, 1890-07-31
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a Portable Battery for Personal Protec-
ton and Marfarn Now In Use.

a Portable Battery for Personal Protec-
tion and Warfare Now In Use
The careers Of the staggering bully,
the ferociousd dog. the footpad and others
Of like ilk are fast drawing to a close.
No longer viii the small, weak man go
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 a larger man. A check is put upon
the ravages of the bulldog, and the most
timid and refined lady will 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 n thin steel rod
running through the centre of it. A
man puts a small battery in his hip
pocket, with one fine wire running down
into the left shoe and connecting with q
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 n wire eyelet, and the hook Is fast
ened to it. 1t is only this and nothing
more, and a man thus equipped could
hold out against twenty men as expert
even as John l.. Sullivan.
For illustration, a short, slim gentle
MAJ. weighing 10 pounds, and knowing
nothing whatever or pugiHsm, has occa-
sion TO go down town after dark. A
short distance from his home a dog with
extended jaws and an rIl-bite-you air
about him leaps out. A touch with the
point of the zane electrifies and lays him
out fatter than tissue paper.
Continuing his journey the gentleman
suddenly comes upon a man with whom
he has not been on good terms for a long
time. The latter is large and is noted as
a 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 wen a puny, sash-wearing dude a
liar. No brains are necessary to work
the machine, and one round will be suf-
ticient to put n stop to a 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 so rash as to re-
sist.
Ladies carry their batteries in n CON
venient place, and the steel rod e
through their parasol handles. In the
crowd on Fourth avenue n man snatches
a lady's po~cketbook. She sees him Just
in time, and touches him with the end
of her parasol. OF curse he falls, and
she then easily takes her purse from his
fingers. Later on a policeman finds him
and takes him to Jail. The result is the
same if an impertinent man makes IN
objectionable remark to her.
When this invention is perfected there
will be no more of the old style duels in
Kentucky, and it will lose its reputation
for blood splitting. Two gentlemen will
engage in a dispute, and one will chal-
lenge the other to a 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, md at a sig
m 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 eyes,
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.