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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
POKER-PLAYING SOUTHERNER
FORGOT HE HAD REFORMED
GENTLEMAN from Savannah was
telling the other day about poker
= playing friend of his who'd re-

GENTLEMAN from Savannah was
~ telling the other day about a poker
= = playing friend of his who'd re-
formed.
Il met him in Asheville last winter
said the Savannah gentleman. for the
first time in number of years-he lives
in different part of Georgia. Back yOn-
der in the eighties and nineties. when he
resided in Satannah, he certainly had
something on all Of the poker players Of
Savannah, and there were, and are, some
good ones in Savannah.
Year In and, year out he was wont to
clean up. He knew the game of draw
backward. and l reckon he'd forget more
about the ,finee Etruscan tracery that's
only to be made out by q microscope on
the inside of the shell of the game Of
drew than any Of the rest of us ever
had known.
But he sure was q changed man when
I met him at Asheville last winter. I'd
heard from somebody or other that he'd
reformed, but I didn't know that it had
hit him real bad. But when. one rainy
evening, l was shopping around trying
to herd up about seven to Sit into little
game OF the ive-dCllar kind, and asked
this old friend Of mine who'd reformed If
he was going to make one of us at the
table, he staked me to gaze that was
both sad and sweet.
MY boy he said, thought every
body knew that ! had ended my evil
ways. don't play poker any more. I
am not averse to an occasional game Of
cards by way OF amnsement-but not
poker; no. stree: not poker. Poker. sir. is
q game OF deceit. 1t is game that ena-
bles-nay, Demands man to deceive his
friends out OF their money
Grand said ]. I wish had two
bits for every time you deceived me back
yonder In Savannah when I was
Poker, my boy he cut In on me, is a
game OF pure deceit. an undermined,
tFeacherous, stab-in-the-back method of
Gambllag. am through with It, sir. Yes.
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the exchange of ideas possible In club life,
and I think that many of the clubs in
Washington are doing excellent work IN
bringing women into a closer community
OF thought. Having to educate my daugh-
tiers, l have been compelled TO rely on
Warrington social clubs more than those
OF Lincoln. Generally when 1 get home
the season IL over and the members of
the many good clubs have scattered for
the summer"
Mrs. Burkett Is a tall. stately woman
with exquisite coloring and rich. dark
hair. She Is a devoted pedestrian and at
tributes her splendid health to her love of
the open and to her frequent long walks.
The Burketts occupy one of the artistic
Spanish houses in 10Th street, and it is a
cozy, homelike abode.
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ut was pretty tidy and comfy
game. and my Savannah friend, sitting
behind my chair, watched it with a
kindling eye that became more fevered
and sparkling every minute the game
progressed.
He shook his head sadly. too over
some of my poker errors. for he was
in position to see my hands. and oc-
casiOnally he'd lean over and breath
maledictions into my ear for something
particularly fat-headed that I'd done
with my cards. according to his really
expert view.
Toward midnight one Of the seven
in the game had to drop out in order
to write some business letters at his
cottage for the morning mail.
oh. kick in here, parson, / said to
formed. Take that empty chair over
yonder. You're due to be trimmed
overdue. Come on in. The splashing's
fine
IT could see by his hungry eyes that
great tumult was going on in his
breast.
Its fve-dollar limit YOU all are
playing, isn't IL? he said. finally. after
a long pause in a hoarse tone that told
of his inner conflict.
ve-dollar limit, said l.
We'll, I'm glad OF that said he. as
he made the empty chair in two strides
and pumped into the seat. because.
subs. FIVE dolluhs is the limit in my
chu'ch.'
Then he bought a stack and cleaned
the bunch of us to n fare-youwell
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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her own state or immediate environment
Il should like to see all the interesting
women who are hero and learn about
their homes and various interests, but
this is obviously impossible. Coneras-
sional society now counts some two or
three hundred members. ana unless one
gave all her waking hours she could not
do more than get passing glimpse. Call.
ing IL not so satisfactory as would like
it to be. You may spend your time and
energy and have the best intentions and
then never get more than . word with
people whom you want to know init
mately.
IF club has any ADVANTAGES. / think
that the best way to get women together
Then they can really know each other and
discover their mutual attractions. I like
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Quire Hon. Judge lanably.
Mrs. Noodleham is my name, since
last you saw me-" snuggest her with
coyish bloshes.
What can / do for you this time p
Il wish to be alone on the grounds OF
cruelty" is answer for her.
Did Hon. NOOdleham beat you?"
80 surely yes Weeps from her.
Did he beat you with a poker?''
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FTER hard show
ing over the Rocky
Mts we arrived at
Reno, New. Our
intelligent ottomo-
bile Seeing Amer
lea" got there yes
terIy P. NJ. filled
with several Tour
lists anxious to see
this painless place
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grace. Nearly all the present genera
ton of women can cook and sew and di-
rect a home through every detail, and
this we take as matter of course.
though we really do not plume ourselves
on these accomplishments. We would be
inclined to pity a woman who Is not
educated up to caring for a home scien-
tifically and conscientously.
1T fills ones days to have a variety
of interests in life. and / have encour-
aged my children to love reading as well
as music. and to appreciate good books
and to attend all lectures on themes
which are congenial. The modern school,
girls life is replete with various kinds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
The Noisy Kind.

KHARK TWAIN. in an after dinner
AS4 speech in Bermuda, once talked ~
gratitude. He didn't much care, he sa a,
for gratitude Of the noisy. boisterous kind.
why" he exclaimed. when some men
discharge an obligation. YOU can hear the
report for miles around"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
did he go up in airships?"

NO. he merely rea0 ABOUT tnem. he
bought all the evening papers to find
out what Hamilton, Wright & Curtiss
was doing to promote Country Life In
the Clouds. Instead of taking his poor
wife to horseraces. operas and other
amusements which her refined nature
desired. he spent his evening with his
feet on the gas-log reading Hudson
Maxim's prediction of Battles in the Air.
He knew all the records Of such human
birds as Beriot, Paulham & Caruso. He
spent hours and hours studying diagrams
showing how Glenn Hawk Curtiss would
look circling around the Times tower
and dropping bottle Of deadly catchup
into the middle Of Broadway Home was
never the same no more. When Mrs.
Noodleham would set down for a quiet
evening reading some quaint fairy story
by Dave Crane Phillips. Hon. Noodle
ham would look up from his paper and
aviation record has been broke What
is it this time?' she would require with
fell four miles out Of a monoplane and
when picked up was dangerously dead.
This is the greatest height anybody has
been killed from SO far I am sorry
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ONE of the Youngest and

ONE of the Youngest and
~ Most Attractive Women
in the Upper House Contin-
gent-Enthusiastic About the
Future of Her State-An Ac-
complished Musician and Has
Turned Her Talent and Train
ing Into the Practical Chan
mel of Teaching Her Daugh-
ters-Cultured Woman OF
Broad Views and Independ-
ent Thought-Type of Wig
orous Young Womanhood in
the Middle West.
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delicate organ admits of cultivating. l
attended college and acquired all the
love for knowledge and original research
which a college training brings, but l
soon discovered that music was my es-
pecial talent so ! departed from the do
main of Minerva to take my colors under
the muses.. / studied music for many
years, and though | never acquired fame
or fortune under that divine goddess. l
would not give up one minute of the
pleasu which / experienced during that
time for the best laurels of any diva.
Il have taught all my daughters in
music. and it is an inexpressible pleas
ure that I find that all are musical and
one has the promise of a splendid voice.
! realize the value of knowing music, Of
its aid in so many ways and no one could
teach my children as faithfully and con-
scientiously as l can myself. l have not
kept up my vocal practice faithfully
as i should, but that is easily explained
when any woman. or man either. thinks
of the multitudinous duties which come
to the mother of a family.
Il y
But l keep up my instrumental work.
and I can accompany my daughter and
know all the new developments in the
theory of music. An education with
such results cannot fail, / think to be
factor of happiness All the things which
/ hoped to be am trying TO bring out in
nv daughters For this reason | am an
earnest advocate of the higher training
of women. Their field of usefulness Is
wider than a mans. no matter to what
heights of fame man may climb
Senator and Mrs. Burkett began their
friendship at Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa,
and from the beginning both seemed de
termined to place a serious construction
their mutual attachment Mrs. Bur
kett was. before her marriage. Miss
VII n
Wright and she was born In Mills
county, Iowa. She did not complete the
college course, and for several years de-
voted herself TO the study of music All
her daughters have followed their motn-
er's musical bent. and they can furnish
as fine music as one can hear from a
professional.
The eldest, Lenore. will graduate from
high school next June She has an ex-
cellent voice, which is already well train
ed. and she Is also a proficient violinist.
The second dauhtger, Josephine, is about
fifteen, and a brilliant pianist, and the
small girl Helen. who is just nine. is as
enthusiastic over her music either
of her sisters
II hope that all my daughters will
go to college,, said Mrs. Burkett. II be-
lieve in the higher education of women,
and | think that all Improvement Of the
mind helps for happiness, and certainly
for usefulness. l have never found that
a college education takes away from q
girl the domestic qualities. 1t may have
that tendency in the east but certainly
not in the west We attend to the cult
walton of the home virtues and we put
much stress on being fine homekeepers
II note that the women of the middle
west though are just as fond Of culture
as their eastern sisters; are more self
reliant and better equipped for every
kind of home duties. OF course We are
only n generation or two removed rom
the pioneer. when We learned to help
ourselves of necessity rather than of
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Seeing Reno.

To Editor Sunday Star. who must see no
objection to printing some delicious
divorces among other Sporting News,
Dearest Sir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10
By Margaret B. Downing.

r of Lincoln. Ne
braska,'' remarked
Mrs. Elmer Bur
kett, wife OF the
senator from that
middle west COM
monwealth, "ap-
preciate something
of the fate W hich
attaches 10 old
world which
are the hplaces
or dive places
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surroundings, and few of us ever desire to
roam after we return from a prolonged
absence We possess a charming social
life in Lincoln. and women long ago fol-
lowed the lead Of the superior sex in the
matter Of clubs We have clubs aiming
TO accomplish all sorts of things, and they
are generally successful in their endeay-
ors. Being in Washington so much / have
not been able to keep up my home club
connection as we'll as | should like 10.
but i hear that they are making a record
along many useful lines We have a
book review club which really is model.
and may serve as such for similar efforts
the world over.
ignoring conditions does not change
them. / find, and when a community OF
women deliberately overlOoks the present
state of literature and of modern drama.
they are laying up a harvest of nettles to
be encountered by and by. This book re-
view club is composed of women of ma
ture judgment. we'll as of culture and
responsibility. and their opinions, though
not scientifically valuable should count
for much. When such club pronounces
that a new novel is fit to read and To
place in the library of its home city, for
young and old alike, 1t is high praise and
should add to the market value of the
work
so many books which would not come
under that category are passed by the
critics that think ii timely that bodies
OF responsible women should take the
matter in hand. In this way women can
be ideally useful 10 community. Men
as rule have not the time to keep
abreast with modern literature: If they
read novel, 1t is usually one recon-
mended by some one in whom they have
confidence and from which they hope TO
derive amusement, knowledge edifica-
ton. / believe the time Is coming when
all the books recommended will be those
which contain one OF these elements.
Il am very fond OF reading, and my
winters in Washington are largely taken
up with new books. l feel especially
proud that women are adding ably
to the output of essays which are fast
displacing fiction in the taste of think
ing women. | find the most repaying
essays are written by women. and upon
themes on which every useful woman
should be informed. / have followed
some Of the opinions OF my brilliant
sex along the lines OF the philosophy
of woman'S dress with deep interest and
much intellectual gain.
The essay so fashionable in the By
ronic days. and before that when Addison
and Sterne charmed the world of let
ters. is becoming the vogue again. and
| think II is destined to become. for the
thinking reader of literature, what the
short story is for the lover of fiction.
We are all hurried nowadays. There
Is so much 10 do and so little time Tor
each endeavor. These excellent ESSAYS
written by woman about things on which
women should have the last word are
supplying the need instead of the volumi-
nous tones of philosophy and ethics in
which our German and British sisters
delight
Il have always belonged 10 that class
who find that having diverse interests
rounds out ones life and fills i'm other
wise purposeless days. I believe in
the higher education of woman and in
her cultivating her mind az far as that
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"Ah no-at bridge"
Mortified expression by Prosecuting At
torney.
"Your case is very plaintiff say Hon.
Judge with irrigated eyes. rs there
any little thing you would like to ask
from that fiendalized brute before say.
ing bye-bye forever?'
She wipe her eye with her diamond
necklace.
please, Mr.. Court, am too proud to
ask for alimony. Therefore, I shall do
so. All 1 require from that Pasteurized
monster is sufficient cash-pay to provide
my six chidren-Tessis Brown, Willie
Mccormick. Cuthbert Blink. Annie Jack.
son, Myrtle Tannebaum and Sydney Os.
termoor-each bearing the names Of their
various fathers-with the college educa-
ton to which their position demands
them"
Have you some witnesses to swear
at?'
"Mr Marmaduke Pickens shall be her
witness" depose Hon. Alimopy Lawyer
who was there.
So. Hon. Pickens take set-down in
grandstand.
Name, If any"
"Pickens, please"
"Are you this lady's correspondent?
II am her fiancee," he report proud
ishly.
Can you contribute some testimony
with which to defame the character Of
the late Mr.. Noodleham?"
II shall do my topmost. That Noodle
ham man was no fit party to share his
sorrows with a sensitive female woman.
He was an aviamaniac."
"a which,
IAN aviamaniac. On who becomes de-
mentia on the subjeck of atrial navga-
tion.''
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Down street by solid marble eettaSs
with a golden picket fence we find fol-
lowing eligraph: Z
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oftenly enough"
SO he rode away feeling very COR
rugated.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly,
HASHIMCRA TOGO.
S. P .
Mr.. Editor. please print following Ad-
vertisement in red ink with a border Of
green cart-wheels and a photo Of Geo
the 9th. Charge the bill to your printer
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-
Among those present in my joyful
Wagon was following persons:
IL Unmarried spinner-ladies who took
this expensive trip with me they could
study the Horrors of Matrimony.
IA Lady Actresses, who came to see
why this important branch of the Drama
should be so far from Broadway.
Ii mixed Lawyers and Clergymen who
came to see what they could do to make
Divorce more attractive.
Reno is a small blond town surround
ed by sage brushes and thickly inhabited
by cheerful widows This town was for
merly rich from its nines-but no more.
All the miners have now quit work and
gone into the law business. Reno is
the only American municipality which is
supported entirely by alimony- Principal
business bldgs. of this town are: Reno
Correspondents School, Husbands Ex-
change Bank, Hotel Ammonia, Handy
Witnesses Employment Agency and Mrs.
Troubless Matrimonial Bureau. Almost
everywheres you look you might observe
worldly-Iooking automobiles riding back
4 forth from court to court. bearing mys-
FERROUS ladies completely enwrapped with
wells. If the veil is pink, Hon. Lady is
soon expecting TO become Divorsay. II
II is blue she is a Correspondent who Is
merely there to oblge a friend Some
ladies wears both kinds of wells at the
same time.
Behind nearly every lamp-pole we OBJ
served tall, sad gents with blue eye
spectaeles and green mustache of de-
ceptive appearance. Whenever persons
passed. these Gents would light Porto
Rico cigars and attempt to look like they
was thinking about something else. Some
Of my Tourists was scared to see these
persons. but when 1 explained they was
nothing but Detectives. everybody real
ICED how harmless they was.
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T.

Of great men. Lincoln has a red an
almost abnormal fame as the residence
of William Jennings Bryan. We are
quite boastful of this fact. and when
] enumerate the incidents Of my life
] am filled with pride when / announce
that for years l was the next-door neigh
Dor OF the Bryan fanny. Mr.. Bryan has
moved out OF the city proper and has a
delightful home, Fairview. in the environs.
but We still claim him among our towns
folk, and take inordinate pride in so do
Ing. and this absolutely apart from party
affiliation.
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80 many clever observers OF things So
cial have noted that life has become
Identical throughout the world. and most
Of all in the domain over which the Stars
and Stripes float. / cannot claim any
thing unique for my home city. II
IS prosperous and we'll equipped for crea-
fure comforts, and. according to the opin-
i Jon Cf travellers, as pretty and artistic
a little town may be discovered the
world over. We have il built on broad
Lines, ard every home is a home in the
true sense. l: has an opening to the four
g.nus OF .icaTrr instead OF front and
faef H"ur il; = row. which seems the
r~r,.;si-t... :a~iIiou - Washington.
,,e :a;.c keen le5,sure in our home
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Pretty soonly We came to Reno City
Hall Inside we could hear Hon. Divorce
Factory running to full capacity of its
gas-enxine. Raw material was entering
entrance Finished Products was emerg
Ing out looking young again & wearing
their maiden names.
This Rspo City Hall is a very i'm
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sir, decidedly / am forever through with
it
We'll. ! got together the requisite num-
her for the game that evening, and my
Savannah friend who had in reforming
developed such a disappearing view to-
ward the game of draw followed the
bunch over to the cottage 10 watch the
game.
There is no harm i'm watching it, he
explained to me- rather unnecessarily. on
the way over. There is temptation In
the world all around one and one has 10
live in the midst of 1t. and, in a way,
participate in it
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Copyright. 1910. by the Associated Literary
Press
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-23
SUDDEN DEATH OF
HERMAN SOMMfRS
Especial to Silver state.)

LOVELOCk, July 23.-This commu.
nifty was stalled last evening when the
report became current on the steets
that Herman G. Sommers had died at
his residence of heart failure.
Born in Germany May "a, 1859, de.
ceased came to this country with his
parents when only boy and had re-
sided at Lovelock for q lifetime. He
is survived by wife and three child
rem, mother, two brothers and two sis
ters.
Mr.. Sommers was a former editor of
the Lovelock Tribune, and during his
long residence here had held many DO.
sitions Of trust and honor, at one time
having been postmaster. At the last
election he was the Republican candi.
date for auditor and recorder, receiv.
ing his full party vote, although fail
ing of election.
The funeral will be held Monday. un.
der the auspices Of the local Masonic
lodge, of which he had been an honored
member for many years, and Of which
he was trasurer at the time Of his
death.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-23
VIEWS OF PROMINENT
MAN REGARDING NATIONAL

Joe Jaca, the prominent Malheur
county, Oregon, business representa-
tive, who is also largely identified
with National enterprises, is in Win
nemucca, fresh from the great gold
camp. Incidentally, it may be noted
that Mr.. Jaea lives at McDermitt,
where his residence stands on the state
line, and when he sleeps he has his
thinking faculties in the state of Ore
gon, with his pedal extremities in Ne
vada. In financial snnse represent
ing southern Oregon and northern Ne
vada, Joe Jaca occupies prominent
position and may properly be styled a
J. p. Morgan in undertakings of that
section. His holdings and enterprises
are extensive, comprising agriculture,
flocks of sheep, merchandising, raising
of speedy thoroughbred horses, freight
ing, in addition to large interests In
mines and mining.
This Oregon Nevada factor is just
in from the gold camp of National and
brings tidings of good news regarding
the Humboldt county mining wonder.
Mr.. Jaca states that for the time he
was in the camp his observations and
reports confirmed all that tends to
make this phenomenally rich camp the
greatest in the west today. From re-
laiable information he estimates that
during the month of July the approxi-
mate gross production of the camp will
be $500,000 in high grade and first and
second-class ores, the latter ranging
from $40 to $500 per ton and now lying
in great heaps on open dumps on the
hillsides.
The development and improvement
OF the district, Mr.. Jaca states, is
steady and of the permanent sort.
Mills going up and hoists being placed
in position are commencing to dot the
surface of the district like so many
ship masts in seaport town. Every
trend, he states, is of the substantial
and lasting sort-a kind of sign cast
ing, as it were, the great future of this
wonderful gold belt. Mr.. Jaca says
that the Improvement and development
has been so marked in the last few