Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-06-10 | Page 9 | A Watch Face as a Compass

A WATCH FACE AS A COMPASS If jou ever get list In n foicst or drift out to sea In jour sallboit, tho face of jour watch will scivo as u compiss to help jou find jour vvnj home, pi ov Ide I you can see tho sun Vm hnvo only to hold tho watch Hat In join hand, with tho limn mark then Indicated ns tho time of dav point-ed point-ed directly nt tho sun, mil n point lulf way between that hour mnrkiind XII will bo opposite to duo toulh In the skj, l'oi example, snpioslng that It Is 10 oclock In tho morning, boll the watch to that the mink X polms stialght nt tho sun and tho murk M halt wij between nnd MI, will b pointing townid tho south , Oi, hiipi osIiikT It Is n i lock In tho nflcrnoou linl I the vvutcli so tint II 1 1 lolnls stialght nt the huh olid the mink II, half way between 1111 anl XII, will lo pointing toward tho Miuth This uilo li Infallible, you inaj llnd bj testing It at any hour of the di j, for It Is luscd on u very simple sclcnllllo lilnclplc The entlro circuit of tho heivcns .is traNoised bj the sun In tweiitj-fnur hours Is leckoned "10 degiees-thiit If, tho sun tuivels llf teen digues ever) bout Now, let join waleh dial npiesent the clicult of thn heavens, inch of the twclvo. hour spncis standing for thlitj km os ich half-hour space there-foie, there-foie, would stand for llftien degrees If It Is 10 otlnik III tin morning mid you let X' point Inward tho sun vim will seo that III two houiu" tlino tho sun will bo on tho ineildlan in dm south, but ns evirj Imlf-lmui space oil jour vvntrh lepicamits fifteen do-gieen, do-gieen, iho dlslanco traveled by tho sun III nno hnui, It will tiavel two of Huso spaces III two hours (n othci wonts, nt tho exphatlon of two liomi tho sun will be on tho ruoildlau, nnd the me- ridlnu is now. therefore opposite to XT because XI Is two half-hour spaces from X , , If It la t oclock the sun Is four Ml UsIiif; the Watch Co.npnss, hours pit the inerlllin nnd the meridian me-ridian therefore Is oppe site to a point four half-hou spines baek fionl IIII which Is II