Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1915 — Waste of Energy. [ARTICLE]

Waste of Energy.

Some years ago several deputies had a gathering at the home of Sheriff Lane in Gloucester. While looking about the house Mr. Lane called the attention of the visitors to an old clock, a great favorite of his. He told his friends of his great attachment to the piece of mechanism, getting quite pathetic at parts of its history, and ending by saying: “And, gentlemen, I have wound up that dock every night for so many years" (mentioning the number). Here an old deputy turned the tide of feeling evoked by the story by say* ing: “Well. Lane. I always did think you were a darned old fool! That’s an eight-day dock!"