Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-01-27
A S Hi M N C
EXCEPTION TO
THE RULE OF SHAM

This newspaper mans ears have
been filed ever since he has been
born with glittering promises that
never came true. His ewes have
grown dim looking for real bargain
upon the counter Of sham and pre-
tense. His feet have grown weary
running down bright rainbOws that
thinned away into a fleeing mist.
And. lust as all hope was about TO
eliminate in a frenzy of despair, he
found at last a real honest-tO goodness,
simon pure. eighteen-karat. dyed in
the wool article in the markets Of the
world that has performed better than
,dvertised and done more than was
either expected or hoped for by the
purchaser.
T. Is stove. 4 hot blast coal stove.
small Of size and unpretentious in
appearance. Its price was less than
he newspaper man had expected to
nav. The dealer was serious and sin
oare in his praises of this stove. He
s,ng his little sons in most musical
voice end smoke his niece about the
Guarantees snd recited the past per
formarces of this stove in way that
---as most convincing. TO be sure. but
ne newspaper man mad heard So
MANY SONGS like this that ended IN
siscord. sni had trusted in so many
-uarnntees that failed to guarantee.
nd bad counted upon so many past
performances that never performed
,~pin .het he figured most of the
stuff about the stove as a lie. ana
ho,,gNt IL because the price was cheap
a-,d IN the hone that q would burn
little " coavcd enough with dry shaw
mss end coal oil.
And that little old black hcmely
stove stands today in the newspaper
VANS home like loss idol in a
rhinase tsmpie. Burn L radiates
heat like a volcano. The dealer said
= world hold the FIRE. The newspaper
man classed him with the long list oil
liars who had lied so often to him he
rore. But that stove holds heat Ike
- vaiser holds his sold. A shovel full
Of cral az niSht upon the waning nre
md then turn damper in the morn
ing and the little stove begins to roar
Ne reused lion.
To-tinr back into the terrible past.
the newspaper man does see thon'
~snd zern mornings when he fought
with furnace and stove. the kindlins
in one Rand and a coal oil can in the
other. end cursed the fether Of all
frarls who Invented stoves.
M r,atter how much coal was
sAcveled the night before into those
defurct hurning and heating aOpsra--
uses Of that unhappy mast they were
Seed ard Geld snf hooking and cheer
less the next morning. They cOnsune-
ed more coal than q hattleshir and
gave out less heat than a hubbard
sauash. IN fact. winter vas night
mare TO the newspaper man. al be-
cause Of the problem az hea''ag his
house enough to keep his family from
diving OF exposure and his groceries
from being frozen. Rig stoves and lit
lie ones: stoves with shining nickel
work and haffling patent devices and
dampers whose names were Lesion. all
had been stocked and cursed and an
andnned hv this newspaper nan. And
furnaces were even worse. They re-
auire1 t,vice the expenditure OF muscle
and profanity and effort and care.
and. for every ton Of coal they con
sumed thew gave out a three-grain
cantule Of hesitsting heat.
Ru; This little stove burns all the
time. Burns with OF without coal II
burns hard and bright and strong.
The newspaper mans IRE. like the
love O. the faithful never srOws cold
No SCOT in the nipe, no olinSers on
re rrste. no. oosl oil on the carpet.
no chnlhlpins IN the house. no sins on
tho s.oker's callousei soul
This stove redeems sll the iniQui,y
Of its tribe and proves to az least
one cold and despairins pilgrim OF
this world Ct fraud and sham that
there is hahn in gileSd. after all