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Show THE SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1924 ROMANTIC SALLY, ONE g HE LOVED 4 Br JANE OSBORN ...f,.. itn . . - - It wit after iupper one fair June evening that Hoberta James blithe!; announced to her family, assembled on the front veranda, that she wi ea- irared (o Juha Kellog. "So that's that," commented Brother Rert. looklne with considerable ad miration at hU pretty sister perilled on the railing of the veranua. "iow, i suppose Pop will have to shell out for the trousseau. 'Top" smiled soberty and aald he was perfectly willing to do his part If Roberta was quite sure that she had chosen the man who would muke her happy. Mrs. James uttered a "Well. I dozen little and all It's "So Jack Kellog, npver" to along I'd thought" "If It's going be a fall wedding, I suppose " Every one seamed perfectly satisfied and quite merry over the situation all except little cousin Sully. Bitting In a great armed porch chair gaiing off dreamily at the western sky. "I don't think you're a bit Interested." Roberta pouted to her cousin. "And I wos going to ask you' to be rose-tluge- d maid of honor." "Interested," exclaimed Sally almost In a whisper, so low that only Roberta heard. "I was Just so thrilled I couldn't sny anything. To think that you are really engaged. Oh, It Is so romantic, so wonderful, I almost feci as if It were I. I never knew any one very well who was engaged. Don't you feel all queer and as If you were floating on the clouds?" Sally's large dark eyes beamed with misty happiness, and as she spoke she Interrupted herself with soft little giggles. "Tou funny little romantic baby," said Roberta. "Of course I don't feel a bit different. I've been nearly engaged before. This Is Just the same thing, only this time there's the wedding and everything to plan." "But to be In love really and truly In love!" breathed Sally. "You're positively Roberta assured her. "Girls nowadays don't feel about love the way they did when grandmother was a girl." But as the days passed Sally, who made her home with the Jameses, If continued to be taking a romantic interest In the engagement of her Cousin Roberta Indicated such a state of mind. When sho saw Jack Kellog come Into the garden or on the veranda where she and her cousin were sitting, she would always hurry away, fabricating some excuse about muffins to make or a letter to write. While Mrs. James and Roberta made lists of the guests who would have to be asked to the wedding, and discussed relative merits of caterers and dressmakers, Sally wonder-?a- l thought only of the great and happiness that Roberta must be experiencing Just to be engaged. She made little bouquets of wild flowers to leave on her cousin's bureau before she was going out with Jack, and timidly lent her volumes of poetry with slips of paper marking the most romantic love passages. If Roberta seemed unappreclatlve of these sentimental acts on the part of cousin. Sally put her It down to the preoccupation of being In love. Roberta"? birthday was approaching and while vtrlous members of the fnm-lwere choosing for their gifts such useful things as tablecloths and kitchen utensils. Sally had plans quite different. She was putting herself in Roberta's place and had decided to give her what she herself would most value1 If she, and not Roberta, were engaged to Jack Kellog. To this end she went to the home of Mrs. Kellog, Jack's mother. "I'm getting together a little album for Roberta," she said. "I know she will prize It more than anything else I could get her. I've pressed flowers from the bouquets that Jack has sent hertook them when Roberta wasn't looking. When Jack didn't know It I took some snapshots of him. They came out beautifully. I found a dance order for a danoa that Roberta and Jack went to Just before they were engaged, with Jack's name down for half the dunces. Roberta had thrown It away, but I fished It out of the rubbish. Now, what I want to get Is some photographs of him when he was young. I'll have them reproduced and put them in the book with any other little keepsake that you could spare." Mrs. Kellog listened attentively and as Sally finished her explanation the elder woman's eyes filled with, tears. She brushed them away smiling. "I couldn't help It, Sally dear." she eaid. "It seems so wonderful to think of someone loving Jack as much as Roberta must. I've always treasured all such little keepsakes of my hoy. and I itm so glad that the girl lie going to marry takes the same Interest in him. Of course Roberta doesn't kjiow you are getting up this book, . does she?" Of course Roberta didn't, assured Sally, and It would come ns a wonderful surprise. Out of her treasure box Mrs. Kellog brought a dozen or so pictures. One showed Jack as a round-facebaby. Another was a snapshot cf Jack at eight, twenty-year-ol- d y curly-hatre- d 0 d funny little hoy with a tooth or so missing from tils smiling visage. After some hesitation Mrs. Kellog parted with a lock of Jack's baby hair. Two or three little colored sketches, made by Jack In kindergarten. There were other keepsakes that no oue would have treasured but Jack's mother and the woman who loved htm best Sally's fact beamed with happiness and gratitude. Then as she waf about to go Mrs. Kellog stopped her. "You nisy take these things," sba said, "and yon may put them In your little book and give them to Roberta on condition that If their engagement should be broken I could have all these things back again. Yon prom- Nora and Mike Agree to Feed Another Mouth By HORACE BXIGHT 7Xe mrtifirjd m attonoS UOGtSOOn a6out 16 mm, it irwvpo & poatouttnreo quartan or a mim (O. J lira. Flaherty, the carpenter's Sally's preVy smiles vanished. "Too happen." Mrs. Kellog might have made some explanation had It not been for Jack's entrance Into the room at that moment, lilushlng, Sally hid her treasures under the cover of a magazine lying on a stand beside her. "What's up?" asked Jack, sinking Into the sheller of a low armchair beside his mother. "You look as guilty as a couple of thieves. And, Sally, you deliberately tucked something In (hat magazine to hide It, as I opened the door and now you are blushing to show me that there's a mystery In the air." "You'll know all about It some day," laughed Sully. "Ask Roberta on her blrthduy." "I'm not at all sure I shall see Roberta on her birthday," snld Jack, now looking knowingly at his mother. The fact Is that Roberta Isn't quite so much Interested In me now as she was a few weeks ago. You see " Jack," warned his mother, "are you sure you ought to talk about It now? You and Roberta will doubtless come to an understanding. You are still engaged " Not In the least," corrected Jack, looking up quite Innocently, first nt his mother and then at Sally. Sally laid a hand quickly upon the magazine that hid her little treasures and then In the spite of an effort at tears came Into her eyes and she covered them with her other hand to hide her confusion. "How dreadful for Roberta," she said. Jack Kellog was not long In explain ing that Roberta herself was respon sible for the situation, although he agreed with her that their engagement had hardly been a success. Sally listened In amazement, and then, rising to go, she placed the little packet of treasures In Mrs. Kellog's hnnds. "I'll take thein back," said Jack's mother tenderly. "Rut perhaps some It day you will want them again. seems somehow as If you ought to fcave them." Sally went sorrowfully home. The air castle she had been building around Roberta and Jack had fallen to the ground like a house of enrds. Then she began to wonder what Mrs. Kellog had meant about the keepsakes. In her room she looked long and tenderly at the snapshots she had Blyly taken of Jack Kellog. One day a few weeks later after Roberta had announced her engagement to an old flame, Frank Demmlng Jack Kellog called on Sally. "Mother told me about your asking for the keepsakes," he told her. "I know that you were Interested In thera only because of Roberta. Roberta wouldn't have given a snap of her finger for that little book of yours even if we had stayed engaged. But you thought she would. And I've been thinking about you all the time, I've been finding out that it was you, Sally, and not Roberta, that I have wanted all along." "I'm afraid you think I'm dreadfully "Roberta alromantic," said Sally. ways says I am." "Of course you are," laughed Jack "That's what makes you so adorable." So Sally had a chance to finish the book of keepsakes for herself. self-contr- Phases of Habit That Prove Hard to Break AdAmong those present Is Rear miral Nlblack, U. S. N.. recently retired. After more than forty years of service In the navy, one of his first acts Is to buy himself a ticket for a It's an nice long ride on a steamship. old story of the hack driver Jogging around town In a hack of a friend who A New York theater manIs working. ager had his father, a Westerner, come on for a visit and took him to a frolic at the Lambs' club. At the first Intermission the old gentleman said: "You say these men on the stage and in the audience are all professional actors and theater men?" "That's right." "And this is the one day In the week they have off?" "Right again. Sunday Is their only free day." "And they get up shows and rehearse and put them on while the others sit out In the audience?" "Sure, why not?" "Now I know they're crazy! Let I want no more of nie out of here. them. Suppose the Telegraph Linemen's union had a holiday; would they all put on their climbers and start to stringing wire all over the country? Would the Sewer Diggers' Henevolont association at Its annual outing loud up with picks and shovels rnd start running ditches all over the picnic grove? Young man, you're In a crazy business with crazy people and you'll come to no good. I'm going home tomorrow." Rut sailors, when they have shore The Nation's leave do like rowboats. Business. N,ipapr Uaieaj Mrs, Flaherty , there be a child crying in the basement Tou can bear It If yei listen when job be passing," said Mrs. Grady to little ise?" don't think." alia queried, "that Jack would? Oh, Mrs. Kellog, I'd never thought that anything Ilka that could . Western KOURE. Tha dam or spillmmy aection it soeoreet Mo fmmrtvarbad MOfMti kino. 95 wrom ooaom or rounoouon 10 apmuny arioso, ana is josraec unfOf ar ooeo. fat i f ... t insen. map gauge railroad; 20 miles of sewers f 16 miles of domestic and fire water supply ; a 60,000,000-gaIloreservoir with pumping plant and filter, and an Ice plant. Gorgas Steam Power riant In order to obtain power for construction work and for operation of the nitrate plant while Its main power supply was still unavailable, a generating plant was erected on the property of the Alabama Power company at Gorgas, Ala., 88 miles away, and connected with Muscle Shoals by a long transmission line. This plant Is not an integral portion of the Muscle Shoals development It was, therefore, sold to the Alabama Power company under on agreement made with Uiat company at the time It was erected. n 4 By JOHN S3 DICKINSON SHERMAN CSCLE SHOALS, an enormous hydraulic power and navigation development In process of construction by the United States government on the Tennessee river In northern Alabama, Is a subject of nation-wid- e discussion by the American people. Various circumstances hnve combined to fix popular attention upon these government-owned properties, the world's largest hydraulic development America's entrance Into the World war In 1017 found us dependent upon Chile for nitrates with which to manufacture explosives. Nitrates can be taken from the nitrogen In the air. The power and the facilities for the manufacture of an adequate supply were not available. Hence the federal government decided to construct a nitrate plant of Its own. Muscle Shoals was selected as the site because It had ample water power, was convenient to the raw materials, coal and limestone, and was secure from a military viewpoint Work was begun at Muscle Shoals In July of 1018. At the signing of the armistice In November of 1918 a steam-powe- r nitrate plant had been practically completed. Wilson Dam, however, had been barely begun. Congress decided to complete Wilson Dam and It will be ready to deliver its power some time In 1925. Muscle Shoals did not become useless at the signing of the armistice. On the contrary It possesses great peace-tim- e It can be possibilities. made a source of two of the most important factors In our industrial development electricity and niThe uses of electrical power trogen compounds. are almost limitless. Nitrogen compounds can be made Into either explosives or fertilizer, the preliminary stages of manufacture being the same. Completion of the Muscle Shoals project will also greatly increase the navigability of the Tennessee river. During the last two years several offers have been made to the War department for part or all of the Muscle Shoals properties. The secretary of war referred these offers to congress with the request for legislation covering the situation. Muscle Shoals Project In Detail. Fresldent Coolidge, In a message to congress December 6, 1923, recommended that the properties be sold, subject to the right of the government to retake them In time of war and with a covenant that experimentation for the manufacture of fertilizers be carried on to success. He recommended thut congress consider offers, conduct negotiations and report definite recommendations. This article, however, is solely tot the purpose of giving the outstanding facts in connection with the physical aspects of the Muscle Shoals development. Other phases of the complicated situation are purposely Ignored. e works at Muscle Shoals The strictly are far from representing all of the present undertakings, existing and proposed. If present plans are carried out, the complete development comprises the following: Dam No. 1 This is a small navigation dam to be erected at Florence, two miles below the AY'lson Its conDam. Its estimated cost is $1,400,000. struction is not yet approved. It is to contain a navigation lock and will provide sufficient depth of to the Wilson Dam. From Florwater ence to the Ohio, a distance of 257 miles, there is channel. to be a Dam No. 2 This Is the Wilson Dam, elsewhere descriled In detail. It will develop power and Is provided with navigation locks. Its final cost Is estimated at $51,000,000. Dam No. 3 This is' a proposed power and navigation dam, located 18 miles above Wilson Dam. It would Its construction is not yet approved. raise the water In the river 40 feet and permit navigation a further distance up stream for about It would supply power to a maximum of f.5 miles. 2fi0,(Ki0 horsepower. Tlds dam would be even longer than the Wilson Dam, but not so high. Its estimated cost Is $25.iiOO.O)0. Nitrate I'lant No. 1 This Is a relatively small nitrate plant built In 1917 for experimental at a cost of $10,000,000. Nitrate I'lant No. 2 This Is a large nitrate plnnt built to supply nitrates for explosives during the war. Its total cost. Inc luding a steam plant and a limestone quarry at Waco, was about ?i;. HK),00O. Nos. Villages In connection with Nitrate I'lunts 1 and 2 complete villages for workers were built. FWnt No. 2 covers a site consisting of 2,300 acres of Ianrt. It consists of six separate plants for the various chemical processes and there are In addition 180 permanent houses, with electric lights, sewers and water supply; one hotel with 100 rooms, furnished with ell modern Improvements; t2 miles of Improved roads ; 37 miles of standardwar-tim- six-fo- pur-pos- 100,000-horsepow- Largest Dam In the World. Illustration jlven herewith suggests outstanding features of Wilson Dam. The Inserted map shows the relative positions of the three dams. The navigation part of the Muscle Shoals project Is too extensive and complicated to be described in detail here. In general it may be said that the Tennessee river rises In northeastern Tennessee, flows southwest makes an east to west loop through northern Alabama and then flows north through Tennessee and Kentucky, Joining the Ohio near its Juncture with the Mississippi at Cairo, HL The Tennessee Is 652 miles long from Knoxvllle, Tenn., to Paducah, Ky. At Muscle Shoals, In northern Alabama, the river falls 134 feet In 87 miles. Here is the main obstruction to the through navigation of the river. With the three dams and the supplemental locks In operation, the Muscle Shoals obstacle would be removed. The Wilson Dam, as the Illustration suggests, is an Impressive structure and pleasing to the eye. There are longer dams and dams that are higher, bnt none that Is larger. Ministerial golfers In moments of stress requiring adequate expression will soon be expected to change over from Gatun or Assuan to Wilson, or at least to cap the climax with Wilson. It should be remembered that the stream here runs from east to west and that in the Illustration the north bank Is at the left of the picture. Wilson Dam was built primarily for the purpose of furnishing electric power, but the navigation phase had to be considered. This accounts for the lock on the north bank. Then comes the main dam and next the power house extending from the main dam to the south shore. The switch and control buildings will be located on the bluff on the south shore. If a drydock Is needed in the future. It will be located upstream from the lock. Hugh L. Cooper, designing and supervising engineer of the Wilson Dam, says the entire structure will contain 36,500,000 solid cubic feet of masonry and cover He visualizes this mass of 20 acres of ground. The masonry by saying it Is equivalent to a concrete road from New York to Chicago, 16 feet wide and six Inches thick. The project Is being constructed by the War department, corps of engineers, D. S. A., under MaJ. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers, and Brig. G?n. Harry Taylor, assistant The construction chief, Immediately In charge. forces are under the direction of Lieut Col. George R. Spalding. Mr. Cooper says of the dam proper: The dam proper rises to a height of 137 feet above foundations and backs up the water to a depth of 98 feet, from the bedrock to the new water surface. The spillway section of the dam Is of the overfall (rravlty type of dam. Normal pool level above the dam la at elevation 501, normal tallwater Is at elevation 409, thus making the normal head available 92 feet The crest of the spillway Is at elevation 483. and each spillway opening la 38 feet wide In the clear, with an pier between. Supported on these piers and arching over each spillway opening- Is an arch bridge, serving as an operating deck for the spillway control gates and providing a double track bridge and roadway across the river. In all. there are 58 spillway openings, each with a control gate of structural steei, 18 feet high and 40 feet long. "The last five sections of the dam, adjoining and connecting to the power house forebay structure, are not spillway sections," says Mr. Cooper. "In these five sections there are located thirteen sluices. Each sluice is simply a diameter conduit extending through the dam, protected at the upstreutn end by a massive concrete screen, and controlled nt the downstream or discharge by a butterfly valve. These vulves are operated by a small compressed air engine, mounted on a car which travels on a track above valves. When one of the sluices is opened under full head it discharges a stream eight feet or more In diameter at a velocity at about 45 feet per second or thirty miles an hour. Enormous Power to Be Generated. "The power house structure can be divided luto two parts: the forebay structure and the power house building. The forebay structure Is that portion of the structure which retains the water and serves ns a part of the water barrier. It Is designed to withstand the entire water pressure without the aid of the power house building. The arch bridge and roadway continue without change of grade over the forebay structure to the south shore. The power house Is approximately 1,250 feet long! 100 feet wide and 134 feet high, and when completed will contain eighteen main units, two aux - 108-Inc- h $Otet kM j xaewtfm il built by War Department. The largest dam in the world v I ft1 Af ilimi anil locks. uuw y Wilson Dam 1 Muscle Shoals Dam No-2- , . it will appear wnen completed in 1 long, md04 foot high. niteponer inetalh eiJan 100,ooohar99-po- r ifenarttorf. UHjmmt pomr ulmllmtn 600, OOO f ::::nTT ,&3X- Yuch AbouHhc Rarbajsa 2Qfsgt ut lh,n iliary apparatus sections and a shore section. "Ultimate Installation calls for eighteen main power .units, four of which are 30,000 horsepower each, and fourteen of 35,000 horsepower each. Four of the latter fourteen and the four 30,000 horsepower units are being Installed at the present time, making an Initial installation of 260,000 horsepower. Each power unit consists of a water turbine of the Francis type. In a vertical setting, with electrical generator above on the same shaft. Tbp four. 30,000 horsepower turbines were manufactured by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Englnn Building company, and the generators for same were made by the Westlnghouse Electric A Manufacturing company. "Five thousand men are employed on the construction of this project. They work In three shifts, each shift working eight hours. This contown. The struction camp Is in reality a main concrete mixing plant Is located on an island In the middle of the river. From here the concrete Is hauled In large buckets on railroad cars to any part of the Job where it may be needed. Railroad tracks serve every available part of the work. In all more than twenty miles of track have A construcbeen laid for construction purposes. tion bridge carrying railroad tracks as well at tracks for huge traveling derricks had to be constructed. In order to build the formwork for the concrete, a lumber yard, sawmill and layout platform had to be erected. The lumber used on the Job will run to millions of feet board measure." The manufacture of destructive explosives from nitrates taken from the air Is a fascinating subject, especially In connection with the fact that the same nitrates can easily be turned Into harmless and beneficent fertilizer. As It stands today, Nitrate Plant No. 2 can fix from the atmosphere the nitrates required for the continuous supply of for an army of 1,250,000 men. In war time the cost of ammunition Is not an essential feature. But can fertilizer be manufactured at Muscle Shoals at peace-tim- e prices? This seems to be an unsettled question. MaJ. J. K. Craln, ordnance department U. S. A., says on this question In connection with the Muscle Shoals project. There la some doubt that fertilizer can be produced by the process for which Muscle Shoals properties are now equipped at a price low enough to compete with the products from other sources. However, this subject Is engaging the attention of scientists In both private and governmental employ. Promising results have been attained at the fixed nitrogen laboratory In Washington. D. C, which laboratory was established by the War department but turned over to the control of the Department of Agriculture In 1921. The doubtful outcome of exprriments in this field has caused the War department to oppose relinquishment of the title to these properties without adequate guarantees that the plants must be returned to the control of the government in an effective condition to be utilised In the manufacture of explosives, should they pass to the control of persons who did not continue their use of the manufacture of fertilizer. fair-size- d wife. The two women were residents la the same tenement house In the city. Mrs. Flaherty'a deft fingers kept the Interior of her four rooms almost spotless. But Michael bad been out of work for six weeks, and cleanliness was about all that Nora Flaherty could She could not provide more manage. food for the four hungry little momha. Day by day Michael tramped the streets in search of work. And every evening the bread and milk somehow seemed to go less far. The children were growing thin. Bridget, the oldest, was five, and the rest followed at regular gradations down to Phil, the baby of ten months. "If it wasn't for the children, Nora," Michael would say wistfully, "you and me could start out on the tramp and do chores In the country." That had always been their longing a country name. But It seemed more remote than ever, now that there were six mouths to feed. Nora Flaherty listened as she stood at the entrance to the tenement house. Sure euough, she heard the pitiful cry, and the mother Instinct overflowed In her. Softly she crept down to the basement Upon the floor, crouched on a pile of rags, the little boy lay. That afternoon Mrs. Grady came to the door of her tenement. "It's all right Mrs. Flaherty," she said. "Somebody's written to the Children's society, and they're going to take the child away. The man's been put In prison for stabbing another of thim Poles whin he was drunk." To Nora the thought of the little, dark-eye- d boy growing up Inside the shadow of the society's big. barrack-Uk- e building was dreadful to contem- plate. Suddenly a burning thought came to her that made her sit up and stare W7hy not? Why wildly about her. not? In another minute she had crept down to the basement again to where the boy was lying. She lifted him In her arms and hid him beneath her shawl, and a couple of minutes later he was resting upon her own bed. Ten minutes later, when the boy was . asleep, Mrs. Grady came to the door. "Mrs. Flaherty!" she gnsped, "the man has come from the society, and what do yez think? One of that Po- lack's friends has been and taken the child away." Nora Flaherty looked at her frleni with a stare of misunderstanding. "The man from the society Is If anybody's seen the child," con tinued Mrs. Grady. "Yez didn't happen to aee him, did yez, Nora?" "No," answered Nora Flaherty in a mechanical manner. "No, I didn't" But after her visitor had gone away she sat beside the bed In fear and trembling every time a footstep sounded outside the door. And there was another reason for her dread. It had been an impulse to take the lad, an Impulse which she had not followed to its logical conclusion. Perhaps be had merely wanted to give him some bread and milk and to show him s little of that mother love. But now, what would Michael say? He loved his children and he had well, always been kind to her, but another mouth to feed meant a dread ful tax npon their scanty means. She sat there In an agony of sus husband' pense until she heard her tread along the hall outside, in another moment he was In the little temeet nement and, as she went out to Taking Nitrogen From Air. htm h finsned her In his arms ana "The raw materials employed in the manufacturwith kissed her. She looked at him had! ing process are nitrogen, obtained from the air, she husband pride. What a good limestone, and coal, which Is used in the form He never drank or beat her, even If And of coke," says Major Craln. "The first step Is he was a little petulant at times. to burn the limestone to lime, which is an oxide of through all he had been so patient calcium (CaO). This is then mixed with coke that dreadful time. Is and the mixture to (carbon) heated a very high "Mom crtrl." he exclaimed, "In g' after temperature in electric furnaces. The product thus a Job, and I go to work the day formed Is a combination of calcium and carbon, tomorrow. And It's In the country, the familiar 'calcium carbide' (CaC-2- ) which genIn the new Kicna.u-pla- nt, erates acetylene when placed in water. The car- lassl It's miles away a steady twenty bide is run out of the furnaces In a liquid state, all expenses paid. Ana and Job, my girl, and after cooling and solidifying, Is ground to a move tomorrow I" we fine powder. He saw a strange look on nor u "The next step Is to add nitrogen to the carbide. was trembling. she coFor this purpose practically pure nitrogen Is need"What Is it, Nora?" he cried, ed. There are several different methods of sepfear. dreadful nscious of some she w arating nitrogen from the oxyjen of the air, but the She told him. And then mm one used at Muscle Shoals, because of Its simplicity him into the bedroom and showed and cheapness. Is first to liquify air and then to the upon 8 sure the pinched little cnuu separate the two gases by taking advantage of the the dawning smile upon the cor fact that the boiling points of the two liquid gases and lsi She turned down the mouth. are slightly different. (Oxygen bolls at 182.5 erfet and showed him the weals upo degrees Centigrade and nitrogen at 195.5 dethe little body. The process Is very similar to gress Centigrade.) "Michael, my man." she that used in separating mixtures of alcohol and "there's only four of our on. i water. there'll be more coming "The actual fixation of the nitrogen Is now ac- praise God, Slid five. ns later. Can't we feed way complished by passing It over the finely ground The man looked In a dazed carbide heated to a temperature of about 2,000 his wife's face. degrees Fahrenheit. A reaction takes place under "Good Lord. Nora!" he ejaculate these conditions and n complex V compound of calIs It to keep the little nlpir cium, carbon, and nitrogen, culled cyanamlde (CaCN-2- ) is the result. of our "Michael! Think of one soc "The next step In the production of both exup in the babies growing ever S plosives and fertilizer Is to heat the cyanamlde In home-In the city, without "e large steel tanks with steam und water, which reU of a tree or a flower. . .. sults In the formation of ordinary ammonia. Michael! I've asueo j m"Ammonia can be readily changed Into nitric him, but now I want hibefore, . acid (HXO-3)and from this acid any desired ni!" much k want him so bed una trogen compound for either agricultural or miliMichael bent over the can be made. For fertilizers, am- the little hand In his. tary purposes .t monium phosphate and ammonium sulphate are th one more "Well, girl. I guess preferred forms; while for explosives, there Is a make much difference," he snm. host of nitrogen products, dynamite, T. N. T, and mind ye." he added sternly. i many others." the last one except our own, much-vexe- d whlPJ . |