The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-08
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Sn1h IN" nway W ;" a,,a men or ,,s, ," "'o 1n
hind YOU. This requires decision.
If'Tom and Harry tempt Won to run
away from school, or 90 where YOU ought
not to 90, and YOU reply in an undecided
way. II guess not,-perhaps it is not best.
Il rather think I'd better not" YOU are
Tom and Harry's bob. They have YOU,
sure. If a boy is undecided. he is lost.
But it. when they make such proposition
to you YOU saw mo sir" land think YOU
might be pardoned for saving mo, sir-ee")
and turn away. whv. then YOU are safe
and neither Tom nor Harry nor Satan has
the least hold unon YOU. A bow who is
undecided in his moral character, in his
sports. and. when he grows up, in his bus
mess, floats. drifts. along to sure destruc-
ton for any craft which drifts is doom
ed
ANY of Won who understand machinery
know what if is when an engine IS on a
"dead centre" Let me explain to those
who do not understand. When the walk
ing.beam of a steam-eugiue has lifted the
crank to its highest point or depressed it
to its lowest that uoipt is called the dead
centre" If the crank swings over, as it
usually does, then the rod goes down from
the highest point and IN from the lowest
but sometimes, when an engine is going
slowly, the crank does not swing past the
centre and then. as the niston presses
straight down or draws straight up. does
not tend to turn the crank as it does when
in auy other positiop. the engine stops, and
the crank has to be swung over the cen
ire by hand,
Now this " dead centre is in all en-
gine lust what indecision is in n boy or
man. The crank moves slowly. and
without force enough to carry it over
that point it is undecided which way to
90. and it stops. and, till it can be
Started nv extraneous force, the boat is
at the mercy of the wind and waves
If a bows mind moves slowly and in an
undecided manner his moral force
his engine. cets on n - dead centre, g"
and awev II foots down stream.
was once standin, on tbe dock in one
Of our seanort towns watching a large
steamer getting under way. The current
was running swiftly by the wharf. and the
river full Of large shippipg. The steamer
cast off ard swing ont into the stream :
the engine made three or four revolutions,
and then stopped.
The pilot sounded the bell in the en-.
pine.room to 90 ahead, but it was not en-
swered the boat drifted swiftly. and in
a moment crash II went AGAINST shin.
and carried away her rigging, around the
bowsprit then smash into an other steam
boat, and made wreck of her wheel
house, and very badly damaged herself
The pilot was frantic with rage at what
he deemed the stupidity of the engineer.
the officers OF the craft were loudly ours
ing the stupidity OF the pilot, ana mere
} was great running to and iro OF all
J hands when the pilot was told by the ell,
, gineer that his engine was on dead
centre" and until the crank was pushed
this time the boat had drifted long way
and was almost a wreck, indeed so badly
damaged that she could not 20 on her
, voyage, and in her drifting she had Grip
, pled several other crafts. The only rem
! edv was to down anchor, which the pilot
! did as soon as he saw the engine was use.
less But il was too late. The damage
done. and the boat was afterward hauled
! off for repairs.
! now, boys make the application don't
, wreck Yourself and others by indecision