The Minister's Furnace Fire

Plumbers teil some laughable stories about people who don 't know how to run fnrnaces and steam heating plants. "We put in a furnace for a minister once," says an Auburn plumber, "and the next day he carne down and kicked about it. He saidthat itwouldn't burn, and he either wanted it taken out or put in working order right away. I went up, and after exarniüing the chimney carefully I looked into the furnace. What do y ou auppose the trouble was? Well, sir, the minister had been trying to heat the house bv buildina a fire in the ash