Show HOW LAZY JOHNNIE WATERS MODERN application OF AN ANCIENT IDEA archimedes screw in the burn barn apparatus per atras consists of a garden irose hose Is a pence fence rail hall anda and a cart wheel copyright WT 1 sa all rights repe pred I 1 that it sometimes pays to be lazy Is 41 fact which cannot be daspro veil notwithstanding the doctrine W which aich leaches benches that indus industry and pence oct bro are qualities essential to a in any aay walk valk of lite when wo we make thle this admission bo boneer weer we must con qualify it if with the cau call aoa that lt it I 1 in IL a rather danger dangerous dan Kerous ep U 3 ex now if there Is one task that johnnie has ban found particularly irksome it a the dull and heavy work of draya drains ing water by the bucketful from the creek several times a day for four horses and ten tell cos 71 1 hose one hundred and fifty soon tan ran into miles when till number of it nips aps per day were reckoned sometimes he had help it Is true but it was only sometimes plod and he grew very tired fired so lie he set himself to thinking of course it nas possible to pump the water through iron ron pipes but lie he had neither tools nor the material places news sary and hla his father objected to the ex pense next lie he thought it if he could only pet get the water ater up to a level slightly ly above that of the barn there would be no difficulty in construct lor at an open trough and allo allowing iOng it to flow down but how to raise it was waa to him a poser for many a day at last one evening while poring 0 over v er some old books lie came across e an e ancient woodcut wood cut an archimedean anew cuned for draining marshes then the problem was waa solved r carly arly the next mot mottling taing he was at 1 work or k first lie ho constructed a a small tank or reservoir a few yards from the i stream and set it upon a scaffold it high agh elou enough rh above the level of the barn t to 0 give the necessary giado next procuring cu ring two lengths ot of rubber garden hose he would them alternately round a long smooth fence rail and in the i end ot this he drove two stout round pegs to ser 0 as axles in tile sti earn lie be sunk purple a heavy block or of wood through which A hole had been partly bored and nd in this he in the peg at one end of its his novel pump to the other lie he fastened fasten rd till an old 0 id cart cheel which was made to revolve N with aill its ita axle jesting in a sort of 0 pil low block upon a projection over the t center of the r reservoir then than by means of a handle liand li attached by ra short abort pit piece cc of cord to a 1 nob on the ilia felloe feline or of the wheel lie he could causo cause his novel pumping to revolve quite easily and d tile the water taken up by the rudder rubber name hose was hy by the suc successive cessy re revolutions gradually forced pat upward through coll coil after coll coil until it was df de into tile tho tanks from which it flowed down t to the barn th through a constructed aqueduct of hollow logs As tile the novelty has not yet worn oft off johnnie can get scores of boya quite quit a happi to turn the wheel wheat for him so that h hta I 1 s office of watering the stock la is at present it a sinecure he elta alts by the fireplace with hlo his favorite books cn an a well earned rest johnnies johnnie ak ill be a great men some day perl na nien ento and one not to lo bo be recommended d on n rep peral principles yd I 1 instances hat anc occurred whre wh re a satinig 1 repugnance for or manual labor and ad a keen desire to take things easy have incited an mind to profitable activity the mind after was not idle one familiar case ot of this sort testified resulted in the discovery by a lazy laity boy of the principles of 0 the cc c mos as applied to the valves of an upright steam engine in watts time and what follows la is a recently dincov ered cred example of the clever device ot of a lazy lay hoy boy ot of pretty much the same name type who whose chose a work or more properly speaking vi contrivance ivanoe to escape work required a deal or oc elaboration and planning this youngster a lad between 15 and hi 16 years ot of age ace Is modest and on this account his name naino will not be given he I 1 will a lie to merely designated a as john ale ie smith itz he lives live ith fill his hl p parents barents sa rents who are well to do farmers in the county of chittenden not far from the village of in the state or 0 vermont Veratio nt it has been johnnies Johnn les task tor for some years past to teed feed and water the stock block J ir 11 e alan 0 tv I 1 I 1 ft a I 1 da I 1 vv ay 4 5 lazy boys clever scheme for watering stock in his fathers barn and otherwise to minister to their wants ants johnnie la is not what whal you would call a typical falm faim ers lad lie lacks lacka tho the usual robustness and deems to take little interest in the aik oik of 0 the field wh which ic it he shirks as often as the dictates of pru deuce allow in ill fact ho he Is something of oc a student and fonder of 0 his books and drawings than of the outdoor work and amusements usually preferred by boys of his ape age the barn where the cattle are housed t d c on a a piece of slightly rising around tn arp d a anil Is dista distant rat about yards yard from a small stream that circles round the foot of the pasture |