Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-18
How to Burn n Barn.

: 1t is the easiest thing in the world if
!. few simple directions are followed. Us
. an old fashioned tin lantern at night, thro
whose roughly punched sides only TIN
minimum Of light can penetrate, ant
whose door must necessarily be open IL
enable you to see anything. Set it righ
down in the bedding while you 60 up ir
the hay-loft to throw down feed, and the
chances are good that your hungry horse
or fiisky COW will kick it over, as Mrs
O'Ceary's did in Chicago, and set the barn
on fire. If you have not tin lantern, carry
4 candle, or open lamp. and use it in the
same way. If the night is windy, feel your
way out to the barn the best you can, and
light your candle inside with matches, and
let the match ends take care OF themselves
they are small affairs anyhow.
On rainy days make the barn your rem
devious for smoking and whiting, and
talking politics with intelligent neighbors
who have leisure hours on their hands as
you have. DO not be stiney with your
pipes and tobacco, and keep plenty match
cs lying around loose, so they may be
handy to fire up WITH. A few social after
Moons spent in this way will, not unlikely.
enable you to get your barn burned.
Never lock barn door, Pad-locks are
expensive. and wooden peg will keep the
thing shut just as well as forty pad-locks.
Besides that. there are poor people con-
stantly on the road (''tramps,' they are
called by unfeeling, well-to-do people, who
have nice, comfortable homes of their OWN
who need 4 nights lodging as well as
other folks. and who will be attracted by
the hospitable appearance of an unlocked
barn door. These gentlemen are not, as
an average thing, of literary turn Of mind,
but they do sometimes carry short pieces OF
candles in their pockets. with which to
look over scraps Of newspapers and other
things in the interior of barns where they
spend their nights, and they almost invari-
ably have supply Of matches with which
to light their pipes as they take might
cap smoke on the hay-mow before closing
their gentle eyes in slunlber. ;
Never clean your barn. 1t involves
great deal of labor to be particular about a !
barn-in sweeping the floor and clearing |
up the stalls, and fastidiously disposing of s
the rakings and droppings, and odds and I
ends, which accumulate and make pleas !
mt carpet for the feet if left alone. All :
his refuse when it becomes dry is easily a
gnited, and offers handy food for incipient ii
Tres, which may be kindled by an ambiti- V
'us match, dropped during the day and :"
topped on rs you pass through ut night. \
DO not pay attention to those hyper II
cientific people who are everlastingly talk a;
lg about spontaneous combustion in hay 4;
lows. Never mind if your hay is wet IL
on do not want to be all the year round -
'aitng for it to dry. Now it away; tramp t
down; let it dry at its leisure; scout at
ie idea of moisture setting hay on lire. A
diculous newspaper reporter the other
ay actually printed an item about an ex- co
a high tide setting a warehouse on fire IT
ecallse the water reached some lime stored
the cellar. Just as if water could set Nc
lything on fire! II
AS with your hay, so with your grain. in
oppose it is damp, what harm will it do : Til
ont fool away your time in drying it ~.
1t it in the bin, shut it up tight. and 60 - !,
bed like wise man, without firing your sec
II with over-particularity. ,,,p
These directions. all of them. or part of VIII
EN-. faithfully adhered to. will beyond m Z
ubt enable You to get your barn burned. II
Farm and Firesids. oI 4,