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Show IE HOUR WILL BE GAINED DURING THE NIGHT "Wake for morning in the bowl of night Has flung tho stone which puts the stars to flight, And lo! the great hunter of the east has caught ' The court house tower in a noose of lignu So might have sung Omar if ho had been born in Ogden and had sat beside the court house steps on his carpet as ' he wrote his quatrains. But what a fuss the great hunter of the east would have made as he rolled up from behind Observatorv peak and caught the court house tower with Its timepiece stealing steal-ing an hour on him. It is quite safo to say he would not have allowed Omar to open his rubaiyat in this manner If there had been such a thing as daylight day-light saving. ' But tomorrow the court house clock and its sister, the city hall clock, will steal an hour on tho sun and if J. S. Lewis, who regulates the city's Big Bens, is on the job tho sun will see the theft as he first cqmes up. From most indications and signs tho 'observation of setting the clock ahead an hour at 2 o'clock Sunday morning properly is to be somewhat of a patriotic rite. Of course many people will do the deed tonight or to- morrow morning, and some probably not for a week or more, 't all depends on thoir memories. However, things ought to be fairly well regulated before be-fore many days. "There is one class of Ogden citizens citi-zens v.'ho will not stand for the change, I'll wager," said one witty person today. to-day. "So?" "Yop," he said. "It's the chickens. Set your clocks wherever you want 'em but I'll bet you can't change those birds. The chicken tells time by the sun. He's got no use for a watch. He might show some surprise at his human hu-man neighbors getting out in the morning an hour or so earlier but ho patented the practice thousands of years ago. So you can't fool him." Speaking of the court house makes appropriate a word about the courts. The venerable practice of oponing court at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. respective ly, wmcn nas ODiainca aunng many years, will, according to sun time, now be shattered. However, the courts will keep the daylight saving regulations regula-tions with the other institutions of the city and will start an hour earlier both morning and afternoon by tho sun, remember but at tho same hour by the clock. The county offices will also follow the regulations and open at 8:30 by the clock and close at 5 in the afternoon. after-noon. But the clerks will have an extra ex-tra hour in tho afternoon to attend, to their knitting. A peculiar phase of tho change is going to develop during tho night. If on goes to bed as usual at 10 p. m. and gets up at 6:30 or 7:30 a. m. tomorrow to-morrow morning as the caso may be, he is apt to have kind of a sleepy, unsatisfied un-satisfied feeling. He has lost an hour sometime during the night, which he probably will not find until next October. Oc-tober. nn |