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Show THE DARING DYNAMITE MAN. Death May Come Any Time, but He Doesn't Fear It. "Some day I guess 'twill get me. Wo never know." J. II. Boone, professional powder man, dynamite and nitroglycerin handler, han-dler, moved cautiously nbout n fire as ho talked. At his feet lay CO pounds-of pounds-of dynamite frozen, Three feet away was a roaring lire. h. wns at a stone quarry nt Courtney, Mo., wheio tho night before BOO pounds of his materials materi-als had exploded. And ho had built tho llro to thaw out more. "This Is tho dangerous part of tho work," he said. "Tho Jar of n cinder popping from tho llro, striking this dynninlle, would mako It explode. A twig snapped ngnlnst It or somo object ob-ject dropped upon it, would bring tho ond. Dynamite is not exploded by lieat. It requires some Jar boiiio friction. fric-tion. When It Is frozen and it freezes sooner than water It Ib fairly safe to handle. Hut In thawing the warmer It becomes tho more sensitive It Is. When these sticks are warm n dime dropped upon them will mnko them explode, It's a dangerous business." No screen wns between tho tlyna-mlto tlyna-mlto nnd tho llro where "tho powder man" worked. If ho fenred that fatal cinder popping from tho dry sticks In tho llro he did not hIioW It. In n methodical, careful wny, tills gravo, quiet mnn workeifswlftly nnd silently by tho llro. "I begun It witli my father when I was IS years old," he Bald. "Moro than 20 years now I've been n powder mnn, nnd well, I'm here to-day, anyhow." any-how." Hut ho would ventiiro no prediction for tho morrow. |