Deora fin
INK SLINGS.
Lord Mayor MacSweeney’s pro-
longed fast is wonderful, but Mr. Bry-
an’s long continued silence is marvel-
ous.
—Up to this moment we have
neither seen nor heard a single reason
why the Hon. Jones should longer rep-
resent this District in Congress.
—Judging from the record of the
Hon. Jones on the Nineteenth amend-
ment he must be known among his
* colleagues in Washington as the art-
ful dodger.
The most surprised man in the
country after the campaign will be
William Jennings Bryan, who imag-
ined the Democratic party couldn’t get
along without him.
——There must be something more
than a political difference between
Senator Penrose and President Wil-
son. For example, it must be admit-
ted that the President has always led
a clean life.
—Just when Wall street starts to
giving bigger odds on Harding’s elec-
tion wages and wheat start tumbling.
The farmer and the laborer surely
must be blind if he doesn’t see some-
thing significant in such coincidences.
After all Senator Borah may
be pretending in order to steady Re-
publicans who favor the League and
want to vote for Harding. There are
a great many more of that kind than
of the Borah type and they were wa-
vering.
—We have been wondering how
many of our women readers have been
reading the splendid series of articles,
“Lessons in Citizenship” which have
been running in the “Watchman.” To
our mind they are the most compre-
hensive and simplest compilation of
facts that women should know that
have been published and they are
quite worth while, even for men who
think they are well up in the duties of
citizenship. Read them, men, and be
surprised at how frequently your own
understanding of the simplest duty is
at variance with the facts.
—Yeggs cracked the safe in a com-
pany store at Naginey, near Lewis-
town, on Sunday night and got away
with ten thousand dollars in cash and
securities. This is getting near home.
After the long and successful runs the
“hold-up men” and yeggs have been
having in the cities they are probably
starting out on the road for one-night
stands now. If any of them come to
rob you stand and deliver. They are
prepared for any emergency. In all
probability you will not be. It is bet-
ter to be cleaned out and be alive with
a chance to get more than be dead and
not sure of what you are going to get.
coming out of Towa is something
ferent. It is utterly out of harmony
with the siren songs of overwhelming
victories everywhere that our friends,
the Republicans, have been so assidu-
ously singing. The late Senator Dol-
liver once said: “Iowa will go Demo-
cratic when hell goes Methodist,” but
even this astute framer of shocking
epigrams couldn’t forsee it all. Iowa,
the Pennsylvania of the middle west,
is actually threatening to elect a Dem-
ocratic Governor and to throw down
her long honored apostle of special
privilege, Senator Cummins. It is
more than a threat. It is so much
more so that Harding is to be hustled
back to try to save the day. The peo-
ple are wakening up. The tide is
surely turning when s. o. s. flashes
come out of Iowa.
—If the rumor that Miss Rebecca
Naomi Rhoads is to take up the torch
that the Hon. Ives Harvey flung
down, and run for the Legislature in
this county, turns out to be a fact,
there may be something more doing
in the campaign than either Mr. Nag-
iney or Tom Beaver figured on. A
three cornered fight is always inter-
esting and out of it the unexpected
often happens. Of course all of the
women of the county would not sup-
port Miss Rhoads but a lot of men
would do it. For there are many tem-
perance poeple who don’t believe, with
William Jennings Bryan, that Prohi-
bition is settled and fifty years from
now, when the country is as dry as
Sahara, they will still think their
cause is in peril if somebody runs for
township supervisor whose grand-
father was once seen within three
miles of an empty beer keg.
—The Irish are not going to vote
for Harding because he dodged the
vote of sympathy for Ireland’s cause
the only time it came up in the Sen-
ate. The farmers are not going to
vote for him because when the price
of wheat was being discussed in the
Senate he spoke to the effect that a
dollar a bushel was all the farmers
had a right to expect. The mechan-
ics and the laboring men are not
going to vote for him because as a
member of the Senate oligarchy he re-
sorted to every trick of parliamentary
practice to frustrate the President’s
attempts to get a square deal for
them. The women are not going to
vote for him because he is not in fa-
vor of “going in” to the League of
Nations and the women are for the
League because it is the only safe-
guard that is proposed to shield their
sons from going to war again. The
Jewish voters of the country will not
support Harding because he voted
against the confirmation of the ap-
pointment of one of their number, Mr.
Brandies, to the United States Su-
preme Court. Who then, is left to
vote for Harding? None but the pro-
German and the special privilege
classes and there are not enough of
them.
—The Cummins cry for help that Is
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
~YOL. 63.
Sum and Purpose of Article X. |
i
As a result of the world war the |
German empire, the Austria-Hungary
empire and the Turkish conspiracy |
doing business as a government were |
broken up and several States were!
created, among them Poland, Czecho-
Slovakia, Serb-Croat-Slovene State
and others. The statesmen who com-
posed the peace conference realized
that these new States would be unable
to maintain their territorial integrity
and political independence against or-
ganized aggressions from the more
powerful States out of which they
had been created. In the beginning of
the last century when the Spanish-
American Republics broke away from
Spain a similar condition was .made.
The President of the United States
declared the Monroe Doctrine for their
protection. .
That was more than a hundred
years ago and the Holy Alliance form-
ed a potent force threatening the con-
tinued existence of these new but
hopeful governments. When Presi-
dent James Monroe issued his procla-
mation grave fears were expressed by
the opponents of his administration
that war would ensue and disaster fol-
low. But he relied upon the spirit of
justice which moved him to his decla-
ration. The United States were not
then the strong government they are
now but were equal in courage in a
righteous cause A century of growth
and prosperity has gone over the
world since but never a shot has been
fired nor a man called into military
service to defend the principles ex-
pressed in the Monroe Doctrine. :
Article X of the covenant of the
League of Nations as adopted by the
Peace Conference in Versailles is sim- |
ply an expansion of the Monroe Doc-
trine to cover the entire civilized
world. It was especially designed to
secure for all time the “territorial in-
tegrity and political independence” of
the new States created by the break-
ing up of the conspiracies of Germa-
ny, Austria-Hungary and Turkey.
But it can and will achieve wider and
greater results. It will admonish all
governments afflicted with the lust of
conquest against wars for sordid and
selfish purposes. And it will accom-
plish the result through moral forces
er tinny
the Monroe Doctrine has done for a
century.
— Senator Harding would have to
study dentistry for some years before
he could put teeth in the Hague tribu-
nal that would be effective. :
Shall the United States Default.
In an interview published in the
New York World of Sunday Governor
Cox struck the high note of the cam-
paign. “The League has become ab-
solutely necessary” he said. “Man-
kind cannot stand another war like
the one we have just suffered. It
would be not only diabolical, it would
be unendurable. Civilization would
be crushed and humanity blown in
bits. And there is no alternative to !
the League inspired by America, cre-
ated largely by an American and
scoffed by a Senate autocracy more
dangerous than the German monster
that has been crushed. The associa-
tion of nations to preserve peace, '
loosely talked about by Senator Hard-
ing, is the figment of a feeble mind.
It has no existence in fact or even in
hope.
The League is already functioning
and has settled one dispute that other-
wise would have caused war. With-
out the United States in its member- |
ship it is a cripple but not helpless or
hopeless. It will go on with its work
of educating the peoples of the world i
in the arts and achievements of peace. |
It will reduce the cost of government
by diminishing armies and navies in
every civilized country except the,
United States. We will have to groan
on under the burden of maintaining
an army and navy capable of encoun-
tering all the other great nations, and
the high cost of government is one of
the causes of the high cost of living."
But because the Senate oligarchy
wants to own a President we shall
have to suffer.
When President Wilson left the
peace conference in Versailles the
United States presented the most po-
tential figure in the affairs of the
world. Our representatives in the
conference, more than those of any
other country, made the policies and
shaped the work of that body of world
figures. If we had promptly taken
our place in the League of Nations
this position would have been retain-
ed by us forever. But we have for-
feited that important position because
a jibbering imbecile, Henry Cabot '
Lodge, had a grudge against Presi-
dent Wilson. Now the world has
come to think it can get along without
us and we are a laughing stock among
nations. Shall we perpetuate this
state of affairs by electing Harding?
If Republican chairman Hays
were half as confident of success as he
pretends to be he wouldn’t have to tell
himself about it so often.
BELLEFONTE, P
A
Teas
—
OCTOBER 8, 1920.
NO. 40.
Women, Why Vote for Penrose?
The “Watchman” takes the liberty of publishing herewith an editorial
that appeared in the Philadelphia Record of September 20th. It discusses the
candidacy of Senator Boies Penrose to succeed himself in such a manner as to
create a doubt as to whether our senior Senator has improved his talents or
in any way contributed to the public weal through his long tenure of office.
Most men of Pennsylvania know that the Senator is merely a machine
politician; they know that he has never essayed to be anything more, but the
women of the Commonwealth are probably not so intimately acquainted with
the record of the gentleman who is now asking for their support. Possibly
most of them have heard of him as the Republican boss of Pennsylvania and
some, no doubt, have idealized him as a man of great ability; for how else
could he have become the leader of a great political party.
More especially for the women voters, we republish the Record’s very fair
presentation of the Penrose claim for support, as follows:
“On November 2 the people of Pennsylvania are going to elect one of
their number to represent them in the United States Senate.
The candidates for the honor are Boies Penrose, Republican, and
Major John A. Farrell, Democrat. Common sense suggests that choice
should be based on consideration of the records and personal fitness of
the nominees.
.
Let us be fair to Senator Penrose and concede to him the merits of
ability and experience. He is capable. So, in their time, and in their re-
spective fields, were Samuel H. Ashbridge, John D. Rockerfeller and Boss
Tweed. He has sat nearly 24 years inthe Senate.
The German Kaiser,
Wilhelm II, was likewise experienced. He ruled for over 30 years.
But if Senator Penrose is competent and familiar with the duties of
the office, so much the greater is the reason to demand of him a record of
achievement for the public benefit in the public service.
What has he got to show on this score?
We challenge him to point
to a single constructive measure, framed for the good of the people, that
bears the stamp of his initiative, a single good deed performed for Amer-
ica in his four terms in the Senate.
We accuse him of devoting 24 years to one consistent breach of trust,
in that in every struggle between the forces of progress and the forces of
reaction he either lined up with the friends of special privilege to thwart
the popular will, or absented himself when the vote was taken.
Senator Penrose was conspicuously inactive in every patriotic move-
ment to support at home the boys who were fighting our battles in
France; conspicuously silent in the Liberty loan campaigns; conspicuous-
ly engaged in damnable conspiracies to undermine the power of the Com-
mander-in-Chief of our army and navy—and now he appeals to patriots
for the votes to send him back to the Senate!
Senator Penrose has persistently opposed national legislation to es-
tablish the rights of labor and protect the working men and the working
women from organized greed and rapacity—and now he wants the work-
ing people to give him another chance to betray them!
Senator Penrose has been one of the bitterest opponents of giving
women the right to vote—and now that they have won it in spite of him,
he wants them to rally to his standard!
There is not a clean and honest man or woman in the State of Penn-
sylvania, informed on public affairs, who does not despise Senator Pen-
rose for the way he has dedicated his talents to the evil service of Big
Business, and detest his public record.
God for the o y.to st
nest men and women should
him, te ‘register their “disap-
proval of his black betrayal of an outraged constituency, to declare in
tones that should ring through the nation that the wages of political sin
is political death. But there is one obstacle. This traitor to the true inter-
ests of Pennsylvania, this unpatriotic conspirator against the nation’s
welfare, this brazen enemy of every decent aspiration of good citizenship,
is a Republican.
Major John A. Farrell has the misfortune to have been zealous in the
service of his country and to call himself a Democrat. He is clean. He is
imbued with mental, moral and physical vigor.
He believes in democracy
with a small d as well as with a large one, and wishes to serve the great
mass of his fellow-citizens in their eternal warfare against wrong and in-
justice committed in the name of corporate greed.
While Boies Penrose was skulking in the underground labyrinths of
Washington, risking his battered reputation in promoting the conspiracy
that was to undo all our soldiers achieved for humanity on foreign soil,
Major Farrell was risking his skin in France for the voters to whom he
now appeals. He was a volunteer, serving in the Medical Corps, alleviat-
ing the sufferings of the wounded. But he has not asked for a single vote
on that score. He seeks election, not as a reward of service, but as an op-
portunity of service.
With such a choice before them, the voters of Pennsylvania, if they
were swayed by reason, or if they ordered the selection of their public
servants as they order the employment of their agents in private business,
would elect Major Farrell with but one dissenting vote.
We do not delude ourselves with expectations of any such result. We
recognize the need of bringing home to the honest citizens of this State,
and particularly to the women, whose every sensibility is insulted by Sen-
ator Penrose’s career, the crime they will be committing if they return
this arch-plotter against their rights to the United States Senate.
What is the Democratic State Committee doing to enlighten the peo-
ple?
Where are the Democratic leaders who should be issuing masks to
save the voters from the effects of the poison gas with which Penrose and
his cohorts are flooding the State?
Who has kept half of the voters in
ignorance of the fact that they have this year a rare opportunity to strike
a smashing blow at their worst enemy ?
If the Democratic organizaticn in Pennsylvania has gone to pieces,
there is yet time for wide-awake Democrats in every county in the State
to take matters into their own hands, form their own organizations and
preach the gospel of keeping the faith with the people from every house-
top.
Considering who and what Penrose is, and his disgraceful record, his
return to the Senate should be impossible.
The Record appeals to every
thinking citizen for once to put partisanship aside and give honor and de-
cency a chance to speak on November 2. Do not be contented with voting
for Major Farrell—work for him. Stir the conscience of your Republican
neighbor. If conscience shall be permitted to have a voice in the ballot-
ing, Major Farrell will be elected.
President Wilson’s Call to Duty.
President Wilson’s clarion call to
the country is bound to exercise a
profound influence on the public mind.
“Every one who sincerely believes in
‘ gaging in the war.
government by the people,” he de-!
clares, “must rejoice at the turn af-
fairs have taken in regard to this
campaign. This election isto bea
genuine referendum. * * * This
is the most momentous issue that has
ever been presented to the people of
the United States, and I do not doubt
that the hope of the whole world will
be verified by an absolute assertion by
the voters of the country of the deter-
mination of the United States to live
up to all the great expectations which
they created by entering the war.”
There can be no two opinions as to
‘the aim of the people of this country
in entering the war.
It was specific-
ally declared by Congress and univer-
sally reiterated by the people that we
(had no intention of acquiring terri-
tory or gaining any pecuniary or po-
“litical advantage.
"of a splendid ideal, the preservation
The consummation
to the world of civil and religious lib-
erty, the banishment for all time of
war for conquest, the permanent
destruction of autocracy and the es-
tablishment of enduring peace were
openly declared as our reasons for en-
Since “our incom-
parable soldiers, sailors and marines”
accomplished those results the sinister
purpose of huckstering their sacri-
fices has obtruded itself into the per-
verted minds of the Republican lead-
ers.
President Wilson, in his inimitable
way, has called the voters of the coun-
try to a fulfillment of their duty to
keep the promise to the dead heroes
buried in French soil, and maintain
the faith of the fathers of the coun-
try, who “thought of America as the
light of the world, as created to lead
the world
rights of peoples and the rights of
free nations; as destined to set a re-
sponsible example to all the world of
what free government is and can do
for the maintenance of right stand-
ards.” If we fail in this we not only
dishonor the memory of the fathers of
the Republic but we betray our obliga-
tions to the heroic dead in their for-
eign graves. :
in the assertion of the.
Mr. Connelly Wants to Know Why the
Hon. Jones Dodged.
"| At a public meeting held in Clear-
field a few evenings ago James D.
Connelly, candidate for Congrss in
this District was called upon to speak.
After stating his own position on the
issues uppermost in the voters minds
at this time he devoted the major por-
tion of his remarks toward his oppo-
nent, Congressman Jones, who in a
recent address to the Republican
Woman’s club of Clearfield announc-
ed that were he returned to Congress
he would support the Eighteenth or
Prohibition amendment to the consti-
. tution. The speaker expressed him-
self as being pleased to learn Mr.
Jones’ position, which was in hearty
accord with his own on this import-
| ant subject, and the knowledge at this
| time was doubly iluminating on Mr.
{ Jones’ part because his speech in
| Clearfield on. the occasion mentioned
{ was the first time on record that Con-
| gressman Jones had publicly taken
| any stand favoring prohibition or the
| Prohibition amendment and proved
i his assertion to the satisfaction of his
| hearers by quoting from the Congres-
| sional Record Mr. Jones’ attitude
every time the question was raised in
| Congress during the two sessions
| which he attended. That record shows
| that Congressman Jones had opportu-
i nity to vote for or against the Prohi-
| bition amendment and its accompany-
! ing resolutions on no less than four-
| teen separate and distinct resolutions
| including the Amendment and the
| Volstead Act and not in a single in-
| stance did he cast a ballot on the
| proposition. He was present at the
| discussion and roll call on thirteen of
| these resolutions, but refrained from
| voting on every one, although on
| three of these resolutions, after the
' vote was taken, and he failed to vote,
'he had himself recorded as voting
| “yea” and in one instance had the
record show him voting “nay.”
Mr. Connelly concluded his remarks
{ with the statement that if elected to
: represent the 21st District in Con-
gress he would not only support and
maintain the constitution and its
every part and section, but that he
would be on hand at all times with
.| the courage of his convictiong- EL a
legislation affecting his constituency
and would stand up and be counted on
every proposition instead of strad-
| dling and “artfully dodging” every
| proposition that demanded clean cut
determination as was done by the
i present member from this District.
. ——Lord Mayor MacSweeney, of
| York, Ireland, has beaten the world
| record in fasting, but it is not easy to
i see how he will get pleasure out of his
| triumph. :
—
Women Against Penrose.
i The women voters of Chester coun-
‘ty, irrespective of party preference,
have set out to organize a movement
to defeat the re-election of Senator
Boies Penrose. They declare that
during all the long period of time
they have been striving in the inter-
est of woman suffrage Senator Pen-
rose never gave them a word of en-
couragement or a helpful action. He
has served in the United States Sen-
ate nearly twenty-four years and was
a member of the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania more than ten years.
He had abundant opportunities during
that period to aid the women in their
just aspiration to full citizenship but
he failed to do so. On the contrary he
did everything to defeat them.
There are other reasons why the
women voters of the State should re-
fuse to honor Boies Penrose with their
support for re-election. When he was
a candidate for Mayor of Philadel-
phia, just before the late Senator
Quay catapulted him into the Senate,
| the ministerial association of that
| city, in open session, denounced him
as morally unfit for important office
and forced his party organization to
| drive him out of the fight. Six years
ago when he was last a candidate for
| Senator Gifford Pinchot and other
{ leaders of his party declared that op-
‘posing him was a moral obligation
{upon the part of every Republican
! yoter in the State. Since that time he
| has done nothing to commend him to
| the favor of right minded people. In
| fact since then he has done little else
| than abuse President Wilson.
The strongest reason presented in
support of woman suffrage was the
promise that it would inject a moral
element into political activities pre-
| viously absent. Will the women vot-
ers of Pennsylvania betray this im-
plied pledge by voting for a man of
whom the cleanest members of his
own party spoke so derisively six
years ago and the clergymen of his
city denounced so vehemently a quar-
ter of a century ago? If they do it
will have the effect of shattering the
faith of thousands of men and women
who took the statements of the mili-
tant suffragists at face value and gave
them all the help possible in their as-
pirations to acquire full citizenship.
Such a result would be unfortunate to
| say the least.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
. —A fourteen inch bass, caught in Bram-
dywine creek, near Coatesville, by Charles
Brown, had a muskrat in its stomach, it
was disclosed on being cleaned. - Brown
observed the bass was unusually large im
circumference when taken from the water.
—If Frank S. Quesade, son of a wealthy
Cuban, will go to Leolyn, near Towanda,
he can get one perfectly good left ear for
which he has offered $10,000. M. B. Me-
Nett, of Leolyn, stands ready to be sepa-
rated from one of his ears to help the
young Cuban into matrimony. Not only is
McNett willing to sell one ear, but he will
deduct half of the cost of grafting it onto
the Cuban.
—John M. Kelly, of Curwensville, sent
an owl Le had captured to his friend, John
Koech, of Altoona, as a pet, and the latter
left the bird in the office of an Altoona
motor company for safe keeping. During
the night the owl ate the rubber eraser,
part of a typewriter ribbon, and the pa-
per covering of a package containing sev-
eral pairs of stockings. It seems none the
worse for its meal.
—The jury in the case of Harry Heinzy,
the Madera blacksmith, charged with mur-
dering his neighbor, Alex Wash, by stab-
bing him to death during an altercation at
the latter's home last July, brought in a
verdict of first degree early on Saturday
morning, at Clearfield. Notwithstanding
the fact that the verdict was brought in 2€
2:45 a. m. Judge Bell convened court and
received the same from the jury.
—A jury last week awarded Max Long,
aged 16 years, of Berwick, $14,100 in his
suit against the Columbia & Montour Elec-
tric company for injuries sustained whem
a live wire fell in a storm and hit him.
The award included $12,000 to the boy and
$2100 to his father, Fred Long. In the clos-
ing plea of the Longs’ attorney the boy's
mother fainted in the courtroom as the
lawyer detailed the agony her son had suf-
fered.
—The Rev. Albert Vogel, 103 years old,
well known as a Methodist minister in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan,
died at his home in Jeannette, Pa., on Sat-
urday. Mr. Vogel held charges in the four
States and made several evangelistic tours
through the territory. He was born at
Wert-on-the-Rhine, Germany. He came to
the United States in 1829 and resided im
Washington, D. C.. before coming to Penn-
sylvania.
—Owing to ravages of bears in Potter
county, which have destroyed as many
sheep as have been killed by dogs, the
game commission is extending special dis-
pensation to hunters. While the law lim-
its the killing of one to the season, Potter
county hunters may bag two each, if they
can. And hunters who have killed ome
bear in some other county have one com-
ing to them in Potter if they go after it
and get it.
—Mrs. Albert Floyd, of Sharon, last
week shot and seriously wounded her hus-
band, Gabe Floyd, when the latter was
beating their daughter with a milk bottle.
The woman fired four shots. One struck
Floyd in the left leg and the other lodged
in his back. He was removed to Buhl hos-
pital. Mrs. Floyd and her daughter were
arrested and lodged in jail. It is said that
Floyd will recover. Mrs. Floyd said that
her husband came home intoxicated and
started to beat Bessie Evans, her daughter,
with a milk bottle.
—Melvin A. Myers, promoter of service
at the West Branch Y. M. C. A., of Phila-
delphia, has gone to the Williamsport Y.
M. C. A. as boys’ secretary. His home is
in Kane. He attended Dennison Universi-
fv, of Granville, Ohio, and left there to
join the United States army, having been
a drill sergeant in France. Later he was
regimental leader and had charge of var-
jous entertainments given for the recrea-
tion of the soldiers. He was attached to
the 116th Engineers of the Sunset Division,
of California, and was overseas for eight
months,
~Firing into the darkness at what she
supposed was a burglar trying to enter
her home, Mrs. Henry Hall, of Barnes,
twenty miles southeast of Warren, shot
and instantly killed John Alling, fourteen
year old son of Myros Alling, another res-
ident, early last Saturday. Alling and
another boy, Clarence Neal, it is said,
were playing pre-Hallowe'en pranks by
rapping on Mrs. Hall's windows. She be-
came frightened, and procured a revolver.
Opening the door, Mrs. Hall fired one shot
at random. The bullet struck Alling in the
heart. When told of the fatal results of
her action, Mrs. Hall was prostrated.
-—Two bandits early last Thursday
morning held up C. W. Frank, of Hagers-
town, Md., a cattle dealer, while he was on
his way to Harrisburg on business. "The
holdup occurred on the Carlisle ‘pike only
a few miles from the state capital, the
robbers securing $2500 and safely making
their escape. Frank says that as he ap-
proached Harrisburg the two men, un-
masked, signaled for him to stop his car.
When he stopped he was asked to show
his driver's license and when he exhibited
it one of the men said: “You are the man
we want” and whipped out a revolver de-
manding his money, which he turned over
to them.
— Stricken with apoplexy on the same
day, three weeks ago, Stephen Bachman,
aged 87 years, and his brother, Phoan H.
Bachman, aged 84 years, retired wealthy
farmers, of Lynn township, Lehigh coun-
ty, died last Thursday just three hours
apart. The former died at the home of his
son-in-law, the Rev. Jacob G. Rupp, of Al-
lentown, while the latter expired at his
farm near Lynville. The brothers were
among the most progressive farmers in
Lehigh county, specializing in potatoes,
horses and cattle. Both were teachers in
their early days, and were leading mem-
bers of the Reformed church. The broth-
ers took an active part in the improve-
ment of roads and in the development of
the public schools. Their farms were
| among the finest in the Lehigh valley.
—TForced to keep silent by the menace of
a revolver pressed against her side, Mrs.
Florence Schubert, of New Kensington,
was robbed of $60 Saturday night while
aboard an Allegheny Valley train, en route
home from Pittsburgh. Scores of other
passengers were in the coach, but were ig-
norant of the hold-up until Mrs. Schubert
screamed just as the robber leaped from
the train as it slowed down at Parnassus.
Mrs. Schubert told the police that while
she was sitting in the coach she took out
her powder puff, opening her purse as she
did so. In the mirror she beheld the man’s
face peering interestedly over her shoulder
into the bag. “I want that money,” the
stranger said. Drawing a revolver, Mrs.
Schubert said, the man pressed it against
her and she surrendered the money. Warn-
ing the woman to keep her mouth shut,
the robber rushed to the rear platform
and leaped off.