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) i i " youthful murderees in jael Harvoy Vein Dine. Gustav Marx. Peter Nexderrneyer and Emil Roeski. Who Killed Seven Men in Their Brief Career of Crime. Captured in Indiana After an All-Day Fight. MURDERS TO WHICH CHICAGO BANDITS HAVE CONFESSED. Oaucler, Otto, murdered in saloon of Ernest Soires, 1820 North Athljnd avenue, July 9. La Gross, D. C, murdered in his saloon, 2. JO Mcrth Ashland avenue, Auj. 2. Johnson, Adolph, rnu.rfered in saloon of B. C. La Gross, 2120 North Ashland avenue Aug. Johnson, Jamc: D-, motorman, killed in robbery cf Chicago City Railway ccmpany barns, Aug. 30. Stewart. Fr.incis W.. clerk, killed in roijbery of Chic3QO City Railway company barns, Aug. 30. Qumn, John, detective, killed white trying to arrest Marx. Sovea, L. J., brokeman on Penn sylvania railroad, killed on freight tr-in at East Tolleston, Ind. In addition to these murders, the same bandits wounded six men in committing robberies. Possessed of all tin eowanlice ami ri cunning of tin? sheep killing dog, four voting men are now in tin county jail at Chicago; cowardly because Ihey had murdered chielly 1 1 1 - helpless and uususpecf Pig. ami, despite tle-ir boasting, were all captured alive with loaded wiviiMMis ill their hands; cun ning be-e-ause they rccogni.od the fart that their very recklessness and ainla eity in iriim- would i i fti to distract attention fron nidi youths as Ihey: bloodthirsty because they iniinliTcil unnecessarily, not even to assure the-ir own safety, hut from sheer lust of mur iVr, as the sh"('p killing dog lears the throat:; xt the scorer of sheeii. while he does not. even drink the product of his fangs. Sullen anil yet boasting, there they are alike. yet not alike, for they vary in some characterist ics. They miuht 1mt1i;ims le classified Harvey Van Dine, the brains; Gusta.- Marx, the lieutenant and second in intelligence; Peter Niedetm'V er, the murderous, ami Kmil Roeski. the w'ak. drunken, vic ious and unprincipled. Bruised and wounded, the three men when captured, yet retained a decree f their bravado, a bravado which is soon ; pass away, for as 1h shadow; deofMi about them and the skeleton of the gy.tlows develops its If more cb arly tltre will conn a new comprehension ar.el a frightened understanding of vtiat it is which they have done Thre rnve b""ri Ci.vtde D.ivals and Hick Tnrpius and Robert Macaires. There have been James brothers and Younger brothers, and goodness knows hoV many other distinguished an 1 fraternal highwaymen. You may count them all. with all their exploits, and find nothing so in tensely dramatic as the story of the battle of Miller's Station Vv. 27. Truly, it was a great chapter in the long history of crime in Chicago. The mind of the dime novelist never con ceived a scene more thrilling th in the last stand and final capture of the three remaining authors of the car barn murders Van Diiu. Niedemey er and Roeski. The round tip of this trio was ac complished at hard ost. One man was killed, others were badly wounded, aft er a desperate man hunt, a dramatic vespo and recapture. For hours these three men fought like caged rats, and when finally cauiu.t they were sights fur the gods. They were salted with buckshot, their flesh was torn with bullets, they were Meeting from scores of wounds. Yet all will live to join Marx and meet agiin on a clear road to the gal lows. The capture of the men was very serious business for all concerned, anil yet it carried a touch of humor. With two special trains of Chicago po licemen armed with Winchester rifles, the final work was done by a little hand of rabbit hunters and an arma ment of shotguns. Charles Hamilton, the village blacksmith cf Kast Tolles ton. was the man who brought down the game. To put it in stati-tiea! form, the net results of the day were one man dead. 1,. .1. Sove.i. a brukeman. shot down remorselessly by the bandits: two men of the posse wounded. Detective Sergeant Matthew Zimmer an I Police man Joseph 15. DriscoII. and three can lured of the most hardened and re markable croup of criminals ever known in Chicago Harvey Van Dire, Peter Niedemeyer and Emil Roeski. For other results w ithin the past six months of a charmed career of crime, these young men may count to their credit flvo men murdered, eight others wounded, ami a half doen places looted of money in various amounts. Says Football Is Injurious. Dr. S. F. Taylor, president of Steph en's College. Columbia. Mo., took ad vantage of the Thanksgiving season to express somewhat heretical opinions about football. "I think." he says, "that any man who will play football i- a fool and any college president or professor who encourages such a brutal and degraded sport is encour aging brutality and a spirit of crime. 1 wivthirds of the work done in the gymnasiums here and in other parts or the country is positively injurious, and I tell you there is not an athlete or gymnast in the United States to-day who will live to the age of 6'. " Two Kinda of Humorists. Mark Twain long ago arrived at the conclusion that it Is a very serious Thing to be a professional humorist. Recently a society youth cf the "Wil-lie-off the yacht" sort w as Introduced to the anther. "Aw. I say. Mr. Clem en?. 1 think It must be awfully eay to be f::nny. don't you know." "It is, fur you unless you try to be." grimly replied the man who has made mil lions laugh. The face of Van Dine marks him easily a- the brains, the devise r. of the iuaitct. It i.; a long face, with h clenr c uiplexli.n. such as would natur ally accompany red hair, and is lerne well iijxim a strong neck suited to the body oi' the ;.thleti. Van Dine is known to be. Though bruised, ami with somewhat of the feveri-li look resultant irorn the day's terrille adventures and the pres ence of a few small shot in the head. Its expression whs firm and almo-t placid. The jaw is strong, the fore head a good one, eyebrows finely arcln d. and, t a ! n all in all, the man is not unhand' o:i:e. Hut it is tin; eyes which fascinate. They are of a singular gray blue and have an expression which is pu.y.ling and indefinable. They are not exactly snake like, but they are mystifying. Had Vim Dine escaped alone, unham pered by companions, there might have been a longer story to tell of a man hunt, a story similar to that of the murderer Trace', who. not so long ago. roused the entire Northwest along the I'acilic coast, in his pursuit. The fact and form of Niedemrycr are in sharp contrast with those of Van Dine. Taller and darker than the real leader of the i;rup of killers, there is no redeeming quality to him. His swart features are irregular, his .speech harsh, and the expression of his face generally is that of sullen antipathy to all mankind. His look ?s not intelligent. I ut has a certain craft iness about it. His nose is a spread Roman, his chin is strong, but it is his mouth which reveals the quality sf the man. It is cruel and brutally lascivious. It might have been the mouth of some low Roman serf, whose duty it was to drag from the arena the bodies of Christian maidens mangled by wild beasts. The whole aspect of his face was that of some of the duller and clumsier caruivora. He was the bloodthirsty one of the group. He it was who could not restrain his desire for kill ing, and did unnecessary murder at the car barns. Not in him was it to confess with any freedom. Only with grunts and nods of the head did he confirm the story of Van Dine. He should have been a member of the Bender family, so murderously famous in Kansas criminal history. Marx has a face with no impressive features, save that it has an expres sion of self-consciousness and vanity in what his career has been. That expression is now rapidly changing to one of fear. He realizes what is com ing. Roeski does not belong to the group. He must have become connected with them through some accident, and have been retained by them because of his knowledge of their crimes. Of medium height and weight, red-nosed, weak fvatured. and watery-eyed, he sat there answering the questions of reporters, sullenly and hesitatingly, but -with ap parent truthfulness. Every item of his make-up stamped him as what is known as a '"bum." Future Naval Heroes. The largest class that ever entered the naval academy at Annapolis is just beginning its first year's work. There are 320 "middies," ranging in age from 15 to 20 years. All but one are from the United States as bounded by its historic limits; one is a native Hawaiian. The noncon tiguous territories of Forto Rico and the Philippines have no representa tion. There are no negroes in the class. Two colored applicants at tempted the examination, but failed to attain the required grade. The last negro who succeeded in passing the entrance tests was taken from bed In the night and deposited on a red iron buoy in the bay, where he remained until morning. The fol lowing day he took the hint and re signed. Will Make T. B. Feel Ashamed. Hearing that Thomas Bailey Aid rich only writes one sonnet a year, one of the Billville brethren ex claimed, "Jerusalem! I write three a day. and split rails on the side!" At lanta Constitution. He was shabbily dressed and in a pitiable state of fright. He seems to be a.i habitual drunkard, the twitch ing of his 1 and.; indicating a nervous state, even b:'yo.id that induced his pres nt condit ion. For i- months these four men had killed with j.h Utile regard for life as that exhibited by hunger-crazed ani mals. No fear of the law ever caused them to stay their trigger lingers, if the wiping out of one or more human live.; was. necessary to their secur ing a f. w dollars and cents or essen tial to their escape- from peril, out we.it the lif" or lives a.; rapidly as a candle is snulTed by an expert shot. Yet. lifter an all morning battle v.ith o.'Iicers of the law, standing at bay on the edge .r the froen Toll ston n.arsh, with birdsho! loaded guns of the farmers pointed at them, they hes itated for just one moment and staid their slaughtering hands. Earlier in the (;ay they would not have hesitated. They would have shot down the farmers like so many dogs. Tin ir wounds hud not impaired their almost supernatural marksmanship. Each carried 1"' rounds of ammuni tion. They stood behind a rude barri cade of cornstalks. The fro.en marsh, with its tangled reeds, and brambles, and scrub, furnished at least a tem porarily safe retreat. The farmers were not dangerous. Their binlshot stung, but it did not seriously wound. Policemen were creeping on them from corn shock to corn shock, and troni scrub pine to scrub oak. But the young bandits were not surround ed, and had a fair chance for at least a few hours more, if not lillimaie, liberty. In the morning when they fought their way from the dugout on the sand dune shore of I-ake Michigan through a cordon of Chicago detec tives who thought they had snaied them like rats in a trap, they swore to die fighting and killing till the last. W'h their fiendish accuracy of aim thoy had shot down Detectives Driscol! and Zimmer. and although hit themselves, with Emil Roeski, their pal, hail made their escape. For six miles they plowed their way, leaving bloody trails, across sand dune, through dwarfed forest, and over ice-coated marsh. They wanted an engine to aid them in escaping. A brakeman stood between them and the object of their desire. With a smile and scurvy jest. Neidemyer killed him. The blood lust was still upon them. But standing behind their feeble de fenses of frcen stalk they looked one another in the eye. In that moment something put that which they had never known fear into their hearts, their thirst for blood was quenched, and their career as man killers ended. Without an instant's hesitation, each man threw up his hands and surren dered to the farmers and to certain death on the gallows. "I thought it was no use fighting any longer," said Van Dine. "We could have killed every farmer in front of us, but what would have been the use? We would have been 'got' Student Pays Freak Wager. In payment of a wager on the Yale-Harvard football game George G. Coolidge of East Orange, N. J., a sen ior of the Sheffield Scientific school at Yale university, and said to be a cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan, has taken out a junk peddler's license in New Haven. The bet was laid with a classmate, who if he lost was to take out a bootblack's license. Both young men are very wealthy. Cool idge is required to make weekly re ports to the chief of police of the amount of junk he gathers, the nature of the same and when and where it was bought and sold. Ex-Governors on Committee. The senate committee on interstate commerce, over which Senator Elkins presides, is almost made up of ex-governors. Mr. Cullom of this state, Mr. Kean of New Jersey. Mr. Foraker of Ohio. Mr. Tillrran of South Carolina. Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi and Mr. Foster of Louisiana have all served one or more terms as governor of the states which they cow represent in the senate. before niht. and somehow I didn't want to do any shooting." Van Dine was the first to throw up his hands and call out that he sur rendered. Two magazine revolvers, one blued revolver ami one pearl han dled weapon were taken from tho pair. Kmi1 Roeski, their pal, left the two soon alter they broke from the dug out, and, despite h severe bullet wound in the hip, walked eight rnik s across th" country to Aetna, a station of the Wabash railroad. In the toilet room bo washed his hands and cleared th" traces of blood fioni his clothing. Then he bought a ticket to Chicago, and. exhausted, lay down on a bench to sleep until th" train should arrive, tie awoke to gaze into the barrel of a revolver aimed at his head by De tective Falkland. " I guess I'm it," lie said quietly. Not a tone of regret, not a trace of sorrow appeared in the voices or faces of Van Dine and Ncidemjer, a-s in the gathering twilight, nursing their bullet anl shot wounds, they sat in Chief O'Neill's oflic" and confessed ev ery crime of which they had been accused. Nonchalantly and glibly they ad mitted the responsibilty of the quartet for seven murders and the wounding of seven other men. They told of the money they had secured from the robberies of which the murders to them were but insignificant and un important parts. They laughed over the double killing involved in the Chi cago City railway car barn robbery. The cases against the four young bandits were placed before the grand jury Nov. 28. After hearing the con fession of the prisoners true bills for murder were voted against all four. WANT TO KEEP CURIOSITY. Villagers Would Retain Intact Rock Forming Washington's Profile. The residents of Mamaroneck, N. Y.. led by Father Meister. a Catholic priest, have formed an association to pte.serve a wonderful phenomenon, which has become known as Washing ton rock. The likeness portraying tho head and features of the Father of His Country appeared several years ago on a rock near Oriental point. It was supposed at the time that it was pro duced by a blast, but. because it is close to the site of Washington's head quarters, where ho fought the battle oi Heathcotfl hill, and within a stone's throw of the old house where Cooper's character, Harvey Green, in "The Spy." lived, some of the superstitious people of the town are inclined to at tach a supernatural origin to it. The head and features of Washing ton are stamped on the rock in massive size and at certain angles the resem blance is complete. The nose is formed by a projection and the mouth and eyes by the dark coloring of the rock. Public meetings have been held and the people interested have formed the Washington Rock Association. It is proposed to collect a fund and place a bronze tablet upon the rock and dedi cate it Oct. 21. 1904. the 120th anni versary of the battle of Ileathcote hill. Fads of Wealthy New Yorkers. James Reilly. one of New York's little known millionaires, has a curi ous fad that of providing for the decent burial of indigent dead. He is in constant communication with a number of undertakers, who keep him posted regarding such cases as he wishes to look after. Another rich New Yorker, Samuel Martin, spends a good deal of time and money in helping important victims of the police force. He is always camp ing on some officer's trail and many a victim of police tyranny has had reason to thank Sam Martin for timely aid. Promotion for Gen. Chaffee. Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, who was confirmed by the senate a few days ago, will reach the retiring age on Jan. I) next. This will make a vacancy as chief of the general staff. It has been announced that Major Gen eral Adna R. Chaffee will be appointed to the vacancy, and this will make a vacancy on the general staff to be filled by some other major general. Senator Frye's Cause of Pr&z. William P. Frye of Maine boasts of being the only great-grandfather in the United States senate, a girl baby having arrived at the home of his grandson, William Frye White, in Washington. Mr. Frye is willing to acknowledge that there are great grannies in the senate, but revels in the distinction of being the only great grandfather. Need for Montana Gold Mines. Senator Perkins says he knows why nature located gold mines in Butte, Mont., instead of coal deposits. He was there not long ago and was charged 75 cents for a shave and a shine. In the washroom attached to the barber's shop he wanted the use of a comb for a few moments, anf this cost him another quarter. He rinsed his hands after arranging his hair and wiped them on a towel near at hand and once more gave up 25 cents. "And then." he says, "it dawned on me why gold instead of coal mines were to be found in that robbers' roost." Cockrell a Lover of Whist. Senator Cockrell of Missouri finds his chief recreation in duplicate whisL His evenings at home, when devoted to this kind of card games, are no one or two hour affairs. A few minutes are grudgingly devoted to luncheon somewhere about midnight and then the game is resumed and fought to a scientific finish. The senator has half a dozen friends who can always be depended upon to make up a tabl. Can Commoner A SLUMP IN STOCKS. Since the election of 1900 there has bHn a slump in the market value of stocks amounting to more than $7.7"iO. 000,000. If the democrats had been successful in the last presidential elec tion the republican papers would have charged this tremendous slump in stocks to the democratic administra tion. How will they explain It now? When it is referred to at all it is de scribed as a matter of small impor tance, and oftfn defended as a really desirable thing. We are told that it was a "natural liquidation." an elimi nation of "speculative values." a "set tling down to a solid basis." The readers of The Commoner are asked to remember that this slump in stocks Indicates one of two things. If the slump means that the water Is be ing squeezed out of the stocks, that fictitious values are being destroyed, and that the industries are simply settling down to an honest basis, how will republicans defend an administra tion that permits the inflation of values and the watering of stocks? It cannot be denied that many have suffered by the slump. Those innocent purchasers, of whom we hear so much when remedial legislation is suggested, have been suffering. It is said that the steel trust has 98,000 stockholders, and all of these have suffered by the fall in prices. Why should they be ex posed to this loss? Many of the hold ers of this stock are employes who took the stock more to encourage the idea of co-operation in industry than to make a profit out of it. They want ed to show their appreciation of what they regarded as a generous offer on the part of the company. Was it not a little cruel to thus reward their con fidence? When will "confidence" be restored among these people? What about the widow who put her scanty savings in preferred or common steel? We always hear of ths widow when we discuss the money question or at tempt to curb corporate rapacity, why is she k.-'pt in the background now? The Kansas City platform proposed a remedy that, if adopted, would have made it impossible for an interstate commerce corporation to have watt-red its stock. This tremendous loss would have been prevented if that remedy had been adopted before the steel trust was organized. What remedy have the republican leaders for the situation which now confronts them? What is the president doing, what is the repub lican congress doing to protect the public from watered stock? If to escape this dilemma the re publicans insist that the shrinkage in stocks does not indicate a squeezing out of water, but a loss in actual and honest values, what will they say about an administration that, results in such a blow to industry? Can the country be said to be prosperous if honest stocks have suffered a shrinkage of nearly two billions of dollars in three years? Is the industrial condition a satisfactory one? PAYNE CALLED IT "HOT AIR." The New York Commercial is very mmh opposed to congressional in quiry into the postofflce scandal. The Commercial says: "Let the department itself run to cover the rascals who have been mismanaging the country's postal business. It will be time enough for congress to take a hand when it has been disclosed that the postmaster general is not doing his full duty in the most effective way possible." Will the Commercial undertake seriously to say that the postmaster general's atti tude from the beginning of these scandals was such as to justify the im pression that he is willing to do his full duty in the most effective way possible? The organs that had no difficulty in locating the causes of the industrial depression in 1892-96 are giving some exhibitions of ground and lofty tum bling in their efforts to locate the cause of the industrial depression of 1&4J3. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt performed that Panama "coup" in order to attract the limelight from Mr. Hanna's Ohio victory. In the opinion of Mr. Hanna, "what the sainted McKinley said" amounts to nothing when there is no campaign on hand. Having executed a complete somer sault on the tariff question. President Roosevelt feels quite able to execute a similar acrobatic reversal on the race question if convinced that it is expedient. The manager of a government de partment who can prove that there is no graft in his division will be eligible to a paying position with the dime musee circuit. When the Chicago Chronicle talks about "sham democrats" it is time for the general public to laugh. They Keep it Spinning? Comment. A CHANGING POLICY. It will be remembered thai when Miss Hulclali Todd, postmistress at Greenwood, Del., was removed, it was announced by the administration that she was removed because thc was "personally distasteful" to Senator Al ice, who represents the Addhks fac tion of the republican party in Dela ware. With but few except Ions. I he pations of that po.stofiice protested against Miss Todd's removal, but the administration would not relent its lepresentatlves insisting that the re moval of this postmistress was neces sary because one senator had stated that she was "personally distasteful" to him. On November 19. Mr. Roosevelt re appointed Joshua K. Wilson, a negro, !o the e;flice of postmaster at Florence, S. C. The while residents of that te.-.vn unanimously protested against the re appointment. The two South Caro lina senators like wise protected; but Wilson was reappointed. It seems that, th" administration's policy is subject to alteration. In Delaware the protest of one .senator representing the Addicks republicans is suHicient, while the protest of two senators in South Carolina is of no avail. THE LAW'S DELAYS. Writing in the Independent on the law's delay. Justice David .1. Brewer says: "I was assur-d by one in a posi tion to know that in a single state one of the great railroad corporations by appealing every judgment against it to the supreme court of the state that court having a c rowded docket made enough in compromising the judg ments against it in the trial courts to pay the entire cost of its leal depart ment." Justice Brewer has devoted considerable thought to this subject, and while few wiil. we think, be in clined to agree with him concerning the denial of the right of appeal in criminal cases, it cannot be doubted that marked improvement must be made with respect to the delays in all cases. PERRY HEATH S GOOD LIX'K. It is reported tiiat the only penalty that will be rpquired of Perry S. Heath for his part in the postofflce scandals wiil be his resignation as ere retary jf the republican national committee. Mr. Heath will be permitted to retire, not however, necessarily as a punish ment, but because it is thought to be bad politics to permit him to remain. It would seem, however, that inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt has had so much to say about honesty and fidelity to duty, he would be able to devise some plan whereby Mr. Heath could be called to account for his official misconduct. "With all Its superb vitality tho dem ocratic party cannot survive constant defeat," declares the Indianapolis News. But the democratic party has survived constant defeat. The trouble seems to have been that the democ ratic party could not endure some of its latter day "victories." The administration action In the Panama case is hardly square with Mr. Rcwsevelt's announced determina tion to carry out the McKInky poli cies. The McKinley name is good to conjure with, but the McKinley poli cies are obstacles that are not allowed to deter our strenuous executive. The Djrbin vice-presidential boom is calculated to make cold chills play tag up and down the spine of one Wil liam S. Taylor. Anything calculated to remove Durbin from the Indiana state house is exceedingly dangerous to Mr. Taylor's well-being. The territories will knock separately for admission this time. And despite its platform promises the g. o. p. will do a little "knocking" on its own ac count. Emperor William has had a polypus removed from his throat. The polypus is raging in quite a large majority of this government's administrative de partments. Are the gentlemen opposed to the promotion of General Wood quite sure that the Jai Alal business is eligible to the protection found in the statute of limitations? The crushing sound merely Indicates that the trusts have been quick to avail themselves of the invitation to apply the screws to the people with a little more vigor. Colombia's protests must be ad dressed to ears that refused to hearken to the apeal from South Africa. COMMONER THREE "The next fight begins tomorrow." The present fight is on today. Is "Whale Colombia" to become our national song? Coutliv of The Commoner. The daily m-wspapcis print the names of the few men who oci asiora I ly "chan out the betting ring." Ow ing to the fa f that even the daily newspapers are contiiied to cettaiti limits as regards size, the names of those who are i h'anccl out ate never printed. Shall the democrat i'- parly full under the control of men who always vote tlx republican ticket when they lull to make the- democrat ! patty so mar ly like the republican patty that an expert cannot dce- t any elinrei)ie? That is a question that every !.il democrat .hould ponder over. A few years ago Great Britain laughed with v,b e at the nugest ion that fdie might be compelled to piiy damage's for allowing the Aliilmma l put forth from le-r shores. Thin is a hint to (he prominent ud minlst rat Ion leaders who laughed with glee at men tion of the Panama affair. Thos" deluded persons who point lo (lie ousting of CongrcHhrnaii Roberts as a precede nt for ousting Senator Smout ove-rlook on'1 ve-ry vital point. Rob erts was a democrat in a lepuhli' an c-ongress. ami Smoot is a re publican in a republican congress. Having promised all kinds e(f ic I'orms, the? sultan of Tutke-y In.Us'M that he has done- all that may be fair ly requir'd of him. This remii.ds u.-; that Mr. Philander Knox occupies a very similar position as re-guids at tacking tlie trusts. The! attention of the governor of In diana is respectfully c alb el te the fact that Governeir Beckwlth is te hohl ef nce for another term ami that he is now reaeiy to accept ex-Govenior Tay lor anel insure him a fair trial. General Wooel is now called upon to :-;tcp to the front ami tell where he; y,nt it. This growing inquisif i veiiess eui the part of the people Is becoming quite wearisome to a large contingent of administration favoriie:. Has the president e-ver thought ut trying the injunction cm n- ah it rant republicans. Some of his warme:! friends anel admirers have foune! it very useful in d'-aling with uhhX n ;e i -ous woi king men. It is reported that Addjcks is, to re tire? from polities, but it would be J".st as well to discount the report. Mr. Addic ks has a little matte r ejf de liver ing a fc-W dfdegate-s tc) atle.Iid lo be-fere he can gracefully retire. Nebraska republic ana love to t&Jk about the "re-cle-mption" ut Ne-biaska from "dcnio-pop rule." Re-cent grand jury indictments in the federal court at Omaha indicate the extent of the "redemption." Republican sneers south" would be in "solid New England" at 1 he; "tolld better taste If did not c ling te its idols with a tenacity never equalled by the- states south of the old .Musou and Dixon line. The steel trust is pre paring tej create a $1.",0 !.( vacuum in the dinner pail. But this will not prevent, its chief buglers from making the usual appeal when camjaign time come again. Mr. Hanna is on eat;y street so far as his senatejrial place Is concerned, but he must watch those; gentlemen who are inclined to seduce Mr. Herrick into taking second plate; on the Roose velt ticket. The people who wink at the buying of senatorial seats have very little; grounds tor complaint when senators sell their political patrc,nage. The Philadelphia ledger in talking about "the passing of Perry Heath." The Ledger is mistaken. It is not Perry who has paised it is merely the time embraced in the statute of limitations. The amount the government pays for carrying the mails and for rent of pejstal ears comes very near pay ing the entire cost of running the pas senger trains which carry United States mail. The Nebraska senatorial scandal is another argument in favor of popular election of United States senators. Has it come to pass that appeals to national honor and to Justice are to be denounced as Impertinent by con gress and cabinet? The president is determined that Crum shall have one more try at the "door of opportunity." The Indications are that corruption will run rit before water runs througli the isthmian canal. Mr. Hanna says there is nothing tn discuss. Hut can he tell us bow old Ann is? 1