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was cleaned out. aud got fisherman 10 take
me over TO st. Georges island. He said there
was nobody but niggsrs over there, but
didn't care IL they would let me into the
game, and IL was big enough. The game was
in little old log cabin and there were three
niggers playing poker. Ono Of 'em was
an old nigger preacher, and the othor two
was kukluxin' him aud winning all his
money rs fast rs they could. | watched tho
game while and was standing whore | could
see the old niger preachers hand. After
four or five deals the old preacher got four
aces dealt to him before the draw. Now just
SEQ how ouunin' tho old preacher was He
turned his head clear around and says he:
| Who's dat knockin' on dat do'p There
wasn't anybody knocking at the door, but you
SEQ the old preacher wanted to give
the other two a chance TO FIX up hand.
They wasn't plavin' straight flushes, SO he
turns clear around with his back TO the table
and says ho: Who's dat knoclsin' at dat do
Is dat you, Mariah2 All right; 1se comm in
a minitp One of tho other fellers had two
kings and they gunned through the pack and
got out the other two kings before the old
preacher looked around to the table
| again. One of 'em bet dollar.
Then the old preacher went down
in his pocket an got out oil the
money he had, $47, and put it up. You fell
lers,' says he. has been winnin' my money,
and youse can just as we'll have it all fust as
last. Use "a raisn' ye forty-six dollahs.' The
feller that had the four kings borrowed all
the money his partner had, and called
the preachers raise. The old preacher
raked in the pot aud got up, and says he, 4
knowed dat was you knockin' at dat do,
Mariah. Use comin'.' Then he went out.
There hadn't been anybody knocking at the
door,"
Mr.. Dingley, Of Maine, who was promi-
nent last session in work for revival of
American shipping, is first among the repub
licans on the now committee on American
shipbuiding and shipowning. He says the
committee is made up Of strong men. all in
terested in American shipping, and we'll
selected geographically. New York, Massa-
chusetts, Delaware, Maine, and the Pacific
coast are represented, as are the great lakes,
the gulf and the Mississippi river. Mt.
Dingley thinks majority of the committee
will be in favor of free ships.
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Mr.. Buckner, chairman of the committee
on banking and currency, Is preparing bill
providing for the issuing of treasury notes
without legal tender quality to take the
place of bank notes now going out Of exist
ence. 1t will be much the same as the bill
introduced by him in the last congress. Mr..
Buckner does not favor Comptroller Knox's
proposition to take off the l per cent tax
on circulation and allow banks to issue on
market value OF bonds deposited instead of
on par value. He says that the relief
would be only temporary, at the best, as in
seven years, when it became necessary to re-
deem the a per cents, the same difficulty
would recur. The national bank systom do
pends upon the national debt, which is being
gradually wiped out, and Mr.. Buckner
thinks it Is time to prepare for permanent
circulation. He opposes the renewal of the
tax on circulation, claiming that the fran
chise of the banks is worth all that the gov
ernment asks for it.
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Mr.. Dingley, who heads the republicans on
the banking and currency committee, thinks
that but two plans proposed for relieving the
national banks are practicable. One was to
provide for the issue of circulating notes to
tho banks to an amount equal to 80 per cent.
| of the market value of bonds deposited by
them, and the other, to take the tax off the
circulation. Ho thought, from o look at the
list of names in the committee, that the first
plan would be likely to find favor with
them.
4"&
i I. H. L.
raised his glass of champagne to his lips
chat we may all meet and drink together
here next year" Then he tasted the wine
put down the glass, and told this story "In
February, '76, when the messengers were
bringing the returns of the electoral vote tc
Washing gton, several of us were sitting in the
foreign affairs committee room, talking and
drinking wine. Bill Cameron, the brother
Of Simon Cameron was the messenger from
Pennsylvania. Ben Wade, who was a strong
man then, was the messenger from Ohio
Cameron must have been about 84 years old
then. He raised his glass and said to Ber
Wade May you and l be messengers tc
bring the vote to the capital four years from
now.' Within year both Cameron and w adt
were dead"
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Some months ago we'll known lady o.
New York invited one of the club men o
that city to meet Senator Jones, of Nevada
at her house. An invitation to this LADY,
receptions is esteemed an honor andAa favor
Most noted people of American social ant
political life have at one time or another en-
joyed the hospitalities of her home. TIL,
club man was fair type of thu
class of rich young New Yorker
who can find no good thing out
side of England and who seem to hav
no other reason for existence than to ap
English fashions in dress, speech, and man
ners. The invitation to meet Senator Jone
was met with the following remarks, deliv
cred with a half-dead drawl: "But 1 dom
know Mr.. - ah, Jones's, you know. We
5 don't invite him to our club. Our club mel
don't know him. He is politician, sup
pose. | don't believe l know who he il
Who is Mr.. - ah, JopesW
The lady replied that Mr.. Jones was
United States senator from Nevada, and
= gentleman Of national reputation. "Yo
know Senator Bayard, don't you " she asked
'Isn't he politician 2"
Oh, yes" said the club man, IT know Sen