Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1910 — Laborer’s Fireless Stove. [ARTICLE]

Laborer’s Fireless Stove.

“Well, I think I’ll heat the coffee for dinner,” said a big laborer on one of the many buildings now being constructed in Chelsea a few minutes before noon the other day. And he proceeded to do so without the aid of fire or even the use of a match. He took his bottle from his handbag and with it went over to the wooden cpntrlvance in which mortar was mixed. He put about half a shovelful of sand in a corner of the mortar bed, having previously scraped that part of the bed dry and clean. Then this laborer took a piece of lime about as large as his two fists. He pushed the lump of lime down into the yielding sand, put his bottle standing upright on the lime, banked up the bottle with sand to hold it in position and was ready for the important part of the job. Dipping about a pint of water from a cask near by the laborer poured It on the mounded sand easily, allowing it to percolate through the coarse grains. Cutting on a little more sand to hold the bottle la Its upright position he went back to his work. In ten minutes the noon whistle blew and this laborer went to his flreless heater, took from it his tea boiling hot in a bot.tlo that had at no time been In danger cf breaking from the heat and proceeded to enjoy his homely but hearty meal, all unconscious that he had performed a very interesting experiment in nature’s chemistry.— TUtttnn H«nU