The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-18
This as the W0y Astors fire Made.

Fourth street man being told there were
several pieces of tin which needed mendipr.
conceived the idea of getting an iron and
solder and doing the mending himself.
His wife, filled with vague forebodirgs
perhaps, said that the expense was such n
trifie that it would hardly pay to do it
oneself, to which he responded
''I'll admit that in this one instance IL
would not pay; but there is something be-
ing in want Of repair every little while. and
IT have the tools here for fixing it, we are
saved just so much expense right along.
It may not be much in the course of a
year, but every little helps, aud in course of
time the total would amount to a nice little
lump. We don't want the Astors Juggling
OF all The money in the country, by gra-
cious."
lie got the iron-S1-and 80 cents worth
of solder, and 10 cents worth of resin. He
came home with these things and went into
the kitchen, looking SO proud and happy
| that his wife would have been glad he got
them were it not for an overpoverino
dread of an impending muss. He called
Tor the articles needing repair. His wife
brought out a pan.
where's the rest? Bring 'em all out.
an let me make one job of 'em while I'm
about it.''
He got them all and seemed to be disan-
pointed that there were not moro of them.
lie pushed the iron into the fire. got a
| rnilk-pan inverted on his knee and, with
tI1a spIIar IN h;e
heat.
THAT iron only cost 81, and it'n never
wear ont, and there's enough solder in this
piece to do S25 worth of mending," he ex
! planned to his wife,
Pretty soon the iron was at the riybt
heat, he judged. He rubbed the resin
| about the hole which was to be repaired.
held the stick of solder over it, and care
fully applied the iron. 1t was an intensely
interesting moment. His wife watched
him With feverish interest. He said.
| speaking laboriously as he applied the
IRON: II he only thing that-Iregret-about-
| it-is-that-I- did not-think-
| before--'' Then asceDded tbro,ol,
that ceiling and up into the very vault of
heaven the awfules: yell that woman ever
heard, and that instant the soldering iron
| flew over the stove, the pan went clatter-
| ing across the floor, aud the bar of solder
struck the wall with such force as to smash
| right through both plaster and lath And
before her Mortified gaze danced her hus
band in an ecstacy of agony, sobbing,
screaming, and holding on to his left leg as
desperately as if it was made Of solid gold
and studded with diamonds.
''Get the camphor, why don't you ?'' he
yelled ''Send for doctor. Oh, oh, I'm
a dead man. lie shouted.
Just then his gaze rested on the solder
ing iron. In an instant lie caught IL up
and hurled it through the window without
the preliminary of raising the sash.
1t was some time before the tborouob,v
frightened and confused woman learned
that some of the molten solder had run
through the hole in the pan and on to his
leg. although she knew from the first that
something of an unusual nature had oc-
CURED. She didn't send for the DOCTOR
She made and applied the poultices herself
to save expenses. She said
ave don't want tie Astors Juggling off
ali the money i'll The country, by gracious
''Come. Maria, don't you be too cum
ning," he sheepishly expostulated.
~ >--
MAEY JANE was in the parlor the other
evening, entertaining her young man,
when Johnny, her little brother. entered.
III. J.-"Why, Johnny, where have YOU
been all day? J.-"Oh, I've been UP to
the Park to see the animals" NJ j.
"Well wha. animals did you see up there ?''
J.-''Oh, l seen the monkeys. the bear,
the bearess, and whole lot of little bear.