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Show ACTERPfXNT " YEARS CAME ACCmENT THAT ENDED "SCOOTER'S" LIFE. i -- Jlmmlo 0' Hare's Long Deflxnce of Death Wm6Han'dllno Nitroglycerin Fatal Moment of Carrleaanesa Bound togXEpvoi ' ,. Wlieu Jmimlo O'llnre wn blown Into traRmmglutlChUea one day iat weok tyy tnoxntoBlou of a wh jon loil of nltrogloJu n prophecy was fill-flllrd fill-flllrd tbatina first made moie than twenty jaanjnso ami was reiterated times wlSSwt number In eveiy oil dUtilct liffiptB countrj. lror JlmnUe bad Ofl, hi every dladlet In the country vS ihe chjiK of the oil drill JlnB tweaajferfl. and In his life he handled 4uH&uuloiih v 10 ltuve du atroysd flytArUiur several times Dally he UM9 if clone abnoclaiton with hundredwfjpUomt of nliruRlycerln. and It wqi eoinmon sight (t the oil opuntry Bnk Jitm iaUUK K'er l' hills onttg5fti$flt of a wagon lonnrfu flth thBEdl wijmIvo. 'nrVllfgenfBo'm'e Jay." tfiTboyii In the Pennsylvania oil fields began Haying more Uian twenty years ago, and have repeated It everywhere pinnule w4it. j Hut all these years Jlliunlo IaiiRhed at the prophecies and, langhlilK, would load up his, wagon nud rattle qut Into tho oaRiUr1 to sjioo-t a U. Taking with him from one lo two hundred qimrts,of jiltfoalycqfln. Hut th. tsit adae of (the jflTief tifeljs til sty of -JlmTOleTend. Ah is usually Ihe case In such ncoidentB, upbpdi Unflws or oVfer tH Hhov How It hp?fend. There was unOTploelnn-tiiRt shook tho ooun i try for miles around, and when an Investigation In-vestigation was made there was llttls to be found except a wide, deop hole In the ground. j, Ms titan vrtiowas killed often told of Incidents that Illustisted the frealc Isjiness of Uie exuiyelvo he handled, and It Wsj1 bate been bine freak that . epsi itln Ma Ufe Jlittl4ied to toil of the runaway In the streets of Hrad ford, Pa., when a team dragged a glycerin wagon the whole length of a treet, the caga jleochettlng. around I urred. Thn of auether oe whlen glyceiln box was locaieu n&ni crfzi tho springs of the wagon. Tliaro.vfas a" leaky can and three drops fnlllng on '" tho springs caused the loss of two , -lives. He told of still another caso Where n shooter on a spree hurled bot-..j ( ties of glycorin against a rook. All of the bottles broke, but not ono ox-1 ploded. Ho would close with his story of that singular occurrence which toolc , ' ' place In Chnnute InBt spring, when n glycerin magnxlno caught flro nnd.waa """ I entirely burned without Qxplodlng. And then ho would say: "It's the'frle- ' tlon, man, It's the friction, nn, that's what I'm nlwajs looking out for." Maybe Jlmmlo forgot tho friction for flnoe. 't Jlmmltt had certain nilw.he obsgrv S3 when hn'udllnltroiljotrlifIOntt 4ay while discussing explosives ho 8P',,! . j "A man had better quit this bfisfu8,X wliea he loses hs nerve. Jt UJ,H8J.Ml like handling a nettle Take boldof It and tnke bold strong. A neryoury Wr panicky fellow had belter stay away from glywJn, becaufo BoniethlngoslJ,l Jtappen, and It never happens to a Ihoattr lwtonoev ,'vtt iml t 1 |