Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-30

~HE summer Of 1911 will go down
in history az one Of the most
remarkable in respect to freak
ish electrical displays and the
havoc wrought by them.
Winged death out Of the angry skies
IL more terrible now than 1t was to
the primeval cave. dweller. He -four
ished centuries before the metal age.
cons before the time Of harnessed
electricity. Neither his clothing nor
his utensils offered an attractive mark.
But severe electrical storm in this
age Of universal conduction spells I'M
limited possibility Of horrors. The
lightning bolt is Identical with the
force that drives the street cars, that
transmits telegraph messages. that
works the telephone, that supplies
light and power.
The lawless flash has an avenue
over every open wire. It can deal
death by applying the spark to manu-
featured explosives. It cavorts and
prances with fendish delight over and
through the myriad shapes Of metal
within Its neld-metal of universal
necessity in our dress, our house con-
struction, our sports, our amusements
and our business. Moreover, 1t travels
for greater distance to slay. Fifteen
miles from the center of storm the
bolt has stricken a lineman mending
= wire. It seeks the bowels of the
earth, and, as in recent wonderful
disaster, not even the miners burrov-
ing far below the ground are safe.
The type Of lightning fash shown
above Ia one which extends hori-
xontally for a considerable distance.
"a correspondent writing to Nature
concerning q curious multiple-flash
photograph which he had obtained
mentioned that he did not leave the
camera shutter open as Is usually the
case. but snapped It when he observed
. slight movement Of the storm clouds
Irom which the flashes were proceed
Ing. The impression his letter con-
veys 10 Of slight twittering move
ment Ia the cloud.
ecalpino q Houseful Of People.
q Al AOAOC0nOp Az - OA0AA 100 0oA w
sky runs q summer boarding house,
crowded during the hot spell. He
had sixty guests the morning of July
20, when the electrical visitor came
down through the roof and. neglecting
10 register. entered without ceremony
every room Of the house. Singing
the hair costs Is to Is cents in the
average barber shop. Without a money
charge. but with very decided cleo
kricsl one. the bolt singed the hair
and scorched the scalps Of twenty
two men and women guests. It did
them no other damage. CoQuettishly.
II woke young woman out Of her
sleep BY tearing hole In the wall
beside her pillow. It didn't touch the
beds. which were possibly Of the feath-
Or sort dear to our grandmother. and
tho late sleepers. as distinguished from
the early birds who had already got
up and were moving around, escaped
bodily injury.
Lightning altered still more remark
ably the domestic arrangements Of
family In Columbus. Ind, when 1t gave
back to Mrs. Jonathan Drake her
voice. Two years before she had lost
her speech as the result of paralysis
of the vocal cords. But when. on
July 20. the lightning flashed and the
heavens roared. Mrs. Drake simply
Just had to scream. It was good,
scream. too, and the manner
Of It surprised the good lady even
more than it did her gaping mouthed
friends and neighbors. Having re-
learned vocal utterance. Mrs Drake
has kept right on talking. Sign lam
guage has been forgotten. chalk and
have been sent to the at
eic, and, given her choice of two sig
nal deprivations, Mrs. Drake probably
shares the opinion OF universal woman
kind that they would rather talk than
eat
Golfers az Target.
The golfer out on the links with
his midiron. putter and brassie offers
true mark for the wandering bolt.
The lamentable death of Tristan
Burgess Johnson. the former New York
alderman. occurred on the Chevy
Chase links, near Washington, In this
wise: AS is well known, these are
the links that the president uses, and
1t was rather matter Of luck than
otherwise that Nr, TAFT did not play