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ITie Lansingburgh Courier. v o u ; m k . w II. B E V O r m i T O lT l I S INTEMBS'eS OF THE HMCONB A S S E M B L Y DISTIU C T . LANSINGBURGH, N. Y.', T S U R S b A Y , SEPT- 15. 1892. NO, 5. Jac o b T e itsch , The Reliable liansingburgh Baker, will * keep constantly on band a full sup ply of fresh BREAD, CAKE & PIES 'Gorn Muffins, Breakfast Rolls and Buns Fresh every morning. ASK FOK TH E “ CnoWlV” BKEAH. Corner Fourth avenue and 19th street. LANDZOU PETERSON, Tin: LMSINeSlfRCB JEWELt'U ISTA SECOKS AVEWHE. Waltham and Elgin Watches at' low: prices, EveryKvery watch warranted.rranted, Also ■ • - i 11 - .1 foot- i.iifi„n 111,: J watch wa g done at the shortest notit a practical watchmaker. Gold Chains and all kinds of Watches. Bpocks to suit all ages. Also office of the Davis Sewing Ma chine. Maohines put out on trial. Try HIRAM ICASWILL. DEAIiER IN PilOR&COOKMS Magee’s Boston Heater, Tin Roofing, Gutters, JLeaders, &c. JOBBING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED. 621 Second Avo., tansingtourgh CASES OF m s iM lI Y From tile Effects of :“ L a G e i p p © ” .4re Aisirmiugly Prevalent. BUICIQES FESi TEE SaS CAIiSS Are announced in eyery paper. Would yon be rid of tho awful offects of La Grippe ? Tliere is but one Sure Remedy that Never Fails, viz: D A M ’S SA fiSA P lE IE L A . Wo Onarantoe to (JlJRE yoti or REFUND your nionejh COULD W E DO MORE ?. ISN’T IT WORTH A TRIAL TONY RAMAGNANA Has removed from No. 5 to No. 3,Hall Building, Troy, N. ¥., (Junction of River and First sts.)' Foreign and Domestic Fruit, a Choice line of Confectionery, Nuts, &c„ &c. AXB GOODS FB E S H a :VI> CIIff-AP. D A V I D W H I T E , S Z . A T B H , AND DEADER IN MEK()OHSeP/llfl'&(ilf * Hdofing Slate Si, Slate Mantels, Building and Roofing PaiK'r, School Black Boards, Etc. 391 River St., 83 Ontario St., TROY. C O H O E S . JOHN MAHONEY, JR., Manufacturer and dealer hi Carriages & W agons. Handsome Unsiiiei Fine line of carrif slock. Repository it and advertising wagons i iagos and liglit buggies in ;a old Jonoa Bell Foundry, Adams and Second sts.. Troy, A L E X . H I S L O P , DRY GOQOS, NOTIONS, M en’s FurnishinsSi &c- o i x j o n i O T J E a : ^ . 586 Second Are., Laiisinghurgh. ORE O C T H f 8 LMII mmm iioiises in this vicinity is MASON’S 5S8 & 590 2d ave.,Lansinghurgh. WHAT IS BEYOND? Broad uplands slope to meadows gre And woodlands weave a darkling soi The mountain’s rugged breast arot ’■ ivX ttasr.irss.. Slumborousb Like piotur e tranquil sky, It in happy drean Thempbintiug westward far aSvay, irbeyoM blue?” Abl little Maud, like tbiu© tlio auost Of older mortals—wiser grown ?-^ To come fair land with oloudlf , A PLEASANT SCKPEISE \Yes said old Mi'f. Ppunoe, nod ding her orange-colored,'cap strings, “ they put me jn—tke |puse agency ffid —^to take care of tfee, house, with' a bright-painted ‘to lot’ stuck up iu.'frent of the area windowSj and coaF house rent free, Which I don’t deny, : my dear, is an object to a lone ieinale like me, with neither chick npr phild and my own way to make in'‘ ithe. world, with line Iaundre.5sing, out of the qiies. tion .on .aoeount of rheumatism in . 'the finger joints. “ ‘You look like a respectable per- sohj Jifrs. Bounce, that has seen better days,’, was what the house agent said 'when he handed over the keys, ‘and,’ safs he, ‘I think we may trust you to take good care of our doorsteps and windows, show applicants over the house and answer all questions.’ SU’,” i bit pleased with the idea, It’ll be a pleasant suriirise for her,” says he. Weil, no sooner had he gone than in comes a stout, niiddle.'aged lady, in a black silk dress, rows of curls on either side of her face and cheeks as red as any cabbage rose. : “!■] lieve ; but Went all -< ---------- -6 with the curly) lady and declared, that it met heif fancy exactly. “ Possession on May ll, 1 suppose,” says she, as short as pits-crust. “'^on may take down the ‘Tc’ .Let,’ nay 'gpod woman.” . ' I courtesies very low^ but I says^O myself: \Not if I knews it ma’dm; not without orders fron^lhe agent hiffi-. Away went the ladjjf)' with the curly . i-red cheeks, and % Was ay hat to JQ M . - courtesy; had’charf been foun^ first one,” “ Yon inayiay sayy so,. sh,” says I, of and never W sa so f houses er a fault : And this shan’t be Mr.' give satisfaction, 0 , as civil spoken . the rose- ling on my hat to run igenoy when in cc ’\ all smiles, , Pounce,” said he,' \ so the house is let ? ” ' • . “ To .my thinking, air,” said U,‘'it’s let twice over,.” . j- And I up and told him abo^t .'my old gentleman. ‘‘Dear me,” says he, “ this i^.very perplexing. At what time was tihis per sonage, here,.?” \ ’)')• ■“The clock struck 12, sir,” said I, ; '' just as he went aiyay.” - ' Mr. Eagle hit himself a blow pver the forehead like a play actor.;, i “ Confusion worse confb.uiv4ed!” says he. “It was 12 preQisely>-when, my customer left the office, TYe'can’t split the house in two,, can we. ?” says. he. “Well, we must tell youi' old-gen- with a tleman just how it happened, , I ‘dare Bs I’ve reasonable about It.\ , But he wasn’t reasonable, Mr. Eagle' told me afterward; he one in such a 've a large business,” said “and if yo nun'iber was the nicest. Brov -n'indow and FURNITURE before making your final choice. Repairing; and Upholstering neatly and promptly done on reason able terms. Give me a call. K E E L E R ’S Hotel & Eestaurant Broadway & Maiden Lane. IJROnCAN PLAN. AI.IJA3VT, IV. TJ JESSES, McCDLLEM & CO. STEAM CBACIEBA BISCUIT iaaifaiirers ' ‘ ..RK 'IX cel ',,,.. RSRJETCREO RPR*. ' SIXTEENTH ST , AND SECOND AYE., LANSIN«liUllGl!. N. V. castori A . j ' s s s ? ; , ® S of supererogation t< Intelligent femilies' Late Pastor Bloomingdale Beformed Ohurch. ' . New York City. IPHK O e NTADB COMPANS, 77 MunEAV SXBKET, N k W YOBK. M A B E i f i with a bay- planted all E water all ■stone front, snug gard , hot and CO It box-borders, little conservatory s roof at the rear floor covered with real nk . an arohei the haU floor cov« Minton tiles, as made you think was walking on pictures; walls pa with Cupids and Venusoa and lands of flowers and dados of hari all throughout. Neighborhood doshable ; feet, and e ige aud churches conveniently near Excuse me, my dear, fif it sounds like an advertisement, but Mr. Eagle, the agent, wrote it do-wn for mo and I never rested until I committed it all to mem ory so I could speak it off easy like, without any stops or hitches. Andthis I will say, as can’t be said of all adver tisements, there wasn’t a word in tho agent’s description but what the house 1 ^ 'T w hundreii..and’fifty pounds, .in- |j yp^ deodl” says she, -with a toss of tho oui-ls. “ It will take more than a pal- j try £250 to imsettle my plans. I’ll give rdwood sooner than I’ll lose the house !” When m‘ old gentleman hears this ho ersge per- :e hoard hadn' cs before there ing sort of a way. “That’ll do, malam,” says do. I’ve eyes and I can i been up twenty- was a rush to house. Young marrioefe 'couples as wanted to give up [apartments; old married folks as wasn’t suited with their location ; boarding-honso keepers as made believe they was private fam ilies as wanted to take a few select boai'ders. But the rent was put up tolerably high, and most of ’em dropped off after I ’d named the sum, “Never mind, Mrs. Pounce—never mind,” says Mr. Eagle, rubbing his haads. “ It’s a house that there’ll bo no difficulty in lotting without any re duction in rent. Just wait,” says he, until the Spring sots in.” But one day in trots an old goutleman ■with gold spectaelcs and a smooth- shaven faeo and “ businoss\ written in' every ■wrinkle of his forehead. ; \ This house to lot, ma’am ?” says he. “c S l l o o k T i t r s a y s h o . ' '\\'^'5 “ Certainly, sir,” says I. I began, as smooth as oil, about the hot and cokl water, the marble-floored bathroom and the Minton tiles, ■when all of a sud-” put up both hands in a warn- of a way. 'she, \that’ll see for my- “Certainly, sir,” says I; but I won’t deny as I was taken aback by that queer, dictatorial way of his. “Any ghosts about this place, ma’am?” says he. ,. “ Sir ?” says I. - \ ' \ ' ut loud and steps, lurking ■ ■ht chains at mid- ‘‘Mercy, no, sir,” says I, beginning to leel my fiosh creep all over. “Knts ?” aays he. ^\Certainly not,” says I, \with solid cemented cellar floor and sealed boards. ” “ Beetles ?” says he. i •‘I like the house,” says ho, after ho had gone sniffing about the drain-pipes and peered into tho coal-cellar and wine-vaults and sounded the copper boiler with his knuckles, just for all the world as if he was in the plumbing busi ness. “ You may tell the agent I’ll take it if he and I can come to terms about the rent. When shall yon see him ? ” “Moat likely this afternoon, sir.” ■* “ I ’ll drop in at hi.s office to-morro'w at 9,’’^ says he. “ I’m going to ho mar ried,” says ho, as composed as if ho were saying that he was going to take a blue pill. “And the house will suit my wife’s ideas. She natter, my said old Mrs. Pounoe. They were tied in a month and they came there to live. And of all my experience in ^ . - ------ o __ o houselctting this beat every thing—and to board,” soys he, with ap odd sort of Iso everybody says, my dear, as hears r.^hucMe jn his %;.oo.t^ “araS^he'f a * the story,—Bgltj^oro World. j never -sawefulyi this lady a: of price must sisettle ! if my claim equally good,' ii' if.” Wall, we supposed—me a Eagle—as that was the end of t ter. But not a bit of it. T came that same afternoon ■with holsterer and a tape-measure \bout the carpets. ’ “Two hundreii,r that of question THE TONE OF VOICE. It Isnot so muoli ■what yo'u eay , 'As t t e manuev Irnwhlob. you-say i t ; it Is a pt so much the lansuage you uso Aa the tones la which you convey it. \Como.hore I\ I'feharply said, And the baby co-werod and w ept; “eoine horol\ I cooed, and ho looked and Bihlled. ■ And straleht to my lap ho crept. The words may be mild and fair. And tile tones may pierce like a d a rt; The words may bo soft as the Summer air. And the tonesmay break the heart. h’or.words ootue b u t from the mind'. And grow by Btudy and a rt i \' ■’’■ ■ \ ■■ ’rom the inner self, thoheart, ■Whether you know It not— Whether j’-onmeanor care— Gentleness, kindness, love and hate. Envy and anger are thei-o. Then would you quarrels avoid. And in peace and love rejoice. Keep angi-i- not only out of your words, •But keep It out of your voice. . aiYEB AND LOST. ■ A slight, palo-faoed girl sat silently toying with a piece of needlework on the low porch of her mother’s house ; a handsome young man lay stretched at her feet, On tho lawn another young a halo, ,y, and Bernard Norton looked at ;,her with undisguiioJ admiration. “ There is notliiug so lovolv as a lovely woman,.” he said aloud. Tho pale cheeks of Clarice Barton flushed as she quickly glanced at tho speaker. It was the third time within the hour that ho had referred to her cousin Grace’s beauty. “ Grace is indi'od lovely,” she said. “ I would give half my life to be as beaii- ' “A u d i would give half my fortuno to have you so.” No sooner were the words uttorod than Norton would have given much to recall them; but he had spoken un thinkingly. Clarice shrank as though she had been struck, arose quickly aud ivant into tbe house. “ I am in a pretty fix now 1” Norton muttered, as he arose and walked across the lawn. “ That was a nice speech for fellow to make to a girl he e.xpects to :y I And Clarice is as proud as ifer, too—high-strung as she is plain, and that is saying a great deal, by Jove! I never noticed her lack of beauty so much before Grace came, pity one can’t find all things, combi: in one woman I Wonder if I ought apologize ? Oh, woll, I ’m going away in ten days, and she’ll forgive and for got. Absence makes the heart softer.” And with this consoling thought he stroUed on to join Grace Munson, whoso companion was just takijig his leave. Grace was like a delicate flower spark- with the dew of morning. She lien m‘ old gentler 'rinds his teeth in a manner us ■was earful to hear. “ It’s my bouse,” says he. “and I will have it. Three hundred and fifty pounds. Eagle.” \ Come,\ says Mr. Eagle, \ matters Eeal estate is look- are getting lively, ing up in the market,” says he. ' should have heard i teal estate „ . j” says he. But you should have heard what a ■whistle he gave when I told him tho very next day, that the curly lady au thorized me to offer four’ hundred. ■ “I ’ll not stand this any longer,” says Mr. Eagle, jumping up and sendingtho papers flying all over Hie office table. \I’ve got a oonsoieuce, if fate has made a real estate agent of me. Tell her to come round this aftemoQu aud sign the ■lease. Four hundred pounds is twice id, and we asked all ) have asked, and we asked perty was wortH to begin with.” property was worth to begin ioo thoo curly lady had her own way S th after all. The baldheac pretty i was let. “I’ll sue the agency,” have the house if it cc bi!” says I, all in a !3 Miss Wix now I” “ The lady a heard os the house was ’ said he. “I’ll 30sts me all I ’m ■ “ Oh, hush sir, hush tremble. “ Here coj , “ \Who ?” says he. ' “ Miss Wix,” says has taken the house.” And I got behind the door, fully ox- peoting a scene, after all that had come and gone. But to my surprise she gave a little shriek and flew into his arms, “Dear Josiah!” says sho. \ Dearest Barbara!” says he. f “ How on earth came you here ?” says “ I was looking for a desirable resi dence for you, my own angel,” says ho. “You duck 1” says she, “ And I thought that this would ex actly suit you,” says he. “ Oh!” says sho, “it does. And I ’ve taken it at £4.00 a year. It seems a good deal of money to pay, but I’ve rant, who was dgterm house at any price. • “Barbara,” s with a ...... cever”—— morant was 1 1” “ “ You don’t meal r “That we’ve be each other,” says “ Yes, We havo. ” i “And I was going pleasant surprise,” says ig a lump, “ that ——says she.'^^*^ bidding against le old gentleman. curtains. Let bygone bygones—but the next time we drive a bargain perhaps it might be as well to confide in each other. Two hundred po'Unds a year—on a five years’ lease— is almost too much to pay for a pleas ant surprise i\ So that settled tho matter, my dear, aid old M I “ A fellow e j letters,” he th you return \Nearly two mouths ago,” Miss Bar- iplied with her 'well-b d soft blue eyes, an exiiuisite c ploxion, and golden hair. Altogether she made a picture of rare beauty, aud it was no wonder that Bornaril Norton found pleasm'O in merely looking at her. That evening Clarice did not appear ia the drawing-room, and Norton w'as free to 'lovotc hini?.-lf to her lovely cousin. M'la. B.art.nn oli\-.<>rveiJ lus con duct with iljsph Irom the first id not approved of iit-v 'laughter’s daughter’i atii-.;ctioi IS- not ajjpvovod suitor, and womlorcd ivl the careless, frivolous yoi for her sensible Clarice. Next morning a note was handed Norton. Its contents filled him with mingled annoyance aud relief. “When you receive this,” Clarice wrote, \ I shall have gone to my aunt for a time. You do not love me, Ber nard, and it is best for our engagement to end. Bo happy ia your own way and be very sure I shall be in mine.” That was all, and Bernard’s self-es teem was seriously wounded by tho epistle. But he consoled himself with the thought that ho was now free to woo the charming Grace, and at the end of the month made a formal avowal of love to her. since we this and “I have loved you met,” he said. “ Clarice st generously sot mo free.\ And Grace, who had become very much enamored of her handsome suitor, gave him tho answer he craved. Two weeks later Mrs. Barton and Clarice were on their way to Europe, and Bernard was ti'ying to submit to the stern decree of (trace’s father. “ Yes, sir, you can marry my daugh ter,” Mr. Munson had said, “ if you lovo her well enough to wait three years, I am opposed to early marriages. No girl is fit for wedlock before she is twenty-one, and twenty-live is still bet ter.” It occurred to Bernard that he was likely to spend the greater part of his youth in the capacity of an “ engaged man,” and he did not improve in hu mor thereby. Grace was an acknowledged hello, ,nd for a time ho was pleased at her success. But there was a secret bitter ness underlying his plet little of ■ • ’ ' ■’ ' ’’s whir probatii position, he cone the remaining year in travel. When he bade G: struck with the f much older than she did at the time of their engagement. Two years of dissi pation had left their mark upon her delicate beauty. \ Be careful, Grace,\ heI said, some of your roses for me until you.\ He said nothing of was, only afraid she mighf beauty he worshipped, Grace was sorry to lose her lover; sho felt desol.ite for a whole day, and cried hersolf to sleep the first night. But Bernard wrote her charming letters of travel and she soon forgot her grief. She sent him in return the briefest of notes, for tho charming Grace did excel as a correspondent. But glauce s,t the porcelain picture he car ried coffsoled him for th i' dying his pleasure, for saw little of his betrothed except in so- ’s whirlpool. There would be no ge in this state of affairs until their time of probation ended, and feeling in a false position, he concluded to spend said. “ Keep until I claim r fidelity ; ho ight 1(# jo tho I endure 'ivealq insipid ight, “better than the ight of a plain face across his tabla throe times a day.” Bernard loitered here and there, then bde his way slowly back. He ■was ia haste to reach Ghdeago weeks before the time appointe to take marriage, which was early autumn. One morning he rang the bell of the Mnn and sent up Ms card to the ladies- •e was a step on the stair, a ti-ajl of a garment, and a w'oman entered—a woman of medium height, with a beau tifully rounded figure and a fape of dazzling biiUianoy. She approached Bernard and cordially extended her a little less inhospitable, sbo said. “ My aunt and cousin are nnfortu- tely at a concert.:; they were not aware of your return. You are quite woll ? I do not find you so much changed as I expected.” Ho looked at the charming speaker in mute wonder. “ I beg pardon—I—^I ----- he began. ■ Her face was a ripple of smiles as she regarded him, waiting for him to pro- make your weloome Mr. Norton,” CIRE O F A W im DELICATE MECHANISM WHICH NEEDS REGULAR ATTENTION. An Old VVatohmalcor’s Instructive and untertalniiis Talk on tho Treatment of Tiinoplooes-Iuforinatlon oil a .Subject of (Icneral Interest. reporter handed over his time piece, and the old man examined it oil want to know how to care for a ■atch, eh ?” saidthe Old watchmaker, i took off his glasses and wiped them with his handkerchief. \Lot mo :e your watch.” The reporter h icoe, and the old man ■ :arefuily. “Well, my boy,” he said, finally, “ bear in mind continually that a watch is, in its way, almost as delicate a piece of mechanism as the human system. As it is necessary for a man who wishes to keej) in good health to take his meals regularly, so is it necessary to feed a watch at regular intervals. You foecl a watch by winding it up. Thoro- foro, have a certain hour for wind- s it possible I am so changed that you do not know me? Have three years aged Clarice Barton so much ?” For the first time in his life Bernard Norton lost his composure. He sank into a chair with an ejaculation of starting with the one hand cc “Clarice Barton !” he cried, it does not seem possible 1 \Wh “My d Winter r expres fter' a.\ ed!” Bernard ■ing regret at yon are i murmured, aftei her loss. Miss Barton smiled sadly. ■ \The years change us all,” sho said; ;hay leave theii' mark.” “ Oh, it is not that!” he hastened to say. Yon look not a clay older than when I last saw you ; but—pardon my boldness—you are wonderfully im proved.” “ I am like my mother’s people,” Glarice answered quietly. “They all mature late; and the climate of Italy, where I remained most of the time, was very beneficial to me. I hope to return in the course of a few months.” They fell to talking of their travels, and 12 o’clock struck before Norton thought they had been chatting twenty minutes. At that moment the hall door clanged and steps came towards ttrem. He arose to his feet. “ Impossible he saidj looking at his watch. “I can not have been here an hour! Really ” ----- What he would have said remained unspoken, for Mrs. Munson and Grace ajipoared in. the doorway. His be trothed was very becomingly dressed, but so faded that she seemed like the ghost of her former self. Three years of society had done their work. Tho cheek had lost its bloom, the nose bad .-!liar]jonoil and the beautiful eyes lac lintre. .As she stood a moment she seer by her once plain cc The meeting of the lovers was com ftraiSed; and Bernard took his depar ture, prornisifig’-oa.^all next day, which he did. Grace inforJSeii—fciffi_that ho must wait patiently for two morelveoJS- bofore he could see her often, ns she had lents fc console be pleas ant to compare notes of travel.” Bernard was not slow to avail bim- df of this opportunity, and for two if weeks he walked, talked, bright, brief weeks he walked, 1 drove and chatted ivith the charming woman whom he had once slighted. What a bund fool he had beonl It ■u larica he loved—Clarice he Clarice he loved—Clarice he had always loved. She was the boy's fancy and tho man’s ideal. It was this cultured, interesting woman who suited him, ancl not the faded, frivolous Grace. He grew mad with pain and rage as ho re alized his position. He walked into the parlor one after noon, where Clarice was playing softly. “ Do not let me disturb you,” he said, as she half rose from the piano. “ I am in a mood to have my savage soul soothed by music. Are the ladies out ?” “ I think so,” answered (llarice. “I have just returned from my walk and have not seen them.” Sho played on softly, her dark, dreamy eyes fixed on space. Bernard looked at her with a brooding passion. Suddenly he crossed over to where she “ Clarieo,\ he cried, “ my own Clarice, I can not he longer silent 1 I lovo you —I bavo always loved you. Years ago you cast me off for a foolish whim and I tried to content myself by forming other ties. I know now that I have never forgotten you. Clarice, take mo back again 1” ■ His voice was trembl: tion ; but sho stood cc him, and her voice was v “ Mr. Norton, I can not exouae this behavior. I loved you once very clearly, but you made me ashamed of that lovo and I cast it out. 1 have for three years thought of you as my cousin’s betrothed, almost her husband, and you insult both her and me by your conduct. I supposed you knew that I am to be married as soon as my term of mourning expires. Allow me to pass.” She swept by him like a qui alcove curtains parted and Gri before him. “I have heard all,\ she said. ; with emo- ly regarding F hard os she leen. The id never let me see your face agaii She dropped the shining solitaire which she had worn so long into his hand, and pointed toward the door. ■owel e l h i .................. ing your watch, and never deviate from it. “In this case there are probably ono hundred ■watches. Not one of them is-running. On this rack there are d all are going. I wind a morning, I lower left- They get their meals regularly. “ Yon oim regulate your oivn watoh if will only study its peculiarities, this little arm ? Well, if your watch is running slow, tiu-n that arm with tho ■blade of your penknife a trifle toward tho letter ‘ F.’ If it is running fast, turn in the opposite direction toward •S.’ Don’t move the arm more than a fraction of an inch, for if that will not suffice, youi’ watch needs a watchmaker’s ‘‘lion ’t open the inner ease of your vateh more than is absolutely necessary. Every time you open it dust sweeps in upon the works, and it takes very littlo dust to put a watch out of order. In iiine oases out of ten, when a watch is \brought to me to be cleaned, I can tell ■with my glass the business the owner of the watch follows. I examined a watoh the other day, and told niY cus tomer that he worked in wool. He ad mitted the fact. I had found small ‘articles of wool in the works of his “Have a chamois cose for your -watch, or chamois lining to your watoh pooket. It preserves the case and keeps it from deviat preserves t getting scratched. I have say that a watch with ‘Tear ithont A you work ments, or ride on oleotric cars, you should have your watch demagnetized. A few yeara ago: such an operation cost a Uniirinoipled omer that in yeara ago groat deal of monej jowcllors would tell a jowcllors would tell a customer that in order to make a thorough job of it every piece in the watch would have to be created independently, first positively, and then negatively, in order to re ceive a magnetic or electric equilibrinm. I havo known watchmakers to charge ity-five dollars for demagnetizing a “The real ci)st There is a mai You place the side and then on the negative. 1 is no more work about it than th< rn the baking of a loaf of bread. hpard n.t-n siiy that it was a_ si--k watch to a ■ ■ lay in a ' • insruii. is almost nothing. ;hine for the purpose, watoh on tho positive Tis l-i.-ki-uTlOTSI^Pfggr-- a wh'i wear watches Diit linw littl'- ; know about maiu.-. 2 iriugs! Bv.)kon maiu.spriugs come as a sort of epi- deiiiie. Don't lancrb. I ’m simply tell ing vou a *ac-u Ajc.irago tMs spring I was flooded with watches tho main springs of which had snapped. A po- ouliaiity of the btealdng was that each of tho twenty-five or more turns to tho spring was sevp-ed and that the breaks ■\'ere in a straight hno from the centre ■ the ciroiimferonce of the spring. “Every watchu'alter in Now York had i experience similar to nay oivn last spring. We have often comirared notes, but wo have been unable to ac count for the epidemics, except upon tpe hypothesis that atmospheric condi tions are the cause. What these condi tions are remains to ho determined. “ It has been\ asserted that when tho Lor-thern lights aree the brightest main- the hrighi ; apt to snap. You that in February ‘henominally „ lat period no :en mainspring was I can’t account for the ■phenomena, and I don’t believe there is a watchmaker in New York who knows lore about it than I do. “Now let me add a few words as a sort of finale. Tho best as well as tho cheapest watch movements in the world are made in America. It’s all well enough to tolk about Swiss watches, but m point of accurate timekeeping a five hun- there never has been mad© a dred dollar Siviss watch that was a whit superior to a twenty-five dollar watch in America. “Buy:y American watches with Ameii- lovements. Wind your watoh 'ulato it, study its moods ___ _ _______ 'Ud cold weather. Kean she inner case closed, get it dems (zed, and don’t call the wat robber when he tells you spring of your watoh needs renewi Among Iool)oi-ga, If the shortest possible line for a ves-' sel to follow between Fanama and Hong Eong were dra'wn, what relation would it bdar to the Sandivioh Islatjcjs ? It i safe to say i Sand knows. lagnet- „ knows. Did yen say It )ward the door. ■ south of them ? Not by tl ■(Vith b head ho lelt her presence miles. The line will pass east of San and wentwent downown the marble stepseps for the j.iFranoisco andnd willill cut thehe Aleutianleutian Is- d the marble st for the bFranoisco a w cut t A ;ime.^ itt jlands away up among th^ Icebergs o last ti turn and loi
