The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-11-07

rs come here on the hearth and dry YOU
lie self.
a 81 am better here and better wet"
|. "HowP"
- sit is the safest thing you can do
IT Hank, again!-to get yourself thorough
o " drenched in thunderstorm. We
clothes are better conductors than tn
e body; and so, if the lightning strikes
}. it might pass down the wet clothe
$ without touching the body. The storm
= deepens again. Have you rug in tn
!, house,? Rugs are non-conductors. &c
Y one that may stand on it here, anC
you, too. The skies blacken-it il
! dusk at noon. Hark!-the rug, thu
2 rugm
, I gave him one; while the hooded
mountains seem closing and tumbline
in the cottage. e-
''And now, since our being dumb will
not help u.s." said l, resuming my
place, ''let me hear your precautions in
travelling during thunder storms"
'Wait until this one has passed"
may, proceed with the precautions.
You stand in the safest possible place
according to your own account. Go
on"
Briefly then. l avoid pine trees,
high houses, lonely barns, upland pas
lures, running waters, flocks of cattle
and sheep, a crowd of men. If | travel
on foot-as to-day do not walk fast;
if in my buggy, touch not its back or
sides; if on horseback, / dismount and
lead the horse. But of all things,
avoid tall men,"
"Do dream? Man avoid man? and
in time of danger too?"
''Tall men in thunder storm /
avoid. Are you so grossly ignorant as
not to know that the height of a six
footer is sufficient to discharge an cleo
trio cloud upon himP Are not lonely
Kentuckians blowing, smit down in the
unfinished furrowP Nay, if the six
footer stand by running water, the
cloud will sometimes select him as its
conductor to that trimming water. Hank!
Sure your back pinnacle is split. Yes
a man is good conductor. The light
ming goes through man, but only
peals a tree. But, sir, you have kept
me talking for so long answering your
questions that l have not yet
come to business. Will yon order
one of my rodsp Look at
this specimen one. See, it is the best |
of copper. Copper's the best conduc-
tor. Your house is low, but being on
the mountains that lowness does not |
one whit depress it. You mountaineers
are most exposed. In mountainous
countries the lightning-rod man should
have the most business. Look over
these recommendations Only one rod,
sir; cost only twenty dollars. Hank!
There go all the granite Taconics and
Hoosics dashed together like pebbles.
By the sound, that must have struck
something. An elevation of five feet
above the house will protect twenty
feet about the rod Only twenty dol
lars, sir-a dollar a foot. Hark!-
dreadful!-Will you orderp viii you
buyP Shall l put down your nameP
Think of being heap of charred offal,
like haltered horse burnt in his stall;
and all in one fash!''
'You pretended envoy extraordinary
md minister plenipotentiary to and
rom Jupiter Tonans," laughed 1; ''you
mere man who come here to put you
md your pipe stem between clay and
ky, do you think that because you can
trike bit of green lightfr the Leyden
ar, that you can thoroughly avert the
bolt? Your rod rusts or breaks
md where are youp Who has en- =.
covered you, you Tetzel, to peddle
ound your indulgences from divine :
The hairs of our head
re numbered. and the days of our Z
ives. In thunder as in sunshine | stand I I
It ease in the hands of my God. False
egotiators away See, the scroll of
he storm is rolled back. The house is
and in the heavens read in !.
he rainbow, that the Diety will not, on !,
urpose, make war on mans earth"
''Impious wretch!' foamed the q
tranger, blackening in the face as the :,
ainbow beamed, 81 will publish your II
lfidel notions"
The scowl grew blacker on his face; Z
he indigo circles enlarged around his
yes as the storm rings round the mid Il
light moon. He sprang upon me, his h
'i-fork thing at my heart. p
Il seized it; snapped it; dashed it; e
trod it; and dragging the dark light "
ing king out of my door, flung his IL
bowed copper spectre after him. G.
But, in spite of my treatment, and u
oite of my dissuasive talk of him to my 81
eighbors, the lightning rod man still n
YES in the land still travels in storm Il
me, and drives brave trade with the a
airs of men. Il