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New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
In the Great Workshop Of Science

simple clements, chlorine and brominc But
the cloud could be seen coming in the dav-
time, the hiss of the gases escaping from
the cylinder could sometimes be heard in
the dark. In any case the first Whit was
signal to put on the gas masks and within
ten or fifteen minutes the danger had blown
over. But the new gas--which We suggest
might be named 'niobine'-gives little warn
ing at first and it hangs around longer. 1t
smells like garlic, an odor not noticeable
in the French atmosphere. But few hours
after exposure the eyes begin to blister and
the nose and lungs become inflamed, caus-
ing intense pain. A drop of the LIQUID on
the skin produces liberation. Clothing is
little protection, for the vapor goes through
A dugout or trench in which a gas she'll
has burst is uninhabitabe until it all
cvaporates.
"Ihc use of gas is contrary to The Hague
rules, but when the Germans began it OF
course their opponents had to follow suit
'The 'sneezing cases. the weeping
gases and the sleeping gases will
temporarily demoralze the troops man.
ming battery or trench without in most
cases causing death or permanent injury,
and it is easier to guard against gas by
masks than to protect from projcctics by
armor. So all the bellgerents have turned
their attention to the methods of molecular
bombardment. Our American chemists have
been working at the problem for a year
and are now able to give the enemy doses
of his own medicine--and something worse"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

with. but in my judgment (admittediy fall
llblc) 1T conduces to waste and contributes
TO make higher yet the cost Of living I,
therefore. respectfully suggest that it
should be rcscindod. # the object of it's
bclng made was the reduction of the cost
OF bread to the consumer q was no. CON
suited, so [ do not know, that object has
already :lgnally failed. Some bakers have
raised their prices. ! know Of none who
has reduced them. If the objection was
the prevention Of waste, that objection has
worse than failed, for the evil Of waste
has been acccntuatcd. The wrapped loaf
keeps fresh and sweet at least for eight
hours longer than the unwrapDed loaf. All
stale bread does rot go to waste, but q very
much larger percentage Of stale bread than
fresh does go to waste. AS the unwrappsd
bread goes stale, much new fresh breed
is bought, replacing it. The baker does not
object, but apart from the matter Of con-
scrvatlon, which is not my business, all
this costs the consumer more money.
Meanwhile, notwithstanding all our
hard earned provincial sanitary laws. the
one article necessarily and universally used
at our tables is delivered there under con-
dtions which we have been taught TO re-
gard with disquictude, ;f not with disgust.
| submit that sanitary precautions arc
worth paying for The sanitary REQUIRE
ments which surround the supply Of meat
and milk add very materially to their cost.
but these laws remain unimpairc,l Why
favor one or more species of bacteria? Let
us have them all. Why clean meat or milk,
but dirty bread? Why not dirty water as
well? Thus could We save money and con-
serve supplies. Water systems receive anti
typhoid treatment at great expense, while
a bakers driver, who happens to be a
typhoid carrier may infect a thousand
lcaves of bread day. l refrain from
imagining various other possibilities (they
come all too easily to ones mind), but in
Wow of the fact that the house fly will
soon he abroad in the land, suggest tina,
at least those who wish to purchase
wrapped bread should be at liberty to do SC,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

says Mrs. Blair, has been to dramatize to
visualize, that wonderful word-democracy
Demonstrations of voting have been held,
and almost in flash it has come to many
that each person on Election Day has one
vote and each vote has denticaly the same
value. 1t brings out wildly the fact that
we are a democracy in truth as we'll as in
name.
"For novelty and interest the class held
at the Hippodromc stands out in relief.
we did not know just how the young wom-
en- would take this innovation,' admitted
Mrs. Blair, as she rccounted the story of
the citizenship progress. AT first they were
little skeptical, but when | reached the
point in my talk where l said, "Now, we
all have something in common, no matter
what our political faith, and that is our
interest in all Legislation which tends to
benefit women and children" | found a
direct and immediate response | thought
at first that this INTEREST," was all on general
grounds, but later l learned that some of
the chorus are married and have little
folks in their homes, and the appeal had
special interest for them. 1t was the re-
sponse of the mother instinct. All the pol
itics in all the world will not Kill that in
women, despite the fears Of some Of our
reactionary frends.'"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

would be so few entries that they could be
inspected frequently and kept in a safe
condition. No explosives would be used in
mine equipped with mining and loading
machines and there would thus be no dan
ger of blowout shots which often cause
dust explosions. All accidents due to care
less handling of powder and carelessness
in shooting would be entirely eliminated.
when section is worked out it could
be closed up permanently. Thus only
small section Of the property would be
worked at time, making it easy to venti-
late and keep down the dust
I'm mine equipped with mining and
loading machines the cost will not increase
from year to year the mine is being
worked out, as is the case with the present
system. The workings will always be con-
contracted Only main haulage will become
longer, and this will not materially affect
the cost"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

at can readily be seen that an enormous
saving can be made in track and trolley
material, overcasts, freproof stoppings,
turning room necks timbcring, drainage,
ventilating equipment, locomotives, mine
cars mules, ETC.
"The crew for each machine consists of
a machine runner, helper and driver.
II the slate is heavy it may require an
extra man for handling this material. The
same class of men that make good shortwell
machine runners make good men for the
mining and loading machine.
There is less danger Of roof falling
where the mining and loading machines are
used. The machine stays in the room until
it is worked out, which is comparatively
short time, probably three to four weeks.
On account of this condition the expense
of timbering should also be decreased to
marked degree.
''In mine of the kind outlined there
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
The Worlds Tallest Stack

\ CHIMNEY that is nearly as tall as
n the Woolworth Building, and prob
ably the tallest in the world, is pictured
in "Power." 1t was recently completed
by the Tacoma Smelling Company to
height Of 572 feet 10 inches from the top
Of its concrete base. 1t is fifty feet in
diameter over all at the bottom, where
the walls are four and one-half feet
thick. The account in "Power" further
states:
at tapers to twenty-five feet outside
diameter at top, with walls seventeen inches
thick The chimney is lined and has two
inch dead air space between the lining and
walls. The concrete base is thirty-onc
feet thick, and 100000 bricks were used
in constructing the chimney. The original
contract called for 571 feet, but it was
built foot ten inches higher"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Around the World and T>acl< A6ain

eventually by hitting him gentl: but de-
cidedly over tie head with n stick
about week later we caught one of
the other cubs, little female, and exactly
the salss performance was repeated. We
Kept them n camp about two weeks, ard
their only happy moments were when cling
ing contentedly to or cuddled up upon their
mothers hide-the hide of the mother they
had eaten with so much pleasure and ap.
petite-where they would spend quiet,
peaceful hours every day. AS soon as taken
away they would cry and fight even when
taken half mile from the camp so thac
we could sleep at night, and no amount of
food and kindness was ever able to tame
them. We enaeavored many times to make
them pay some attention to the other hides
we had, but with no success whatever"
The editor of the Bulletin" appends
this note to the above:
"The most interesting feature of this un-
usual instance of bear behavior is the fail
ure of the two cubs to recognize the dead
body of their mother and their kcenness in
recognizing her furry coat
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
A Machine That Does All
Sorts of Things

4 I last machine that will cut, break
IA down and load coal-a machine to
take the place of human labor in mines
has been invented, according to "Coal
Age" Moreover, the use of this machine
decreases the cost Of entry driving,
makes mining safer and secures a nor
NAL output in a short time after min.
is opened.
This journal says:
Since 1910 systematic research work has
been carried on; experimental machinea
have been built and tested in several conl
beds in various states. This work has re-
suited in the development of machine
that performs all tho operations required
in mining coal and loading it into the pit
cars without the use Of explosives or hand
labor. One machine has beeh in practically
daily operation for two years, and addi-
tionel ones now being installed in the
same mine
From July to October, 1913, the frs.
machine of this type was operated in an
other district, driving an entry where the
roof conditions were all TINT could bo de-
sired. but all that time there no hopper
conveyor used. 1t was found that regard
less Of every effort on the part Of the me-
chine runners and the mine foremen, there
WAS an average of five minutes wasted eacN
time was changed. Nevertheless, an
output Of as much rs l20 tons per shift a.
enire hours was obtained with an aveYaCc
Of sixty tons per shift for the three months
that the machine Was operated Since that
t1mo many improvements have been made
in the machine, and the hopper conveyor
added, therefore a much larger output
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Wild Grizzly Cub Episode
in Wyoming
MEMBER Of the Zoolorical Soc


a. contributes the following to '"rhe
Geological Society Bulletin" (Now York;
Last May when ! was out bear hunting
in the Rocky Mountains one of our party
sho6 female grizzly with three cubs. We
had 10 dogs. as they are not allowed in
bear hunting i'll Wyoming, so the cubs
escaped. We skinned the mother and left
the carcass lying where ahc fell, hoping
the cubs would return OH that account, but
thougf we visited it every day, we found
no trace Of them for about three weeks
"Ihcn the weather came and the
carcass rpcncd. and the three little cubs
returned to feed upon it. We tried to rope
them several times, but they were so very
small and 50 very quick and the trees so
dense that this proved futile, but we
eventually caught in trap made out
OF box. He was quite fierce, but after
his paws were tied together and stick
and rope put through his mouth for a gag
he became fairly doclc.
lie travelled quietly on the back of
horse for several hours until as we reached
camp, he started squealng and struggling
violently, and upon being released made
dash, pulling after MIN The men who we're
holding him toward the four bear hides we
had strung on rope near the tents. Still
crying, he jumped upon that of his mother.
and clung to it with his teeth and claws
so firmly that We could only remove him
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Lagsins Russia

a
n Nations Business" for april con-
tains the following significant para
graphs:
"The mos. reliable reports that have come
out OF Russia during The last Ghrec years
tell an Interesting story about crops and
grain stocks It is not surprising story
when one considers all the circumstances
according 10 The Official Russian puhi-
cation, 'Recucil de Dennecs Statistiqucs ct
Economques,' the total Russian cereal crop
for 1912 and 1913 vas more t}an o.e-scv~
enth larger than fer the two years 1914
and 1915. In 1916 the crop was more than
onefourth smaller than the average of the
two pre-war years, 1912 and 1918. No
figures are given for 1917, but La Gazette
du Commerce ct dc lIndustric.' published
in Pctrograd by official authority. indi-
Gates plainly, IN various numbers o. jane.
july and August, 1917, that the progressive
reduction of the cereal crops noticeable in
1915 and 1916 was still more marked in
1917
This journal notes with CONSERVATION
that Of 900 600 farm machines Of all sorts
ordered from Russian factories in 1916 no
more than 1880, OF Il per cent of the
tota! needed, were supplied by the end of
May, 1917. Already in 1916 the falling Oft
OF imports OF farm machines w.s enormous.
an addition, thc cultivation Of great
abandoned because of lack Of farm labor
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
The Rolling Crutch

4 TROLLING crutch" is described in
"The New York Medical Journal"
1t is pointed out that "when a step is
taken with the common crutch, the tin
remains at fixed point on the ground
and the shoulder passes through an arc,
the radius Of which is the crutch. Thus
the shoulder rises and then falls"
A rolling crutch, then, is one designed
to make the shoulder progress forward
in an almost straight and horizontal
line:
"The rolling crutch is the ordinary crutch
to the bottom Of which thin, double fanged
iron arc from fourteen to thirty-one inches
long is attached and braeed by ona or two
quarter-inch steel rods on either side. The
curve of the metal arc is that of a circle
with a radius equal to the length of the
crutch. The arc is three quarters of an
inch in width and is covered with piece Of
non-skid bicycle tire.
"The advantages of this form of crutch
the direction of progress and not up and
down; a longer step is possible with the
same length of crutch; a more direct sup
port is given a. all stages of the step; the
arms participate directly in the whole of the
forward step; a better angle with the
ground is secured; the crutch is more Sc
care; reaching is largely eliminated, and
there is less sinking in soft earth or snow
"By means of an extra rectal handle pro-
jectine at the level Of the regular handle
the patient can make the crutch either re-
tard his progress down hill or aid going up
hill. Among the disadvantages are its
somewhat greater weight, greater expense,
more complicated construction, and its ten
dancy to be in the way in crowded places.
This last has been somewhat overcome
IA the crutches with long mctel arc By
aaking the two ends SO that they can be
ioided up. The samat principle has heen an
nlicd to perineel cru6s Logic.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
''X''

A DISEASE new to science and pro-
visionally called 'X" has broken
out in the west and northwest of New
South Wales and has already caused a
number Of deaths. The symptoms some
what resemble those of cerebro-spinal
meningitis, but it differs pathologically
from that disease and in some respects
is somewhat akin to pneumonia.-The
Scientific American.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

"HE war neurasthenic is hard
man TO re-socialize, according
to an article by DR.. A. J.
Brock in ''The London Lancet" How to
reintegrate this man with his environ
nent is thus discussed, in part:
"The main pathological feature in these
patients condition is their 'soparatism'
They are up against everything: they have
no use for it. Now, this separatism or dis
continuity needs direct and immediate treat
ment and ths treatment must obviously be
a resynthesisa joining up of the patient
again with his circumstances his sur
roupdings.
ut is necessary that the patient should
be taught to overcome his unsociability, his
tendency to shun the society of his fellow
men: he must come out of his she'll
"This is where an element of home life
provides useful corrective or adjuvant to
residence in an institution At the war hos
pital for neurasthenic officers where have
been serving as medical officer for the last
sixteen months we have found that patient
was often improved when his wife, and per-
haps child, came and lived in the neighbor-
hood, and he was allowed to spend part of
his day with them. The danger here is that
sometimes the officer comes TO depend too
much on his wife and fails to cultivate his
will power, so that when she goes away
from the district he is left at loose end
The neurasthenic is very apt to use his rel
atives merely as props drugs to pandcr
to his feeling Of helplcssness; sometimes
relations (and of course also other fricnds>
become such nuisance in this way that the
patient has to be forcibly isolated from them
by interposition Of the Weir Mitchell treat
ment.' An intelligent wife, however. can
often be great help to her husband, though
both should be warned against the risk of
giving receiving undue sympathy
Beyond ones family group comes the cir
Gle Of ones neighbors: it is at his peril that
the ncurasthenic gives these too much of
The cold shoulder. 1t is often good practice.
fer him to make himself go at q certain
hour daily into the congregating room of
the officers and there actually to force him
sen 10 enter inlO friendly conversation with
those of his fellow patients who seem most
unapproachatle. This is often very hard
task and should be looked upon not neces-
saI;ly as pleasure. but primarily as a piece
OF strenuous moral gymnastics. Letter writ
ing also commonly presents difficulties; the
ncurasthenic readily gets out of touch with
absent friends and relatives This weakness
needs rectifcation. He should draw I'D
list of such friends and write to one or two
OF them every day at fixed hour.
Many of these patients object to having
their meals with others; here is an oppor-
tunity for their realizing the essential and
literal meaning of the word companionship
"a taking bread with from cum and
panis); there is no better discipline for a
neurasthcnic than to have to make himself
companionabe at table"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
They've Stopped Wrap
ping Bread in Canada

4 CORRESPONDENT at Montreal,
- writing to "'The Paper MILL" quotes
the Cost of Living Commissioner as
saying:
"Sincc issued my last statement con-
cerning Canadian bread conditions the
Canada Food Board has put into force
regulation which prohibits the wrapping oc
bread This regulation. whether or not
sought by the bakers, was welcomed by
them and they seem quite content There
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
The Super Lachrymator
NHE following description of Ger
man gas which American troops
IA are now combating appeared in
"The independent" recently:

"Our boys in Lorraine do not appear to
mind the shells and shrapnel SO much as
they do what they call mustard gas 1t
really is not our familiar oil of mustard,
though that is not to be sneezed at, but
something vastly more irritating. When
it was first discovered in Kekule's labora-
tory years years ago it proved too strong
even for the toughcned mucous membrane
OF German chemists and they abandoned
the research too dangerous Now, how
ever, they have taken up the Investigation
with fresh enthusiasm, for they have a
lot Of new subjects to experiment upon,
several millions of them, brought from
England, Australia, America and elsewhere
at great expense and CONVEX tiently arranged
before them in trenches So they are manu-
featuring the villanous stuff wholesale and
firing it into our camps.
"The soldiers have named it mustard
gas because of it's blistering ability, but
the chemist calls it di-chlor di-ethyl- -sulfdc
and he pictures it to himself in this
fashion:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
In Japan the importance
Of American Trade
Is Recosn;zed
" ARON ITO, writing in ~Forb
~ Magazine,' says:

TEd1TIE, Says.
"It is no exaggeration to say that the
backbone of Japan's foreign commerce
is her American trade / our Amer
lean friends would once and for all
clearly realize this fact, that the health and
future of our foreign trade is vitality
wrapped UP with our trade relations with
the United States, and that the decline of
our American trade would mean the dc
cline Of our entire foreign business and
would in turn spell serious maladv for
the very life of the empire, then they
would never more allow utterly silly twad-
die about a possible wanton war forced
upon America by Japan to insult their in
telligence. 1t cannot be done. 70 matter
how clever German propagandists NAV be. y
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

whether or not the wrapping of all breads
is again made compulsory. l think how
ever that wrapping should be made COM
pusory. I think so, as I may lawfully and
properly think, and think in this open
fashion. because wrapped bread costs less
than unwranped bread With such mat
tcrs l am directly concerned"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
A Time Saver

A CONTRIBUTOR to Popular Science
~ Monthly" George A. Luers, writes:
India ink dries so rapidly that, II the
bottle Is not kept corked between dippings,
the ink quipkly becomes cloudy and useless.
havc overcome this difficulty and am saved
the annoyance Of removing tho stoppnr for
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
-PopulG' Science Monthly
A slight pressure of the hand
brings the linking quill into
position

are obtanable in any shop scrapheap
With it the ink is protected from the air
at all times, and one hand only is required
for linking the pen"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28

every mixing of the pen by contriving an
inkwell, us indicated in the illustration
The device is made almost entirely Of hard
wood. and the few metal fittings it contains
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
God and
The
Z)eviI
The Kaiser's God Is Odin, Not
Jehovah

n MERE is growing impression
B among Christian peoples out
q side the German Empire that
New-York tribune., 1918-04-28
Medicine
and
Surgery
Re-Socializing the War
Neurasthenic

HHE war neurasthenic is hard
man to re-socialize, according
-. 10 IN article hu Dr.
Newport daily independent., 1918-09-20
Ex-CZAR'S MOTHER
 BURNED TO DEATH.

London, Sept. 19.--The former Rus sian Dowager Empress Maria and three princesses and two grand duch- esses, whose names are not reported, were burned to death about month after the Russian emperor was shot, according to story reaching London. The source of the story is given con-
 sideration in some quarters here and an investigation has been started. After the former emperor was killed the women were taken to an isolated village, according to the present re port, made prisoners in a residence. They were there only few days when crowd of Bolsheviki attacked the house. The women barricaded the doors and the house was set on fire. All the persons in the house perished.
Newport daily independent., 1918-09-20
WANT SPECIALS T0 STOP HE
 8s #
Matter Of Making Newport ReGul6I Stop For Sunshine SpeeiaI IT
 Under Consideration.

Several days ago c. |. MarinS5Y manager of the C19hber of Go11 merce, directed 2 letter to rsilx
 officials in Washington, asking tl11 Newport be made regular stop 11I the Sunshine Special for the purp6s of discharging and accepting passez gers. MT. Mariner this morning rez ceived reply from Assistant Rail- way Director G. Fort in which kR stated that the matter had been taksI under advisement and that decisio1 would be reached within a few day
 Mir. Mariner in his petition poinfe6 to the fact that both the northboN19 and southbound specials stop here ,l6~ ually for several minutes to take Q6 water and that these stops would &ixS passengers sufficient time to leaxe and board the train.
 The northbound Sunshine Specinl goes north at 4:30 a. m. and the sontll bound train passes through at l a. III
 MT. Mariner who is sales director for the Fourth Liberty Loan in JaclL son county, began the work today o1 mailing out literature and other naatS ter pertaining to the campaign to the different committees over the countys