Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — Ashes for Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Ashes for Fuel.

He is a good thing for the fellow who is too laz—we mean too busy to take his ashes ont the back door and empty. The editor has discovered by personal experience and Christian Science that there is no such thing as ashes. There is a sort of sifting that comes from the sifting that comes from the shaking ofthe furnace grate, that is mostly coal. Don’t throw it away, it is not ashes. Mix it well with water, throw it back into the fire pot and you will get the hotest fire that ever occurred this side of the domain of that place that fries men’s souls. By this process all of your ashes, except possibly a scuttle full a week, can be converted into fuel.

The South Bend Times says the experiment was tried in that city and the mixture produced a gas or some chemical that actually burned and produced considerable heat. Try it.—Plainfield Independent.