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.
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Laurel Ave., San Francisco,
May 1 8, 1 892.
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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
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Vegetable Compound, and de
cided to try it. The effect was
astonishing. Since I took the
first bottle my womb has not
troubled mc, and, thanks only
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should know how
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is a sure cure.
"
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