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Show OTJNCOTTON' AS FUEL. "Light another hundred-foot candle of condensed guncotton! We must make the next mile In less than a minute'' That command, or something like It will be given by the commander of a United States torpedo-boat In the next war In which this country may unhappily be engaged, writes Mr. W. R. Stewart In the Technical World Magazine for April. It will not mean that, finding his ship in a deaperate Situation, the Captain haa decided de-cided to blew himself and hla whole command com-mand out. of the water It will algnify only , the adoption aa emergency fuel of the wonderful new compound "motorite," a secret composition of guncotton and nitro-glycerine. Invented bv Hiram Max- ' im, whoae "Maxlmlte" is' the high" explosive explo-sive now used by tho Government In submarine sub-marine torpedoes. Motorite for, fuel use la packed in long steel tubes and under forced draft can' furnish an almost unlimited amount of power for a short dlatanca |