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Doisons From the Deep In '"Demand ; By Wood Hutchinson, M. D. CONFIRMED landlubber as we have ; become, w have ne oeen able ,; to; get very far Inland after all. A moat we have only become a aort of horse-marines, and our very blood - still - tastes salty.. To paraphrase Wordsworth: '" :V ' ?. tho Inland far we be, " In aeaaona of fair weather Qur cells have sight of that great sea , That brought us hither." vThat is why the first glimpse of the blue and silvery gleam of the open sea , over the far hills or the first sniff of . Its salt spray thrills M so. : " But Our memories of the deep' sea are not all friendly and pleasant Deadly perils lurk there as well, and ! some of1 these we have conjured up - from Its waters and brought on tihore : .'with us. Sea water was from the beginning . -. our principal source of table salt, and It was early found that In the process i , of its crude manufacture there was produced a curious residue, or mother ! liquor, of a dark brown color and even i ' darker brown taste and smell bitter, j -' pungent and nauseous to the last de- free. , ' If this bitter sea broth were allowed . to 'stick to the bottom of the kettle : 4. and burn, fiercely choking an 1 Irrltat ;. lng vapors would be given off which ' set. everybody In the neighborhood sneeslng and coughing at once. , One day an inquisitive forefather of chemistry came noslojr about the sal: kettles, took some of this brown , liquor, put It in a retort and proceeded 'to take It to pieces to see wiat made It tick or rather smell. II found that the gas of such evil Odor was made of two parts one of a brown color with purplish light around , the edges, the other a light, yellowish k green vapor both of them equally suffocating and poisonous. The dark brown gas, apparently because it was nearest the color of sin and his sa tanlc majesty, he loaded with the whole blame for the offensive odor ' and vailed It bromine. i The other, which was Just as abomi ' liable to smell and as poisopous to j breathe, got off easy on account of Its lighter color and had no worse epitaph v' wished on It than the rather rauslcal - ai d picturesque name of chlorine, which In Greek merely means yellow, or yellowish green. Neither of these 'spirits from the i vasty deep, needs further Introduction to a modern audience other than to say that from the malc combinations i of -the dark sister with silver, plati num and other metals have oome most ' - of the triumphs of photography, "bro ' mide" prints; the well' known nerve sedative, bromide of potassium, and Gelett Burgess' famous epithet, "Don't ; be a .bromide." -, "While from the Ugtfit green gas have v .come chloride of lime, chloroform. , 'Chloral, chlorodyne, chloretone, hydro- chloria acid. In fact, .lmost everything 'with cnio in us name except chlorophyll, the green coloring matter ' of the vegetable world, which derives ' lta name from the same Greek root "j ' For some time after their discovery ' ..the services of both these Bea Kelpies ; went more or less abegglng, they were K,mo Irritating and poisonous in pure fornv that there appeared no useful ' work' to which they could be put. , A few attempts were made to utilize tbem as disinfectants and insect klll ra and vermin destroyers in houses and ahlps and warehouses, but their v . choking and offensive fumes were bo dlsarreeable and clune about bulldlnea , Or fabrics so long afttrward that they never won much practical favor. In fact, as pure gases they remained a lit :: -"tie more than abstract facts of sci , enee, chemical curlostlties. But one shameful day a cold-blooded scientific war began to be planned and casting about In the infernos of the f laboratory for some new way of mur dering men wholesale these two gases were stumbled upon. They were near ' ly Ideal for the purpose, so fiercely ..torturing and choking as to disable an . 'enemy almost at the first whiff and so . deadly poisonous as to almost Insure bla death afterward in lingering agony. But what is even more important from the point of view of economic butchery and wholesale slaughter, they were extremely cheap and accessible, aa they could be made out of either ea- water or common salt. The principal element in the now world-famous poison gas of the 1 trenches Is chlorine, because this gas " is present in and can be extracted from sea water In large amounts or .' made directly from common salt v (chloride of sodium.) But tf& the darker gas. bromide, is even '.more Irritating and poisonous. though more expensive and scarcer, it baa apparently been combined with the -' chlorine in some instances, so far a questions of expense wl admit. This la what is nenevea to nave given to 'the fumes, of the poison gas the deep . orange-yellow color described by many observers, as chlorine alone Is of a Itght greenish-yellow, scarcely darksr and not much denser than wood smoke. But as the precise composition of this devil's brew Is kept a military secret, . U Is not possible to say exactly what combination of these two or of other j?oiaonoue gases It consists of. Soldiers of Germany - Subscribe to Loans Company la Bavarian Xegtmeat at Er - laager, "Which Holds Becord, Has Ooatrtbifted Over 180,000. Berlin. May .(!. N. S.) The sub scription of the German soldiers in ' the , field and at home for the war . loans amount to more than $500,000, 00. There is not a company in the entire army that has not given a large amount to finance the struggle. i The record for subscriptions is held by the First company of the reserve oaiiaiion ox me aixm Bavarian iano webr. regiment at Brlangen. For the first loan the members of the com pany subscribed 115,300, for the sec ond 117,100, for the third. $18,900, and tor the fourth 128.650. DEAR STORV LADY: You have not told us a story from the Bible in a long time. Will you please tell us one? We like 'all your stories very much, and thank you for them. From JOSEPH AND MARTHA BARROWS. By GEORGENE FAULKNER. ONG, long ago there lived a good man named Noah. Now, Noah loved God and he and all of his family obeyed the commands of God. But ' there were many wicked peopie who would not listen to the voice of God, nor would they obey his laws. So 'God commanded Noah to build a great boat or ark. God said tharthis ark must be built of very strong gopher wood and must be lined inside and out with pitch, so that it would not leak. It was tovbe very large, three stories high and have rooms in it and a window and a large door in the sde of it. God told Noah that when the ark was finished he should take his wife and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, and their wives and two of every kind of living creature two of every kind of beast, two of every kind of bird and fowl of the air and all creeping things and insects that are upon the earth and take in food enough to keep them for a long, long time. For God said that he should send a mighty flood over all the land to destroy all of the wicked people. Then Noah did as the Lord commanded him, and while he built the ark he preached to the wicked people about God, and told them to repent of their sins or they would all be destroyed, but they would not heed his words of warning. .-When the great ark was finished, Noah messenger to show him that the waters brought his wife and his sons and their were going down, and that the trees ' were! wives and all the beasts and th birds anfl .putting; forth their leaves. insects into the ark with him, and when And Noah waited another seven days and they were all safely inside, God closed the sent out the dove again, and this time she! doof of the ark and shut them in. did nojt return. Then Noah knew that the After seven days the rain came down in had found a pleasant place to roost, and sd torrents for 40 days and for 40 nights. The he knew that the waters had tone down Bible says that "the fountains of the great and that the earth was dry once more. Got! deep were broken up and the windows of kept the dove from going back to Noah fc heaven were opened." that Noah would know that it was almost Then all the springs and rivers and the time to leave the ark. And when Noah great ocean began to rise up and overflow looked out of the aik, he saw that the the land and the water covered even the ground was hard and dry. highest mountain peaks. And all the wicked people were punished for their sins and were destroyed in the terrible flood, and only Noah and his family and those who were in the ark were saved. And the waters covered the earth for Then Noah sent out another time he bird to see if he could find out how much the water had gone down, and this sent out a dove, but the dove did not find a place to rest. Then God spoke to Noah and said "Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy.wlf and thy sons and their wives, and brind forth with thee every living thing that J with thee all the beasts, the birds anil fowls and all the creeping things that are 150 days. Then the waters went down, so in the ark, and let them live upon thi that the ark rested on the top of a moun- earth again. So Noah broughtout every Hv tain called Ararat, and there it stood on the ing thing from the ark, and Noah was sd top of the mountain for more than two thankful to God for sparing their lives tha; months. he built an altar and offered up a burnt Of The water went down lower and Iowr fenng of some of the animals and birds each day, and the rain ceased and other And Noah and his family went down 6 mountain peaks could be seen above the their knees and prayed to God and thankeJ flood. And at the end of 40 days Noah Him for saving them from the flood. opened the window, which he had made in "" the ark, and he sent forth a raven. A Scenario Right There. Then Noah sent out another bird to see From Judge. it he could tina out how much the water "The silent drama," said little sistefl had gone down, and this time he sent out reading the dramatic notes. "What's th a dove, but the dove did not'Tind a place silent drama?" to rest, and as she could find no trees in . "Aw," said brother, "that's when Pa I which to live, she came flying back to the sneaking in from the club at 2 a. m. in h window of the ark, and Noah put out his stocking feet with his shoes in his han hand and took her back into the ark. and Ma is waiting in the dark at the to of the stairs ready to whale him over th And Noah waited patiently for seven head with a curtain pole." days more and again he opened the window " : and let the dove fly away. All day long Difference of the SeXeS. the dove flew about and in the evening she from the Detroit News. came tiying back with an olive leaf, held The powder puff is upheld by suffragf tightly in her beak. When Noah saw this leaders as an "aid to salvation." A shinin - - .. .. olive leaf, which the dove had plucked from nose is a handicap to the cause, they saj a tree, he was very thankftH, for he knew 'Yet, men .patiently put up with bald heacl that God had sent her with the leaf, as a that gleam and glisten. PICTURE WIZARDRY titieand PtcTum atmsoTivs ALL RIGHTS JlESaVU II I - A 17 "I v 1 II II I A I 1.1 " J I A I l.w.m I VN c By CHARLES A. OGDEN L-ulvi Literally Has trie Laugh, on the Horse ancY Its Rider ran Jp T do you 7 ( ' j suppose I ( J II smiling J J) like this? Well, well add a few lines and some shadirg toyLulus picture and: see. No'wonder Lulu, smiles Just 'sea? thegent enjoying - his - afternoon Nride. 1 A Little (but Qiite Enough) Unnatural Histbry l Missing Soldier Is - V Heir to Big Fortune arir i,ooo,ooo x x.ft by huh- . factor to Vapbaw Who Xa Bup- poaad to Ba BuavlaA rrlionat " 'C Munich, May-. 6. A. wealthy manu , - faoturar of Augsburg; who dled-re-' cntly' has left hifSrtune of nearly ? 91,000,000 to his nephew, a Bavarian fioldler who foua-ht- on th .'eastern 'front and han been missing since last : September. It Is supposed, the young man Was taken prisoner . "by the R0s ians,at all efforts Jma4 to locate him - with the aid of the Red , Cross -ve been without, result, r ... gp n ri r- I'jgjl lljPlfr- zz " " iz (" I Sr I Q pSl 11 J I 1 siwwsw (fw the 1 1 Ty ?ieS kddn l-l M' 1 addS I I 0 kcKlj Kf 1 II llfl 7 ill II' 'I" nil itr-iik JL fill ! I A The Maielou Enterta Th JfflQOTwms. hen rnarvpU of ,pncry.yruj now rxsnceal them-. How, if v atU just a few lines . in this .manner; t-W3 see that i3wr next itrritationria that of a dtf. Cert&mly lifelike I r Just ty ain afow more lines lika this: '- rjve see, that their next offering is a cow. .The T"boys are clever I Then by adding some more pen strokes this vray and sane shading , , -v JAa MnArs nru V Jmdo rem ?i TH15 comvSas th ptfTforrnancc Vve thank,botfi of, you tor your kind attention ; ;
