Evening star., 1900-09-24

QUAY has certainly shown the greatest
loyalty to the republican party during the
present campaign, said Thomas NJ. VIII
kins of Bradford Pa, in the lobby of the
National last night. .As almost every one
knows. there is no love lost between the
present chairman of the republican national
committee and the former senator from
Pennsylvania. Hanna played with Quay in
the Senate last session and then threw him
over in the most abrupt manner possible
consequently Mr. Quay has no fellow feel
ing for his Ohio compatriot, and there is
every prospect that there will be a fierce
fight when the two meet on common ground
again. But now Quay is working hard for
Mckinley and it will be mostly to his eff
forts that our state will give the republi-
cans large a majority he received
In 1896. i do not believe the strike among
the coal miners will have any effect on the
political aspect of the state although both
parties will try to make capital of it. 1t
seems to be godsend to the Pennsylvania
democrats. as heretofore their talk of hard
times has been received with boots and
Kisses. The democratic spelbinders have
had a hard time in convincing the people
that he prosperity is only momentary. We
feel it too strongly. / believe that the strike
will soon be settled amcably and that the
men will return to work"
Lieut. Louis B. Lawton of the 9th L. S.
Infantry, who has been referred to in the
newspapers as the hero of Tien Tsin'' is
registered at the Ebbitt with his wife and
baby. Lieut.. Lawton was severely wounded
in the fight with the Boxers and has been
ordered home for medical treatment He
describes the battle in which he partici-
pated with the allied troops as one of the
hottest that has been fought by American
troops since the civil war. The 9th Infantry
and the marines from the warships bore
conspicuous part in the battle and We're
heartily commended by the British general
Dorward, who was in command.
Now Is the time when the farmer dons
his campaign hat, seiZes his trusty revolver
and goes hunting for-rats and mice" So
said Mr.. James Abbott Of Monroe county
Mo, at Wizards last night. AT least that
is the way it turns out in our country Few
people realize the extent of the depreda-
tons of the members of the rodent family
on the wheat and corn crops. Eternal vigi-
lance and a brace of 40 caliber revolyers
are the only things that protect the farmer
1t sounds strange doesn't it, to say that a
man will hunt diminutive an animal as
a mouse or rat with a revolver that is
considered too large for in the army:
yet the large bore pistol is the best for our
purposes Rats and mice congregate in
great numbers wherever corn and wheat
injured by them. The farmer secures a
number of cartridges for his revolver and
loads them with the smallest-sze shot he
can find. With these he fires into a nest of
mice or rats and often extermnates whole
families. City people don't know half the
things the farmer has to contend with
and they would never believe that whole
days are devoted to hunting rats and mice,
would they?"
Mr.. George f. Dodson of Spokane Wash,
passed through this city on his way home
from New York Mr. Dodson spent a few
days at the Raleigh and inspected the city,
although he has been here before several
times.
Whenever ] come to Washington | try
70 find a newspaper man to talk to- he
told Star reporter. Not because have
anything about my home town that will in
terest the people here. Almost every man
will talk to you about home. But l tell a
newspaper man facts about Washington
and let him publish II in his paper Ii is n
very curious thing to that Washing
tonians know more about Spokane or San
Francisco or New York than they do about
their home town. This is the most beautiful
and interesting city in the world, and vet
have found dozens Of things here that your
citizens don't know anything about IT
seems SO strange to me because In our town
everybody knows of its beauties and they