The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-09-11
POSSIBILITIES OF ELECTRICITY.
A Portable Battery for Personal Protee-
ton and Warfare Now in Csc.

POSSIBILITIES or ELECTRICITY.
A Portable Battery for Personal Protee.
ton and Warfare Now In Use.
The careers of the staggering bully,
the ferocious dog, the footpad and others
OF like ilk are fast drawing to q close.
No longer VIII the small, weak man. 20
out at night with the fear of being
robbed by a footpad or getting the stuff
ing knocked out of him in an argument
with larger man. A check Is put upon
the ravages of the bulldog, and the most
tlmld and refined lady win be able to go
anywhere at any hour of the night with
out fear Of being insulted. To the won
derful inventive talent of George A.
Bucket, the electrician, is this great
scheme of physical equalization due.
No mercenary motive actuates him in
the matter, for he gives it without price
TO the public. Like the chivalrous
knights of olden time he labors only to
protect the weak from oppression and to
do good for human kind Beside this in
Vention all of the electricians previous
efforts sunk into obscurity 1t consists
simply of an electric walking cane
heavily charged. The cane is made of
wood or leather, with thin steel rod
running through the centre of it. A
man puts o small battery in his hip
pocket, with one fine wire running down
into the left shoe and connecting with a
steel plate at his heel
Another wire runs from the battery up
into his coat sleeve and terminates in a
hook at the wrist. Upon the head of the
cane is wire eyelet, and the hook is fast
ened it. 1t is only this and nothing
more, and man thus equipped could
hold out against twenty men as expert
even as John L. Sullivan.
For illustration, short, slim gentle
maa, weighing ITO pounds, and knowing
nothing whatever or pugiism, has occa-
sion to go down town after dark. A
short distance from his home dog with
extended jaws and an I'll-bite-you air
about him leaps out. A touch with the
point of the cane electriies and laws him
out fiatter than tissue paper.
Continuing his journey the gentleman
suddenly comes upon a man with whom
he has not been on good terms for long
time. The latter is large and is noted as
fighter.
After first trying to arrange their diff
ferences amicably the small man pro-
vokes the other to assault him, and then
electrifies his assailant. Henceforth
people will have to be careful about call
ing even a puny, sash-wearing dude a
liar. No brains are necessary to work
the machine, and one round will be suf-
ficient to put stop to fight. Police
men will have their clubs charged in
this way in order to facilitate the max
ing of arrests, and woe betide the luck
less individual who is 30 rash as to re-
sist.
Ladies carry their batteries in q con.
venient place, and the steel rod goes
through their parasol handles In the
crowd on Fourth avenue man snatches
lady's pocketbook. She sees him Just
in time, and touches him with the end
of her parasol. Of course he falls, and
she then easily takes her purse from his
fingers. Later on policeman finds him
and takes him to Jail. The result is the
same If an impairment man makes an
Objectionable. remark to her.
When this invention is perfected there
will be no more of the old style duels in
Kentucky, and twill lose its reputation
for blood spilling. Two gentlemen will
engage in dispute, and one will chal-
lenge the other to bout with electric
canes. Two batteries of equal strength
will be selected along with the other
apparatus. Facing each other, they
stand with crossed canes, and at sig
nal agreed upon each endeavors to prod
the other with the point of his weapon.
Finally one receives the shock and is
stretched out. There are no black ewes,
no ugly sword or bullet wounds, and the
fallen man is not dead. Besides, the Law
has not been violated, and in a day
everything is lovely.-Louisville Times.