Show r Q 1 t About Light Maker The 11 were wen groping oar way across the street inter inter- v T section which wait was h hidden in the pitch t MaAn t of a moonless midnight ig t whoa when we were startled by br the rattle of the dead dmd lamp arc above try us Then we heard beard the oink creak of tho the pulley th that t held it tt it and aDd we knew that somewhere doN close doe to us in that dark stillness was vin a man f feeding out the rope to lower the lamp tamp to the he street I level Ind We waited and watched Presently a flash ash tamp was laid hud on the ground and revealed the tho lame tame lamp and its doctor By the thee dim reflection w we saw w him place a platform which he presently mounted no and aDd then went to work Walking toward him we anno announced weed our approach by the inquiry I suppose that step you yen ar ate standing oais on oa onia is ia insulated Yes Ye he be replied With glass knobs knob we by observed observed by way o of making making making mak mak- ing conversation to glean a morsel of electrical information in in- f formation 1 it lb Stand back bade a little he be said the wind might sweep the lamp over to you and youre you're on the ground I suppose youre you're perfectly safe on your platform Was our next feeler Safe as long as I use bat but one hand at a time he said Iy Dy using two hands I can easily make mke a short circuit through my mr ml body That would kill you of course we added know know- k O Maybe not he replied It isn't the instant shock hock that kills but the continued contented Shock Lock The current cooks the blood c cells s l If enough of 0 the blood c cells become so cooked that the ether cells cannot cure them you die But nut if most of your blood crr Its are left Idt normal you will live iVf I short short circuited a I 0 current that was three times the voltage he here It was wasso was wasso so great that instead of holding bolding me it repelled me it threw me to the ground I was unconscious many hours boan Bat Bot as you see I was waI not killed The bun burning ag process did not last wt long enough If Does this this' treet et meet with Jenifer down there he said aai pointing ting to an arc art a block below I 1 am not much acquainted about this district I am a student Good Goodnight nit night he said and he be was off oU to lighten up the dark darke high We e d dJ didn't dof of men learn n t vii m much mach about I electricity in In that ilia t cur curb b talk in to the midnight tour bow but w we learned again the I scholars scholar's doty daty lie is a wasteful student who does not Dot use nse that which he knows bows for the benefit bendit of other othu men It is the soldier scholar who serves and who justifies the universities of the world The man who finds in culture only a source of o gratification self who is contented with the mere men possession of culture who is not impatient to use it who is unwilling to take the risk of getting short cir in m the currents of life that he might while he lives do his part to light up the dark avenues of the the- world is is not living true to t the e highest purposes of lif life He lie serves a high service who goes about alone cautious but fearless ranks spreading light in th this still shill dark and troubled world and giving it without the applause of those who Profit by it and who never see set the good deed decd done Along the dark and silent pathway in in that midnight hour bour that student was putting into practice the highest some preachment in rife life f Willingness to do some good unseen some good that brightens the pathway of others is the tha tho soldier service open to all 1 It If each of n us W would 1 mend a lamp or light a lamp Imp risk a little to do a little for the common good this old world would fast grow better and seem much bri brighter T |