A "SABBATH BREAKER'S" EXPERIENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 28 July 1881, Page 1

A "SABBATH BREAKER'S" EXPERIENCE.

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A story which 'points fa owh moral is being (old of a well-known citizsn who came limping into <: W+ of #u|r jewellery stores the 6&ai day r;wi(h a water paii id his hand co&taifiuig ihe demoralised remains of -an i eigb -day clock. The jeweller had tha city to icquire how the thing got i ly mixed, and after a little hauU c victim told hia Btory.«Yoin I Sunday cm rning thia confpucd^ stopped, and I wbtfnU £way aVi or some fifteen minute^ thinkiog it ha^ iuo down a liitle before the BSiial tibe ! ; but t wouldn't go, aall aoribg the afternoon I got thinking it over and quietly made up my miod when my wife went to chdrch in the evening that I'd lock the thing over and save paying^ but, % ddljar or two lor repairs! I got so fajßatieut to, begin l^wbrk that (teeeoied as though Sarah Wdold'trevet atari for her prayer meeting, bat at bat Sic did, and no sooner was she out tf the house thaa I began operations. I got a small table? tookdowo the i dock* removed ihe works, and taking oot the screws that held it tc 4 gevhar. As I loosened the last one! there was a sudden whiza, rjur-r-.r,; whizz, and for an instinf I *a^ Wheeils! and BpriDga flying all around; ana; fehi someihiDg sharp Btrike me io 'the face^ Instantly followed a crash of glass, and! then all was datkaes*. My first; thoughta were of; a tiitro-glycgrrne ex- ! plbaibD, apd that some one ; mistook me 'or the Czar of Ros»ia : nest of ac JearltbqQake, atkdl /tr&OQ&IWgJy aWfeiied! the /orumbitdg io of tHe^ house. mue- : 'ered courage to grope about for s: 1 maicb, and while doing co cut my foot on a piece of tue latap aiid crushed one of the clock wheels out of ehepe. When at last I got a light and looked round oa tbe havoc caused by that confounded eight-day epViog, the reom appeared as though a Land League^ meeting had been beli there and some disputed question of Parlismfntary»law had arisen to be settled after a free fi^ht. All around were scattered pieces of that wretched clock, the oil from the broken lamp was soaking into the carpet, the table Was smashed, and I bleeding from face and foot. I grabbled the first thing within reach to wipe the blood from my person, and. soak the oil from the carpet, only to discover afterwards in a lengthy curtain lecture on wickedness in general and mine in particular, that the article used for handkerchief and mop was my wife's most precious " tidy." Then I got a broom, dust pan, and water-pail, and swept up the remains of that clock, and here they are. You can sort 'em oat and put 'em together if you like, it won't cost more than the clock did, and if ever you hear of my fooling round ; with the spring of an eight-day clock again on a Sunday night, or" any other time, you may book me for an idiot. I'd rather tackle a can of dynamite with a hammer.'— Springfield Republican.