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tures 6f"~Mr*-Fosdiek By Jacqub Mo^Ga-JL. , ' The Feline Light and Power Company- is Organized {Concluded) mendouS electrical pressure with ■which he was charged. A bolt of sheet rubber was passed in the next morning, however, and Fosdick set to work fashioning some insu' g shoes for John L. These were- mpleted by noon and the fifty thoush d movbiu spectators that had come in- by special trains breathlessly watched --the experiment. Rubber- shod, the cat-.vas dropped to the ground — and it survived. A great cheer went up from the .crowd. This had no sooner subsided than Prof. Snooks realized that a terrible mistake had been made. Hastily grabbing a megaphone from a barker of one of the numerous side shows that had set up their tents everywhere, he addres- sed the crowd. He told them that John L. was at liberty charged with perhaps a hundred million volts of elec- tricity, and that contact with him could mean but one thing— death. In- stantly there was a wild commotion in the terrorised crowd and then a wild flight from the awful peril. By night- fall the railroads had deported thirty- ' nine train loads of people and, save for the few that could find rubber boots, the streets of Whifneville were as lifeless as the shady paths of the neighboring cemetery. Rubber and rubber alone could pro- tect them against the deadly menace of John L. This, all realized. A thoughtless humanitarian, Bill Hitch- cock by the name, made rubber boots for his three dogs. One of the dogs that very afternoon, spying John L., set sail for him and although he man- aged only to touch the tail of the eat he became charged with the deadly electrical pressure. And worse, the dog coming home rubbed noses with THE AMAZING STORIES Hitchcock's other two dogs, charging them. With three electrical dogs and one electrical cat at large only the foolhardy ventured abroad. Casualties Multiplied and the Two Charged Subjects Are Still in Captivity ITHIN the next twenty-four hours there were a number of casualties. About nine in the evening Old Tige, the largest of the dogs, came in Contact with a lamp post. The post was instantly fused off even with the ground and the gas became ignited, making a geyser of flame that shot a hundred feet heaven- ward. The dog died. Later in the night another one of the dogs ran against a barb-wire fence, killing ten head of stock four miles away. That dog also died. At daybreak there was a loud explosion in the outskirts of the town. It is thought that this came from a cat fight in which John L. par- ticipated. At any rate he has never been seen since and to-day only a pa- thetic hole in the ground marks his probable last battlefield. The remaining dog was captured at great peril to life, and turned over to Prof. Snooks for experimental pur- poses. By gradually drawing off the electrical charge by means of a con- denser, the Professor in a week's time reduced the dog's pressure to approxi- mately five thousand volts and then the animal was further discharged by hooking him up to the town arc light system of fifty lamps which he main- tained in the splendid effulgence of over two thousand candle power for a period of nine hours and eleven min- utes before his power ran down. Mr. Fosdick and Mr. Stetzle are now living on two insulated stools in the laboratory of Doolittle College. Their potential is dropping at the rate of ten volts a day, and Prof. Snooks has calculated that they must remain there for the next 957 years, three months and two days before being fully dis- charged. It seems a great pity. End

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