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Show THE LIVE WIRES. The live electritic wire is putting the railway crossing and the gun that is not supposed to be loaded away in the dim perspective as a means of killing oil the surplus population. Omaha Herald. Accidental death by electricity appears ap-pears generally to be instantaneous and painless, but when science starts out fully equipped to deal doalh to convicted con-victed criminals it somehow slips up wofully. Jacksonville Times. The overhead electric wire caused the death of two valuable horses and finally set lire to tho stable where they were kept, on Calvert street. This is only auother proof that the "live wire" has no business above terra tirina. Baltimore Balti-more Herald. The fact that only three persons were killed by electric light plants in this state last year, while eiht lost their livos by inhaling illuminating pas, rather goes t show that it is less dangerous dan-gerous to monkey with electricity than to omit to turn off the gas. Boston Herald. This new light, which wo find si; valuable, valu-able, carries destruction in its track, but it isdoubtful if the number of deaths from this cause approximates tho-o that are produced by suffocation from gas. 15oth are powerful agents for goouir bad and give a perpetual warning to "handle with care.'' Indianapolis News. |