Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-03
low WATCHES RUN.
Their .ieg gular.ty Depends largely Upon
the owners Magnetism.

Their .iegular.ty Depends largely Gpoa
the Owners Magnetism.
every man Is his own magnet, Is
the proposition recently evolved by g
Washington jeweler of many years
experience. p r. Schmitt has q
shop in Eleventh street, near the
avenue, and there, in a little old
fashioned bri house, one of the ar
chitectural IeIics of the city, he runs
hospital for disabled tlmep;eces Of
all sorts, with the wards OF his insti-
tuition full most Of the time. Here,
through the experience Of many
years, he has iscoverei a mystic
bond betwiyt the watch and its
owner that few have suspected, saws
the Washington Post
'lt is all dependent on the animal
magnetism of the owner, whether Ur
not his watch will run fast or slow. I"
sa d the jeweler when explaining 8
theory to the Post man. The same
watch will run at different speeds
when carried by different persons and
no person is likely to put watch on
and have it keep satisfactory time
without returning once or twice TO
the jeweler to have the regulator
touched to get the system Of it keyed
up to the same pitch as that Of Its
owner.
"Now, used to have a friend who
had an excellent Swiss watch. while
l had one Of another make. BY
mutual consent at one time we cX-
changed watches, and, though they
had & ne all right before. they then
changed their gait entirely, mine
running five minutes ahead in a
couple Of days and his running five
minutes behind. There was ten
minutes difference in our tempera-
ments. But that is nothing COM
pared to the difference between some
people. Sometimes watch that will
run we'll on one man will not gowith
another, and there are some people
who can not get watch that will
run on them at all
IL remember a good many years
ago had man come to my place
with an old-fashioned English lever
silver watch to be repaired, I had
some very nice gold watches in stock
at the tin e. and as he looked we'll of
tried to sell him one, but he laughed
and said il any OF the gold watches 1
had in the st re would run twenty
four hours in his pocket he would
give me twice what l asked for it.
He said he had tried all sorts Of gold
watches and had never been able to
get one that would run VIII lie he had
it, He experimented with his broth
er's watch only little while before,
he said, and 1t cost him 80. so to haze
it demagnetized after he had carried
1t in his pocket two days Most sill
yer watches acted the same way with
him, but the old English watch he
Was carrying had a double inside case
to it and worked fairly we'll.
''pye never been able to ell whether
the average watch will run faster
when il is in its owners possess on or
not. There seems to be no r~le on
the sub. ect. but can never reg Late
a watch on my swi gboarl there al
then give it to a Gust Jmer and haI e
it keep good time. Then there Is i
variation with a change in vital t.
A watch will ordinarily run slower
the longer it is carried after clean
ing, because the oil dries and tn.
bearings are harder, but I have had
customers come to me and say that
their watches had started UP aud
gone to gaining several months after
they had been clea ed. l just tell
them that can't account for eX-
cept on the theory OF a change in
their own vita it or temperament.
It's one Of those tn ngs that cannot
be explained, but 1t is true neverthe.
less"