| Show FARM AND GARDEN MATTERS OF INTEREST TO TC agriculturists some up cp to date abbat tion of tits the boll and lielda then of horticulture ond culture mysterious jt irn men fired I 1 I 1 P rural new yorker has been collecting and publishing experiences on bain fires among which appear the follow ing 1 f 1 litta at a social gathering recently the question as to queer origin of fires was quietly started and the diee discussion on oil the subject by those 3 present preset it brought out many and unexpected facts bearing on the subject the intelligent hostess belated leli bcd this in aident my aly father was a gierat smoker lie smoked in his inin and out ot of ills his barn and in all the flip fani fam fa ni m buildings 1 hough repeatedly w timed of the danger of antei ing the bain with ith a lighted pipe in ills hla mouth lie ho gave but little heed one sunday mornings as lie he was pre preparing the team tor for the beg ular church service lie noticed a thin column of issuing from between the cracks of the b birn ira floor bloor A hasty examination revealed a fire veil nell stait ed in the straw and chaff that hid bad sifted aisted down through the chacks of course lie he soon put out the fire and was frank enough to tell us its all about it and admit that in all a coal of tire had rolled unobserved by him from ills his pipe and till through the crak craik and ignited tho the choff chaff had he failed to discover the the just as lie ho did tho the barn ano and all its contents would undoubtedly lave been des troyed as aa the catho family wele just ready to start for church As father often smoked with his pipe nearly upside down se ne all believed that to be lie ho true origin of the fire now let the intelligent reader observe this fact it the fire had remained undiscovered until they were mero away to church the barn would have been mysteriously burned and tho the linger finger of suspicion would have been pointed at some un nil fortun nta wretch retch A who though he be might have plenty of alas of hla his own to bear yet would bo be ent liely innocent of this undeserved approach and it would bo be something too that he could not shake off tor for the suspicion la Is a dark shadow that way cling to a person tot foi life observed by everybody but himself so much for the pipe A young woman then gave gaie this account A friend ot of mine left hla his lan an tern lighted in tho the barn one evening evenin g to aid him to put out ills his horse when he returned during life his absence the barn was burned and with it a horse buggies harnesses hai nesses robes etc ahe carcass of tho the heiso hoi so that wag burned was waa found in a part of the barn quite distant from hla his stall it was ot of course vety reasonably supposed obed that the hoise got loube mid and in III about the barn d tho the lantern and thus set the bat bain n on oil ore although there was mag no great about the bilgin of this life lie it developed food tot foi thought for on oil further inquiry the tact fact was brought to light that though there was nas a considerable insurance on the barn the company compan promptly refused to pay it on the ground of criminal can another member of 0 the gathering sald said I 1 I 1 set my lantei it do down NN it upon the baru barn floor theta theia was nas able hay bay scattered about A single stalk of the hay inn fall up through one of tile the round holes in the plato plate beneath the globe and touched tho the blaze I 1 put it out but hid I 1 not noticed it ns as I 1 left tho the bain would doubtless have lien I 1 len ly burned so fco much tot toi tho the the genial host then belated the most instance that his ever come under my while ild ing with tt a filand at quite a distance from homo home said h hi a sudden and violent came up and wo drove with the onnel a pi mission 31 on into a wayside layalde barn which li afforded afford ul con convenient vc shelter from the roii loua which fillou followed ed IN lillo tile c tile noree horse fell to eating hay facin the tha sl le ie of the mow maw and pulled considerable litter beneath his ctet K ct suddenly bud denly we ne heard something pup pop and of on looking toward the cotses lical heal 0 o siny him deop a ablaing match bioni ills hla mouth it fell ell into tho the litter at his feet and beban to blize up in fit the dry stuff of course vc no quickly put plit it out it to la the cud tivit tint hap pena parts hero was as a saluce of life so istrati gIly anomalous that in im I 1 it occurred whon when no one vis i is near Us its true origin could hanly hao hano bc n at and very nery likely it would liae have been called the tha cilc of an incendiary with tile the sure result of sonic some innocent person with inith a heinous crime yet it really llie heavy incisors of tile tho hoise closing upon the iguls I it bo quickly dropped it in ill tho the litter at ilia hla feet so muth tor for tho the lit th tell |
