The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-06-07

very strange that after all his DANA
ging remarks about old clocks, Mr..
Tuttle should find that he was moth.
ing but an old clock himself.
His Intellectual faculties were also
regulated by clock.work, but arran.
ged for perpetual motion.
His moral faculties, too, were regu-
lated by clock.work. But he was able
to perceive that while most peoples
moral faculties are made to run eight
days, so that when wound up on Sun
day, by a sermon or other religious ex-
ercises, they would run till next Sun
day without any abatement of vigor,
his, by some misfit, were only arranged
to run for six days and half, so that
on Saturday afternoon the handspring
would 60 with bang, all the works
would run down in a minute, and then
he was without any moral machinery
any more than a COW. He saw also
that the handspring had the appear
ance, of having been fled nearly in
two ip many places, numbers of the
cog.wheels had lost one or more teeth,
and 10 numerous places there was so
much dirt and sticky oil the works
would hardly move. Now, indeed, his
conscience smote him. He recollected
that he had fled many mainsprings in
two that they might run few weeks
and then break and be brought back
to him for repairs, when he would al.
ways charge double price for the
spring. and double price for his work,
which prices were always paid cheer
fully because the extra amount seemed
sort Of guarntee that the work was
we'll done. He also frequently fled a
tooth nearly off so that it would break
and new wheel have to be put in.
Sometimes he would use sticky oil that
would bring him a job of cleaning !;
and occasionally he would say to his
customers, on looking into the works,
that pinion had broken, and though
he but cleaned the works, he would
charge for putting in new pinion.
He now perceived that every time he
had put dirt or bad oil into clock.
works, or broken tooth or pinion, an
equal amount of dirt or bad oil had
been inserted into his moral machine
ry, and tooth for tooth and pinion for
pinion had been broken there, and
consequently if matters continued long
thus, the whole machine would fall
down in wreck, and people would
discover what had been going on IN
secret. But this was not the most
alarming; he saw a great wheel with
only one tooth lAfk On counting the
fractures he found that it had once
contained four hundred and ninety
teeth.
"Four hundred and ninety! four
hundred and ninety!! four hundred
and ninety !" he calculated, in a be.
wildered way, and grasping at vague
dreadful idea. "Why, that is seventy
times seven. And there I have beer
forgiven four hundred and eighty nine
times, and there is no authority foI
more than one more chance! Besides
there are all the teeth gone but one
and when that goes"
With scream Of fear he awoke
His neck was across the back of tn,
chair, and all the blood in bis bod,
seemed to have settled in the top o
his head. He discovered that he hal
been dreaming, but felt that he hac
been warned in a dream.
After breakfast next morning, ,whicl
was Saturday morning, he went hasti
ly to hunt up an elder of the church
20 whom he related his dream, and in
sisted that he must be wound up eve
ry Saturday morning, or he could no
run till Sunday. The elder pshawe,
at such an absurd idea, but gaye hin
a good talling to, and that Afternoon
he missed his customary spree. Ate
that every Saturday morning he wen
to an elder and got wound up. Thi
continued about year. when one Sal
urday morning he could find neithe
elder nor minister. All had gone O
. TO a meeting of the synod. He was i
great distress. That afternoon he &c
drunk, went homo cursing and swear
ing, broke three chairs and all tn
{ china, turned his wife out of door
locked the door, and went to bed wit
his boots on. The police did not tax
him that time. but he remained {
I home. His wife, who knew and pitie
his falities, crept back, through a viii
, dow after he was asleep, and lyin
f down beside him, slept till her usuI
. time for arising and going about h'
. morning duties.
. At six o'clock, when she went [
? wind him up for breakfast, she foun
he had run down forever. His hea
' had ceased to tick. Neighbors wei
3 called in. He was clsansed for Il
8 last tine, and laid away on the shsl
{ till the Judgment day, when be wi