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Show UTTINJ UP A STOVE. A Tereloa f the operation That Itaralg nafawne ta Heal Lira, Thli la about ft umu who put op ft ttOVH. It fa onreoanry pnrliape to fn fnr-tberwith fnr-tberwith ft. Yon know In idvaiicn jari how lie ewure and torn and npuihd tha enrpot, and tho pipa didn't lit and he akin tied hla kumkh And rut hla finger and "jillM it down the Iwk of hla ne k and flnnlly went np town and not ill mrn to finish tlm j h. ".lohnion," raid J' hnwm'il wffa at dinner yeatnrday, I w:mt you to couio home, aiuly thli aftrruo- u. I wnnt that tilting rMjin attire up and going by ona day. " "All right, my dear," aaul Johr4on. "I'll ba home at 4." Ho thnt afu-raoon Johnaoti'i wife aont thn children nYar to viflt nn tha other idn nf town tirl itnffi'd rngi In all tha cnv'lui to daadtti aouud. After fervtmt prayer Ilmt all the ueighliori would be out of tuwu f a fw honra that aitor-Dono aitor-Dono aha waa n-nrly for Johuaou. He atrlvnl ja-omptly. "Thn itova U uut In the wood abed," i aid hla wife, Tha at ova waa not vary Iruye, mid after Jnlineoti had droaaad hltuai'lf for tlianmialoii, vltbthaholpof Mra. .Tolm-aoti, .Tolm-aoti, who hnd taken care to hnva hia old rloihoa aud tflntoa bandy, he got tha eim-e to Uie back pordi without mucU difntulty. "It munt bo blarkenH." aold Mr. J'4tnanti aa iha mlxM tha blacking. It blw'koiiMf tOftht-Autlful fiulah will, vary littla rubbing, and Juhuaon whtatled at hla work. Tfien ha tacked down lha oilcloth luat ami tho nuo and kept ou whiatllug. Ha taik tha atovo In carefully aud pot It lb tha right ilare. I Thore waa plenty uf tho old atornplpa, and While ba oleaued It In tho ally with ft atlck Mr a. Johrnxm nut on thn back pctnh ami lltenM to him w hint If. The flret Juint went nn all right, aud tha dumper atald lu plnco, Tha uext joint fltti d ao wnll that Johum uliut timpcKl whlatliug In ihonr admiration f-iT it, and an did the u-it one. The el-biw el-biw titled admirablr. and tho collar and hut Joint went on like tip, Tha nam Waa on tha right aide all tha way np. Them waa not aren a aprek of eoot on (lie papera At, -a. Johiiam had iprcad on Uin carpat In ho tuinutea more Johnaon had a lovely Bra lu tha atovn aud wej In hia buaiuoaaaalt again epiok aud pan reading read-ing tba papnr whlla hla wife got eupper. It waa juat here tbat thnra waa a aav-ago aav-ago uud go In Johnwm'a left rib and h haard hui wife toll him to wake np, and hnatlo out now, ft It had btwio daylight fur half an hour. Topfka Hi Ale Journal. |