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The Awful Horrors of War
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt, D. D.
After graduating at Jefferson Col-
lege in June, 1869, I spent my vaca-
tion on the farm at Bartonville, Vir-
ginia, on the Winchester Pike, five
miles south of that city to which my
father had removed from his Penn-
sylvania property. It was a decided
change in the aspect of the landscape
from the wooded mountains and lux-
uriant greenery of Pennsylvania to
the wide-spaced Shenandoah Valiey
with its bare gray stretches. The
land had been left naked of fences,
orchards and woods by the war and
the stone fortifications, miles long,
stretched across the valley, passing
through my father’s farm, and the
stone chimneys of the winter camps
were much in evidence. The denuda-
tion of timber served to affect the
precipitation and for seven years,
drought prevailed, adding to the deso-
lation of the war-scathed region. No
one now passing through this or-
chardesque country with its hedges
and covered with fruit trees and wav-
ing crops of wheat and corn could be-
lieve it was the same land. Frequent-
ly in ploughing the fields weapons of
various kinds were turned up. My
little brother, Frank, picked up a pis-
tol of large caliber in which the ram-
rod was jammed. Too rusted to draw
it out, he asked the boy on the farm
what he should do. He told him to put
it into the kitchen stove which he did,
unperceived by the woman engaged
in ironing in the adjoining dining
room. Soon they were frightened by
a terrific explosion in the kitchen.
The ramrod came out of the pistol
but blew out the side and wrecked the
stove. Frequent tragedies occurred
from children picking up shells from
the battlefields. :It was along this
pike Sheridan rode and eye witnesses
related how he met his troops in head-
sessing all the richer families of their
estates and reducing them to penury.
The widow Barton, living in a colo-
nial house, once Washington's head-
quarters in his surveying days, and
just across the pike from my father’s
a close relation of the Bollings, into
which family President Wilson mar-
ried, furnishes an average instance of
how the fortunes of the first families
suffered.
They owned at the outbreak
of the war 3000 acres of the finest
lands in the valley, comprising the
home estate, 8000 acres further south
and 70 slaves. The children were all
educated in France. Her husband in-
vested all his spare money, $75,000 in
Confederate bonds. He died before he
experienced the miseries incident up-
on the issue of the conflict. Her son-
in-law, Colonel Thomas Marshall, son
of the famous constitutional lawyer,
Tom Marshall, had his head blown off
by a shell on an open bridge up the
valley and his body was brought to
her home for sepulture. One son was
killed in the first battle of Winchester.
A second son died at her feet on the
retreat from the second disastrous
battle of Early with Sheridan, not on-
ly from exhaustion but as she weep-
ingly declared, from starvation when
there was not a scrap in the house to
offer him. A third son had his limb
shattered and amputated at the thigh
from which he died a few years after
the war. The bonds proved worth-
less, the lands were swallowed up by
mortgages, the slaves were emancipat-
ed and this fine old, patrician lady re-
duced to privation, but for the filial
devotion of her remaining sons. When
her third son was buried she was with-
out a horse or vehicle to follow his
body to the cemetery at Winchester
and my father proffered his two horses
and carriage for the service which
were thankfylly received. Often have I
weard the widow Barton relating with
emotion and Christian resignation, the
terrible straits to which all were re-
long rout and tinging the whole ex-
panse of country with their blue uni-
forms and cried: out, “Boys, you are
heading the wrong way! About face.”
He rallied them and in leading them
back through Newtin, he noticed the
women from their windows waving
their handkerchiefs in celebration of
the Confederate victory and shouting
their gratification. Sheridan said,
«You need not boast, not a rebel sol-
dier will pass that stream unless dead
or a prisoner.” Needless to say he |
made his word good. :
Just back of my father’s home was!
a circular rise in the ground which |
General Shields, a one-armed veteran
who had also been shot through the
lungs in the Mexican War, occupied
with his small force and fought one
of the most desperately contested bat-
tles of the war with a superior force
under Stonewall Jackson, in which one
third of the men on both sides were
killed and wounded. General Shields
held his ground all day in the face of
repeated charges of Jackson's troops
across the open ground west of Kerns-
town. It was one of the few instances
in the war in which the whole of the
battle was plainly visible to the com-
batants on both” sides.. Stonewall
Jackson, in the night, beat a hasty re-
treat, not daring to put his force to
the hazard of another day's engage-
ment and the little battle of Kerns-
town went down into history as
perhaps the only one in which Stone-
wall Jackson suffered defeat. Stone-
wall Jackson was married to a Miss
Magill, of Winchester, and I had the
pleasure of often sitting at the tables
of his wife’s sisters and at my moth-
er’s table, hearing them relating in-
cidents of those trying times. All
that country was frequently fought
over, Bank’s retreat, Sheridan’s two
battles with Early, have made every
foot of it historical. In the last years
of the war, Sheridan, knowing the val-
ley was the granary of the Confed-
erate army, swept it bare as with the
Besom of Destruction, not leaving a
mill or barn standing nor a hoof of
cattle nor a horse to till the ground.
But for the generosity of the people
of Baltimore, who furnished them
with horses, cattle, seed and utensils
to again cultivate the earth, the “Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse” would
have ridden adown the valley in the
year succeeding the war. Even in my
time the luxury of a carriage was un-
known and I have seen near relations
duced. Nothing seemed to her so hard
to bear as the thought that, while
northern soldiers were fed to reple-
tion, the southern soldiers, her sons
among them, were literally starving
in the last period of the war. Robert
Lindamood, an esteemed laborer on
my farm and an ex-soldier of five
years service in Stonewall Jacksen’s
corps, who related to me that, one
night in the last stages of the war,
after the day’s battle, he was detailed
to stand guard on the picket line and
on returning to camp in the early
morning. happened upon a broken
down and abandoned northern com-
missary wagon loaded with hams. He
thrust his bayonet through one of
them, tied two together with his cart-
ridge belt and swung them over his
shoulder. He concluded by saying
that he was in such a weakened and
famished condition, not having had
anything for weeks to eat but un-
ground Indian corn, that he was not
ashamed to confess that he cried with
! joy all the way back to his tent and
his comrades over the thought that
they would have such a great feast
on the meat. It beat, in his opinion,
the miracle of the quail in the wilder-
ness that time the children of Israel
sickened of manna and called it but
“light food.”
_The Lord of Hosts exacted a ten-
rible recompense for the sin of the
American people. For a hundred
years the north had laid this unction
to its soul saying “Am I my broth-
er’s keeper? And the south quoted
Scripture in defense of its pet insti-
tution. Meanwhile the black man
cried, “Lord, how long, how long?
His only answer was “Vengeance is
mine and I will repay. A thousand
years with the Lord are as one day.”
But at last Doomsday came and for
every lash that ever fell on a black
man’s back, a thousand scourges fell
on a white man’s heart. For every
tear wrung from a black man, rivers
of water flowed down from Northern
and Southern eyes. For every black
family disrupted and torn asunder to
be sent to the cotton and sugar plan-
tations, tens of thousands of white
families were torn asunder and hus-
bands and fathers went forth from
their homes, never to return or be
seen again. For every dollar extract-
‘ed from the unrequited labor of the
enslaved untold millions were exacted
. as a recompense by North and South.
| Ah, me! Let no man say there is not
| a judgment day for men and nations.
of the wife of President Wilson rid- | It is a terrible thing to fall into the
ing, father, mother and daughter, all | hands of an angry God. Yet be it
on one horse. Winchester was the said that though they had suffered
scene of ninety fights in her streets | mightily yet no people could have
and was known to change hands three | been more magnanimous in the hour
times in one day. The Federal offi- | of triumph than the victorious North
cers, having been driven from their {under the wise initiation of Abraham
messtables, the Confederates had not | Lincoln and U. S. Grant. And never
time to devour the ‘edibles before the
Federals were back at them and fin-
ished the meal. Sixteen hundred un-
known Conferedate dead were buried
in one trench at Winchester and thous-
ands of Federals are bivouacked at
their side until the last trump. The
aftermath of the war in that region
was pathetic iin the extreme, dispos-
did so proud spirited a people endure
| 50 nobly the ravages of war and sub-
mit so loyally to its arbitrament so
that at this time no sign of the dread-
ful rent across the middle of the flag
of the Union is perceptible and it is
woven without seam throughout.
Many personages prominent in the
(Civil War were familiar figures on the
streets of Winchester at this period.
I have frequently seen Mason, of
Mason and Slidell fame, Plenipoten-
tiaries of the Confederacy, whose flor-
cible seizure when upon the high seas
in an English vessel almost involved
the United States in a war with Great
Britian. I have also seen in the same
streets, Judge Parker, who presided
over the court at Charlestown that
decided the fate of John Brown. But
the most interesting incident was 2a
conversation of almost an entire morn-
ing in the little inn of Charlestown
with Alexander Hunter, the District
Attorney, who tried John Brown. He
was a tall, clean faced, piercing eyed
lawyer, afterwards Congressman from
his district, widely traveled and a
most interesting conversationalist.
But his hobby seemed to be pomology,
and he was a Thesaurus of informa-
tion upon the origin, habitat and mi-
gration of all the famous varieties of
Virginia apples. But I sought to bring
him back as much as possible to the
John Brown trial. Among other
things, he said the negroes were far
more rapidly informed than the whites
as to the happenings at Harper’s Fer-
ry, that all over Virginia they were in
a fever of excitement and they pos-
sessed some sort of a telepathy or
underground system of electric com-
munication that transmitted the hour-
ly news from Harper’s Ferry to every
cabin in Virginia and further south.
He related that as John Brown was
conveyed from the jail to the court
house, in passing a colored woman in
the double line of spectators, he
stooped down and kissed the babe she
was carrying in her arms. Also le
characterized the effort of Daniel C.
Voorhees, afterwards United States
Senator and dubbed the “tall syca-
more of the Wabash,” as the most elo-
quent and magnificent plea ever
heard in a court of justice. It was
made in behalf of the young brother-
in-law of the Governor of Indiana,
who was implicated with John Brown
in the attack upon Harper’s Ferry.
It was at this time in Virginia, im-
mediately after the Civil War that 1
heard for the first time the words
Ku Klux. It seemed to be an organi-
zation born out of the fears of the
southern whites that the sudden free-
dom of the colored people would de-
generate into license. No doubt in
some instances it was used to intiini-
date the blacks. But the conduct of
the colored people was so exemplary
that it soon died of inanition. Indeed
history has never witnessed such an
instance of a race enslaved for so long
a period, suddenly emancipated and
set adrift barehanded without an
acre or 2 cow to solve the problem of
a livelihood, and who though in many
communities outnumbering the whites
yet without a thought of revenge not
only refrained from all forms of re-
prisal but were singularly free from
every species of crime. Personally 1
can testify that during a residence of
15 years among them, my parents nev-
er thought to lock any door at night
and nothing was ever stolen. Court,
term in Winchester, the calendar was
absolutely free of trials for crimes
and misdeameanors by the colored
population, i faa
That, in ‘this century and at this
date when people are supposed to be
be renewed and its scope enlarged for
the purpose of making capital out of
race hatred and religious bigotry
presents an znomaly which is unex-
plainable save by the benighted
character of the communities in which
it has been most in evidence. Like
the Know Nothing movement it is due
to be asphyxiated in all intelligent
communities. True, its misguided
votaries claim that they are simon-
pure, 100 per cent. Americans. God
save the mark! If all the Ku Klux
from ocean to ocean and lake to gulf
were bunched together they would not
can stands four square upon the Con-
stitution of the United States which
knows no race, no color, no religion,
but guarantees protection of life, lib-
erty and the pursuit ¢f happiness, in
a word, a “square deal” for every hu-
man under the flag. Can any man of
average education be oblivious to the
fact that this country was settled by
colonists from western Europe. Puri-
tans and Quakers, Cavaliers and Cath-
olics from the British Islands, Dutch
from the Low Countries, harried by the
riated from France by the revocution
of the Edict of Naptes and the mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew; Jews, hor-
ribly persecuted in almost every land;
and that all crossed the wide sea hop-
ing to find an asylum in God’s coun-
try, where men should be forever free
to worship God according to the dic-
tates of their own conscience and have
an equal opportunity to earn an hon-
est living. For one hundred and fifty
years, they and their descendants have
enjoyed this inestimable boon and
prospered as no other people upon the
earth. And now perish the mad at-
tempt!; palzied be the hand!; and
blasted be the tongue!; that seeks to
turn the clock of national destiny back
a thousand years and raise again the
banner and preach the revival of race
hatred and religious intolerance which
for ages drenched Europe in blood and
doomed to death hundreds of thous-
ands of whom the world was not
worthy.
“Chew Well to See Well.”
Chew well if you would see well,
urges Sir Arthur Keith, a great Brit-
ish anatomist. Decreased exercise of
the jaws, and not eye strain, is caus-
ing short sight, he claims. Diminish-
ed use of the jaws in masticating the
soft foods of modern diet, he asserts,
is changing the shape of the face,
lengthening the eye sockets, thus
elongating the eyeballs and weaken-
ing vision.—Popular Science Monthly.
Marriage Licenses.
Roy W. Miller, of Bellefonte, and
Viola M. Sayers, of Yarnell.
James Sweezy, of Harrisburg, and
Agnes Misko, of State College.
Ralph Johnstonbaugh, of Howard,
and Eva B. Kunes, of Blanchard.
Allen Fye and Margaret M. Quenot,
of Moshannon. |
enlightened, - this organization should !
make up the one millionth fraction of
an American. A 100 per cent. Ameri-
dragoons of Alva, Huguenots, expat- |
71-16-t£
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Keystone Power Corporation.
The Board of Directors of the Keystone
Power Corporation has declared quarter-
ly dividend of one and three-quarters
(1-%9%) per cent., forthe quarter ending
December 31,1926 payable on the 7% Pre-
ferred Stock of the Company on January
3, 1927 to stockholders of record at the
close of business on December 20, 1926.
79-51-1t C. F. KALP, Treasurer.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
UERNSEYS FOR SALE.—A tine
G Guernsey cow, a heifer and a bull
calf, all eligible to registry. These
animals ure all in good condition and of
A 1 blood that might improve that of any
grade herd. Inquire of Cross and Meek,
Bellefonte, Pa., or phone Bellefonte 520-J
ICTROLA FOR SALE.—Inquire of
Mrs. H. E. Fenlon, North Allegheny
St. Bellefonte 71-49-3t
| DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—Letters
! of administration having been
| granted to the undersigned upor
i the estate of Catherine Gummo, late of
| Ferguson township, deceased, all persons
knowing themselves indebted to same are
requested to make prompt payment, and
those having claims against said estate
must present them, duly authenticated, for
settlement. >
W. Harrison Walker, JOHN C. DUNLAP,
Administrator,
Attorney,
71-49-6t Pine Grove Mills.
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DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—Letters
of administration having been
granted to the undersigned upon
ard Borough, deceased, all persons know-
ing themselves indebted to same are re-
quested to make prompt payment, and
those having claims against said estate
must present them, duly authenticated, for
settlement.
BALSER WEBER,
Administrator,
Howard, Pa.
71-46-6t
W. Harrison Walker,
Attorney.
OTICE IN DIVORCE.—Eleanor E.
N Herman: In the Court of Common
Pleas of Centre County to No. 91
Sept. Term, 1926. Libel in Divorce. To
Harry W. Herman, Respondent. Whereas
Eleanor E. Herman, your wife, has filed
a Libel in the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County praying a divorce from you.
Now you are hereby notified and requir-
ed to appear in the Court on or before the
First Monday in February, 1927, to answer
the complaint of the said Eleanor E. Her-
man, and in default of such appearance
vou will be liable to have a divorce grant-
od in your absence.
2 Sheriff.
71-51-4t BE. R. TAYLOR,
N Harter, vs. Paul Weaver Harter.
In the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County to No. 188 September term,
1926. Divorce, A. V. M.
To:—Paul Weaver Harter, the above-
named Respondent.
Please take notice that an application
for divorce has been made in the above
ene upon’ ‘the allegation that you have
wilfully_and ‘maliciously and without Trea-
! sonable :eause deserted ‘the Libellant.
By reason of your default’ in not enter-
ing your appearance or filing an answer
the case has been referred to me as Mas-
ter.
I have fixed Monday, the 10th day of
January, 1927, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., as
{he time and my office 11 East High
Street in the Borough of Bellefonte, Penn-
sylvanin, as the place for taking testimony
in the case, when and where you may at-
OTICE IN DIVORCE.—Helen Marchie
tend.
JOHN J. BOWER.
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FOR SALE
Sixty select double
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each, with a ninety dollar
Edison Phonograph
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'¥ and in perfect condition)
thrown in, all for the
\¥ first $50 paid in hand at
|¥ Harter’s Music Store.
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Yeager’s Tiny Boot. Shop
Prices on Rubbers
Ladies 4 buckle dress aretics. ...$2.65
Misses 4 buckle dress arctics. ...$2.45
Children’s 4 buckle dress arctics. $2.15
Boy’s Extra Heavy arctics 4
buckle .
Youths 4 buckle extra heavy
arctics
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Mens $4 buckle dress aretics. ...$3:45
Mens extra heavy 4 buckle work
arctics
Mens all rubber Hood brand 4
buckle arctics
We sell good quality Shoes
just as low in price. WHY?
It only costs 63 cents per day
to operate.
Yeager's Tiny Boot Slop
nett BELLEFONTE, PA.
the estate of Abraham Weber, late of How-:
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Dairymen---Notice
FIRE INSURANCE
At a Reduced Rate
7.286m J. Me KEICHLINE, Agent
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A special sale of Mayer's
Dairy Feed—a Ready-
Mixed Ration, 22% protein
$40.00 per Ton
Delivery Charge $2.00 per Load
Frank M. Mayer
BELLEFONTE, PA.
71-11-tf
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Men’s All-Rubber
4-Byckle Artics
Men’s 1-Buckle
$1.98
Heavy Arties $1.95
Children’s Gum Boots
Sizes from 5S to 10%
$1.95
Nittany Shoe Store
High Street
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Fresh Cut Flowers
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Artistically Made Wreaths
Cemetery. Wreaths from $2.00 up
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