The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-13
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WITCHES AND lEN. ALIKE
The Repairer Tells, How Thelr
Lines Rum Parallel.

The Repaiser Tells How Thelr
Lines Run Parallel i:
Providence. Feb II. No use. tink-
ering with that" said; the watchmak-
err IT; 10 worn out by the wear and
tear Of constant use. The case. al
though allowing signs Of age. might
DO. but you would have; to buy any en-
tirely new set OF works. and for what
they would cost, you you could get a
new timepiece from case to main
spring: AZ 81 !. Is II
Watches are Just like human be-
ings," went on the watch repairer,
!. ruminatively. s.and We are the physi-
clans. The watches come to us Just
as humanity goes to the doctor. We
J repair a broken down watch just as
your surgeon repairs a broken down
man or woman. Watch and man run
for altime as well as ever. Then they
break down again, and gagain they
come to us. Again we repair them.
and again; they run for a time So 1t
goes until, as is the lease with your
watch here, sir, there's nothing left
Z to repair.
There are cheap. poorly construct
ed watches. just AZ there are cheap,
{ poorly constructed men,. Both never
keep time. They require constant at
tention and repair. Their life, is one
constant struggle to keep up to time,
J. and they soon are forced to give up
the unequal struggle. How many men
there are who shave stopped running?
Like useless watch, they lie on a
shelf. their works rusting, watching
+ the rest OF the world march on, until
they are thrown into the junk heap
The good for nothing watch is melted
up, and ont of 1t something else ia
made. So with man. The law Of ma
:ture says that out of his decay new
life shall come.
Watches come into the world Just
sas babies do. Some are born to be
carried attached to bejewelled fobs in
the waistcoats of the wealthy, there
to mark the time of hours spent amid
luxury. Others count the minutes of
struggle with poverty and vain en-
deayor. There are watches born to-
the penury of novels; there are
watches born to the magniicence Of
palaces. The poor watches are gym
bolic of the lives Of their owners.
They often go to the pawnshop. They
run behind time OF ahead Of time, be-
cause the owner has mot thet money
to cure them. So men and women and
children gradually sink beneath dis
ease. There is not the wherewithal
to cure 1t.
you have doubtless known men
who went through life on the top wave
of success. showing no sign of all
ment. apparently destined to long life.
Yet suddenly they have stopped short,
CONS out like a snuffed candle. SO
with many chronometer. 1t keeps
exact time for years. Then some
thing In the mechanism snaps and It !
is worthless, There are show
watches. At only for display, Just as
there are show men and women whose
exteriors glitter but whose works are
naught. There are watches that keep
good time, by spnrts and then become
absolutely unreliable, Just as there are
men who by fits and starts make a
name In the world. There are modest
watches that do their work year In
and year out plain, unbejewelled and
Of common case. Hundreds of men,
Of whom we never hear. the silent
ones who toll without telling the
world about It. are like these watches.
There are watches that show the wear
and tear Of life. Just as Seem Of us
do: there are others whose exteriors
give no token Of their yicissitudes.
Some watches are mere playthings fe
. careless world; 80 are many men.
Some watches get nothing but hard
knocks; 30 do many men.
aBut the best watch goes to the re-
pairer sooner or later. just as the best
man does The watch has been neg
lected, so has the man But there's
this difference. The watch is the vic
tim Of some one else's neglect. The
man Is the Victim Of his own &