The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-12-02
nv Watch.

49,
nv Watch.
An Instructive Little Tale.
Hast Twain y the Galaxy.
Ny beautiful new watch had run ,eigh.
tesn months without bsihg or gaining,
snd without breaking. any part Of lis ms.
II infallible In Its Judgment about the time
Of day, and to consider lie constitution and
10 anatomy imperisI.able. But at last. one
night, ! let il RUN down. ] grieved about
tt.as fit were recognized messenger and
(drefpnner of calamity. But bye and by
! cheered Up. net tho watch by guess, and
commanded my holdings and euperstitiens
tQ depart. Next day stepped into the
chief jewelers. 10 set it by the exact time.
and the head Of the establishment took II
"ut Of my hand and proceeded to Get 1t for
me. Then he said, e'sbc 10 just four min.
utes slow regulator wants pushing up. "
! tried to stop ,him-tried 10 make him un-
dcrstsnd that the watch kept perfect time.
But M; oil this human csbbsge could sec
was that the watch was four minutes slow,
and the regulator must I've pushed up little;
and 70. while danced around him In an
anguish, and .beseeched him to let tho
watch alone, be calmly and cruelty did the
shameful deed. My watch began to gain.
II gained faster and faster day by day.
Within week It sickencd to raging fever,
and ito pulse went up 10 hundred and
in the shade. At the end Of the month Il
had left oil tho time pieces Of the town fal
!. n tho rear; and was fraction over thirteen
days ahead Of tho almanac. It was away
in November enjoying the snow, while the
October leaves were still turning. It hur.
ried up house. rent, bills payable, and sucl,
things, In such ruinous way that could
not abide Il. I took It to tho matchmaker
70 bc regulated, he asked me II I had ever
had Il repaired. ! said no, it had nevcl
needed any repairing. He looked = look
Ut vicisus happiness, and eagerly pried the
watch open, then put small dice box intt'
bic cyc and pcered into it, machinery. He
aaid It wanted cleaning and oiling, besides
rcgulating-comc In week. After being
cleaned and oiled and regulated, my watch
slowed down 10 that degree that It licked
like tolling bell. began to be left by
trains, i failed all appointments, got t.
missing my dinner. my watch strung Out
three days grace to four. and let me 70 t.
protest; l gradually drifted back into ycs
terday, then day before. then last week,
and then bye and by the comprehension
came upon me that Oh solitary and alone
was lingering along in the week before last,
and the world was out of sight. seemed
u detect In myself sort Of sneaking fellow.
feeling for the mummy In the museum, and
. desire to swap news with him. I went t.
= matchmaker again. He took the watch
tho barrel was "swelled." He said he
sxAs,lI roN,,rn II - A1,son A>v~ fso- Hl,s-
the watch aceraQed we'll, but nothing more.
For half day II would 70 like the very
mischief, and keep W. such barking and
wheeling and whooping and sncezing and
snorting, that could not hear myself thin),
for the disturbance; and As long ~ it held
ont, there was not . watch In the land that
stood any chance against it.
But the rest Of the day It would keep
on slowing down and fooling along until all
the clocks It had left behind caught up
again. So ut last, 1t tho end of twenty.
four hours, It would trot up to the judges
stand oil right and just on time. II would
show fair and square average, and no man
could say II had done more or less than it
duty. But correct average 10 only mild
virtue ip watch, and I took this instru.
ment to another matchmaker. lie eaid the
kingbolt was broken. said I was glad It
was nothing more sesious To tell the plain
truth, | had no idea what the kinEbolt was,
but did not choose 10 appear ignorant to
stranger. He repaired the kingbolt, but
what the watch gained In one way It lost in
another. II would run awhilc and then stop
awhile, and then run awhile again, and 20
on, using it, own discretion about the In.
tervals. Aud every time It went off II kick.
el back like muSket padded my breast
for few days, but 6Eally took the watch
70 another matchmaker. He picked u al
70 pieces and turned the ruin over and over
under his glass; and then thare appeared to
ger: He fxed It, and gave It 2 fresh start
minutes to ten tho hands would shut together
like pairof SCISSOR, and from that time forth
they would travel together. The oldest
man IN the world could not make head or
tail Of the time Of day BY such . watch, and
% went again 10 have the thing IMPAIRED.
This person ssid the crystal had got bent,
and the handspring wa6 mot straight He a.
10 remarked that part ct the works needed
halt. sollng. He made these things Ill right,
aud thon my timcpiecc performed unexoep-
ti0nably, sAvc that now and then, after
working along quietly for nearly eight
hours. everything Inside would let % ill Of
. sudden and begin 70 buzz like . BEE, and
the hands would straightway begin 70 spin
TOun6 and round 10 fast that their individu.
Atty was lost completely, and they' dnply
seemed delicate spiders web over the face
Of tie watch. Sho would reel III the next
twenty four hours In dix or scvch minutes,
and then stop with bang. went with .
heavy heart 70 ono more matchmaker, aid
l,okod on while hs took her b piccea-
Then prepared TO cSoss-Quesliou him rig
idly. for this thing was getting serious. -
The watch had cost two hundred dollars
originally, and seemed 70 have paid out
two or three thousand for repairs. While
waited and hooked on, presently Recognised
IN this Matchmaker IN old acquaintance .
steamboat engineer Of other days, and not .
good engineer either. He examined I'll the
parts carefully, Just - the other watchma-
ken had done, and then delivered his ver.
dlcs With The Same confidence Of manner:
He aid: a. 1.@
''She makes too much steam-yos want .
hang he nnonksy.wrsnch On the safety.
valvor'
bea,asd him On lhs spos, aad I'D hin
buried q my own oxpoaSs. -0-
FAxcy Ho1sxs AxD FAxcT P1acaa--Ns.
Bonner's course In buying In, ss fabulous
sums, any animal giving evidences q q.
srsordinary speed has awakened . deep In
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