The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

mosquito netting over II. Then he set
Dick to work with a large iron spoon
throwing sand against the sieve he had
made. The finest, and only the finest,
went through the mosquito netting and
fell into a box placed there to receive 1t.
Having bound the bottomless bottle
securely to a stake driven into the
ground, Sam closed the aperture at the
mouth of the bottle with the regulator
and filled the bottle with the prepared
sand. See the picture that shows the
clock complete with Sam holding his
watch in his hand.
The boys happened to have with
them piece of sheet lead from which
to make snkers and also bullets for
Dams pistol. Sam pounded the lead
with his hammer into the shape of a
ball, and fastening 1t to part of the
fish line he had been using dropped
line and ball upon the sand into the
| bottle.
He took one of two long, slender
laths the boys had procured for him at
the saw mill down the creek, and fas-
tened 1t with a round nail, on which IL
would turn as upon pivot, to the
stake to which he had secured the bot
tie. See the picture.
To the other lath he nailed a broad
smooth board and planted it firmly in
the earth at a sufficient distance from
! the bottle over It's face, as is seen in
| the same picture.
Fastening a lead pencil at right an
/ giles to the longer end of the pivoted
! lath, Sam swept 1t over the face of the
pianed plank, making a curve from one
to the other end of the beard. He now
attached the line, one extremity of
which was fastened to the lead in the
bottle, to the shorter end of the pivoted
, lath giving II length that permitted
| the longer end to rest on the bottom of
the curve he had drawn upon the
| board.
All this had taken from early morn
ing TO arrange and pat together. II was
just II o'clock by Dams watch when
Sam drew a straight black line across
the curve upon the upright board just
where the end OF the plvoted lath
touched 1t, and neatly printed the num-
Der XII above the line. He then gave
a tap to the regulator with his pocket
knife, and a very thin line of sand be-
gan pouring merrily into the cracker
box under the big bottle. Exactly half
an hour later, when the lead descend
ing with the sand in the bottle had
moved the pointer, the pivoted length,
to higher place on the upright, Sam
made another line. This he did not
number, but at / o'clock he made line
which he numbered. He noted the next
half hour as before, and at o'clock
made his line across the upright and
marked III above 1t. Then, remeasur-
ing the distances between the lines he
had made, Sam found them practically
the same, and so laid off equal spaces
upon the upright lath for all IL hours.
divided by lines indicating the half
hours.
The sand at the expiration of twelve
hours had almost all run out of the
bottle, but not quite, for it was a large
one. Here was a practical clock made
out of a big bottle. bucket of sand
and a couple OF laths. Sam regulated
1t so carefully that IL really kept fairly
good time. OF course, it only told the
time by half hours, but that was quite
enough for ordinary purposes.
Sam afterward made an alarm clock
of 1t by means Of line from the lead
to the trigger of Dams pistol. loaded
with powder. When certain regulated
length of line was pulled by the de-
scending weight, the pistol was dis
charged and awakened the sleepy fisher
boys.