Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — A Senatorial Poker Game. [ARTICLE]

A Senatorial Poker Game.

Years ago Senators Jones, Vest Stewart, and Cameron were playing a game of poker one evening, says the San Francisco Examiner, and although the stakes were not high the company was good and it ran until long after midnight. A few days afterward Vest remarked to' Jones: “I say, Jones, wasn’t that a nice game the other evening? Everything went along so weß and no one at the game had to watch the other*throe. I like a gentleman’s game like th it, where you don’t even have to cut the cards for a square deal.” Jones, who is an incorrigiblo wag, fllUinAnl if DAnooi vail tKrt Koifina ouuucu'j LUuLciVCU Lut3 IUCiI U 1 UavtUg some fun with Vest, so he manufactured a story to fit the occasion. “I’m glad you . think so,” he said, “but Bill Stewart doesn’t have that idea of it” “What!” said Vest, quite seriously, “do you mean to tell me that Stewart thinks there was cheating in that game?" _ “That’s the idea he conveyed to his wife when he reached home. She spoke to me about it yesterday." “I’m re illy sorry to hear that," said Vest “I feel hurt to hear be felt that he hadn’t, lost his money on the square.” “I feel thesame way,” replied Jones. “I felt as if a thunderclap had struck inq." “What did he really say about it?' asked Vest “We i, he enme home about 3 o’clock and his wife noticed that his bs.ird was all covered with tobacco jnioe —a very unusual thing for him—and she took him to task for it: He said he hod been in a senatorial poker game. “ ‘Were there no cuspidores in the room?’ “ ‘Yes. plenty of ’em.’ “Couldn’t you turn from the cards lon enough to uso them?’ “ *No, my dear; not in that game.”’