| Show A CLOCK 01 A IT WAS IVAS WORSE THAN AN INFERNAL ERNAL MACHINE IN EFFECT A devoted has an interesting and axa experience with a aneer glinc timepiece what W was ti th matter with the clock this is ia a story about a clock which mado mad a great deal of trouble for two people and gave the tha same two people very poor opinions of each other the brother says saya that no woman in the world save eave his sister could have had such amazing ignorance about clocks in general and this thia one in particular while his sister declares that only her brother of all men on earth would have allowed little bit of a clock to make a fool of jim ain before a carload of strangers the trouble with the clock was that it keep time there was no reason in the world why it it just and that was all there was to it this was painful to the young woman for several reasons it is only necessary to mention one the timepiece had been given to her by her betrothed he thought it was a little gem of a clock and that it would please her she agreed with him as to the beauty of the delicate little affair and was pleased for a time then she began to get worried then she ehe got nervous and lastly alarmed this was all of course because the thing would not go and because she feared he might think she had broken it or worse still as she herself confessed between time that she sense enough to make a clock go while her irreverent and impertinent brother brothe r suggested sweetly that he was more likely to think that it was her face which had stopped a clock the family were in the country when tho clock was received and when the time drew near for the arrival of the betrothed clock giver affairs began to be desperate the young woman declared that that clock had to go the clock simply she would wind it up it would always wind without the slightest resistance but it would not go she shook it she turned it upside down she coaxed it she laid it on oi its face and then on its back and the hands were still froze to the face of the tha clock albert she said to her brother you must take this thia clock over to to town anu and get it repaired it must be repaired paired ic it must go gd now town was ten miles away and albert did not see why any one should make so much fuss over a clock and such a little clock too as that w was ant when arguments and pleadings alc could not move him he yielded to tears and chucking the tha timepiece under his arm he boarded the train and started for town in the car he be placed the clock on the seat beside him and rested his hand on it then more trouble began that clock began to strike it went into the striking business in a calm cahn determined way it struck right alon along gup up grade and down grade around curves and on straight tracks the brother felt a fainting around his heart the p orle in the car who had bad first been amused began to ba annoyed TI alo LO youn Liana us face got red it got warm his hia hair became bathed with dampness but he ha clun clung to the clock like a trojan jae ha lad had an idea that he might be able to hide it or smother it or close it he know which and so BO he kept his hia hand tightly pressed on it and all the tha time that infernal mathine machine just sawed wood it had struck a gait which it liked and it kept it up without a break it showed no signs of getting tired or of running down it was striking along at a gait when the train reached the town it continued to strike when the brother made his hia escape from the car it went on striking itri king up the street until the brother wanted to throw it over a fence and then commit suicide gu icide no burglar alarm was ever more persevering than that clock no clanging fire engine ever made more nol noise lse and caused more excitement cit nit ement the clock was striking away industriously and cheerfully when the tha brother ran into a jewelers shop and threw the thing down on bri IL a counter For heavens sake stop he cried but it ha had d stopped there it lay on the counter as dumb as an oyster and das as ment as a tomb well TO ru be hanged said the brother breathlessly the matter frith it anyway he asked looking at it as if it were a dynamite cartridge the jeweler picked it up look ouirl cried the brother that thing wilt will start up again if you yon touch it but it dills it never made a bound only in a minute came a gentle and rhythmic ticking licking theres nothing the trouble with I 1 it t wd laid the jeweler setting the bands and then examining the little infernal machine ch ine cousee Yo you see he ha added with witha a syro sym pathetic yi smile this thia is a repeating clock you can make it the tha last hor hoar by touching this spring you have been winding i ap up the repeating souidee soun dex dee but not the clock and you must haap held your hand on the sprigg sprit g when you kept it striking its all right now AU al yon jv want to do is to wind the clock more ani the tha re repeater reater less ohl said the rother with a gasp ind d that was vas all al now the brother says that any loinal who know enough to wind a clock now know enough to live and the sister says bays well veil every brother knows what sisters can say new york tribune Fri bune |
