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Show PETROLEUM FOR SOUP. Eockpfeller's Chemist to -Convert Gasoline Into Food. XEW YORK. Fob. 12. AVon't somebody please burn a little kerosene oil, Just to keep John D. Rockefeller ln good iiplr-Its? iiplr-Its? TljIs'haB. been a hardluck winter for the Standard Oil company. In October, when cold weather was coming on, the nights were growing long and the season was at hand when tho people tihould be getting oil stoves and lighting lamps earlier. ear-lier. Kerosene drummers began to report re-port that things were not looking as bright as they should, and tho price of oil was reduced half a cent a gallon. Thanksgiving enme, but still the people were not burning enough oil to suit the Rockefellers, and tho price was reduced another half cent a gallon. In January a third reduction of half a cent a gallon was made. Still the people would not buv. Even the servants quit lighting the kitchen fires with kerosene, according accord-ing to reports of Insurance companies. It Is said to havo coat the Standard Oil company to date this winter about Jl.000.000 ln Us vain endeavor to coax the public to burn more kerosene. ' It Is rumored now that a further and final reduction In the price would be made this month and thnt a book of prices showing how kerosene may bo used ln cooking as a sort of flavoring extract or something of that kind .would bo issued. Mr. Rockefeller's chemists have shown great Ingenuity In utilizing tho by-products of petroleum and they are now said to be bending their energies to tho discovery dis-covery of a way for converting gasoline Into rich soups as a palatable substltuto for the ordinary breakfast foods. |