The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-28
How They Parted.


| without speaking. Then he got up
and walked around him, and finally
asked:
"Going to church anywhere to-
day?'
mo-
"Any funeral around here any
! where?''
NO.
expect Queen Victoria here to
visit you to.day?"
mo-"
! The Pike County man turned
away and prepared his breakfast
| without another word. When he
| had finished it he went out and sat
down on rock and looked straight at
the hills for an hour. Then he went
back to the shanty and said:
| Jim, are you going. to do this reg
ular every Sunday!'
! "Why, I like to clean mp 4 little ut
the end of the week.
dispose you wouldn't help get up
a mule-race on Sunday?'
| ':Well, hardly"
Nor dog fight -
! "No.',
And you wouldn't make it a
for old sledge and poker?"
| Mot if could do better.
Jim you and me must part,
quietly observed the Missourian, as
he began picking mp his things.
No! What's the matter p
. You ain t no such man as can tie
up to. We'd quarrel in no Time
| About what -
| ''Abont billed shirts and clean
clothes, and churches. and lots Of other
things, JIM
| "Ycs.'
::Gimme s25 for my share Of Twin
Lakes, and I'll walk
.: I Wouldn't
in your way, and can't tumble to it.
| We can part friends now, but if was
here next Sunday and you refused to
| play game OF seven-up with me we
should part enemies.
He got his things ready. and the
two walked up the Leadville trail to.
| gether for a mile. Then they halted.
and the D:troiter said
| "Old pard, it makes me lonesome
And here, too"
And you won't go back 2
IL can't. can tie to most anything
but 4 man who puts on Sunday clothes.
Pardrer. good-byr'
"Good.by. old man, and luck 90
with you.'
And they turned their backs on each
other and walked away without an.
other word, one to build up his lone
town and the other to find exemption
from white shirts and Il clean shave.
The Arctic Relief Steamer.
The steam whaler which has been
purchased by the Navy Department
for the special expedition in search
! of the Jeanette and several San
Francisco whaling vessels supposed
to be lost or disabled in the Arctic
| regions, was built originally for
Captain William Lewis and others,
in tie summer of 1870, by Goss,
Sawyer & Packard, at Bath, Me-,
under the supervision of Captain
Lewis and Abram Chase, master
mechanic of thirty years. experience
in building and repairing whalers.
She was purposely built for the Arctic
Ocean, and in the construction great
care was taken to have her strong in
every part. She was sheathed with
211a-inch oak plank on bows and waist,
from forechains to stern. Her tim
bers are but one inch apart. size 8
inches at the rail and ii inches at
the breech. Her planking is 6 inches
white oak, and her ceiling is 6 inches
yellow pine forward of forechains,
and S inches aft of forechains. She
has four sets of pointers 20 feet long
and framed across with ten-inch
yellow pine and kneed-in. She is
solid wood from her stern ten feet in.
Her engines and boilers were built by
c. II. Delamater & Co., of New York
! City, and are $50 horsepower. The
propeller has a brass screw, and she
~ furnished with two donkey engines
| ihforecastle geared to windlass to pick
up her anchors, etc.
Between decks, all same as water
ways on deck. she has several l3-inch
yellow pine timbers bolted together
to strengthen her, making a thick
ness of 28 inches from the ceiling in.
Her lower masts are of yellow pine,
and all above Oregon spars, rugged
with the best of New Bedford cord.
age. She sailed from New Bedford
as a whaler on the 9th of September,
1879, reached the Arctic about the
first of June, 1880, and arrived at San
Francisco on the 10th Of October,
following. She has wintered the last
three months at San Francisco and
been thoroughly overhauled, and was
all ready to sail for the Arctic again
when the government chose and
bought her for the Arctic search.