New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-25

combination, and in this chapter Of
scolncidences it is worth while noting
that it was the day after this inter
| vieWthat Paul jimmy gate sdining groom
| fire began to smoke. Paul was furi-
| ious this time; he summoned the land
| lord OF the house, who sent for the
/ best architect in London at once.
What ass built this freplace?" ask
| ed the best architect in London
The landlord named the second best
architect in Lond on
| .Oh, him. said the BAIL. II
| wouldn't trust him to design a log
! hut. I'll have this right in a jiffy.''
Buthedidn't. He fiddled aboutitfor
amonth; and it smoked worse than.
ever. Paul went to the builders.
What do architects know about
smoky chimneys?" said the first one
ecalledin. a'll just put you on AS
patent cowl and you'll be as right as
a trivet.' =
| But AS patent coWl" retired defeat.
led. Successive builders tried on the.
| ideas Of B, G, D, and the rest Of the
| alphabet, but the chimney smoked
from the wrong end, and Paul's
views with regard to architects and
builders became as pessimistic and
agnostic as those recently expounded
by a Portsmouth alderman: but the
M. p. owed his success in life to his
persistence; he set his teeth and vowed
| to cure that chimney if he had to re-
build the house.
One day as he was going through
the hall, the oorkeeper stopped him.
4 beg pardon, sir" he said; 'tabout
/ that smoky chimney of yours. That
| young man in the hattie says as how
he could, get it to rights. ] shouldn't
wonder it he could, neither; he cured
| my, missis OF the toothache wonder
Til see him. said Paul, and turn
ed back at once.
| lie found Master Frank hard at
work, in his shirt-sleeves, and went
straight to the point.
The doorkeeper tells me you pre-
tend you are able to cure my Chin
ney, said he.
= belieyeit's very simple MATTER =
replied Frank.
! Come down and look at it," said
Jlnnygate.
He led the way briskly, and present
| ly Frank was peering into the smoky
CRATE with a solemn look on his face.
eyes, sir he said at length, s,sit will
take me less than half-an-hour to
cure this. But must insist upon
being locked in this room alone, and
that you do not inquire into my
method"
Certainly" said the M. P, rather
impressed with the young fellows
confident manner.
Frank ran upstairs, and quickly APP
| peared with screw-driver and a
! hammer. He was left in the possess
ion OF the room, and not only locked
the door, but fastened a postage
stamp over the keyhole will stake
my character for veracity that he did
not even go on the hearthrug. He
| kissed q picture that hung on the wall,
| stole a photograph from an album,
| and wrote a letter which he deposited
among the balls OF worsted and reels OF
cotton in a Work-basket. Then he
opened the door.
cit is done,' he said, and he stalk
ed majestically to his own room.
1t WAS. That chimney never smoked
again. Jinnygate was delighted, but
was annoyed when Frank refused any
payment for his work I
Between neighbors, he said grand
ly, "a mere trihe like this is nothing"
Paul did not press the,point, but he
disliked to remain under obligation
to any one.
II think, papa said Clara, 'syou
should look into that steam economi-
yer Of his. It would be so easy for
you to try it at one Of the mills
What do you know about steam
economizer?" growled papa.
Didn't you mention Mr. Stacey
had invented one?" inquired Clara,
naivelv
The M. P. made no reply, but the
idea took root for all that. He
mounted oneday up to the fourteenth
story again, and was rather struck
with Frank s model. He went through
the calculations, and, at the end Of
the foolscap sheet OF alphabet and
Cocker, he undertook to try the in
vention. Frank was sent at once to
Boughton to superintend the con-
struction from the model, and, after
a good deal Of wrestling with the stub
born laws OF Nature, the invention
proved q complete success. The
Musgraves, the Crosses, and the Har-
woods came and stared at itin jimmy
gates biggest mill, and put it up in
their own factories, like practical
men as they all are.
/ Before Frank left Boughton his
:'sbut-off," in the teeth Of Cocker,
was saving .0O5 per cent Of steam
more than the estimate. Jinnygate
''took him up enthusiastically, and
found that there were lot OF ideas
floating about the attic at Albert
Gate that had something in them.
One day one CT the big dallies had
paragraph about ''that eminent in
yentor, Mr.. Francis Stacey" and the
Stacey family welcomed back their
ugly duckling with open arms.
Two years after the episode Of the
smoky chimney a small family party
were gathered together in a North
country house. The smallest member
of this Stacey-Jinnygate combination