The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26
The I liar s Luck Story
Perpetual Motion Invention Disastrous, II I'm
@ covered Gold Mine.
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i II reckon " pensiYely observed ssaY MY
friend the Liar, rs he bit OF a. tWog ounce
piece OF trust-made plug, hat d, r. r.
thing that has been tisfactorl yS dis
covered so often. porpe tual %m ton has
really comp ished less good than any.
other standard periodical inventio on
II trememb crsycry few OF theS hundreds
OF sdaffy dom!ciles 7 have VI sited. In which
have not been plu cked by the 3sleve and,
Uniformed BY some batty }5 denizen OF an
INTERNALLY uphols ered chhn,be err tina ne
was wrongfully Imprisoned through & ~
Influence OF some veal thy! man ufaoturers
who foresaW the ruination OF their bust
ness II the Invention my cerebral y-mel-3
low acquaintance had mas do were allowed
to e become generally & known. The g tory
has been a lot more alike than different.
|5comediansl renditions OF the sam Q po pu3 IA
lar song. vi ! is simply va ried enough to
call your attention to Its samenGsssiii3
have been taken into the condolences OF
men who have Invented everything from
a continuously revolving lothes- Wringer
to q AZ perennial ] y-bazzing la wn- mower.
while the number OF those who have
discovered how to make q clock 80 unit til
1t falls dead of exhaustion has been too
great for3Ecompu tail on. Why, one chap
had devised a schh,no by " htch the PARTS
OF the clock would be automat cally man
ufactured and !, dropped into their places
as fast as tn o old ones wore out. BY 9
that, as Rudyards says, a Ia ano Their story.
| n y Why I am not ca re- ated with the
dippyls damses and maund eTln g. males IN.
some wheel repository Is more = an ~
can discover. must have had 10 much!
moro Eyrle mentality than the N TIERS
Or would have landed In e some slleh
forget factory years ago. FeW. mi ds8
could have wlthstood the shock \ under
ma
Torrance scheme went plumb TO tho pa
and wrecked all my hopes, W. ! 81 pose
that IL my greatest good fortune In life
had not como right in the arms Of de-
feat as 1t were, II should have shared
the fate OF all the others who had ~
fered similar disappointHe l&8 nave
been ASHAMED ever since OF the fact th e
mere money should have b g iolad asas
quate to coplpensat to me N any degEee
for an intellectual defeat OF such ma gnl ~
tude, ~ i,
ut was out In the placsr-mining region.
OF fAyizona, had never been ~ ucll On
the burrow, believing my talents were
OF the sort that are better employee OUT
aide the ylscera OF the EARTH. =, y. MS !,
had begun to Introduce 9 few. l1astern
Landscape gardening ideas I. !, 81
,yrhere was a little stream In the hlll
above the Coaone1a fine stone ranch
house, and q mile or 20 from the resi-
denoe he had built q reseFYl7Ir to supply
a fountain In the front lawn. + was Q
corking big fountain. and the talk Of the
nneeighporhood for fifty miles in four
dirp ctions. q The volume ~ water cumming
through the thing was % great, OWING
Ia the terrific fall from the noun tain.
TOP. that the stroam below the fountain
reared like Niagara. hnd soon, wors e
deep bed for itself among the rocks below
NATURALLY ! was considerably PROUD Sof
this fountain, the whole shebang being
ny own arranMemerrt and IDEA the COL
to ,rs trusting me With Il In q manner
that brings out the foxieAt notions ~ tn 2
nave hitherto been kept in the back
ground sId through fear Of suspicious em-3
blowers. So used to sit hour after hour
ana ana watoh the fountain playiNs vH q
high % Old Eaitl ysF ~ 1hs sst0ss