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R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
ori Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
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POLITICAL POKER.
Questions of Great Moment Deter
mined bjr tbr Game iu the
State of Kansas.
Topeka is much agitated over revela
tions of draw poker in high places, and
nothing could better show than this up
I roar what inroads the civilization of the
east is making on the life of the bound
less prairies. Once upon a time, states
the Kan^s City Journal, draw poker was
■ to Kansas what bridge whist is to the
parlors of the fashionable. It was prac
tised as an art, a pastime, a profession.
No one thought then of concealing his
play of the game, but, rather, it was a
subject of pride and boasting. Indeed,
it was more than a game, for it served at
times in the adjudication of the most
serious problems of state or government.
At present the law of Kansas recog
nizes the game of chance known as
“drawing lots” as the proper means oi
deciding all ties in elections, but form
erly draw poker was resorted to as a
more orderly means of compromising.
For example, in one of the western coun
ties, when two amiable gentlemen tied
for the office of representative they
played a game of “freeze-out” to de
termine which should enjoy the office.
Again, not so many years ago, when the
senate committee on congressional ap
portionment came to a deadlock over the
divers plans for dividing the state into
congress districts, the members ad
journed to a room in the Copeland, took
each a generous stack of chips and
played to a finish. Under the terms of
this historical game the committeeman
who lost his chips withdrew himself and
his apportionment plan from further
consideration; and when the game was
reduced to two gentlemen, the one whc
froze the other out fixed the plan of ap
portionment, which stands with little
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Volumes could be written of poker In- !
cidents in Kansas. Once a well known
congressman, who, by the way, has reap
peared in Kansas politics, had to meet
the charge made by some overprudish
people that he was addicted to the game
of poker. He appealed to his political
asociates to help him out. The one who
- came most energetically to his recuse
was Capt. Bill Hackney, the Winfield
statesman. “I am in a position to state,”
certified the doughty captain, “that Mr.
Blank is less addicted to the game than
any man I ever played with."
More elaborate but quite as effective
was the defense once made by Steve Os
born, ex-speaker of the Kansas house.
Some 12 years ago Steve was running for
reelection to the office of district judge
in western Kansas. The pops got out a
handbill accusing him of being a “poker
player” and circulated it widely.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVEL.
Comfortable Fittings of Railway
Cars for the Benetlt of Sub
urban Passengers.
Some newspaper attention has lately
been attracted to the “cfub cars” by
which little groups of wealthy New York
and Chicago business men increase the
coipfort of the daily trips between their
suburban homes and their city offices,
states. Youth's Companion.
Each car is in effect a club house on
wheels. Most of the gorgeous fittings of
the ordinary cars are removed, and simp-i,
ler and more tasteful decorations are
substituted for them. Movable wicker
chairs replace the fixed seats. Electric
fans cool the air in summer. There are
dressing rooms, libraries, appartments
for the women, in short, everything
which can contribute to the comfort of
the travelers.
The cars are open only to members of
the group which hires them, but they
represent merely the climax of a con
stant improvement In travel, both by
water and by rail.
At the other end of the scale we see the
steerage accommodations of the ocean
steamships. Persons who are familiar
only with the horrible conditions for
which “a steerage passage” used to stand
would be astonished if they were to visit
: modern liner. More room, more light,
more privacy, better food, better sleep
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an abundance of water, both for drinking
and for bathing, are now possible even
to the poor immigrant. The steerage
passage of to-day is a more comfortable
mode of travel than was the second
cabin passage ten years ago. First
cabin accommodations have Improved
correspondingly. One of the newest
vessels has between 40 and 50 suites of
rooms, each provided with its private
bath.
What is most needed now is a substitu
tion of wicker or leather seats for the
unsanitary plush so dear to American
car builders and album makers, and
greater seating capacity in street cars.
Joke on the Professor.
Once upon a time Prof. Wilson, of
Edinburgh, wrote on the blackboard in
his laboratory:
“Prof. Wilson Informs his students
that he has this day been appointed hon
orary physician to the queen."
In the course of the morning he had
occasion to leave the, room, and found on
his return that a student had added to
the announcement the words:
“God save the queen.”—Michigan
Gateway.
Atmosphere as Mirror.
There is one place where a man sees
a reflection of himself as big as he fancies
himself in his dreams. It is on the
Brocken, a mountain in Prussia, where
the vapors of the atmosphere act as a
great concave mirror, magnifying the
Image thousands of times.
Tailors In London. ■
In 1861 there were in London 37,000
tailors; in 1871, 38,000; in 1881,40,300; in
1891, 52,300, and in 1901, 80,074.
Women In the Trades.
In Worcester there are 703 women
who make needles and 1,044 female nail
makers.
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