted to each
of the cars in the train by means of
a long jointed shaft. In this way a
train of light cars trundles along over
the country roads at a speed of six-
teen miles an hour.
This shows how the automobile Is
slowly but urely becoming the rival
of the locomotive. The day may not
be far distant when all passenger traf-
fic will be done by trains of auto-
matic motor cars running at a speed
of 100 miles an hour. It seems likely
that even the fast-growing trolley
may have to give place to the auto-
train on long-distance runs.
A new factor that is going to hasten
OCEAN-GOING AUTOSHIP.
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Creally tho advance of the auto nge
on land and water Is the utry of alco-
hol Instead of gasoline fcr fuel. Tho
use of alcohol would do away with the
offensive smell of gasoline. It makes
an automobile entirely odorless an
Improvement that would be appreciat-
ed by every man woman and horse on
the roads. Moreover alcohol Is a
good deal safer. It is not as volatile
nor as explosive. It can bo stored any-
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where wIUi safety With alcohol and
gasoline at the same price automobile
experts calculate that alcohol la about
10 per cent cheaper.
In .Vrance ?nd Germany alcohol is
used a'most entirely now for running
automobiles. Some of the French ma-
chines that are imported into this
country have motors that can be run
either by gasoline or alcohol. But by
a slight change in the carbureter the
gasifying apparatus alcohol can be
used in any automobile.
"I believe that alcohol will be the
fuel of the future for all automobile
motors" says H. L. Radford the Bos-
ton automobile designer and builder.
"It is a matter entirely dependent on
the carbureter. With this appliance
properly designed it Is possible to run
all cars by alcohol with every advant-
age. It goes further and is easier and
sater to handle.
"You can get as much power out
it run I''-.'1.
INSPECTION'
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of it as out of any gasoline ever
made."
In Germany fuel alcohol is made
largely from potatoes. The starchy
substance of potatoes Is very easily
and cheaply converted Into alcohol.
All that is necessary is a tin or copper
"still" a "worm" and condensing tank
and a few barrels for vats. Any
farmer can make It as easily as he
can cider.
But of course with a large demand
great alcohol distilleries have been
established. Fuel alcohol is made
from entirely different products than
ethyl alcohol which is used in liquors.
That Is made largely from barley
wheat and maize and is necessarily
an expensive product. In making fuel
alcohol all sorts of waste products
can be used frozen potatoes corn-
stalks shavings and sawdust. The
waste heaps around every sawmill in
the country can be profitably utilized
if a universal demand for fuel alcohol
be created by the removal of the duty.
Sugar beets are easily made into al
cohol. It Is possible that the waning
sugar beet Industry of the West may
be revived when the alcohol tax is
removed and the sugar-making plants
turned into distilleries for making
fuel alcohol. There Is no limit to the
ways In which alcohol can be pro-
duced if only there be a great enough
demand to consume it. It is a thing
that can never be monopolized like
oil and gasoline.
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Modern EcientMc processes fcr the
manufacture of alcohol and the de-
maud created for it by automobiles
promise to make fuel alcohol distilling
one of the gieat Industries of this
country. Prospects are bright' for
making this new fuel available. This
means that another great step will be
taken toward bringing the advantages
of the auto nge to every class of peo-
ple. Boston Herald.
THOUGHT NEWTON WAS CRAZY.
He Was Using Soap Bubbles to Study
Light Refraction.
When Sir Isaac Newton went to live
in Leicester place his next-door
neighbor was a widow who was much
puzzled by the little she had observed
of the philosopher.
One of the fellows of the Royal so-
ciety of London called upon her one
day when among other domestic
news she mentioned that someone
had come to reside in the adjoining
house who she felt certain was a
poor cri.'y gentleman "because" she
continued "he diverts himself in the
oddest ways imaginable.
"Every morning when the sun
shines so brightly that we are obliged
to draw the window blinds he takes
his seat In front of a tub of soapsuds
and occupies himself for hours low-
ing soap-bubbles through a common
clay pipe and intently watches them
till they burst. He is doubtless now
at his favorite amusement" she add-
ed; "do come and look at him."
The gentleman smiled and then
went upstairs when after looking
through into the adjoining yard he
turned round and said:
"My dear madam the person whom
you suppose to be a poor lunatic is no
other than the great Sir Isaac Newton
studying tho refraction of light upon
thin plates a phenomenon which is
beautifully exhibited upon the surface
of a common soap-bubble."
TOO MUCH FOR AUDIENCE.
Simple Incident That Changed Pathos
Into Comedy.
Mrs. Brown-Potter the actress had
a ludicrous experience while touring
South Africa some time ago. The play
was "Frou-Frou" In the course of it
Mrs. Potter as Gilberte. has to nre-
sent their child to her husband who is
just returning after a long absence.- It
was impossible to carry a child about
with the company so it was customary
to rely on picking one up at the dif-
ferent towns along the route. One day
the child who had been engaged for
the part was ill at rehearsal time and
one of the enniployes of the theater
went to the manager and said:
"I can find a child for to-night sir."
Just before going on with the child
Mrs. Potter had to make a nuiek
change of costume and hurrying out
to the wings heard ber cue. Seeing a
child standing there she caught its
hand and led it on to the stage.
"Is this our child?" said the hus-
band. "Our child!" answered Gilberte in a
transport of maternal pride. That
night the words which usually caused
a thrill of emotion onlv nrovoked
laughter and Mrs. Potter glancing at
the child saw it was a coal black ne-
gro. The curtain fell nrematurelv. and
for the rest of the evening the effect
of the play was ruined. New York
Times.
Bait Out for an Airing.
The Insurance men were exchanging
vacation reminiscences down in Cedar
street.
"The pleasantest sight 1 saw on the
St. Lawrence while I was up there"
said the red-faced man "was an old
fisherman we passed one day in the
canoes smoking his pipe and with rod
out anxiously awaiting results.
'What d'ye fish with.' asked our
guide as we passed.
"'Frogs of course' said the lone
fisherman calmly.
"The guide broke out in a loud guf-
faw. And just then I couldn't see
why. Then he pointed to a big log
that lay in the stream a little distance
away from the fisherman. He had
neglected to weight his line sufficient-
ly to keep the bait down and the frog
had come to the surface on the other
side of One of the logs leaped on It
and sat there comfortably blinking in
the sunlight.
"Two hours later we returned. The
frog was still there and the old fisher-
man smoked on in blissful Ignorance
of the situation.
"I wish we could take poor results
as cheerfully as that old chap up on
the St. Lawrence" New York Sun.
A Confession.
Do you remember Utile wife.
How years ago we two tonether
Saw nnuRlit but love Illumine life
In sunny da'3 or winter weather?
Do you remember how we two
Would stare Into each other's eyes.
Till nil the earth grew heuvenlv blue.
And ppeeih was lost in happy sighs?
Do yo another thins recall.
That Usui to hupuen often then;
How. simply passing in the hall.
We'd stop to smile and kiss again?
Do you remember how I sat
Ami. refilling held our hand in mine
Caressing it with entle pat
Onu pat for every blessed line?
Do you recall while at the play
Thitmnh hours of assony we tarried?
The lovers' griefs brought us Uismav;
Vh we rejoiced when thev were mar-
ried. Ah. me. 'twas years and yeats ago
When all this happened that 1 sing
Anil many a time the winter snow
lias slipped from olive slopes of spring.
And now 1; nonsense! let us tell;
A lis for laiitfh of maids or men;
You'll hide your blushes'' I'll not. Well-
Were ten times worse than we were
then.
. J. Henderson In Century.
Puzzle for French War Office.
A singularly rare case under the
law of universal military service is
now engaging the attention of the
French war office and of the public
it is that of three triplet brothers
among them the mainstay of a very
poor family of eight other children
and "their mother who are swept at
one stroke from the workshop to tho
barracks. One is a mason one a
paintt- and one an agricultural labor-
er. Another point arises as to which
should bo exempt if lesal excuse is
cxtendsd to any. Even their own
mother is ignorant which of the three
saw daylight first and It Is quite im-
possible to say which is the eldest
and which is the youngest.
HAD HEART OF GOLD
INCIDENT IN LIFE OF "STONE-
WALL" JACKSON.
Sent as Constable tc Levy on Prop-
erty of Poor Widow Future Great
Soldier Found Himself Unequal to
the Task Threw Up Commission.
Thomas J. Jackson "Stone-wall"
has crossed over the true river thai
needs no rain to keep it flowing; is
resting under the trees whose shade
never falls for their leaves never fall
but the God of Battles alone knows
how many aching hearts and tear-wet
faces his victories made says a
writer in the Los Angeles Times. The
failures successively of Gibson But-
cher and Johnson Camden at the ex
amination for admission to West
Point made him famous Lee's "right
arm."
Alex McLaln who hunted and fish-
ed danced and sang went to corn-
huskings apple-peelings aud quiltings
with him; cleared land rolled logs
cut brush and grubbed with him when
ns a constable he failed to do his
official but nobly discharged his God-
given duty.
"Tom" had an execution against a
widow whose husband had left her In
debt. A debtor could by Virginia law
be imprisoned and as late as 1849
there could be seen in the Lewis
county "debtors' prison" at Weston a
gray-haired man barred In shut away
from home and God's sunshine be-
cause an Old Dominion Shylock must
have his "pound of flesh." That man's
face at the grated window a man clad
In threadbare black made one
schoolboy sad and though fifty-five
years have passed memory refuses to
blot out the piteous picture.
Under the law one could take the
widow's mite her bed her babe's
cradle.
To the widow of this man were left
three tow-headed little ones two
cows a split-shingled puncheon-
floored stick-and-mud chimney cabin
in the woods in a clearing made by
the husband's and wife's hands.
As they followed the path to that
lonely cabin under giant oaks pop-
lars and hickories McLain said Tom
was as wordless as 4 clam and when
the wooden-hinged door opened fot
them at the table on a slab bench
sat the widowed woman with hei
three fatherless little ones eating
mush with milk warm from the cows
which she thought from his coming
she had milked for the last time. She
rose and greeted him as best she
could but he with head down stern-
faced lips tightly closed made no
answer. He had a widowed mother
and he had heard the wolf howl at
her door. Again the trembling widow
spoke: "Tom I know what you hav
come for my cows; with them I can
feed myself and babies; without them
we must st'rve!"
Then the official died and the man
Tom spoke spoke McLain said as if
he wanted to tear to pieces her re
lentless creditors: "Yes I came for
your cows for the infernal law madf
me come but it can't make me take
them." He went back to his Uncle
Cummins's mad from center to cir-
cumference threw up his commission
and was only pacified by a purse be
ing made up that paid off the execu-
tion. Iffarble Bible of Burma.
Great as has been the amount of la
bor expended on the various Bibles
of the world the palm for execution
must be given to the Kutho-daw
which Is a Euddhist monument neai
Mandalay in Burma. It consists of
about 700 temples each containing a
slab .of 'white marble on which the
whole of this Buddhist Bible contain-
ing over 8000000 syllables has been
engraved. The Burmese alphabet is
used but the language is Pali.. This
wonderful Bible is absolutely unique
The Kutho-daw was erected in 1S57
by Mindon-min the last king but one
of. Burma. The vast collection oi
temples together form a square with
a dominating temple in the center.
Each of the marble slabs on which
the sacred text is inscribed is sur-
mounted by an ornamental canopy In
pagoda form.
The Threshold.
For a hundred years or more
1 have guarded well this door.
If in times of peace and ipiiet
Or in days of war and riot.
Never failing In my duty.
Whether fashion wealth or beauty
Ruled this house or poverty
Walked in squalor over me
I stood watch and now. alone
I remain a wornout atone.
Many winters' silent snow.
Many summers' heated glow
Came and went and In their pride
flenerntions grew and died.
yuv them play and love and slave
Paw them ijo that passid me o'er
(?o where others went before;
i:ut foi gotten and alone.
1 remain a wornout stone.
Nov. the house Is bare of life.
No more sorrow joy or strife
Keho from each gloomy wall.
For the house is doomed to fall
loomed to fall as ail things must.
That are raised of earth and dust;
Fall as age must e'er give wav
So that youth must have Its day-
Have its day. for mine is done
See. 1 am a broken stone!
K. D. Tittmann. in New York Times.
It Wasn't the Sermon.
A young preacher in an uptown
church was much struck last Sunday
by the .seeming effect his sermon was
having upon one of his congregation
a shabby-genteel man with white hair
who during the entire discourse sat
with head bowed in deeply reverent at
titude. After the service the minis
ter pushed his way to the man aud
proudly said:
"I an glad to note that my sermon
affected you. Did it make you see the
error of your ways?"
"O it wasn't that" said the man
sheepishly. "You see my waistcoat is
too short and I had to bend over to
hide my shirt." New Y'ork Sun.
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And Both 'Object to His Lying Abed.
Johnny I wish my folks would
agree upon one '.hlng and not keep me
all the time in a worry.
Tommy What have they been do-
ing now?
Johnny Mother won't let me stand
on my head and dad is all the time
fussing because I wear my shoes out
so fast. Stray Stories.
Why Josh Shaved.
Zeke How did Josh come to get
them whiskers shaved off what he has
worn for nigh onto SO years?
Zack Waal as I understand his
children are all growed up now an'
ther ain't no danger of his face skeer-
in' 'em to death. Chicago Journal.
All He Wanted.
Mama Isn't that a beautiful toy
boat?
Johnny Yep an' if I only had an-
other one I could have a collision.
A Phenomenon.
"Your husband ain't very industri-
ous is he?" said the woman who was
sitting in the sleigh In front of the
village store.
"Well" answered the woman in the
spring wagon "sometimes he is an'
.sometimes he ain't. He'll travel for
miles and miles with a shotgun on his
ishoulder but he can't walk a hun-
dred yards with an armful of wood."
Then He Was Fired.
Employer Haven't you anything
better to do than to sit at the tele-
phone tailing up girls all the time?
Employe Well you see I used to
be a street car conductor.
Employer What's that got to do
with it?
Employe And I got into the habit
of ringing up the fair.
Dirt Cheap.
They tell this in Brooklyn and are
unashamed.
An old lady got up in a Fulton street
pr?er meeting and gave her testi-
taony. "I praise thee. Lord that I am a
Christian" she said. "I've lived in
Brooklyn for twenty years and my re-
ligion has only cost me 35 cents."
New Yorit Sun.
He Wanted to Know.
"About 3 o'clock this morning" said
the doctor "my night bell rang and
when I inquired what was wanted a
!nan on the stoop asked:
" 'Can you inform me if the doctor
next door makes night calls? I have
been ringing his bell for ten minutes
but no one answers.' "
A Slight Change. -
Miller I say old chap does your
wife still call you by the sweet names
she used to?
Farmer Oh yes that Is to say
with some slight variations. Instead
of "honey" for example she now uses
the kindred term "old beeswax."
Boston Transcript.
Cold Weather for It.
JOG
Ida This story says the
heroine
el.
she had
was wrapped up in a dime nov
May Goodness! Is that all
to wear?
Working on Bumps.
"Is you husband at home madam?"
asked the caller at the door.
"Sure and he's not" said the big
red-faced woman who had opened the
door.
"You see madam I am a traveling
phrenologist and I'd like to examine
the bumps on your husband's head."
"You're too late. We did have a bit
of an argument this morning and my
husband's gone down to the doctor's
to have him examine them." Yonkers
Statesman.
Impartial.
Yeast You say the quartet got
four encores?
Crimsonbeak Yes; you see the au-
dience wanted to be perfectly impar-
tial so they gave one for each
man.
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