Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 November 1895 — Page 3

£hr §fifct County lUraorrat X. MoO. 8T00F8, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - • • INDIANA. GETTING READY FOR A LAUNCH. the Flret Preparation* Are Made When the K»«l-Bloeki Are laid. I It has often been said that man begins to die the moment that he begins to live. It might also be said that a ship begins to be launched the motment she begins to be built. The first thing in the actual construction is to arrange the keel-blocks on which the ship is to rest while she is building. They must be placed at certain distances apiyt, and each must be a little higher than its neighbor nearer the water. These blocks are usually of the stoutest oak, and are placed from two to three feet apart.* They must have a regular inclination, or the ship cannot be launched. In vessels like the St. Louis the incline is about onehalf an inch in height to a foot in length. In smaller vessels it is often more than one inch to the foot Larger vessels have so much weight that a sharp incline is not as necessary as with smaller ones. The keel of the ship is laid on these blocks, and as fast as the sides of the vessel are built up • great props are placed against them to make sure that by no accident will the vessel topple over. At length the hull of the ship is completed. Then it is thsat the launching apparatus is prepared. This consists of two parts, one that remains fixed <8> oa the ground and one that glides into the water with the ship The part that goes in the water is the cradle. It is that part in which the hull of the vessel rests shugly, and probably that is why it is called a cradle. When the time comes for the launch a long row J-ot blocks is built under each side of the ship at an equal distance from the keel blocks, and of the same inclination. Ou these blocks rest first the stationary "wavs.” These consist of broad planks of oak from three to four feet wide, capable of sustaining a weight of from two to two and onehalf tons to the square foot Ou top of these ways are the “sliding ways,” of nearly the same breadth, *** and between the two the tallow is placed. A narrow cleat runs along the edge of the stationary ways so that the sliding ways shall not slip off as they carry the ship along. Above the sliding ways is what is called the “packing.” This consists of pieces of timber packed close against the curving sides of the vessel to hold it firm to the sliding ways beneath. The curves in the hull vary so much that it would be impossible to fit the sliding ways to them, and so, by means of packing, „ the ship is fitted to the ways instead. The packing and the sliding wayscon^ stitute tho cradle, and it is fastened to the ship by stout ropes. Along it* length, at intervals of about eighteen inches, are big wedges, the points of which are inserted between the sliding ways and the packing. A rope about the . thickness of a clothesline runs from wedge to wedge, so that none may be lost when they float into

the water. 0 We are now ready for the launch. Tallow to the thickness of about an inch has been spread between the ways as they were put in position, nearly sixty barrels being1 necessary for a ship like the St. Louis. The cradle sets snugly against the ship’s bottom. The vessel, however, is still resting on the keel blocks. The task now is to transfer the ship from these keel blocks to the launching supports, and to take away the keel blocks. Then, when the weight of the ship rests on the launching ways alone, all that is necessary is to saw away the “sole piece” at the bow, where the stationary and sliding Crays are fastened together, and the ship by her own weight will probably slide into the water. If she needs a start, several “jacks” using hydraulic power are ready beneath the keel to lift her a trifle and give her a Sush.—Franklin Matthews, in St [icholas. _ Seasons in South America. A Philadelphian recently returned from an extended tour of South America tells an interesting story of the queer climatic conditions prevailing in certain parts of the lower half of thia continent. “Of course, it is pretty well known,”- says he, “that while the people north of the equator are suffering the rigors of winter, those people living south of that imaginary line are in the midst of summer, and vice versa. This rule, however, so far as South America is concerned, applies only to the coast, for in the mountains of the interior a peculiar condition of affairs ■exists. Up in the Andes the natives are in the midst of winter when mid•summer prevails on the coast, and when winter reaches the coast it is summer in the mountains. Of course, neither the coast nor mountain winter is very severe, but the distinction between the two seasons is decidedly marked. It is a very remarkable climatic condition.”—Philadelphia Rec--ord.

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HK cold pray sky broods dark on ^ field and hill. The singing children of the woods have fled. The hermit thrush's golden chime Is still. The happy haunters of the crass are dead: The world is hushed with numb November's chill. * But In the spacious farmhouse, lo! the glare Of the hospitable hearth, and on the board * The rich abundance of Thanksgiving fare. The year-long savings of the housewife’s hoard, Aharyest-home, though all the fields are bare. Here sits the graybeard sire, and at his side The youngest of hl3 line, a prattling child: And there the husband by the new-made bride: c And next the low-browed Illy maiden mild. The soldier son, stern-featured, eagle-eyed. From far they come by many parted ways To meet once more beneath the ancient roof, Dear ever with the love of childhood's days: And here again life's severed warp and woof" Are Joined, and time’s swift wing a moment stays. And memory makes the old man young again. He tells the oft-told tale, the outworn Jest. Outdoor the snow falls fast on hill and plain. The distant church-clock tolls the hour of rest, And thanks arc offered Heaven — not in vain. —Charles L,. Hildreth. In Demorest’s Magazine. __

THANKSGIVING. That fields have yielded ample store Of fruit and wheat antfeorn, That nights of restful blessedness Have followed each new morn; That flowers have blossomed by the paths That thread our working; days. <That love has filled us with delight. We offer heartfelt praise. What shall we say of sorrow’s hours. Of hunger and denial. Of tears, and loneliness, and loss, Of long and bitter trial? Oh, in the darkness have not we Seen new, resplendent stars? Have we not learned'some song of faith Within sur prison bars? Hot only for the earth's rich gifts. Strewn thick along our way. Her looks of constant loveliness, i We thank our God to-day; But for the spirit's subtle growth, • The higher, better part, The treasures gathered lr. the soul— The harvest cf the heart. —alary F. Butts, In Youth's Companion.

„ T'S BEEN the 'longest, dreariest year of my life, by all "* odds,” said Miss

Mehetable Brown, dashing1 a stray tear from her faded blue eyes, as she meditatively lifted a huge brown potato from the shining basin whieh she held on her lap and proceeded to pare it. “What with Lindy’sdying and John's I going away to college right here in my I own house; the Green's, that I’d lived beside nigh onto forty years, takin’ it into their heads that they must move into the city and be somebody, and lluth marryin’ as she did and goin’ oft’ as a missionary to Feejie or Hottentot; Samantha Ingols, that I’ve knowed ever since she was Samantha Merrvmather. ; and wore pink calico pinafores to deestriot school, gettin’ the western fever j and settin’ oft' witli'only a week’s notice to take up a claim and fighk Indians way out in Okelhama, or some such i place. Though why she couldn’t be -.content on the neatest little forty acres in all Blair county, that poor Silas slaved so hard for and left her when he died of typhus, is, as I told Eleanor Winner, when we was talkin’ it over at the mite society, the day it met at your house, Mis’ Williams, a my stery to me, and alius will be. For my part I never was one o’ them rovin’ kind, and there ain’t a citizen in all Brownsville that has stuck any closer thanMethetabelBrown for the pact sixty odd years, if I can’t vote and po say it as shouldn’t, vII' j “The Browns never was off that unstable disposition. There )vvas my great grandfather, Ebenezer Brown; he settled on that eighty just^ south of the meetin’ house when there/ wasn’t a white man nearer than fifteen miles. He come to stay and he stayed. When he died my grandfather took the same place and I’ve heard him say hejnever went beyond the county line but once in thirty years, and that was in lookin’ after some stray cattle. Then there was my father, Jacob Brown, no one can say he was any hand to be skylarkin’ over the country. He was one o’ them peaceable, home-lovin’ men, and liked to took a fit when he was subpornied on the jury to Millersburg the time Nat Williams stole them sheep. J“As forLindyand me, you know as well as I do, we ain’t slept outside this house in forty year, exceptin’ the time when Cousin Emily was married, and nothin’ would do but we must go to the weddin’, It was all fuss and flutter. We

never got to bed till near midnight, and 1 like to never closed my eyes to sleep a wink the whole night. Lindy come home next day with a nervous headache that lasted her until Sunday morn in', and she wouldn’t have gone put then only it was communion. Cut. poor girl, she’s sleepin* quiet enough under the snow this winter,” and Miss Mehetalxl drew a long sigh and brushed aside another tear. “As I was savin’. Mis* Williams, what with ull these changes, to say nothin’ of the belfry blow in’ oil the meetin’ house and maUin’ it look so sort o’ squatty, this has ben the longest, dreariest year of all my life. To be sdre 1 ain’t got anything to complain of so far as creature comforts is concerned,” glancing approvingly around the tidy kitchen, and through the open door at the spotless dimity curtains of the best room. “Cut 1 don’t seem to have no livin’ soul to take an interest in, and nobody to take tin interest in me, exceptin’Hover andtheparrot, and they arc both like to die of old ago most any day. “I ain’t got no heart to eat nor work. It used to be so cozy like when Lindy and me was here together, she sett in’ on one side of the table and me the other.. I always poured the tea and she dished* the sauce. Lindy was good eompany—sort o’ cheerful like, even after she took that hackinr'cough that

wasn’t nobody there, bn\ someway Fvi been thinkin* about it ever sincy. Then your cornin’ over this mornin’ and sayI in* the same thing makes it look to me I like an unknown providence. ‘•‘Tildy’s my choice, and if she’ll com© I’ll take her, and she shan't lack for nothin’ as far as this world’s goods go. “If she could only be here by Thanksgiving. But there! I’ve an idee. Why | not have ’em all over here to dinner, and you and Mr. Williams come, too? That would make—let me sec—twelve besides myself. The best china wouldn’t hardly go ’round. But that doesn’t matter. 1 can cat off one o’ them bluo plates just as well. Two turkeys ought to do, with plenty of mince pies and cranberry sauce. I’ve got ’em, too, as fat, sleek turkeys as ever was put on a platter. We could talk it over then, sort o’ quiet, while the children played. It wouldn’t be so lonesome ns to look forward to settin’ down all by myself. I feel more cheery already. But dear, dear how I have run on! It’s quarter to twelve this minute, and these potatoes only half cooked, and you settin’ by ' starvin’ for your dinner.” Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and cold without, but within the snug home of Miss Mehetabel Brown thera was warmth and comfort. This was to be a groat day in her quiet, uneventful life. Preparations had been making for daysJ

“WITH NOIiODY TO CARE FOR *EM.”

proved the death o’ her, as I always said it would if it lasted long enough. “We was only two old maids, Lindy and me, but we was happy ami comfortable. What with the weekly prayermeet in’ rollin' round so often; the mite society and the quarterly meetin’ coinin’ off once in three1 months, and the presidin’ elder stoppin’ with us on account of the preacher always happenin’ to have so many children and bein’ sca’ce o’ spare beds, we hadn’t much time to be lonesome. “But it’s all changed now Lindy’s gone. I turn sort o’ sick and faint when I think of Thnnksgivin’ cornin' on, and I settin’ here and eatin’ turkey and cranberry sauce all by myself,” and Miss Mehetabel, under pretense of rinsing her potatoes, walked to the sink and dried her fast-filling eyes on the snowy towel. , “Mr. Williams and I have thought and talked it all over, Mehetabel,” said the little pastor’s wife, who had sat haif smiling, half sweeping, but at the same time busily stitching away on a child's apron during Miss Mehetabel’s lengthy discourse. “We both think you ought not to live here alone as you have been doing, when there are hundreds of destitute children who need just such love and care as you are able to give.. A child would be a great blessing in your lonely home. Have you ever thought of this, Mehetabel?” “Strange! But do you know I was thinkin’ about that very thing only yesterday. As I was goin’ dowju to the grocery store to buy a pound of tea, I went pass Mis’ Ellis’ old home and there was four o’ them children hangin’ on the rickety ‘gate, with nobody to care for ’em, and their poor mother off doin' washin’ or^scrubbin’, or anything she can turn her hand to—so sort o’ delicate as she is, too. “There wasn’t a better brought up girl in this whole deestrict than Mirandy Walters. That was her nam* before she was married. She was sent away to high school one term, too. But she had a hard row to hoe ever since her poor husband was run over by the steam engine and killed so sudden. 14 always feel like puttin’ my fingers in my ears every time I hear it screech at the crossin’ to this day. “Them children is just as bright as a whip. There’s Tildy, now, next to the oldest girl. They say there ain’t a scholar in the Sunday-school can rei cite verses to beat her, and her eyes shinin' as black as a coal when sho stood up speakin’ a piece at the SundayI school concert. Well, as I was sayin\ as I went by there yesterday and see ’em hangin’ on that rickety gate, so sort o’ forlorn and neglected, somethin’ sort o’ spoke right to me: ‘Mehetabel Brown, you ought to take one o’ them children and give ’em schoolin'. “I turned round sudden, but there

Miss Mehetabel had taken from the upper bureau drawer in the spare bedroom that very morning1 sundry knitted tidies and mats, together with a pair of li ighly-coiored and embroidered pillowshams that never saw the light excepting upon state oec:tsions. These, with a huge beaded pincushion, purchased by Miss Mehetabel's grandmother from a genuine Indian princess, and which , now rested primly upon the old-fash- . ioned dresser, showed that the occasion usual interest. In the snug pantry all was in readi- ! ness. There were rows of mince and j pumpkin pies, tender and toothsome; dainty preserves and jellies all ready to “set on,” while from the oven of tho bright little range in the kitchen proceeded savory odors woudrously suggestive. Miss Mehetabel herself was arrayed in her best brown merino, carefully protected by a neat white apron. % She had hesitated in making her toilet between the ordinary gold breast-pin to fasten her linen collars and a pale green ribbon bow with white lace at the ends, which had been her one piece of ext£ny^ agance at Cousin Emily’s wedding. “It isn’t out of keepin’ with this occasion,” she murmured softly to herself at last, as the balance turned in favor of the latter. “It brightens me up a bit,” and she carefully pinned it on and adjusted the ends. “Thanksgiving only comes once a year at best, and such a one as this but once or twice in a lifetime.” There was a sudden knock at the front door. In walked the preacher and his family, followed by Mrs. Ellis and her little flock, made as presentable as their scanty means would allow. All was excitement and merry tatk, and soon the quiet house rang with the happy laughter of children. Dinner was dispatched by and by, and what a dinner it was, to be cure— never tc be forgotten by certain empty little stomachs. The great matter was talked over after dinner, when they were cozily seated in the snug parlor. It was not all news to Mrs. Ellis, for she had received a gentle hint from the little pastor's j w ife a few days before, and had decided, ! like the brave, sensible woman she was, to hide the pain of the parting in her own heart and think only of the best interests of her bright little girl. It was all settled at last, and the children were called in for a parting hymn and prayer. As they knelt together in the gray winter twilight a deep, quiet joy stole into the desolate heart of Mehetabel Brown. She drew closer to her the little form that knelt beside her, and whispered softly to herself amid her falling tears: “He setteth the solitary in families,’*— Emma Searles Ulrich, in Union Signal,

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