The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-28

excavations the remains of camps of later Indians were revealed These consisted of oyster shell heaps, charrsd and burned earth and fragments of cooking utensils. These discoveries were made fully ten feet above the graves which contained the gigantic skeletons.
 There have been other discoveries in Maryland of remains of men Of trench dOus stature. 4 skeleton was discover ed at Queen City several years ago which measured a fraction over seven fleet six inches. This skeleton was iT- tered in regular burying mound and beads manufactured by white men were found upon it. This dead Indian was probably one of the tribe mention ed by Captain John Smith, who, in July 16OS made a voyage of explora- ton of the Chesapeake Bay.
 mixture produces. The distributing process, by which the factory's pro- duction is got to the consumer, is more Interesting than the process of mixing the acids and the glyeerine. Every morning dozen or so unusual wagons l elAC OeASNGA AP lO NA4E AsLAAllAAlo cbAAA SkOGh department of the factory and the horses are securely tied. These wagons have long, shallow beds, and over these beds is a heavy top that is bound down securely by heavy iron bars that are fastened and held in place by bolts and screws. Along the sides of the bed runs the warning: "Nitroglycerine- i Dangerous" made all the more con- spicuous by the use of red paint.
 These are nitroglycerine freight trains. They are driven in a fast walk across the country by nervy drivers, who have good. heavy horses. Each wagon is loaded with 300 quarts-ninety Iof the -half-gallon cans - which are securely packed in padded compartments. The padding is of felt, and the cans push down into the com partments snugly. When once there, the cans have no play and there is no vibration of them. Even the bottoms and tops are padded to hold the cans firmly. The extra high and sensitive springs under the wagon bed reduce the jar of the road.
 The liquid in the cans, which becomes thin in hot weather and congeals rapid fly at a temperature under forty-two degrees, swishes around some but there there is no danger in this tranSporta Ition, provided Yes-provided there is no leaky can That. above all things else, is the thing to be guarded against. A drop of nitroglycerine getting down on the axle or on a working spring, where it is subjected to even the slight est friction, means that it is all off-the whole 900 quarts-and there Is not lenough of driver or horses or wagon left to take up on plotting paper: not a piece of the wagon large enough to make respectable kindling remains to ltell the story, and the wagon tires may be found wrapped around a dis tant tree top.
 Of course jar-an unusual jar-will ldo the business sometimes, but there lare records of drivers going to sleep land the wagon being run off small cul- verts and up against fences without bad results. There are also records of smaller wagons upsetting and in one or 1.-two instances they have been butted linto by electric and steam trains. It has not been three years since car at Alexandria buried it's nose in a nitro Iglycerine wagon with only damage to the car front and the nerves of the peo- ple on the car, who did not know what had happened until it was all over, and Ethen almost became victims of nervous lprostration. J
 These freight wagons ply between the factory and the factory magazines, or local storage houses, which are sea tter- ed all over the gas and oil fields where drilling is going on. The magazines are small houses with double walls. The walls are heavy, and are about one foot apart, and between them is pack ed saWdust. They are generally hidden back in a forest and are covered over with danger" signs. They. must be at least two miles from town and halt mile from the nearest house. The in terior is lined with shelves and in the center is an oil stove, which is kept burning night and day in fall and win ter to keep the temperature above freezing point. The freight wagons are unloaded at these magazines and the stock there is turned over to the "snooter." It becomes his supply tc draw on in shooting oil and gas wells.
 These freiglrters' trips across the country are lonely drives, Seldom dC they find any one along their road who wishes a ride on their wagons, though they are going in the right direction
 When they pass through hamlets 2 wide berth is given them, and they drive around cities and larger towns instead of going through them. Offer they are unable to find without great trouble. place to put up for the night or to get their meals, though they offcl to put their wagons a half mile from the house they would grace with theil presence. They are outcasts while or the road, and often their trips are a
 week long. The trip from Hartford City to the Knightstown fields and re- turn takes eight days, and the trip tC the Medaryville field, in the northern part of the state, requires two weeks.
 Spring, summer and fall, of course are the best months for the nitroglyce
 rine workers As long as the nitrogly. cerine flows well and there are nc
 leaks, and the roads are good, there ar, few mishaps. But when winter come.
 on and the nitroglycerine begins to con