Show the fear af lightning york ann to is i r the most agonizing of air nervous fears is that of and a count of those whose lives are really embittered by this dread would number scores of thousand many of them who know no other fear twenty years ago the writer remembers turning with a smile to others who shrank and cried nt the peals of a terrible storm in a country house the glare of a bolt coming down the center of the room caught tho eye at that very moment the next was an explosion that shook the house and insensibility followed two men in the same room burned by the bolt though no lives were lost but I have never been able to smile at lightning again but unfortunately so far from being an exception there are too many who suffer the bame harrass ments with me nor are alone subject to this nervousness I once knew a school superintendent and canal contractor a man over 50 with a large family who would hide in a closet in a storm and biad been know to rush from liis bed fright at lightning many will remember alo professor at college who always retreated to alie cellar in a thunder storm hia giouse was brist liag with rods alio strongest man I over knew ano could throw another man across the road and worked a hand press in a printing office as if lie were a part of the machine was discharged as ft reporter because liis desk was vacant every time tharo was a thunderstorm the mother washington was afraid of lightning and never failed to retreat to her room at the first flash where she stayed till the last flash died away the physical deflects of this fear aro most depressing one woman knows when a storm is coaling hours before by a prostration of strength and spirits accompanied with symptoms liko cholera one of the most dauntless young women know wua sick in bed for hours after alio great storm in mass last month thio biad received a shock years before and novo fails to bo ill in a thunderstorm since reason and study of ws of lightning haver done much to lessen the it is truer we live between two magazines cf electricity one in the earth and alie oilier in tho air but it is also true that provide the lightning with a convenient and easy conductor in alie shape of ashout iron rod higher than any point of a giouse and reaching well into alio ground it will prefer eliat rod to anything in its vicinity and people who stay indoors in a well protected lionso are safer than any bomb roof from bursting shells javery accident from this causo I ever knew of came froba careless exposure in situations known to bo unsafe the first that I notice after my own accident was that af pf it mission arys daughter being killed while passing an open window just ns it woman on long island list summer whilo sitting at ing machine A young man in mai ded was killed while mating out on a his chair tipped bi ck and liis head against the knob of theodoor bell an excellent conductor with the bell wire many men have been struck riding into a barn on a ot it ii never too soon to go into the hou io when a storm is rising when ilia cloud aro fully charged with electricity they art inert dangerous A woman told inor of a bolt which camo down hit mothers chimney from ft cloud when the sun was shining overhead N P willis writes of a young girl killed whilo passing under telo graah wire ft storm smiths Smi thys eid accident at a warning to every that tt is not safo to let sta af doors till lie should not bo foolhardy about kitting on porches or by oen windows whether tha storm la biard or noff mild showers often carry n lingk charge which falls with deadly it may or may not bo fatal lo 10 stay out it is gate to in tho the window and doors idnia the dry air in a bouso is a readier conductor than the damp air outside out eide any draught of air invites it A hot fire in a chimney so to speak and it if prudent for choso who would be fiur of safety to wv kerosene or gas stoves in summery and avoid heating alio chimneys chim neya aw very ignorant w reckless lightning I scon n girl of 19 crying with fear of lightning and running every other moment to tho window to w if tho storm diw not abating unconscious that he wa herolf in danger if every one would hurry to shelter as soon w a storm cloud was half way up ilia il was coming nearer if they would tho boors and keep away from bliem afterward and from bell wire stovepipe maneely man tely anaf mirror blui gieir silvered tacks which carry ariy from ligett ning iod ws vicinity and from r spouts with good brods on their liou sos they might dis inia alto kw of bifid Bi iid |