The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1920, Page 6

\ Invention, Mo aseip, sects Finally “two o'clock?” nine and thirty-one days? Where do we get such strange words as Monday or November and what do they mean? The old lady who wondered how “‘they ever found out the names of the stars” anight well wonder how “they” ever learned the names of the days and the Being a loyal American she might be shocked to learn that our Independence Day comes in a month named after a Roman Em- peror.. She might also be surprised to learn that her cook has her “after- noon off” on a day dedicated to the months, God of Thunder. Mark Twain’s Prophecy Did you know that Mark .Twain, the least superstitious of men, firmly believed’ and frequently prophecied that, having arrived on this earth in the year that Halley’s comet was observed in 1835, his life would d come to a close when the comet next made its appearance in 1910, and that his prophecy was fulfilled? Have you ever realized how vitally mankind has been influenced by the movement of the sun, the moon and the stars since the very beginning of did the caveman ever time? How know what time it was? These and hundreds A Record of Cumalative Marvel- ous Than Any Fairy [| Tale —How Stars and, f Were | nfined In Tiny . Silver Casket, To Later Become Modern Watch. ‘What do we mean when we say Why “two o'clock” any more than “thirty-two o'clock” or “two hundred and eighty-seven { o'clock”? What are hours, anyway, and why do we begin to number them in the middle of the night and then begin all over again as soon as we have counted up: to twelve? Why do we mark the pas- sage of time with such odd divisions as minutes of sixty seconds, hours of sixty minutes, days of twenty- four hours, weeks of seven days and months of twenty-eight, twenty- Have you ever stopped’ to wonder what would happen in the “complex. affairs of our modern civilization if humanity were suddenly deprived of all artificial means of telling time? of other questions are anSwered and innwm- erable interesting and curious facts are given in a remarkable new book entitled “Time Telling Through the Ages,”—an interpretative history of time ‘telling since the dawn of civi- lization—now being published by Doubleday, Page & Company. This work constitutes a gift to the public ‘ i and a large: preliminary edition is of now being distributed to public li- braries throughout country and in other ways that will make jit easily ible to readers everywhere, : s I have read the pages of this book,” writes Dr. Frank Crane, the noted newspaper essayist, “I have realized as never before how fasci- nating is the romance of mankind’s team-play, how amazingly woven to- S A Pocket Universe evolution! It the long undulating the hatching of the a scientific curi gether are all the threads of this universe. What a compact, corre- lated, . baffling mechanism: is this world “For my little watch, just a small silver spot, upon my wrist, is the child of what remote ancestors, the product. of what long and struggling is a microcosm—a universe in minature. We trace here line of the genesis of the timepiece. From miov- ing shadow, down through the sun- dial, the clepsydra or ‘water-thief,’ the sandglass, the discovery of the law ‘of the pendulum, the: construc- tion of the first rude clock-mechan- ism, the secret of the ‘escapemtent,’ ‘Nurentburg Egg,’ the snaking of a useful time- Piece out of. a mechanical ‘toy ‘and y, the growth of watchmaking .in Franve, Switzer-. proachifig its twenty-fifth: annivers- land, and England and the advent Yankee ingenuity in the business. “You who love the strange and un- usual may well peruse these pages, for they unfold the curious tale of cumulative invention, a much more marvelous story: than any fairy tale or the doing of antique kings. The Thoitsand and One Tales’ of the Arabian Nights are nut more inter- esting than this account of how the stars and the passing hours were K sHADOW sae % WO ow. . > Tehuesr Sime DEVICE = through long ages of experiment, finally confined in a tiny silver casket, and given, not to some prince for a fabulous sum, but to Every- man and for a dollar. To compre- hend that compact mechanism is to ‘grasp the scheme of things entire’ —history, and the dreams of men, evolution with its upward urge, the intricacies of mathematics, the mys- teries of astronomy and the ordered interplay of all the wide labors of imen,” Gift to the Public Not only is the story in: the hook one of fascinating human-interest but the ‘story of the book—of how it came to-be produced—is, in. its way equally interesting. Ordinarily, people expect ‘to re- ceive “gifts. on their birthdays, nov give them. In this case, however, one ‘of the officials of ‘a great’ manu- factiwring’ concern: which was ap- ary, suggested to his associates that they might ccleyiate the occasion by giving instead. df inviting. gifts. After long deliberation it was de- cided to. make a gift.that would be of educational value not alone to the entire watch “and ‘clock industry of which the manufacturer was a part and to the hundreds‘ of thousands directly or jndirectly engaged in the industry, bit to the general public as. well—a gift of -knowledge. It was also decided that*the gift should take the form of a book, which would deal withthe fundamental and all-embracing» subject of ‘Time. The work of preparation required the accumulation, through pains. THE WUREM G “FATHER OF MODERN WATCH (Pictures By Perm taking research, of a mountain of individual pieces of informatior The dramatic and fascinating story which resulted is perhaps ‘less a study of time-telling or of time it- self than of man‘in. his relation to both. -; Hage eva Remarkable Pictures ‘In,_pl i illustrations for the bool foyelty. was de~ cided “aipon and: the cam was Called intoxplay. for a series of daring, experiments’.in- photographic illustration.” Fifteen -tigtoricalycoin~ positions were workeds.dat, aindels Were Seciirent,\ Coste prepared, and) the rest of illustrations — th; conceded! to be wnnre field cf ‘photographic art. Was a -stri BU MENTE ob Oe ee pian nts Pe Ee d > . — “| day. It has been suggested that. the |4——-_——-»---__ and has.done a lot to'mske him a box ony al le-bodied press agent busy to § Dn | WHAT THEY SAY | “rabbit ball” may be in use, but Fred | | THE INSIDER SAYS |, ottice attraction j told the spotlight on his client, ‘ , | McMullin close obsérver of the game, | ,, : ©! | : ; a doesn’t think so. He says: Vie The Yankee ownerg and the -New' At the left was Battling Kelly, ; ; JOE GEDEON “The boys are hitting harder be- BABE RUTH SAYS: writcrs have not been blind to! Yeung Kic G $ was on the right, | There is such a thing in baseball a3} cause they can see the ball. It used|When I had made’ six homers Ruth’s possibilities as.a‘hero and his Ana the tans were all asseny:led #3 being a “Morning Glory Hitter.” Jo2/to be that by the time a pitcher had| I felt that I was right; iune has been played on all occasions,’ "yo observe the boxing fight. ‘Gedeon, second baseman of the St. : : i Louis Browns, says he bats that way. He smacks them in the spring, but ia the fall he loses his hitting cunning, I Joe says: “If 1 could hit in the fall like | do in the early spring games I'd make Ty Cobb's usual official aver- age look pretty bad. As it is, | shall.be lucky to finish with a .250 ky A tot of rookies nit away ir 300 in the spring. But this thé mushroom season in base- Ring Clories. They look ie the dew is on the grass, mt the sun comes out they PINKY MITCHELL Tondler and Pinky Mitchell a,wonderful show in their ng that Detroit is figur- ching them. Pinky thinks enough to know how to Burdering attacks of the jelphia southpaw. Hi “Give me Tendler again and WI! show you\a beaten fighter. His ‘le of attack was bewildering, | e mastered it now. When ef agait I'll’ beat him worse beat me. GEORGE HILDERBRAND if may not have the best bal’ the world, but-it -has the most unch of fans. This is what George Hillerbrand says: he Qnly way | can account for cy showing this spring is re plain unlucky. But le Detroit fans cre staying with «them wonderfully. You've got to hand it to \hem. During the Ti- gers’ long losing streak they came out to the park. and helped all they could. It’Sthe biggest adver- tisement a city \ver had.” yon ‘the rding to Eddie Wellace, Brooklyn lightweizht, who has just returned from there. The war mada. the people tighten up on expenditures and now it's, PLabit with them. He says: Jot “Australian promoters have bee! counting their gate rs Hipts in, Shillings instead of nounde since fhe war. The game is going very bad'y over there. Clubs all ral their prices when Americans. on the. card and the pi proportionally. Receir 1 took a i cede taikin two shows very slim.” ee ss FRED McMULGE They are »poling ’e: league patks as never be abound in extra base hi ; : } tria Workmen’s thrown once ‘or twice the ball .was black as: mud.’ Dirt licorice, tobacco juice, resin and other things made it so you could scarcely sce~it when a speedy ‘hurler was working against you. Now you can sec the fast balls and unless-a-pitcher has a lot of stuff on his’ fast one, he has to fool you with a curve and: good curve pitchers are scares.” CHARLES W. MURPHY he main purpose of baseball ig to help people torget their troubles.) So says Charles ‘Webb Murphy former president of the Chicago Cubs. He is vacking Ban Johnson in his fight against gambling in the’ ball. parks. @ says: “T have “always liked’ the attitude which Johnson has taken * toward gambling in baseball parks. Of course we must look at these things in a sane way and not as extremists or alarmists. Life ‘itself is more or less of a gamble and every business ven- sure a man makes is» more or less -inetured with some chance-taking. To me basebali ‘is something sacred— not to gamble on. J regard the game ag a great blessing to mankind, which must be kept clean and honest, and which people attend in. thousands drom aw hon impuise of the heart— aot to make a financial gain. It wakes me heart-sick .io. see directors of major league clubs gambling on every play in-the box seats as I-have seen with my own eyes in the lest few gears in Chicago.” HUGH JENNINGS. The dismal tailure of tne Detroit figeis has been a hard problem to figure out. There have been rumors that the team wouldn’t play for Jen- nings any more and that Ty Cobb might soon be filling the shoes of the great Hubhey. Jennings is still op- timistic. He says: “T still have faith in my boys. If it ever gets warm my pitchers will tighten up and my hitters will come through, ‘rhe weather this spring has beet a severe handicap to a team like mine, for it is mostly made up of yeterans. Mark my words, when the spring bloomers fade away in mid- ito the second division. But we got ‘busy later and made a strong finish.” | p ORGANIZE STORE SYSTEM Mienna, May 31—The Nether-Aus- tship of 400,000. It will extent its dities of such concerns but estab- tions, When Happy tied tha-trecord No more the fans will love me Why do they hit them over walls, It’s.a long, long time till fall TLL SA but wouldn’t it be interesting if one or two or more other big league play- ers beat his record this season? sumjner the Tigers will be climbing. | 4 year ago about this time-the Yanks | at US tnree straight and pushed us | Cooperative stores! as been organized here with a mem-/ ictivities not only to th eusual com-! bakeries, butcheries and dairy | I lost my appetite; And new comes this bird Walkex—_ | (hi GOOD NIGHT! If other birds get gay; How do they get that way? t Babe Ruth is a great ball player. ' Rome—Because of his illness last December, when seven cardinals were elected, Cardinal had ie ager feasuua chaesed! Giovanni Solvenille y Romen of Spain, received the cap of his office at a special consistory held | '24 his “saver” arrested Tyee | mrade | | by the slack of his clothing andi was" awl settines + But now we have Happy: Felsch of Clang! ic White Sox and—Tilli¢ Walker of! There have been great moments in ‘the history of time-telling, The first came when jn the earliest dawn of time, the long-armed caveman dis- coveted, one fine day, that the shadow of a rock always moved in NSN BERG EG a of Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro.) a certain regular course. There: . came -another great moment when in the gloom of the “dark ages” a monk named Gerbert, after patiently nkering with wheels and springs in his. bare cell, finally achieved some sort of clock action. The w ait six hundred years * the next really great hap- pening in time telling, In 1511. one Peter Henlein, an obscure mechanic of Nuremburg, produced a bulhous monstro! as “Nw t mi ve heen And the referee said “Go!” the Athletics keeping up to Babe’s Kig and Eattler in theicenter record-2s a maker of home runs. his heels. Babe! wilt have lo go some to Show this pair | | Kid Grimes swung one from his instep, Of the ring, stood toe to toe. Aimed it at the Battler’s beak, ‘IE. other American League teams And the latter, flabbergasted, preduce; players who. can ‘hit cireuit as Ruth, home-run ... herocs will. soon become no novelty, B and the Babe’s crown will be tarn:) smashes“as well ished. | Performing feats solo is fine busi-| | Press agenting has played consider-| ness, but. when two or ‘three others Kic'ot checked able pait im the exploitation of Ruth} join in and make it a medly it keeps eRe RNR FROM Too astonished was to speak. gave the mystic signal, Stuck his thumb into his ear, | Vigorously waged his fingers | As the union rules make clear. Turned it into a caress, > 4 FER pi Nae ES W SPANISH CARDINAL RECEIVING CAP_ OF OFFICE recently. Here is shown Pope Benedict XV conferring the hondy upon the cardinal. The photo- tea’ i j2taph is one of the few ever made of the interior of the royal palace of the Vatican. The cnening bell resourded 1 the blow instanter, POPE AT VATICAN] lo MOD stood absorbed in the great cathedral at Pisa watching a hanging lamp swaying to and fro in the breeze. There was something about the swinging of~that lamp that fasci- nated him and, timing the move- ment by his pulse, he finally :dis- covered what it was, Sometimes it moved but slightly and sometimes it swung through a wide arc, but he noticed that the swing was always accomplished in exactly the same time, regardless of its length. This discovery was to revolutionize clock construction, for it led to the use of the pendilum. Now-a-days we call this principle ‘“isochronism,” which means incqual arcs in equal time, The pioneer who introduced the clock industry into America more than two centuries later bore no re- semblance whatever to the Italian WAICH FA‘ OUTPPT 20,000 A “The youth in the beautiful old-world Teply. cathedral, Tt was a “whitlin and - “Why, exclaimed, whistlin” Yankee, one Eli Terry, a Connecticut carpenter who had that honor. .He carved clock wheels out of wood in his own home and then, mounting “his horse with a clock lashed. on either side of the saddle, he went about the country peddling his wares, some of which are tick- ing at this very moment. His was atches. not avery heroic figure perhaps, but and er and the ing: “He's a union memer | And a brother in distress.” sident Hol ederation of Labor s: want with a union? shorter bouts? without a union. hisver wages? Most of them overpaid. Or do the blows made iltegal? give cent inte: for such auinion. POLO MEET-SET iated $5000 to buy new ponies. the country. decisi “SIS” IS YOUNGEST present-day sluggers in the FINE EXAMPLE San Francis efuse to permit C alan to ‘box on their car The coast stands cision fights. HE'S JAKES COZ. Toledo 0. r of the Cine’ 2x0 club.-hers . UNCLE SA} LEAGUE. epened an eight-week or the San Diego ship. fe Like — HON had to apologize for it. The with assault and’ batter; & picked up his ing. land of the New Yor' a box- ‘by Governor Smith of the | boxing in New | $ announcement intrigues | Do they want a union to’ establish | They're too short new Cr do they want a union to get want certain painful | They stall and pull their punches enough as it is. ‘ ‘But if the union is intended to make | ce the fans the’ h and to make certain s defend their titles at de- Is and at a respectable e, that’s Wifferent and the fans are Colorado Springs—Eight cities avill compete ‘in a‘polo tournament here in September. ~The Cheyenne Mountain | ub. one of the entries, has: appro- HE'S A COMER. Muncie, Ind.—Tommy Teague is a er among the little secrappers of He has boxed two no- on bouts with Frankie Mason. St. Louis.—Looking over the list of | eagues, George Sisler is the young- | est of the lot. He was 25 last March. Boxing clubs here ion Pete Her- | s unless he} agrees. to take a referee's decision. pat against no-de- | Daubert. cousin | { mati Reds’ famous Jake, | is playing with the Rail-Lights semi- He plays shortstop. | San Diego—Ten clibs representing | the army navy and the marines have | hedule here | service champion- | MPOLOGIZES FOR SAVING MAN’S LULU—James twa saved the | jlife of a fellow Japanest sailor and: saved” | one TORY os Saye His neighbors, however, their heads at him when he hired Seth Thomas to help him and pro- ceeded to turn “out more and more clocks. ‘ ; “You are losing your mind, Eli” they told him in solemn. warning, first- thing you know. the country will be so full of clocks that there will be no market for them, You are getting reckless and ruine ing your own business.” é When the American wate ing dustry came along in its turn half a century later, it met the same dole« ful predictions. A watch worker re« turning to his home town on a visit was asked by his neighbors what hq was doing. “I am working,” said he “for a company which makes seven come plete watches a day.” Great .was the: merriment at thig shook friend could incredulous “even if you make that many where on earth could you:sell seven watches a day?” This incident occured..in, if within the lifetime of men now i Today, ir among the many now « watch manufacturiag, is turing out watches at the rate of twenty” every working day, and alone has produced more than’ sixty lion timepieces in the short’. period of twenty-five years. one single com: sear ict Ous= ' throwing him over a pile of rope. “But he would have heen killed '+v » der. |rick if he hadn’t ‘been moved.” ex- are | \ iJ | | big | | { { | | | | plained ine. | honor, and the pair kissed and went will be organized following | Pack to work Denmark ¢ » single adult pers one to ask what in thunder the boxers | Whe cannot read and write. “Apologize,” ordered his that there is not nm in her domain Cqnsumers' Dray and Transfer Co. -Phone 270 _Ice and Teaming" When you need a Sign PHONE 909 || The Bismarck Sign Co. 406, Broadway Summer's Most Vital Service Ice is one thing that’s abgo- lutely indispensible dyring tye summer, Your health, your children’s welfare, the safety of your food and your corafort, de- pend upon it. 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