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The Commoner.
Tho signal cap placed on the track brought the
train to a stop. Engineers John Long and
Balzer Beahm, both of Altoona, on alighting
from their cab were confronted by a masked
man with two revolvers who ordered 'hands up.'
Conductor 1. R. Pofferbcrger of Harrisburg
came up and taking In the situation started to
run for the rear of the train. The robber fired
five shots at him, one taking effect in the right
hand. He then ordered tho express car opened,
threatening to bhow it with dynamite if not
obeyed. The car was opened and at the direc
tion of the robber the money bags were carried
to the side of the tracks. When as much money
was stacked up as' one man could carry the
trainmen, were ordered back to their positions
and the train moved on.. It is thought about
$1,000 was obtained. Several of the bags con
tained pennies which were found this morning
near the scene of the hold-up. Only one man
was seen by the trainmen, Later investigation
disclosed six sticks of dynamito between tho
tracks at the point where the cap exploded.
This is accepted as evidence that it was tho'inr
tention of the robber to blow up the train. "With
practically every detective and officer employed
by the railroad, assisted, by special detectives
of the Adams Express, company, engaged In a
search for the bandit, the .prediction was made
tonight by the Pennsylvania railroad officials
that his apprehension ,is but a few hours off.
He was traced a short distance up the mountains
adjacent td the scene of the , hold-up, currency
dropped in his precipitous . flight marking his
trail. The highwayman, it is said, took $(?000
iii bullion "arid $200 in pennies from fne car and
all of 'this has been 'found along the trail exr
cept $65."' '.. " ' , ' .
, . a , . WRITER IN THE ;. Brooklyn Eagle : says :
XX "A bill passed by the lower house of the
Alabama .legislature proposes to legalize the- ArL
rest, of any person possessing a- United States
license .for .the .sale pf liquor, without the for
mality pf securing any other evidence or even of
alleging any- specific act in violation of state
Ja,wM, A.JL old issue.-is. thus formulated in a shape
Xqr, logic. tp.t. tackle. it freely, We -have no donbt
fth.at ,il. ithe b JJhfbecomes ..a wlaw, the . logicians on
the bench; rof the1 supreme cdurt of the -United
S.tates will .do, their' iduty.f Maine made tlie pos
session of federal license certificates corrobora
tive evidence of violation of her liquor law. At
,one time she sought also to use the records of
the United States internal revenue department
in, her criminal prosecutions. In the' latter effort
she was thwarted. The federal courts, however,
id 'not -interfere with 'the 'corroborative evi
dence clause of the; state law. Alabama's
fmeme is to make the possession of United
tates certificates primary and presumptive, not
corroborative evidence. This involves an at
tack on the revenue-raising laws of the nation,
an attack absolutely unmasked and vital. With
such a Statute on' the books, pi every state near
ly4 $7,000, OO'O of revenue .would be taken froin
the1 United States in' Special tax certificates
alone, and the collection of $156,000,000 altor
gother from taxes' on 'spirits would, be seriously
menaced. Whether such a state law is constir
tutiorial or not will be settled, not by Alabama,
but by the nation's supreme court. That is the
really significant fact."
THEY HAVE discovered that the trust mag
nates in Pittsburg, are .stockading their
laborers and holding them in a state of peonage.
Referring to these disclosures the New York
World says: "The World's description of con
ditions existing within the stockade of a manu
facturing plant at Schoenville, near Pittsburg,
resembles the stories that are told of Siberia.
An industry is carried on under guard. Armed
men stand at the gates and patrol the grounds.
No unauthorized person nay enter and those
who are within may not go but. The workers,
drawn chiefly from the employment agencies of
New York, are prisoners; Lawlessness on the in
side of the stockade IS supplemented by law
lessness on the outside, where the state consta
bulary holds in check dispossessed strikers who
are Inclined to violence. Within the stockade
workingmen deceived and deprived of liberty
Bubsist upon unwholesome fodd, sleep on the
ground, are denied decent sanitary conveniences
and are the prey of 'petty despots and grafters,
On the outside men, 'women and children eject
ed from the company Houses are with difficulty
held in restraint Most of the people involved
on both sides of this inhuman contest are for
eigners with nd knowledge of the English lan
guage or of American Institutions. Yet there
is an institution now rogarded as American with
which they must havo somo acquaintance. Strik
ers and stri Ice-breakers, both struggling against
injustice and wretchedness, are face to face with
tho falsehoods of privilege. The industry with
whjch they have come into brutalizing contact
is 'protected subsidized and otherwise pampered
by law in the name of American labor. Tho
greatest falsehood, tho one perhaps which will
bo the last to, occur to these deluded old- world
.victims of tyranny and greed, js to bo found
Jn the words 'American labor.' Questions of
law and order and of the rights of contract and
pf property, are involved at Schoenyillo, but uur
derlying them all are tho humanities and decen
cies of life every one of them shamelessly dis
regarded by an industry which sells its pro.ducts
In. the highest market on earth and procures Us
labor, in the cheapest." .
DEBATE between Senator Burkett of Ne-
) b'raska and C. ' O; Whedon of Lincoln,- a
staunch 'republican, has been proposed' by' lead
ing republicans. Referring to the suggestion
Senator Burkett said he Would not quarrel with
republicans as there was nothing to quarrel
over. A Lincoln dispatch to tho Omaha World
Herald says: "The challenge Handed Sonator
Burkett to join C. O. Whodon in an open de
bate on the PayncAldrich bill has been put
away by the senator, but It refuses' to stay put.
Senator Burkett is inclined td think that the
airing of the tariff bill Is something to bo'dpno
behind closed republican doors within which
tho odorous sections of tho measure will be
confined to tho humble and obliging nostrils of
standpat republicans. Whedon does not agree
with him. 'I for one,' said Mr. Whedon, 'am
hot content to remain silent as to the' recent
tariff legislation because I am a republicim.: it
is because I am' a 'republican and believe, as
thousands of Pther republican's belidve, that the
party has hot given the country tho revision
promised that I am entitled to criticise wiat
has been done.' The expected refusal pf the
senior sonator to engage" in a rough and tiinibjo
debate, has created somo quiet pleasure ambng
republicans who are not inclined to 'swaHbW
the' pretensions of the senator simply because
he Is a republican. It Is said 'that the senator
is only postponing a lashing, as Senator La
Follette is expected to visit Nebraska again
within a few' weeks."
THE OLD SIHP is. leaking now in. Nebraska.
The Omaha World-Herald says:. . "After ;a
careful reading of the esteemed Fremont
Tribune we are forced to .conclude that .the. re
port that D. E., Thompson is to roturn to Ne
braska to become a candidate for United States
senatpr against Elmer J. Burkett is founded, on
fact;. If it were not the Tribune would not be
foaming at tho mouth, the way it is. Listen:
'The ambassador to Mexico draws a federal sal
ary four times as JaTge. as does tho editor of
the Tribune and he never did a thing for the
party except to sell it out after ho had tried in
vain to get Into the United States senate by
scattering money among legislative candidates
Who, If successful, would havo a senator to
elect.' This is what ,you might call pretty
middlin' venomous. And 'it comes, from Ross
Hammond, who is collector of. internal revenue,
which position he owes to Senator Burkett, and
who is Burkett's recognized spokesman among
the newspaper fraternity. When Ross Ham
mond spits and arches his back that way at the
mere mention of the name of D. E. Thompson,
it's a sure sign that trouble is brewing."
TTNDER THE headline, "Love Can Not Bo
U Bought," Winifred Black writing in the
New York American says: "The little girl I
know ran swiftly up the walk to the house tho
other day. I called to her from the window,
but she did not answer. 'Something important
must be happening,' I thought, 'she's always so
delighted to call back again.' The little girl I
know opened the door, rushed up the stairs and
threw herself into my arms like a living catapult.
'Catherine is mad!' she wailed. 'Catherine is
mad' She doesn't like me, and she's never go-
infe to play with me again as long as sho lives.'
The little girl I know cried so hard that it was
some time before I could understand what she
was trying to tell me, but after a while I dlscev-
ered that the amazing CatherineIn the eyes
of the little girl I know the most SMutlfjjl. the
most'wdriderful and the most'ftecihating'being
allvo didn't approve of tho little girl any long
er, Sho had approved of her tho day.boforo
yestorday, but yesterday nothing the Utile girl
did was right. 'Her hair wasn't tho right color,
and it was bo curly that It lokod mussed all tho .
time; her oyes were too blue and her choolcii
wero too rod they looked common and she
was too fond of her dog.' Tho little girl I know
was heartbroken, but after we talked a little
while she cheered up and lot me wash her toar
stalned face and tie up her hair with new rib
bons, and 1 thought she had forgotten all about
Catherine, but In a fow niliiutoK I lookod out
of, the window, and there was the little girl
hunting for tho biggest mid tho sweetest rone
on the roHo bush In tho corner of tho garden.
'Look,' sho said, 'I'm going to give this to Cath
erine, and then maybe she'll like mo again.'
And she gavo it to Catherine, and Catherine did
like her again for a few minutes. This morn
ing Cathorlno was 'mad' again, and tho little
girl took her a little paper bag of chocolates,
so she wpuldn't bo 'mad.' I wonder what the
little girl will lako to Catherine tomorrow to
keep her from being 'mad and I wonder how
long Catherine will go on getting 'mad An
long as the flttle grl pays her so well for doing
it, I suppose. Poor little girl I know! What .a
lot of heartaches she'll havo before Bho learns
that tho love that has to bo bought Isn't worth
buying! I know a man who Is buying his rrtfej'p
iPvo. Ho gives her smart frocks and Jewelry that
ho can't afford and takes her into places thahb
hates, just to keep her from getting 'mad.' Poor
follow! Why docs he caro whether such a
shallow-hearted creature is 'mad' or not? I
Ifiiqw-a woman who works and worries and
agonizes, trying tQ bribe her only sen to. lovo
her, arid ho will leave her for tho first pretty
faco and stay 'mad all tho rest of his life, until
ho wantfl,somolhing.,that she can give him. Somo
day when she's a lit-tlp pjder I'm going to takp
the Uttlo .girl i .lyiow in, my lap and toll her
about .itI'm going to. toll her that friendship
that Js bought, has noiright tp tho name, and
tljat love. is. thq greatest gift in the world when
it is. 'glyph freely, and thq moat bittor mockery
on parth when it, Is. bought. J wonder It JLPn.
jtnake, her understand?? ..... v , , -A ,
66i'Nd' A LITTLE)'-child' rilittlJ Ipndtfllionih
1 ' Ai-' was demonstrated 'recently at Pitts
burg, Pa. The story is told by the Associated
Press In this Way: "Although it sprang at tho
child just as it did when it killed three men
and' one woman, 'Cbnja,' tho most dangerous
and savage lion in c'aptlvifcy, only playfully and
affectionately licked and pawed tho hand of
three-year-old Lena Meek, when sho placed her
arm 'Within tlie beast's cago In the Highland
Park zoo. While tho mother and nearly ; all
others watching tho lions had turned their at
tention to 'Hans Wagner,' who -was roaring, little
Lena' crawled under the bars and in an instant
had her littlo white arm in tho cage, waving
her hand In welcome to the big Hon. 'Conja,'
his eyes still fiery with anger and jaws wido
open, sprang at tho child, striking against tho
big bars with great force. 'My child!' cried
Mrs. Meek. This was followed by a scries of
frantic screams from others and even men
turned their backs, expecting that tho big beast
would tear off tho child's arm. For at least
five seconds the lion licked tho child's hand
playfully, while sho stood there motionless and
smiling) The big Hon seemed to have forgotten
the quarrel with his next door enemy and to
be consoled with the knowledge that ho had
found a friend in the fearless little girl. Guard
O'Neil was at the hyena cago. Ho heard Mrs.
Meck's cries, ran to the cage and grabbed the
child, lifting her over tho bars. Littlo Lena
manifested much surprise mat tne peopio auout
her should be so frightened and wondered why. '
COMMERCIALISM
A New York firm was notified that one of ita
traveling men had died suddenly in a western
town. They telegraphed back: "Return
samples by freight and search body for orders."
Tho unfeeling reply just about represents tho
interest the Aldrich republicans feel In tho peo
ple of tho west and south.
NEW DEMOCRATIC TERRITORY
Add ono more state to tho "sure" column ot
democratic states. It is reported that Dr.
Frederick A. Copk, the discoverer of . the, north
pole is h,d6m'6crat.
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