The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-15
I'M, which it finds in the human BODY,

eiCc VI uOuSc luttlHoreuLly. but IL Is
also true that, provide the lightning
with convenient and easy conductor
in the shape of a stout iron rod higher
than any point of house and reaching
well into the ground, where electricity
| may scatter harmlessly into the damp
earth, it will prefer that conducting rod
to any thing in its vicinity, and people
who stay indoors in a well-protected
house are safer from lightning than any
bomb-proof from bursting shells. EY-
cry accident from this cause / ever knew
OF came from careless exposure in situ-
atoms known to be unsafe. The first
l noticed after my own accident was
that of a missionary's daughter who
was killed while passing an open win
dow, just as woman was on Long
Island last summer, while sitting at her
seWlng-machinf., "A young man in Mall
den, l think, was killed while sitting on
q porch with his chair tipped back and
his head against the knob of door
bell, making an excellent connection
with the bell-wire. Many men have
been struck while riding into barn on
load OF hay. Many will remember
the frightful calamity at Scranton, Pa,
where party of women, out picking
berries on one of the high hills, crowded.
into aideserted log hut in sudden storm
and seven were killed by one bolt.
Steep hills with mineral veins cropping
out are not places for persons to live on
who wish to escape lightning. and un-
protected houses there are doubly dan
gerous.-. lsUQJ salf ts.@ as e r.f
1t is never, too soon to 90 in the house
when storm is rising. When the
clouds are fully charged with electricity
they are most dangerous and the fluid
Obeys subtle attraction which acts at
great distances and in all directions. A
woman told me of a bolt which came
down her mothers chimney from a ris-
ing cloud when the sun was shining
overhead. N. P. Willis writes of q
young girl who was killed while pass
ing under a telegraph wire, on the
brow of q hill, while she was hurrying
home before a storm. The sad acct
dent at Morrisania, when two children
were killed, should warn every mother
that it is not safe to let her children
stay. out of doors till the. last minute be-
fore the storm falls. People should
not be fool-hardy about sitting on
porches or by open windows. whether
the storm is hard or not. Mild showers
often carry single charge, which falls
with deadly effect. It may or may not
be fatal to stay out; it is safe to be in
the house, with the windows and doors
closed. The air in the house is reader
conductor than the damp air outside
and amy draft of air invites il. Al hot
fire in achimney attracts it,s so to speak
and it is prudent for those who would
be sure of safety to use kerosene or GAS
stoves in summer and avoid heating the
chimneys of the houses. People are
very ignorant or reckless about light
ming. have seen a girl of eighteen
crying with fear of lightning and rum
ming every other moment to, the win
dow to see;i the storm was not abating,
unconscious that she was putting her
self in danger. If every one would
hurry to shelter as soon as the storm
cloud was coming and if they would
shut the doors and windows and keep
away from them, afterw;srd and from
wires, stovepipes, mantels, tchimneys,
heaters and mirrors with their silyered.
backs which. carry electricity, and keep
away from lightning rods and their vi
cinity and from metal water spouts,
with good rods en- their houses, they
might dismiss the fear of lightning from
their minds, SO far as it is thing of
reason and not impression. Hartford
Conn., Times.
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