The Virginia enterprise., 1906-11-09

per1ence never teaches anything.
Hawkins is one of them; l am an
other
AS concerns Hawkins, feel pretty
sure that some obscure mental aber-
ration lies at the seat of his trouble;
Tor my own part, I am inclined to
blame my confding, unsuspicious
nature.
Now, when the Hawkins cook and
the Hawkins maid came "'cross
lots" and carried off our own domes-
tic staff to some festivity, should
have been able to see the hand of
Fate cropping around in my locality,
clearing the scene so as to leave me,
kins.
Moreover, when Mrs. Hawkins
drove over in style with Patrick, to
take my wife to somebody's after
noon euchre, and brought me mes
sage from her Herbert" asking me
to come and assist him in fighting off
the demon Of loneliness, l should
have realized that Fate was fairly
clutching at me.
BY this time I should be aware that
when Hawkins is left alone he
doesn't bother with that sort of dem
on; he links arms with the old, orig
1nal Satan, and together they stroll
into Hawkins workshOp-to perfect
an invention.
But Il suspected nothing. I went
over at once to keep Hawkins COM
pany.
When l reached his place, Haw-
kins didn't meet my eye at first, but
something else did.
For a moment, I fancied that the
Weather Bureau had recognized Haw-
kins' scientific attainments, and built
an observatory for him out by the
barn. Then I saw that the thing was
merely a tall, skeleton steel tower,
with windmill on top-the contri-
vance with which many farmers
pump water from their wells.
"Well,' remarked Hawkins, appear
ing at this point, "can you name it,"
WELL I said, leaning on the gate
and regarding the affair, II imagine
that it is the common or domestic
And your imagination, as usual, is
all wrong" smiled Hawkins. THAT,
Griggs, is the Hawkins Pumpless
Pump!"
WHAT I gasped, vaulting into
the road. "Another invention!"
Now, don't be a clown, Griggs,"
snapped the inventor. "It is
wait. Did you lure me over here,
Hawkins, with the fendish purpose
of demonstrating that thing?"
"Certainly not. It is-'
"Just one minute more Is it tied
down? Will it, by any chance, sud-
denly gallop over here and fall upon
us?"
mo, it will not" replied Hawkins
shortly. The foundations run 20
feet into the ground. Are you coming
in or not?"
Under the circumstances I
said, entering again, but keeping
wary eye on the steel tower But
can't we spend the afternoon o, t
here by the gate?"
I'VE cannot" said Hawkins sourly.
"Your humor, Griggs, is as pointless
as it is childish. When you see every
farmer in the United States using
that contrivance, you will blush to
recall your idiotic words"
I was tempted to make some re-
mark about the greater likelihood of
memory producing consumptive
pallor; but I refrained and followed
Hawkins to the Veranda
When built that tower pur-
sued the inventor, waving his hand
at it, Il intended, Of course, to use
the regulation pump, taking the
power from the windmill.
Then I got an idea.
You know how grain elevator
works-a series of buckets on an enda
less chain, running over two pulleys,
just as bicycle chain runs over
two sprockets? Very we'll. Up at
the top of that tower l extended the
hub of the windmill back to form a
shaft with big cogs. Down at the
bottom of the we'll there is another
corresponding shaft with the same
-cogs. Over the two, as you will see,
runs an endless ladder of steel cable.
Is that clear?"
II guess co." said, wearily. "Go
on
well, that's as far as I have gone.
Next week the buckets are coming. I
shall hitch one to each rung of the
chain, or ladder, throw on the gear,
and let her go.
''The buckets will run down into
the well upside down, come up on the
other side filled, run to the top of the
tower, and dump the water into a
reservoir tank-and go down again.
Thus pump water without a pump
in other words, with a pumpless
pump! @*'
Simple! Efficient! Nothing to get.
out of order-no valves, no pistons,
no Misunderstanding whatever!"
finished Hawkins triumphantly.
"Wonderful!" I said absently.
isn't it," cried the inventor. 'Now,
do you want to look over it, to-day,
Griggs, or shall we run through those
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