Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
HIS PA AN INVENTOR.
Tho Boy Assists 70 Give the Thing
q Good Start.

Peck's Sun.
cha! hal Now 1 have got you"
said the grocery man to the bad boy
the other morning as no came in and
jumped upon the counter and tied the
end of o ball of Irvine to the tail Of q
dog, aud ''sicked" the deg on another
dog that was following q passing sleigh,
causing the twine to pay out until the
whole ball was scattered along the
block. Condemn you, I've q notion
to choke the liver out Of you. Who tied
that twine to the dogs tail2"
The boy ohoked up with emotion,
and the tears came into his eyes, and
he said he didn't know anything about
the twine or the dog. Ho said he NO.
ticed the dog come In, and wag his
tail around the Irvine, but he supposed
the dog was q friend of the family,
and did not disturb him. every
body lays everything that is done to
me" said the boy, as he put his hand
kerchief to his nose, sand they will
DO sorry for 1t when I die. I have q
good notion to poison myself by eat.
Ing some Of your glucose sugar"
"Yes, and you do about everything
that Is mean. The other day q lady
camo In and told me to send up to her
house some Of my country sausage,
done up In muslin bags, and while she
was examining 1t she noticed some-
thing hard inside the bags, and asked
me what 1t was, and opeped 1t, and l
hope to die II there wasn't q little
brass paddock and Q piece of red mo.
rocco dog.collar imbedded In the sau.
sage. Now, how do you suppose that
got in there2" and the grocery man
looked savage.
The boy looked Interested, and put
on an expression as though in deep
thought, and finally said, 81 suppose
the farmer that put up the sausage
did not strain the dog meat. Sausage
meat ought to be strained"
The grocery man pulled In about
half q block Of Irvine, after the deg
had run against q fence and broke it,
and told the boy he knew perfectly
well how the brass paddock came to be
In the sausage, but thinking that 1t
was safor to have the good will of the
boy than the Ill will, he offered him q
handful of prunes.
NO." says the boy, Il have sworn
off ON moldy prunes. I am no kinder
garten any more. For years I have
eaten rotten peaches around this
store, and everything you couldn't
sail h,,k In.o -.nJ orar m naur
leaf now, and after this nothing is too
igood for me. Since pa has got to be
an inventor we are going to live high"
"What's your pa invented2 l saw
a hearse and three hacks 60 up on
your street the other day, and ]
thought may be you had killed y'ur
pa"
"Not much. There will be more
than three hacks wbon l Kill pa, and
don't you forget ~. Well, sir, pa has
struck a fortsne, II he can make the
thing work He has got ~ Idea
about coal stoves that will tting him
In several million dollars, If he gets
q royalty If s. on every coal stove
In the world. His idea !is to have a
coal stove on castors with the pipe
made to telescope out and In, and
rubber hose for one joint, 80 you can
pull the stove all around the room and
warm any particular place. Well, sir,
to hear pa tell about IT., you would
think 1t would revolutionize the coun.
, try, and mayb be It will when he gets II
|, perfected, but he came near burning
|. the house up, spi scared US all hall
8 to death this aiorning, and burned his
. ahirt of. ~ he is all covered with
o9ttsss ike ii1eh .. siSfs dps..iaa g it YsSaaa s ss
,7G had a pipe made and some castora
put on our stoke, and he tied a rope to
the hearth of the stove and had me
put in the kindling wood and coal
last night, SO he could draw the
stove up to the bed and
light the fire without get.
ting up. Ma told him he would
put his foot in II, and he told her to
dry up and let him run the stove busi.
ness. He said 1t took o man with
brains to run q patent right, and ma
she pulled the clothes over her head
and let pa do the fire act. She has
been building the fires for twenty
years, and thought she'd let pa see
how good it was. Well, pa pulled the
stove to the bed. I touched off the
kindling wood. / guess maybe I got
a bundle of klndling wood that the
hired girl had put kerosene on, cause
1t blazed up awful and smoked, and
the blazs bursted out the doors and
windows of the stove, and pa yelled
FIRE, and I jumped out of bed and
rushed In, and he was the scartest
; man you aver see, an you'd a dide tt
see how he kicked when l throwed
:. pail of water on his legs and put his
shirt out. Ma did not got burned,
but she was pretty wet, and che TOLD
pa che would pay the So royalty or
that stove and take the oastors off anG
let 1t remain stationary. Pa says he
will make 1t work if hs burns tn,
house down. 1 think IL wasreal NEAR
In pa to get mad at me because
threw cold water on him instead Of
warm water to put his shirt out. II ]
had waited till 1 could heat water tc
the right temperature I would have
been an orphan and pa would have
been n burnt offering. But some
men always kick at everything. Pr
has given up business entirely, and
says he shall devote the remainder Of
his life curing himself of the different
troubles that I get him into. He hs'
retained a doctor by the year, and he
buys liniment by the gallon"
, what was 1t about your folks get
/: ting up at night to eatl The hiret
girl was owe here after some soap the
; other morning and she said she wa
going to leave your house."
"Weli, that was a picnic. Pa sait
r he wanted breakfast earlier than VI
: had been In the habit OF having II