VOL. LXXVI. CENTRE COUNTY | For the t nefit of homeseekers, the | al » , A e 3 + <6 ' a IN THE CIVIL WAR, { various railroads to Florida will sell on | November 11 special excursion tickets Pennsylvania [from Washington to the following | points at rates quoted : PUB. eres ririonicnninesnesnes CENTRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1903. GOOD ROADS IN PENNSYLVANIA. The Philadelphia Record takes a sensible view of the good roads ques- tion, and one that the average ruralite will welcome should it be enacted into law. There is much difference of opinion as to the feasibleness of the new road law. The politicians—especially the Republican office holders—favor the new law, because it has created numerous appointments at good salaries. The rural tax payer, who has his experiences with the present admittedly bad roads, and who will be asked to pay one-third of the expenditure for roads NO. 43. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Ivy W. day.) Homeseekers' Excursion to Florida, TRIAL LIST, Becond Week--November Term, Commenc- ing Monday, Nov, 30 1003, Lehigh Valley Coal Co., Orvis Bow- er & Orvis, vs. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation and Moshannon Lumber Co., J. M. Dale, Ejectment. Wm. Witmer, W. G. Runkle, vs, 148th Regiment, Jartges’ sale today (Thurs. Volunteers. 1 Samsto. ——— iraldentown, ‘ to | Kllenton, By 7. P. Meyer, Se rgeant Co. A. 148th | Palmetto, $30 06 we 29 70 70 Progress afternoon Grange meets Baturday Punta Gorda, | Arcadia, 80 156 built under state supervision, views the same law quite differently, because he has only to do with the improved one-third and no hope of getting a clerk- Regime nt, PV Manatee [To be Continued .] ann CHAPTER V. THE PRISONER'S STORY. | These tickets will be good going on The prison camp, about four acres in | November 11 only, and to return with- area, was a place. Much in fifteen days, and, will!not be good to rain of late, and the tramp of many stop off in either direction. teat, had produced a slush-mud in the| In connection with these excursions, streets of the camp, several inches|the Pennsylvania Railroad Company deep with filth and dirt, ani stench, | will sell one-way tickets to Washing- and human offal everywhere. Our |ton, at regular rates, from all stations five hundred men were not given aon its lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, single tent, or shelter of any Kind. together with exchange orders on the They had none to give us. We were { railroads out of Washington for an ex- simply ushered into the Prison Pen, to | cursion ticket from Washington to the become a part or factor of the four | above-mentioned points at rates quo- When we en- | ted. war | { { i miserable thousand already there. tered the gate of this spirit nearly died out. i Loganton Boy Shot, : re. fan: | "hile run wit L ‘ Here we found hundreds of men ab- | While running with a gun in his golutely without shelter, and all with-| hand, Milton Schwenk aged 16 years, / t fu 1 the skin :|800 of Edgar Bchwenk, residing about ou ue 0 i : thout overcoats or a mile sud a half east of Loganton, withio Ove § 3 : : : in \ alevw. | Stumbled and fell. The trigger o 4 kind. Gray, ashy, pallid complex-|™ 1 gger of the 3 Thin kipny, woebegone shad- | guu struck the ground and the weapon 10ns, 10. sRinpny, woe i is 3 in ows of slowly moving, erstwhile rug-| Was I'he load of shot ged men and boys, Standing alone |¢Btered and passed through the calf of here and there in idiotic-like silence, | the young man’s leg, making an ugly- and | looking and painful wound. The phy- | *is § itine oi 3 the cold, downpouring winter rain, | sician is sanguine of saving the boy's Hundreds of others, emaciated ca- 1128. Young Schwenk is rather un- xan vid ' H “i 3 i : daverous-looking men and boys, | fortunate handling guns, having splashing hither and thither through { had a thumb shot off six years ago. pen, my re ff coms eaten s— Rain-soanked to blankets of any discharged. or in groups, in the deep mud, in mud, covered all over with mud and |: dir: : filth and lice; while bere and | there, in filth and rags, lone soldiers | were standing like statutes, grim and {I dementia, silent, in a state ol dem taring around them, then those wildly on talking loudly, incoherently, to them- | their condition. res, bemoaning » of ther slightest at- nu paying the to the other Prisoners ar« und re were talented, cultured, highly | educated ten of every calling profes A LIVELY PRISONER. on, and trade in life. Here were the , settling ge professors and their students, | down upon the camp, I looked down {, and saw hundreds} of men on the When they could stand up no longer, they would sit, or lie {down nnywhere, regardless of mud or weather, in Just as darkness was Doctors | the stres Teachers nisters and their laymen their former patients sitting, alone and in groups, ue . 5 . mmon and and pupils, down ona ¢ of degradation sod filth, and manner level | Wet ground, of li [ thought, Alas! Already 1 i reached a point iu life from which [| the streets of the camp, very close, in mehed a poin i : i rows, “8: « fashion,” from three to the goal. Here I stay ; er sonked when my comrade asked me: under or I[« this an annex of a civilized war, or, | over them, and the night blowing up are we in Hell? A chilly Hell, I said. | cold. This comrade’s name was : he | i, pious, rugged ed ap’ with ¢ : Liave Many were lying down in ty Ti sax ob od ii ean easily see the end. I have reached h : I wonder. | tWenty in a row, in th rain i clothes, without and 8DY thing ed not, For the night, I was snugly *‘spoon- two other boys, Austin J Skinner, of Hcboken, N. J, and Ja Bat. like Smithburg, Md., the lat- to face the conditions here 1903 [ did not get of hope and courage, and was tortured { cold, but I could vot rid my mind of with an insatiable longiog for home | the horrors I had already seen here, He was broken io spirit, | nor the thought of the probable fate up. He did sleep did not come to He was not sick ; he simply gave up, broke down | and died at the end of the first Within the radi- Hundreds, in the same way, gave Up | ous of ty hearing, there must have and died of despondency alone. Those | who bore up with brave hearts and came out best, or drooks was & highly educate youl man, A heclogieal student. many others, he was unable | cob Adams, le let gol ter still living, and frieads. and could not be cheered awaiting me not sleep or eat, nor rest, me that ight, The sounds of this camp were as hor. week. | i WEEK. | rible us the sights. | been a thousand men coughing, with- | out a moments let up, all night. All | nights were unlike in this respect. All | suffered by reason of coughs and colds, y strangled to death in fits of ¥ K strong will, cate out at all. Personally, I was still in fair cond tion, I still had my knapsack, with ali its varied contents on my back. my shoulder hung my empty haver- sack, and canteen balf full of water. Here, at least, I was “presentable, a fine, new uniforrn. My head well covered with the hat Msjor “traded to me.” This hat always in place. A night-cap when I slept, and a ‘dress bonnet” when 1 On my arm hung a splen Army Blanket, which {and man | : j coughi On | 1 | During the cold weather pneumo- nis was a common ailment and » gen- eral cause of death. wa The encampment of Belle n= i . i | Isle was square in form and made like feet wide, and ' in ; prison the Hebe I fort ; a dite eight thiree feet deep inside of the works, the ground dug from the ditch formed a fort-like embankment on the outer edge of the diteb, while the inner edge of the ditch was called the “dead-line” and any prisoner getting into the diteh was over the ‘“‘dead line,” and the guards had the right and orders to shoot such soldier, without hail or no- tice Belle Island was in many ways the worst and most wretched prison en- camwpment in the Confederacy. It was located by hundreds of miles far thest north of all, snd consequently, was the coldest of all. It was the only prison encampment in the south where there were no rations of wood issued, any consequently, there were no fires alli winter, even though in the coldest latitude. Hence the greatest suffering by resson of weather conditions. Was went out did new U was my saivalion. After standing with these wretched comrades in misery, io mud and raion, for hours, I woke up as from a dream, Night was coming on, and the eold rain was still falling. I resolved that I would waste no time in brooding. If I must die here, which I realized was probable, I would die “game” 1 would “die in setisn’’ and not of de- spondency. Nothing was to appsl me, I turned at once, aud walked rapidly down a muddy camp street, by and through packs of half drowned, and mud plastered, lousy soldiers, whisker ed men, and young boys like myself I came to a fair semblance of a tent and went in ; it was full of bony, ash colored, flesliless men, from New Jer- sey, Muryland, Peunsylvania, and Illinois. I was surprised to flud them in fairly good spirite. I said: I ama new arrival, and am looking for a home. I havea good blanket here, which will cover three. I will share it with you as far as it will reach, if you will make me one of your mess, The proposition was accepted, and I had a home. I was blessed above hun- dreds io that camp. Night set in very dark, rainy and cold. There was no light io all that eamp ; #o arrasngemonts for the uvight were made before night had fully set Comttiraed ut foot of mext colamm, - It was situated on a low, sandy Is land, in n great river, water only a few feet below the surface, rapids on each side, the only prison encampment so situated, and therefore, was the dam p- est of all. It was the nearestto the great Une ion Armies, and therefore suffered most by reason of the great raids made by the Union Cavalry around the Con- federate Capital, frequently breaking railroad communications, between the country and Richmond, destroying the tmcks, and burning depots of sup- plies, and train after train of cars load. ed with grain and provisions for Rieh- mound and her twelve thousand Union prisoners, Some hostile comment has been made upon the recommendation of the recent Convention of County Commis- sloners in favor of repeal of the new Road law and a return to the old sys- tem. This is denounced as a reaction- ary spirit quite unworthy of the pro- gress of the new century. But there can be little doubt that the County Commissioners are right in proposing a restoration of the old township meth- ods of road making as an alternative to a continued attempt to graft upon these methods the new measure of the last Legislature, The acceptance which this Road law has met through- out the State sufficiently presages its doom. What the friends of good roads have proposed is not the making of town- ship roads but the construction and maintenance of a system of commodi- ous highways out of the ample surplus in the State treasury. There are in ex- istence lines of turnpike that have fal- len into partial and since the removal of the toll gates, and the basis of new To those having a little ac- neglect deday these can form the system, quaintance with the geography and history of Pennsylvania it is needless to point out these lines of road, which before the railway era were crowded t-affic. With small expenditure these old turnpikes but with comparatively could not only be restored could be made much more commodious and Mr. ing delighted over the finding in the Alaskan boundary case. What Amer. But probably al most as much delighted over the flurry perhaps the Roosevelt is represented as be. ican is not? he is of anger in Canads, and pavy clique will seek to have it con- tinue until it reaches the proportions of a blizzard of fury. Then it will de. mand a bigger navy, and the Presi- dent, having been somewhat naval himself in his subordinate days, will write a special message. Why, any day the fleet of Canadian fishing smacks may sweep down upon New York harbor and throw Iyddite bombs into Wall street. Secretary panacea for speculative banks cannot fend against Iyddite. That New Bruns. wick senator in the Canadian parlia- ment distinctly helped slong a larger navy. He spoke of American aggres- sions upon Greenland, and we believe it, because Greenland is an island, and we are always after islands, He also made biting allusion to the Maine boundary, which was supposed to be settled by the treaty of 50 years ago. If that is not settled we certainly need a bigger navy. m——— The game laws of this state provide for more than the punishment of peo- ple for doing certain things out of sea- son. The owners of land have rights that must be observed. If in quest of game or for any other purpose any one trespasses on cultivated lands, for hunt. ing or trapping, he mukes himself liable for a fine of five dollars for each offense, besides he can be made pay for all damages resulting from such tres pass. For instance, a careful person may enter a plot of ground in which fruit trees have been planted, adjoin. ing mountain land or forest, and would probably not do the least injury to the property, while another by a careless | shot might destroy a thrifty young tree worth many dollars to the owner | of the land. The game laws of this state are perhaps at present more rigid. | ly enforced than any other on the statute, so it may be well for the tres | passer to “look a little out’ lest he get | tangled in the meshes, AA Ai Vote against the press muzzlers and grafters. Shaw's ———" A BMA Keep Centre in the Democratic column, ee Centre county should give a big msjority for the Democratic state and county tickets, and she will do so if the Democratic voters go to the polls on November 3. IL AY AAS ANAS. No true Democrat will stay away from the polls on November 3, but every Democrat who favors honest gov. ernment will vote the straight Demo. cratic ticket, Keep in mind the fact that if the Democrats want to retain their power in this county they must go to the polls on November 8 and cast their fit for travel than they ever were be- fore at their best. To these lines new routes can be added by extending country roads with the further velopment of the system. de- On the other hand, the opening and maintenance of township roads is es- sentially a matter of local self-govern- ment with which the state should med- dle as little as possible. When com- modious trank lines of State roads shall have been established it will be the fault of the farmers if they shall neg- lect to properly maintain the township roads leading to these lines. But there creating a department of the State gov- ernment, with its engineers to instruct township supervisors as to what ma- terials they shall use and how to use them in making and mending local roads. Many of these supervisors un- derstand this work quite as well as the State engineers who undertake to di- rect them. This road law of the last Legislature, which the practical knowledge and ex- perience of the County Commissioners Dora and James Witmer, Fortney and Walker. Replevin. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, W. F. Reeder, ve. Wm, I. Harvey and John Bowden, Orvis, Bower & Orvis, H. C. Quigley. Trespass, J. A. Davidson, administrator of Ju- lia Bhope, H. C. Quigley, vs. James N., Bhope, N. B. Bpangler. Ejectment. T. M. Meyer, James Nolan, vs. Hur- ley Bros., Crosby and Orvis Bower & Orvis. Trespass, Leo J. Tierney, Orvis, Bower & Or- vis, vs. The SBnow Bhoe Mining Co., W. F. Reeder. Assumpsit. Bertha Dodd, Orvis, Bower & Orvis, va. Christ Bhearer, W. F. Reeder. Re- plevin, Executors of Christian Dale, Br., A. A. Dale, vs. Executors of Christian Dale, Jr., C. Dale. Revive Judgment. E. C. Bmith, N. B. Spangler, vs. John Long's Administrator, W. G, Runkle, Assumpsit. Peter Bmith’s use, N. B. Bpangler, ve. Mary A. Black, etal, J. K. John- ston. Assumpsit, Mary Dodge, Blanchard, vs. Kelley, Orvis. Ejectment. Henry C. Woomer, Nolan, ve. Rob- ert Thompson, Keller. Trespass, F. A. Beates’ Trustee, Keller, vs. ‘H, F. Beats’ Administrator, N B. Bpang- ler. Assumpsit. John reject, is an attempt to put a new patch on an old garment. It had its origin | and iuspiration much less in a purpose | to establish a commodious system o | highways than in a determina | to prevent an lvroad upon treasury surplus for the profitable use of pet banks the | f the] and enjoyment of Mact Ine When convenes the Fifiy-eighth Congress! ¢ pn the Re- | publican side will sit a Mr. Lucius N. | Littauer, of Gloverstown, N. Y For three Congresses al. ready has he been there ready with his vote to fasten upon the people a tariff | which among industries helps his own. | He now escapes a criminal prosecution November y Iak- | er of gloves only because the statute of limitations | protects him. With full knowledge | of the illegality of one in his position | entering into a contract to sell goods | to the Government he violated his! oath and profited from such a contract | with an army contractor, Attorney | General Knox that the inter-| pretation of the law prevents the re- covery of the money paid the army man, a matter which is of no conse- quence, as the goods were delivered, but incidentally he informs the pub- lic that the statute preveuts prosecu- tion of Littauer. But does anything the House from expelling Can the people aflord to have their interests committed to represen- tatives of this kind ? sens t— fo —_ holds | ! prevent him? Benator Morgan announces that he will introduce in the extra session of Congress a resolution to definitely abaudon the Panama Canal route and lake up the Nicaragua project. This will cause much debate, but is not like ly to lead to suy practical result, at least in the extra session. The Admin- istration is evidently indisposed to ward the Nicaragua route so long as there is a reasonable prospect of com- pleting the construction of the Panama Canal. If the two oceans are to be united, physical geography indicates Panama as the place of juncture, a ——— ——— Senator Gorman, in his speech Sat. urday, set the Republicans of Mary - land and the Republican office holders in Washington to thinking. Here is # sentence of his speech : “I tell you that no liberty, no safety, remains when you have a dictator, or & czar, or an emperor in Washington who can send for Maryland Repub- licans and tell them to harmonize to the polls, 10 sustain him in his ef- fort to establish social equality of the two races,’”’ A A A “The Breath of the North,” is the title of Norman Duncan's latest story in the November MeClure’s of the men who go down to the sea in ships to wrest from it a meagre subsistence, in struggle with the malevolence of the elements. Mr. Duncan says that he himself hates and dreads the sea, and that to these Newfoundiahd fisher folk it I¥ “a terrible monster, a cruel and dread foe,” A SA AP AAA The statute of limitations should bave its period lengthened so as to run through an entire administration, These peculation inquiries always Come toward the last sud the early birds escape, ‘ a AA AANA. Samuel Dixon, Quigley, Poor Over- Dale and Mil- ler. Appeal. Perry John Bmith, Keichline, vs. J. Q A. and Ada Kennedy, Reeder, Ap- peal. Peter Mendis, Johnst Bullock, Reeder. Sarah C. Geiss, Runkle and Res ve. Luther Royer, Getiig. Ap peal J. L.. Bhugert’s Executors, Orvis. mm, va. LL. C. (jer Diphtheria has become epidemic at Mill Hall. D. L. Kerr, of Centre Hill, was in Miffliuburg last week on a visit to rel- atives, After Monday rabbits may be l¢ gal- ly killed. The De- cember 15. Poor bonnie ! season lasts until John Hosterman, a student in the Franklin and Marshall College, Lan- caster, was home over Sunday. Mre. Anna Clements will make sale of a lot of household goods, ~aturday, November 7, posters, dee sale register and A brigk snow storm prevailed Mon- day morning, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock. Bright sunshine followed. Jerry Bunavely is carrying the mail from the Spring Mills railroad station to the post office. in that service, He is an ideal man In looking over the game laws, the Reporter finds there is no limit placed on the number of squirrels t} at may be killed in one day, Mrs. Mary A. Rearick and daughter, Miss SBavilla, today (Thursday) will go to Cleveland, Ohio, where they will remain for several months. Mrs. H. P. Sankey, of Potters Mills, will have one of the largest sales to be beld this fall. The fall, stock good condition. is Holstein and all in (seorge Cowey, employ at Kulp's iad his ax in lumber job notes sraburg, Was recently the very pleasing guest of - Bower & Orvis, ve. Lewis Rosenthal. Reeder. Appeal. J. H. Lingle, Orvis, Bower & Orvis. | ve. Lewis Rosenthal, Reeder. | C. Y. Wagner, Spangler, Appeal A J.} Ap-| Vs. pesl E. L. Btover, Meyer, ve. John Miller, Spangler. Appeal. Robert Kinkead, Nolan, Appeal. Philipsburg Beef Test, Nolan. Appeal. A.l H. MeD. Co : Jacob | The Reporter and World-—81 65 The Thrice-a-Week World and the | Centre Reporter will be sent to any of | the Reporter readers, year for | $1.65. Both papers must be paid in | advance. ———— so Ole Go to the Polls, No American citizen should fail to! exercise his right of franchise. It an omission of duty and an evasion of | responsibility to fail to vote. Don’t for- | get the election on Tuesday, Novem- | ber 8 in | A — a —— Rea) Matate Sold The Millheim Journal notes that at Asronsburg the real estate of the late Aaron D. Weaver was sold by the ex- ecutors. Tracts Nos. 1,2 and 7, con- taining 51 acres were sold to J. B. Weaver for $64.75 per acre. Tract No. 3, coutaining 9} acres, to Frank Tom- linson at $84 per acre. Tract No. 4, containing 21 acres, to Ralph Stover for $49.75 per acre. Tract No. 5, con- taining 7 acres, to J. B. Weaver for $64.75 per acre. Tract No. 6, eontain- ing 33 acres, to GG. W. Kister for $64 per acre, and tract No. 8, consisting of town property and two adjoining lots, to J. J. Fiedler for $1505, Centre Hill. Fine October weather, Rufus T. Strohm and bride Friday left for Scranton, which piace they in- tend making their future home. J. O. Beaty, of Spring Mills, visited at the home of Mrs. Smith S8unday. Dr. J. K. Hosterman, of Ford City, is at home, visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs. A, P. Hosterman. Wagner Geiss and wife, of Belle- fonte, spent Bunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Goodhart. HBehool is progressing nicely under the able and efficient teacher, Miss Bertha Duck. County Superintendent C. L. Gram- ley has been visiting the schools in this vicinity. Miss Lizzie Burkholder, who bad been in the Bellefonte hospital for the pust few months, is at home again, but her condition is about the same as when she left. Joseph Hogr, of Milroy, is talking of starting blacksmithing at this place. The entertainment at the M. E, church, Sprucetown, given by Rev. T. G. Elliott, was well attended. William Walters lost a valuable horse last week, ballots for the straight Democratic ticket, Bend the local news to the Reporter, k wit Situ at unis sale rig Ki Brungard, on Andrew G. Curtin Quay, son of 1 appoint port of He will assume his new ed deputy nsval officer at the November 1. Curtis E. Greuning Williamsport postoffice, who was charged with pilfering mon- the on or only in States court at Scranton od He was sentence Nowadays new ideas in prize com- The Come petitions are few and far between. editor of the Woman's Home a quartet of well-known in question authors solving the ever-perplexing of a woman's choice in love J. P. 8. Strickler, of in town last Miflinburg, was week. He is the general mavager of the D. Strickler & Co., manufacturers of a variety of oils and dressings for leather, ete. Mr. Strick- ler is one of the young Democratic leaders of Union county, and is an ora- tor and stump speaker of no mean rep- utation, having filled places beside men of the type of John Fow, Jesse McClenahen, of Milroy, one of Armagh township's efficient school teachers, although bravely holding out to the last, had to succumb to the summons of death Monday of last week. He taught school the Friday prior to his death. Mr. MeClenahen was one of the oldest teachers of Mifl- lin county. His crippled condition made it necessary to use a8 wheel chair in the school room, but he had the knnck of securing the good will of the pupils and was a good disciplinarian, He was a member of the Milroy Free Christian church and was buried from the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Nancy MeClenahen, Last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Crawford, of this place, gave a party for their son Alfred. Those present were, Mary Whiteman, Bessie Emerick, Nina Soyder, James Lingle, Ray Durst, Ross Lytle, Fred Btover, Charlie Stover, George Kline, Bruce Stahl, Roy Pufl, Henry Mitter- ling, Swengel Smith, Charlie Miller, Paul Bradford, Ralph Dinges, Williara Bradford, Charlie and Calvin Brith, Edna Krape, Verna Nearhood, Paul Neese, Wallace Runkle, Lula and Jean Shultz, Jennie Kerstetter, Cora Luse, Freda Bailey, Amanda, Isabel and Robert Krumbine, Blanche Stover, John Whiteman, Roy White, Eva Bressler, Carriebelle Emerick, William Luse, Leslie and Adam Sunday, Guy Foreman, Clay~ ton Homan, Sumoer Kerstetter, Nellie Bmith, Elizabeth Sanders, Carrie and’ Ida Sweetwood, Helen Lute, Edna Robinson, Ruth Smith, Laura Mitter- ling, Jennie Stahl, Helen Wilson, Alfred Crawford, Florence Mader, Mury Dinges,