Show d badh MADE EASY A mis mysterious cerious compound that hialit pause C use a great ox pa li april 12 the numerous fires which have havo occurred lately in tile office of N 1 P shafer of this city and antl which have occasioned licad alarin owing to their mysterious natcie arc if attributed to the action of a i subtle chen chemical lial which a scientific incendiary who till haa w not yet been discovered distributed about the alic place at eleven dif different Terent times during one lay day the in ill which mr hafer shafer and liis his clerk were fit at work blazed up in diffident diff ilent corners mil and in a most unaccountable ani and puzzling hinr manner the chief engineer cai 0 ineer of tile the fire department lucarin hearing r of the oc occurrences visited mr Sha chafers fers ollice and began fill an investigation lie took up some conic papers and to detect tile the presence of some conic odor that might inight I 1 give a clue but found acrie but as soon POOH as lie let tile the papers rall fill frova from his hand they blazed up nil as if by nia ic tile the bewildering girair caused cauree a good 1 0 A deal lea of nt and it was to keep keel buckets of water constantly cons con fantl I 1 0 on n b hand and to be read ready y for every fresh fire which started i up up where it wa was q least exported it sc aenied as if the ollice office was bewitched chemists cheina ets were called in to solve the mystery and finally ascertained that tho the fires wore were caused cause 11 iv by a 1 I chemical compound which ignites v after bein I 1 icing licud in solution fur for a tittle time ilic the theory is eliat tile the incendiary cen diary ent entered ercil mr Sha fers offic during drin tile night prior to the riles files and S sprinkled 1 rink leil the floor and shelves with this compound and that when evaporation was completes complete combustion took place with avith such an in a agent r ent of destruction it would be possible JoA sible for a few men inell to cause havoc in any city I 1 anil and tile chances for their detection would bo be very slight the have not lot explained tile nature of the compound but say it is quite simple anil that it boti would id be a dangerous tiling 0 to make its character generally known |