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DAJXT CAfl TAIi JOUtoAt, &ALBM; ' OBEOOS, gAtPBDAY JTJWE 14, 1913.
THEY COURT DEATH
Those Who Take Liberties With
Fulminate of Mercury.
PERILS OF BLASTING CAPS.
These Dangerous and Sensitive "Play.
oy," Often Picked Up Around Quar
ries, Are Responsible For Hundreds
'Of Crippled Youngsten.
Over two children have been hurt or
ft l)erhn) crippled for life in the lust five
vears from playing with blasting caps.
If this had happened at one time what
a howl would have gone up all over the
world! But because the accidents are
spread all over the country and happen
at the rate of only about teu a month
nothing U done by the authorities. In
deed, nothing can be done except to ed
cate the whole population to realize
ow dangerous these exceedingly use
iul things are when they are out of
their proper place. And what a dread
ful thing it is going through life crip
pled or blinded for want of a little care
and knowledge.
Boys often play In and around quar
ries on Sundays and sometimes 4'lck
up stray caps and start to Investigate
Ihem. it is the rarest thing that they
ever do this without getting hurt.
They perhaps know they are danger
ous and that a spark or a blow will ex
plode them, but they do not realize
how sensitive they are. how . violent
the explosion or how the pieces of cop
per fly. Even the name Is misleading
Jn this respect. The word "caps" sug
t .gests the paper caps used with toy pis
tols, and because the blasting caps are
called by this name It Is natural to
think that the two articles belong to
the same family. They may, but they
hear about the same resemblance to
each other that a huugry man eating
tiger does to the gentle pussy cat.
There are lots of ways of getting
crippled by exploding blasting caps be
sides hlttiug them with a hammer and
putting them In the fire. Extracting
the contents with a pin distributes un
sold fingers: holding a lighted match
tinder them or thrusting the flaming
And into the cap gets Immediate ac
tion. In the mines and quarries even,
where the men who have to use blast
ing caps every day ought to know bet
ter, there are plenty of mangled hands
and punctured bides as the result of
crimping cups on fuse with a Jack
knife, pointed nnil or any tool that's
liundy.
Mauy a miner has blown a bole
through bis face In biting the cap on
the fuse, and others have filled them
selves with copper or have been killed
outright by the sparks from their bat
lamps or pipes dropping in an open
iiox of caps. Lots of blasters continue
to bite the caps on the fuse and think
that because they have never exploded
them they never will, but some day
they will bite the business end and
Jose something besides teeth. It is
much easier und lots safer to use the
-crimper, a tool made for the purpose.
Accidentally stepping on a cap will
often spoil a perfectly good foot.
Sparks, flame, heat, blows, friction
It's all the same to the cap to which
they are applied.
A blasting enp is a copper shell about
a quarter of an Inch In diameter and
an Inch or two long, half full of fulmi
nate of mercury. This fulminate Is
the most sensitive and about the most
Impulsive explosive In common use.
Blasting caps contain anywhere from
fifteen to twenty grains of it. Primers
for firearms cartridges usually contain
not more than one grain. That's what
the hummer or firing pin of a gun or
pistol hits to Ignite the powder In the
nhell. A blasting cap Is meant to
. work the other way. The powder from
the fuse Ignites the fulminate In the
Masting cup. nnd it explodes with ter
rific force and detonntea the dynamite.
The explosion of the fulminate Is so
exceedingly quick that the flying par
ticles of copper will Imbed themselves
s In Iron a foot away. They will blow a
bole clean through a steel plate one
sixteenth of an Inch thick. A box of
caps will blow a beautiful square bole
right through a two Inch ouk plank.
One cup will blow a child's hand off
with the utmost certainty and dis
patch. Mngg. one of the Chicago an
archists, committed suicide by biting
a blasting cap between his teeth,
r The point to lie reiuenilNjred Is that
when n blnstlng cup goes off it does
locallv. There Is no es
caping Its effects. Among all the fWO
or more acldents reported from playing
with blasting caps there are only two
or three In which somelwdy was not
Aurt.
.Electric blasting caps are just as
fltrong as ordinary blasting caps, but as
the capsule or shell is sealed up with a
aulplmr plug through which the wires
are carried down to the fulminate, not
o inanv accidents occur In playing
with them. They are generally dipped
In dark colored wax nnd are not such
attractive playthings as the bright cop.
to per blasting caps, but "they get there
just the same." Amateur electrician
ire eumi'Stlv advised lo bury the elec
trie cap a foot or two In the earth be
fore trvlne to pass electric currents
through the wires, and they had belter
not do It then. T'on't open It up to see
what's In It! Explosive manufacturers
jwe ii" give" t Imparting trade secret
Pr )ii.iscu..u-lv. but they will gladly tell
what's In the cup and how they are
made rather than have you blow your
hands off trying t find out for your
self pon't carry caps around In your pock
ets' Pon t take them home with you!
Pon't leave them where children ran
get at them! Pon't monkey with them:
Chicago Hecord Herald.
RISE AND FALL OF SAWBILL
The End Cam With a Rush Whan the
Gold Vein Vanished.
Fur from the railroad and more than
forty miles awuy from the nearest
white resident, hidden In the wilds of
one of the most picturesque parts of
the province of Ontario. Cuuudu, spec
ter like, stands the deserted village of
Sawblll. once a bustling mining cump
where several hundred men were employed.
The end came suddenly. Tools were
dropped where workmen were install
ing a dynamo; dishes and furniture
and household goods were left as they
were when the word came that the
mine had closed. The books eud on
July 31, 1901. The store was left with
Its stock of goods on the shelves, the
hotel closed its doors. Its contents in
tact, and the postolliee ceased to be.
Only a watchman was left.
Sawblll grew out of a gold strike.
The ledge, reported fabulously rich,
quickly gave out when real mining was
attempted. A. road was built through
the wilderness, a power house was
erected, a forty stump mill went up
along with a hotel, store, postofflce and
mauy buildings for the employees. On
Aug. 13, 18!. the electric lights were
turned on. The telephone line was
opened. The water rushed through the
huge flume across the lake, the giant
turbine revolved, the dynamo hummed,
and the power for operating thetalne's
machinery was at band.
But the $200 per ton output of the
little mill first Installed proved to be
only a deceptive lure for all the dol
lars that were poured Into the enter
prise. When the big mill did run the
greatest amount of gold obtained per
ton was said never to have exceeded
$1.67. The shafts were sunk deeper.
new ones were opened, but the wide
reins of ore which showed on or near
the surface narrowed to thin ribbons
or to nothing at all. The gold ob
tained could not begin to pay the oper
ating expenses.
The mill and Its machinery, the pow
er plant and Its equipment, stand as
though waiting for the whistle an
nouncing the beginning of a day's
work, though the last evidences of the
half million spent at Sawblll are dis
appearing before inevitable decay and
the encircling and encroaching forest
Robert E. Plnkerton In Ontario Globe.
A CITY IN A GORGE.
The First View of La Paz la Startling
to the Tourist.
James Bryce In his book "South
America" gives a picturesque descrip
tion of the approach to La Paz, Bolivia.
He tells how the traveler who nears
La Paz bus a surprise In front of him
if he Is coming from Lake Tltlcaca,
the usual route from the coast At a
point 13,000 feet nbove sea level the
railway from Guayaquil meets the rail
way from Antofagasta, 400 miles away
to the south. "From this point, called
Vlucba, the route turns eastward to
ward the Cordillera, the line climbing
slowly in wide sweeps over the dusty
and slirubloss plateau on whose thin
grass sheep are browsing. There Is
not a bouse visible, and the smooth
slope seems to rue right up ogulnst
the mountain wall beyond. Where can
La Puz be? asks the traveler.
"Presently, however, he perceives
strings of llamas and donkeys and
wayfarers on foot moving along the
slope toward a point where they all
suddenly vanish nnd are no more seen.
Then a spot Is readied where the rail
way itself seems to end between a few
sheds. He gets out and walks a few
yards to the east nnd then suddenly
pulls up, with a start, on the edge of a
yawning abyss.
"Bight beneath him, 1.5O0 feet be
low, a gray, red roofed city fills the
bottom of the gorge and climbs up Its
sides on both banks of the torrent that
foums through It. Every street nnd
square, every yard and garden, Is laid
out under the eye ns if on a map, nnd
one almost seems to bear the rattle of
vehicles over stony pavements coming
faintly up through the thin ulr."
Scotchman's 8d Loss.
"As the waiter laid down my flre
pence change," writes C. M. in the
Glasgow News, "I noticed that the top
most, coin was not of British currency.
It was. In fact, a French penny. I at
tracted his attention, therefore, with a
motion of my forefinger and Indicated
the pile of coins with a wave of my
hand, which was meant to say 'What
is this you have given meT The wait
er bent gracefully forward, scooped up
my change with a practiced hand and
with a polite 'I thank you, sir.' moved
swiftly away. Next time I'll give the
language of signs a miss."
Sympathetic.
"Pon't you ever And It hard to be a
freak?" asked the stuntlsh. tightly Inced
woman who had stopped to converse
with the fat lady.
"No. not a bit." wns the reply. "I
often feel sorry for some of you people
who seem to find It so hard not to be
freaks." Chicago Itecord-IIerald.
Mixed Up.
A woman stated at a recent Inquest
that her husband's Christian name
were James Jonathan or Jonathan
.lames, she did not know for sure
which. "You see," she explained, "he
was one of twins nnd they got mixed
up a Wt." London Standard.
A Trade Union.
Ella ispltefullyi -Their marriage was
nothing bnt a trade union. Hophle A
trade union? Ella-Yes: she traded
her money for his title. London Ttflo
graph. Worry, whntever may he Its source,
wen liens, take away courage and
shortens life.
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