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ill 1'. ( i' ! ( 1 j ! i! i ? II H ' 4 i i i 5 j RISKY BUSINESS" VlUCfl FKKII CONNECTED WITH 3IAKIXG GUNPOWDER. Varibns Processes of Manufacturing the Kxplosivc Ingredients Used How the Powder is Caked and Classified. HE first process in the pow der-making is the weighing oat and mixing of the insre- f9 dients. The charcoal and sn'phnr are put together in the right proportions and thoroughly pulverized by placing them in swiftly revolving barrels or drums with a number of small iron cannon balls. In rubbing against the sides of the barrel and be ing ground between the balls the mix ture becomes homeogenous and verv fine. It is then taken oat and the proper amount of saltpeter is added. Again the charge goes to the drums, this time copper or zinc balls beinr substituted for iron, beciue they are much less likely to ignite the powder. After having been rolled for several hours the workmen take the mass out, and after moistening it a little to pre- j vent accidents, they carry it swav in I a ringer ly fashion to the crushing j mills or "wheel houses as thev are ' called. . I - A wheel house is built with due! deference to the explosive nature of the powder. Seemingly every oppor- xunity is given it to blow evervthin to atom. On three sides of the t.uilding, which is twenty feet square, there are enormously strong stone walls varying in thickness from thirtv s:x to sixty inches. The fourth side and the roof are constructed of light boards so thtt if the. powder "-oes on"' it will do as little harm as pos sible. Inside of the inelosure stand the grmiing mills. Tney consist of lare basins, not unlike 'small foun tain with sloping sides, usually made of smooth limestone. From thecenttr a shaft rises and fastens to the axle of a huge stone wheel or "chaser," weighing twenty-four tons. The.ma cniuery for operating the shaft i Usually hidden away underground I where it will be uninjured in case of an fxpiosion. When the powder ha? been spread ever the bottom of the basin and moistened a little the great chaser be gins to ramble around over it crunch ing and kneading it as a woman would kneai her dough. At one side of the Yheel tbere i3 a busy little mechanical device, made all of wool, and known to the workmen a? n "plow," which roots up the powder after the wheel cashes it down. Is e ;t h? imagined that the workmen spe little time in the pla?e as possible. Xu-re is no telling a what mm-ntihe whole thin will blow up. 'ilicy just around the comer of the stone wxll and dole in from time to time ftly in their rubber boots and moisten up the charge. In case of an txplosion there is an automatic device which will let a wole link of water down over th -wheels, thus helping to extinguish the flames. " When the mass is uniform in com position and the time necessarilv varies from eight to sixteen hours tie V;e," as it is now calle-J, is removed r.ui cairied to the "breaking-down machine by means of an endless canvas belt having strips of leather sewed across it. Here it I being a dark gray, hard and lnsterless, bu-ongiy resembling a boy's slate "without a frame. The degree of pres sure given is one of the most impor tant considerations in the process of powder manufacture, the ultimate density of the powder being deter mined by it, and this in turn deter mining the rate of combustion. By merely varying the degree of pressure the powder may be made either vio lently explosive or mild and easy in its action. fi The cakes of powder are now car ried aloe? on a canvas bait tn th4 coming or granulating machine. Thii 'consist? of a series of copper rollers ! separated by screens of varying sizes jof meshes. After being" crushed j through the first set of rolls the finest powder falls through the screen and ; the rest in shaken on down to the see I ond set and so on to the end, where ihe powder pours from the various screens into trucks. The grains thus obtained sre sharply angular and re quire rouuding and smoothing to pre vent their line edges from beincr ground into dust by the wear of handling and transportation! While still moist from the corning machines the granu lated powder is put into- rolling bar rels or "tumblers," where it is re volved from six to twenty-four hours. The friction of grain upon grain wears it perfectly smooth. Sometimes the glazing is heightened by the addition j of a minute quantity Jf , graphite, a lauiespoontni ot whicn will impart its -I ead: i5TX3T SHOTS. The man who is on the fence m a great moral issue, ! usually finds it a barbed-wire fence. i f Better to veto in the air than to- vote in the mud. It is Letter to bo heart-strong than head- Th half a ton of the ; peculiar lustre to ' powder I The last operation, drying or "stov I ig," takes place m a long, low room ( heated to a temperature of 130 to 113 i. degrees. Gunpowder is classified according to the size of the meshes through which the grain is sifted. The United States Government designated it as a musket, mortar, cannon and mammoth-powder. Seme other kinds of powder are cut or molded by pressure into various shapes and "sizes, the grains often being two inches square. Others for artillery use are the shape oi iron washers and have a hole in the middle. These powders are made arge and pressed more compact so that they will burn with less rapiditv. in big guns the use of small-drained iowder causes - rrp?t on"ir,;;i strain before the projectile is started that a good deal of force is lost Chicago Record. .e liquor , traCc :"s a ' highwavman. who cemands, not your coney or your life, bu your icsey 'in-i your iif" Seme mn wil : ny i r twenty minutes, "; cud then ask the ilord to forgive them their short-ccmiegs. He is a mean -rssr. tvho works for the devil and looks to God for pay. The rum business Las three pillars appe tite, avarice and apahy. ' No man's name is iikejyto be en the rum eellers application for lie rise and the Lamb's took c ate at the same time. It is a poor religion that rursts out on Suuday and br.rsts up cn ilenday. It was Great-Heart, r ot Great-Head, who was sect to conduct Christiana and her chil dren to the Celestial City. He who lives within the sound of a care met is unconscious of its roar. Men have Scusht to save their r-nfi-r- ' tut who, befcre Jesus, sought to save ttse world? Jesus docs no: slmr !y give light he is the Light. He.dots net :L:-r the war. he is the Way. i ' ' Creatures below man cannot prav ; these above him, need not. To s"n is wickfd. tzl to tcmr.t others to sin is Devilish. " The man -who does ore thiig is terrible. Heathenism has no homes. Temperance takes the man from the saloon, x rohititicn takes the ?aloon from the man. Simeon heid Jesus m his arms, but we can hold him in cur hearts. Antmomiarisrii feetis the roots cf hell with the dews of heaven. ' i God had but one sen, and he becarre a rmssioiiary. The use of wine end beer as a remedy for crunenneis is hke swcllowins a cat to cktch a mouse. plain common lamp or lantern whh can carry about in the hand. It i- ' Cc 'uiito the feet," not throwing it3 bea-s I?9 not iiJuminiiig a hemisphere, w "di, ' only on the one little bit of dusv" roa which the pilfrrim's feet are waikiu- rtQ doty for the moment is always clear aLd th j when we do the little that is clear v-V f carry the Uht on, and it wiii shine th next moment's step. - lC9 -Keep Thou my fet : I do not a-k to The distan: scene; one step enough f.;r n i Tw . r 1 4-il7. J- I, itiiier. I). D. nrAi. sonow. outward liff n-ay occion it, but VhTri'viM life sustains it "The heart fcnoweth rsV bi:ter::ess."i Sorrow eommnc wi'h -seives. Pity is its dom:natm element it knows no rage, nor hate, nor resatmp-t It drives the thoughts upward toward G' and heaven, and. eternity. L It Eakes th f blessed atode of the fature seem Jik a ne cessity to give meaning to iifp. r,jn "' tion to death and compensation for bound less pain. JGrace is the only talm foror" row. Time may duli the pain of the wound, but hope cf plad reunion is th onlv real solae1. i Ii the Christian's hor ould p-erisb. the af2icte.j h-ait would t- hop le and the despair that kills would be the high est gochi. Thank God ! ILs gr&c is uqI ci nt. No depth of human misery is as den as the divine; mercy. -GohI doth distil out of the bitterest drink History air oarsa.va tioTL To tie trusting heart there is au Undercurrent of comfort in the deepest waters of sorrow through which mortal isevr ealW to pass. 2lichigan Christian Advocate. I - A Diriy Kjw. iw i,.tti two ?i ot cot?rer rollers arrange 1 s-j tt t thev wiU spring apart if the presure"is too great between them. It shifts from tne lower end of the machine like fine ius: or 4 -meal into trucks in which it is trundled aw to the powder press, and ordinary hydraulic press, in which the power can be absolutely controlled by movement of the rin ger. The meal is stacked into the form of a great cheese two cr three feet in ttiameter and three or four feet hiziC consisting of layers of powder one to two inches thick, separated bv di-ks f coppe r or vulcanite. Then the pis ton logins to strain upward out of the watt- and tne powder, is reduced i.vrly oae-tali in thickness, the caies The Mongols, says Frank G. Carpenter, are! perhaps as tiirtv as any other psople in the world. Those whom I saw Were greasy and filthy both as to their clothes and their per' sons. I am to! j they never wash their bodies, and seldom their faces and hands. The poorer classes dress m rags, but the richer wear ecsiiv gar men is lined with the nnest lamb- sim l nave a picture of a Mongolian j Princess who ws at Pekin a year or so ago. Her head was framed in sil j ver beads, and she had long tassels of f silver hasging dow.rom her black fur cap. Her hair was done up in two j long braids, which were pulled around I over tne ears and hung down over the j breast. Tuee brails .ire often smeared I with glue, which makes the hair shine and keeps it in place. Tne -irl was ivery beautiful, and some "of the younger girls are by ro means oai i looking. They fade "soon, however, ; and the older women whom I saw madi ' me think of our lniian squaws. The havf sight clothes, and thev sleep i in the same garment wh ch thev usa during the dsy. They have no'such things ss stoves, A fire is built inida their tent, and the smoke goes cut a the roof. The tents are made of skin and sometimes of cloth. Thev are circular in ehape, and the rleopla huddle up in them and sit ud sleep where they can. ; rrrrxETLT srrs. . -Sin1 as a caterpillar is bad enough, frit sin as a butterfly is a thousand times worse. The butlerSy, for all its gersrecus colorings .is only a caterpillar with wings. The swallow recognizes it a worm ana makes his din ner on it in spite of the winsrs. So sin is tne same disgusting thing at the bottom, how ever concealed under an attractive name. In the interests both of truth and cf virtue the circumlocutions euphemisms at present so much in vogue oueht to be stern v discarded. Not many comprehend the power of words. To change the name of a thing is equivalent with most persons .to chancing its cnaracter. The true name of a sin is the best exposure of it, strips off its seductiveness, and sets forth in the' glaring !i2ht of. its own gross ness. The eff ort to dc away with these Main, hemeiy words and gild over wickedness'must be resisted. j ' He who jocosely alludes to the deviias'-th Oil S:ck.-" or fhis Sanan:c msjestv.- has done something to put cut the Srts 6t right eous indignation against the Evil One Te smooth, fair phrases under which crimes are so frequontly alluded to in the public prints do much to deianch putii.' sentiment. Adciiery is an unfashicnatk word; so :s lymg and theft:, but if th terms were raiihiuliy applied ;o what ar p.ias&ntiv called -marital infidelities ecmmercial inverf-ciues. " -financial irrecu iannes n would t much tner for th mortu health cf the community Ccnversa- It has ben menticned before th' trtr-t to carry the Gospel into Thibet. Ii about the only land; on earth where Christlanit v is refuse.i admission. Several missicnarv bands have ben organized at different times and started off with the idea of capturing Thibet for Christ. But, according to latest rpor they are still ; lingering outside the cid doors of Thibet, meanwhile improving thir time by perfecting themselves in th lan guage. However, it i? confident- hoe-i and eip-ected that admission t the missionaries will be granted in tne course of a Tear or so. TEMPERANCE. ;.- Ia-.y things are done for ''charity's sweet t-iatshsuld n-'it zl-'a "-, t-es-? ttiurs is the indisri minate silm cf intoxieating drinks at open-air festival! 15 -er issaiito t-? the least intDii eating of strong enn csj. but when beer is soli int"' ru.me of charity, to ilttle boys in shot r aiti u ;s time o call a halt. Or'eans m.. I" T tion is ed nal. Let us keep to the strof g Angio-Saion woris wherein yea and nation. iy is nay. lest we vea is into cx ndem- a. vencixo or irn. Int?mr-eranbe. an evil most heinous bf-- G :d. mst dreadful in its results, has crows amoag us to gigantic proportions. In tin -ountiess homes it . shoots its venom-la dea' anss. and annual'v. aye, dailv, it gathers into its ceils j whole heeatombs of victims. i r:e is teit thrr-ugh the entire land, an 4 everywhere it revels with dem nia na ture in sin rmi miserv AIC---201 ocean-Uke". 2ds the ianl. Mill ..ucs u3 not satisfy us: fermentari?u and --uaticn are calle.d into servW to pro vie it in more uniiminUhe-i vi-r- ani waaer it t-e Jvine or whisky, the vH art of ..-..erauon is often ext-i:vi f enhau' its maddening power. '. ' ' With this immense consumrti-rn of alv u :n what a volcano of evil an i mirv hZ.lt;?21 expenditure: of SirB 1- l!eexrept pleas- excitement, is the least dep-loraMe re- how TO.wiy rstsyrs. True friendship is bevond tdi rrica.' rc-r isth- frind,ess master cf a wor d: a world m pu-rctr.se for a friend is gam." A crowd is net comrnny. ax'd talk is tht tattle vherv ttre :sr:o ,ove. A friend orens the heart! ci.uuv rvieving me rrtssure of -ritf ; he strengthens "the c.ar;:y:nc the -md. wonuerfuliv ie ucn a ana s- r? i-jt? .t--:,-- movements of thought. Jot's - -g- ue corrects cur thoughts lv anu tartiilui admcnitiens. He wLo-se presence is we He 1 1 -. y tJn r. ?. nd tet-i . rr:Vv v brrngs cct the te-si there is in His e.ty is a perpetual fountain cf refrestm-t. His conndtr.ee in us no anar f - em;n" wrtng , an for a moment shake. WhVri cu- cet-a is sorest he clings the " c::sest. Full o tenicrnesi and ft;ll of truth. weal o we-, his place 3 by our sice, ms truth un diminished, his band and heart it cur dis posal We well may ssy. "Lord, give us such a friend as this. And then, what e'er mav come W--li taste e'en h. re the hallow Jd bliss Cf c ur eternal home."' Tie "Lcrd osus is sure'V s-siJ t- k ? fceril " ho smcely sUk Bow lur is tlfzccd. SilTrr is cleaned at the sho-a br pressing the pi against' ' a rioidiV j revo.Ting wheel made of nr rolls- canto an- I ""k ju.is. xae wge;-i reuchc j all irregularities of the surface aud tn j silver is poashed without ' bei 1 scratched. Chi-eco Timc-s Ucral- a Gen s cnriscn. One who carries a lan: em c: urn rc d mgm sees onlv one ste-. be-e Vs- ies tax one step, he crrieVe 1 tem forward and thus" makes rlarn At length he reaches his desSitit? ---. 4 m .i once iremir . hlZr'lr l light for hrm! t"-ch onlv s luustr &t a time. guidince.' His word is te usual method of G-. urto t! feet. represented its 'd S i - L is a lamp net a n a iiLthouse, tut a S-.T, . A! tiVa-. W, a , -rst wrviiens. then tctallv sus:-ni-. ; resworn M-asj. is tncajltated f&r &Ii th-? : t.es o; life, and is left without r.-ttl n a prey to his vilest and mst uxtami t sio-s. : ASeo.upl dirvtly inflsmes thes pa ficJf,: R15 oUjFi -a their burning ure. T ,.; v'e Toaih "" biasphemv an i arm? r ruer. it is th- deailv f; rrl'K'v i generous asrirv ;:;r7' tba,f-3r- substitutes in thrir tce ' ilshuess. - It makes maa t e uemc a incarnate. vf p-1"! t yourselves' two hunirel T -vl1 f rv? or; 'in the Jt: rth over the land their ai- r- -.v- JU aljohoi r-rodu-esw K:l XTXr 3 l holosts ur:a rC-tf,.v 5c.s' hearts are numt?rei wn the victims. Human wrecks wh--uneit has dissipated, whc inteUeetU t-rT wnxover the l&ni thick as Jtrrf'rt 13 for- Homes a- T- ETta-of mothers broken- th- itng morning turned 'in::. . w is to V done? Auvthing but m -oHS :f e humanity; of cosntrv. KTf; sarrl ties thkt . vur r vi nsj who die..i forsotls. 1 r - .vaiiSt mteTnr-r--... c . . ,.-1 Archvjshc-p Irel&ui. sxr rr xrjLKs. c: Ife rty: the sale cL'-r.-g sun. bet -eTcn ' Sr H-"-n;jimiu Ward
Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.)
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