Show HOW TO AVOID LIGHTNING there Is much less danger in the open during an electrical storm first aids lor those injured by a stroke of lightning persevere for an hour in trying to restore consciousness nine hundred and seventy three people were killed by lightning in united states in the year 1900 of this number two hundred and ninety ono person ft ere killed in the open one hundred and fifty eight in houses fifty seven under trees and aix in barns while the circumstance attending jhc thc death of the remaining one hundred and fifty one are not known besides this larga mortality list there were A SI hundred and seventy three per fi or less injured by lightning during the same time three hundred and twenty seven were injured while in houses two hundred and forty nine in the open fifty seven in barns and twenty nine under treba and the location of hie remaining is not known tram these statistics which are compiled by alie united states weather it can easily be seen that of the entire population of the united states one hi every forty thousand is killed by lightning during a year A safe and reliable guide to reduce to the minimum the danger from strokes by lightning h to bo drawn from these figures when a severe thunderstorm is raging the safest place is in the open close to the earth if the body is erect it acts as an excellent conductor for the lightning to find its way to the earth for this reason it is dangerous to take refuge un der a tree doubtless most of the per bons who perished while under trees would be alive today biad they remained in the open it is also injudicious to huddle under thrashing machines sheds or in alio grand stand of race trucks or county fairs especially under or near the flag staffa which usually adorn such structures men like animae arc killed not singly but in bundles when they avoid standing in doorways near chimneys and fireplaces fire places cloe to cattle or near alie anda of a wire clothes line during a thunderstorm on the other hand there i not much sense in going to bed or trying to insulate one i belt in feather bcd small articles of steel or iron as a knife kettle or key do not attract lightning as it is popularly believed it is established that lightning doea not strike as often in cities as in rural districts alie reason for this H based on a scientific principle during a thun the moisture in the air is sur tv charged with electricity this electricity is attracted to the earth when the force that is drawing it towards the earth be cornea strong enough the electricity fol lowa the easiest path and because upright objects as trees houses and men are better conductors than the surrounding air and are therefore the path the electricity passes through them into the earth in cities alie electricity in the air is attracted to alie earth by hundreds of conductors in the shape of sky and high chimneys are no such conductors in alie country and the electricity in the clouds is allowed to accumulate so that when it gevea away jt breaks great force the country in a theatre with but one exit while the cita ia the same theatre with many exits when aliese facts are considered alie wonder is not so many people are struck but rather that BO many people escape the flabb will not inflict harm one who lives to sec alio fire nc cd to concern himself no more with that discharge AID TO ONE STRUCK BY LIGHT NING it one has been struck by lightning the first thing to do is to go to work to restore as lightning oftener brings about suspended animation than somatic death the condition of a struck by lightning ia lucli the game as that of a pernon rescued from drowning try to respiration pi ration and circulation do not caaso in the effort to animation in less than an hour a you value the life of the sufferer the method used to restore respiration h immaterial a good way is to imitate tho motion of respiration by alternately compressing and expanding the do alil gently but per at the rate of twenty times s ier minute keep the body wann by ol 01 hot flannels louica r k of hot water hot bricks or in case ot an clothing from by I 1 islanders rub the bimbi upward so as to forc the blood to the and labor lT bor persona pe isona cati ilo nil the time to make and that toward the blood to warda tho heart rub fernly abu t energetically three things are tobe to be born in mind do not give w effort to restore respiration the body airm alion h n teaspoonful of hariu maage win 0 diluted or coffeo il A should be given when consciousness is restored encourage sleep do not give up keep at work and send for a physician of the visible effects of lightning stroke upon the human body little more can bo said than that sometimes burns have been noticed and frequently red or markings which are localized congestions congest ions of the small blood vessels of the skin these because of the and network net work have led to the idea of photographs of trec the effect of lightning is to cause a temporary paralysis of tho respiration and the heart beat which if allowed to continue will deepen into death but when treated as above described will generally pass awny I 1 W E ERB |