Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-01-25

Bangs eyes were rapid, changing 70
pools of watery tears, and his sense Of
vision flea completely.
"GcJd gracious" screamed Mrs.
Bangs Job, you've set the house
afirel"
mo. l haint,' stammered job, wip-
! ing his e5es on his coat-sleeve. "Ac-
cording to my idee its that confounded
stove"
mercy on us Where's the damper?
where's the draft where's the air
slide? job, job, where are You, that
you don't do something? The new
whitewash will be ruined in this
smokep
Mrs. Bangs stood with her apron over
her head, and Bangs managed to get uT
to window, at which he obtained some
relief In few moments the kindlings
had burned out, and the smoke sub
sided. There was no draft; but the
fire had been made in the wrong place,
and now Job set about Systematically
to find the right one, by trying hand
full of shayings in each cavity of the
complicated queen.
Fortune favored him, as she always
does the brave and finally Job could
have shouted Eureka if he had
thought of it, The fire burned splend-
idly The numerous CRATES glowed-
the water in the kettles sizzled-MIrs.
Bangs was radiant-and the spider" Of
pork and lard boiled charmingly.
But suddenly, just as Mrs. Bangs was
congratulating herself in being the
most favored woman in the universe,
the stove gave lurch-its three long
legs quivered and trembled-the for
ward one dropped out-the immacu-
late Queen of the World tottered on her
throne! For second only-tben over
she went, kettles and stewpans! The
pot was in the fire, and the fire took
royal advantage of it. The blaze
steamed up the chimney, igliting the
SCOT, and sending a column of flame ten
feet out OF the top of the chimney.
The observant neighbors screamed
"fre" at the height Of their voices
the school children across the way
took up the cry-Mrs. Bangs was
, ankle-deep in hot water and floating
potatoes-the house dog lay PROSTATE
: under the ruins, bowling with fright
and pain and Mr. Bangs had fled to
the elevation of the kitchen table, from
wherce he was comfortably surveying
the scene being seated in the broad
dish of hominy pudding which his wife
had prepared for baking.
The cries of lire called ont the en-
CINE company ever promptin danger
and stripping down Mr.. Bangs fence,
they hurried their machine through a
fine field Of corn, and up to the house
Just as they arrived, covered with per-
SEPARATION and out of breath, Mrs. Bangs
} made her exit from the kitchen, scream
, ing and wringing her hands in the Wild
est agitation.
The Jealous captain Of the company
was little nearsighted and surprising
the lady's clothing to be on fire, he
seized the end Of hose already filled,
| and let fly the whole stream of water
t over her person The shock knocked
t her over instantly, and after few
2 somersaults she came to a halt in the
= rain-water cistern, from whence she was
/ afterward fshed ont half drowned and
e considerably indignant.
The grand uproar aroused high.
l spirited bull that was confined in an adj
: jacent yard, the red uniforms of the
fremen inspired his bullship with just
! wrath, and after half-dozen Fremont
e tory bellows, he gave a tremendous
' leap, and cleared the barring
e Captain, privates and populace, aston
e ished and terrified, fled before that ele
e waited head and those smoking nostril
fled ingloriously, leaving Bangs
j chimney to burn out without help-al
x except Judge Marlowe, who, being
q dignifed man, did not compromise lii
dignity until the last, when he wen
t through his best PAGES, but in vain.
Y The bull singled him out from The
= others, caught him ON his horns anC
{, tossed him into the pig-pen, where tn,
irate mother Of ten promising porcin,
= little ones nearly finished MIN. L
e fact, the Judge would never have com,
i out Of that hogs yard alive had no
Mrs. Bangs, recovering from her tenn
It porary fright, gone to the rescue will
i the mop-handle
), The bull, after scattering all in
IS truders, turned his attention to TIN
engine which was left behind, an,
e never were the walls of a beleaguerel
city battered and charged more zeal
- ouslv than he charged thatnon-resistau
"masheeu.' Mr. Bang came dow
f" from his perch as soon as the crowd haO