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Show KEROSENE VERY USEFUL Every day almost we are finding out now uses for simple things and few 'furnish bettor material than kerosene. Tho latest is that it will clean a clock perfectly. "Placo a piece of cotton saturated with kerosene in the bottom of a clock and shut it up four days." eays an exchange. "At the end of that tlmo tho cotton will be black with dirt end tho work done." A clock which had been silent for a number of years and defied the attempts of tho best machinist of the family was given the test So skeptical vvero we that it was forgotten until a week had elapsed. The cotton was not much soiled which only decreased our fait It But the clock was wound, started, and has feono merrily every since. A neighbor claimed that she gleaned one of the small clocks which have no way ot opening up the works by soaking soak-ing it In kerosene. Whether the fumes of tho lceroseno would be equally successful suc-cessful with a watch and yet not injure in-jure it in any way is yet to be seen 11 a macninc of any sort has become rumnied and need cleaning, kerosene Hill do the work quickly and thorongh-y. thorongh-y. A lubricating oil should be added iftor the, dirt Is removed. If a screw has rusted in and refuses o turn, pour a little kerosene around u t u Rtand. for a fc momenta and .1 y again. To remove machine grease from the h.nruts. wash in kerosene and then Sn Foap and warm water. Kerosene ia Kccllcnt for cleaning wash basns, bath tubs. etc. It will :ut gr,aM " Paint.-B. tP b UEC'd ParlnSly " end be- done, with it H js ,Uo lltM ' I miscbief. n.u ,lf dorrs u d -very few minutes. bt when It does U foak and then stops. Morning - V V-t tlmo to water P ZTn tub of water deep enough to , ea, h ImoFt the rlm of , pot y 'f, .U.rn. dark on top tako h V |