Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1910 — An Ingenius Device. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenius Device.

When Sir Robert Perks’ school days were over he entered the office of a firm of lawyers and worked very hard. It was no uncommon thing to find him leading law at 6 In the morning, and this often after he had been working late on the previous night. As a matter of fact, he made it an inflexible rule never to be in bed of a morning after 5. To enforce this rule he invented an ingenious device. This consisted of a Jong glass tube filled with water nicely balance over his head and attached by a string to an alarm. At the desired hour the bell rang and awakened the sleeper. If within a few seconds he did not leap from his bed and avert the calamity the descending weight of the clock destroyed the balance of the tube, and down poured the water on his guilty head! —From “The Life Story of Sir Robert W. Perks, Bart,. M. P.,” by Dennis Crane.