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Show Who Put theSalt Into Salt Lake? i BY DR. WILLIAM E BARTON A nonir was popular a fe-.v years ago In ftKf' gl t"'l, m&( a familial tni of in. c-; Tj the salt In BHKisgg '' ' iflggg "n" Then- a gV frnliti aHHl " !l i'i f - ' " . ' " BgrWfagHFgH 11111 1 a 4jkJ.v ; J rrr mad.- II salt. First. It UAUTON shrank and secondlv. I In FhrlnklnR It fell be I ow the level of Its outlet. Tbe Insoluble Insolu-ble solids that arc found in all bodies 1 of Water w ere bo diluted before this I time as not to have seriously affected he quality of water. Hut after thai, the rains washed more all and alkali into the lake bottom, and the evapora- I 'irn bit them nil ihere. The lnkc shrank! :ind became m.r, salt, and shrank some more and became still more salt, and j now It is so nearly solid tlctr j mi cannot Ink in It If you try. The way in which" Sail I-ake became salt Is the way In which some men irrow bitter, cynical, stale and misanthropic. The) shrink, and they have np outlet I Into life. They los.- ihe sweetness and, whole.somi-n.-s out of Hi,- p. ause thev I have censed to rrlce out of tllbtr on life anything of value to others. There was a man and s.-me did think him mad; The more he gave away the more he , had." Salt Lake impoverished iisclf bv ccas-, IliK to give, anything out of Itself to others. oth-ers. In the ages when it ran brimming full. It poured over through some high i mountain pass and made a valley n r-tlle; r-tlle; then Ii wits fresh and sweet and deep and great. It lost Its own soul In saving of Its substance. It Is a dead lake. now. a pitiful reminder of what It was in the days of its glory when it gave of its life, and lived Lite in found In living; and living Is another name u.r plvlnu. When w.- nar- : row our shore and seel: to keep all 'v can got, cease to give and In so doing wc . ease to live. |