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—. A FACTORY OF FEAR — * DWAMITK-MAKKB3 EAOI.R TO OBMT ALL hAFRTY RULES. - 1*M»» «UM» Mixta* the Terrible Kx plostra—3o,ooo Pound* Turned EOENTLT the Oa bu 7uh, Lx loo*ted in this rity, plaoed a wrioasly estimated »* lrom 60,000 to 600,000 pounds, mji a New York correspondent. It vai probably nearer tho former than the latter fig ure, hot wren U it was the minimnm amount, it would bo sufficient to tear aoao pretty big holes in the Spanish has mad* lots of dynamite for the Cabans in the post twenty months; it elsoaopplies the needs of Unde Sam whanaver he is in want of anything in this line. Poor a long tun* it was kept bosy turning out 30,000 pounds of the staffs day for the contractor* at work on the Ohioeso panel- la a year it tarns out enough of the ezpkams to almost blow the earth into amHh*r- It would seem that a eoncam which does ell this weald be an imposing affair, with e factory, or aoriea of fac tories, with numberless seres of floor epees. But it is just the reverse, end a stranger eoald stand i* the very cen tre of the dynamite factory ana not recognise it u such. Dynamite is a peculiar commodity, ml / f 111llitr i ' HUMBLE ABODE OF THE BIQGEST DYNAMITE FACTORY. nd it is mannfaotnred under peculiar oondltlona. Uncertainty is the ruling thing about dynamite, and thia dom • testing ieaiure permeates the whole establishment The faotory is located at Glbbatowa, V. J.. a plaoe ao email, and in a Motion ol the State ao sparse ly aattlad that the outmde world would Mm bar* heard ol itsearfetenoe, per haps, ware it not for the dynamite. lie reatoteueaa from wary thing waa the reaeon of the factory being lo cated there. A branch railroad r ana tela the property oonnooting with the principal railroads and the Delaware EUrer. By thaae meana the oommodity fa .Upp'd through the country and rHO?—*.. •»«..< awampland and ia nothing more than Ihioo-aeora of wooden buildings, one story In height, aad not my eeourely bant For the moat part they look for all the world like the run-down cabins of the Booth aad are Just about aa handsome. They hare one modem appliance, however, and that loan attachment for depriving Ught niag of its powers. Vena of these ehaatiee are my dose to the other. Floaty of open worn ia n naaeutty whan tens of thousands of pounds of dynamite are always lying around. Commercial pvadaoee accounts far the cheap and "■Hiring look of the B*- parionee has taught the owners that a single big building would be a rash IwloiioM oeonr ohm io awhile no matter bow eerefaUy they are guarded against, and it ia an easy matter to replace the shanty. A more potent reason is the protec tion it etfmdT to the work peonto. all Aa h||iaaM iMMlltllild ID wawawamweww ww one building and an explosion to oecnr in any one department, the shook would cause instantaneous upheavals throughout the building, killing or maiming every one in the place. '' ■ 1 ''■MuaumHUßMEtuss; FILLING CABTHIDOKa. Several hundred people ere employed in the factory, including a dosen women. Each and every one of them realises the danger of their oalling.and they exerdso the greatest caution in performing their work. There ere cer tain rales formulated by the eompeny which they mast obey, and this they are only too glad to do. One is that no matches, firearms or explosives of any kind mast be carried on the person. Another is thet no iron or stool pegs oan be worn in the shoes. Wooden pegs are permissible, because they are safe. Thi* latter rule wo* formulated soma ▼eara ago, after one of the workmen had stepped oa a tiny piece of dyna mite, the nails of hu shoes causing it to explode The shook eauaed quite a quantity of the staff oa one of the work table* to go ofl; the shanty wa* blown up and there were some fatali ties among tba workmen. There u no seed ot employing special men to tea that the precau tionary roles are observed, as every workman ia a spy upon hi* neighbor*, for he know* that hi* safety depend* quite a* mash upon the other* as upon himself. Dynamite la principally a mixture of sulphur io arid, Chile saltpeter and boxwood aawdnsfc There are a good many other thing* which enter into its composition, and before it take* the shape of the finished cartridge it name* through a variety of hands, Thera Is one tiring thet the dynamite worker is Ihanktal for, and that la hie Job will never be usurped by mechin- a Jojtea of the shanties are I ehemical housee. They are celled •‘safety buildings" and are used for tbe storage of the many aeida which help to make dynamite what it In One of tbe Initiatory stages of tbe cartridges is “eooking* of the dyne* mite gelatine. Tbe prodnet of tbe eook te nitro-glyosrine. Many adds are ponred into a big leaden tab, tbe most oonapioaoas feature of which is a thermometer like a hawk, and chilled water is added from time to time to koep tbe temperature oi tbe mixture down. Should it evinoe a aadden do tire to rise there is nothing for all to do but ran. After all the aeida bare been added the mixture is allowed to stand, and than nitro-glyocriue oomoa to tbe lop like eream in milk. It is ikimmdl off and oacrlod to another bones, where It Je mixed with the prepared taw material, principally sawdust. When tbe coalition bee been eflsotod tbe resatt la loose dynamite, looking for all tho world like brown soger. It is conveyed so another building, called the peek boaae,wbere it is stalled into the cartridges. Tbs loose dynamite ia placed in a dampened trough on a damp table, and the man All tho long narrow tabes with the staff, using wooden sooops. Orest onto is taken that none of it drops an tbe floor, ee a happening of that kind might bo tbe preliminary of a big disaster. In this room the eertridges ate peaked for shipment. The women in the factory are employed in s Utile boose given over to making the paper oape tor the (■rtridges. As there is no danger aSoStbb work, meshlnery is em ployed to some extent, and as a result! only a dozen women are employed. As little finished dynamite is kept on the ground ss possible. Stock is never maintained. Tho dynamite is shipped off as rapidly as it is made into cartridges, and the burden of watching it passee on to others. ONE OF NATURE’S VAGARIES. A Carious Tree Formation Growing on a Farm in Mew Jersey. The white oak represented by the eat is growing on the farm owned bp Miss Rhode Hampton,on the Hampton Bead, lorth of the Mariton Turnpike, and about four mile* from Camden, N. J. The larger body is 2xlJ feet in its diameter and the smaller 14x2 feet. It appears to be sound end quite solid above the union. Tho earlioat date the writer could learn of its being ob served, says B. Bingham, in Meehan's Monthly, was about forty years ago, when it was said to be about as large aa’a man's body. There has been much discussion uto the cause of the sing || yIJ It || i|H|ju Ml H «.* A FHXAK OF NATURE. alar growth. The inside of the parts are more nearly flat and the outside moro oval, as indieating a split, hot the trunks axe too far apart at tho ground. The smeller trunk is larger just below the union than farther down, as if a branch had been turned down and rooted; but the writer thinks that as u fence formerly ran through the opening, two saplings had been drawn together and bound with a withe to serve as stakes to hold the rails in place. The marked rod gives the dimensions of the opening more correotlv then the medium-sized man who stood back out of the shade of the trank. The editor of Meehan's comment is that “this is undoubtedly a esse of natural inarohing, the onion having oooorxed at an early age. Very good reasons, derived from a knowledge of the manner in whieh wood is formed, would be adducod against the idea of a SHI trunk, as also against the suggse* in of a branch turned down and root ing. No theory but natural inarch ing will suit the cnee.” SEA GULL*FOULED THE LOG. Captain Wondered Why the Patent Device Wouldn’t Work. When the British steamship Pacific, on a recent trip, was nearly half way across the Atlantio the patent log re fused to work. The log wee trailing astern as usual, but Captain Young could got no results from the indi cator. ms sb a «rox& ms rnmrenn. At two bolls of tho forenoon watch be ordered a sailor to haul in the lino to learn the osuse of the trouble Only a few fathom* had been reeled when a sea gull was pulled, dripping with spray, from the wake. The bird, Whieh was still slive, had become entangled with the line in a most intricate way. The eord was wound around its head and legs, and, during the efforts of the sailors to ex tricate the victim, beoame entangled with its wings also. It was noocssary to break the gull's neck in order to straighten the log line Sailors aay that tbs obstruction of a ship's log by birds, as wall ss fish, is not rare, and that an albatross will frequently foul the line. Daring 1396 the big Anaconda oop per mine, in Montane, earned a profit 0f14,000,000, the output la that year being 107,000,000 pounds of copper, nearly MO,OOO onuses of silver end shout 13,000 onuses of gold. More than §1,000,000 was spent oa impro.#- 1 1H Your Gifts. If you have tbs gift of seeing, over look for beauty; Noting faults 1* all year blonds, I* plainly not your duty. 1! you hare the gift of hearing, list to what Is mast; Shut your sacs to everyt blag that is not good and sweat If you have tho gift of talking, use but pleas ant WOllig; Let your spoMh lie glad and cherry as the songs ot birds. —Emma a Dowd, In Tooth’s Oompenloa. The Gingerbread Man. Bat live years old was little Nau When the tell to love with a gingerbread man She said as she placed him beside her oup, “I levs you enough to eat you up!'* And then the roguish little miss Devoured her sweetheart with sklss; "How utes yon sreP' said little Nan— And that was the end ot the gingerbread min. Tears passed, and the maid to womanhood grew. And she had of sullon a dooeu or'two; But she found mono ae sweet a* the ginger bread man i "Far be was a regular snap.” sighed Nan. —The Commonwealth. The Blossom of Mr Heart. Amro eyesn-tsrlnkle, Amber looks aronri. Silver laugh a-tlmkle, Shining teeth o' pearl i Whan she Is nigh Igasaaadslgh I cannot fly Tho spot; Thera is no fairer blossom than That sweet Forget-me-not. 1 Poets sing ot bsryls,* Gems ot peerless has; Could they meet the perils In her eyes of Mae. Each captive wight To he her knight With wild delight Would plot; For sbo cm smile to wlteh the world. My sweet Forget-me-not When the blossoms shimmer In the dawn o* May When her glee grows dimmer On oar wedding day, And la my pride I lead my bride w ir. The blossom o’ my heart forays, My sweet Forget-me-not! —Samuel M. Peek, In Boston Transcript As to Friends and Xfiasmles. Preserve me from my friend, because I whis per la hie ear The little secrets I’d not like a cruel world to hear; And It he at some loose-toagued time gives forth what I have said, The world will say be speaks the truth, and sadly wag Us head. But If my enemy should spread that self same troth, yon see, The world would cry "We doubt It—he’s the fellow’s enemy!” —John Kendrick Bangs,in Harpor’a Weekly. A Commonplace Letter. It Eeemed so Uttie, the thing yon did— Just to take the pen la your band, And send the warm heart's greeting, hid ’Neath the common two-oent stomp of the land. But over the mountains and over the plain, And away o'er the billowy prairiw went The email, equate letter, to soothe the patn Os one who w» betted with discontent, HhevrastU and tired t the long, hot day ' Had worn itself to the merest shred; The last ot the light, aa ft Abed away, Fall on her patient needle and thread. A shadow came flying across the apace Where the fading sunlight Uttered through; There vme just the gleam of a sweet young face, And u volco said, "Here Is e letter for you.” The quick tears blurred In a sudden mist, But she brushed them away, and then she smiled, And you should have scan how aba Mewed and kissed The postmark's circlet, like a child. Why, the name brought baok the long ago When aha dressed m her best of afternoons. When she found It a pleasure to alt and sew, AwMrer seams were hammed to tripping tunes. Poverty, change, and the drudgery Os work that goes on witbont an and. Had fettered the heart that wae light and free, ' - Till aheM almost forgotten she had * friend. The people at home so seldom write. Her youth and Us pleasures lie all behind; She was tblokiag bitterly but last night That "out of sight Is out of salad.” Now, here Is your letter! The old hills break Beyond these levels flat and green; She thrills to the thrush as his flute notes woke In the vesper hush of the woods serene; She sits again in the little ehurob. And lifts bar vole* In tho ohoir once more-. Or stoops for a four-leaved clover to search In the grass that ripples up to the door. It ws« very little It meant for you— An boor at best when the day was dona; But the words you seat rang sweet and true, And th*y carried eomfort find cheer to one Who wee needing to feel a clasping hud. And to haar the voieeeehe used to bear; And the little letter, the breadth of the laud, Was tho currier-dove that brought home naan -Mix V. Sangsttr, la Christian Advocate. A Chinese Superstition. The Hong Kong Telegraph say* (hut the foot that Id Hung Chang’* ooffla, whieh ho carried with him on hi* trip around the wot Id, wa* burned in a fir* on tho steamer Glaoartnay, Indl dat«e to th* Chinese snperstitibti* mind that the great stateaman will reeeh a Very old eg*. A New Ornamental Plant A new ornamental plant from Japan, phyulis francheti, promise* to rival the Otahelte orange and the Jerusalem cnerry tree as on ornamental formed tree for bourn docoratton. It form* many curious fruits which have In flated calyces two to three inches in diameter, Inclosing fruits the slie of large cherries. These calyces ore at first green, but during the last of Aug ust turn to a brilliant orange-scarlet, the Inclosed fruit* taking the sum color. Their rise make* these calyces very showy and they dry well. It is a hardy and promise* to make a flue pot plant.—Detroit Free Press. Number of Living Animal Species. The cdltore of the Zoological Record have recently drawn up a table that In dicate* approximately tbs' number of living species of animal*. The follow ing are the figures given: Mammal*, 2,600; reptiles and batmehian*. 4,400; tunicate 900; brachlopods, 160; crus taceans, $0,000; myriapods, 3,000; echln oderma, 3,000; coclonterata, 2,000; pro tozoans, 6,100; bird*. 12,600; Ashes, ?V 000; mollusks, 60,000; bryozoan*. 1,800; arachnids, 10,000; insects, 230,000; ver mes, 6,150; sponge*. 1,600. denera] total, 366,000 distinct specie*. Comfort OMtu SO Cunts. irritating, aggravating, agonising Tetter, Biv tents, Hlugvrorm sud all other lti-hlnc skin dis eases are quietly cured by tho use of Tetterlne. It Is soothing, cooling, healing. C«un St) cents a box, post paid—bflngseomfort aionce Address J. x. Mhuptrlne, Savanna);. Oa WRM billons or costive, rat a Cnwiret, candy cathartic: ante guaranteed; 10.-., 26c. To the Southern Baptist Convention, At Wilmington, N, 0., ilay 3tb to lttb, iftW, the Seaboard Air 14ns otters the best service, quickest routes and a half rate- la addition to the regular superb donbUvdaily service, it h uruposed to run three ‘‘BspUbt Special Train." from Vlrgtuis, North Carolina, i-outh CUrolina and Heoi-cla, making imme diate connections with trains from nil points North, South. East and West, kor special printed matter, maps, time-tables, rates, tickets, sleepers and nil Information, address or call <m B. A. Nawland, den’) Ast., Paaa’r DcpU, 0 Kimball House, Atlanta. Da., or T. J. Anderson, Oen’l Pa*»’r Apt, Portsmouth, Yu. HOW’S TkltT W* offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for K3.?8&?K55.““ _ F. J.CHE3r*T&Co.,To*do,a Wjjth* undoreigncd. have known I’. J. Che ney for the last U yssre. and believe him per foelly honorable) in all buninem traaiAfdoziß Md financially able to carryout any oblige- Uon made by their firm. WibtA Tito ax. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, Wauumo. Kunux <fc Marti*. Wholesale Dm?vista, Toledo, Ohio. Hail's Catarrh Ours Is taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the -rstem. Testimonial* sent free. Tho number of preatitioDSin holding Brit ish qualifications ia tho Untied- Kingdom and out ot it in tho medicsl directory for IB9? Is 34.334, an lncr«as > of 964 over that in the sumo work ior 1896. Xo-To-Kae for VUty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not letNo-To-Bae reirnlate or remove your desire for tobsroof Haves money, makes health and manhood. Onre guaranteed. 60 cents and {,1.00, at all druKrtsts. ADSoomoc, na.. maxes tramps work In the streets. We think Mw’i Cure for Ooneumptlo* Is the only nsedtdne for Coughs.—J meant PibCX AHP, Spring*eld. IDs- Oct. 1, MB. Cascumt* stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken nr gripe; lOe. FITS stopped ; free and permanently owed. No fits after first day’s nee of Dr. Kune's Ox sat NxuvxKiMOKXH.Freef* trial bottleand treat, iec. Beau to Dr. Kline, 9*l Arch St., Phils., Pa. SCROFULA SWELLINGS On Our Boy’s Neck Grew Larger and Larger Until we breams alarmed. In Bey we pur chased a battle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and the child began taking it. We gave our ion Hood's Sarsaparilla until the sore waa entirely healed. He is now permanently cured.” W. C. K*st- HBR, Mlleaburg, Pa. Remember Hood’s 8 p™n'.a Istbebest—lp fact the One True Blood Purifier. lla.JI. Dill* B *t harmoiiiouely with HOOfl S PHIS Jood’e Sarsaparilla. Corn is a vigorous feeder and its sponds well to liberal fertiliza tion. On com lands the yield increases and the soil improves if properly treated with fer tilizers containing not under 1% actual Potash; A trial of this plan costs but little and is sure to lead to profitable culture. All about Pot Mb—the lewlta nf ft* me by actual «► pertinent aa the beat farm* In the United States—to told in a little book which we publish end edit «W y ■Sil Bin W any fanaei in America wke wW write A* «,
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