The morning news., 1893-12-03
..suppFNLY- RxpLopEp.p
If the Expression Is Ever Justihable,
1t Is in Connection With Dynamite.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
I was winding in and out among the
hills Of Pennsylvania on a railroad train
when seized with desire to smoke. The
smoking car was an ordinary one, and
about half filled with men in blouse and
overalIs, smoking clay pipes When I Sc
lected a seat 1 found leather bag on the
floor and gently kicked it out of the way
II moved in grudging way, and l sat
down and put my feet on it. had smoked
nv cigar about half up when one of the
miners, having finished his pipe. knocked
the ashes out, lOunged over TO me, and
said:
Il wouldn't bear down too hard, mis-
ter"
oh the bag?7
Yes; ! wouldn't kick too heavy on it. -
Got some tools in there you are afraid
may get broken, ehH'
we call it dynamite, sir.
Great Scott, you don't mean to say
yes, it's dynamite" he quietly OBJ
Served, as he sat down beside me and
reached for the bag. Il suppose you've
seen it put up in cartridges before now!
You know how We use 'em! | believe
they estimate that each Of these ten
cartridges has the force Of
Don't take them out" ] yelled,
shrinking as far away from him as pos
sible
"Of course, sir, but there is no occasion
for alarm. Eve been handling dynamite
in all shapes and forms for the last fifteen
years and never had an accident You
must have conclusion to explode one of
these, sir, and who's going to tap this one
with a hammer or fire it out of the win
dow against rOck?"
But be careful not to drop it on the
floor. Ugh! Is there any more of the
stuff in this caF!''
quite a tidy bit of it, sir There's
twelve men of us, and guess we would
you wanted to see them"
mo- no, I'll be thankful enough III I
get clear of your ten without being blown
through the roof. How much rock, for
instance would one of these cartridges
bring down."
How much rock Well, that would be
according to the lay of things If it was
a cliff with goodly overhang to it, and
this cartridge was placed just right, the
downfall would be enough to build fine,
large warehouse, with few carloads of
small pieces left over for making pave
ment. If it was plumb up and down cliff
without any seams or Crevices, and the
stone was hard and tough a few pieces
weighing 200 pounds or so would be al
you COulu reasonably 6A p6CJ. 1U'S DedQJl
full stuff, sir, beautiful, aud the man who
invented it was genius
But you are digging your own heels
into that bag" | shouted as he moved his
/ hob-nailed boots around without the
slightest care.
80 was, sir, but as long as there was
no explosion no harm has been done. Its
| agin the law to throw dynamite cartridges
! from a car window, or I'd give you an ex
hibition worth seeing. The good old days
| seem to have passed away
What do you mean by the good ole
! days"
! why, the time when one could fins
! one of these things out of the window anC
| make hole in a ledge large enough for
! the der Of a bear What brought out .
! law agin it was the mistake made by {
near-sighted man. He threw a cartridge
| at a ledge, which he supposed was all Ot
| thirty feet away, while it wasn't actually
y over eight The result was that piece
| of rock weighing 100 pounds struck the
! first passenger coach, smashed its way in
J and | believe man and his wife were
; killed. They had poor Jim in jail for 4
year, and everybody cussed his eyes in
! stead of feeling sorry that they had de