VOL. LXXVI. CENTRE COUNTY Volunteers. GENERAL REVIEW OF MAJOR AND MI. NOR EVENTS, Experiences of the Rank and Flle—Anec- dotes and Observations, By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., 148th Regiment, P. V. [To be Continued.) CHAPTER II. Cheap land or a rented farm is often an excuse for indifferent agriculture, ers are always looking for more and cheaper lands to till. perform the part for which they were intended. They are the pioneers and the forerunners of better and thoughtful’ methods in every- thing that » industry. On often more tc pertains t Ina battle all soldiers disabled by slight wounds will generally hurry to | the rear to find surgical aid. Life often depends on the immediate dressing of | the wounds; so it was here, but the| badly wounded who could not get out unaided, were left to the mercy of al ““battle-furious’”’ enemy, or to be burn- | ed up in the fire that was even then | raging at several points in the forest, | The appeals and pleadings of some | of the soldiers wounded to helpless- | ness, to be moved or shot, were most | distressing. One, a boy about eighteen, | had his abdomen torn open by a frag- ment of shell, with tearless eyes and | without holding wound to coming out, a4 groan, was prevent the bowels from | Another young, smooth faced soldier had a leg shot off and was Hel offers dragging himself slowly along. taken out, making of reward for help. When not be given, he pleaded as earnestly | to be shot, Another had the top of his skull taken | begged to be this could and ‘finished’, as he #aid off; the brain was exposed and throb- | bed with every pulse. though dazed, } still seemed rational. He spoke fi in a half whisper, We could no derstand hin; we construed his to be a reanest to have his head ban seemed unbroken; daged, and a message to his home, he mentioned names for § Couiad nl : 1 5 Hue looked us his name; shook our heads, we stand; he gave it up and tears filled b eyes as he lay on his back in the brush where he Bo 11 cotild be filled with incidents like t} was abandoned, battle field this poi foregoing on every these few may suffice at the narrative, We cannot imagine how badly these nt poor boys felt, when we, ‘per force, abandoned them in their pitiatle, heip- | less condition, the “hat- tle-crazed’’ enemy snd the forest fi When we were driven oat piain and into the woods we were de. ! termined to give the ‘Johnnies’ a warm reception if they came us in our new Though Ww night, very dark and rainy, the 145 P. to oncoming res $ at position, it V. by the light of sperm candles began to fell the oak trees and build a para- We worked faith- We pr IE Tens ad pet along our front. fully and hard for strong handed and hours. were | work rapidly =o that by midnight we con- sidered ourselves fortified ready for attack ly after our] fortification was finished, ten. Han- cock and staff rode along the line and | by the dim light of a few lanterns he | spied our parapet and inquired what in ~~ that meant. Maj. Fairlamb, | in command of the Regiment since the wounding of the Col.—James A. i Beaver, éxplained that the boys, ex-| pecting an attack here, had fortified | themselves. The General and said, wee! tion; have them tear itdown and clear | it away immediately. The enemy may open on us with artillery at any | minute and solid shot striking these logs would split thera and the splin- ters would kill you by the dozen. This was doubtful bluster logle, There was no appeal from this posi- tive order and we worked in the dark- peas, rain and mud till near morning, when we had torn down our parapet and carried all the logs to the rear of us. We were tired and soaked; mad clear through and mud all over, The battle of Chancellorsville was ended and lost, but skirmishing snd artillery fighting was spasmodically kept up. During the afternoon of May 4th the Rebels shelled our position fu. riously, killing and wounding quite a number of our men. Charles Beirley and Henry Meyer of Co. “A” were struck by fragments of shell and tems porarily disabled. The scenes of the wreck. of battle, flowing to the rear, are more terrible than the sights of the actual battle, where all is hurry and excitement and the horrors of war are not brought to. gether. When a great battle opens in its fury the wreck at once begins to flow to the rear, First the “stragglers,” fellows that are not built for war, unable to stand up and look death squarely in the face without flinching, will always, some- how, unnoticed, slip from their places in the lines and fly to the rear, like leaves beforg the wind, Then come the slightly wounded, running; men more seriously wound- ed, hobbling toward the rear; others well and Shor answered | wee ! Lhe fortifica- | cheap land it requires little genius to make it yield in crops sufficient to pay a good rate of interest on the original investment—after all cost of produe- tion bas been deducted. When land becomes valuable—is worth one hun- more per acre, on the is the time when genius and brawn, must brains, as well come into play if we wish to make farming Our rich prairies, at one time, further the and feet sidered of fertil- pay. required little the The in some effort, on tiller, than rich lace sowing loam, many 1 #2, WHS Con i exXiiau fth eieinent Har ul ned, and the manure accumuialed I'he building quantities, utilized for Possibly manure hea tt ui there was no necessity, at that time, i HE substances by cone I'he great wes #RIOD, ave been cropped iternately, for an The yields ree would i# is the case in the undulating and ! F subsoil js su rough- ly saturated witl poislure it will extended damage to i crops All we 1 “ maintain a the evapor- turface of ur farms. ibaoil does [Oo assume Gir in potas. cur growing eriyiong clay hosphorous ard the minor ele- mentary pri available in sufficient quantitics, in many paris Gf this section We need nitrog gi mentary principle is very ¥ Sears lo come n, however his ele essential when we grow the grain crops. Nitro- Eg I gen forms about three fourths of the means of commercial fertilizers, prices of grain must advance material- ly to balance the cost of production when it becomes a necessity for us to buy nitrogen in commercial form. Very much attention is giv to crop rotation, where improved meth- ods in agriculture prevail. It ly the only successful method of farm- en is sure with success, in almost every portion of the agricultural belt. The clover We sight of important parts in the rotation. should, however, never lose manure. Nothing contributes more toward building up soil fertility than well prepared manure. The pile is the farmer's saving bank from require. As a rule the farmer perous and need not pay for commercial fertilizers, he plant is rich in nitrogen : it be affected with tricate and mysterious process the nitrogen from the air and stores it in the soil growing cereals. where we crops destroys the humus in our soll, and exhausts it of its nitrogen. ont Crop is particularly Severs nitrogen principle of our soil ; our cultivated fie tematic rotation, ed rest, Ids, ns a part of a sys- N We give them Nature | given fs ia make repairs io a measure, « needful. By turnin en N g under the clove acted on by the soil bacteria—the generating agent of all ll organie stances in our soil—-aud is conv into active potential humus addition of moisture the humu disolve other inorganic subs! anes enter into plant Jife and growth, putting them in available form for the growing crops to draw from Keeps the soil loose, tht i warmth aod moisture to penetrate, and acts as a conservator of mu in dry seasons. Hummus keeps the soil prevents the soil ing wel seasons and from blowing away from exposed surfa in dry seasons. We can ill away io ve afford to ing the winter season. We must guard against } exhausting the humus, and where possible, have a litter of substance Over organic spread duriug the winter. Fall plowing of anything but sod should be fields that are Inelined to wash discouraged as we lose so much of our valuable soil when the thaws of spring set in. Too much of our [llinols soll takes a trip to the Gulf each season. We should place a hindrance when and check this tendency. where we can to House by Mr Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sen- House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sae, that from and after the passage ate and of this act civil actions may be brought against the proprietor, owner, publish. er or managing editor of any news- paper published in this Common wealth, whether the same be publish- ed monthly, bi-weekly, semi-weekly or daily, to recover damages resulting from negligence on the part of such owner, proprietor or managing editor in the ascertainment of facts and in making publications affecting the character, reputation or business of citizens, BSection 2. In all civil actions which may be hereafter brought against the proprietor, owner, publisher or man- aging editor of any newspaper publish- ed in this Commonwealth, whether the same be published monthly, bi weekly, semi-weekly or daily, and whether such owner be an individual, partnership, Hmited partnership, joint stock company or corporation, if it complaived of resulted from negligence on the part of such owner, proprietor, manager or editor in the ascertainment compeusaiory damages may be re- covered for injuries to business and matter has been given special promi- nence by the use of pictures, cartoons, headlines, displayed type or any other matter calculated to specially attract attention, the jury shall the right award punitive damages against the defendant or defendants, Heotion 8. That from and after the passage of this sct each and every newspaper published in this Common- wealth, whether the same be publish- ed monthly, bi-weekly, sem i-weekly or daily, shall publish in every copy of every issue on the editorial page in & conspicious position at the top of reading matter the name of the owner, owners, proprietor or proprie- tors of such newspapers, together with the name of the managing editor thereof, and if said newspaper or news- papers shall be owned or published by a corporation, then the name of the corporation shall be published, to- gether with the pames of the Presi. dent, Becretary, Treasurer and manag. ing editor thereof, and if the said newspaper or newspapers shall be owned or published by a partnership or partnership, limited, then the names of the partners or officers and managers of said partnership or part. have {o like manner, Wootion 4 Tn the event of any owner, publisher or managing editor of any newspaper, or in the office of President, Becretary, Treasurer, of any corporgtion owaing and publishing Continued on Fourth Page. by the injured party or parties, and { ad newspaper, or any change in the whenever in any such action it shall | DE of the co-partners, the said be shown that the matter complained | change or changes aball be duly set of is libelous, and that such libelous Continued at foot of next column, | LOCALS. Frost Tuesday morning. Leslie Jacobs is in Winber., Fruit was greatly damaged by recent [ frosts, W. W. Gonder, of Wall, arrived here Monday. James A. Keller, secretary of the Patron’s fire insurance company, made a business trip to Huntingdon Monday Mrs. Balter, wife of Rev. B. A. Sal- ter, of Pleasant Gap, and interesting little daughter, were entertained by { Mrs. W. H. Schuyler on Monday. Henry Royer, of Centre Hill, was a caller at this office Tuesday, He is one of many who recently ordered his mail to be left at the Centre Hall post- | office. i | The board of directors of the Centre County Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany, P. of H., met in Bellefonte Tues- day to examine apo] ications for poli. cies, ete, Miss Margie Bweetwood, of Bpring Mills, who for the past few years has | been living 1n Bellefonte Pa., ¢ present, re ntly vent to Wilkinsburg, where Wii sl she rth ay fo of I {merchant Spring i WwW, lis. advertisement 5. Mi continusily adver- to be y ke lore int ought con- when purchasing. chila Summers and Eliza Treas- Mills, IMmar- A. J. Hurper, of Colyer, { ter ear Potters Bev were ried by | Saturday evening. The wedding | per was prepared by Mrs, { Hin sup- Davison, of ceupied by John Bhunk by forest fires lust week. id Wise slood along the pike where the Beven Mountains goods were removed. {the road enters { from Milroy Rev, Jack, Ph. D., pas- Birmingham church, will tl ue Centre Hall Presbyte- ch next Babbath 10:30 » ' } nvited. Wm of A 8LOaRe at a. i. Homan and Wm, M enars, tierolf, near Cent re RilIIDIE « Xperience, r dispatched one black snake and the latter two reptiles were i all more than four feet in length. DEATHS, WILLIAM JAMES WALTERS Mrs. William and Emma Walters, of near Centre Hill, mourn the death of their son, William James, which occurred Tuesday of last week, Interment was made Thursday, Rev. J. F. Buultz officiating. The child's Mr. and days. MABLE JANE MeFARLANE, The death of Miss Mable McFarlane occurred at the Bellefonte Baturday. It became necessary to perforiu an operation for appendicitis and when this was done it was discov- ered that peritonitis had previously de- veloped, which was almost certain to cause death in a very brief time. who kuew her. Years, A scot emacs Henrt Beats Visibly, Ephraim Lewis, of Towanda, was Lewis’ heart bare and body was bathed in blood, was laid reached the hospital the throbbing of the heart could be plainly seen through the pericardium. — —— Are You Golug West ? If you have any idea of 2 Boling west, corresponding with the Reporter fore leaving. Trausportatior Cal secured in such a way tain conditions the fare Do fail te this paper early, ed, not Wf Foot Ball at State. The football for schedule 1903, a far as completed, is ax follows: Sept. fis lege: Bq pt. 26, College; Oct. 1, Allegheny College, a Oct. 10, Unive Oct. 157 34, aiiege.; rsity « { al New Haven; Oct. 24, is, atl of Hh 1 sreity Dickinson, at open; Nov, open; ot lis; Nov Nov, 14 nnapol <0, Mleeilon, Hleelton. Bo pn i Parper ters have resumed work f t! 04 O65 i addition ¢lion ¢ je io the | Miss Lizzie Durst, that lady | uaviog recovered sufficiently from her | recent illness not to be annoyed by | i the Boise necessarily made by the | med hanics, "Rev. W. A ive porter sent swwdered Unity from which | MoClelian to Lis Pleasant in-| stead of Youngstown. Pa. it may be juferred that he has be come | { the Pleasant Unity Reformed | Rev. McClellan is formerly | i i Ussey ville, | pastor O Charge, | fre in | James Beaver, a wholesale {of of shipper | MifMinburg, | {shipped two gar loads of potatoes and apple ¢ from Coburn. One inet week, and one fruit and produce, was | shipped on Mon- day. The price paid for potatoes was forly cents per bushel. Car Huckster W. F. Rockey, of Tussey- ville, Monday shipped a fine lot of ap- ples to market. These apples were purchased last fall at thirty-seven cents per bushel, and Mr. Rockey declares, considering the loss, he was obliged to sell at a price that yielded no profit. Bubscribers who wish their address changed to some [ree delivery mail route should notify this office, giving the former address as well as the num- ber of route to which the change is to be made. It is impossible to make these changes except you inform this office personally or by mail. The Mifflinburg Times says, Mrs. George R. Stover and son, of Coburn, came down Baturday to visit her mother, Mrs. Kate Charles, and help her celebrate the anniversary of her birth.— Luther Stover and wife, of Aaronsburg, were guests at the L. D. Kurtz home this week. iss May V. Rhone, of Centre Hall, daughter of Leonard Rhone, the state grange leader, will take the place of Frank 8. Chapin, of Milton, as chief clerk in the office of State Koonomie Zoologist H. A. Burface, at Harrie- burg. Miss Rhone held this position during the Hastings administration, Continued from third column, forth in the next edition or issue of said newspaper following said change or changes. Bection 8, Any person, firm, limit ed partnership or corporation publish- ing a newspaper in Pennsylvania which omits, fails or neglects to oarry out the provisions of Bections 8 and 4 of this act ani make the publication required by the preceding sections, shall be guilty of a misdemesnor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be ined not less than $600 and not more than $1000. . Beotion 6. All acts or parts of acts Dr. Valentine Leaves Ne minury I Milton profi Rev. Dr. Valentine, Gn log { the of faculty Seminary, to the tors of the institution. to literary work. - lili ——— Hev, Daniel Gress Elected The members of the various congre- gations composing the Centre Hall Reformed Rev. Daniel Rev. Gress will enter upon the work of his pastor- ate July 1 Rev. Gress native of Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland county, Pa. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, class 1900, and at the ap- proaching commencement will grada- ate from the theological seminary con- nected with that institution, The fact that the new pastor was unavimously elected by all the con- gregations in the charge, is evidence uflicient that he came up to the stand- ard of efliciency in the pulpit. The call has been informally accepted. oc pp Mo SE ll Tell the Trath A western preacher has announced that hereafter he will preach only the truth at funerals, and that he does not propose to make immaculate saints of hell bound sinners. That's all wind. Whenever a preacher or an ed- itor starts out to tell the entire truth in either funeral notices or wedding announcements there will be some- thing doing. And yet there will be a happy medium which will meet the demand for reform. It certainly should be disgusting to read some of the sickening slush which appears whenever a couple get married, and this advertising of the bride as the fairest specimen of womianhood in all central Pennsylvania, when she prob- ably is pug nosed and freckled faced and so pigeon toed that her tracks point east whon she is going south, is just a little too strong to set well on the average human. The same thing happens when the preacher eulogizes a notoriously bad citizen right into the pearly gates, and the living know it is a sham, while it certainly don’t do any good to'the dead. No more sense is shown by a lot of long winded reso- lutions of respect on a part of people who would not associate with the man or woman while alive. A reasonable amount of soft soap is a good thing, but this overdoing of the thing is to be deplored, and is avoided by the charge elected (tress to be their pastor, is 8 NO. 19. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS, | Centre Reporter, $1.00 per year, in advance, ocal news matter on four pages rand five, M formerly Pine { Grove Miils, is now located near Lew- | istown. f Wm OF Bwabb, At Kuepley’s blacksmith shop oppo- | site the school building, all work is { low in price and guaranteed. The members of the Methodist church are very much pleased with their new minister Rev. Ww. Melluay., (ieorge David Glasgow, of near Tusseyville, { had business in town Thursday of last He good in his locality, J urday | week, Bays Crop prospects are . T. Potter, of Clairton, arrived Sat. airing He BOne rej = to superintend i to be done on his farm buildis {likes his new home very At the close o the for April 1,005,204.65, State Treasur Blanche pewell, of IAT taken rater her of wusand ir the : Vviit in 14 of Others, - Jife usands of th impress- of near Friday, ieasant call moved to in his proved ana 118 4 a 5 ig H tion to farm rk, and has little time for any thiog farting x iATINIDK § ANS. @ pays stiri Wi else, but with him H. cently V. Harshbarger, who ree until ola where he is Dow Itoona, and is a motormas Mrs. the home David Glasgow, of near Tusseyville, and will remain there un- til Mr. Harshbarger is either rent or buy sold his Osceola home, was located at Osox was fireman in a large foundry, Harshbarger at present is { her father, Of atl able to a home in Altoona. He Dr. C, Bumner Musser, of burg, is attending a meeting National Medical Association in ses sion in New Orleans. Dr. Musser is one of the most skilled physicians in Central Pennsylvania, and takes the greatest interest in all gatherings of his profession. Dr. and Mrs. BR. G. H. Hayes, of Bellefonte, are also in at. tendance at the meeting of the Asso. ciation. W. Harrison Walker, Esq., of Belle- fonte, was in Centre Hall between trains Saturday morning, having come to town on business. He represented the defendant in a case before ‘Squire Murray, in Boalsburg, later in the day. Attorney Walker is popularly known in Penns Valley as he is in Bellefonte, where he is mayor of a strongly Re- publican town, although himself a staunch Democrat, Asrons- of the Ex-Prothonotary Wm. F. Smith, of Millheim, was a caller Friday. Mr, Smith had been in Bellefonte, and on his return home stopped with James Kimport, near Linden Hall, who had been seriously ill. The ex-Prothono- tary, although out of office, continues to teach Democracy, believing the principles to be right. He holds the respect of the Democrats who elevated him to office by his actions since retir- ing from the prothonotaryship, which cannot be said of the majority of ex- office holders, In the installment of his series on “Mankind in the Making,” which ap- pears in the May Cosmopolitan, H. G. Wells advances two very original and interesting theories. In planning his ideal community he asks, among other questions, whether polling is really es- sential to the democratic idea. There isa way, be says, of choosing your public servants of all sorts, and effect- ually controlling public affairs on pers fectly sound democratic principles, withogt ever baving such a thing as an election, as it is now under at all,
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