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Show The Great File luruntlon. When 1 lived in Chicago a queer chap invented a cheap way to mako tiles. A bit of hot Bteel went Into his machine and the file was made at a single blow and fell into a tank of Btrotig miuornl water to cool. Then a bare armed workman work-man thrust in hia hand and felt around and brought it up for inspection. Tho tiles thus made were a little imperfect, but were good ones, and he explained that tho machino was a Bmall experimental experi-mental one and could not. of course, do perfect work as a large and powerful machine would. Capitalists went around and examined the machine ana saw mm heal the steel in a hand forgo and put it ; in the machine, and saw tho red hot file como out and drop Into the water, and I they tried the file with their own hands on iron which thoy had brought from home and found it excellent. The only Becret was the chemical water into which the files dropped, and which gavo them edge, A company was formed and money was paid in freely to enable the inventor to make a set of large machines, and when that was done he disappeared. j It was a fraud. He had bought good files and defaced them a little, and I stocked his tank with them. His machine ma-chine stamped the bit of steel into file Bhape, and it dropped Into the water with the files, and his workman, who was in collusion, felt around and brought up a file instead of the steel. Cor. Portland Port-land Argus. |