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Elizabeth evidently caught what was in the young man's mind, for she met his glance with a merry twinkle. "Really, Father, don't you think Mr. McGowan would look out of place as a lightning-rod, even on Little River Church?" "I was speaking figuratively, my dear," he replied, somewhat crestfallen that his reference should be thus irreverently treated.
Only a year or two ago a lightning-rod man made my brother Curtis and his son John have his rods put upon their barn against their wills. They did not want his rods but could not say "No" with enough force. He simply held them up and made them take his rods, willy nilly. Curtis had maps, books, washing machines, etc., forced upon him in the same way.
We stuck to it about a half an hour, which was as long as we could stand up; but we had a good deal of a hole to show for it. When I got up stairs I looked out at the window and see Tom doing his level best with the lightning-rod, but he couldn't come it, his hands was so sore. At last he says: "It ain't no use, it can't be done. What you reckon I better do? Can't you think of no way?"
The fact is the more surprising as this connection is so much within control and is the least costly part of the system. This fault has arisen from the failure of lightning-rod men, as well as owners of buildings, to apprehend what constitutes a ground-connection for electricity.
He had been long in public life, had been a leading Whig the party to which Lincoln belonged but had lately gone over to the Democrats, and had received from the Democratic administration an appointment to the lucrative post of Register of the Land Office at Springfield. Upon his handsome new house he had lately placed a lightning-rod, the first one ever put up in Sangamon County.
I closed the window, and the semblance of the whole nail was again perfect. "The riddle, so far, was now unriddled. The assassin had escaped through the window which looked upon the bed. "The next question is that of the mode of descent. Upon this point I had been satisfied in my walk with you around the building. About five feet and a half from the casement in question there runs a lightning-rod.
Because we know nothing for certain, and because the Almighty Judge perhaps thought differently about the lightning-rod oath, and did not observe the Eynhofen tradition. So he considered what and how much he must give in order to balance the account and make his merit outweigh his badness.
"I surely will, but listen they are already quarrelling with my good angel. I will go in, to serve as a lightning-rod for dear Marie. I often do it, and it pleases me when the lightning strikes, and dashes my hard old head to the ground, but does not hurt me at all Farewell, Herr Moritz, the lightning-rod must go in."
Tom he went down the lightning-rod to spy around; and the nigger at the back door was asleep, and he stuck it in the back of his neck and come back. This letter said: Don't betray me, I wish to be your friend.
I desire to live, and I desire place and distinction as a politician; but I would rather die now than, like the gentleman, live to see the day when I should have to erect a lightning-rod to protect a guilty conscience from an offended God." There are other stories of this campaign, amusing and characteristic of the region and the times, but which there is not room to repeat.
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