The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-10
riNfE-KEEPERS.

Suppn-rg ,uudials, on sume other utili.a.
ton oi the motion of shadows, to have been
the earliest means of marking time. still they
were all of natures providing aud men would
seek 10 have other time e-inarkers at hours when
h were not Available To attain that end,
they would enl al n to contrive different and
Independent modes of producing uniform and
regulated cl q ise Of notion. Now, to pro
duce change of motion, there must be force.
Force. therefore. il necessary to the measure
neni of time, in whatever manner it be mea.
sired.
The most obyi"n4 unif,rm force and the
most costly ootainable, is srsvity, or weight.
And this fore. * the motive --h@AL~-
TIM b. measured by regulated motion ini
tiated hy clock weight, by thr exhaustion Of
the liquid in the clepsydrs or water-clock. or
by the falling Of the sand through the central
aperture of an hour-glass. All those motions
originate in the attraction which invites every
material atom in the world TO ren1ezvons,
at the centre of the terrestrial globe
Even when the burning Of graduated
candle tells that another hour. another
watch has gone 10 join the past the iact ID
denoted by the cxertinn Of a force. ihs ior,s
Of comhu,;ion OF chemical combination.
And is no. heat motion. and motion the re-
suit OF fore: But tae clock proper, the true
clock, pure and simple, is the force OF gravity
made 10 DO day \, measurer OF time.
But neither cathedral clocks nor eight day
( CLOCKS, nor any 4rnnine clock whatever. al.
1 poilNl, At;i ). We cannot carry iher.
ahou' .,nn IT, ,.urng morning cn,ls to dis
play tll ir a,''i g" ,dmring friends. Let
alone ...o.r size aud weight the dispacins
them, The alteration u their vcfticI position.
would disturb, ii not utterly stop. their pei
formanca. A cucGoo clock in il basket is =
motioncss and yaicrles. clock Once laid
PROSTATE, il is dumb. For portable tu,c-
keeper we must have portable force; and
this led to he inv, n,on of the watch, j. t. of
the Iaain-spring
Everybody profits now ly tii.! invention.
/ To be sateir-s is sign ol ies'iintioD. al.
most great as 80 be >hiill.ss of shoeless
Nay. it is probable tina, not 2 ie~, who at leas:
work without shoe, have watches in ihsi-
breast wai,tcnat pockets. To earle
I youth a cheap or wurD-out watch is given, "
| habitraI- him to Ia, calm possession 1 i
more valuable Instrument, hereafter ), .h.
writer. began viii, gilt gingerbread chI)l.
meter Without , watch, busin-,, i, ui-~-l-
tain, pleasure vrccati1ns. Ola It watch, The
lives Of ! whol- hips crew may depend. Il
have watch is the cea,ele>, ie,ira OF th3.a
| to whom fortune has denied mat gin. One ~
Frcdiirh the Gieat'> body crari, . hIa,.
fellow with Il full sense of his'63n in ~
tauce. in drtanlt Of watch. wora a chain
with mn-L .pal attached to il. The king.
to joi. him, said one day, Corporal. you
must b., economical to have saved enough 10
buy a watch. II is six o'clock by my watch
what /, i. by your.:' The corporal, know
: ng that it was ian,erru, to put on the king
with an evssiye reply. ,nllod the bulle. out OF
! hi, fob, and said, ''My w,'cl, Sire, mark
nrither six O'Clock no -,y,u hu; il remind,
, nle to keep mus, .lllin - vl.r,.,4 for your
, majesty's enenio-. ''Gord -ai the kius.
Take thi, watch, n,y in,n. should >nu Ii
in my drirnc.. !on wli ~ lea, alrr ~....
O'Clock i, j.
Bnt wit', 'l! hi, l',, Ia appr.c,A.i,.
, w,tchc.. vino amnn--i i, In, ever learnt ty
whHt c'ntriyanre = ,''i rh i, h!a!a 70 q
SO accurately? IT. lch .',a ol. If order,
not one man in inn,,,id thinks al opening
. and inspecting II, Wal, view 4 a,r~r' aiming
h thc cause and the Il. tnl + nled,. liz ouii
rs soon think oi "p-nins and iu,rectilg lil
f, ailiug baby. h r.. both aiks; 'iar' onc
to the watchwotk doctor, the other 4,
babywork doctor both oI VIA, N. hri1-
!, aware wiat Sigh, ,.,u,c viii sop ,.n.ui
Il machinery. c;t'n 7,in. ~ it, r.uto'.l, e''i.
# sid, + bic 81, l. wnn ii,,l a.. 81! or seienlih
. skill Au .Heu r .. l...i', .or ignorance .
II ol an aco<- .i- .ni lucid instructor "E.el
!. may rsAs.lai :, < npniermen.