The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-16

ago, ana pernhpS many VINO were uctiudinUeu
now, # they chance to see this. His name was Z
Johnny-what else, I never heard. :
He must have been Il brave lad, for he left
his home in far-off Germany at the early age of
sixteen He left his father and mother to wait
until lie could send them money to come to
hinl-to free and bountiful America. he was
n happy fellow. for he was receiving the SUN
of eight SdoiI:ffs per month and board, and {
when he had learned n little more about his
business he could have still higher wages, the
most of which he could save, to send his father
and mother His expenses should be very few
indeed till they should come.
I So he want cheeffutl s. abesh lGs Work, often
enlivening it with a song, and never was gayer
than on the morning when the threshers were
sG% sst + s5e a ~ asSfH 's 9a
every word and act, but how; eyentful it was to
be he did not KNOWLES ffa kilaW well enough he
would what he had never seen before, for
the fail welded by strong man, was the ma
tchine used in the humhle district where lie was
born to shell out the crops Of grain. Here was
something wonderful, and he had soon learneti
4 from the hands, WHO i2aHred ms eheeriuii
! alacrity in running tuand- no on crrands, much
tof the wonderful machine, with its many curl ]
ouss sslaeals and rolling hands. How stranGeaitS
/ looked to sec that wonderful pile OF wheelslE
\ with four great beams running out from them,
Il and no the end of each aspan of strong ferses,
4 which kent going round and foandy urged on
4 by the driver, who stood in the middle and just
4 above the pile of wheels and yet never got his
fleet entangled, he couldn,t just see why.
II Perhaps it might be great a mystery to
) many city born and bred who may read this
y sketch as it was to him. bow that one small
rod over which the horses stepped could pos
Fsibly keep the machine going, making such
, noise, and doing such executions. How the
threshers work, aud how they stuff. down the
bundles Of grain out of sight, feeding it all day
as if it were spnie hungry animal. II hat Is all
Johnny knew of how it worked, save that he
I saw the grair, poiffing out ON one side all free
from chat aaa stray and when be looked to
. cloud of chaf eblown from the tarthest part OF
the machine, and the stray like living thing
falling down to the ground. He couldn't see
~ why it should go up so high, and he never
: knew One thing he-thought, as he saw how
= many men gathered to do the work. that if all
Ii of them could be set to work with his fathers
! machine and the horses should all go tramping
= grain, they would be able to thresh nearly as
,. much as they could with the machine, but IT
n would not be winnQwed. so easily or 40 nicely
II !, The grain was standing in stacks out of doors
and the usens were pitching the bundles on Z
!. cerammed down ~ the strong arms Of tn
Il feeder. $3.50,
= | stack and there being no more IueR to spare
Johnny must go. They did not stop the ma
Il chine but Stopped throwing down bnhdle
he and feeding, and nimbly johnny climbed t
- the platform where he was told to go, and fror
m there up the steep side of the stack, the teede
~ watching him to see he did not fall into tn
terrible jaws beneath, and a man from aooy
ng reached over tire side of the stack TO grasp tn
e. hand and help him up: The feeder though
ut the man had grasped his hand, and that ne wa
Ga and
ke SUI fr an nnruIy span of horses, which migl
49, ~ fr;ght at the sight. and run as they fr
ov ,aDtit did inst at that instant the hoy can
ii 9 H. baJ missed the ontsfretcheIf ham
a@S lost his I hold, and had fallen at just ii
rot Nor mt when the man who could have save
.t mn otber wpT, the machine making such
GA noise be could hear the rustic of the stra
aiS In ms laillnS e s+rono arm "a one TO
Of .rncl firmly on the platform or had he know
,r W lis danger a single spring forward would ha
7ry ms u9 M bnt an unconscious of the gre
sISsu Mn az &c +arriIie teeth inst below hi
rk- s ,otfe NO effort to save himself, but let t
go other foot 90 right down, where the rcvolvi
;no o,.I;ner drew him farther and farther dow
.S oS 49, ino,d ,hont 10 swallow him I'M entire
aas s3s
CD, 5 sII - n,,IT,s1 +T,-ft tI1r-nfure-- "
the r. tn machine stoppcd d
S Sei.s fToSr Who saw him falling did all til
ing could could to stop it Immediately. but they said
a' f i had NOT been for he monstrous boot
Nd we're. too thick for any.maw: