Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-15

their business suits being the envy Of
the gallery.
"All / need say is that we are pre-
pared to meet any emergency where
fine quality and good taste are con
cerned"
"You are the editor of The Globe.
believe" said a full-bearded man. Of
large build. dressed in well-worn pair
of pants and a ragged undershirt. as
he planted himself in a chair by our
side In The Globe office Gazing on
his semi-red beard but neatly combed
hair, we felt reassured that he was
not an anarchist envious Of the sue.
cess of The Globe and selected by lot
to be our executioner, and we briefly
answered yes"
well, | want a good writer, for in
a day or so l will have something !
want written up
Now thoroughly at ease we recover.
ed our ordinary self-possession and
inserting the Office gimlet, we tapped
him thus:
Are you native or resident Of Wash
ington?'
Been here some years ] am from
Ohio near Garfield's old home
MENTOR"
"Yes; Garfeld's family and mine
were neighbors and friends. We all
belonged to the one society We were
farmers, you see"
"Grangers?"
Yes. The Grangers' Society. We
we're well off. l had some money when
/ came here but it is all gone"
"Speculated?'
mo. not exactly. 7 am an inventor,
and expended it working out my de-
signs"
What is your name, please?"
IN. E Wells, III G street. / am
pretty good writer myself but ] can
not spare the time to get up what /
want
Hum; then you want The Globe to
put it in shape for you and publish
it?"
"I want it kept secret You see, I do
not want my invention published just
yet"
"What is the invention?'
well I have found five different sys-
TENS of perpetual motion. ] can work
it out i'm five different ways, but I
want some money to complete the mat
ter; make cheap models, you know"
Try Russell Sage
81 want the paper drawn up, leaving
the names blank, so that if / do not
get the persons | have now in view
| can get others to back me-
This perpetual motion of yours will
make you famous"
vi, yes; and / have five ways for
working it. I am not working now.
l am temporarily suspended until ! can
get some money"
did you ever work?'
mo: I had means and have been oc-
cupied with this. You see | want a
descriptive article written of it, and
attached | want an agreement so that
the person l get to back me can have
his name put in, but | want il secret,
Of course, to prevent others from steal
ing the idea
"All right. Mr.. Wells; whenever you
are ready to furnish the details, The
Globe will write them up for you all
right Meantime we congratulate you
on having solved the problem Of the
ages. There have been continuously
for the past two thousand years more
than one million of cran-beg pardon
gentlemen annually engaged i'm try
ing to solve this problem. The Globe
is excessively proud Of being the first
newspaper i'm Christendom to eXclaim,
Eureka,
What is that?'
"It is Greek, Mr.. Wells, for, 'you
have found IT,
Good; that is true. You see, / can
work it out by five different systems.
/ have proved it to myself when alone,
but, of course. I never gave an eXhibi.
tion Of It to anybody else / will call
in a few days and you can do the writ
ing for me, and Mr. Wells tucked his
frayed undershirt down inside his
pants, as he rose to depart. We we're
delighted with Mr. Wells quiet and or
derly visit and his marvellous inyen-
ton, and IL Russell Sage had received
as amiably the man with the bag there
would have been no more explosion
in his office than there was in The
Globes sanctum A tip for Sage et dL