CARE OF A WATCH. CUC ATE MECHANISM WHICH NEED3 , REGULAR ATTENTION. Mm Old Wntrliinnkrr' Imtrnctlre ft nil Kntcrtnlnlng Talk on the Treatment of Hmeplei!o-Infirmitlon on Sulject of tanaral Intercut. "Ton want to know how to cure for a flno wateli, ch ?" wiid the old watchmaker, M ho took off his gimmes aud wiped them with hi lmmlkorchicf. "Let mo ee your watch." Tha reporter banded oror his time piooo, nnd the old irmn examined it carefully. "Well, my V)or," he Raid, finally, "bear in mind continually that a watch jjt, in its way, almost as deliento a pieco of mechanism as the human systora. As it is necessary for a man who wishes to keep iu good health to take his meals regularly, so is it necessary to feed a wnteli at regular intorvals. Yon feed a watch by winding it up. There fore, have a certain hour for wind ing your watch, and never deviato from it. "In this case thero are probably ono hundred watches. Xot ono of them is running. On this rack there are eighteen, und all aro going. I wind them the first thing in the morning, starting with the one in the lower left hand corner. They get their meals mgnlarly. You can regulate your own watch if jon will only study its peculiarities. See this little arm ? Well, if your watch is running slow, turn that arm with tho blade of your penknife a trifle toward tho letter 'F.' If it is running fast, turn in tho opposite direction toward B." Don't move the arm more than ft fraction of an inch, for if that will not suffice, your watch needs a watchmaker's care. "Don't open the inner caso of yonr watch more than ia absolutely necessary. Erery time you open it dust sweeps in ttpon the works, and it takes very littlo last to put a watch out of order. In nine cases out of ten, when a watch is brought to me to be cleaned, I can tell with my glass the business the owner of the watch follows. I examinod a watch the other day, ond told my cus tomer that he worked in wool. Ho ad mitted the fact. I had found small particles of wool in the works of his watch. "Hare a chamois case for your watch, or chamois lining to your watch pocket. It preserves the cose and keeps it from getting scratched. I have heard men ay that a watch with a chamois caso will keep no better than one without nch protection, but that is nonsense. "If you work near electrio instru ments, or ride on electrio cars, you should have your watch demagnetized. A few years ago such an operation cost a great deal of money. Unprincipled jewellers would toll a customer that in order to make a thorough job of it ovory piece in the wutch would have to bo treated independently, first positively, and then negatively, in order to ro omvea magnetic or electric equilibrium. I have known watchmakers to chargo twenty-five dollars for demagnetizing a watch. "The real eopt is almost nothing. There is a niacliino for the purpose You place tho wutch on tho positivo side and then on the negative. Thero is no more work about it than thero ia in tho baking of a loaf of bread. "I have heard men say that it was impossible to take a sick watch to u jeweller without being told that tho trouble lay iu a broken mainspring. But how littlo men who wear watches know about mainsprings! Broken mainsprings coim as a sort of epi demie. Don't laugh. I'm simply tell ing you a fact. A rear ago this spring I was Untitled with watches the main springs of which hud snapped. A pe culiarity of tho breaking was that each of the twenty-live or more turns to tho spring was severed and that the breaks wore in a straight line from the centre to the circ.unifeiiiico of tho spring. "livery wutchmaker in Now York had an experience similar to my own last sprin;.-. Y'o have often compared Uutus, but wo have been unable to ac count for the epidemics, except upon the liyjiothe-is t in: t atmospheric, condi tions me tin; cause. What these comli tdous urn remains to bo determined. "It has been .asserted that when tho northern lights are the brightest main springs ore iiu.-t apt to snap. Yon. probulily ivim-mber thut iu February the Riiroi.'t boi-ealis wus-pheuominallr biilli.int. and yet during that period u'o watch with a broken mainspring was brought to me. I c va't uceount for tho phenomena, find I don't believe there is a vutelunal.ei- in New York wha knows more about it than I do. "Now let luo add u fow words as a sort of finule. Tho best as well as tho cheapest watch movements in the world are made in America. It's u!l well enough to talk about Swiss vutehe, bnt iu point, of accurate timekeeping tlu-re. never lias been male u live hun dred dollar Swiss watch that was a whit superior to a twenty -five dollar watch iu America. "liny American watches with Ameri can movements. Mind your watch regularly, regulute it, study its dhhhU in both hot mid cold weather. Keen the inner c.i,e closed, get it tlemanet izod, and don't call tho watchmaker a robber when ho tells you tho main priug tf your watch ueod renewal." Among Ii-Hirrc. If the tdmrtu-t possiblo !iuo for a ve 1 to follow between l'uimnmiiud Ho i,' Hong wen- drawn, what relation would A bear to the Sandwich Is!;;udn ? It i.i life to say net ono person in rift v thou sand knows. Di.l you say it would puss Kmth of thorn V Not by thousands of wiles. Tho lino will pass east of Sun wncisoo and will out tho Aleutian Is Mul away up among tho icebergs und 2Iur bears. ON A RANCH. flow the lultlfl An l'nllrtll Together lnd Rent to Market The wise man from the East, on first visiting a ranch comprising six or seven hundred thousands of acres, can not un derstand how the cattle wandering At lanre over tho rango are ever collected I together. Ho sees a dozen or mora steers here, a bunch of horses there and a single steer or two a milo off and even as he looks at them they disappear in the brush, and as far as his cliauco of finding them again would bo, they might as well stand forty miles away at tho other end of tho ranch. But this is a very simple problem to tho ranchman. The superintendent of tho ranch per haps leeeives an order calling for ono thousand head of cattle. Tho breed of cattlo tho firm wants is grazing in a corner of tho range fenced in by barbed wire, aaa marked palo bluo for con venience on a beautiful map blocked out in colors, like a patchwork quilt, which hangs in tho superintendent's ollice. When tho order is received ho sends a Mexican on a pony to tell tho men neur that particular pale bluo pas ture to round up a thousand head of cattlo and at the same timo directs his Huperiutendent to send in a few days as many cowboys to that pasture as are needed to "hold" a thousand head of cattle on the way to the railroad nta tiou. Tho boys on the posture, which, wo will suppose, is ten miles square, will tuke ten of their number and live extra ionies apieco, which ono man leads, and from one to another of which they shift their saddles as men do in polo, and go directly to the water tanks in the ten square miles of land. A cow will not often wander moro than two and a half miles from water, and so with the water tank or a dammed canon full of rain water as a rendez vous, tho finding of tho cattle is com paratively easy and ten mon can round up a thousand head in a day or two. When they have them altogether tho cowboys who aro to drive them to the utation have ar rived and taken them off. At tho sta tion the agent of the firm and the superintendent of tho ranch ride through tho herd together and if they disagree as to the fitness of any ono or more of the cattle an outsider is called in and his decision is final. The cattlo 1 ttra irr ,1vivn fin tn ilu inro nnil flirt ' superintendent's responsibility is at an end. IiauiomU. A lemon diamond is tho exact shado f the outsido peel of a lemon. It is the fashionable stono of the day, and it is sold as high as five hundred dollars a carat, being a little moro rare than tho bluo diamond. Thirty years ago a blue or lemon diamond was rejected as "off color" by diamond merchants and dis posed of as inferior stock at the rate of fifteen or twenty dollars a carat. To day they rank as high as white stones, though they do not approach the latter in beauty. "It is a popular fallacy," said a jeweller, "that the size, of tho diamond counts most. It doesn't. I can sell you a diamond weighing ono carat for thirty, thirty-fivo, forty dol lars, and at five dollars advauce on those prices all tho way up to five hun dred dollars a carat. I onco owned a stone weighing a carat and a quartor that I bought in London for fivo hun dred aud fifty dollars. The big stones of the common sort are worth only tho sama price as tho small ones. Thus a twenty carat stono of the thirty dollar per carat variety will be worth only six hundred dollars. But a twenty carat stone of the kind that is valued at fivo hundred dollars for tho single carat would bo sold for one hundred thou sand dollars. The reason for this is that there is an abundance of the poorer stones. They come from the African mines, which are inexhaustible, aud which will supply tho world with all tho diamonds it needs for a thousand years or more. But the more valuabla stoues are not found iu such largo num bers, because they como from tho East Indies, where tho supply is exhausted, .".' from Brazil, where there aro few ynod diamonds left." Cliiirm of Amiability. iVhon asked how she managed to re tain her youthful appearance, Ma lanio I'atti brightly answers, "I have, kept my temper. No woman enn remain yon::; who often loses her temper." The wom an who is constantly flying in a rago soon has her reward. A deep-graven lino f tretches from each corner of tho mouth up toward the nostrils. Tho month becomes poutingly flabby or fihrov. ishly compressed. Between tho eyebrows appears the fretful, petulant frown, and no amount of drees, no powdering, rouging or fueo-ntiuii;iii,'; will bring back the lost beauty. Il.iiid eonio is us haudsomo does," paid our grandmothers. An amiable faco can never be plain. Bright eyes and nail ing lips have their own beauty. Tho ligly-faced damsel should eultivnto pta. cidity of temper, human sympathy end generosity. Let her assume a virtue, H she has it not, for even tho assumpti in of womanly sweetness will lead t its poi'sesfiion, for its own charm, and tho naturally plain face will bo truiiwi';;iuvd by its li;;ht. Victoria' TliroiiK. Tho F.nglish throne, ued i.i tho corn, nation ceremonies of tho hint's Mid q.iocns of (treat Britain, is simply a:1. ohl oaken chair ol curious pattern mi l j great antiquity. Ages of uso (it is known to have been used iu its p:vm:ii ' capacity for moro than seven ln:in!:l years) have made the old frame as hard j and as tough as iron. Tho nue.;ij power attributed to tho old relic lie.i ia the teat, which is a largo, rough imnd. htone. Ages before it was trimmed in 1 velvets and gold for tho use of tho I Stuarts and tho Tudors it served as a 1 seat for the early kings of Scotia id; j tradition even asserts that it iu tho j identical stone upon which tho pa;:1! creli Jacob rested his head tho L j Lad hi:i wonderful di'o.r.u. 1 THE PATERNAL OSTRICH. Borne Fociillnrlttpn of the Lnrgrat of AM ran fllrd. The ostrich has many st rango ways and I was particularly interested in studying them. They go in flocks of three or four fomalcs and one tnolo about their nesting timo, and for sev rral weeks Ixifore locating their nesta the hens drop their eggs all about the pampas. These aro called hnuclio eggs (pronounced "watcho ) and are much moro delicato in Huvor tlian llio eggs taken from tho nests. They have a thinner shell, and when fresh laid are of a beautiful golden color. Wo cooked them bv roasting them before the fire. We would first break a hole iu tho small end of the egg largo enough to insert a teaspoon. The egg would lie set up among some hot ashes, a pinch of salt and pepper put into it, and tho contents keiit stirred with a slick so that all would be done alike. Tho fla vor is excellent aud one egg would sat, isfy a very hungry man. As soon as tho ostriches decide upon a suitablo placo for a nest, the male bird scratches away the -rass and slightly hollows out the ground for a space of about threo feet in diameter. All the hens of tho flock lav in tho came nest until thero nre from twenty-flvo to thirty eggs laid. Tho male birds then take possession and sit on the eggs until they aro hatchod, As soon as the nock cau leavo the Uest the old fellow leads them away to feed on fiies and small insects, and everything is lovely until he espies another malo bird with a brood. As soon as tho old birds see each other they make a pecul iar booming sound and every littlo os. trich disappears in tho grass. Tho old ones theu approach each other and en, gage in a most deadly conflict. They fight until one or tho other is killed or runs away. Tho remaining one will then utter another peculiar sound and both broods will spring up from their hiding places and follow tho victor, who struts off at proud as a peacock. I have seen old malo ostriches with three broods, each of a different size, two of which they had captured. l'retty IlttniW. Not only ladies should have pretty hands a rough, untidy pair of hands is just as unnecessary for a man to have as for a woman beautiful white hands very many can have if nature has boon kind enough to bestow upon them fair flkins. All may havo neat-looking, smooth hands. A lemon, some oat meal, palm oil soap and tepid water and a few ounces of glycerine will bo all-sufficient to accomplish the dosired result. After the hands are washed clean in the water, to which has been added a tablespoonful of oatmeal and a teospoonful of glycerine, and the palm oil soap freely used, rub over the wet hands the lemon juice ; apply it espec ially well about the nails, for it hardens the skin aud prevents tho formation of hang nails. If the hands are rough and scaly or bleed, before beginning this treatment freely use (every timo tho hands aro washed) a mixture of glycerine and compound tincture of benzoin (ono ounce of the benzoin to four of tho glycerino) until all soreness and rawness has been removed. Then the persistent use of the oatmeal and lemon will bo sufficient to keep tho hands soft and tidy. Futile of tho Prnj. Lovers of this pretty flower may bo interested in the fablo concerning it. Tho blossom has five petals and fivo sepals. In most pansies, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals ure plain iu color and three are gay. Tho two plain petals have a single sepal each, and tho third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable is that the pansy represents a family consisting of bus baud, wife, and four daughters, two of tho latter beiug stcp-childron of tho wife. Tho plain petals are the step children, with only ono chair ; tho two small gay petals aro the daughters, with a chair each aud the lurgo gay petal ia the wife, with two chairs. To find tho father, one must strip away tho petals until the stamens and pistils wo baro. They have a fanciful resemblauca to uu old man with a flannel wrap around his neck, his shoulders upraised and his feet in a bathtub. In France, the puuf y is universally called the sup mother. Symbolism of Orern. It seems singular that green, tho tolor which is pre-eminently that of hope and of yout'i, uhoul.l L;i also so generally regarded as unlucky. Iu some parts of tho south of F.nglaad rus tic folks regard green vith such an aversion thut they will not ue it at all, cither in dress or iu tho furnishing or decoration of their homes. A few yearn ago a learned German, Doctor (Jas.-.ol, of Berlin, published a little boo!; on the emerald color, ia which ho ..;3 it down that green is the color of the devil and of demons generally, and this position he supports by a inultitr.de of instance i gathored from various parts of F.urope; showing its diabolical associa tions. In Scotch country places giv j. luuuoeu ai weaiiiugs lor tue reiuou that it is tho chosen color of fairi?1: ; and tho little peoplo, as everyo.u knows, are very quick to reseut uuythitej thut may appear to them to be intended as an insult. At Lowland Scotch mar riages of past times even green vege tables were looked at askance, nud Lulo was not allowed to udoru the table vith its curly head. The combination of white aud green appears to bo partial larly portentious, uccordiug to tho old lines: "TIioro (lioted lu 11 tie Have lovers triiij; lu crura uinl wlitte fc'ot-saUeuqulie. " Tho belief in supernatural agency, ghosts and demons, underlies a great part of those curious notions and ob servances of our forefathers which ara now rapidly dying out, and this asso ciation of such agency with the eol;r groeu in doubtless at tha bottom of tho wry general belief in its unlm-kiness. An ofcn letter to women. No. I. Laurel Ave., San Francisco, May 1 8, 1 892. "Dear friend of women: " When my baby was born, five years ago, I got tip in six days. Far too soon. Result: falling of the womb. Ever since I've been miserable. "I tried everything : doctors, medicines, apparatus ; but grew worse. "I could hardly stand; and walking without support was impossible. "At last I saw an advertise ment of Lydia ft. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and de cided to try it. The effect was astonishing. 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