The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-05-26

Electric storms are far less dangerous
than the majority of people imagine"
writes Edward W. Box in June Ladies
Home Journal THAT severe lightning
storm is terrifying admits of no question,
and will sometimes bring uneasiness TO
the heart of the strongest man. But the
real danger is slight. The chance of
lightning striking house, for example, is
not one in million. Particularly is this
true in cities, strung as most of them are
with electric wires. The greater danger
from electric storms is in tie country, and
even there the danger may be lessened if
the simplest and most common-sense of
precautions are exercised. The surest
electric conductor is a draught, and if,
when thunderstorm approaches, it is
seen that all windows and doors liable to
occasion a draught are kept closed. the
danger is at once reduced to a minimum.
If woman is Caught" out in a thunder
storm the safest shelter is house; the
NEST dangerous is tree, particularly an
oak tree. 1t is a peculiar, but neverthe-
less a proven fact, that the oak is the
most susceptible of all trees to a current
of electricity. Over fifty per cent. of trees
struck by lightning storms during one
summer, the Government statistician tells
US, we're oaks. while the beech tree was
the least harmed. Therefore, the worst
possible place of shelter in an electric
storm is under an oak tree, while by all
odds, the safest place is in a house and
out OF draught The actual danger
from an electric storm is, In truth, not
from the lightning nor the thunder, but
from the nervous condition into which
women allow themselves to fall. And
this is danger which they can avoid
little calm thought and few grains of
common sense will do it,"
The complete novel in the June Issue of
Lippipcott's is From Clue to Climax" by
Will N. Harden. 1t is a tale of murder
and hypnotism, in which an extremely
able detective and physician of the new
school JOIN forces to clear the innocent
and run the guilty to earth "a Fellow
Feeling" is by Edith Brewer. perhaps the
only author who can write readable stories
about the coal region Fl. G. Stickney,
in Timely" tells of some "ways that are
dark" among the Chinese OF San Francisco
'The End of Career" as briefly described
by Harry Irving Horton, was that ola male
f1irt. l. ]. Wistar supplies an instructive
article on Criminal Jurisprudence" Owen
Hall discusses the prospects and condi-
lions of NAVAL Warfare in 1896. giving
the facts and figures as to the worlds vari-
Gus natives. and concluding that Great
Britain is likely to be able to hold her
own. Concerning the "Feigning of Death
by Animals" DIR. James Weir, as result
of special microscopic studies, presents
facts that are largely new. Dr. Charles C.
Abbott offers some observations Oh THE
Changeful Skies" Edith Dickson writes
on the youthful Reading of Literary
Men. William Trowbridee Larned makes
some remarks AFTER Seeing Poor Play"
"Woman in Business" is discussed by
Mary E. J. Kelley. A second article on
General and Mrs. Washington, by Ann
Hollingsworth Wharton, deals with their
official life. Like its predecessor, it is a.
bundantly illustrated. The poetry of the
number is by Carlotta Perry, Grace F.
Pennypacker, and Charles q. D. Roberts.