The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-11

heats tho room bettor there than on the
floor. 1t is only a cooking-stoye, to DO
sure, but when the winter Is cold, 1t
makes this room comfortable. Being up
in the middle Of the space, it heats it
all equally woll, which it could not do
If 1t were down below"
The doctor greeted this theory with
loud laugh. Colonel" he said, 'you
are wild-way OF the mark. hot air
rises, OF course, and the only way to dis
seminate it is to have your stove as low
as possible. According to your idea, it
would be good plan to put the furnace
in the attic'of house instead Of In the
basement"
~ think" said the Colonel. "that
could appreciate your argument better
IL you would ante"
1.-THE pot is mine," said the doctor, as
he deposited his coin; ''you will all adopt
my idea tho moment you hear it, and
Long Tom, who Will be hero in min
ute, will bear mo out. This room is
very small; it has but littlo floor space,
and mono of it goes to waste. Now, If
he had put the stove down whero we en-
pected to find it, Long Tom could not
have made use of tho area underneath,
as you see he has done. On all sides of
the supporting posts, you will notice,
there arc hooks, on which he hangs his
pans and skillets. Underneath. there
is kitchen closet for pots and cooking
utensils of various sorts. What could
he more convenient? Under your ordi-
nary stove there is room only for a poker
and fcw coclroaches"
The judge, who had been listening to
m ,i,,in r,ffo
the same grim smile that occasionally
ornamented his face when he announced
that an objection was ovcrruled, now
stepped forward and dropped a coin on
the table. IIo then rendered his decis-
ion as follows:
1T appears that mono of You have
noticed the forest of hooks in the
roof just over the stove. They are not
in use at present, but they are
there for soys purpose. imagine that
during tho s'intcr huge pieces Of ven
ison and bears meat danglc over the
stove, and are dried for use later. Now,
If the stove were on tho floor, it would
be too far from the roof to be OF service
in this way"
Here comes old Tom," shouted the
Colonel, who had stepped to the open
door while the judge was speaking.
The old trapper put down tho various
articles Of baggage with which his
arms were loaded and camo into the
llitchen-cabin where We all stood. He
glanced at the group and then at the
stiltcd stove in our midst.
81 see you air all admirin' my stove"
said he, land I'll bet you've been
a-wonderin' why it is up SO high"
YES, wo have" said the professor;
''how did you know it?"
people most allrs generally jest as
soon as they come into tho place begin
TO ask me about it-that's how
linowcd."
well, why is it up SO high?" de-
mandcd the stakeholder, impaticntly,
with side glance at tho well-developed
jackpot on the table.
1.-The reasons simple enough" said
Long Tom, with a grin that showed his
bicuspids; you see, we had to pack all
this stuff up here from down below on
burros. Originally there was four
Jints of that stove-pipe, but the cinch
wasn't drawed tight enough on the
burro that was carryin' them, and two
of 'em slipped out and rolled down the
mountain. When we got here and
found that there wasn't but two pieces
left, reckoned that I would have to
| kinder hist the stove to make it ct the
pipc-so jest in and h'isted her. And
thar she Is yet. Say, what's all this
hero money on tho table for?''
Thcre was deep silence which lasted
SO long that Tom ventured to repeat his
question about the money.
1T is jackpot" said the doctor,
sadly, land as near as can make out,
it belongs to you."-Fred Bayham, in
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