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Regiment, P. V,
[To be Continued |
CHAPTER VIII
I can not at this late day the
singers of the Regiment, but in Co. A,
John B. Ziegler, Chas, Weiser, Henry
Miller, Charles Held, Wm. C. Meyer,
Israel Otto, T. P. Meyer, John Rau-
dall, J. D. Johnson, and a few others
The songs were generally carried in
name
three parts, always gathered a crowd,
and often dispelled the gloom in camp,
which followed our great reverses,
‘aa
ied
also
named
the singing iu our chapel meelings,
» *
I'he before Miers
and strange to say, all lived to return
except
home at the end of the
Wm. C. Meyer,
kilied in battle, at Deep Bottom, near
the James river, Va, Aug. 14th, 1864,
Under all conditions, time passed
rapidly with the boys
Coming’ up the James river
turn from a few days leave of absence,
War,
who was jpstantly
in the army.
on my re-
on the afternoon of April 3rd, 1865, we
passed seven army trausporis, loaded
with Confederate their
At the Cit
three more
Oh
Point
naports,
prisoners,
Laud-
filled
way north.
¥
A
ing lay ir
under guard off the
transportation, in all, said to be
landing awaiting
aver
seven thousand, gathered in at Five
Forks, and along the Petersburg lines.
The final campaign had at last be-
gun in earnest. [I boarded a freight
Mili-
Pat-
the
train, the only cars used on the
Rk R. by Ariny,
sion, the nearest point to
V.
train, an
the for Lhe
tary
Fi¢xk
enn of the 148 P
-
On the way we
passed a special engine aud
one car, rapidly moving toward City
Poiui
I saw President Lincoln
: at an open window of this car,
looking oul,
to see the opening of the great fi
his
assassinat!
wement, was within
of his 0
R.
ground
ded
sppa-
iou alovg this Military were
congregated, and lying on tl
in the open alr, hundreds of
Unio ahd
r-ntly unattended
The were
f: , and only a fe
wou
Confederate soldiers,
and upocared for
surgeons required at ti
w were left io at
te dence here: 80 the less severely
wounded dressed their own, and each
ol hers wounds, and did ail they could
fur ail about them.
{'liere was lamentation among the
badly wounded over their misfortunes
at the very end of the war.
Arriving at Patrick Station
evening of April 8rd, 1865, 1 struck
siraight far our Regimental
For! {
Camp, at
imming=; I found it abaudon-
ei, and Fort Cu
Not» r muy where in sight,
I went to the tent that
Bat it,
of
Fhe canvas gone,
mings dismantied
iving pers
fad 51 ered
like the
the 14%: was
i
rest of
em pe
mie Let
th wals
iy.
ore.
a
ous
the walls,
fev As far as could
reach, desolation, ruin an
shape. the eye
1 loneliness
was every where seen throughout the
vast encampment of the great Army
of the Potomae,
Often before we had left our camps
snd teturped, but now, the army had
goue, never to return again.
were plenty of crackers and pork left
lying about the camp. I gathered a
supply crackers
and mess pork.
i FraeE
of munuy sports, pleasant, as well as
hard days, aud wonderful life for pear-
ly # year, were now the most desper-
ately lonesome places I ever saw, All
wae desolation, wreck and rain. Not
oue remsited to tell where the thous.
auds of occu patils
Hesvy eannonade was heard to the
norih west, not far away,
Night was coming on and I must
girike for “somewhere ;'' I started for
Petersburg, seven miles away, which
I presumed was, probably in posses.
sion of some part of the army.
] went rapidly along and iospected
a fiw of our forte—Fort Wheaton, Fort
Couabey and Fort Fisher,
I'he heavy guns were still in place,
looking through the embrasures, to-
ward the deserted lines of the enemy |
but they were no longer needed ; no
one to stand by or gusrd them. They
had finished their work. Strangers
and enemy might now go in and out
unchallenged, I crossed our advanced
trench, sod over the low woodland be-
tween the opposing lines, aud entered
the Confederate Works. Their forts
were elegant samples of field works ;
they were scientifically and beautiful
ly suilt; neither pains nor labor had
bev spared on them. The heavy guns
were still in position, and frowniogly
Jooking over toward the empty works
gid enmips of the Union Army. A lit
tle further on, I entered the deserted
cnipps of the Confederate Army.
Tliese were mostly log-cabins, roofed
with *‘clapbonrds ;'' the walls “chucks
ed nnd daubed,’’ comfortable quarriers ;
ais i had” supper on
abandoned camps, Lhe scenes
jnie
chim bunks with twig and lea
beds, ail 1a perfect order. "
An adequate of the
| World's Fair is impossible ; the best
| pen pictures by the most learned in
| the art could only give a faint idea of
| the real-—the great fair to be appre-
description
{ ciated must be seen, and must not only
It is not
to attempt to de-
the reader
impressions made
upon the writer during his ten days
stay at Bt. Louis und the Fair,
| be seen but studied in detail,
{the intention here
i geribe, but simply to give
the benefit of a few
The reader who ha« never attended
a similar exhibition—the Captennial,
Chicago World's Fair, Pan American,
Ex position—should
strive to visit this greatest of great
01 Charleston
to
but
shows, Those who would be able
nd
ircumstances, can aftord
make comparisons a are in
modernats
on the thoughts and
impressions gained at the particular
fair or fairs ev have hitherto
i I'he man
find
joyed Or Woman
will suflicient
ment in all lines to warrant him
the expesition,
No
clinations, they
al
one's tastes or in-
be satisfled at
malier whial
may
The exposi
lie
telligence of
trained
tion now open to the pub.
collective in-
many minds specially
work. It is a
its line. This
sition-buildiog is hardly
a hundred years old.
is a creation of the
in exposition
experts in
thing of exj
Napoleon Bona-
parte, early in his career of authority,
position of any uote,
gmall begin
ning sh
f Boa
Frilory
*le'n RAE
pat |
fama Le
urogress 1
than
is In its line
i
progress of eivilization
ia
throug hi
Us
niary
Fhe remarkable nterest that was
but throug irld, attests ils
imp FLaNCe dically
all the civil-
ized nations siales
, to participate
Accordingly, it
ar
y-seven foreign
resented, and fifty-
its every execu-
ive Oe parin
ta. = tH Bry
ing service, fou bureau and
vRlry
js participating upon a scale of
sgnitude,
ihe Worid's Fair, ar-
atid pietorially,
Eis :
poe args
of than that
tome,
asiriking original
of
~ eter’s CUnthedral at
ure of
AT 1
i no
iss Evel Longman, of New
York.
If “Viet wry’ coitid see he would be
save
If
things of splendor
his ears
| world’s largest
Land splash of waters from great foun.
| tains leaping and plunging here and
contrivances that di-
| versify the bewildering beauty of the
ade Gardens, Looking farther to-
{ ward the north he would behold the
| quiet waters of the Grand Basin and
{the lagoons leading to left and right,
| derful cascade
| Une
led by massive railings adorned with
[atatuary, sod on
Venice, carrying a group of passengers
gaily chatting or silent with the awe
of the splendid spectacle around them.
There can. be no doubt that this
main picture of the fair is Victory ex-
pressed in architecture, sculpture and
landscaping. Eight grand palaces
filled with the choicest produets of art
and industry the world over are open
to Lhe view, Here is seen the palace
of education and social economy, a
new departure in expositions. Never
before has an enterprise of this kind
devoted one of its main buildings ex-
clusively to the branch of education ;
and the fact that in the general class
ification arrangement first place is
given to education is significant in dis-
closing the motif of this exposition,
which is distivetly educational,
Kast from the main picture is the
United States Government Building
with its central front overlooking the
sunken Garden, which tases the piace
of a lagoon between the exhibit pal
aces st that side The Lill slope lead.
fog up to the Governm ut Buildirg
has beet covered for hundreds of feet
by terraces of steps broken here and
there by bedsof flowers. Inside the
butlding Is as collection of rare treasures
every American
information us to how the government
is carried on from Washington, these
departmental displays will furnish it,
Memorials of the great men of the na-
tion and of the important historical
phases and events are to be seen here |
also representations of our fighting
craft at sea and our soldiery on land.
The state buildings, most of which
are located on the wooded ground
known the Plateau of States, at-
tract many visitors,
These handsome buildings, with
their picturesque surroundings, ap-
pear to constitute a select residential
section in a magnificent city of wealth
and culture.
ture are in evidence, with the colonial
perhaps predominating.
ns
So many of
this popular architecture thai one
the thorofares is
nue
Avenue is
fitting name of anolher
Commonwesnith
what state one hails from the
Live state,
To the south is the Palace of Hor
the build.
devoted ©» Fish
To the forty-acre
tract on which the Philippine exhibit
is It study
these people from the Philippine Ie
Forestry, and
the west is
Game
made, ia interesting to
lands, more than a thousand of whom
are living on their
usual occupation.
the tract, carry on
Across the tracks of the Intramural
Railway is another foriy-acre Lr
which the American
oughly exploited.
act, on
Indian ia tt
160
One feature is a
model Indian school,
The solid stone buildings in the Ad-
ministration group belong to Washing.
ton
are leased for
One of these
and
World's Fair purposes
University
Hall of
hundreds of important con-
are held from
is the Congresses,
wherein
ventions
time to time
period. still
exposition
devoted
Far
Culture Building, and
in to elhnology sud
anthropology to the west
is Lhe
Physical Hear
the
quadrennial Olympian games will be
eld,
Fast of
wre
by is the great Btadium, where
the Adminisirali
{ the
My gro
ip
most oO foreign governmen
buildings.
The Pennsylvanian who goes to the
trouble to hunt up the various exhibits
under the control of the Keystone
state will have occasion to be proud or
sshamed, pleased or disgusted, owing
to which particular exhibit or depart.
ment he happens to be viewing.
The exterior of the
state building is beautiful
Pennsyivaia
The de
sign 1180 dissimilar to that adopted by
other sta te« thal it alirsels iarge num-
of but
there is of
bers visitors, entering
a
the
upon
eX pression disgust on
faces of many.
Io thoughtful
the
Pennsylvanian
ing interior, susgest graft, and the
should have purchased comforts
The Liberty Bell is
| and but for this historic relic the sight.
| seer might well entirely
quarter,
avoid
{ The Pennsylvania display in
| able. The various products of the
light. One of the attractive features
in that department ia the coliection of
| Pennsylvania animals of economic
| value in relation to agriculture, These
collections were secured and prepared
by Prof. H. A. Surface, State Econom-
ie Zoologist, and reflect great credit.
Franklin Meuges, of York, who has
{| charge of the agricultural exhibit,
takes great interest in his work,
The Pennsylvania exhibit in the
Horticultural building was utterly dis-
gusting. The first impulse of Lhe
writer was to rip from its fasteniugs
the sign that desigoated the miserable
display to be that of Pennsylvania's,
The exhibit was wholly forsaken ; no
one could be found who was willing to
acknowledge that they had any con-
nection with the display of kuootty,
dried up, or rotten fruit.
In the building devoted to Mines
and Metallurgy, the Pennsylvania ex-
hibit is not only among the largest
but it iq probably the most important,
The v. st coal and iron fields are ade-
quately represented. This department
is under the direction of Prof. Louis
E. Reeber.
The Pike isthe polyglot thorough
fare of the world, All tongues, creeds
and customs are the vogue along its
homogeneous way. A galaxy of forty
stupendous amusements extended a
distance of one and one hall miles,
{ Continued st foot of next column.
Broke His Arm
Le Roy BStiffler, step-son of R.
Killian, fell from a cherry tree
broke his arm near the wrist.
D.
and
spss ff cso rss
Good Hay Crop
The bay has mostly been stored, and
a fine crop it was, The greater part
was secured without being exposed to
rain, whieh will guarantee the crop to
bring the best price in market and
weigh well in the bales, The hay crop
is becoming an important one in this
section, aud is counted one of the mon-
ey craps,
FF,
iit ema
. Anniversary Nervices,
The Spring Mills Lodge, 1. O. O. F,,
No, 507, will hold anniversary services
in the Methodist church, Bpring
Mills, Bunday evening at 7.80 o'clock.
The services will be conducted by Rev.
G. W. Mecllnay, assisted by Rev John
. Bright, of Topeka,
Kansas, Rev.
Kansas
The public is invited to attend this
Continued from Previous OID,
Plaza
Bkinker
angle
to
wheeling on a sharp
Louis westward
that
line
of Trans
portation and Machinery oun the east
atl
point to continue in a direct
south, between the Palaces
and the foreign government plaza and
the Palaces of Agriculture and Horti-
culture on the west,
Mountain passes, 100 feet
weather
with
beaten Tyrolean
Village singing in
peasants
real mu
the Heights of
Car passes throagh some of the loveliest
high towers, wuniain
from
scenes in the Tyrolean Alps
An Irish Village Lins accurate replicas
Castle, the
t Dublin
Jaunting
Irish
armac's old House
Law"
traverse
u snd St
rence’s (Gale,
Killaruey
CATS
region rama is |
plaved by Irish sclors
Irish Hi
fatons
y
i
f
ws of life
Phere is a fine
exhibition of ene, laces
and
carpets. A miblin band
Hive & BOO:
en.
¥
ler and Over the Sea isa trip in
thimarine boat, stoking oto real
to begin its voyage through the
reefs of the Atlantic to Paris,
bewildered passengers re-
ark on
of the
mit an airship from the pin-
Eifel Tower, returning |
over the the midst of a ter.
rific storm aud a beautiful dawn effect, |
In Seville smartly
gow ned and gaudy Hem.
manys copgest the Plaza de Torros at
quaint market piace of
n with its store-keepers oflering
Wares
naose
OCA 10
the streets of
senoritas
Tris
th
eelons
eir The Gypsy Lane of Bar-
flutters with color
spanish
latices are given in the Theatre de
a)
lose FF
Hu
foros
ting in the Ozarks entices the
f sport to step oul of the busy
Pike into the famous mountain region
ouri where his game is scared
up from natural mudscape of forest
A real train dashes
sigh the wilderness,
' ¥
Lh
Hagenbeck's 400, Circus and Animal
grossing vegetation, without
much as a mosquito netting appearing |
iy
to separate the speciator from danger
tortoises carry little children, |
Mysterious Asis is a mammoth rep- |
Persia and Ceylon, with graceful arch-
tecture of the Far East. Devil dane-
ers, the torture dance, soake charmers
and the Nauteh girl mingle with curi-
ous beasts of burden and impossible
couveyanoces, the sacrificial feast, wed-
ding processions and religious cere.
monies,
Plastic art attains high perfection in
the Moorish Palace where historic
East Indian customs are illustrated.
Massive tableaus portray events in the
acquisition of the Louisiana domain,
the Discovery of the Mississippi, the
Burial of DeSoto, the transfer of Lou-
isiana and the Lewis and Ulark Ex.
pedition.
Forty geisha entertain tes drinkersd
in Japan, with its ancient temples and
crowded streets. Roosters with tails
twenty-five feet long, carvers of images
from a single rice bean, bits of the Im-
perial Gardens with growing flowers
and stunted trees are not more curious
than native boats oh lagoons and na
tive notors in a Japanese theatre,
A vision of two worlds is seen in
Hereafter. One of your party must
die to guide the living through the
Shades of Hades depleted with start-
ling reality by the most advanced
forms of mechanism and electricity.
The effect of vast distances is wonder
ful. A dream of the Groves of Daphne
and the Celestial Dawn will not be
forgotten.
Weaving of glass into tablecloth,
fancy embroidery, napkins, handker-
chiefs, neckties and dresses, all pliable
{ Continued on Fourth Page, 31 Col.)
A BLOODY SHIRT CAMPAIGN,
The Republican party at its Nation-
al convention, with the encourage
ment of President Roosevelt, undoubt-
edly laid its plans for a sectional cam-
puign based on the negro question,
with all the misfortunes it may entail
on the country, by a revival of the sec
tional and race issues that dominated
American politics in the reconstruc
tion period that followed the Civil
War. This plank of the Republican
platform lays down plainly the
groundwork of another bloody shirt,
sectional and negro campaign. After
much preliminary consideration it
was adopted by the convention by a
unanimous vote, and has been accept.
ed by the President and masterful
politicians and leaders of the party.
Under this resolution, and in accord
with its obvious intent sand meaning,
the Republican leaders can as easily
overthrow the results of a presidential
election in 1904 as they did that of
Tilden in 1876. Defeated at the polis,
they hope to hold the whip-hand by
doctoring, falsifying and counting or
rejecting the electoral votes of such
Btates as they find it to their interest
revolutionize. This is precisely
what happened in the presidential
which
vesulted in the triumph of the Great
Fraud. By rejecting the honest and
legal voles of Democratic States Tilden
was robbed of his rightful term in the
presidency sand Hayes installed.
loosevell is acoounted 8 man desper-
to
ate and unscrupulous enough lo re-
the usurpations of
He has the qualifications, and it is his
boast to resort to the
most desperate methods to enforce a
aor
willingness
pemm——————
The Philadelphia Press, whose edi
tor never fails to support Republican
measures good or bad, and Republican
of importance, has this to say of Judge
Parker, the Democratic
president :
nominee for
He did a courageous deed in a cour.
the high-
suor on his integrity of character
of His dispatch
bold and adroit
dictatorial to the convention, but
decisive of his attitude,
Let us frankly recognize that nothing
could have happened better calculated
to 1ift and exalt him above the uebu-
lous stmosphere which bad obscured
universal
determined,
ageous way, which reflects
esl
mind.
and decision
was at once It was
10
it was own
him and fix sn instant and
impression of a strong,
self centred man.
For our own part we rejoice that
the candidate of the opposing party is
shown to be of such stufl. It is best
for the Republican party to have a
worthy of We
should deceive ourselves if we id pot
that Judge Parker's
matic exhibition will inspirit his cap
foreman ita sieel,
recognine dra-
vas in New York and give him fight
g ground which he could nol have
gained without it.
it
A
Col. William Jennings Bryan will
his campaign for election to
United States Senate aboul the
The entire Democrats
Nebraska is under
his control aud will aid him in his efs
pominate and elect a Demo
cratic Legislative ticket that, in the
event the Democrats carry the Ste,
will vote to send him to the Bensle as
Senator Deitrich’s successor for the
term beginniog March 4 next,
op iH
the
m———— A —————
At a conference of party leaders
held in New York, Senator Arthur P.
Gorman, of Maryland, was selected to
be national Demoeratic Chairman.
emi — a ————
The notification of the nomination
of Judge Parker and Ex-Benator
Davis for the offices of President and
Vice President will probably take
place at Esopus, New York, August 1.
Linden Hall.
Mrs. Anna M. Winsor and her maid,
of Chattanooga, arrived here Friday to
spend the summer with Mrs. Hess and
other relatives, This was Mrs, Win.
sor’s girlbood home and it is seven
years since she was last here,
Thomas Coble will leave Thursday
for L.os Angeles, after spending sever
al weeks with friends in this section.
Miss Annie Carper spent Sunday at
her home in this place. Joe Brooks
was also home over Bunday.
A. P. Wieland returned to his home
at Nordmont Saturday, after having
spent a few weeks with his mother,
while recovering from an attack of ty-
phoid fever. !
Mrs, Curtin Musser and children, of
Altoona, are among the summer visits
ors at the home of J. H, Ross.
Howard Zeigler han had several very
sick horses which are improving u
the care of Dr. Fry.
Miss Wagner, of Mifflin, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Criss.
man, left for her home on Monday
Miss Jennie David, of
er.
NO. 28..
m—
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
Mr. and Mrs, W, H. Cumiogs, of
Colyer, are rejoicing over the arrival of
a son.
Mrs. Rearick, widow of Peter Rear-
ick, of Altoona, is visiting relatives in
Penns Valley.
The Reporter is indebted to Benator
Alexander E, Patton for a copy of
SBmull's Legislative Hand Book, 1904.
Prof. J. A. Young, who last year was
principal of Centre Hall High Behool,
has been elected to a similar position
at Kane,
Miss May Rhone, who holds an im-
portant position in the Dairy and Food
Department, Harrisburg, was home
over Bunday.
Mrs. Jacob Reed, of Aaronsburg, met
with an unfortunate accident. While
out in the yard she had a fall chused
by an attack of dizziness, resulting iu
the fracture of an arm, thigh and
breaking of a leg.
Messrs. H. G. Krape and Charles
Heller, both of Rebersburg, were call-
ers last week. Mr. Krape has a finely
equipped electro plating plant and ie
doing much and satisfactory work.
Bee his adv, in another columao.
A vivid flash of lightaning and a
sharp peal of thunder, Friday aller-
noon, caused the teams of Harry Din-
ges and John Snyder east of town to
run away. Both teams were hitched
to wagons partially loaded with hay.
Begin to study the needs of your soil
to grow a wheat crop. D. W. Brad-
ford, who for the past ten years has
been selling the best grades of phos-
phate, will, for the asking, aid you in
the solution of the problem by giving
you a circular,
The design for the Curtin Monu-
ment and Soldier's Memorial was ac-
cepted by the committee and work
will be commenced next Spring, Itis
expected it will be dedicated the follow
ing September. The Van Amringe
Granite Company of Boston have the
contract and it will cost $53,000,
Io addition to entertaining fiction
for leisure hours, the August Delinea-
tor contains something for each of the
practical needs of woman. In dress, the
intent styles are depicted, with the aid
of handsome colored plates sud draw-
ings in bleck and white, and the
movements in fashions described.
Sheriff H. 8B. Taylor was in town
Friday between trains. While here he
stated that the Demoerstic head
quarters would be opened about the
first of August, and that the location
would be in the Garman building.
Under the leadership of Chairman
Taylor Centre county will agsin be
counted io the Demoerstic columa.
The Reporter was pleased to have a
call from Jacob . Walker, who since
lust spring lives west of town on the
Glace farm which he purchased at thst
time. Mr. Walker is entirely satisfied
with his new home and surroundings,
He is a farmer of experience, and
keeps good stock ; raises and takes
special pride in having first-class
horses.
Porter Odenkirk and son Johu, of
Burnham, were in town from Satur-
day to Tuesday, this being their first
visit here for about a year. Mr, Oden-
kirk has permanent employment at
Burnham, and is getting along splen-
didly. Mm. Odenkirk, who had not
been in the best of health for some
time, is reported Ly ber husband as
gaining strength.
The following items are taken from
the Mifflinburg Telegraph : Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Myers are visiting frisnds
in Coburn and other points in Centre
county.—Mrs. Wm. F. Romig spent a
few days latter part of last week with
relatives in Coburn and other points
in Centre county.~—Miss Mary Becken~
baugh spent last Saturday and Sun-
day with relatives and friends in
Coburn.
Messrs F. E. Wieland, of Linden
Hall, and Alfred P, Wieland, of Nord-
mont, were in town Thursday of last
week. The latter is just recovering
from a severe attack of typhoid fever,
as was mentioned in last week's issue.
While in town he met many of his
former associates to whom he repeat-
edly expressed gratification over the
many improvements everywhere visi
ble. He is now engaged ss a general
merchant and manufacturer of flour
and mill feeds.
J. B. Harper, of Potters Mills, was
in town Monday and called to advance
the figures on his Reporter label, My.
Harper served in the war of the rebel-
lion for three years and nine months,
having enlisted in the First Delaware
Regiment, Company I, at New Castle,
in many battles, and it may safely be