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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20

fore his trial he was warned by the
major to prepare for death. There
aSere union women and children with
MA two or three miles of us who could
have testified for theprisoner, but they
were not permitted to. His court-mar-
tiai was rushed through and he was
hung as spy.
AS l said, the enemy sent down de-
tachment of regular troops now and
then to feed us. There would be a sharp
skirmish, perhaps, with half dozen
killed or wounded, and that would be
the end of it. On one occasion, after
one of these attacks, the major led two
companies of us in pursuit of the re-
treating force. Not being aware of the
pursuit, the so men comprising the
force sent against us, had halted after
an hours march and most of them
were bathing in river when we came
up
We had them at our mercy and could
have shot every man down. Our orders
were to kill. The major rode up and
down and ordered and stormed and
cursed, but not one of us would fire
upon the unarmed, helpless men. With
arms in their hands and opposing us it
would have been war; coming upon
them as we did it would have been muir
der. Most of them swan to the other
bank and escaped, and the few we did
capture had to be treated as prisoners
of war. In revenge, the major put
every company officer under arrest
and smirched our good name as far as
he possibly could.
There We're few g1ferrillas in our
neighborhood-me who shot forage1
or run off horse now and then. AS a
matter of fsct these men were out
Iawed by both sides and preyed on both
alike. AT any rate, the few scattered
families in the mountain coves had no
Influence over them, but were contin-
uaiiy harassed and robbed.
One day it occurred to the major
that the way to get rid of the guerriilas
was TO get rid of the inhabitants, and
we were ordered out to clear the coun.
try Eleven families were driven out
and their cabins burned and crops de-
stroyed.
In the last cabin we found confed
crate soldier. He was young mar
under 20 years of age, who had beer
wounded in battle and given furlougl
TO come home. AS he was regularly en-
ksted and in confederate uniform hi
was no more or fio'Iess than prisoner
- W but the major pounced upor
h'nl ith the ardor of hungry vulture
s's charged with being spy, and {
am head court-msrtial sent him II
..,s ueath within "a hours. There wal
disgust among the officers and indigna
tion among the men, but the major wai
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A WARTIME GHOST.
Tte Mysterious End of Blood
Thirsty Confederate
Omccr.

There were four companies of us
holding gap in the mountains of
East Tennessee under command of
Mai. Bell. Now and then our out
posts had brush with the enemy or
were fired upon by bushwhackers,
but there were long intervals of Sc
curity.
We were well away from war and
its alarms and horrors, and the rank
and file were glad of the rest. So, too,
were the officers, except the major.
At rare intervals in the army during
the civil war you found soldier who
delighted in killing. He was n man
who would have committed murder at
home, but for his fear of the law. He
enlisted that he might satisfy his
cravings for bloodshed and fear no
punishment. Such man was always
an outlaw in his own company and
had neither chum nor terminate. 1t
Is n soldiers duty to kill, but in war
killing may sometimes mean murder.
The major would have been out
fawed as private soldier. He was n
man who thirsted for blood. 1t did
not take us long to find him out, and
we hated him rs n man, a soldier and
an officer. There came into our camp
ono day half-witted young man, the
son of mountaineer living three or
four miles away. His only object was
to satisfy his curiosity, but the major
wanted victim. He had the boy ar
rested as spy, and after drum-head
Icourt-martial there was hanging.
When the mother and sister of the
dead came down to cry out against
The monstrous injustice, they were
imprisoned for n week and then es-
corted out of camp. A union man
who had been in hiding for weeks in
n cave in the mountains came down to
offer his services. We had him ut one
of the outposts for three hours be-
fore taking him into camp, and his
honest face and frank speech satisfied
us that he was what he claimed to be.
AS soon as he reached camp, however,
he WINS arrested as u spy, and even be-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20

WHEN WRITING 70 ADVERTISERS
please state that you saw tho Adsertiss-
ment In this paper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20
GIRL FRESCO PAINTER.
Miss Louise Twyman. of Chicago, Has
Done Some Notable Work as
Decorator.

So many young women have taken
up interior decoration in the past few
years and have done so well that this
very lucrative art seems destined to
fall to the gentler sex by right of pos
session and perfection.
Ten years ago woman decorator
was a curiosity. Even six years ago,
when Miss Louise r. Twyman, the sub
ject of this sketch, under the tutelage
of her father, opened a studio in Chi
cago, she was considered the pioneer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20
Royal Women as CoIoneIs.

The present German emperor insti-
tuted the custom of appointing for
eign royal women colonels of Ger
man regiments. He named his grand
mother, Queen Victoria, colonel of the
First Prussian dragoon guards, and
since then large number of SOW
ereign women have been similarly
honored. The young queen of the
Netherlands was delighted when he
gave her a regiment, and when a dep.
utation of officers from the regiment
called on her at The Hague she enter.
tanned them right royalty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20
Art of Sweeping Carpets.

Many carpet is prematurely worn
out by injudicious sweeping. Stiff car
pet brooms and the stout arms of in
experienced maids are their destruc-
tion. In sweeping thick-piled carpets,
such as Administer and Turkey carpets.
the maid should be instructed to brush
always the way of the pile; by so doing
they may be kept clean for years, but
if the broom lie used in different way,
all the dust will enter the carpet and
soon spoil it. Without the greatest
care and some little knowledge, furni.
ture and paint, by being knocked about
by the broom, may soon receive an ir-
reparable amount Of damage.-Troy
IN. ~ Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20
MRS. BLAKE PROTESTS.
In ont of Humor Because She Was
Not Elected Leader of the Suf-
frage Association.

Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, who, with
her friends, threatens TO displace Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait as the leader of
the woman suffragists, is regarded as
in many respects more capable wom-
an than the recently elected president
of the suffrage association. Mrs. Gait.
it is charged, has never accomplished
anything worth talking about for wom-
EN-, whereas Mrs. Blake has devoted 80
of her 60 years of life to the cause. Be-
sides, Mrs. Blake has been prominent
in every movement having for its object
the amcloration of woman's condition,
without reference to the franchise. She
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-20
Ironing by Electricity.

In the laundry of an insane asylum
1T Pontiac, Mich, electric irons instead
of gas irons have proved to be peculiar
ly adapted for insane asylum service
where most of the work is done by
the patients. There is no chance of
their setting anything on fire with the
irons, and as the irons are kept at an
even temperature, they do not require
the exercise of judgment in changing
them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
CONVENTION CALLS.
First Legislative District.

Notice is hereby given that a conven-
tion of the Republicans of the First leg
islative district will be held at p. m. on
the Goth day of March next, at Co-opera-
tive hall, West Side. for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for the legisla-
ture to represent said district and elect
ing two delegates to attend the Repub-
lican state convention to be held In Har-
rsburg on April %. 1860. The primaries
will be held on Saturday afternoon
March II, between the hours of and
o'clock. According to the rules govern
ing the Republican primaries Of this leg
islative district rotice of the date of said
primary election must be given by the
district chairman at least twenty days
before said primary election and each
candidate must register with the district
chairman his full name and postoffice
address and pay his assessment ffteer
days before the primary election or his
name will rot be placed on the oflCia
ballot No votes shall be counted for any
person who has not complied with these
conditions.
w. A. Paine. Chairman.
Attest: Joseph Jeffrys, Secretary.
Scranton, Pa, Feb. %, 1900.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
Second Legislative District.

Notice Is hereby given to the Republf
can voters of the Second Legislative dis
trict that a primary election Will be held
on Saturday, March II, 1900. between the
hours of and o'clock D. m, for the
purpose of electing two delegates to rep
resent said legislative district In the COM
ing Republican state convention to be
held In Harrisburg. and to nominate a
candidate for the legislature. The corr
yention to compute the vote will be held
on Tuesday, March 20, 1900, at I o'clock
d. m, In the court house in Scranton.
In accordance with the rules governing
this district the candidates will be voted
for directly by the voters at the polls,
Each candidate must register with the
district chairman his full name and post
ofiice address and pay his assessment
twenty days before the election or his
name will not be placed In the oficial
ballot. neither will any votes cast for him
be counted.
The district vigilance committees in
the various precincts will conduct the
election and the result will be reported
by the return Judge to the district con-
vention. which will be composed Of the
return judges of the various districts.
A written notice containing further in
structions will be sent to the members OF
the said district vigilance committee.
Frederick w. Fleitz, Chairman.
Attest: Walter f. Davis. Secretary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
MoDDER RIVER.

There's a river out in somewhere;
Modder river now they spell It;
Never known in song and story
Till the battle plague befell II.
Hear the Mauser bullets tell 1t:
"Ping!" from out the rocky cover;
''Zip!" from out the burrow cave;
splash the blood of some ones lover; /;
Modder river, some ones grave.
Mountains towering by the river
BY that river worn asunder-
That had been asleep for ages
TILL awakened by Hates thunder
BY storm that made men wonder.
"Boom!' 1t sounds from out the flashing
Where the rocks by Modder meet
Shells are mingling with the crashing
Mid the peltings of death sleet.
Through the ages sullen Modder
Back reflected azure story;
Now 1t takes the tint of sunset,
1t is dyed with crimson glory,
1t is red with life blood CORY.
Bravest of the brave baptizing
In the faith Of honors creed,
Souls from out its waves uprising
From the battle hell-damp freed.
All the strength Of mans inventions,
All the gall of human badness,
All the power of nations mighty,
All the wrath of hellish madness,
Laughing with a demon gladness;
Meeting as the cyclones battle,
Like the lightnings from Jove's CULVER,
Graphing as inhuman cattle
By the banks of Modder river.
But the powers Of war are human;
Hate cannot destroy forever.
There will be an end of carnage
When the Modder shall not sever
Brothers mad with wrongs endeavor;
When the blight Of desolation,
When the curse of heaven shall fall
On the river, in duration
Till the trump Of God shall call.
Modder river. out In somewhere.
All the ages now may spell It;
Song and story rich with praises
To the wondring world may tell Il,
How the crime of war befell II,
How the carnage engines rattledi
How the armies by It fell:
How the nations by 1t battted
To transform this earth to hell.
Sherman d. Richardson, in the Roch-
ester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
NuBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

Seattle claims the remarkable low
death rate of eight per thousand In 1883.
Twenty-Five women have been hanged
in England during Queen victoria's reign.
In the fashionable thoroughfares Of
London good house rents for $4,000 a
year.
A man walking day and night without
resting would take 42S days to journey
around the world.
1t is supposed that the average depth
of sand in the deserts of Africa is from
thirty to forty feet.
The common garden bean traces its
ancestry back to the landing of the Pill
grims to an early aboriginal state in the
Andes.
Dartmouth college will have next year
celebration Of the centennial anniver.
sary of the graduation Of Daniel Webster
from the college. One feature Of the cele-
bration will be the collection Of 81. 900 900
for new buildings and endowments.
Gross expenses Of the state Of New
York in the year 1899, It Is computed.
amounted to S25.C0o.o0o. Of which nearly
10 per cent. was necessary to pay the
deficit Of departments which exceeded
in 1898. or in previous years. the appro-
priation made for them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-sATURDAY. MARCH g. 1900.

person, a qualified elector of said district.
to act as a member of the legislative
standing committee for tho next ensu-
ing calendar year, whose name shall be
certified to on the returns to the district
convention.
Candidates who have thus far regis
tered their names with the secretary at
9O3-9Oi, Mears building. Scranton. Pa,
ard those who are desirous OF registering
will observe the requirements of rule 6,
which reads as follows: Each candidate
must register his full name and postof-
flee address with the chairman of the
legislative standing committee. and shall
pay his assessment to the district chair
man at least twenty days before the prt-
mary election, or his name will not be
printed on the official ballot"
Saturday. tho 18th day of March, 1900,
is the last day for registering and paying
the assessment.
r. J. Matthews, Chairman.
Attest: ]. T.. Watkins. Secretary.
Scranton, Pa, February, 2S, 1900.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03

by a competent auditor. at least once
each year; to inform members reEard-
ing the method and conduct of busi-
ness by granting them, under prope'
restrictions, access to records of direc-
tors meetings. or otherwise: to provide
for the use of members. bef,c the
annual meetings, lists Of members
with their addresses and their several
holdings and to provide, in whatever
other ways may be named in the cer-
tincate of Incorporation, means where
by the members may prevent the mis-.
use of their property by directors or
trustees"
1t is also recommended that the
larger corporations should be required
to publish annually a properly audited
report, showing in reasonable detail
their assets and liabilities with profit
or loss; such report and audit under
oath to be subject to government in
spection. The purpose of such publi-
city is declared to be to encourage
competition when profits become excess
sive, thus protecting consumers against
too high prices and to guard the In
terests of employees by a knowledge
of the financial condition Of the busi-
ness in which they are employed.
With respect to the transportation
feature the commission recommends
that the interstate commerce commits
sion be given authority not only to
prescribe the methods of keeping ac-
counts of the railroads and to demand
reports in such detail as 1t may re.
quire. but also to inspect and audit
such accounts; that the Interstate
commerce law be so amended as to
make the decisions Of the commission
operative at day fixed in the deci-
sions and unreversed by the United
States courts on appeals: that the in
terstate commerce commission be au-
torized to prescribe classifcations of
freight articles and to make rules and
regulations for freight transportation
throughout the United States; that
penalties for violations of the inter-
state commerce act should be appro-
pirate fines against the carrier and not
Imprisonment of officials
1t is noteworthy that the commits
sion takes practically the view of this
question held assertively by Governor
Roosevelt, that the one sure remedy
is to be found in publicity. Where
the facts are known the trusts claws
are trimmed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
A Question Of Majority.

AVS OUR esteemed contem-
- porary, the New Age Of Tunk-
~ hammock: THE seating Of
Quay will widen the breach
between the two Republican factions
in Pennsylvania and probably end in
handing the state over to Democratic
control"
The former, possibly: but why the
latter? Quay was the choice Of the
majority Of his party as represented
in the legislative caucus; he was at all
times the choice of a majority of the
Republican members of the legislature:
it is pretty clear today and 1t will he
clearer ere long that he has a larger
following among the people than any
Of his factional antagonists; If not
larger than the combined following of
all of them. Who, then. is going to do
the boiling necessary to hand the state
over to Democratic control? In what
respect would Democratic control be
preferable?
Some things have to be recognized
in a republican form Of government.
One is the right Of the majority to
rule. Not until the enemies of Quay
constitute majority can they reason
ably complain if they do not win.
Mr.. Bryan states that the silver
question is not dying out, though he
will doubtless admit that some of the
orators on the subject are becoming a
trifle husky.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
Publicity the Remedy.

4 PRELIMINARY report by the
Industrial commission estab-
n lished by congress upon the
subject of trusts contains
facts and suggestions of interest. The
commission is satisfied, and so says at
the beginning of it's report, that indus.
trial combinations have become fix
lures in our national life. 1t therefore
marks out as the task of legislation
to destroy their power for evil and
preserve their means for good. The
commissions recommenda tions cover
two phases of the subject: the pre-
vention of deception of the public by
trusts and the prevention of unfair
manipulation of freight rates. On the
first of these heads the commission
recommends
''That the promoters and organizers
Of corporations or industrial combina-
tions which look to the public to pur-
chase or deal in their stocks or securi-
ties should be required to furnish full
details regarding the organization, the
property or services for which stocks
OF SGCuTVltS dic t- issucu,
and kind OF same, and all other mate
rial information necessary for safe
and intelligent investment. That any
prospectus or announcement Of any
y, kind soliciting subscriptions which
fails to make full disclosures as afore-
said, or which is false. should be
. deemed fraudulent. and the promoters.
with their associates. held legally re-
- pponsible. That the nature of the
business OF the corporation or indus
: trial combination. all powers granted
to directors and officers thereof, and
all limitations upon them or upon the
rights or powers of the members.
should be required to be expressed in
the certificates of Incorporation. which
instrument should be open to inspec.
tlon by any investor. The affairs Of a
corporation or Industrial combination
should be carried on. without detri-
meHt to the public, In the interest OF
it's members and under their lawful
q control To this end the directors or
= trustees should be required to report
10 the members thereof its financial
condition in reasonable detail, verified
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-03
Experiments in
ACtual Forestry
Washington, March ..
THE FAMOUS Johnstown food Of

Washington, March 2.
THE FAMOUS Johnstown flood Of
May 81. 1889. will probably soon
. be recalled to the public by an
attempt to reforest a large portion
of the Conemaugh water shed to pre-
vent further damage from freshets.
The Johnstown Water company. which
controls 5000 acres of mountain land,
has asked the Division OF Forestry to
devise plan by which the area can he
recovered with timber and the too
rapid run-off of the rainfall prevented.
The region is peculiarly liable to
I freshets, owing to it's geological char
acter and the removal of it's timber.
The now historic catastrophe, which
swept away s10000,000 in property and
half as many lives as the battle of
Gettysburg, was but an exaggerated
instance of many simtar floods. This
tendency has been increased by log
ging off the timber and clearing numer-
Gus farms, so that the rainfall flows
quickly from the surface. causing high
water at one time and the drying Up
, of springs later.
The Johnstown Water company has
bought up many of these farms and
torn down their buildings. and now
wishes to expedite their return to the
forest. The tract Is in a sandstone re-
gion, much broken. with valleys averag-
ing $50 feet in depth. The timber con-
sists of hemlock, oak. locust and ash.
with some beech and poplar. The open
ings are from twenty to fifty acres.
As soon as the weather permits, ].
/ w. Tourney. superintendent Of tree
planting, and another working-plan ex.
| pert of the Division of Forestry. will
| examine the region. and decide ON q
plan of reforestatiOn. In the clearings
! tree planting will be required. An at
tempt will probably be made to in
crease the stand over the whole area
! by skillfully assisting natural repro
| duction. Protection from fire and cattle
will also be required. The expense will
he shared by the government and the
water company, the former furnishing
| the expert work and, possibly, some OF
the material for planting.
The division Of forestry is In consul.
tation with three important railway
companies over a contemplated limo,
walton in American railway methods
These roads--the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe, the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, and the GAINESVILLE and Ohio
are considering raising tie and pols
timber on a large scale on their now
non-utilized right-of-way lands. Othel
large western roads are also interested
This action Is due chiefly to the fail
ing Of the natural supply Of this ma
terial In all but the newer portions q
the United States. About one million
acres Of timber are consumed annual
ly by railroads in buildings and repair
ing, and at the present rate Of timber
depletion, the increased cost Of suct