Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-17


 position. He then gave it q s's.ake aai looked at the stovepipe and slowly an. swered:
 Mrs. Perkins. have no wish to eX aggerate, but l may tell you that if that stove fell down with a reasonably hot fire in it at the time the conse= ouences would be disastrous. The chances would be nine out of ten that the house would be burned to the ground. Why do you ask:'
 Because about an hour before you came home I went to put i:l scuttla of coal and found one of the legs al most worked out. The slightest jar would have sent the stove tumblin@. I was so startled that I haven't got over it yet"
 'It was q wifely thing on your part. Mrs. Perkins. to look at the legs of that stove. Not one wife in a hun'rc knows or cares whether a stove hH:' two legs el. four CT any legs at al. compliment you.'
 Same Cid Coal Stove. Thanks. There is another little mat ter want to refer to. About the mid dle of last July as We sat on the vc runtla one evening we somehow touch cd upon the subject of winter heating. You then and there declared with a good deal of emphasis that this house should be heated this winter by fur. nace I called your attention to the fact that we have the same old coal stove before us with it's dirt and dust. Have you any remarks to maker: ''I.et me See-let us see,' he unused as he felt for his memorandum book. May, June. July. Ah, here it is. Un, der the date of July 10 have written:
 ".Sat on the veranda with Mrs. r. after supper. She was in her usual complaining mood Weather hotter than blank. Mrs. F. said that she was te- barred from society because we didn't have furnace in the house. l prom ised one for the winter, and she quit kicking
 'Yes, Mrs. Perkins, you are right My diary proves that you are right
 "Well, have we got a furnace:"
 "I can't truthfully say that we have"
 And why not. if you please?"
 Mir. Perkins got up and walked the length of the room three or four time x and pondered over the matter and then sat down and said:
 "My dear second wife"- ''There you gov' she Interrupted. "Yoc never miss an occasion to throw 1 that fact at me"
 Should Keep Wivss Separate.
 Softly, dearest. l sometimes speak of you as my second wife so as not to get you mixed up with my first. One should keep his wives separate. What I was going to say when you interrupted me with what seemed un- due heat was that the husband who won't promise his wife furnace for winter on one of the hottest days of midsummer has no philosophy about him. We will mark that Exhibit A. the promise ran across Johnston. He is in the furnace business. spoke to him regarding the furnace. and he said 1t would cost more to put it in than the house is worth. We will class that as Exhibit R.
 Determined not to stop until had all possible information. I figured o:I the coal. figured it down to q dead certainty that it would take ten tons of coal to run it through the season. That would be placing ourselves in the grip of the coal barons. and we will class that as Exhibit e."
 'It would take two months to install the furnace, and during that time the workmen would have possession of the house. Exhibit D. my dear.
 "Then l consulted. all medical and