Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Senator Tabor and the Drummer, [ARTICLE]

Senator Tabor and the Drummer,

Kanraa City Times. They tell a new story now on Senator Tabor, of Colorado. It is related that, when Tabor was on the Kansas Pacific train going to Washington to take his seat, he met a Hebrew drummer wh ohad known him sometime by reputation. To pass the time they engaged in a game of seven-up. The play was even until the close of the second game when the drummer received four kings and an eightspot. A qudbn was turned up. “Great Gott!” said the drummer, “Mr. Dabor T visht it vas boker. If ve vas playin’ boker I vood bet my whole bundell” “How much is your bundle?” asked the noble Senator from Colorado. “Two hundred and fifty tollar,” replied the drummer. “Well,” replied Tabor, “If; you give me the queen which is turned, I will go you.” “Tun, ’ said the drummer, and Tabor pi iked up the queen. “Dot ees a snap, ’ whispered the drummer, showing his hand to a man in the nextseat. “I should smile,” answered the man laconically. > “Vood you like to bet some more, Meester Dabor?” asked the commercial tourist, with an insinuating smile. “Yes,” said the noble Senator. “I have a fair hand; I will make it $500.” “I has only fifty .’’replied the drummer, and he made his bet good for S3OO. “What have you got, Meester Dabor?” | “Four aces,’’answered Colorado’s favorite son, showing the fatal one-spots. The drummer was perfectly paralyzed, and was unable to speak,while the%oble Senator stowed the pot in his togs. Slowly drawing a cigar from his pocket, Colorado’s favorite was about to light up and withdraw, when the drummer recovered his sense of speech. Leaning forward he said: “Eet ish all right, Meester Dabor; you has won the money sgquare: but, great Got! Meester Dabor, vot had der gqueen to do mit four aces?”