THE OENTRE REPORTER.
8. W. SIUTH, . . . Editor and Proprietor,
CenTRE HALL, . . . PenN'A.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1908.
TERMS.—The terms of subscription to the Re-
porter are one dollar per year in advance.
ADVERTISEMENTS.—20 cents per lines for
three insertions, and 5 cents per line for each sub-
sequent insertion. Other rates made known on
application,
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS.
Reformed—Unlon, afternoon; Centre Hall,
evening, Christmas service ; Spricg Mills, eve
ning, Christmas service.
Lutheran—Tusseyville, morning ; Spring Mills,
afternoon ; Centre Hall, noservice. Please note
that this is a change from the regular schedule.
Presbyterian—Centre Hall, morning; Spring
Mills, afternoon.
Revival services in Zion Evangelical church
Tusseyville, beginning Tuesday night, 29. Al
are invited to attend.
XECUTOR'S NOTICE~LETTERS TESTA-
mentary on the estate of Michael J, Deck-
er, late of Potter Township, deceased, having
been duly granted to the undersigned they woul
respectfully request any persons knowing them-
selves indebted to the éstate to make immediate
payment and those having claims against the
3aine 3 present them duly authenticated for set-
ement.
F. W. and J. L. DECKER, Executors,
0, dec3l Centre Hall, Pa.
OR BALE-—A sorrel driving horse. Per.
fectly s=fe, and fearless of steam and
automobiles. Good reason for selling,
MARY BURKHOLDER,
Centre HII,
EPOTATOES~
The undersigned offers for sale potatoes in large
or small lots, 8. W. SMITH, Centre Hall, Pa. ,
For SBALE-Two stock bulls, one year old.
Apply to
J, C. GOODHART
Bell phone. Centre Hall, Pa
ARM FOR SALE.—The undersigned offers
for sale the farm known as the Hoffer
farm. on top of Nittany Mountain, slong the
Bellefonte turnpike, beiween Centre Hall and
Pleasant Gap, containing
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ACRES
150 ACRES ARE CLEAR.
There are erected on the farm a good frame
house, bank barn and all necessary outbuildings,
all In ressonably gord repair. Never falling
spring of water convenient to house and barn.
This farm is well adapted for stock wing,
there being water in almost every field oa the
farm. The soll produces all the staple crops
grown in his latitude,
The uncleared land is well set with chestout
and other young timber, and a part of it has
marketable timber on it.
For further particulars apply to
P. H. DAL
te. Centre Hall, Pa.
SALE REGISTER,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1 o'clock, by John R.
Strong, at Potters Mills: Lot of household
goods and numerons other articles.
BATURDAY, MARCH 6, one o'clock, at Tussey”
ville : Personal property of Julia Ishler.
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, Philip C. Frank, near
Centre Hill : Farm stock and implements.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, nine o'clock, by
Nicodemus Luse, on W. H. Meyer farm, one
mile south east of Centre Hill : Seven horses,
i0 bead horn cattle, 22 sheep. 40 hogs ; farm
implements, all as £004 as new,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 12 o'clock, Julia
A. Fye, admr., on Plerce Vonada farm, one-
half mile north of Penns Cave : Horses, cows,
full line farm implements, chickens, ete. H
H. Miller, auctioneer.
MONDAY, MARCH 15, Bitoer & Harter, three
miles west of Old Fort ; Horses, COWS, young
cattle, hogs, and full line of farm Implements
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, near Penns Cave, by H.
D. Rossman : Farm stock, implements and
household goods.
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 10a. m., 2 1-2 miles
east of Centre Hall, by G. F. Emerick : Full
line farm implements, horses and live stock.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 12 o'clock, at Centre Hill,
by John C. Bible & Son : Farm stock and im-
plements. H, H. Miller, auctioneer.
GRAIN MARKET,
BPE cescisscccorescinnns
srsenns
FRODUCE AT STORES,
RiE......oonins cvecese
Potatoes...
LOCALS
Our Christmas goods are new and
well selected, C. P. Long's.
Rev. W. G. Finney, of Orbisonia, on
his way to his home in Williamsport,
stopped with Dr. W, H. Schuyler and
family for a day.
Miss M. Eloise Schuyler is expected
home this ( Thursday ) evening from
Cape May, New Jersey, where she is
teaching in the public schools,
Grandmother Jane Harper, after
spending a week or more with her son
J. C. Harper, in Bellefonte, is at home
again with her daughter, Mrs, George
H. Emerick.
L. J. Burris, of near Centre Hall,
brought to the Keporter office a nice
lot of choice apples that were very
much enjoyed by the force on duty.
They were flue in quality and ap-
pearance,
Bamuel Weber, of New York, is at
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Weber, in this place, where
his wife and baby have been staying
for seversl months, Mr. Weber will
remain here during the holidays,
The Howard Creamery Corporation
had difficulty in securing a sufficient
number of turkeys to supply the de
mands of their many customers. They
buy poultry and eggs at all times, and
it wen'' ta well to always consult
them ¢ 1 ~ selling,
Cer'rs | has one thing to com-
Beaty wow ite. “ov, and it Is that little
or ro thievin, 1's been carried on
within ite limits . ¢ a year or more.
This is a condition chat has not been
¥
License Court,
In giving a report of the license
court the Daily News says :
The annual license court was held
Saturday morning at ten o’clock, with
Judge Orvis presiding. The petitions
were presented in due form by the
different attorneys. There was one
new application, that of E. E. Beales,
who desires Lo open a hotel at Julian.
Remonstrances were filed against
Beales’ application by some of the
citizens of Julian, There were also
remonstrances filed against James
Runkle’s hotel at Centre Hall. De¢-
positions. will be taken in regard to
the two remonstrances and the Judge
hopes to hand down his decision in all
cases by the first of the year.
Sme———
A Chapter of Prosperity.
The Yeagertown correspondent
the Bellville Times writes thus :
“A committee of three men from
each of our Bunday Bchools has been
appointed to look after the needy of
this vicinity. These committees will
act in copjunction and all contribu-
tions of money. food or clothing
placed in the hands of this committee
will be given where it is most needed.”
These needy are living at the doors
of a highly protected industry, but
they are without employment. [I'here
is at present a Republican president in
the White House, a Republican House
und 8 Republican Benate, and a Re-
publican president-elect. The lesson is
obvious.
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The State Assembly,
The Pennsylvania Legislature will
bave a Republican majority of 177 on
joint ballot. The Senate will be made
up of 39 Republicans and 11 Demo-
crals. This is a gain of one for the
Democrats. In the House there will
be 176 Republicans and 31 Democrats.
In the last House there were 156 Re-
to
dependent.
A —
Congregation Remembeis Pasior,
Methodist church presented
pastor, Rev. J. Max Lantz, with a
purse of ten dollars, and the organist,
Mrs. Michael Smith, and the organist
of the Bunday school, Miss Bessie
Breon, each with a hymnal. The
bymnpals have the names of the re
ciplents on them. (it was a real sur-
prise to the pastor and the ladies, and
they returned the most hearty thanks.
a tm—
LOCALS,
Come and see our Christmas goods,
C. P. Long's.
Mise Flora Love, a compositor on
the Democratic Watchman, is spend.
ing the holidays with friends in and
about Centre Hall
Bherifl'elect Hurley sold his interest
in the livery business heretofore con-
ducted by the Hurley Brothers, in
Philipsburg, to his brother George.
who will continue the same.
Beveral tons of turkeys were shipped
from the Centre Hall station this week
to make Christmas dinners for fami-
lies in all parts of the state. The
pouliry business is becoming an ex-
tensive one,
“ What is to be done about alien im-
migration ?”’ We are always asking
ourselves this. There is au answer,
and a practical one, and John L.
Mathews has outlined it in the story
of “ Tontitown,” in the January num-
ber Everybody's Magazine,
Rudolph K. McDonald, treasurer of
the Reedsville K. G. E. lodge, the
mention of whose embezzlement of
$5200 sppears elsewhere in this
issue, pleaded guilly before Judge
Woods and was sentenced to two years
in the Western Penitentiary.
Wilbur F. Burkholder, who for the
past three or four years had been tele.
graph operator at the P, R. R, station
in Bellefonte, has received a well de-
served promotion. After the first of
the year he will be transferred to
Tyrone where he will be telegraph
operator in the superintendent's office.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Detwiler, of near
Penns Cave, are off on a holiday vaca-
tion, having left their home Friday.
Their first stop was at Harrisburg,
where a son, W. E. Detwiler, is lo-
cated, and from there they will go to
Philadelphia, where they will be en-
tertained by C. B. Detwiler, another
son,
After the holidays Prof, Irwin
W. Zeigler, who for the past year has
been located at Laodeford, will be at
Lambertville, New Jersey. Mr. Zeoig-
ler is now engaged with the Dodd,
Meade & Co., publishers of the Inter-
national Euwecyclopedia, aud on ace
oount of this is obliged to do more or
less moving from one place to another.
At present be ix with his mother, Mrs,
Lydia Zeigler, near Centra Hall, where
he will remain for the holiday sesson.
W. A. Boyder, of Balona, at present
register sud recorder of Clinton coun
ty, will move his family to Lock
Haven after April first. He hag yet
One year Lo serve ss a county official,
and after Lhe first of the year will also
experienced for thirty years, for dur.
ing that time thieves had plied their
profession to such an extent that it
became i.tolerable, and floslly the
climax came. What another year
may bring nobody knows, but no one | with the school directors, His ac
Is hankering for the return of the days | quaintances will wish him all the
when locks and bars went at a good
gpremiam,
be one of the clerical force in the Lock
Haven Trust snd Safe Deposit Com-
pany bank. Mr. Bayder js well known
in this county, snd for several yoerp as
8 school book agent be came jn touch
Harris Township,
Will Cramer, of Rock View, Is
spending the week in this place.
Elmer Houtz and family, of Rock
Hill, spent Bunday in Boalsburg.
8. E. Weber and sister, Miss Anna,
spent Tuesday at the county seat.
Mrs. John Kline, of Bellefonte, spent
several days in Boalsburg.
Mrs. Mary Brouse, of Pine Grove
Mills, is visiting in Bosalsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. James Wert, of Tussey-
ville, were in Boalsburg Baturday.
Alvin Myers, with his little son
Harold, were recent visitors from
Altoona.
Joho and Harry Sueele, of Bellefonte,
attended to business in Boalsburg,
Monday.
B. E. Kimport and daughters Ruth
and Mary, of State College, were guests
at the homeof J, F. Kimport, Bunday.
Mrs. H. A. Harro, with her children,
visited in Bellefonte the early part of
this week.
Misses Mary Reish and Nora Miller
#peut an afternoon at the Andrew
Lytle home, near Btate College,
Miss Mary Markle expects to spend
Christmas and New Year with her
brother, at Blue Bail.
James Reed attended the funeral of
his brother William, at Bellefonte, on
Monday. He died suddenly Saturday
from heart disease,
During the service in the Reformed
church Bunday evening two new horse
blankets were taken from the sled of
J. M. Ross, of Linden Hall.
John Durner bought a property on
Church street, from G. W. Garberio,
for $650, sud is already making some
improvements,
Miss Emeline Hess, of near Bhingle-
town, spent Baturday and Bunday
with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Bhugert, ino
Boalsburg.
Mra. William Steele returned to
home in Bellefonte after
| some time at the Dinges home, where
| she assisted in caring for Mr. Dinges.
Prof. C. T. Houlz, of Busquebanna
| University, Selinsgrove, was a visitor
at the home of Adam Feity. Bunday
he filled the pulpits of the Lutheran
churches at Pine Grove Mills and
Pine Hall.
Miss Aunie Lohr sttended the fu-
neral of her uncle, David Lohr, Satur.
day. The services were heid in the
Presbyterian church, and interment
was made in the cemetery adjoining
the church ( the Myers cemetery.)
8. H, Balley spent Bunday with hie
brother, Commissioner John G. Ball
ey, who ill at his home st Pine
Grove Mills. Mr. Bailey was stricken
| with paralysis Inst Thursday, while at
Lock Haven, Friday be was brought
to Bellefonte, snd from there faken to
his home on Baturday,
One of the joyful events of the
Christmas season was a little party
given by Mrs. H. A. Harro Saturday
afternoon, in honor of the birthdays of
ber little daughters, Cecil snd Hen.
rietta. Ice cream sand cake were served
The Misses who were present were as
follows: Mary and Rachel Beguer,
Katharine and Caroline Btamm, Grace
and Dorothy Wieland, Tammie and
Eloise Lee, Mariou Whitehill, Helen
Coxey, Mary Kidder, Mildred Giug-
erich, Beryl Brouse, Emeline Harri
son and Elizabeth Lucas.
F. W. Weber shipped a bureau to
Miss Ella Rone, at Los Angeles, Cal
Hornia, and a sewing stand to David
Stuart, Duquesne Station, Pittsburg,
a8 Christmas gifts. Both articles of
furniture are fine specimens of his
handiwork. The bureau had been the
property of Mrs. Hebecca Sparr, de
ceased, and had been in her possession
since ber girlhood days. AL the sale
of her household goods it was pur.
chased by Mrs, Bophia Hall, an aunt
of Mise Rhone, who had it repaired
and ordered it sent to her at Christmas
time,
Mrs. Eliza Reeder died at the home
of her son, Peter Bones, Wednesday
morpiog of last week, and was buried
in the cemetery at Boalsburg Saturday
forenoon. Rev. J. I. Btonecypher of.
ficiated. Her dsughter, Mrs. Annie
Wagner, of Altoona ; Wm. Sones and
wife, of Bpring Mills, and John Bones
and wife, of Ferguson township, were
her children who were present st the
funeral. Owing to a change made as
to the time for the funeral, her son,
Daulel, of Altoons, and a daughter,
Mrs. Margaret Blair, of Beotia, came
on Friday and were obliged to return
the same day, consequently could not
be present at the service.
SE —— ————
Hed Uross Stamp Parchssers,
Red Cross Christmas stamps were
purchased at the Reporter office by
these whose names are appended
This all for charity :
Flors Walker, Sarah Neff, Ross Bushman, W. J.
$m th, Vina Rowe, Mrs. Lycy Henney, C. Asher
Bgahl, Mrs, Daglel Grosy, Samuel J. owe, Cleve,
Mitterling, Samuel Burris, Mm. MN 4. k,
Mm. Rebooos Floray, Virgie Durst, Bdns Murray,
Lastie Jacols, Mrs. George Heckman, Mm, A. KE.
Kerlin, Centre Hall, H. A, Wilkinson, Potters
Mills,
her
spending
in
Arey Property Sold)
The Frank Arney property, consist.
ing of » house, stable snd abogt three
fonrthe acre of ground, was sold by
William Gfrerer to D, A, Boozer, Con-
sideration $700. Frank Arpey is the
present tenant, avd will remain there
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Horner and
daughter Mary visited at the home of
Harry Horner, on the Colyer farm
Bunday.
Clyde Btem and wife visited the
latter's parents, Mr, and Mrs. George
Horner.
Miss Badie Lee, the seamstress, who
bad been employed at the homes of
William Rockey and Thomas Swartz,
last week, went to Boalsburg where
she will sew for Mra, Alfred Lee.
Mr. and Mrs. W, C, Farner left on
Monday for Philadelphia to visit their
son Thomas at that place. They will
not return until after the holiday
BER8ON,
The United Evangelical HBunday
Behool of this place elected their
officers for the year 1909 on Bunday.
The officers are as follows : Buperin-
tendent, Henry Gettig; Assistant
Superintendent, Arthur Blutterbecks;
Secretary, Marion Mejias : Treasurer,
J. Kline; Organist, Bertha Miller ;
Librarians, Orpha Fleisher and Mary
Blutterbeck
Mre. Mary Long, who is living at
the home of Aaron Detwiler, had the
misfortune of falling and breaking her
leg.
Rev. Carls, of Spring Mills, was un-
able to fill the pulpit at Zion on Bun.
day on account of illness,
Willlam Mitterling and wife, of
Centre Hall, visited at the home of
Henry Moyer on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs Btusrt Jordan did!
some shopping in Bellefonte one day
last week,
James Bwabb, the health Inspector,
visited the schools
week
The scribe of
through here last
place wishes the
editor and the resders of the Reporter
all a merry Christmas and s happy
New Yeur
this
Ri
Kg.
of Willisms- |
i
Aaronah
M
port, is visiting her parents at present
«# Eliza Bummers,
Misses Ardrenns Harmon, Bessie |
i
and Marion Btover returned home |
at Ntate College
Harry Bower, of Altoona, spent a
few days here, returning to his work
on Monday
Mrs
State College, and
Kathryn Hmull Mechtly, of
Miss Minnie Bea-
ver, of Millbelm, spent a day last week
with friends in town
Mrs. Wilmer Stover returned from a
plesasut visit smong friends at Tre
vorton, Shamokin and MifMlinburg
Miss Martha Wyle returned home |
after spending a few weeks ple seaut.y
with friends at Lewistown
Messrs Waller Orwig and C. WW.
Wyle, for a few days last week, were
guests of friends in Ualon county,
Miss Berths Bheeder, a student st
Irving College, Mechaniosburg, is here
for the Christmas vacation which she
will spend with her parents, Rev. and
Mre. B. K M, Sheeder.
Thomas Weaver and wife, of Woll's
#ith his
He will have charge of the
in the
Reformed church Christmas eve,
Prof. P. H. Meyer, of Centre Hall,
made a business trip to this town on
Friday.
Mra. Arthur Lee, of Tosseyville, vis
ited her mother, Mrs. Swabb, for a
few days. The Ilstter is improving
8H Hine,
Merrill Eisenhour, teacher of the
intermediate school, went to Besver
town HSslurday and returned home
Taesday with bis bride. Congratu.
Iati ne are unw i + order,
Your correspondent wishes all the
readers of this excellent pape: a merry
Christmases and a happy New Year.
EN
4 The Vink Label
If you would like to have the figures
on your label advanced before the next
Pink Label appears, send the fands
before January Ist, as the label figures
will be changed at that time.
A AA A BIBRA.
Christmas Post Cards,
The assortment of Christmas post
ecards offered for sale at this office are
the prettiest to be had anywhere. Not
a cheap card in the bunch. Bent by
mail in any quantity at the rate of
two for five cents.
Chapel, spent the Sabbath
mother.
music al the Christmas servies
CORPHAN'S COUR SALE~By virtue of an
order of the Orphan's Court of Centre
County, the undemsigued will expose at
sale or outery, on the premises one-half mi
of Colyer, Px. on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1909, 1 P. M.,
following real estate, being the rty of
rd amor inte of Potter Pow ir
i srpart ¥o. 1. inning at a corner of lands
of side of ih. a icky shaw. "of 2
north side © pu road ; -
of said Henry shadow north four and th
rehos to a stone ; theneo
onst mix
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A CYCLONE OF FLAME
Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the
Fiercest Known.
SWEEP ON A WILE A MINUTE.
Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattle
of a Great Battle Is the Noise of the
Exploding Stalks That
Shoot High Into the Air,
When the forests are afire, when
the smoke makes dusk at noon and
reddens the harvest moon a thousand
miles away, there is the measure of a
conflagration. When the prairies burn,
as they used to before farms had « rept
upon the endless miles of grass,
there was o« fire which ran like mad
and left behind it a blackened trail of
death, If one could combine the speed
of the prairie fire with the tumult of
the blazing forest, that would
fire indeed
Such a combination is effected when
the cateh fire The
bamboo Is but a grass, a grass with
the height of a tree swaying stems
aching 100, even 150, feet in alr
In Ci the bamboo
Eroves along the riverscover the Epace
of forests, it Is no unusual thing for
fires to break out and sweep all before
them for many miles. If the summer
has dry the
and inflammable
All that
ruin
Sometimes
be a
bamboo groves
re
ttnbodia, where
been bamboo turns sear
a8 any grass
is needed tt
en
10
the
The
is a
It is n
we carelessness
start the
lle {twelf
let two swaylr
: ]
0 De Bet
spark;
runs red
| 3
re upon
of necessars
of
iN
woodsman to blaze
Lia ivi} a3
PRRIIMMG CRT
g stalks of dry bam
the breeze, let
one rub across other long enough,
and the friction wlll set the spark, and
will feed the flame
of the
leaves
that
thu
¢ long dry
known
forests
fires
Per
such a
the
theory has
n learned
§
himt
me
Boor J
1ced
1 the bamboos
of the tossing
The wind
me along the grove
Boome observers
been
nt trem
gay that
Gong
fires have geen to
wad at the rate of more than
minute. Been from below, it
as if burst into an
she sky had
tant fash of fan
wi such a burst of fire there could
escape, Fortunately it
iz overhead at the tops of
y
it ser
passes
the bam
warning to
ing Lis way
water
waler
YéS as a the
veler who may
» one of the courses
The
y itself is almost an obstacle to
sort. It is well nigh im
o force a way through it ex-
low and tollsome labor of
a path
the
: the forest Is intersected
great trunks moves
iy, and If warning be taken
possible to sink one's 1
up wet herbage and clas
be bank of the stream to pro
until the furnace blast
Such a fire in the bam-
only the speed of the pral-
wm iis sweep overhead, but it
ime volume of fuel as is
found in any forest fire. It combines
the two types
Bamboo forest fires have
which is all thelr own
bang and rattle with
crashes, as of artillery
Cessation
The stalks of these tree bamboos are
frequently more than a foot in diame.
ter. Near the ground the joints are
close together; In the younger growth
the nodes may be several feet apart
But, long or short as they may be, each
Joint of the sun bamboo is a
tightly sealed chamber filled with air
The partitions between the cavities are
singularly tough; the outside rind of
the stalks is almost pure flint
When the blast of the flame sweeps
onward the alr in the stalks upon
which 1t Is driven Is suddenly heated
to a very high temperature. The resid.
uum of moisture which may be in the
stems is Immediately transformed into
steam and at once stibjected to super.
heating, thus becoming a violent explo-
give, As the hot breath of the flame
becomes hotter these joints Lurst with
loud cannon discharges :
Sometimes the force of the explosion
near the roots is so great as to shoot
the stalk like a javelin high Inte the
alr, where It flashes Into torchlike
flame and is carried by the wind to
spread wider disaster. The bursting
of the smaller joints is like the roll and
rattle of rifi*s and machine guns. The
effect is that of a battle hotly contest
ed. Washington Post,
An Aquatic Outfielder.
One day a ship was lying at anchor
at Bpea Grande when the crew ob
served a dolphin chasing a flying fish,
both coming directly toward the ship.
On nearing the vessel the filer arose
In the alr and passed over the bow
Just abaft the foremast. As it did so
the dolphin went under the ship and,
coming up on the other side, sprang
Fat the water and caught the flying
fish on “the fy" Just hs It was curving
gracefully down in its descent to the
water—Punta Gorda Herald
Missing Opportunities.
“1 bave no patience with a man who
makes the same mistake twice” sald
fs, ey pra sei ot
“Nelther have 1" agreed his wife,
“when there are so many other mis
takes to make."-Youth's Companion.
another
They
thunderous
without
quality
fire,
dried
THE CARNAGE OF WR
Story of a Survivor of the Bat
tle of Gravelotte.
An Advance Under Fire From Behind
Barricades That Literally Mowed
Down the Charging Troops—A Hand
to Hand Conflict In the Streets.
Villlam
of
Guldner, a survivor of the
the hard
Franco-Prussian
Gravelotie, moet
of the
Harper's Magazine how
* victory as color Bearer of
about 4
ave been, I think,
( Boehn rode
mel von
orf res or and 4
* regiment. ang we all
And
ns on :
something
parade,
words,
nt has a good
it a still bet.
and conld hear
inder the fire of the
for we could
first ones
ne and she
And be took a gun
Raed 1s
! 8
“I wish I could tell you what it
like as we
Privat t
flashes
desire In
“There ws
re three
i was
at village of Rt
woke,
sergeants in the
at each side of me
my right was
at my left was
color section, one
And
killed. Then
ghot—elght big his body
from a mitrallleuse—elight! Yet he aft
erwanrd got well, while many a man
died from ofly one little bullet
“And at last we went at a bayonet
charge, and for the time there
was a cheer, a wild and savage cheer,
and we ran on, eager to plunge the
bayonets, 1 we could see as we came
near the village that the French were
firlog from behind barricades and gar
den walls and from windows.
“And we looked into the will faces
of the French, and they met us hand
to hand. Ah, we climbed over walls
and barricades, and we fired and bay-
oneted, and we fought them In the
streets!
“On and on we went. It was a wild
time of shooting, bLaroneting, wres-
tiling, clubbing, shouting. On and on,
but it was slow work and terrible, for
the French fought for every step.
“I was at the front, for 1 had the
colors, There were a few officers still
left, and they were shouting and wav.
ing their swords, and other regiments
stormed into the village with us, aad
after awhile—~I can't say how long
the place was ours
“As I tell it to you It seems perhaps
a simple thing Bat when the resh
poent was paraded before the tail
began we were more than E00 wen
and more than ffty officers, aid we
lost In the fight forty officers asd
more than a thousand men Yeo
was the loss of just my regiment alone,
It was morderiech, but ft was pees
first the one at
the one
bullets in
first
th.t
"Well, it was over. Fhe village wag
blazing, and many a dead men Wy wi
the ruins. Some sat upright, dead,
with their backs against walls”
India’s Fame.
They were holding an “exam” In an
rast London school, and the teat»
vas pxplaining the chick iregucts, §
the Indian empire. One child me fon «
st of comestibles, “Mloase, miss, Ine
dia produces curries and pepper and
eitron and chillies and chutuer and
and” “Yeu yes, and what conea
after that? “Please, miss, | don't re.
member.” “Yes, but thin Win
fil do tion Fort" Hels, a
ndiagestion,”
all human benefits,
that, at least, without which no other
can be truly enjored, fs inde-
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