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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26, 1921 
GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM 
The Perfect Liniment 
For External Use on 
The Human Body 
It is astonishing how quickly 
Caustic Balsam relieves Stiffness 
and Lameness, Rheumatism, Neu¬ 
ralgia, Strains, Sprains, Lumbago, 
Backache, Sore Throat, Chest Cold, 
Stiff Joints, etc. 
Serious results through Blood 
Poisoning are liable from scratches, 
cuts or wounds from rusty nails 
or other metal. This great rem¬ 
edy applied at once will prove a 
preventive, is a perfect antiseptic, 
soothes while it heals. What it 
has done for others it will do for 
you. 
rite us _for any information de¬ 
sired. $1.50 per bottle at druggists 
or sent parcel poet on receipt of price. 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLI AMS CO. 
Cleveland, Ohio 
(P-JAA— 1 will give $100 for a set of 
dishes—pale blue pagoda pat- 
■ tern on white background. 
Made about 90 years ago in England. 
Am no collector, but want to find this pat¬ 
tern to duplicate a set my father used to 
have. 
Will pay $25 for information leading to the 
purchase of such a set. P. O. Box 377, 
Providence, R. I, 
0, rr ,|, OF SLIGHTLY HAM AGED GROCKEKY 
UdllUlo Hotel Cliinnware, Cooklngware, A)ttiuinuniwiir«, etc. 
shipped direct from factory to consumer. Write us 
for particulars. E. SWASEY & CO., Portland.Maine 
Women Agents chip soap f d S. y f,o t “ 
w consumer, New Plan. You 
sell, we deliver and collect directly from consumer. 
Agents'samples free. Dept.X, Roe Company, Homer, N.Y; 
For Sale-Wrought Black Pipe 
used, 1" and larger: straight with new threads and 
couplings. Largo stock boiler tubes. Pipe cut to speci¬ 
fications. PFAFF S KENDALL, Foundry Place, Newark, N. J. 
Why Not Take Orders For Our Wool Batts 
at your Church Fairs! They make tine Christmas Gills. 
Agents wanted. 5HARTZ-NEWT0N WOOLEN CO..Dept. M, Homer, N.r. 
The Farmer His 
Own Builder 
By II. Armstrong Roberts 
A practical and 
handy book of all 
kinds of building 
information from 
concrete to carpen¬ 
try. Price $1.50. 
For sale by 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
Wholesale Prices 
on 
Pipe and Fittings 
Save money on all standard water 
or steam pipe and fittings. Our 
prices from 20 to 35 per cent, less 
than you pay elsewhere. 
We not only save you money on 
pipe, fittings, valves and faucets, 
but also on pulleys, belting, ma¬ 
chine tools, etc. 
Before you buy, send for our prices. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. 
SMYTH-DESPARD CO. 
801 Broad St. Utica, N. Y. 
Simple Science 
By Dr. F. D. Crane 
Building Paper 
what chemical ac- 
or roofing 
my farm are 
Whitewashing 
Can you advise me 
tion lime has on building 
paper? The buildings on 
old, and the boards have dried out. leav¬ 
ing cracks between them. My idea is to 
cover the interior of it wooden cow stable 
and a chicken-house with paper, and then 
whitewash over the paper. I wrote to 
two roofing paper manufacturers, asking 
if they guaranteed the product to wear 
when whitewashed, without obtaining the 
information. f. G. 
North Branch. N. J. 
It is impossible to say, since papers 
differ so much. But we do not think that 
there would.be any appreciable action on 
any of the good grades of paper, provided 
that you used a lot of lime in the white¬ 
wash and then let it dry quickly. After 
the whitewash is once set and dry there 
will be no action at all; the. only point 
will be to get the wash on quick anti 
thick and have rapid drying. 
Artificial Ice 
TIow is ice manufactured? 
Manlius, N. Y. 
C. L. R. 
Oil 
cleaning used 
over again 
in 
c. r. B. 
Cleaning Motor 
Is there any process for 
motor oil so it can be used 
Automobiles? 
Mohawk. N. Y. 
The first thing to do is to let it settle 
well, then filter, which should be done 
through filter paper, to be had of any 
chemical supply house or large drugstore. 
This should give a perfectly clear oil, 
though it may be dark in color. Steam 
is now blown through it for two or three 
hours, until the lighter portions are re¬ 
moved, and it is as well to add a little 
lye at this stage to hold back any acids. 
The oil is then well agitated with water 
and again allowed to settle, when it will 
be found as good as new. The process 
will not pay on a small scale, but large 
amounts of airplane oil have been thus 
reworked and found as good as or better 
than new. 
Baking Powder and Yeast 
'Would the exclusive use of baking pow¬ 
der breads instead of those made with 
yeast, be harmful to the human system? 
From the health standpoint, is it safer 
and wiser to use a high-priced rather 
than a cheap baking powder? Is there 
any reason why lye and similar products 
could be manufactured conveniently along 
with baking products? Is there anything 
which could take the place of cream of 
tartar made from grapes? j. ji. N. 
Sookc, B. C. 
No one can say for certain. The hu¬ 
man system is not one thing in every 
case, but the general experience of man¬ 
kind is that a steady diet of baking pow¬ 
der breads, etc., does not “agree” with 
the average stomach. Now someone will 
bob up and tell us that they have eaten 
the above _ every day for 57 years 
and never ill a minute. Well, let ’em 
bob. the average fellow can't do it. The 
real trouble seems to be the slight, but 
steady excess of salts. And it does not 
seem to make much difference what those 
salts are. This matter has come up sev¬ 
eral times before, and we can only re¬ 
pent what has been said ; that there does 
not seem to be much choice ‘between a lit¬ 
tle dose of phosphate and a little dose of 
Rochelle salt. Neither, at intervals, 
seems, to hurt; both, regularly, seem an 
undesirable addition to the diet. 
Lye and similar chemicals could be 
made by baking powder people or anyone 
else, if they wished, hut it is a matter of 
cost. Very few baking powder makers 
would care to try to compete with the 
makers of what are known as “heavy 
chemicals.” One well-known and very 
good powder is made by a chemical manu¬ 
facturing concern that also makes a 
large line of heavy chemicals; it has a 
number of chemical factories in various 
places, hut that is no reason why you 
should not buy their baking powder. They 
certainly do not mix lye or anything else 
with it. 
There is no other practical source of 
cream of tartar aside from grapes, but 
there have been, from time to time, sev¬ 
eral other organic acids suggested. One 
idea is to use the malic acid from “maple 
sugar sand,” which is mala'te of lime, but 
unless tartar rises quite a bit in price it 
will not pay to change. Another idea is 
to make an acid by partially burning ben¬ 
zine, but this, though a fine idea, has not 
gotten far beyond tbo experimental stage. 
If you feel fussy about the stuff you buy. 
why don’t you make your own? Cream 
of tartar is only about 35 cents a pound 
wholesale in New York, and baking soda 
less than three, and your local druggist 
ought to get them at a reasonable ad¬ 
vance. Take a pound of the tartar and 
mix it with a pound of starch, a half 
pound of the baking soda and mix an¬ 
other pound of starch, then mix the mix¬ 
tures and go ahead. You will have to ex¬ 
periment once to get the strength. The 
starch is added to keep the ingredients 
apart till you wet them in use. 
Ice is water which has less internal mo¬ 
tion than when it is liquid; consequently, 
any device which will get rid of this in¬ 
ternal motion, or heat, will let the water 
settle down and become the solid we call 
ice. A gas also has this internal motion, 
and a lot more of the motion can be re¬ 
moved before the average gas becomes 
solid than in the case of most liquids; 
that is. the average gas stays a gas even 
when it is pretty cold. Now, if you com¬ 
press a gas, squeeze it into one-half the 
volume it had when you began, you will 
have, for a short time, all the internal mo- 
lion in half the available space; that is, 
the gas will become twice as warm as it 
was. Notice, for instance, how hot a tire 
Pump gets. Now. if you cool this 
■ squeezed gas it has got rid of this excess 
motion. If you now release it, the gas 
will go just as far as it can. and very 
quickly,. and it will do this because it is 
a gas; it is made that way. But to ex¬ 
pand back to its former size it must have 
energy, heat, and it will get it from the 
surrounding universe; that is. it will 
have a cooling effect. That is the whole 
principle of all the different sorts of ice 
machines; a gas is compressed and the 
excess energy which appears is got rid 
of in some way, usually by water flowing 
over the compressor coils, and then the 
cooled, compressed gas is allowed to ex¬ 
pand, sometimes into a practical vacuum, 
which is kept a vacuum by constant 
pumping. The expanding gas must have 
energy, and it takes it from its surround¬ 
ings. 
At first the gas, usually ammonia, but 
sometimes sulphur dioxide, was expanded 
right around the water which was to be 
frozen, but there is so much trouble from 
slight leaks that it is better practice to 
expand the gas in brine tanks, and then 
pump this cold brine around the water to 
be frozen and then back to the expansion 
tank. By this device also a more even 
cooling is obtained. The water to be 
frozen is often distilled to rid it of odor 
and sediment, and when natural water is 
used it is not unusual to leave a little 
pocket unfrozen, since the impurities col¬ 
lect here, and empty this out. That ac¬ 
counts for the little hollow often seen in 
artificial ice cakes. 
Any liquid, if you can get it to boil off, 
evaporate, will use energy in doing it; 
that is. will tend to cool itself unless heat 
is supplied from without, and there is a 
scheme for making artificial ice by evap¬ 
orating a part of the water by pumping 
off the air and the water vapor as fast as 
it forms. That is, the water is sprayed 
into a high vacuum, a part evaporates, 
and the energy so used freezes the rest. 
Many tons of ice are made by this method, 
but it is all sold to large users and you 
rarely see it. That is because the en¬ 
closed air bubbles make it cloudy, and the 
general public does not think it is good 
ice. It is as good as any, but doesn’t look 
it, so it goes to large users who care 
nothing for looks and know they are get¬ 
ting as much cooling effect as with any 
other ice. 
Of late years there are several small 
devices for producing a cooling effect right 
in a refrigerator by an electric pump, and 
usually water-cooling of the compressor 
coils. They are said to work pretty well, 
but to use quite a little power, as a small 
ice machine, like many small mechanical 
devices, does not work with nearly as 
good an efficiency as the commercial sizes. 
Welding Compounds 
On page 424 C. M'. wants to know 
about welding compounds. The follow¬ 
ing compound is for welding steel : Mix 
coarsely powdered borax with a thin 
paste of prussiate blue; then let dry. 
This combination has in a number of 
eases proved superior to borax for weld¬ 
ing steel. 
Fluxes for soldering and welding iron 
or steel are borax or sal-ammoniac; 
tinned iron, rosin or chloride or zinc. 
Substitute for borax in welding, copperas. 
2 oz.; saltpeter, 1 oz. ; common salt. 6 oz.: 
black oxide of manganese, 1 oz.; prus¬ 
siate of potash. 1 oz., all pulverized and 
mixed with 3 lbs. of welding sand. High 
carbon steel can be welded with this at a 
lower heat than is required with borax. 
New York. T. s. 
ASPIRIN 
Name “Bayer” on Genuine 
Beware! Unless you see the name 
“Bayer” on package or on tablets you 
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre¬ 
scribed by physicians for twenty-one 
years and proved safe by millions. Take 
Aspirin only as told in the Bayer pack¬ 
age for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, 
Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lum¬ 
bago, and for Pain. ITaudy tin boxes of 
twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few 
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack¬ 
ages. Aspirin is the trade mark of 
Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticaeid- 
estcr of Salicylicacid. 
RETAI LERS ’ 35c QUALITY 
Coffee 
ARECO BLEND DIRECT FROM WHOLESALE ROASTER 
This delicious coffee sup- 
plied to families in 5-lb. lots ** 
or over at the wholesale Ik 
price—Bean or Ground. 
SENT PARCEL TOST PREPAID ON RECEIPT OF YOUR 
CHECK, MONEY ORDER OR CASH 
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back 
GILLIES COFFEE CO. 233-230 Washington St. 
hatahliKhoj HI Y.-nra _ New Yo rU City 
Everything About 
Cuticura Soap 
Suggests Efficiency 
TELL TOMORROW’S 
White’s Weather Prophet fore. IIF . * 
casts the weather 8 to 24 hoOrs VV I H 
advance. Not a rny h„? ^ QU1CI 
a scientifically construe- 
ted instrument working automatically. Hand¬ 
some, reliable an<J everlasting. 
An Ideal Present 
Made doubly interesting by the little figures of 
Hansel and Grctcl and the Witch, who come in 
and out to tell you what the 
weather will be. Size 
7yi; fully guaranteed. Post, 
paid to any address in U S. 
or Canada on receipt of 
Agcntt Wanted. 
$ 1.25 
DAVID WHITE, Depl 114,419 E. Water St., Milwaukee, Wii. j 
$5 EACH for’these 
wonderful WOOL 
FLANNEL Shirts at any 
store. Yet our sensa¬ 
tional price la TWO for only 
$f>.98. Heavy wool flannel, 
two larsre button down pock¬ 
ets. DOUBLE ELBOWS. 
Cut extra full and roomy. 
Not a cheap mail order shirt 
but the kind sold in best 
stores at $5 EACH or more. 
SEND NO MONEY NOW - 
, ely si 
_ - __ - Color, Khaki only. 
postal or letter NOW while this offer lasts. 
V. FRANKEL, Dept. F-511 353 Fifth Ave., N. Y. 
two shirts to a customer on this offer. 
14 to 17. Mail ] * 
Cutting Glass, Removing Rust and Re¬ 
pelling Rats 
Any hard steel tool will easily cut glass 
if it he kept moist with camphor dissolved 
in turpentine. Window glass may be 
easily sawed with a watch-spring saw if 
this solution is used. 
To remove rust from plows and other 
steel implements, rub well with sweet 'oil 
and let remain on two days, then rub 
with finely powdered unslaked lime until 
rust is removed. 
To prevent rats and mice from chewing 
a harness, add a tablespoonful of finely 
ground black pepper to the oil in which 
it is oiled. Mrs. H. vr. 
The Grimm Maple Sugar 
Making Utensils 
Write us if in need of utensils. Tell us how many 
trees you tap and we will send you our Booklet and 
quote you prices, or have one of our representa¬ 
tives see you. 
G. H. GRIMM ESTATE - Rutland, VI. 
THE 
HOPE 
FARM 
BOOK 
This attractive 234-page 
book has some of the 
best of the Hope Farm 
Man’s popular sketches— 
philosophy, humor, and 
sympathetic human touch. 
Price $1.50. For sale by 
Rural New-Yorker, 335 
W. 30th St.. New York. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New- Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal. ” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
