Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-24
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

Il don't think there is any chance for
Steve Elkins TO succeed Senator Camden
from West Virginia" said Ernest May Of
the Kanawha valley, at the Metropolitan
last night. The papers in the east that are
talking about a republican Senator from
our state don't appear to understand the
existing conditions. The way the legisla-
tive districts are laid out would give
Michigan gerrymanderer of the thirty -thrd
degree a lesson such as he never dreamed
of. The democrats only had little over
LOO majority in the entire state last presi-
Dental election, but they have twenty-six
majority on joint ballot in the legislature.
There Is no way la which this majority
be cut down more than ten or twelve, in
my opinion because the democrats have got
| most OF their Legislative districts cinched.
| so the people who are counting on re-
publican successor TO Senator Camden are
very wide of the mark.
The allegation is frequently made and
with truth, that we Americans are a near
sighted set of people and various people
! attribute the misfC rtune to various causes"
said DIR. +. s Pulliam of Cincinnati ar the
| Ebbitt this morning. Il have my own
ideas on the subject, but would not care to
explain them in a professional sense that
L
lieve most nearsghteiness or other optical
deficiency not hereditary in its nature or
the result of some form Of illness is due to
the fact that we live in glare at night
as well as in the day. i mean that
parlcrs, drawing rooms and bed rooms
are brilliantly illuminated even when there
Is no necessity for il. the reader and
writer, of course. need light, but others
who are merely converSnS have no need
OF so much of it. Readers and writers. too.
do not need such glare they persist in
having. All the great works OF The world
were written. aye. and read for years in
Vulnerable by lamp and candle light, AMI
old authors were noted for their keen eye
sight. Go into the country, where there
/ is no gas or electricity. and among the in
teligent cultivated circles. who keep up
with the times, and are reading continu-
ally at night by the soft light of lamps
you will find no nearslShtedness. a gentle
light without glare should be given to chill
dren TO read and study by and then the
next genera tion would not have to grope
its way blindly when deprived of spectacles
and glasses"
MIR. Morton will poll the heaviest Irish
vote Of any candidate for governor ever
nominated by the republican party" said
Robert S. Nick night Of Albany at Wizards
last night. THE Irish people are never
ungrateful and their memories extend back
further into their own history than that
OF any other nation. There is not an Irish
man III New 1ofk city, therefore, OF mid
die age who does not know that the ex-
Vice President, when a very young man.
had his sympathies stirred to their depths
by the famine prevailing in Ireland, and
sent over a ship load of provisions at his
own expense 70 relieve the necessities of
some of the starving poor. The warm
hearted natives of the 'ould sod are talk
ing about that Incident IN New York TODAY
and 1t is being recited from cabin to cabin
wI'n auultiohs ana improvements and
Tha; Sor, 80 ,hIr.r n,, 'o.es ior ts nero
tion than All the stumn sneecbes and 49,.
platforms that can be carted into the cam
paign by thousand politicians
"a man r..a,., - .,
ON Gov, ,ha noo,,,rna, -. 80. ~
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pos', s ai.oios' saiu Ar. James
Nereditn OF ROCKVILLE, at the National this
morning. There are plenty of both kinds
of the animals ont in Montgomery ana this
fall there seems to be an unusual number
Of 'possums The popular idea is tba, n
'possum mostly affects nersimmopS ,n1 90
be found wherever the fruit grows but ,bis
time of year The filetailed ind,yi5uaIs or
indulging In a feast of corn and a man
with a dog that knows his businaes cor
have plenty of fun nv hunting aIonS ,ha
edge of a cornfeld where n mea,s n uoa1
ed bottom along a creek A small s,roon
known as Watts branch il a great ,nossup,
hunting ground and Won can annrac,a,a
what snort may he mad thor frar, IT,
fact that MIR. Bravner Nicholson a na,ban
of the ma ior ana the commodore wen, on,
one night RECENTLY ana hrongbf IN M
,aan ,nosc,p,. In Iass ,han Co.. -. IL
docs lie, traaj n I,r,a co,n "a - - -
nuf trea which MAS TOO dificn,t 70 ,,;,,ah
and too valuable TO cur So he ma - ~.
left" " NC
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