Article May 23, 1903 Issue

Groundless Fears

G. C. KINSMAN.

DURING a recent snow and sleet storm, which prostrated the telegraph and telephone lines, and caused the newspapers to print scarehead warnings against "live wires," one of our officials, in walking toward the station, overtook a man standing in the snow in apparent distress. Upon being asked if he were in trouble, he answered in a frightened way that he was caught in a "live wire." The officials looked down, and seeing a short piece of loose wire hooked around the man's foot, said to him, "It is nothing,—simply a piece of loose wire which doesn't connect with anything. Throw it off." The man replied, "It is a live wire, I wouldn't touch it for a thousand dollars." The official reached down, pulled the wire loose, and cast it aside, whereupon the man gave a great sigh of relief, and was most profuse in his thanks. When the official told me of this I replied that we, as mortals, are ever picking up and suffering from "live wires" of fear, which have nothing at all attached to the other end.

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