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The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-20


The knights listened in eager silence. They
ccald not help being astonished at the extra
ordinary man who had in few minutes
thought out so able method of defence, and
given them such appropriate counsel. Though
they had long known Deconincks high quail
ties, they could scarcely believe that they were
tho endowments of q clothworker, man from
tho olass of the people.
"You have more wisdom than all of us to-
vother, II cried Diederik die vos. " Yes, yes, it
10 SO indeed; We are far stronger than we
thought. Now we turn over a new leaf; and
am inclined to think the French will have
good reason to rue their journey hitherwards."
.'I thank God, who has inspired you with
theSe couusels, Master Deconinck," said the
youthful Count "your good service shall not
lack it's fitting reward. 1 will act on the plan
you have advised; it is most wise aud most
prudent. / hope, Master Breydel, that you
will not fail to supply US with the men whom
yoa have promised"
"EiEbt thousand, did 1 say, most noble
count ~ replied Breydel. "Well, now say
ton thousand. No guildsman nor apprentice
ahaI remain in Bruges; young and old, all
must forth to tho fight. will take care that
the French shall not mako their entry into
Flandera except over our dead bodies, and their
Deans, my friends, will do the same, know
right WE'LL"
HCertainIy, noble lord, }" exclaimed the Deans
with one voice " no man will fail in his dpty,
for all are longing eagerly for the fight"
"Our time 10 too Precions to be consumed in
talking, said Guy. Go now and gather the
Ruildsmen together with what speed you can
in two hours 1 shall DO ready to depart and
will place myself ut the head Of the expedition
in the Friday Markel-place. Go now, L am
}, right well pleased with your zeal and courage
u An then left tho hall. Coy Immediately dis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

as if for spite, the seed generally comes
up, and of course too thick. 1t then has
to be hand-weeded and hoed, which is q
very troublesome operation, especially
on land where labor is already scarce
enough.
The seeds are burr-like and stick to.
gether. Before sowing it should be
mixed with sand and rubbed well through
the hands. This will separate one seed
from the other, and enable them to be
distr1 buted finely and evenly along the
rOws-as in rows and only in that way
should carrots be sown.
In sowing carrot seed the ground
should be very fine. Any Jumps should
be well crushed with the roller and the
whole surface made very smooth. The
seed should not be put in this finely-pal-
verified soil over One-eighth of an inch
deep, and after sowing the ground should
be again rolled. If this can be hit" ex-
actly the seed, if known to be fresh and
good, may be so graded by the drill as
not to fall nearer than an inch together
Every seed will grow, and then will be
quite as thick as they ought to be. The
rows may be about fifteen or sixteen
inches apart, or as close as we may think
any man or horse can work with Guilt
vator. We have a horse and man which
can work rows very well fourteen or fif-
teen inches wide; but it isnot every horse
that will work in that way.-F0rneg's
Weekly Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
My Experience with ArtichOkes.

PLANTED about one-fourth acre with
about one-half bushel cut very small,
dropped in burrows two feet and half
apart and about eleven inches apart in
rows; gave them about the same attention
as potatoes. Early in September | cut
them before frost and used the stalks to
roof my stable, thinking they were good
for nothing else; but found it very diff
cult to keep my horse from eating himself
out doors. He would leave corn and hay
for these stalks. | think I had about fifty
bushels on the one-quarter acre. But
they were quite small, which made it
tedious gathering them. l think they
were too thick. I shall plant again this
year. Top the stalks once or twice in the
course of the season in order to make
them stocky," cut before frost, shock as
corn, when cured stack, and cut them in
machine, mix with bran, steam or cook
them if convenient.
[ think they will furnish large amount
of valuable feed. | think the roots or
tubers will grow all winter, when the
ground is not frozen. Dig in the spring,
or turn your hogs in to dig them for you.
They are choice feed for milk COWS and,
coming as they do early in the spring,
when Succulent food is scarce, help the
yield Of butter.-C0r. Kansas Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
FACTS AND F1GURES.
Gotham uses 1,OOO,O 900 postal cards a

Gotham uses ], 900, 900 postal cards a
month.
in 1912 a paper of pins cost 81.
Utah Territory is free from debt and
has $3.50, 655. At in the treasury.
In 1878 we gave 50, 957,454 to our
universities in the United States.
The number of schools IN Pennsyl-
vania in which the Bible IS READ is over
10000.
st Louis invested s175,OOO in the
Louisville lottery and did not draw
cent.
The Mercantile Library of Brooklyn,
n. Y, has 1905 volumes and $3.50
members.
The funerals of the United States cost
annually 5000, 100000. BY cremation
they would cost $5,00O,O00. -.---
Boston is valued at $500, 900, 900, but
if you had the cash you might get
thousand or so off for ready pay.
Michigan has $500 miles of com
pleted railroad. All but tour OF the roads
are supplied with air-brahes.
The New Orleans Picayatne estimates
that. since 1870, 100, 900 negroes have
gone to Texas, and 100000 whites.
Rochester has 165 school teachers.
The running expenses OF ihe BOARD OF
Education were S252, 6520 last year.
Eastern Oregon claims 12,0O0 inhab-
itants and $6,OO0,000 worth OF property,
and pays an annual State tax OF $4,000.
There are 10 Oranges organ.ze and
in working order in the State OF oregon,
and twenty four in Washington Territory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Fires on Earnss

PUTTING a lock on the stable door after
the horse is stolen has been practiced so
long that it finds place in the catalogue
Of wise old sayings. Getting fire engine
after the village has burned up is another
quite common practice. AS only children
once burned fear fire, 50, as a rule, only
those who have been burned out once
prepare safeguards against fires, or have
any cOnveniences in case of emergency.
Owing to the care of farmers and the fact
that they ordinarily own the houses they
live in, fewer fires originate in farm
buildings than in those situated in towns.
Still the number Of instances where the
fire makes a clean sweep is much greater
in the country than in the city. This is
due to the fact that from the nature of
things a public fire department cannot
be maintained in the country, and to the
additional fact that there are few or
no private facilities for putting out fires.
The instances are rare where there are
ladders that can reach the roof of the
house, or any that can be adjusted to the
roof, over which water can be carried.
Few farm houses are supplied with chem
ical fire eXtinguishers, hose or force
pump. The instances are rare where
there is suitable supply of buckets in
which to carry sufficient water to extin-
guish even an incipient fire. The supply
of water is often at an inconvenient dis
lance, having to be drawn from deep
well or dipped from a spring. In other
cases it is inconveniently near the burn
ing building, in a cistern under or beside
it, so that the heat of the fire will prevent
approach. 1t is not wonderful then that
fire once started increases till the build
ing and its contents are consumed. An
other unfavOrable circumstance is, that
during large portion of the year the
"men folks" are liable to be away from
the house at work in the field, and no one
at home but women and children.
Now that the carrying Of watches has
become general among farmers the cOnch
shell and tin horn are scarcely ever used
for calling men from the fields to their
meals. Hence few farm houses contain
anything by means of which a loud CRY
for assistance could be made. Would It
not be well, in addition to providing farm
houses with ladders, buckets and other
appliances for extinguishing fires, to also
provide tin horns to be blown in case of
fires or other events requiring aid? By a
little practice person can learn to make
sounds distinctive from those designed at
a call for dinner. AS the farmers Of near
" every neighbOrhoOd now meet for
counsel in Grange or Club room, they
could agree on a signal in case of fire or
other accident requiring assistance. By
an arrangement OF this kind many per-
sons could be called in a few minutes.
The saving Of one building would more
than pay for the outfit of tin horns for an
entire countY.-Prairse Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
1t is estimated that 100000 raccoons

1t is estimated that 100000 raccoons
and 10000 offers are yearly caught and
killed for their fur in this country.
The smallest estimate of the Califor-
MIA grain crop for the present year places
it at 100000 bushels.
Nevada is the smallest Of the States
in population but she has a very able
State prison, with 1875 convicts in 1t.
During the forty-seven years of its
history the total receipts of the American
Home Missionary Society have been Sc
100000, and it has been instrumental in
adding 228, $50 members to the churches.
The production of wool in the United
States during the last four years is thus
set down by the Commercial Bulletin: In
1870. 125,O00,000 pounds; 1871, IL, 100000
pounds; 1872, 135,000,000 pounds; 1873,
las, 5OO,0 600 pounds.
The production of lumber last year
on the upper Mississippi and its tribu-
taries is estimated at 1882, 1853, 620 feet,
both logs and lumber being included.
The supply of logs on hand for the season
of 1874 is estimated at 315, 100000 feet.
1t is estimated on good data that in
New York city there are at least 600 pol
lev shops, 600 lottery dealers and about
100 gambling saloons, and the money
taken in at all these places is nearly $780,
600 per day, the larger portion being clear
profit or gained by swindling.
-Vatel's Veterinary Pathology gives
the following as the number Of pulsations
in a minute, in state Of health, in the
undermentiOned animals:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Carrots for Horses.

People who keep horses on hay or
grain only all through the long winter
have no idea how thankful they are for a
little succulent, juicy, vegetable matter
occasionally, and how much they thrive
on it. No one who has ever tried to favor
horse with a little delicacy Of this
kind once would ever give up the prac-
tice.
OF all these vegetable substances there
is nothing which horse seems to relish
so much as the carrot. It is the sign OF a
good healthy horse to shed his coat early
and freely in spring, and to have rich
glossy one to follow soon in its place; and
this an occasional winter mess of carrots
seems to favor.
It is rather troublesome to grow carrots.
Most people who do not know how to
SOW seeds put them in o deep that many
rot, and of course the crop is thin. To
guard against this loss they SOW double
or treble the quantity required, and then,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.
BY u. CLAY PREUsS.


For pleasure or pain. for veal or for woe,
ATS the law of our being-we reap what we SOW.
We may try TO eyade them-may do what we
But our acts like our shadows, will follow us still
The world is q wonderful chemist, be sure,
and detects in a moment the base or the pure;
We may boast of our claims to genius or birth,
aut the world takes q man for just what he's
worth.
We start in the race for fortune or fame,
and then when we fail the world bears the blame;
But nine times in ten, tits plain to be seen,
There's a s'sCreW somewhere loose" in the human
machine.
Are you wearied and worn in this hard earthly
no Won u Vearn for affection to sweeten your lfeg
Remember this great truth has often been proved
we must make Ourselves tOuG6te would we be
loved.
Tho, life may appear as a desolate track,
Yet the bread that we cast on the waters comes
rg,bis law was enacted by Heaven above,
that like attracts like and love begets love.
we are proud Of our mansions of mortar and
stone,
IN our gardens are flowers from every zone;
Puf the beautiful graCes that blossom within
crow shriveled and die In the UpGS OF sin.
We make ourselves heroes and martyrs for gold
rTilI health becomes broken and youth becomes
Ant did we the same for beautiful love,
Qur lives might be music for angels above.
W. gegD qgEat zoe sO1g-oh. wonderful TRUTH
4 truth hard TO learn in the days of our youth;
But at last it shines out as 1.-THE hand on the
vor the world has its debit and credit for all.
Industrial Age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
A NOn-Patented TaiI-HOlder.

THE best, cheapest, and in every re-
spect the most convenient COW tail holder
is to hold the hair Of the tail in the bend
of the mixers leg back of the knee, as
he sits on the milking stool. The writer
owns COW that is an incessant swItcher
when she is being MIXED. If the tail is
not held she will bring it around gently,
and with the accuracy Of clockwork drop
the long, bushy appendage directly in
the milk pail. When her calf is wont to
suck, as we'll as when she is milking, this
caudal appendage is in gentle motion.
When her mixer takes his seat on the
stool to relieve her distended udder of
the rich and fragrant milk the first thing
is to secure the end of the long switcher
beneath his knee. This manner of hold
ing the tail while the COW is being MIXED
is far better than to tie the end to the
cows leg, as there will then be no tying
nor loosening. 1t is far superior to any
and every tail-holding device that is pro-
tected by letters patent. 1t costs no pat
ent right royalty, and is always athand
and in working order.-N. 7. Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
A Convenient Way to Measure Land.

It is frequently desirable to measure a
given plat of ground or a portion of a
field, and simple method, such as the
following, for which we are indebted TO
an exchange, will be of use to many of
our readers. Surveyors are not always at
a convenient distance to attend to such
little Jobs, and even when they do reside
in the immediate vicinity one does not
always care to incur the expense incident
to such a small job. If the lines are
already established the plat can be
measured with sufficient accuracy for all
practical purposes by means ola neat rod
pole, made as follows: Procure a stick of
pine, white wood, Eastwood, or almost
any other timber, one and a half inches
square and sixteen and One-half feet long.
Dress each end, tapering from the mid
die, so that the pole Will be one and a
half inches square at the middle and
about half an inch square at each end.
Such pole will be light and quite stiff
Now graduate one side with the marks
representing feet and inches, and graduate
another side to indicate a surveyors
links. a pole one rod in length must be
equal to twenty-five links. To divide one
side correctly let mechanics compass
be adjusted so that the points will divide
the distance into twenty-five equal spaces
or links A line can be measured with
such pole nearly as accurately as with a
surveyors chain.
Now, then, if a person does not under
stand how to multiply chains and links,
let him compute the measurement by
square feet. In one acre there are 43, $3.50
square feet. Any intelligent schooLboy
can measure the length and breadth of a
square plat multiply the one by the other,
and divide the product by 1850, which
will give the number Of acres and the
number of square feet representing the
fraction of an acre. If it is desirable to
measure a triangular plat, two sides of
which lie at right angles, measure these
two sides, multiply the distance in feet
one by the other, and divide that product
by two, which will indicate the number
Of square feet, by 1850, and the quotient
will represent the number of acres
Phreu0L0g5caL Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
The Brothers.

Henry and Arthur were brothers. Hen
~ was the elder and thought he was
much the wiser. He would often scold
Arthur for meddling with his playthings,
and sometimes would go off and play
without letting Arthur know where he
was going.
All this was very selfish on Henry's
part; and at length he grew to be much
ashamed of it; for Arthur fell sick, and
it was feared he would not live. How
wretched poor Henry was when he
learned this! He thought over all his I'm
kind acts toward his younger brother
and regretted them most keenly.
Only let my dear brother get well,
heavenly Father" said he one night, in
his prayer, and | will try to behave bet
ter. will give up to him when we both
want thing; and I will do all | can to
make him happy"
Wen, Arthur recovered. and became
strong again; and Henry, I am Glad to
say, did not forget his good resolutions
He was now eager to share all his lows
with Arthur; and oh, how much HAMMER
he was than before! If there was anv
sport going on he could not be hapnv mn.
less Arthur was present to enjoy it with
him.
One day Henry had a little sail-boat
given to him. What did he do but go to
the toy-store and buy another one like if
to give to Arthur; and then he flied a
tub with water and showed Arthur how
to make the boat move by blowing on the
sail.
1 hope my little readers will not have
to wait till brother falls sick before thew
learn how much they love him. The bes
way is to be kind and loving and unset
fish noao. If we would be happy ourselves
we must try to make others happy; and
kindness ought to begin at home.
Initiate the turtle-dOves: instead OF
Quarreling, they coo at each other, as
much as to say, Il love you"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

THE Alabama State Journal says: " AS
q freight train on the South s. North
Railroad was going through a cut thirty
feet deep and twenty-five wide, yesterday,
up near Sand Mountain, hunter, with a
pack of dogs, was running five deer
toward the cut; four of the deer cleared
the cut with a bound, but the fifth one
landed on top of freight car, and one of
his feet caught on the gang plank on top
of the car. A brakeman, seeing it, ran
from another car, caught the leer by the
horns, and cut his throat with his pocket
knife. This beats all the deer stories we
ever did hear, but is vouched for by Capt
Whitfield. Next"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
POtatO-Bugs.

On the 10Th of July last Mr.. Michael
Collins, while engaged in digging pota-
toes on the farm of I. TAFT, Esq, captured
a number of potato bugs and put them in
an empty bottle, closing the mouth to pre-
vent their escape. He placed the bottle
by post on the ground, making the re-
mark that he would ascertain chow long
the critters would live, anyhow" The
summer passed away and the winter fol-
lowed, bringing no thought of the incar-
cerated bugs. Last week, in passing, Mr..
Collins observed the bottle and, picked it
up. 1t contained the intact though mo-
tionless forms of the pOtato-top destroyers.
In the caprice of the moment he took the
bottle to the house and held it over the
fire. Immense was his establishment on
perceiving the bugs take to themselves
legs and walk In few moments the in
terror of the bottle was writhing mass
of Colorados. Eight months without food,
exposed to the extremes of summer and
winter, and still living. This statement
is fully vouched for and shows what a foe
farmers and potatoes have to contend
against.-JOEGet (IJl.) Signal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Mr.. ARCHEY MCKIssIoK, of Rockdale, Pa,
in writing to DR.. Wishart, says: "My son
was pronounced incurable with consumption,
but hearing of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial we
purchased three bottles and he commenced
using it, and from that day to this he has been
getting Well'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
40 PATS KILLED

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

RAGGED STOCKINGS and protruding toes are
not seen on feet where SILVER TIPS are
worn. Parents remember this, they last twice
as long
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

The gross earnings of the Chicago So
Northwestern Railway for the year 1878
are announced as $13,816,465. This
shows a decided increase over former
years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

THERE is a large willow tree at Box
ford, Mass, a hundred years old, which
has grown from cane casually stuck in
the ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

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