Explosives as Aids to the Production of Oil—The Roberts Torpedo Monopoly and Its Leaders—Unprecedented Litigation—Moonlighters at Work—Fatalities from the Deadly Compound—Portraits and Sketches of Victims—Men Blown to Fragments—Strange Escapes—The Loaded Porker—Stories to Accept or Reject as Impulse Prompts.
“There is no distinguished Genius altogether exempt from some infusion of Madness.”—Aristotle.
“Genius must be born and never can be taught.”—Dryden.
“Labor with what zeal we will, something still remains undone.”—Longfellow.
“Come, bright improvement, on the car of Time.”—Campbell.
“Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils.”—Milton.
“Only these fragments and nothing more!
Can naught to our arms the lost restore?”—Anonymous.
“Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares.”—Pascal.