VOL. LXXVL.
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Volunteers.
7. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co.
R nt, P. V.
Cerin
[To be Continued.)
A., 148th
V. THE PRISONER'S STORY
lay I said to my partner, Skin-
f Hoboken, N.
like some
J., “Let us go in-
of the rest have
He said, “I
nothing to sell;
‘“] i
{sell my new over coat to the John-
{ it will bring
without you
I
iness,
Beep up spirits,”
3 money, an 1
y
will we get started ?’ I said,
* whatever I can
as well as and
besides, have quite a few
f value in my knapsack
rything gO he
must
ST
Jo
CS rd r rr
Pe (10 Te
en-backs, and fquive
toabout $1 22 in “sound money
eh 1
d two
whi paid for one
OER at
with which
split the wood into splint
heavy razor and x stope
: Warm
fat and happy, ete.
fed o]
iollar Confed.. ten: dents ! ten
When a plate was sold |
| by the pure
ou
its or one dollar Cor
passer til '
ju
in
av {
t ie | meals, of ns, t
ar
h
Pp
hacen, els
fairly well: out
ed,
meat was
five dollars a
with a Rebel
ids of stuffed |
e hundred dol
iay I made a deal
guard for twenty-five pou
liver pudding, for
th
atl au
post,
up to
but I
taking
gard was to deliver the pu id $
hour fixed, when he would be ot
be appointed
lead
nervous
hour I crept
lone in the darkne
wa
Was and hesitated onl
the risk as a number had beep |
line to trade. |
I
iti=
shot as they crossed the
I listened
o
t dark;
his frozen
ind watched closely ;
the guard
but I
HO
ald not see as it was
heard him walk
naely
beat twenty feet away, |
just outside the parmpet,
Within a few feet of me to my left, a
prisotier who had crept up to the dead- |
line so quietly that Lind
haard und
“Johnnie, will you trade?
even | not
!
him, asked in an rione,
~ ) Ls
I'he Johnnie yelled, “Get out of this!
you d-—— Yankee, I will put ball |
through you,’ and I heard the click of |
a
the guo-hammer as it was drawn pre.
paratory to shoot. If ever I heard a
Yankee ran in was then,
I pl very still till the guard of the
other beat came up in hopes it was
my mau,
When he came I signaled, “whist,”
he answered, “aye very low. [I said
“pudding 7 7 “Yes,” came the answer,
“Have you the mouey ready ?'’ I said
“I could raise only ninety dollars; is it
2" “Nes, let me have it." Quieck-
darkness it
He
ago?
ly I stepped over the dead line into
the diteh, the valley of death, where
many a prisoner was murderously
shot, in obedience to orders, by the
guards who, it was said, received fur.
lough home for shooting a Yankee out-
side of the dead line. The risk was al.
ways great; any other guard seeing me
would shoot me; but I clambered to
the top of the parapet and whispered,
“Here is the money,” and he handed
me the pudding. I slid over the para
pet and was gone so quickly and quiet-
ly that the guard did not know what |
becarae of me. But the pudding smelt
like limvurger cheese. Next morning
we examined it and found it was spoil.
ed. We could not sell it; so we ate it
i
NEW SOFT COAL TRUST DEAL.
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Company Ac.
quires the Beech Creek Company,
The Pennsylvania Cosl & Coke Com-
| pany, the new soft coal trust, which
[already owns thirty mines and thou-
sands of land in Blair,
Cambria, Clearfield and Indiana coun-
ties, and employs upwards of 15,000
acres of coal
men, has about completed a deal for
the purchase of the interests of the
jeech Creek Coal & Coke Company, of
which ex-Congressman James Kerr, of
Clearfield, is the head. When it is
| finally consummated the Pennsylva-
nia Company will be the largest pro-
in
tre-
this
virtual-
dominate the central Pennsylvania
field, having only one big competitor
the Berwin-White interests,
ducing soft coal mining company
With the
influence
the Altoona district
mendous prestige and
will give it, the company will
ly
Already the Pennsylvania Company
with the
ad to extend
mines, and to
order that new
Next
will
Cambria
the
mines,
as entered into contracts
ines {«
many of its
its virgin coal lands, in
t he
York
Of 1
Sounties
Teiged
il N
it at
begun.
Central
spring Ww
ild fifty
and
Pennsy
1
{
bu il rack i
fo
Indiana to reach
ivenia Company’
the New
the Pennsylvania Rail
{Ew
iLven now York Central and
road Companies
raflic
into
Penns
f COAL
agreements
&
will be shipped
sjont
tered
by which the ylvania Coal
Coke Company’
tidewster
I'bis
wis ir
ver the és route,
is in return for lal cConces-
«1 ym thie Pennsylvania Railroad.
a w—
Debate at State College
te for the cham-
Debat-
vas held
pe
en
er inte
colleg
slin
ite Colle ; Fri-
between
lege and
ge The
0. Furst,
Y. Roop,
College :
Bucknell
Sha
Subject :
tend
of the
A
[1%
Wellman,
burg
Union
are
§
y injure wel
untry
Affirmative,
£)
Walter U
Als
Htate Will-
Hart, Jr.
Marshall,
pp, |
Iams, mr CU, Hays, X
Franklin
ter, Paul B
1& contest in fa-
and Marshall |
team.
Anti-Roosevelt Republicans are be-
ing found in every bush. In
pothunter ignoring the rule
fact, a
rake.
is lustily maintained by the Presi-
dent’s retainers, but he wears his trib-
ulations on his coat sleeve, Quick up-
dacy by the “Commercial
of Cincinnati, the
summons “Boss”
Tribune,”
Mtate organ, he
0x to his
Civil Berviee
In Massa-
accused of
despite the protests of
Commissioner Garfield,
chusetts Governot dates is
plotting against the Lodge
Iu West Vir-
setting
the Roosevelt reliance
ginia Senator Seott is
It is
gic to din into people's ears
this is Wall street opposit
would drive the unt
support, But the
among the statesmen
Ro
self-pr
up =a
Hanna delegation
that all
ion, for that
iinkiog to his
revolt spreads
would be
80 called if for mevelt aud the mo-
tive bie
wan!
Candidly it does not
ust =ervation
another Republican
Ap pen
Republican party is aflame
velt. That sentiment is smou
Governo
ing his fait
that he would ser
(Governor, «
cont
fidelity
ent
!
make Brown
and springs his mi
trovernor and hims
Bupreme Court
increased by his
Judicial Salary bill
ture. First he pr
of I salari
judicial
J
own beneliciary
one-half ti
(Governor
salaried place on
For his services i
the const
he will receive
tution
%
$210 000
ries ol
the §
years’
f fF
OF OHO,
Hr IENE ¢
{
HRIAry io
Certainl
} v
ie OF 1
track gamli
the Phil
AVOWws= Iii
scdeiphis
sticdid
court bench
perceive
lated bs
pleads that
Thompson
caused by J
jut the effect
Bir
did el
H
never
Poultry Shippers Fined
wi
number of
A
Mifd
poultry shippers in!
lin cotinnty Mve heen put to con-
would have
is 5
Of
by suits being brought
Philadelphia socie- |
ity to ani- |
shipping |
vis dp
Lied
ary to law, |
crates.” |
“olosed
leville,
Was
to the
)
4
80
finn go
Lo © |
ip to Philadelphia he paid |
ten dollars and costae,
Same |
kK, Heory Forgy, and John OC. |
ig from Newton Ham- |
ere nis sch fined ten dollars
and costs
was half
Our capital waa We had
now?"
must get
this tin
name, company and
the a silver
NOW goue,
“What
I said, “We
even with the fraud of a Reb :
with
in business,
my
on it is size of
for a silver dollar.’
When friendly guard was on
post that night I went out to the dead
line and signaled, “Whist;” “Aye,
care “Trade ? '' I asked;
“Yes”! “What have you?’ He said
“Four pounds of beef and a stick of
cord wood" I said “I will give you a
silver dollar for it.” “Hand “it over”
he said
I crossed the dead line and ditch,
climbed the parapet and handed him
the medal, got the beef, cleared the
ditch and ran. On coming in, Skin.
ner asked, “What luck?” 1 said,
“Good, I was too much for the dis
honesi devil this time.” Next morn.
ing we looked at the “beef” aud found
it was a chunk of a cows udder, it look-
ed yellow and slimy.
Skinner thought if we cooked it
thoroughly we could eat it, hungry as
we were, He split the wood with razor
and stone and cooked the udder till the
wood was all burned; as it was cooked
it turned yellow, slimy, scummy and
odoriferous, but we ate of it; all at
once I felt sick; I said, I have enough
our
i"
the answer,
felt sick too and had a pain; we gave
the balance to other prisoners, and I
imagine they all got a pain. It was a
week before we fully recovered from
the effects of this mess,
was not
amoition,
.
¢ w 4
eports from Washing te
ration organs state that
war lord at the head of the Govern-
for active
‘olom-
Is it not snou
n and wasion ne of
of that Rs
to make
Slates ubliec, without
upon her
well as her reg-
ularly accredited Minister are still at
Washington holding peaceful relations
with this Government,
war
smn a
While State Senator
of Lewiaburg,
succeed Representative Mahon in Con- |
gress, the leaders of the Machine are |
said decided that the Union
County statesman shall be retired from
business altogether. Of course it
not because of the infamous ballot law
K. Foeht,
# his plans to
fs
erly
is lay
to have
is
that bears his because he is
to
Elkin wing of the State Machine.
name, but
too vociferous in his loyalty the
Wn
Chairman Jones of the Democratic
National committee has called a meet. |
ing of that body for January 12 to be
held in Washington. The place for
holding the National Democratic Cone
vention will be named, and other busi- |
ness transacted
cision —
Now ia the time when organs must |
guarantee the conservatism of Roose-
velt, if given a regular teria, That is
as dificult as guaranteeing the inde-
pendence of stormy* Panama.
—————— =] ————
President Roosevelt's “dead sure’
nomination is anything but dead sure
~Congress is in session and Governor
Odell and Senator Platt are having a
bout,
isd doin
The Republican Nations
Saturday decided that the Republican
convention shoul 1 be held in Chicago,
June 21st
Benutor Penrose is after the chair
manship of the Republican National
Committee,
i AMM YP
Go to the Grunge Arcadia Friday
night,
ly
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Teachers are Preparing for that Even!
Committees Appointed,
Py
The
fifty-seventh Centre
MEDICINE.
|
| ber 28th and closing January 1st,
{ ly been noted in these columns.
cussion among the teachers at
present time,
{18 every indication that the
erage Those who Slay away
progressive, and may and ought
{suffer in the future,
i The
! fo
committees
Hows :
Resolutions
A.
Gramley,
appointed are
-C. D. Koeh,
Fiedler, James
Effie
{Orpha LL
Legislation—-W, P., Hosterman, C
M. Pletcher, D. H. Robbins, W.
Krise, D. P. Fortney, A. P. Weaver,
Educational
W A.
Duck, trude
Moyer, Bella B
| Buck.
arde, Carrie Weaver,
Wieland, Ex
Alice
® Leer
Barnhart,
Flections—8. W. Gramley, Chas,
feiss, OC, E, Royer, Jacob Dei
Nolf, Anuie (
shidel
Auditing
C
Hoy,
hi
hi,
E. R. |
{ ‘am pbell,
L.
Bible '
Accounts
J. R
Haines,
k Young, J. K. Moyer, |
C. Musser, John Ross- |
Frank,
M.
Cyrus F, |
Fan
Beirley, Ernest
Bit R.
KE Fisher,
er, (i. White, |
Certifi-
Slate duper |
Etters, H. W
Perisanent
od by the
David 0
MM
-
Cy Rowen
> -
Hand in Fodder Shredder.
¢
ig 0
IHR OF
Al-
farmer,
inst week
dairyman and
1#L east of Bellefonte,
hand He
* for his cows when his right |
was shredding
caught iu the rollers, and so
and mashed that it was
cessary to amputate the hand
Mr. wanted
to the member, but the doctor
id of blood poison settling in.
wrist, (strove to
i
ve has been a very unfortu.-
last
kind
was
Jost
wl this Uime
al the same
left hand
he
tically
young
Ose ous
I i
his
sate way and
¥
a4, 50 thal pr he
He
most
ae
dieses man
ne of the
y Lhe ox
is
un
munty. He has a fam- |
A
The Hyner Gas Field
of the
successiul test made by an expert who
found
Following the announcement
visited the newly natural gas
wells at Hyner, Clinton county, the
directors of the company have
nounced that six additional wells will
be sunk,
an-
made to the
Lock Haven Borough Council by the
for franchise to
pipes there to convey the gas for |
Application has been
Kas company " lay
eal.
log and lighting purposes,
A test of well No. 2, which was re.
cently drilled at Hyner, shows a pres
sure 600 pounds and the flow of gas in
twenty-four hours to be 700,000 feet.
ml —————
Hedoced Rates to New Orleans,
Ou account of the meetings of the
American Economic Society and the
American Historical Society, at New
Orleans, La, December 28 to January
1, the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny will sell round-trip tickets to New
Orleans and return from all stations
on its lines, December 24, 25, and 26,
5, inclusive, at reduced rates. For spe-
cific information consult ticket agents,
A————————— A AS
Make a Note of This,
If a man were wise he would live
each day so that if he died the next,
which every mortal is more or less
likely to do, the man who preached
bis funeral sermon and the man who
wrote his obituary, would not be un-
der the necessity of compromising the
truth. Ministers of the gospel and ed.
itors of newspapers have rights which
people who contemplate dying should
take a little into consideration.
A A ———
Date of Methodist Conference Changed,
Announcement is made that Bish
op UC, McCabe, who isto preside at
the approaching session of the Central
Penvsylvania conference of the Metho.
dist thureh, whith meets in Harrie
burg next year, has changed the meet.
lug from March 16 to March 28,
.
oe. ge vliinsion
Centre Reporter $1.00 a year.
—"
Rirdlike
Reptiles
are many
to be found
otitdoor ox
result in the
impaired
disorders
stimulates
all else
hair. Keep
dition and
you.
logue
baldhe
are not
ads as indigestion
A Story of Hrignoli,
Praise with Brig
noli. One evening at rehearsal in New
York the orchestra laid down.their in
struments as one man and applauded
his singing of a favorite song long and
vigorously. He was much pleased and,
advancing to the footlights with many
a bow and smile of satisfaction, said
“Gentlemen, immediately after the
rehearsal there will be a champagne
supper at the Everett House. 1 hope 1
may have the honor to meet you all
there.” .
It is needless to remark that they
were there, every man of then. The
supper cost Brignoli 856040,
went a long wi
The Noble Character,
Here is Aristotle's definition of a no-
ble character: He does not recollect in-
Justice; for accurate recollection, espe
cially of Injuries, is not characteristic
of the magnanimous man, but he rath.
er overlooks them. He is not fond of
talking of people, for he will neither
speak of himself nor anybody ele; for
he does not care that he himself should
be praised nor that others should be
blamed.
RI HPAP SA,
Clothing, Confidence and Real Value
~MONTGOMERY & CO,, Bellefonte.
* NO. 510.
TOWN AND COUNTY HEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL'PARTS.
1
ciohing
I Hii
oF
i
count
and art
and relia
uaging
foremost modisie
a jell
LeeoIne 8 regular «
rial presenta;
is excelient,
e Pope cle daily-leal calendar
ss pach | sending WO
the Pope Manulactur-
Hartford Counectiout.
366 leaves, half
other cons
in the
to
five
amps Lo
ifs
ydendar conia
{Or met randGe, 13
ni freshly written lines {0
pens of college presidents,
merchanis,
town by
home to do your
Buy your things
here in
Patronize home
Don’t
going away
Christmas shoppiog
al home, because
abundance and good enough for any
body. The customer has the right to
insist on the merchant doing the same
thing. The home business men ale
ways deserve the patronage of the
Rules work both ways.
Your
discredit ur hom
from
y
they are
merchant,
James A. Moyer, of Barneveld, lows,
who with his father went west in 1569
from near Pine Grove Mills, is the
only survivor of that family, both his
parents, and brother George and sister
Annie having died. Mr. Moyer relates
in a note to the Reporter, in Which
cash for five years subscription was
neatly folded, that his gracdiatber
was one of the first subscribers to the
old Centre Berichter. The Reporter
will always be glad to have its pairous
state the occapation or business ens
gaged in; or any information that
may be itaoarted to the readers of the
Reporter, who are always suxious to
see recorded the movements of people
who onee lived in this locality.