Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-05

tanning the one hundredth part of grain.
1t is called trinitrin, and Is nitro glycerine
Of a pure quality, possessing at first all the
explosive power Of that article. The last is
removed by it's mixture with alcohol, and
the tablet is formed Of sugar, milk or other
inert substances.
Il had discovered the remedy, but where
was the patient? Who would allow him.
self to be treated with nitro glycerine, even
though should assure him that its explo-
slve properties had been removeda had
no patients in the little town. One day
shortly after had made my wonderful dis
covery l was acoosted by tramp, who
begged for coin to purchase meal. l
was about to turn him away when bril-
liant thought struck me. / said to him
Follow me- and he went with me to my
room. locked the door.
He was an ordinary-looking tramp, but
the demon of recklessness was plainly
shown in his 'devil-may-care' eye Why
had 1 invited him to my rooml He had
Brights disease; my professional eye de-
tected that.
my man, said to him, do you want
to earn hundred dollars and leave hepe a
month hence a well MANI You have
Bright's disease and can cure YOU
had ceased talking. But l told him Just
what wanted of him. He was to take nv
nitro-glycerine tablets, as / should direct,
for thirty days ! would feed him, clothe
him, and when the time was UP give him
one hundred dollars. l warned him that it
was but an experiment, of which he was the
subject, and that the consequences might
be good; if not, he might bid farewell to
h,tv 1-,,ar fo., oil
only wanted to be fair with him.
1.-The explanation made no difference. Ii
the experiment was successful he was that
much better off. II not, why, who cared
about tramp, any ways It was evident
that / had gained prize.
IAN hour later the tramp came to me, re-
freshed and rehabilitated. I had made
some Of the precious tablets in portable
laboratory, and gave him the first Dose The
next few hours were anxious ones. But no
harm came Three times day did the
tramp come to my room and swallow one of
the tablets. In few Gays wonderful i'm
provement became evident. Ny discovery
was sure to prove the greatest remedial
agent of the age.
1.-THE thirty days had passed / was walk
ing with gentleman upon high and steep
bluff that overlooks the charming valley of
the Passumpsic. 1t was my tramp! Clothed
in the garb of gentleman, his countepance
radiant with the flush of health, none would
have recognized him as the miserable Great
ure that besought me to give him coin but
o month ago. He was living monument
Of the success of my great remedial dis
covery.
sit was very slippery upon the bluff. Sleet
had fallen the day before and the path was
icy and treacherous. My companion stepped
100 near the edge, and warned him, but he
laughed and continued on his perilous way.
he slipped and disappeared. The
bluff was over hundred feet high.
He would be killed.
lone or two awful seconds that seemed
like ages followed. could not move
''Then heard an awful explosion that
shook the precipice. What had happeneda
looked over the bluff, but could see moth
ing more than thin smoke curling slowly
upward. / ran to the foot Of the bluff by
D clrcuItous route available to a man of my
years and strength. Where was the trampa
He must have fallen right here. could see
nothing but riven rock The awful truth
flashed upon me. He had exploded.
Il never found so much as a hair Of him.
BE must have become thoroughly lmpreg-
mated with nitro-gly cerine. My formula
had failed. had not succeeded in destroy
ng the explosive property of the deadly /
agent. The tramp was never missed. No,
hat is not true. missed him. l wanted /
@ find out just how the human body re-
,eived and retained explosive properties"
CHARLES Y BARTON