Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — DYNAMITE’S INVENTOR. [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE’S INVENTOR.

lie Loathe* War and Hope* to Prevent It with a Nation-Destroying Compound. Mr. Ni bol is the mildest-mannered man who ever discovered an explosive. This gentleman, whose name as an expert was prominent during the recent Cordite litigation, dwells in a sunny, peaceful villa at San Remo, and there in the lap of luxuriant nature he spends his time in designing awful compounds, calculated todestrov whole nations and alter the face of Mother Earth at a single discharge. This, indeed, is his ambition, for then, as Mr. Nobel pertinently points out, war must cease. He loathes war, says Black and White, and has a passionate desire to put an end to the possibility of it. Once let him produce an explosive of such overwhelming and irresistible force that mankind refuses to face it, once let bittie mean absolute and certain death for everybody on both sides, and the nations will abandon war. We hope Mr. Nobel may live to prove the truth of his assumption. But high explosives are not for evory hand and should no longer be allowed to remain within the reach of the mob. Until a certain branch of tno patent office is shut against the public, however, any man from the street, may consult the formula for every high explosive as yet discovered. It is time that this branch of human knowledge was rendered a little more difficult of approach.