Show I Protected Against Fire Boston Globe In a Vermont town not far from the New Hampshire border bor-der there lives a farmer who a year or two ago owned a nice farm and had a pleasant home He had built a large I barn a short distance from his house and prided himself as having the best barn in the section Not long after this barn was erected his house caught on fire and was burned to the ground He andnis family succeeded suc-ceeded In saving the mostuseful the household furnishings Thpsehe moved into the barn The cause ot the fire was found out to be a defective chimney chim-ney and the farmer swore a solemn oath that never again would he live in a building with a chimney in it He finished off the end of the barn and made It his uenmanent resMnce I and is living there today But having mad this oath what would he du with I the large amount of smoke that would surely be made by a cooking stove I About 15feet from the barn he erected four stropg poles on top of which he constructed a platform its elevation being 12 or 15feet Upon his platform he constructed a brick chimney about 20 feet In height He secured the top by erecting four longer poles which slanted tPward th ground i Then he made a trousli hch reached from the house to the fob of the chimney In this was place the stovepipe stove-pipe so a connection was made between be-tween the cooking stove and the chim nev So now he has a modern outcf doors chimney and runs no risks of being be-ing burned out |