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PEAKER HENDERSON
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~ will at the end Of his
~ career as speaker be able
~ to establish q museum
~ with the gifts that have
~V come to him from all
|H parts Of the world. The
latest addition to his col
lection, a present from his loyal and
admiring constituency, is a cane Of
curious workmanship. Its handle II
formed from a deer's foot killed e
Buena Vista, in the speakers district,
long before he was elected to Congress.
The stick was cut from a dogwood tree
carved by hand with three scrolls. The
first bears the inscription: II defend
the flag with the sword, and Justice
with the gavel." Under this appear
four Masonic emblems and a miniature
Of the Capitol. The second scroll is
ornamented with a likeness of Daniel
Cox, Provisional Grand Master of
New York. New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania in the middle of the eighteenth
century. The last scroll is Inscribed:
Colonel D. B. Henderson was wounded
in the battles OF Fort Donelson and
Corinth; was elected to the XLVIIIth
Congress-; made Speaker of the Lvth
and LvIIth Congresses"
Senator Cullom is looking for the
person who started the report that the
senator is a poker player. He says
II he finds the culprit outside Of the
senate chamber there will be things
doing that will make the Tillman-Mc-
Laurin set-to look like a pink tea. For
over a month the eastern papers have
contained accounts of the senator's ex!
PLOTS around the green-covered table.
They have had him standing pat ON
. pair Of deuces and throwing down
full hands. They have had him stay
with thres-card Pushes and break aces
to draw to q straight. The point about
the published stories that makes the
chairman Of the foreign relations COM
mittee feel bad Is that he always gets
the worst of it In the game.
Mr.. Cullom say he does not play
poker and lever do, but II he did hs
would not do such fool things as the
eastern papers are trying to make out.
He tood this SANDER with comparative
eQuanimity until people began to
write to him on the subject. Some Of
the letters jeered at his innocence,
others offered outlandish advice and
still others informed him that he need
not be surprised II his fondness for the
game received due attention and con-
sure when the Sunday school societies
meet next summer. Finally, one man
took pity on him. He wrote q long
letter from Pittsburg and in 1t gave
elaborate Instructions a to how to
play poker. Pinned to a corner of
the letter was = dollar bill for q stake.
Mi. Cullom read the letter to q crowd
Of senators in his committee room the
other day and he used supplementary
language In giving his opinion of the
writer. Then he told of his intention
to start on the warpath to punish his
slanderer. The other senators noticed,
however, that he unpinned the bill
from the letter which so displeased
him and put 1t in his pocket.
A typical southern statesman is Sem
ator Edmund Winston Pettus of Ala
bama. The senator is a veteran of the
Mexican war. in which he served as
lieutenant. and a California pioneer of
the earliest days-the days of "4s."
Two years in/the Golden State satisfied
him that opening up a new country to
civilization was not his forte. and he
returned to the practice Of law In Ala
hama. He entered the Confederate