VOL. LXXII.
BARNETT A (COWARD
Deno
ced by His Own Men as a
Skulker,
CHS ERY SOLDER QUALITY.
Opinions of Several of the Tenth Boys
Who Saw Him at the Rear, But
Never in Front of Battle,
The Philadelphia Record correspond-
ent visited Waynesburg and inter-
viewed a number of the Tenth regi-
ment boys, securing enough unfavor-
able reports of “Long Distance Jim-
my,” as Barnett is called, to fill many
columns, Following are some ex-
tracts:
“Where the —— is Lieutenant Colo-
dyke fame? Where
in the rear?’ Hayes adds:
had a reputation for ‘cold footedness.'
which means cowardice, But for Pop
Hawkins I can't guess what would
have become of the Tenth. 1 never
knew Barnett to do a brave act. The |
men could have almost killed him for |
his tyrannical tin soldier treatment of |
them at C vite, when Hawkins had |
EOone sick to the hospital, and the lian.
tenant colonel persisted in tin soldier
drilling of the few
t wit or sick, after they had return- |
ima campaigning and were waiting |
nbark for home.”
HIDES BEHIND A MOUND.
One of the many battlefield
dents that had caused this
against Barnett is related by
John E. Clark,
"When we were crossing
railroad bridge at Guiguinto,” he Says,
“the Filipinos opened fire on us from
| the woods, hundreds of yards ahead.
| Our fellows on line of scouts up |
there dropped to earth. Major Bierer
of the Tenth, was the first offi
saw at the front, bu
would he be but
ed
to er
incl
feeling
a
¥
of this
the
the
cer
i
I
nel Barnett?” exclaimed Colonel Haw- !
Kins, of the Tenth regiment, mopping
his face, overheated by leading his men {
in the thickest of the battle at Gui- |
guinto, in tne Philippines.
“In the rear, as always, behind a rice |
dyke,” answered some of his men, |
whose only rebuke from the com- |
mander was a grim smile. But pres- |
ently he shouted to William T. Hayes, i
of Waynesburg, and others:
— him; go find him and tell him |
to come up!” i
Members of Barnett's regiment tes- |
tify to these and similar outbreaks of |
the commander's justifiable anger on |
occasions of the leutgnant colonel’s |
alleged skulking when he wasneeded tc
help Hawkins in forming lines or ad
vancing on the Filipinos. “1 declare
most positively,” a Tenth man,
“Barnett did not come near the Gui- |
guinto firing line until all was over, |
and many others in different compan
ie8 Know this as well and they
say so, although generally, from vari-
ous motiy policy, they do not go
iato print present.”
RICE DYKE JIMMY.
won says Private
Crouse, of Waynesburg, “that
Pittsburg, upon our return
ception, the Tenth's boys exclaimed in
the streets: Hello! Here Rice |
Dyke Jimmy. Look out for the long |
range gun!”
Crouse adds: “I've been
Republican, but I wouldn't for |
that skulker, Barnett, He lacks every
soldierly quality. No Republican
dier und here will vote for
if I can help it. I see that some
claim for him 200 of the 300
the regiment. I do not bel
will vote for him, and will
constrained by what they are deluded |
into regarding as loyalty to the party, |
just as if the welfare of the party de-
pended upon a coward’s political fate
ACCUSERS CORROBORATED. |
Company K men, of Waynesburg, al- |
though part of Barnett's battalion, |
censure him as severely as Company
1, of Greensburg, who tell of their see- |
ing him lying well protected in the
“Buffalo wallow,” near Guiguinto rail
road bridge, some hundreds of yards |
in the rear of where Hawkins and
Major Bierer were forming the firing
line at the fight's beginning.
pany I men say all the rest of the regi- |
ment were ahead of them when they |
passed “the crouching lieutenant colo- |
nel.” !
Company K men's stories, particy- |
lary that of William T. Hayes, who |
was detailed to the hospital corps, fit |
into the narrative of Private John E.
Clark, of Washington, who describes
his helping to carry wounded and a |
dying man of the Tenth far to the
rear, where he saw Barnett “lying
low behind a mound while Hawkins
and Bierer, the latter being commander
of the other battalion, were in the hot-
test of the conflict, which ended a
quarter of an hour later without the
lieutenant colonel’s appearance.” The )
following statement is made by one of |
the soldiers, a prominent professional
man, as to the opening of Guiguinto's
battle, about 40 miles from Manila:
BOYS DENOUNCED FOR SKULKING.
“We were ambushed about 6 o'clock
p. m., March 28 or 20. As we filed |
across the railroad bridge the Fili- i
pinos opened fire from the thicket some | i
i
says
as I do,
8 Of
at
“No der,” Albers
even In
for the re- |
Comes
e
a lifelong |
v ote
801- |
him
men |
in
feve that 50 |
arc
Yoles
they be
#
Com- |
hundreds of yards ahead. Before reach- |
ing the bridge we saw Barnett standing |
and watching the opposite side, where
the insurgents were supposed to be, |
saw no more of Barnett after that dur-
ing the fight, but I heard many of the
boys denouncing his disappearance
when Hawkins, who was at he front,
with bullets whistiing around him,
needed help in forming the line. The
boys didn’t have much respect for Bar-
nett after that day, which inspired the
song about ‘long range, rice dyke Jim-
my,’ although it was not the first en-
gagement which they accused him of
avoiding in the shelter of rice dykes
far to the rear.
“The boys told me Barnett was lying
behind a rice dyke in the rear, with
two privates, whom Company I men or
others heard him order to look up and
see where “the niggers were,” or what
they were doing. In a previous en-
gagement, at De La Loma Church, 1
think, when in a like comfortable po
sition, the boys sald that he made a
similar request for a reconnaisance
in his behalf, and one feilow exclaim-
ed: ‘Let the —— wu look up himself.’
After the Filipinos retreated we camp-
ed there that night, but I did not ses
Barnett until the next day, although
the boys were joking over his reap-
pearance jus. after the fight.”
BARNETT A TIN SOLDIER.
Private Albert T. Hayes corroborates
the story of the Inquiries of a person
on a tugboat beside the transport
Senator, in San Francisco
“Colonel Jim,” and
.
t very soon Co
Hawkins was there form t
THIS TIME IT WAS A
“After carry
ing off
ed man of Company C
y
ng
MOL?
hie
fi
a 8
I rety
Taylor, of this town,
three days afterward.
back to a sort of scoope
place among the rice
that moment was 40 or
of the firing line. To the
only about 15 or feet
protected behind a mound
Colonel Barnett and one or
men.
“Barnett had his tittle o
but was not using He
nothing but Iving Hav
Bierer were at the
thing The fight
when Barnett lay beh
which was five or six
and perhaps four feet
1 out,
dy Res,
50 ya
943
iwWo other
fh
it,
low
front
was at
ind
hi >
EDITORIAL NOTES
day, fi
Thousa;
Next election re a
d
Tuesday,
Admiral Dewey is
=O0n
Hoe
MeL oni
of General
R.
the Democratic eandidate for Gove
or of Ohio, and has her
rh
home in Moe
and will con-
hls
on the
the better of the British
tinue victorious until the Englis
now wav, |
be a crusher for the
fil-
superintend
If competent and en-
right.
In tests at sea of the Marconi
tern of wireless telegraphy,
Record, conducted under the
In Towa there are eleven women
ling the office of county
we say,
EBV Ss
by experts on the
cruiser New York aod the battles
Massachusetts, uninterrupted commu
nication was maintained between
t hey were
highly satisfactory.
Ounly ten soldiers, out of 800 in Bar.
neti's regiment, the 10th, could be
induced to sign a paper endorsing his
| conduet of hiding when his regiment
was in battle, That should settle Bar-
vett’s doom with every friend of the
flag, on Tuesday.
cs A MY tls
BRITISH SURRENDER T0 BOERS,
Two thousand British troops, with
eight mountain guns, after desperatels
defending themselves, have been cap-
The British
the Boer
and 1000 men.
This column
losses not known, but
loss is between 900
was
on Sunday dis
smith to protect his left flank in the
battle of Monday.
They took position on a hill, at some
distance from Ladysmith, and were
surrounded by the Boers. A severe
battle ensued, by which both sides lost
heavily.
Joubert had set the trap, and the
British were lured into it, surrounded
and capitulated.
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Winter Exenrsion Tickets.
On November 1 the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will place on sale
at ita principal ticket offices excursion
tickets to all prominent Winter resorts
in New Jersey, Virginia, North and
Bouth Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and
Cuba. The ticketa will be sold at the
usual low rates, with the usual liberal
return limits,
The magnificent facilities of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, with its many
connections and through train service,
make this the favorite line for winter
travel.
An illustrated book, descriptive of
Winter resorts, and giving routes of
travel and rates for tickets, will be fur.
nished free after November 1 on appli-
eation to ticket agesita,
Married.
Sunday evening, Oct, 22, at the home
of the brides’ sister, Mrs. Seott Decker,
Mr. Franklin Hirman, of Mingoville,
and Miss Nancy Vonada, of ing
Mills, were united in matriage by Rev,
J Rearick.
FREEMEN, TO THE POLLS!
7th, is election day
{ Every Freeman should go to the polls,
Tuesday next,
Duty to the Natjon, duty to the State,
{and duty to the County, demands that
every taxpayer, by his vote, shall ex-
wess his approval, or disapproval,
LJ
men and measures that affect every in-
{ habitant of the land, profitably for the
j few |
{ majority.
| The Truts are impoverishing the |
people as all are already beginning to
i feel, These gigantic sharks are freez-
ling out all the smaller industrial es-
| monopolize by centering all in their
own robbing, greedy grasp, to make of
its members millionaires and multi
millionaires, The Trusts are, as all
| know already feel, putting up
all necessaries to enormously
by the
is the sole cause of the
and
pri oH of
Re
{high figures. Legislation
| Trusts, it has given them the mantle
of protection,
Voter, if you approve of these Trusts
then vote the Republican ticket. If
vote the Democratic ticket,
party pledged to crush
| Freeman,
it being the
Trusts.
Our State,
| aware, has been shamefully
ithe Quay
| been used for private
| The
Hew
all are
robbed by
Its funds
stock
has
offices with
for many years, as
machive, have
specula-
created
bigh
| ries, and almost doubled the salaries of
the old offices, The
| unlawfully deprived of a million dol-
by There
many similar flagrant wrongs,
tions, machine a
horde of “nin
school fund was
i lars Governor Stone, are
If the citizens approve this record of
the machine, then should vote
uny
Ww hich h
jarnett,
they
ticket
head
tt machine
1 on Tuesday
the name of
whose regiment, the 10,
of hiding in rice
when battles were
as for its
ROCQ-
wes him cowardice,
dykes, fought near
| Manila ticket the
{ machine had placed the name of Ad-
for superior judge, who
Known at the {ime to have been at the
And on the same
| ams, wae
{ head of several swindling companies,
i The voter who does not approve oi
{ the above iniquities, will vote for the
Democratic ticket at the head of which
tands the
Creasy, and |
pledged
The taxpayers of Centre county have
honored name of * Farmer"
, With every bpame on
| it, favor Reform.
:
! . :
{ been rewarded in having good house
| keeping from Demoeratic commission-
le r« in the past, resulting in the wiping
i ld and burdensome debt of
PF £40,000, and standing aside the build-
{ing of a new court-house which would
{ have hung a new necklace of indebt-
of $100,000 farmers and
Under Democratic
{ siondrs the millage
wit the o
i
i
{
! Le upon
commis
the
wh commissioners have raised
lo ol hi rs.
was reduced ;
Republic
it, besides the double rate put upon
dogs
If voters approve of the way
eratic officials have conducted the af-
fairs, they will
Vote for that clean-cut, wholesoul-
ed, generous Cyrus Brungart, for sher-
if ;
treasurer ;
A. G. Archey, for register ;
Vote for J. C. Harper, who has giv-
en years of proof of his competency,
for recorder ;
Vote for those true,
blemished gentlemen, Daniel
missioners-this the important vote ;
Vote for John H. Beek and W,
Tibbens, for auditors, who will prov
watchdogs over the public accounts ;
Vote for Dr. W. U. Irwin,
man held in highest esteem by all who |
know him, for coroner,
This is the REPORTER'S last appeal,
fairly and honestly setting out the
Take your choice,
Election, next Tuesday, 7th.
a —
A Fair Crop.
The farmers in our valley of recent
years have given more attention to
raising potatoes than formerly, which
they find more profitable than wheat
at the present prices. In the market
the tubers bring 30 cents a bushel, and
the crop has been a fair one this vear,
Our townsiman D. J. Meyer put out
about six acres from which he harvest.
ed over seven hundred bushels. There
are other farmers who have had a
greater yield than this one. Thous-
ands of bushels of the product are an-
nually shipped out of our valley and
ralsing potatoes is becoming no little
source of revenue.
Applicants for the Charge,
A number of applications have been
made by ministers to the Centre Hall
Reformed charge for the position
made vacant by the resignation and
removal of Rev. Eisenberg. The con-
gregations will make a selection in due
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE CRITICISM OF OTIS ALARMS |
McKINLEY.
| Generals te he Sent to the Philippines to
| have loudependent Commands. Sent.
| ment Increasing Against the Un-
Just War,
30.—That Mr.
{, WasHINGTON, Oct,
{ somew hat
McKinley
{alarmed by the harsh criticism of Gen,
has become
{ Otis, by the press of the country,
gardless of party, shown by the]
semi-official announcement that Gens,
in
Lawton and MacArthur, who are said |
to be slated for the vacancies in the
regular army, made by the retirement
of Brigadier General Shafter the
death of General
Henry, w buried today
lHington, with military
practically
mands in
and
Guy
at
’
Brigadier
ho was
honors, are
have independent
the coming
I'h
the
island of Luzon.
are
at is to say,
CArTY out general plan
Otis,
but are to be left independent as to the
their
mands while in the field,
think
get the
campaign as arranged by Gen,
movernients of respective
and free
{do as they may best,
having to first consent of Gen.
Otis
The administer
effort towards ©
bending
the
against its Philippine
#ailon is
wnteractiog ad
verse sentim
policy, which it realizes is
The Philippin
ston toda
met in Washing
increasing.
¢ commission, which
v, has been or.
|
i
i
i
i
the
put
nis ration #0
t before the
Members of the
Adi De
sSchurman and Prof
favor of adn policy,
it ean be put public at once,
{ Commission
Col. Denby,
Worcester,
present
Prof.
The
held with closed doors.
niral Wev,
meetings are
Gen. Fitz Lee is in Washington, on
His in the
keeps his mouth closed as to the
ditions in Cuba,
absence, position army
Gon
awful mix-
up on the island, and his manner indi
privately that there is an
interest
to
cates that he could tell some
ing thiogs if he were at liberty
=i,
John
again,
do |
talking
evi
fost
Sherman has been
made it
dent that the old man had neither
facul-
and what he said
interest in Ohio politics nor the
up the
Sherman
or
®
ty of properly sizin situation
in that state, Mr.
i
i
i
i
:
3
which be said: “It cannot be sustain.
ed io morals and is
to the American declaiation
and the
who
in
of
teachings
that
Inde.
of the!
instru-
pendence,
brave men signed
ment.’ and of t
tion to a continuation of Hanna's lead-
ership. Mr. Sherman didn’t say that
he would be glad of Republican defeat
Ohio, or that resentment of his own
t by the Haonna-McKinley
was responsible for the attitude
of any of the Republican voters, but
there are some things that are fully
| understood without being said.
At the last meeting of the Washing
ton branch of the Aunti-imperialist
| League, Gen. Wm. Birney, a life-long
Republican said: “Imperialism re
spects no law. To it the Congress is
nothing, the Commaunder-in-Chief of
| the army everything. It disre-
gards copstitut on and statutes and
| transfers all power to Executive. The
writ of habeas corpus does not exist in
the imperial colonies. The prisons of
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
| are vocal with the cries of men who
| cannot be heard beyond the walls, Ime
except the
| caprice of the Emperor. It has the
sword, it will seize the purse. Nay, it
has already defled the limitations im-
posed by Congress; it has expended
two hundred millions where only
eighty were appropriated. It has,
without authority of law, transported
immense bodies of troops to the other
side of the globe, It has built up an
immense patronage in its control of
military appointments, It has used
this patronage for political purposes,
Its influence is used to discredit all the
fundamental doctfines of American in-
stitutions.” Another Republican
Capt. O'Farrell—said: “We hear a
good deal about the trade with the
Philippines, It takes from a thous
and to thirteen hundred dollars a day
to coal each transport on the Paeifie
ocean between San Francisco and Ma-
nila, This coal is imported from Car
diff, Wales, The beef supplied to our
troops and the potatoes and vegeta
bles come from Australia. Many of
the uniforms worn by our officers and
men, in the Philippines, are now man
ufactured in Hong Kong, while the
cost of our army and navy amounts to
$650,000 a day. And the appropria-
tion made by Congress for twelve
months has been expended or wasted
in five months. What a prospect for
the American tax payer and working
‘man I"
Inquisitive persons are asking if Mr,
in
treater
telique
MeKinley’s coachman is considered to
The
Mr.
reason,
vice?
that Me-
having for some tired
had him given a
place in the Pension Bureau and then
hired a new Both men
Men who have passed the civil
with high per-
but
Mr. McKinley's coanchman can geu on
the pay roll without any trouble,
be in the classified se rea-
son for the question is
Kinley,
ane are ne
service examination,
The call of Boss Hanna's Committee
in Washington,
i= panning out big.
{ failure of the administration and
| the eivil service Commission to
any eflective against the
frightened
move
{ ployes contributing,
clerks and they are putting up
there was
law against political assessment of gov-
10g.
i —- oo —
SLOW WORK INTHE PHILIPPINES,
A striking and definite estimate of
the territory held the
ir
by
Wi
g
HAYS
Iphia Le
can be said to be effectively
by us in the Luzon
we may say alarmingly
dyer.
is discouragiogly,
small, when |
compared with the area of the entire
group, or even with that
of Luzon, The
ent agrees substantially in
Tribune's correspond.
his review
of existing conditions with an
Ww hose
munication was published in the Ledg-
Aug officer's
vey of the situation, all
ust last. This
covering the
of the
but
our
“nothing what
that posses.
not by provinces, islands or
miles, but by This
letter was published on August
t
i semicircle, whose radius extended only
three and a half miles from Jloila.
officer's
iviy
neres,”’
points; on Cebu,
He reported that on many of the
in
the actual
territory whatever,
and the officer was of the opinion that
numerous outlying islands
He
estimated that
i
i
i
i
“fairly firm foothold” in the region.
— ip
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage
were issued during the past week:
Joe A. Beek, of Wilkinsburg,
Gracia Maude Houser, of Bellefonte,
Epley R. Gentzel and Vangie Royer.
of Zion,
Harry Foree, of Pine Glenn,
Mary Estella Weaver, of Moshannon.
Andrew J. Kerns, of Benner
ant Gap.
Wm. W. Sexon, of Warrioramark,
and May Bennett, of SBtormstown.
Wm. Harris Miller, of Mt. Pleasant,
and Edith Holter, of Bellefonte,
Geo. A. Rouse, of New Bloomfield,
and Alice Bergstresser, of Hublers. |
burg.
John A. Young, of Bellefonte, and
Bertha Spicer, of Boggs twp.
James F. Stott and Kate Williams,
of Philipsburg.
Thomas F. Wolf and Rosle Gertrude
Hockman, of Miles twp.
OF Interest to Pensioners,
The pension department has adopt-
ed a new rule requiring pensioners to
to take their quarter's vouchers to a
magistrate every quarter, The num-
ber of the certificate is no longer in-
serted on the voucher at the pension
office, but must be written in by the
magistrate when the voucher is exe
cuted. This, therefore, makes it abso.
lutely necessary for pensioners to take
their certificate.
Died at Salons,
Mrs. Sager, an aged lady, died at the
residence of William Nestlerode, Ralo-
na, last week, Her remains were tak-
en to Greepburr for interment,
A MASAI,
The Best Plaster,
A plece of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound
on to the affected parts is superior to
any plaster, When troubled with a
pain in the chest or side, or & lame
back, give ita trial. You are certain
to be more than pleased «ith the
prompt relief which it affords. Pain
Balm is also a certain cure for rheuma-
tism., Forsale by J. H. Ross, Linden
Hall; 8. M, Swartz, Tusseyville; F. A.
Carson, Potters Mills, H. F. Rossman,
Spring Mills, i
oy he Repro of
NO. 43
LOCAL ITEM=,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere,
When Esch May Do as ile Likes,
When that good time arrives
That each of us who strives
Along unpleasant ways today
Muay choose from all the rest
The task that suits him best,
What will your fancy turn to, pray ?
You who are weary now
What time you guide the plow,
Will you put on a helmet then ?
Or will you cruise the seas,
Or will you seek to please
I'he world with chisel, brush or pen ?
And you who wield the pick,
And you who build with brick
And you who toll with awland thread,
What ways will you pursue,
What great things you will do,
| What high profession will you wed ?
I know hefore vou say :
When that delightful day
{ For which we sigh, for whic
i Arrives, at last, we'll all
Let pens and trowels fall,
And never more do anything
Me
¥
h we sing,
E Ki
Vote for Bpeer, 7
i
i
i
1
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i
| Election, next Tuesday, Nov. 7.
Francis Reed,
a pension, $17.
Philipsburg, granted
Coburn market : Wheat,
corn
D. H. of Aaronsburg,
up with rheumatism.
Oats
G20 .
350,
Rote, is laid
seni. Arpney is still suffering from
{ his shoulder injured by a fall,
Have not yet learned of any one hav-
ing a brag yield of potatoes,
Our esteemed townsman, A. B. Ker-
is still confined to the house,
Brush valley did
| not get corn enough for their own use.
i lin,
Many farmers in
The late rains did not help the creeks
but cisterns obtained a fair supply of
waler,
er
ii)
A bear, weighing pounds, was
in Roopdale, in Haines, by Jesse
Soyder
i shot
of Hartl
ill,
James Musser, elton, for some
| months seriously has improved
i somew hat,
From many quarters we hear com-
| plaints that winter apples are not
keeping well
cooler weath-
, much veeded
with
set in since Sunday
| by the grain fields
Quite a wet spell
er,
Charles Arney has a nice
lot of pheasants already—Sober must
look after his laurels,
i
“done up’
The business world recognizes that
| no man who drinks is as good as he
wotlld be if he never drank.
A hindquarter of good beef taken at
this office on subscription, December
tor January. Report soon.
Mrs. R. O. Diehl, of Rebersburg, is
ill of typhoid fever and Mrs. C. Mallo-
| ry is under an attack of grip.
A 15 pound wild turkey was shot on
| Saturday by a boy, Curtis Weaver, in
the mountains below Rebersburg,
{ Millheim, with its bad water from
| wells, keeps agitating the erection of
| water works, #0 much needed there.
Weather cooler since Saturday night
| when the lovely, Iodian summer-like,
| weather of the previous two weeks,
| quit business,
Rev. Rearick’s appointments, San-
i day, Nov. Centre Hall, ¢ m mun-
10 a. m.; St. Johns church, 7 p. m.
Cieorges valley, 2 p. m.
5:
| lon,
How totell a mad dog : The mouths
{ of dogs suffering from rabies are parch-
ed and dry. Hydrophobia is not the
only disease that makes dogs vicious.
A farmer from the lower end thinks
there will be an early slaughtering of
| hogs on account of the shortage of the
| corn crop, and that brag weight pork-
ers will be scarce.
Samuel Rowe recently purchased an
outfit of pipe tools for doing all kinds
of plumbing work. Samuel isa good
all round workman and knows how to
handle such implements.
A quarter inch of rain on Saturday
night, put out the mountain fires in
adjoining counties and cleared the sky
of the cloud of smoke that hung over
our county all last week.
"Squire Carlin, of Rebersburg, is im-
proving his residence with a new coat
of paint. That town has had some
fine improvements witkin the past
few years, in churches and
An exchange, says some farmers cut
their corn by machinery this year and
are pleased with the experiment. Corn
is now planted, cultivated, harvested
and husked by machinery. (Still, it
is eaten in the old way ; no improve }
ment there.)
One of the papers of notable interest
in MeClure's Magszine for November,
is one by the Hon. George 8. Bout.
well, who tells, for the first time, the
story of his own share, ns the then Sec-
retary of the Treasury, in the great
Black Friday panie, in September;
1869, when by Secretary
own official action Jay Gould
James Fisk were defeated. ina