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

very strange that sfter 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-
gcd 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 statement of vigor,
his, by some misfit, were only arranged
10 run for six days and half, so that
on Saturday afternoon the handspring
would 60 with bang, all the works
would run down in minute. and then
hc was without any moral machinery
any moro than cow. He saw also
that the handspring had the appear
ancc, of having been fled nearly in
two 10 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 smotc him. He recollected
that he had fled many mainsprings in
two that they might run few weeks
and hen 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 we're always paid cheer
fully because the extra amount seemed
q sort Of guarntee that the work was
we'll done. He also frequently fled a
tooth nearly OFF so that 1t 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
customer, on looking into the works,
that a pihion had broken, and though
he but cleaned the works, he would
charge for putting in O new pinion.
He now perceived that every time he
had put dirt or bad oil into clock
works, OF broken a 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 lAsk On counting the
fractures he found that it had once
contained four hundred and ninety
\ teeth.
"Four hundred and ninetyl four
hundred and ninety!! four hundred
and ninety !" he calculated, in q be-
wildered way, and grasping al vague,
dreadful idea. "Why, that is seventy
times seven. And there / have been
forgiven four hundred and eighty mine
times, and there is no authority for
more than one more chancei Besides
there are all the teeth gone but one,
and when that goes"
With q scream of fear he awoke
His neck. was across the back of the
chair, and all the blood in his body
seemed to have settled in the top Of
his head. He discovered that he had
been dreaming, but felt that he had
been warned in dream.
| After breakfast next morning, which
was Saturday morning, he went basti
ly to hunt up an elder of the church
70 whom he related his dream, and in
sisted that he must be wound up eve
ry Saturday morning, or he could mo-
run till Sunday. The elder pshaweC
at such an absurd idea, but gaye hin
q good talkfng to, and that afternoon
he missed his customary spree. Aftel
that every Saturday morning he wen
to an elder and got wound up. Thi
continued about year. when one Sat
urday morning he could find neithe
elder nor minister. All had gone OF
to a meeting of the synod. He was il
. great distress. That afternoon he go
drunk, went home cursing and swear
ing, broke three chairs and all tn
{ china, turned his wife out of doors
. locked the door, and went to bed will
his boots on. The police did not tax
him that time. but he remained a
! home. His wife, who knew and pitie,
! his faiities, crept back, through win
, dow AFTER he was asleep, and lyinI
{ down beside him, slept I'LL her usua
. time for arising and going about he
!. morning duties.
! At six o'clock. when she went t
: wind him up for breakfast, she foun
he had run down forever. His hear
' had ceased to tick. Neighbors wer
8 called in. He was clsansed for tn
8 last tine, and laid away on the shell
{ till the Judgment day, when he wi
a haHa to meet all the lame cog wheel