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Show SLUCK OF AN INVENTOR.! I , . , In a. Fit ol Anger He Perlwta ff) r Machine yvhlch Bring, lllm Fortune f Homo twelvo year, ago, when Klch-ard Klch-ard Ijiverwin waa a low grado worker work-er In a rittHhurK eiiKineerlUK riheil, lie hit mion a novelty In the ahapu of hrooeliplna. Ho- flnlnhed a few by hand, and they aeemed ao much au-perlor au-perlor to the u.iial form of brooch-pin brooch-pin that ho thought hla fortune, waa mado. Ho aot to work In hla .pare tllno to Invent a machine, which would turn out hrnorhpln. for welding weld-ing on to anything which might ho wanted to form a brooch, ao that the veriest novice of a Jeweler could niako any email trine Into a brooch whllo his cii.tonier waited to eoo It' done. Ijtvcmon Rpetit weeks on hla ma-Qhlno, ma-Qhlno, and to advnnco experiments borrowed money from any ono who ' would lend to him; yet tho thing would not do whnt he wanted. It really seemed In him that an evil apirlt poe.cHHed the machine. Again and again ho abandoned It a. hopo-leas, hopo-leas, left It for a few days, then tackled It again. One day he really thought he liad ill.i'oSered why the machine failed to wotk properly, and ho made the alteration, al-teration, bo thought ncri'saary. But, Ur fro in the change aettlng things right, thn machine then rofui'.od to work at all, and In a tit of rage and dlmipiHilntniunt iJtver.on picked up a Imniiii-r and flung It at hi. ma-clil ma-clil lire with a very unparliamentary ejaculation. Tien ho alamiied out of tho shop ami banged the door after him. He did not look at the machine again for many weaka, but when he did he found It worked. Though It rcfimcd to turn out hniochplna. It tuned out splendid little riafity pins of f unlipin pattern.' These pins have .Into wild In millions all over the Unlied Slate., nuiMiiH I-avcrmin a riot man. The hammer ho flung at hi. machine had thn effect of bending bend-ing three .mall part., which made a auctoRKftil Invention out ot a hopeless failure. Mr. I-avcnion la now part proprietor proprie-tor of one of tho largest factories, turning out sll kinds of pins. |