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,