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Show Mr. BetU' Cyclone Annihllator. Mr. Edward Daniel Betts is an artist and a man with a sharp eye. He read the other day about some hunter on the plains who was pursued by a relentk-w cyclone. In fiheer owperatioa the huntur turned and fired hi trnsty rifle at the rapidly approaching funnel sliapcd cloud. Instantly the wind be;;an to lose ita nerve, and in less than a minute the landscape was an beautiful as a day In June. Mr. Belt shut himself np and wrestled with the pecrets of nature. At last h struck pay gravel, and his patent is applied ap-plied for. "It i.i a lar?e rnbber ball filled with gun cotton or dynamite," he explained, "which will bo hurled with terrific force at the advancing cyclone. The explosive explo-sive will have a fuse to it which will be ignited automatically." He further explained that the propelling propell-ing instrument was fo arranged that it always pointed at the cyclone. The ball wan thrown after the wind had attained a certain velocity. Mr. Ectts has had ft great deal of trouble in arranging this last detail. For bo found that if be set it at too lew a notch the machine would go off in a ptiil breeze and throw the rubber ball of dynamite over into a neighboring pasture past-ure or down into a cow lot, doing great and immediate damage to the cows without with-out any material advantage. Then, again, if the machine were set too high, it would not get into active operation until after tho entire family had crofsed the Dark Itiver and the cyclone was in the next county. Mr. Betts says there is no question but that a dose of dynamite will knock any cyclone cold. The machines can bo put on a high polo out of the reach of goatf aud children. Chicago lutcr-Ocean. |