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Show Smokeless Fireplace. Next to the man who invented or discovered dis-covered fire, the greatest benefactor of the human race will be the man who abolishes smoke. Nothing else will so change the conditions of life in our great cities. Without saying that this result is already at hand, a great step toward to-ward it i3 made by the new invention in fireplaces. By this system a fire can undoubtedly be produced without smoke, and though at present a special fireplace must be employed for the purpose pur-pose there is no reason why every one who hencef vJiwits up a kitchen range a fu JJl,i.LeJL,J)jjot have a smokeless smoke-less one. I expect to"see the time? when every householder as well as every manufacturer man-ufacturer will be compelled to consume his own smoke. In the meantime, however, how-ever, there is the strongest inducement, short of compulsion, for doing so, for the system, like all which are based on perfecting the combustion of the fnel, gives a largely increased heat for a reduced re-duced consumption of coal, London Truth. |