Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-10

inside of an iniidel, and
Put it out. put it out instantly
Are you determined to sacrifice us
all You know there is nothing
attracts lightning like light. (Fzt!
crash boom - boloom boom
boomD Oh, just hear it, Now you
see what you've done''
{" No, l don't see what I've done.
A match may attract Lightning, for
all / know, but it don't cause light
ning-I'll so odds on that. And it
didn't attract it worth a cent this
time; for if that shot was lcveled at
my match, it was blessed poor
mark,manship-about an average
of none out of II possible million, 1
should say. Why, at Dollymount,
such craftsmanship as that"
" For shame, Mortimer! Here we
are standing right in the very pres
ence of death, and yet in so solemn
moment you are capable of using
such language as that. If you nave
no desire to-Mortimer!'
Well?'
"Did you say your prayers to-
night 2"
I-I-meant to, but l got to
trying to cypher out how much
twelve times thirteen is, and"
(Fzt!- boom berroom boom. bum.
ble-umble bang g-smashD
Oh, we are lost, beyond all help!
How could you neglect such thing
at such time rs this 2
But it wasn't 'such time as
this There wasn't u cloud in the
sky. How could l know there was
going to be all this rumpus and
powwow about little slip like that ?
And l don't think it's just fair for
you to make so much out of it, any
way seeing it happens so seldom; 1
missed before since l brought
on that earthquake four years ago"
" Mortimer! How you talk!
Have you forgotten the yellow few
err"
My dear, you are always throw
ing up the yellow fever to me, and l
think it is perfectly unreasonable.
You can't even send telegraph
message rs far as Memphis with n
relays, so how is a little devoted
slip of mine going to carry so far ?
III stand the earthquake, because it
was in the neighborhood; but I'll
be hanged if I'm going to be respon-
sible for every blamed"
(Fzt!-boom beroom-boom! boom!
-bangY "Oh, dear, dear, dear!
I know it struck something, Morti-
mer. We never shall see the light
of another day; and if it will do you
any good to remember, when we
are goue, that your dreadful Ian
guage-Mortimer!'
q" Well! what now?"
Your voice sounds as if Nor
timer, are you actually standing in
front of that open tire-place?"
That is the very crime 1 am
committing"
"Get awav from it, this moment.
You do seem determined to bring
destruction on us all. Don't you
know that there is no better conduc-
tor for lightning than m open CHM
nev? Now where have got to %
/" Tn here by the window"
ooh, for PHYS sake, have you
lost your mind? 2" Clear out from
there. this moment. The very child
ren in arms know it is fatal to stand
near window in Il thun ler-storm.
Dear, dear, 1 know l shall NJ yer see
the light of auotaer day. Mortimer
"Yes!"
What is that rustling p
It's me"
"What are you doing ?"
"Tryins to hud tho upper end Of
my pautaloons."
"Quck! throw those things away
| do believe You would deliberately
put on those clothes ut such IL time
as this; yet you know perfectly wei
that al authorities agree that woolei
stutlI attract lightning. Oh, dear
dear, it isn't sufficient that ones llt'
must be in peril from natural causes
bat yol must Io everything You ear
possibly think OF to augment tn
danger ;" Oh don't sing! Wha
can YOU be thinking of y
"Now where the harm in it?
&" Mortimer, if | have told yol
one | have told you hundre'
times, that singing causes vibration
in the atmosphere which interrup
the flow OF the electric fluid, and
What on earth are you opening tina
door for?
Cool lness gracious, woman,
there any harm in that g
" Harm? There's death in it
ANYBODY that has given this subjec
any attention knows that to create
draught is to invite the lightning
Yoa haven't half shut il; shut
,isht-aud do hurry, or we are a
DESTROYED. Oh. it Is an awful thin
to hs shut up with II lunltic ut sue
IL time rs th;s. Mortimer, what al
yuu doing =