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

ANokliluyo. bulhlA ol tlO
water. This room is ssmotheriny hot
and close. I want to battle my face
and hands"
You have certainly parted with
the remnant of your mind! Where
lightning strikes any other substance
once, it strikes water fifty times.
Do turn it off. Oh, dear, l am sure
that nothing in this world can save
us. 1t does seem to ME that
Mortimer, what was that"
"I was dat was a picture.
Knocked it down"
"Then you are close to the wall !
I never heard of such imprudence !!
Don't yon know that there's no bet
ter conductor for lightning than a
wall? Come away from there! And
you came as near as anything to
swearing, too. Oh, how can you
be so desperately wicked, and your
family in such peril? Mortimer,
did you order a feather bed, as l
asked you to do 2"
mo. Forgot it,"
Forgot it. 1t may cost you your
life. If YOU had a feather bed, now,
and could splead it in the middle
Of the room and lie on it, you would
be perfectly safe. Come in here
come quick, before you have a
chance to commit any more frantic
indiscretions."
tried, but the little closet would
not hold us both with the door shut,
unless we could be content to smoth-
er. I sasped a while, then forced
my way out:
Mortimer, something must be
done for your preservation. Give
me that German book that is on the
end of the mantle-piece, and q can
die, but don't light it; give me a
match; l will light it in here. That
book has some directions in it."
1 got the book-at cost of vase
and some other brittle things; and
the madam shut herself up with her
candle. I had moments peace;
then she called out:
Mortimer, what was that ?"
6. Nothing but tho cat"
The cat! Oh, destructi on! Catch
her, and shut up in the wash-stand.
Do be quick, love; cats are full Of
electricity. I just know my hair
will turn white with this nights
awful perils."
1 heard the muffled sobbing again.
But for that, I should not have moved
hand or foot in such wild enter
prise in the dark.
However, 1 went at my task-over
chairs, and against all sorts of obsrtuc-
tions, all of them hard ones, too,
and most of them sharp edges
and at last got kitty coopea up
in the commode, at an expense of
over four hundred dollars in broken
furniture and shins. Then these
muffled words come from the closet
ct says the safest thing is to
stand on chair in the middle of
the room, Mortimer; and the legs OF
the chair must be insulated, with
non-conductors. That is, you must
set the legs of the chair in glass
tumblers. (Fzt!-boom - bang!-
smashD Oh, hear that! Do hurry
Mortimer, before you are struck"
1 managed to find and secure the
tumblers. 1 got the last four
broke all the rest. insulated the
chair legs, and called for further in
structions.
Mortimer, it says, Wahrend
zines Gewitters entferne man Me-
talle, vie z. B. RinSe, Uhren
Schlussel, etc., vonsich uud haltt
sich uuch nicht an solchen Steller
auf, wo, viele Metaile bel einaDdel
lesen, oder nit andern Korporl
verbunden sind, vie an Herden
Oefen, Elsensittern IL. del.' Wha
does this mean, Mortimer Does i
mean that you must keep your met
ais about you, or to keep them ara.
from you?"
We'll, hardly know. II ap
pears to be little mixed. All Ger
man advice is more or less mixed
However, I think that that sentence
is mostly in the dativo case, with
little yenitive and aucusative sitte(
in, here and there, for luck; so
reckon it means that you must keel
some metal about you.
i" Yes, that must be ii. 1t stand
to reason that it is. They are i
the patura OF lightning-rods, 20
know. Put on you freman's helmet
Mortimer; that is mostly metal.
L got it and put it on-a yer
heavy and clumsy and uncomfor
table thing on hot night in clos
room. Even my night dress SCENE
to be mere clothing than l strictl
needed.
Mortimer, l think your midd'
ought to be protected. Won't 20
t buckle on your MALTA sabre
| please 2"
!, | complied.
Now, Mortimer, you ought t
, have some way to protect your fee
Do, please, put on your spurs.