Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-10

GIVE BEEN SMELLING GAS AROUND HERE
 ALL NIGHT"
 compact and nothing about it to get out of order. By the expenditure of s4 l save hundreds"
 "Well, don't blame me if it doesn't work, and I'm sure it won't"
 "Because I wish to save S1 ,000 instead of giving it to the gas company you are sure it won't work. Is it any wonder, Mrs. Bowser that so many bus sbands throw their dollars away and pauperize their families? You object to my scheme. Of course you'd object. Nevertheless the at tachment will be attached, and before 9 o'clock tonight the president of our gas company will hear something drop"
 After dinner Mir. Bowser armed himself with monkey wrench, hammer, pair of pinchers, hatchet, a saw and other things and disappeared in the cellar, and half an hour later came up stairs to ru b his hands and chuckle and announce:
 "The president of the gas company is already beginning to grow white around the mouth, Mrs. Bowser. He won't put in four weeks 4t the Catskills next sum- mer on our cash. Can't you see the diff ference already:"
 II see no difference whatever" she re- piled as she looked up at the chandelier.
 OI COt&rSc not. l Oiuu U eApeCb you would. When a wife is determined to bankrupt her husband, she can't see any thing intended to save dollar. The reg ulator is regulating, however, and feel as if a great burden had rolled off my back.''
 A dozen times during the evening Mir. Bowser got up to walk about and chuUkle and refer to that regulator, and he went to bed figuring that the gas company would be financially busted in six months. He hadn't got to sleep when Mrs. Bowser asked him if he didn't smell gas.
 Mot smellr' he replied as he turned over. "The president of the gas company probably smells a rat, but there is no odor of gas around here.'
 It was daylight next morning when a policeman rang the doorbell and banged away till he got MT. Bowser down stairs and said:
 ''l've been smelling gas around here all night. You'd better lot k at your meter. The odor seems to come from that open cellar window"
 He went down with Mir. Bowser to in- vestigate. The regulator and the inlet pipe had parted company, and for eight or nine hours the gas had been steadily pouring out of the open window and sailing around the corner of the house, At the breakfast table, after the plumbe ana the police man, and the crowd had departed, and the house had been aired, and the cook s wages raised 50 cents a week to keep her on, Mrs. Bowser looked up and asked:
 ''Mr. Bowser, if you call it eight hours, how much gas will have gone out of that windowf"
 He pretended not to hear and hadn't a word to say until he stood at the door ready to go to the office. Then he turned on her with:
 "You can figure it with your lawyer. You can give him the exact hour you sneak cd down there and uncoupled that regu- ltor to spite me, and he can work it out. While you are not entitled to alimony l am willing for the sake of our child that you should have reasonable sum until you can learn to make straw hats or hickusy shirtsi Farewell, Mrs. Bowser; the worm has turnedl'
 But "the worm" returned home at the usual hour, and two days later, when Mrs. Bowser saw the patent gas regulator in the back yard and asked what it was, he quiet 1y replied:
 s'It's probably an old beer faucet that Green heaved at those bowling eats last nightW