The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-01-28
Clocks.
Dy THE nEV. +. WENTWORTH, D. y.

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but tho imperfcction common to al
human machinery. Who ever knew
two clocks to run together Who
ever lay awake at night in n great
city aud didn't hear the church
clocks strike ten till eleven aud eleven
till twelve ? When Charles ", Em
pcror Of Germany, went into volun'
tary exile, he busted his leisure with
papers, music, and clocks. Aft cl
trying in vain to make two time
pieces go exactly together, he came
to the wise conclusion that it was no
wonder that no two men agreed cx-
actly in opinion, since it was impos-
siblc to get agreement between two
pieces of mechanism as perfectly
alike as art could make them. y
clock is one Of the most social things
in existence. 1t is impossible to feel
that you arc alone in your house,
though your family be all away in
the country, with clock to ding iol-
lily on tho mantcl- piece, or solemnly
in The ball or corner. A boys first
ambition is the possession OF watch.
A watch is life>long companion :;
the first thing thought OF in the morn
ing, the last care at night. And how
does the little monitor repay Il at
care by telling US faithfully when to
60 to bed, when to get up, when to
20 to the bank, to church: to dinner,
to tho cars, when our first baby was
born, and when our dear mother died !
How many pleasant and sad associA
tions are conncctcd with tho face of
the mysterious little cluster Of wheels
and spriags chat has daugled in your
fob in all your journcyings for years
The wife Of your bosom has not clung
to you SO tcuaciously as your watch.
The worst thing about the loss of
watch, whca mean, sneak thief
clutches it, is the loss Of so many
cherished associations. lt is not the
oney valuc-we have lost al old
friend, one of the family.
But why is there so much disagree.
ment in time ? Why is that now
and then every thing is all awry
among the timc~pieccs Of the city !
Why is it that a man, knowing he has
Il perfect timc.kccpcr i'll his old brass
clock, his Euglish lever, or bis Pa,i.
cm onomctcr, feels an involuntary
shade Of suspicion crossing his mind
when he finds nc is one, two, three,
Eve or fifteen minutes out Of joint
with the noon bells? 1t results from
IL fact which many people do not
know, and which ali are pronc to for.
get when they arc ac4uNin:c! with it
namely, that the sun is All irregu-
| r timc keeper and that good
clock or good watch is IL regular
| time kecpcr--varying only Il few
| minutes or Il few seconds IN a year,
while the sun now shoots ahead and
now falls behind and people have
more confidence in the sun--onc Of
God's great tinc- pieces than they
! have in man.madc mechanism. Aud
yet the fault is in the sun.
There are only four days in the
year iii which the sun and perfect
regulator a'e together: Christmas is
Que Of those days, the middle Of April
the next, then middle Of june, thea
the first Of September. On theS"
! days 'hc sun and your pocket chro.
nomctor will agree at twelve at noon,
and on no other days OF the year, In
mid February il should be quarter
past twelve by your regular going
time keeper, when the tagging sun
| lays the shadow Of tho stilc across
the noon III ark, In mid May, ambi-
tious Sol is ahead of you in anxiety
for dinner in July behind, in Octo-
Der in advance again. So if you
have good limc.kccpor, don't touch
it, don't undertake to chase up the
sun with it, or the noon. bells if they
follow the sun. Keep your eye on
the almanac, and sec, from day to day
how much too fast or too slow the ir-
regular sun is of your regular going
time.kccpcr.-N. Y. Methodist.
The Iowa Senate organized Thos.
day by the election of Republican
officers and initiated business by
passing a resolutin dcnourcirg the
Congr gressional salary grab favoring
a law requiring tho return Of all back
pay, and declaring the action Of tho
President in signing the bin "contra
ry to tho bcst interests Of the country
and mcriting, as it receives, the I'M
qualified disapproyal Of the people O
Iowa."
| The French mean to carry out II
Algeria the plan which had been pro
posed by American engineers for thu
Colorado wastc.--to introduce tn,
waters of the Mediterranean into thu
desert and form an inland sea. Tn,