Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-09-10
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1t Talks aud apslls the Hours and
Gives Fair Warning at $50.

"Six-thirty, six-thirty, six-thirty;
time to get up; get up, can't you;
get up, you miserable lazybone; get
up before l souse you with g wet
washrag-get up, get, GET UP! !"
That's the way the new patent
French Photographic alarm clock
routs you out in the morning. No
more pestiferous ding-a-linging of a
measly little tin alarm clock, but a
call IN e human voice, in plain words,
more or less polite, does the business.
OF course even this new device
does not make you get up; all it can
do is to tell you the time and apply
few appropriate remarks to you,
and then If you prefer to stick to
your couch and waste the beautiful
hours Of the morning in the slothful
vice Of lying abed, you may do so.
The clock will do it's part, but not
yours. So don't buy one with the
idea that it will do impossibilities.
Photographic alarm clocks are not
new thing. 1t is simple enough
matter to apply the talking machine
principle to clock.
The mechanism is ingenious, but
simple. 1t provides for the calling of
the time every quarter hour, day and
night. If you wake up in the night
and are curious to know what time it
is all you have to do is to press a
button by your bedside and the
clock will tell you the nearest quar-
ter-hour-for example, "two-fifteen."
The Photographic record is made
in the form Of an endless belt or
band. The tiny grooves which cause
the voice vibrations run parallel,
lengthwise round the belt, and there
are As of these grooves side by side
namely one for each Quarte, hour Of
the twelve hour. A reproducing
needle follows the grooves, just as in
an ordinary talking machine.
AS each groove runs clear around
the band, the clock will continue to
call the time, or anything else that
is recorded, until Is minutes have
elapsed or until you shut it up by
touching a button. The clock talks
at present 35 languages and is learn
ing more-all that is necessary to
make it talk another lingo being to
substitute the corresponding belt.
When a belt is worn out a new one
can be inserted, or If you get tired
being called in your own language
you can choose a variety of others.
All that Is needed to make the
scheme perfect would be an attach
ment which after calling you reas-
enable number Of times would either
let the hcd down and dump YOU out
or whicn would reach out and seize
you bodily and dress you.
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Or. X. Moulton, in Richmond Times
Dispatch.)
The pirate of old
Went forth for the gold
And sailed on a perilous deck,
BY the skull and cross-bones
And the weird Davy Jones
He got 1t and gems by the peck.
True colors he flew,
And all of lis crew
Were proud of their illegal ways.
1--WE are pirates" they said;
pass the swag, or you're dead"
They were frank in those swash-
huckling days.
The old pirate chief
Was a picturesque thief,
Who never would stoop to disguise.
In the open he fought
When 1t chanced that he caught
A strange ship that looked like a
prize.
He knew, should he lose,
Twas to die in his shoes,
He never asked quarter or aid,
hn NJ, 4