VOlL.. LXXVI.
HALL, PA.
,
1903.
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR,
Volunteers.
Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., 148th
PY.
[To be Continued.]
fegiment,
ER V. THE
He
they
CHAPTI PRISONER'S STORY.
QO
campment,
tant, «
by a sumber of frail, emueiated
oners they but
their blankets and other effects
this high handed outrage and robbery,
there was no appeal and it stood--up-
punished
They would
blankets from other prisoners,
He Island Prison E
a Sibley
aching
went into
1e of the best in camp, occupied |
pris-
threw kept
who out,
From
rations and |
if they
knocked |
always car- |
Hanateh!
remonstrated, they were
down with the clubs they
ried
For
long time they had everything |
Laeir own way Caey openly comm
ted
and
number of the
which tney murdered a soldier
ii crimes with impunit :
witnessed
Jaous
flourished I
robberies,
they 4
one of
Vian
ir in
of the prisoners besides me saw it ; but
it.
aly no protection for an informer;
at this time, would
H
1
all Kept quiet about Chere was ab-
solu
to inform on them,
have been suicide. re there was no
la wi) 1§ pe alt y for roteciion
1aishment of erime, no matter ho
Here
the rest
entirely
world, W
and
must
- We were
nou
YH
:» under
What
i here, ¢
no ent,
goveram
happened here tr
Ww reinsin unsettled
high
this
Wil VPAMS IAW irsiiess ald
we ran riot, unchecked in
1p, and life and personal efl-cts had
no safeguards, Rations and
re saatched out of your hands
Ww
t hese
at dow!
he who resented,
villains, and
Ww rap on the head with
P OV BR
a “billy,” or “blackjack,” whether to
eup was always
But the day of
lawlessness and erime must end
ALAIN, a question,
retribution finally
came §
Under t
it of
« and encourage-
Lieut .
COIN PAnivs were
he auspice
the Post (
two
me ‘ommander,
police
Possesu,
under the of
“Camp Regulators,” the
{ rganized ; Onie name
other named
aud kuown by
of “B Island Po-
[hey were given uoalimited au-
and
Hmafery Gruards, ail
he geaeral name ie
t
t
to Keep order, to punish
18% 10 Leif OWED WAY.
sl
«ponded
sri, is quick-
the rout
“
ns Lage up by
FRITH
Catnp ; were tustaniiy on
ritninal sould al
i=faen IIe
Dedng
ul lows avi Kick
begging for
Were over -
wij WW
suuder
victims shouting and
» gird meres [ when they
were tustantly Kine
¥
ried to get up, fou
many me: |
AM
ar ful Kicks, |
Ww they
fi vif
side
ie
or 'y a
io
L
puaist
iojuaries,
On the
at
of the
1 sod back, would la
WwW
WAY
8, slotal
neler the viciin
Lhe
at agai
«tf 1a
[ never learned,
west side
five hundred
1st Keatue
e¢ Hrgtuae
tila outlived
af Cvinp were ova
(Union) pri
Ky, nnd 2d Te
1H Were Organs
el ab
Ie
Oa
Ww
Tie as is,
self protection, and alway
for uu
ratlied
Oue afternoon these
ni,
other
“Irish Raids
and their followers went over to snaten
On
to defend ene
the Dennesseeans
"of the first blavke |
the alarm given. The of
Kentueky and UVennessee, and the po-|
1 , row !
The battle was for the extermination
of the raiders. A great msjority was
01 1os side pow, and it was safe
So I joined in the genersi
! kilt them! « hii
blankets stnong
the “snateching’
Wus Hiv
oe taraed out ; a fearful ensued,
to
gpeak out,
shou of gill them
I was crowding cut and elbowing no
way to the front to help it along. Tl
row was immense, aud lasted, prob.
bly an hour, during whieh time is
tense excitement prevailed among the
Coufederates, fully
three batteries commanding the cam; ;
and stood by thelr “double cannisters
ed’! guns, awaiting 8 possible “break
out,” from the excited camp. There
was no strike for [freedom ; but the
raiders’ were wiped out, 1 saw the
leaders killed ; ** Pete’ and “Tar” (we
never heard their real names) went
down ; while *Jack,’’ the *Monster,”
fell by a dagger stab in the spine, be-
tween the shoulders ; the poiat of the
dagger broke off and remained ; his
whole body was instantly paralyzed.
He wis now an at ject coward, and in
tears begged for hus life, He died a
few days ater,
“Big Mikes, a giant
who uanned tos
in size and
band, broke through the crowd, and
ran, with nearly ull the clothes torn
off his back ; hie was pursued ; Lt,
DEATH OF BENJAMIN CORLL,
Aged Hanter Found Dead
Nix ville Run
Benjamin Corl, of Pine Hall,
one of the
in 4 Cabin at
above
State College, pioneer sets
ad in
vile Run in
Friday morning
at Six
the Allegheny mountains,
Mr. Corl was one of a hunting party
the
in
brothers
ten thai had been
untatas for
ganreh of
scouring
vaelt or ten days
S
13] i
1res ri
Mr. Corl
had shot two deer and as he
mme,
were in the purty himself
had grown
tired of the chase the party started out
the old
Vhen
the |
Friday
to find
indications
to &
hunter alone in
they
were
leaving
cabin, returned
shocked
I'he
that death had been
morning they
him eold in death
were due par-
stroke,
'ne deceased was seventy-three
years of age and leaves a wife and sev.
eral children
I'he funeral
residene Monday
at Pioe Hall cemetery,
Black oflie
wk place from his Iate
Inter.
A.
inornioy
iment Rey
A imting
Bo
A Until to the
James A. Beaver, President
‘antre County Soldiers
Patriotie
reneral
f the d
0
meno-
Associn'ion, has called a meeting
¢
“LEARNING
By O, J. Kern, Supt.
practical edueation for the farmer boy,
It not the of the
writer that we should educate country
boys to be farmers merely, any
than that we should educate
be blacksmiths, carpenters, or
cians, We should aim to train boys
to be men in the highest sense of the
term. But why not a course of train-
in belief or wish
more
bovs to
electri-
try boy which shall teach him more
about the country lifes around him?
Along with his study of the kangaroo,
the bamboo, and the cockatoo, why
not study the animals on the farm and
8 proper for them,
the care and composition of the soil of
the farm,
grains and vegetables, and
tion of bir
Instead of
being dev
theoretical,
feeding standard
the improvement of types of
the protec
beneficial to the farmer ?
the
problems,
is
all of boy's arithmetic
ited to more or less
banking, stocks, ex-
change, brokerage, agation, and
partnership, some practical
problems with reference to farm eco-
nomics? F boy who will remain
on
why not
or the
and cent
of the
}
svolution
the ¢
of §
Daughters
Hm lees
Veter
R
Orga
I4 in the Cot
Friday, Nov
1
sige nants for
of all
ANROCIA-
tion he "i iub, of the
of the and any |
O°
ed,
Bellef
10 %¢
pe
of a (
morial bu
patriotic izations interest |
House in|
h, 1903, at |
to |
ion
tor be
irt
a
nite
AL, -d
Hoek a, m 1s is
meeting
fect are the erect
‘malre county moaumesat or me- |
ding
-—— -_
W. HH Roukle's Apal
of York,
your, asks the Repor
W. H
for D. H
say that
the
Raunkle,
he
manager |
ter to}
he non-arrival of |
regre
t
t
colts advertised for = Saturday
that
ale
He assures the Pp 1blie
he is not at fault, haviug fulfilled
part of the contract. The «ale
held Mon
be seen at |
will be |
lay afternoon. Colts may |
he stable any time, i
about |
either |
ft A 8WaY-|
In this Lt row
three thousand
grea
men
act ly, packes
rowd ; ti
vely OF pasa
iii Ooutin were
E,
Kil
el. i Jot
gf
and probably a hundre njur-
gel quite "
w hare th
thin tae
rane
Vike
speed
Of hooks |
an OCs, std they COnD-
ruled a vireniating library
f this
£0 “=RrS
After
take it,
call out,
till,
Was |
Cue n
it
or
Meinter «
Uroading circle” was only 1
"
DOOR ii Zitiw
AE
r read it, you would
ithe
book
Camp and
to exchauge 7
and
a
tere’ was heard, a trade
i bad new readiog fora |
vxcha
ir dollars
nade, and vac
hooks !
often |
these
of i
wel for
days i Tes,
b threes Were
five i
| £3)
xehs wm twenty
d forth,
Cent mag
be traded
of the
#0 you got one you had
1
{
$0°R Bi
value
In reading these circulating books,
gloomy day |
was bridged over
IRNGY 8 and miserable
I bad formed some pleasant acquain-
Anong western
camped on the north side,
ing after dusk I went over to exchange
books with them ; I found their tents
“miply ; they had Away.
Iv one of their tents I found a dead
soldier sod vot an earthly thing be-
bie hind been deserted by his come
; while sick, and left to die alone.
Hs death siruggles were evidently
ioug sand terrible His mouth and
both his hands were full of ground,
held fast in a death grip.
He lay partly on his side, and had
kicked, avd dug a great hole in the
ground with his feet, I left him as 1
found him, He was one “anknown,”
and I thought it was a blessing that
his people would never know what a
sad end came to him, unattended and
alone in winter, in that cheerless tent,
on the bare ground. By reason of
filth, unsanitary conditions of the
eamp, and exposure to all conditions
of inclement weather, many without
shelter, nod all without fuel, caused
the men to sicken and die in great
numbers ; the sick were carried out to
the hospital every morning ; yet many
who were not supposed to be sick
enough to go to the hospital, died in
camp Bowe dying in fits of ecugh-
LRLONS some
boys, |
One even-
moved
been
witle :
rude
gome of the prisoners at the south eud,
pitied, snd bid him, till the excite |
mene died cot,
Couvinuvd at foUl of DYE ovltoun,
ing ; others would drop down sand die;
ou the farm perhaps
will) the should
an inspiration aod a
ure life work.
ATIONAL IDEAL
85 per
wirse of jostruction
vill be
ir fut
A NEW ED
It is very dith
farmer
‘wit to reach the aver-
aud genuinely enlist his
fo
Age
ation r the betterment
of school facilities for his children.
| There must somehow Le created a new
farmer must
It is not
enough to tell him of the shortcomings
of the country One
he
ground
| educ atioual ideal.
ou his own
must be
and,
schools
better,
why the
Aud the
farmer from
able to teil him what
is
important still, pro-
r
g is Deller
the
View,
reasons
to his
own point In the creation of
this pi
tience, enthusiasm, and a tireless ener-
of
new ideal, tact, sympathy
ors that must obiain,
FARMER BOYS
In Win
gun with
EXPERIMENT CLUB
ebhago Uounly, we have be
the rildren io our effort to
create a new ideal with reference to
shool training. ie Farmer
Boys’ Ex perime:
by me o
charter
it Club was organized
1902 The
¥
February
mnt
tmbers of the elu n
n mel that
office of
lr}
boys, who Orn.
Ing in the Hnty superin
tenedd Le
iis
brief talk« fr
the TH . 4
i«
Sliaiiet,
Superin
Agricultural
‘ @7
ire
hu
fo wWently Years o 3
five itil
lithe eX -
pectation is Lo have astea 'y nore
nae
interest and numbers,
the
There is
he schivnery of
is very
constitution
i Oorgatization
uo elaborate
forth
in bigh-sounding terms what the boys
ih for. The
list of the
“i uple
and by-laws ta wet
county superia-
names of the
wilh
boys, the post-office address of
Superintendent Fred Rankin,
has
offic
a duplicate list, and from
« g0 circulars, bulletins, and
of various Kinds, the main |
object being to keep in touch with the
boys, and to interest them more deeply
in the beauty of country life and the
worth, dignity, and scientific advance.
meut in agriculture,
each
Ei EXCURBIONS,
After the organization of the elub it
to me that it would do a great
deal of good to have the voys and their
parents go an excursi'n to the
Agricultural College and experiment
station connected with the University |
of THlinois, at Urbana, Rockford is
two hundred and fourteen miles from
Urbana, snd we secured a rate of §2 50
for the round trip. On June 5, 1902, |
one hundred and thirty boys aud one |
hundred and fifty adults, —~pearly six
coaches full left Rockford for Urbas |
pa, And on June 1, 1903, a second ex- |
cursion, numbering two hundred and |
four persons, was run to
piace. Only thirteen persons of the
second excursion were members of the |
first. The expectation is, if proper ar- |
rangements can be made, to continue |
these excarsions to the colleges of
neighboring States, We hope to ar-
range for an excursion to the 8t. Louis
ix position of 1904
While at the Oollege of Agriculture
and experiment station the boys were
shown the laboratories where the work
of testing and improving ty pes of corn,
trestment and anslysis of soils, propa.
gation of plants, ete, was done. On
the experiment farm the boys were
shown the growing crops, and were
told how they were being oared for,
and what experimental work was bes
fag done. They inspected sugar beets,
CATIONAL
on
the same |
while many others simpy died while
y BOY Denim, cowpeas, Wheat,
BY DOING”
Winnebago County, Illinois,
named plant were pulled up, and the
boys were shown where the bacteria
deposit in the ground the nitrogen
taken from the air.
The livestock department of the
farm appealed strongly to the boys
They inspected a model dairy barn.
At the feeding yards they saw a bunch
of steers that were being fed a balanced
ration that would make it possible for
the cattle to bring the top price in the
Chicagy market. The Horticultural
Department was of more than passing
interest,
To be sure, it is too soon to say what
the effect of these excursions will be.
Some of the boys had never been on a
railroad train. Many more had never
been out of the county. We will wait
patiently for time to show results in
quickened aspirations, stronger char-
acters in growing boys, and a general
uplift in the educational interests of
Winnebago County.
EXPERIMENTAL WORK OF THE BOYS
Ihe experimental and observation
work of the boys, thus far, bas consist-
ed in testing the vitality of various
seeds, planting corn and noting
testing for smut in oats, ex-
perimenting with sugar
lo making investigations
ence Lo smut io
growth,
beets, et
with refer-
oats, each boy was di-
rected to go into four difterent
acd make in the same
field by placing a barrel hoop over as
many stalks of grain as the hoop might
ine and then counting and record.
ing results,
££
fields
three counts
i
Ose
10%,
was determined by the boys, Bome of
the work that came under my personal
direction showed a percentage of smut
from 3 per cent.
iy
3 per
This was practical
the lowest, to
cent, the highest,
YOK In arithmetic.
KE last year, was given two
pounds of sugar-beet seed by the ex-
Urbana. The de-
wanted to interest the boys
the time whether
sugar beets could be grown with profit
in this dairy region of porthern Illi-
nuis. Some very fine beels were raised
by the
and sent
ach boy,
periment station at
par meat
and al
Bee sane
boys. They selected specimens
them to the experiment sta-
to be aualyzed. The remainder
were fed to the stock on the farm,
tion
Fhe boys concluded that if sufficient
belp could be secured atl a reasonable
wage, sugsr beets could be grown here
profit. Oue kept
unt of labor, rent of ground, etc.
wilh boy al exsct
noe
the
short, first
His
roids of
cost of raising his
forty-fi
Fhe total cost
rent of |
of |
aud
beets pial comprised ve
ground.
FUT
of culiivation, harvestiog, sad
£19.55 The
raised was one huadred
vighty-three, thus makiog the
trifle over ten cents per bushel,
beets tested the best
ground was number
Uushiels
Cost a
These
of those received
al the experiment station, showing 15
per sugar and B67 purity
efficient. Ibis was practical work for
the boys, and many of them are keep-
ing note-books ou the present year's
work.
At present, in Illivois, the breeding
of improved types of corn is attract.
jug the attention of the farme 8. Pro-
fessor Hopkiue, of the Illinois College
of Agriculture, is able to show results
from experiments over a number of
years that corn may be bred to pro-
duce a high percentage of oil, thus
makiog it more valuable commercially,
or it may be bred to produce a high
percentage of protein, making it more
valuable for teeding purposes. The
Illinois State Farmers’ [ostitute gave
to every boy of Winnebago County
cent, CO
hundred grains of this high-bred corn.
Nearly two buudred boys of the ex-
periment club sent for the corn ladt
Each boy is ex-
interesting facts
an exhibit of the ten best ears at the
County Farmers’ Iostitute next Jaou-
ary, and enter in competition for prizes
already offered by the officers of the
institute, This is practical work, to
| educational movement, —the Farmers’
| Institute,
The boys alsh make observations as
to barren stalks of corn in plats one
hundred hills square and compute the
percentage. The time the tassel and
silk appear on a stalk of corn is noted
It is not expected that a ten-year-old
boy beequipped with a compound mi:
eroweope of 10,000 diameters and have
him know the whole mystery of life
from the study of a cross-section of a
wrain of pollen, aud that at a single
sitting. Nay, rather have him use his
eyes a little observation this week,
more next week, more next year,-un-
til the habit of observing is fixed, and
silently there grows within him the
power to judge, and he becomes edu-
cated because he sees things with his
Bowe roots of the laste
yes,
President Roosevelt asserts that he
had no knowledge of the Pansioa rey-
olution until it wes over, and sup.
port of his memory he appeals to what
he wrote for his message two weeks
before the revolution occurred. But
among the documents submitted to
Congress on Monday is a dispatch from
the Navy Department to Rear Ad-
miral Glass on November 2 (thirty six
hours before the revolt) directing them
to proceed “with all possible dispatch
to Panama.” The Aamiral is further
instructed ‘lo occupy Ancon Hill
strongly with artillery,”
be ready to sweep the town. Is Presi-
dent Roosevelt Commander-in-Chief
of the army and pavy of the United
Btates, or were these truculent orders
issued by the Navy Department with-
out his knowledge and consent ?
in
The latest figures obtainable
that the farm value of dairy products
in Pennsylvania are exceeded by but
one state in the U aggregating
$35,860,110 per annum, that, ac-
cording to the last there
32,600 farms in Pennsylvania
derived their principal
the dairy. In 1900,
775 dairy cows,
report
uion,
and
Census wers
hich
income from
the State had 945,-
and pro
487,033,818 gallons of milk in cone year
The total number of farms in the
as reported by the last Census, is 2
248, and the
products was
uation of $35 860 656
of these
74,221,085 poun ds,
51,
ducers.
these luced
number
200.035,
reporting dairy
with
The
farms
a total val
butt
er made
on 159.857 aggregated
bh
id by
whic amount
509 8383 pr wands ware s the pro-
op ft
Washington Disputchee leave n
£0
room to question the complete Kuowi-
edge the President and the
ale
errs
tary
had of the Panama
revolution, and make evident
ther that Secretary Hay proftiised
the conspirators that there be
no fighting on the isthmus, which, of
course, admitted of only
that the 1
would not allow Colombia to
the The Admii
tion's terms were declined by Col
Pana i seces-
proposed
the fur
fact
should
one
meaning
ited
namely, States
KU press
insurrection. intra.
tn
ucouraged the
their
promised them the protection o
United 8 they
doing iL
bin, so ite
sionists to carry out pre ject a
lales navy while
Ws >
The Republic
dent Roosevelt
fect, that
Panama caval
to the 1
natin of the we
d Presi
Argues
I Organs, nt
himself,
the In
will be
united
rid,
justified in f
bees tse iiidiog of
of vast
~Niatles
BROCE ®)ua
lie gover
Was HSaAR Ing iis
tions ; justified
Wilh a sister republic
If [scar
justified in his act of bets Avail, bee
this is true, udas
of the great good that was sccomplis
ed by the death of Christ.
But Judas went out
self.
smal mm———
Merchants frequently complain that
fon
goods that could be bought as cheaply
at home. This may trae, but the
home merchant frequently neg-
jects to advertise his wares, while
city everlastingly
peggiog away through the newspapers,
by circulars, ete, to gain trade, Ii
the city merchants did not advertise,
they could not sell a dollar's worth of
goods in the country. Is it not
sonable to assume that the home mer-
chant could greatly extend his trade
by honest, judicious advertising,
amie eo osm——
It is now explained that the Penn-
sylvania Steel Company got the con-
tract for rails for the Mecca Railroad
becsuse it could make them from im-
ported ores and secure the rebate of
the duty on the export of the rails. In
other worde, the protective tarifl had
to be suspended or the company could
not have got this foreign contract
The more it shall be suspended the
more business we shall get.
i
The Philadelphia Press is “pegging
away’’ at the new road law, and wants
every farming community to take ad-
vantage of the state appropriation for
road purposes, Now, if the Press will
show how any strictly rural commu-
nity can afford to build any cousider
able portion of its roads, it would ac
complish a great deal for the '“larm-
ers.”
their customers send 0 the cities
be
foo
his
competitor Keeps
rea-
Ba——— I SS ——
One hour and twenty-eight minutes
after the President heard of the revo.
lution in Pansma he ordered the com-
mander of the Nashville to “prevent
Government troops at Colon from pro.
ceeding to Pansma.” That explains
the success of the revolution,
AAS ——-—
After all, is not example more force
ful than precept ?
A nt,
Pomoun Grange,
The Centre County Pomona Grange
will meet in regular session Tuesday,
December 1. Two sessions, afternoon
aud evening, will be beld. An inter
esting program has bven prepared,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Thanksgivio
Colt gale
A
ig
Monday, Nov, 30
Patronize the
the
advertisement
Rev, (i.
had the misfdriune to brea
The
Company
ed by fire,
There
the colt
The colts are
The M E. Bunday
Mills, will hol
ment in their church
‘hanksgiving supper,
%
lead pring Mills Cash Store
8 a
k bis ankle,
the El
at Curwensville was destroy
The
will be cappointment at
sale Monday,
Bhannon, of Norwor
$
f
tanvery of i
k Tannin
£
loss is $100,000,
no di
November 30,
hotel stable,
now at the
school at Bpring
Ig
1a Christmas entertain.
Christmas cove,
Green Decker will make sale of
personal property Friday of this
The location is two
ters Mills
1 he
‘ng supper wi’ be app. d
miles east ©
the Thank
the
Every one hold help Progr
Girange pay this debt
Dr. J. E. Ward, of
proceeds from
to
fund
as note
Year ne
Al
&
ali change
N
Vener
“ermantow
aivis
! ged to
fie Orange
of the
of Rev. Buuitl
1i0¢ chin
ert! ful
fact thet Miss May, ds
f
i" Lhe
pastor «
ru
A fits fir
Fave Lhe
rris brougl
ick at shoot
if which he is
Ww put
ication
» yet
on and pi
Many
lively
lands,
and
full of really good
tures, and well-written and
pic
ar
Lime y
Qe,
Houser,
heir relatives
in Williamsport, Houserville, Howard,
on, and Centre Hall, for the
thiree moaths, have returned to ti
Grand Island, Nebraska.
d wghters of William H.
with family wer t
twenty-three years ago this
first kin in
Alice and Minnie
who have been visiting
Misses
Zi past
heir
in
Are
H user, who
home
hey O
his
and
their
wes!
2 their visit to
the east,
Hon. Garver, of Grant
Mao. has been appointed by
etnor of that state
board of mwedi'ation
Ibis board will bave
bor troubles, ete, and is composed of
three persons. At the orgavization,
in Louis, Mr. Garver was elected
chairman. Mr. Garver is editor of the
Worth County Times, and before go-
ing west from Potter township, learn-
+d the art preservative in the Reporter
fice.
Rev,
ed the
by the
E. 8 City,
the give
a member of the
and arbitration.
to deal with la-
Nt
Walter K. Harnish has accept-
unanimous call extended to him
Presbyterian churches of Spring
Creek, Pine Grove Mills and Buflalo
Run. The installation over the three
churches will take place at Lemont
December 15, 1903. Rev. Dr. Laurie,
of Bellefonte, will preside and preach
the sermon, Rev. R. M, Campbell, of
Pennsylvania Furnace, will charge
the pastor, and Rev, W. H. Schuyler,
of Centre Hall, will give the charge
to the people. These exercises are
open to the public.
Bond Meyer, son of J, Henry Meyer,
of Bowling Green, Virginia, was an
urrival in Centre Hall from the South
Saturday morning, and while here
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
Meyer, Mr, Meyer came to Centre
county to perform an important mise
sion for his elder brother, Bliss, notice
of which will be made in due time, He
reports crops in Virginia very fair,
acd that Pennvsylvania methods of
farming, when applied to Virginia soil,
are far superior as to results than the
methods of the natives,