Evening star., 1896-08-22

twenty-five logs before we reached the
game The dogs treed 'possum and the
barking of the hounds was very musi,lI
we chopped own the tree after half an
hours work and as IL fell IL killed n dog.
me possum fell as IL dead one of the
party hit II with club to be certain that
II was not alive, and We went pack home
l. 4 was told that this was one of the live
nest possum hunts the crowd had ever
oeeh on, and ii so | don't want any more
VI the famous southern sport"
oysters will be a very rare delicacy in
ie" years, SAID c. c. Hunt an OYSTER
man OF New York. at the Raleigh. For
many years the beds were preserved N a
iarse extent by having an oyster season
ana keeping alive the popular idea that
oysters were not good except from Sentem-
pei 10 April. This gave four months dur
ing which the oysters were left alone ana
allowed to increase. As a matter NJ f,c,
l tEink they are little better during those
four months than at auy other tiro 1,h,s
was nrst discovered by the seaside ho.aI
nien' ana oysters were served during the
,aInl nunniller months The guests demanded hi
sdiNes Wnen they returned 10 their homes
ana now in all eastern citias The So.
vi resh oysters are as numerous In JuIy
anu an august as In January and FeLruary
No tive ana ueinand IS being supplied. and at
Is now only question of a few wears ha
iore the oysters are gone and All hars,,so
me summer resort hotel men dlsabusel the
minus OF the people as TO their NOT heinz
sood 10 eat from April TO September"
found a sensible merchant I'm n small
oiio town last week" said a. T. Sands. a
.raVeing salesman from Baltimore. at the
fsss. he Keeps a general store, and /
" wait Tor a groceryman to get
through taking order The mercbart
hat
" Jobper. My turn came next. He said
ne wanted shoes. and opened nv trunks
ne hrst Item was two thousand pairs OF
pio" shoes, and when / got througb
Ioolu lnat had taken the largest order
my me. ! was naturally astonishea
my auspi.lohs were aroused, but after
a ,noIough investigation / found tbera
COULD be no doubt of the mans so,,,n.,
Inc goods could not be put in bIs .,,oyi
sore and L asked him what he wa,tad
tha " ,e SO many. Well he said. L have read
.ae newspapers on both sides ..arefully ~
1cNiniey Is elected a protective tarir " an
,alse prices TO where they were u-ban ~
iohltiey oiey law was in force. If BRYAN "a
eiested. IL Is admitted that the free .oina,o
OF silver will raise prices. Thera e. ote
us certain about this campaign III will
use prices, and 1 am filling a biV buiIdIng
o"h with staple goods in all lines"
You can put Illinois down for r-,..,., :,
SAID T. c. Turner. an attorney of Peor,a
at the Shoreham. 1T Is republican und.r
oiuihary conditions but IL cannot he gar
ried Tor Mckinley. The trouble is not on
'iie SILVER Issue alone, although the free
SILVER sentiment is very strong there but
oh the tarin In no state was there n mora
ehphduc protest against the Mckinley
'ariH Dill AT the next election, after its
passage Illinois. for the first time I'm MANY
years went democratic. When the McKin-
icy law was repealed. the republicans re-
gained the ascendancy, and i'm 1894 sent n
1oiiuiy republican delegation TO Congress
bS shr@wd management Senator t,ullop,
was turned down. even humbIed NV tba
mckinley men, and this added 10 the al
ledds intense opposition felt for the anostla
PLotecuon. Thousands OF republicans
are Tor Iree silver. I would not he al an
surprised to see the republican state tickat
si-.ted si-d hy a good majority but NV t.,a
alc,ion , is that even if it is. the BRYAN eIac
tors will be chosen" "
Kansas will probably give its o,a-,ir,a
republican majority this fall" said r
Lahders OF Topeka at the Raleigh "apa
thls viii be accomplished on account NJ tho
constant ridicule the state has suffara,
from. There is a very strong free silver
sentiment, and even the republicans are
not as enthusiastic in their advocacy or
protection as might be expected The SOL
"-ei Noue was largely responsible for Kan
sas becoming sc pronounced a ranuhIican
state When they wearied Of republIcanism
the old war feeling prevented the Kansans
from gong TO the democrats, and they
embraced populsm. jerry Simpson was
very popular in Kansas but when he COW
stantiy appeared in the newspapers as the
sockiess Socrates the people resented II
ana ieft MIN at home. Mary Ellen Lease
has called forth thousands of cartoons
ana Jokes. all at the expense of Kansas.
ana Peffer's whiskers hav. become a source
ol great annoyance to kansans. The state
has been greatly injured imuirratton bas
iaiien on steadily and prices Of real estate
nave not advanced. The newspapers have
SO long held Kansas up as a sort of mu-
scum Tor freaks that the people realize IL
is an actual loss of money to them for n
10 continue. Nothing OF the kind occurred
before the state became populistic and
tEere Is a very widespread feeling that
TINS fall Is the time to redeem the state
ana STOP the Jokers from running disastrous
cartoons