The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-01

II will go up to Mr.. Tiffany's place, .
L said. He knows me-. l buy all my
Jewelry there. He will not insult me-. :"
MIR. Tiffany" I said, as I went in
and handed him my wet umbrella
while 1 unbuttoned my coat and got
out my watch, do you mind looking
at a watch that I did not buy of you?
L will be honest with you. 1t was one
that 1 bought with the money that my
wife earned teaching school this win
ter, and have had an inscription put
on 1T stating that is is from admiring
friends, but as a matter of fact I have
no admiring friends. Most of them are
onto me.
Twill you, as a friend, do me the
the honor to look into my poor little
time piece and tell me what to do
to it?"
He took up his little screwdriver as
a society lady picks up an oyster fork
when she has a solitaire on her little
finger that she wants to exhibit to the
throng, then he adjusted the do good
to his eye, which gave him a choked
look on one side, and said as he filled
his lap full of cOgwheels:
why, there's nothing the matter
with this watch. When you want to
set it you just pull the stem out an
eighth of an inch and turn the hands,
that's all. Twenty minutes to 10 now;
there you are. Good watch; splendid
watch. No charge. Not at all; you're
quite welcome. Come again after your
season is over and buy out our dia-
mond counter"
Everybody who goes to Mr.. Tiffany
gets good treatment. He is above hop
ping on a watch that he did not sell.
1t is so with great men in every line.
Seth says-meaning Mr.. Thomas, of
~course-that in winding a watch one
should hold it in one hand and wind it
with the other. This will strike home
to thousand of careless people who
have been for years holding the watch
in the teeth and winding it by means
of the toes.
eff the watch runs too fast, turn
the regulator toward s, which means
slow; if too slow, turn toward F, which
means fast" 1t is better, however, if
you do not know to read, to take it to
the matchmaker, who will move the
regulator at 81 per move
Never drive fence posts or kill insects
with the watch. 1t injuries it. Never
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Have a regular time for winding the
watch and do not go over that time.
Do not wind the watch during the
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bury watch, for you might lose the nub
of the sermon.
Seth a Y you should have your watch
cleaned once a year. 1 am sorry if
his watches require cleaning once a
year.
1t is not a good plan, he says, to put
the watch under the pillow. Possibly
it should be put out of the window on
a clothesline. IF worn in the vest"
Seth says, you can hang up the gar
ment at night" So also you can hang
up the watch too. I have done that.
Should your watchstop, do not shake
it violently or pry the wheels with a
car starter, but take it to a watch
maker, who will look into it aud tell
you to leave it with him year or two.
The watch has in the past centuries
grown from the clepsydra, or water
clock, up to its present state of perfec-
ton. Look at your watch and see
what a luxury.
A good watch contains at least $50
pieces outside of the chain. Some of
the small screws look like steel filings,
and yet they are complete in thread,
head and slit. The slit on the head is
, two One-thousandths of an inch in
length. 1t takes 3O8, 900 of these
sore US to weigh a pound A pound of
them is worth 81, 500. I state this so
that those who may wish to order a
few pounds of these screws for house
hold purposes will know what they are
worth.
Liz udLF-SpruS 1s GW0nCy seven U0
~thOusandths inches thick, and the pre-
cess of tempring these delicate little
things is only known by a very few
eminent people.
A ton of gold is worth 1902, 100 81.
A ton of steel made up int hair-springs
is worth 81, b67,O 900, so you see that a
man who will invent a restorative that
will grow hair-springs-but let us
pass on.
1t is estimated that a balance wheel
makes about LOG, $50, 900 revolutions
, per year, but that is neither here nor