Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 30

WSHE a PART OUR 7v7? HE MAKES INE CLOCKS JT at the tall tower of the cause I a traveling NELS JOHNSON A TOWN BOYS THE we shall never get your bo unhappy! I feel We must get I have an idea! has sent will looking 'at "MT big and broad and black sec them The face of a found coun a straw back and the gear cloth One Kind Tomrhy who'was that case I want any Ted Jfed was just pouncing on the umpire police reserves Judge i Repartee 1 He do you feel when I beat you at She quite as bad as you feel when your friend Jenkins beats you at Ohio State Journal' i Defined 1 5 pop got to write a composition on Hope What is Hope my boyis the joyous expectation of being able to dodge our just Life a A Willing Youth say that you don't care for the sal ary so long as you can get a chance said the billionaire the answered the youth with the sharp nose and chin willing to start right in at a big reduction and take one of those 125000 positions you say are so hard to fill at halt the Washington Star Visible Asset people down here spent $50000 bor ing a hole in the ground for coal didn't asked the pasg'enger who was walk ing up and down the platform to stretch his legs while the engine was taking in a feed of coal and water returned the hump shouldered native sitting on a nail keg "That's about the size of what have you got to show for said the native taking i fresh chew of Missouri plug still got the hole Chicago Tribune glad we' 'live at the North 1 have any summer vacation Lustige Welt Little Things That Make a Long Jonr ney Less atiguing When one is about to start on a journey that will take several hours it is well to thoroughly equip one's self that one may be as comfortable as possible Especially is this necessary when there are little chil dren to consider as well as older persons Above all things be sure to provide your self with a drinking cup for it is far from attractive to think of drinking from the same cup as is used by tiny one who chances along Next in importance is a 'small bottle of good but plain Cologne water A soft face cloth may be wrapped Yaround this and when tired and! dusty from the heat gently bathe the face with the Cfolocrne water and you will be greatly surprised to find how tool ana comiortaoie you will feel A small fan that runs int a tinllnw ctirk and which takes but llttleroom in your 3 oag should be the next article to find a resting place Some pins a spool of thread and some needles and a few buttons will possibly be found useful especially where there are children If one is made ill motion of the train bottle of lavender salts will often TGliCVfe nr thia niirnnea ir is also well to carry a few salted or other main cracKers tor the illness is often caused by an empty tomach The break fast has possibly been hastily eaten or perhaps but a cun of coffee has been taken Toward lunch time cne will experience a racking headache Before the headache be comes established the cracker should be eaten and the headache will probably dis appear Do not attempt to any great amount of money you but place the hulk of it in a chamois bag that may ba securely fastened around your neck under the dress A sufficient sum to meet imme diate wants may be carried in the bag A' night dress should certainly be placed in the hand satchel for trunks have been known to go astray said Nels Johnson During the past week those Detroiters who have looked up postoffice building for have not found it Instead the dial of the big'timc plece there appeared to have taken on a queer staring appearance the hands of the clock were gone and two strange small square openings dark and mysterious were be seen in each of the four fAces In vestigation of these facts led to an intro? ductton to one of the most interesting characters in Michigan Nels Johnson of Manistee the maker of the clock Nels Johnson now 62 years old came to this country at the age of 23 an urjpducated Danish immigrant a blacksmith by trade Through his own efforts he has made for himself a competence and an honored place as a member of the executive American Society for the Advancement of Selene not to mention membership in two tr nomical societies He is now a learned man Nels Johnson ormerly a Humble Blacksmith Now a Scien tist of His Work in Detroit But Not Her ace GussleGush you know I Willie Softleigh weally Miss Gush I nevah noticed Ohio State Journal Did You Ever Sample That Kindt "Corn is coming to the front commented the observant man many ways it is beginning to take the place of returned the man of experience reflectively' in some localities it al ready takes the place of Chicago Post 1 Tactful Mrs you think about time for us to call on our new they only moved In this Mrs I know but all their stuff will be downstairs and I can see It Ohio State Journal Up to Date Game Was the game 'Close? I should say so The crowd when the Both congregation the minister to Europe to get a Mr "Whom the minister or the Judge ing an of the sensi tive plate An excellent portrait of the song thrush is among the Interesting re sults that have been shown The arrange ment may be used with other timid crea tures and for getting pictures of nocturnal apimals the electrical wire can be made to ignite a little magnesium as it releases the shutter giving strong light at the instant of exposure 5ew Amerleann in Brazil That is a very small number of American citizens In proportion to the entire popula tiori expatriate themselves by taking up their residence in foreign countries is strik ingly shown by the latest census of Brazil I be your After giving this a slight pull he settled drearily back into the soothing water noticing that the water was slowly dimin ishing This in no way disturbed him and in about an hour the attendant appeared inquiring if he had had enough guess I said he soaked up about six Inches of your gol darned wat er and I reckon about do for Milwaukee Sentinel said the in the weekly pa per is a society replied Mr Tucker not at all certain of his ground but unwill ing to his Ignorance before the youthful seeker after knowledge a helpless young man sitting between twolively girls at a swell Chicago Tribune "Oh Nellie darling consent to our "Oh Harry dear I feel we shall mamma to object and sure to come right! (The banns were published within a Punch machine shop in' Manistee for more than twenty five years This business he a few years ago turned over to his oldest son August Johnson who is now carrying it on successfully As he had keenly felt his own early lack of education Nels Johnson resolved to give his children the best ad vantages Before takinghis busi ness August was for two ypars instructor in mechanical' engineering ih Delaware Col lege The father now' devotes himself when at home to clocks and astronomy He tells of three timepieces in his observa tory at Manistee which do vary from each other a jsecond ih a month OneMs an expensive marine chronometer of east ern make the other two large tower clocks of his own manufacture with different kinds1 ofescapements Mr 'Johnson guar tower clocks to run with a vari ation of less than' ten seconds a month un derexposure to temperatures ranging from zero to 95 degrees ahr and last with propel care for 100 years "But the trite said he get BOOM! THIS DOG INDS LOST GOL BALLS And a Very aying Investment for His Master the Greeaskeeper Dogs of the Scotch collie 'variety are mighty useful on a farm but it is doubtful if a 'collie or any other kind of a dog was ever before in this country put to the use that Greenskeeper Bonk of the Broome County Country Club puts his big collie Jack every night Jack served his appren ticeship 'on a farm near here and was re garded the best sheep and cow dogsrin the county When Bonk took charge of the golf links at the Country Club he made it knowrn in the district round about that he Wanted a dog that was capable of learning some new tricks It wasn't very long before the fame of reached the Country Club and after a little negotiation the collie became the property of the greenskeeper Members of club won dered what Bonk wanted of such a nne ani mal but to all their queries on the subject Bonk was silent In addition to taking care of the grounds Ronks does a little business on the sidet with clqb members in golf clubs and balls Golf balls are expensive A good one costs 35 cents It is a stiff price considering that one is apt to lose half a dozen balls in a day Every week between two and six dozen balls are lost' on the grounds here and once given up as lost by its owner a ball becomes the property of the first person who runs across It It was only a week after Ronk got hfs nev? collie that the greenskeeper announced that he had for sale a number of second hand balls many of them as good as new He asked only cents apiece for them The members gob frlfed them up in short order and there has been a steady demand for second hand balls ever since The greenskeeper keptthe secret of the source of his supply for some time but it finally got out that he had trained the collie to go out on the course at duskeach night after everybody had quit playing golf for the day and search for lost balls' learned the trick mighty said Ronk the other day "and now I even have to go out with him He Starts out as soon as I give him permission and if I call him off keep it up all night enthusiastic over searching for balls and I never saw anything qike him for finding them As soon as he finds a ball he brings It in to me and starts out again Only once has he brought two balls In at the same time I guess he must have found them lying beside one another else never have done it Maybe that dog wasn't a good investment! Well when I tell you that he found fifty eight balls for me in two nights and that spending 10 worth of paint on them I sold them for 10 cents apiece see that he such a bad speculation after all I got the notion of training a dog to this work by an article I saw in an English sporting paper' about a dog owned by a greenskeeper in Scotland that did the same work I paid a price for Jack but let me tell you three times what he cost me will not buy him back again to New York Sun 4 weighs approximately 300 pounds The self compensating feature of the pendulum to counteract the expansion and contraction caused by changing temperature (which 'is a serious matter In a 14 foot pendulum) is one of Mr Johnson's Important inventions in clockwork This enormous pendulum 4b swung solely by the wejght or gravity of the two bars of theescapement pieces of metal so light that they may be swung on their pinions by the pressure of just as they swing the pendulum forth every two seconds Nels 'Johnson caressingly wiped wheels with a bit 'of 'clean cotton gears you see are made of steel and phosphor bronze The pinions are steel the larger gears bronze They are not in tended to be oiled 'but someone has oiled them it makes them wear Two steel gears do not work well togetherthey do riot work' so smoothly Do you know I have often thought fhat as two gears of the same metal do not give the best results so two people of like temperaments are not happy In married life That is the of many too Nels big clocks are everywhere in this broad in ty and municipal buildings in hospitals and depots and in: church' steeples 'They also go to' other countries One recently was in stalled in the new mission building in Luck now India In the tower of the ort street union depot in Detroit is a 'clock of his manufacture erected in During the past two years Mr Johnson has adopted the plan of putting ball bearings on the shafts which turn the clock hands This is a new: departure: in clockwork and the results are good He is making the change in hla earlier bult clocks when opportunity offers Last Monday he put ball bearings in the depot clock MABEL AYRES HIw Good Time you have a good time on the enjoyed anything so well in my life You know that mean old hunks that wakes me up so often at daybreak by run ning his lawn VVell the night before the' ourth I got all the boys In my neighborhood to agree to shoot firecrackers in front of his house from midnight till 7 and then I went out Into the country Chicago Tri bune of the modest type well versed in astrol ogy and one of the deepest students of horology In placing 'the Detroit postoffice clock Mr Johnson followed specifications but he was dissatfslled with them at the time and has ever since been endeavoring to secure modifications which would as he expressed it the clock do the greatest good for the greatest could scarcely tell the time from a distance of two blocks with this old said he am changing the hands and repainting the dial so that it will be plainly visible for two Defects In the Old Hands The old and the new clock hands stood in different corners of the room at the top of the tower It is well to say for the new hands did stand a foot higher than a tall man "The old hands you continued Mr Johnson "were designed by an artist in Washington who probably had a man for a model and no doubt made a good but thev are ton narrow too the mod el must have had a bad case of consump tlon You see the hands I have made are wide: thev can be seen very much further Then too the counterbalances will be in visible from the street and that will do awav with a certain confu sion to the sight which results from making the hands so that to reach both ays from the center When this clock was put in the specifications called for a six foot skel eton dial white with gilt you see there arc no figures on this dial no need of that: test bars to mark the hope spaces But gilt on white is not a good combinar tion vou cannot see it Then the back ground for the dlul was to be biacK inat was all right but when I got up here I found that the tower had been seven or eight vears in the process of erection andthe stones were nearly as black as the background was to be That would make black on a worse combination than gilt on white So I got the specifications changed to allow a white background anj a Wack skeleton dial which was better but it has never been good The hands you see the old ones are gilt and they never showed over the white background The new hands are Evervbodv can big clock Is no place for delicate and ar tistic effects Perilous Work "When go outside I wear this life a verv heavy leathern strap from the brickwork behind the dial am get ting too old now to walk a tight rope anj turn somersaults I fasten a good strong rope tn the belt right here and I am carei fUl to secure the other end inside the tow er Yes the belt Is a wise provision for a man like me I go outside for the ordinary work the Jaw of gravity is al ways against me But to morrow I have got to go out to put on the hands' You see mv own my physical hands Thev are big and strong Their muscles were developed when I was young in Den mark bv six work at the black anvil I served six years of appren ticeship working fourteen hours a day for $8 a year and board I find people in this country who believe that I did not know at the time that I was acquiring any thing that would be of especial pse to jne when was no longer a blacksmith but a man without strong hands would better not trv putting up clocks in towers I tell you I had a magnificent opportunity of remain ing right at that anvil all mv life just as other boys like me lived and ded where they learned their I Mr Johnson conducted a foundry and nr Less Qnlck and Obnervant Than the Country Children Principal Thomas Boyce of the irst District school fs of the belief that city children are the: real in the matte of observation The country cousin has long been scoffed at for his open mouthed wonder at what to his city bred playmates are objects of every day knowl edge and plenty have been the jokes sprung at the expense of the country gawk upon his visits to the city But now the tables are turned and the city boys and girls may well look out for their laurels as world wise youngsters have been reading in our eighth grade said Mr Boyce it is a matter of surprise and won derment to note how little the children know about farm life and nature Some passages which one would think everv intelligent boj or girl of 14 or 15 years of age ought to know leave a perfect blank in the minds of the city scholars "Take for instance the passage oxen hooked and lashed their The scholars could not imagine what meant thought that the word hook meant to snatch to steal to grab to swine but not one associated the word with the tossing of the horns of the imna tient brutes The passage describing the well sweep leaning was so much Greek to them Although they understood the reference to the lean ing towety of Pisa they knew nothing of the old fashioned well sweep sun circle day portent of the they had never seen They expostulates at be lieving such a thing cannot look at the they said is too bright It hurts your I venture to say that there is not a boy in this state who has lived on farm to whom tb" sun circledday is not the portent of a storm They have noticed it from theirchlldhood days The city chil dren wer nonplussed in reading of the gray of clouds with the rising of the sun The sun they see is over the housetops through some dining room win dow It is an interesting study for me to observe how" little the city people are taught to observe nature That Is where the country children have the advantage over their city Milwaukee Sen tinel THOUGHT HIMSEL 7 A SpOJiGE Not Surprised When Water Disap peared rom Bathtub He arrived in yesterday a tall angular specimen of the inhabitants of the farms of northern Wisconsin Trav el stained and weary he dropped Into a Grand avenue shop and bath house for a real city shave While indulging in this luxury the barber painted in7 guch glowing colors the wonders of their bath establishment that the rural visitor finally decided to go in dr it if it broke him Attaching himself to an attendant he was meekly led into at wonderful froom of tiled floors ana wau wmte eimmetea oatntubs and all the modern improvements of plumb ing luxunuusness qr overcame him tor ar while biscuriosity finally got the better of him and he proceeded to in vestigate At the head of ths tub nna or tnose patjepp oyunancat waste pt only from the fixed stars The solar sys tem I like to call the timepiece I haoa itelescope with a six inch lens It is as fine as money could buy I imported it Every time I take a time observation with my transit from a fixed star I see or feel a sermon on4 religion that helps me to understand how small infinites imal are the efforts of human beings Called on a Midnight A rgu ment I am reminded of an incident which oc curred while I was putting up a clock in the west I was In rough clothes and stop ped at hotel Two brothers elderly men were there One was an orthodox minister of a but it makes no difference about the denomination They had a room just back of mine and there was nothing but a loose board partition between The brothers got to arguing religion one night in bed The preacher was determined to convince his brother that the religion he taught was exactly right in ail things The brother notsbeing of the cloth was privileged I suppose to use' rather stronger language than the oth er and got the best iof the argument in that way They kept me awake and final ly I got tired of it 'Gentlemen' I said am a mechanic I work in a machine shop in Michigan and I happen to have a two foot rule in my pocket I know something about astron omy but I venture to say if I told you I had taken a contract to measure the dis tance from the earth to the sun with this two foot rule you me a fool The sun is 93000000 miles awayfwhat we call fixed stars are much further but we know many ot them Now if I should take the distance from the earth to the sun for my rule and then attempt to ineasure the distance to the nearest fixed star I should to put that measure down just 224000 before I got through with the job You' with your human minds attempting to comprehend the infinite are trying to measure the distance to a fixed star with a two foot rule It will take too1 the minister like It very much and he said some uncomplimentary to me but' after that they shut up" Ycars ago Nels Johnson said to Prof Comstock at theastronomical observatory at Madison 'Wls that he longed to take up the study of astronomy attemA said the professor must have years of education before attempt But the man of clocks is now ap astron omer of recognized standing Mechanism of thePost office Clock The postoffice tower clock is not so com plex an affair as one would expect to see It is very much simpler than some large clocks I have seen It even appears more simple than the ordinary alarm but it works better It is run by a weight and is controlled by a Dennison double three leg gravity escapement the invention of an English lawyer I have nothing to say against" oth er ways of making said the clock maker shave always thought that the to arrive at exact results is to take advantage of unchanging forces 'The law of gravity which operates this escape ment is constant if the weight which op erates tho train of gears is 100 pounds when wound up the top it is likewise just 100 pounds when is entire mechanism Kof the clock was manufactured at Mr Manistee factory The gear cutting has: to be espe cially accurate and In these7 clocks each gears and its shaft is rqade one solid Ask for GREEN TRADING STAMPS and Watch for urther Announcements DETROIT TRASMWO STAMP GO inal Triumph The methods great contrast show iif tn scan its maneuvers vou stoo: Midst th rigors of winter it keeps lying low And in summer it comes out on top Washington Star Hustling Household Careful you may get all the preserves we canned last year arid boil them up again I am afraid they have begun to "Like enough' mum like enough Everything this house has Harlem Life After the Reconciliation Hooley gin me a jninch on jaw opposite ph were yez kicked "Phat "I want yez to straighten out me Baltlmore World PBO JULE3 LABORDE DKrnvrRvn Tone' ft on if znrlU Slone Try and put it to the lest Try it There is no security no 7 Send us your name and address and we you enough to last Bve dy 11 will be ae nt I is sealed pac age by The marvelous rench remedy recently Introduced in thiscountry by the on Co ef Cincinnati Ohio one ot the largest ana most responsible business Arms In the States has attracted the attention ot the en1" nvedlcal profession because ot the wonderful ears it has effected It you suffer from Lost Men Varicocele Weakness ot anynainrein die Organs dr Nerves (no matter how caused) or it parts are undeveloped or have shrunken or away 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Birds are made to take their own pic tures by the ingenious apparatus of Mr O' Plke an English photographer says the Milwaukee Sentinel4 A bait of fat Is placed nn nn electrical wire wnieh is so eonni'tM with a camera that' when the bait fa re There are in the entire country2700 000 for eigners vr vpesw viiir ow are lnufui Amer ARE SN THE BOOM! Many times in ttie past five years have we assured the public that' THE GREENTRADIHGSTA MPS are a fixture Once more we wish to assert that they are HotC Stay not be deceived by any rumors to the contrary Very central "only one block from Woodward avenue Light w) Is I law a ass bright and handsomely fitted The' largest and best stock of premiums we have ever offered and new goods arriving every day jffi11111 gi gB Mr flgH ly 111 1 OMBh Si have many new merchants If you have not received one Of our latest directories call at our store and get one con gaining IO REE stamps If vou have not visited our beautiful new store do not longer delay Come at your earliest convenience and inspect our stock You are always welcome and will receive 'courteous attention whether you nave ystamps or not Remember the location 21 Wilcox Street University Building 4 leans A portion of thesg are Canadians leaving a still' smaller number from the United States Other nations are represent ed in Brazil as follows: Italians 1300000 Portuguese 800000 Germans 300000 Span iards 100000 Poles 800000 rench 10000: English 5000 miscellaneous 100000 A 'Pessimistic Opinion say that in order to be said the ypung woman who reads a great deal man ought to be a fool or a phil answered 'Miss? Cayenne' a man lss a fool he get a woman to ac cept him And ff he is as wise as philoso phers are creaitea with being he pro TOE DETROIT KEEy SUNDAY? JULY 1 901 Ke Need to Go There 1 donkt like tbig climate too the strangle saldl ought to come up to Minneapolis and live We have it cold there in the winter but it's so dry you notice gasped the sufferer "I wonder if it ever gets as dry in Minneapolis as I am at this Chicago Tribune TltE ONE THING LACKING TRADIHG STAMPS xuesait jgMsk bct BOOM! Sorry He Lied De are the only woman I ever Madge summer girl 5 C' J' 4 Wl ll 1 I IBB I IB I 1 I il Bl I ill HIM I 1 I A Ifr" ir 'W fe I lit 4 sf Ih! 1 7 UI 1 zlC V1 1 1 invi Hi Hi 1 1 II wiflwmWm (I I iii if Illi yr TrfflA yflS Tffn I I nW iviKt I i A 1 n0 mr 7'TAVm rBwaae MH4V4M UkaAl Latvia UPb moveui ims vaHKia BAruncv ao avacMiSvu kiv 4 ss 4 0 Upas 3 3 A 4U a i 3 He 11 iwwiimmMWiiMSaS SSSr' WVWUVl 1 i I I Hits II ll 1 il 0 7 I 'I I I 1 5 S' A I I it: Sv.