The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

stone. apd seeing the wild torrent go
roaring, ana crashing q own the hill after
It escaped from its big basin. * Il 81
"One day " her I n. was incoming into
1.-The wide pool and fl uring ION some little
improvement for the outlet. an idea
popped into my liea d that just had all my
other notions outclassed II az completely
as 5if 1t swns some other person s scheme.
After thinking II over for a feverish day
and dreaming It over for whole rest
Hess night. I went to tho boss as care
lessly3 as ~ II ] W ere skiing for q mere
raise OF salary, and told q him would
like tho price Of a. mile Of iron pire and
a funnel with a To- foot mouth. also for
three days on b 3;is 53s ss
A ',The Colonel looked rather mystined
as he wrote out the check, and told me =
Winked and went out to sac dle my favor
lite pony and give orders to the transfers.
'"rhree days later was back from
Yuma, and had my diggers at work, and
a week later there came consignment
OF pipo The funnel. also, which i had
made In Yuma to |. save tlne--the / pipe Z
had ordered by elegraph from San i'rattl-
cisco came witt ! tn ea first Sload d, and Waa
IN position imne diateiy after N VI pipe
I line had q be en- \ laid and was read y Tor
buslness Ia fsS ia .a$s q
tIyle en-, maybe the olonel' s eyes dlfln
bulge out Of his head what had your
humble done but ,sta yted a perpetual mos
tion works right there on the premises
No theories, mind you, but "a the lrea !,
Ifsinlon- pure. 18-karat p, m, right there,
lperpetual-mot!oning day and night z as ,
f"Y o ,ut sec. 4 had aug a bit pit for my
funnel right at tho foun tain basins out-
| let, 4 10 tho d lower end OF the funnel ]
had attached 4 my pipe line, the other
terminus OF which stuck out oyer the
reservoir a mile away. The heavy fall
IEof tho wa ter into the funnel forced the
stream through Its only avenue OF escape
the pipe line-back to the reservoir
again In undiminlshed volume, Net q
drop Of water escaped down the m, ny Or q,
was Lost to he Colonel's ranch. The tiny
|sb!t that got away through evaporation
was ali that dido stay right there.
l8IsiuTiokled2 z "a Why, the Colonel was the
proudest man In nine States and one
TERRITORY, There wasn't anything too
good for me. The old man oven cried
himself 10 sleep at night because he
hadn't any beautiful daughter for mo
to marry ana live happily ever 4 after
with. 3a sI
AZ but the best OF good things have flaws
| in the,l There was one element ] hadn'
counted on. You see. the stream above
was feeding the reservoir all the time,
and as mono escaped below the volume
In the fountain kept getting bigger ana
bigger. Each time my pipe sQuirtea g
few hundred tons Into the pond tho
volume sent down was lust 20 mu ~
! heavier, and, OF course, the speed fof the
stream was proport!onately increased.
both In the down trip and I'm the Eetu Y, !.
Ethroush my pipe, When J noticed 9 ~, tnl y
constantly mere asing roar and rsaliz 4, : !
what III meant. 2 cold sweat PFoke ~ =
Non me, ana u began to sure on pu9s ~ Z
nv frieght between that 81 day and ,1 Ine
naxt 1 On 8. s44I saw the Anish q the s'Cl-
ponsls Investment - well AZ q h's ops''s
lion OF my 81 eseEness ]. . "a -.
'"Hut bsfoFs I could set my traps ~ ~
ss s.wo,i ~, the " oonsta Increasing
.peed and weight of the we gro Wa.ns 9
TOO bis volume into the narrov sp ~
of tho pip. nsed iett9n. w. the9 ~
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