Soft Coal as Source
of Future Gasoline
Pittsburgh.—The waning petroleum
supply of the country may be supple
mented to a great extent, according to
Charles 11. Fettke, associate professor
. of geology and mineralogy at Carnegie
Institute of Technology, by taking the
enormous cpiantities of bituminous coal
now being burned in the raw state for
9team-ra»iug purposes and domestic
use and subjecting it to low-tempera
ture carbonization. Professor Fettke
set forth this idea in the course of an
aedress to the institute students.
This process, he said, will produce a
fuel that is in many respects superior
to raw coal; the smoke nuisances o
cities will be abated, and valuable by
products will be recovered, which wil!
aid greatly in effecting a petroleum
supply that is being rapidly depleted.
Professor Fettke emphasized the
warning that the known reserves of pe
troleum are being so rapidly reduced
that one of the problems to be faced
within the next decade or two will be
to lind substitutes, in continually grow
ing amounts, for the products now ob
tained from them.
“The distillation of oil from oil
shales, another important source of
supply, will be restricted to those re
gions where enormous quantities of
the shales are found,” said Professor
Fettke. “Where bituminous coal is
found in larger quantities than shale
it will be more economical to coniine
the business of oil distillation to coal.
“With the growing shortage of nat
ural gas and anthracite coal and their
consequent increase in price, other
sources of domestic *coal must come
more and more into use. One of these
undoubtedly will be the low-tempera
ture coke. Tho low-temperature cai
bouizatioD of coal in this respect tv !1
have the advantage of the oil shale in
dustry. It will yield a valuable fuel as
a residue, while the spent shale from
the latter has little or no economic
value, but means will have to be p -o
• vided for its disposal.
“Do you know why you have so little
money?” the soap box orator demand
, ed.
“Yep; it’s because we waste so much
ti me listening to fool talk when we
should be working,” responded the
ti,rmin whose brain was beginning to
r function. __
There was a young flapper named
Stella,
Fell in love with a bow-legged folia,
But the silly young flap
Tried to sit, on his lap,
And she tumbled right through to the
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Disillusioned.
Congressman Blimp never awakened
At a quarter past two b.v the clock.
To water the cows and to polish the
plows
And hustle down hav for the stock.
He might know a pig when he saw one.
But he’d pale if Lite creature should
squeal;
And he never has had as a homespun
el ad lad
To give it. first aid at a meal,
lie practices iaw for a living,
But he joins in congressional strife,
And hollers so loud wit i the f rrner
bloc crowd,
You’d think he had farmed all his
life.
Senator Gimp sets the fashion
For clothes at the embassy hops;
He never arose from a soft dawulight
doze
To ration the chickens with slops
When the frost glistened white on the
pu mpki.a,
And the farmers were butchering
pork,
This statesman cruised round in a
yacht ou the sound.
Or took in the shops in New Yor!;,
He is >ss of a bank in the city,
But you’d think there was hoy in his
hair
When he talks of the charm of the
glorious farm,
And the men who are toiling out
there!
1 fancied the farmer bit ; statesmen
Were clad in suspenders and jeans,
And calloused by toil in persuading the
toil
To yield more alfalfa and beans!
I fancied they all were acquainted
With th ■ things I once h d to do,
Giving horses the oats and ear corn to
the shoats,
Every morning at quarter past two
But I find I was sadly mistaken;
They are farmers while under the
dome,
And they talk about seed and mixed
ensilage feed—
But they’re lawyers aud bankers at
home! —Ex.
Doctor Cats Throat,
Inserts Tube, Brings
Back Lost Respiration
New York —Only Lazarus ami 'per
haps a few other chosen ones have had
the novel experience of dying aud
being brought back t.o life.
Llut little Minnie Lifhitz, 22-year-old '
New York girl, nas been literally re-!
i i"ucd from the grasp of death.
Respiration had ceased as a result of i
influenza. A phy.;icfan cut a slit in
her throat, inserted a tube in the wind-;
pipe, and breathed his own breath into ;
the lungs until life appeared.
Now the patient is reported slowly]
recovering at a local hospital.
Four days after the operation Min
nie waked to consciousness to find her
troubles not buried in the grave but
increased manv-fold. She was stone
b'ind and the power of spee d) had de
serted her. Both catastrophes were1
due to a post-influenza inflammation
affecting the visual and vocal regions
of the brain. Doctors fear this inflam
mation may spread bo nerves control
ling the sense of smell and the sense of
hearing.
But Minnie will get wall; the doctors
think, becausejjsho wants to so much.
She wants to live, to be her own jolly
self once more. Already the first steps
toward recuperation have been taken,
and probably only a few weeks will be
necessary to put the girl on her feet.
The vision is clearing, a few words
have been spoken, and foreseen addi
tional troubles may never materialize.
These are the optimistic signs which
doctors hope will have their mental
effect on the young patient.
The first test came yesterday, when
the attending physician first removed
the tube from Minnie’s throat. It was
an experiment that succeeded. For 20
minutes she breathed normally, her
chest rising and falling as it did be
fore her illness. Then the tube was
reinserted so as not to break the deli
cate membranes which had already
healed.
The tube will be taken out every day
to exercise th<- lungs and, what is al
most us important, to allow the girl to
practice the lost art of speech.
Another distinct improvement is the
manner oi eating. For eleven long
days Minnie v. a ; sustained by liquid
tood poured down the tube. Now she
Is able to take nourishment from a
wine glass.
' .'in going to get well,” Minnie
whispered to attendants today; ”1 know
T am. J want to live.”
And doctors are confident she will.
‘‘You say you served in France?”
tskud the i ‘st . runt proprietor, as he I
sampled the n n unit’s soup.
“Yes, sir, ( dicers' cook for two years
and wounded twice.”
“You’re lucky, man, Tt’s a wonder
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V Ikev could not. learn to subtract, sc
the teacher put this practical problem
to him:
■'If Tkey had eight ner.nies and lost
three of them, how many pennies would
Ikey have left?”
“For why should Tkey lose three
pennies?” came back the prompt reply.
Bellhop (after guest has rung for ton
minutes)—Did you ring, sir?
Guest—Hell, no! I was tolling; I
thought you were dead.
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