Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-12-18
UTTI CAROLINA. THURSDAY, DECEMHsER is, 1873.

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cheerfuliy filed it with coal put Of another
neighbor's pile, and before you could
turn round was back to where / sto5d
contemplating my Beauty. He put in
some chips, set them on FIRE, ,lputon some
4 coal and saying, brShe's all right now" "
I went out But it wasn't oil right for
the fire followed, his example, and Yeht
out too. I thought this strange Thought
iperhaps it was Che coal; SO next day bor-
rowed some more and Sent for my man.
\ Iitold him that clearl y there must have
been some misunderstanding or misap-
prrehaension on the part ofthe Stove. yes
terdaywHe tried again. He said, by
Cling! Now she'll 60" But she didn't 90
anywhere except out. So my man said
he GUESSED it wanted another knee,a L
said i"put as many knees as she may re-
quire, and throw in a leg Oh arm ifneces-
sary," However he only added one other
knee and run the pipe up perpendicular
ly, then he put q sort of Scotch cap, oh
the end Of the pipe Then he took the
same Goals and built some fire. stNow,''
he says "She'll work to a charm" Obi
but she didn't work to ,iny particular.
charm that saw. She merely went
through the same old easy tricksAw with
out the slightest apparent = !exertlon,,g she
went oat. I then said emy friend I see
the object of that stove, SIZE rs a COAL
SAVER, you will observe we have been
running her on hehod, or'ffreman' s hat,
of coal since we started, and that coal is
there yet. he said canhardly, think,
yet | will not speak positively, that. thst
could have been .whato this ilstoye was
made for. Hold on, 4 scbShowtit is. I1she
don't like the NORTH Nets five teirla d
lick'at another point Of the cbnpasg." /
said oft, bpS the com pass if ,S,i You Want v;s
Ito, 4 don cars.' he says f.I am am sure SUI of
IT now you jsee5 this stoae nwas never
meant tolrun Rithia northi wind. Shss Isl
4 stove built N North With Southern priril p[,i
| ciPles. She good in d South breeze
-. 81, Hi 4,
revelation; SO In q twin ing slicS !
the Scotch capandi set5iabout changing
her pipe saying 3to, himself the while II
am astonished I didn't think oft before.
So said 81 was astonished too. .I'llIl
fix her" says my man., GIll run her out
South, then you'll see she'll be all right
| merely observed proceed" He then
dislocated herknee joint and run her out
South with o bonnet on instead of the
Scotch cap. 1 said Suppose she don't
like South view."4Then' he says we'll
try her West and then East, and if she
don't like either view, we will build a
chimney for her and run her straight upil
through the top. "The truth is, he said,
sit is absolutely necessary to humor these
stoves sometimes" Il Thought this was
reasonable enough; SO said Humor her
by all means"
We then tried her with the South view.
We built a fire with chips borrowed next
door and with tho same hod of Goals.
That fire was started with the fairest
and most promising prospects-but it
went out, and the coal was saved again.
My ncishbors and friends came in and
suggested many hints and no doubt vain
able ideas embracing general theosies as
to building coal fires. Several wanted
to try their hand on t'Scorcher No. TO-"
said "please let her alone. She is tired
now. She has been saving coal. ] am
saving coal through her. Besides we don't
want or expect stove of any respecta-
bility to heat upa fellow in this warm
weather." left her looking South and
she is enjoying that prospect now calmly
and complacently. But, assuming that
my theory rs to the design of the stove
being to save coal only. to belincorrect,
and that it was really meant to burn, its
conduct appeared very singular and
bothered me much. thought over the
matter long time and finally concluded
that it was the fault of my man Chat is
if the stove was actually and BONA TIDE
intended to burn) who didn't understand
how to build fire. determined TO teach