Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-09
A CLOSE THING.
Nitro Glycerine Behind a Runaway
Team.
BRADFORD. Pa. February 81

BRADFORD, Pa, February -.
4 few days since Harvey McHenry, en-
ployed by the Roberts Torpedo Company as
shooter" of oil wells, set out with fifty
quarts Of nitro lycerine in his wagon, to
shoot well in Berger Hollow. He had
packed his fifty one-quart cans with unus-
ual care in a specially constructed wagon
The road he was obliged to take was very
hilly, and was slippery with ice, and his
horses becoming frightened, ran at break
neck speed down a steep hill. McHenry
held Oh to the lines, although he knew that
every jump of the horses threatened to ex-
plode the nitro glycerine under his seat
Half way down the hill he saw that the
wagon would in all probability hit tree a
few feet further down.
Il know says McHenry, ''that l stood
very little chance of my life by jumping
from the wagon but [ felt that not bit OF
me would be left if / stuck to the seat. ]
sprang out among the rocks and brush. |
was hurt so badly that / couldn't get up,
but l retained my senses. l knew that was
so close to the tree that [ would be torn to
pieces when the explosion occurred. [ shut
my eyes and lived year in second. No
explosion came, and I glanced down the
road and saw the wheels of the wagon just
touch the trunk of the tree. 1t had barely
passed the tree when the wagon was over
turned The horses kept on, dragging the
wagon along, tumbling over and over as 1t
went | never had known nitrO-glycerine to
withstand one quarter of the jar without
exploding. The wagon turned over four
times before the horses reached the bottom
of the hill. There they brought up against a
tree and stopped. Then | tainted dead away
The Seven Bibles of the World.
The seven Bibles of the world are the KO-
ran of the Mohammedans, the Tri-Pitikes
of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chi
nese, the three Vedas of the HindoOs, the
Zendavesta, and the Scriptures Of the Chris
tians. The Koran is the most recent of these
dating about the seventh century after Christ.
1t is Il compound of quotations trom the
old and new testaments the Talmud and
the Gospel of st. Barabas. The Eddas of the
Scandinayians were first published in the
fourteenth century. The Pitikes Of the Budd-
hists, contain certain sublime morals, and
pure aspirations, and their author lived and
died in the sixth century before Christ.
There is nothing of excellence ia these sa-
cred books not found in the Bible. The sa-
cred writings of the Chinese are called the
Five Kings, the word King meaning web of
cloth. They contain the best sayings of the
best sages on the duties of life. These say
ings cannot be traced farther back than
eleven hundred years before Christ. The
Three Vedas are the most ancient books OF
the Hindoos, and they are believed to date
not beyond eleven hundred years before
Christ The Zendavesta of the Persians is
the greatest Of sacred books next to our
Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains,
was born in the twelfth century before
Christ Moses lived and wrote the Penta-
teuch fifteen hundred years before Christ,
therefore that portion of our Bible is at least
lhree hundred years older than the most
ancient of other sacred writings