Poker In The Legislature

In tlie jrean gona ly a aartaía Btprnttn tativp in our State Uigislatni'C M sii)iDOMd to lia f heen "si?en"on a certain liiil, but as he kept liis own counsel M mm could ret any proob aguinst him He had Keen elected u aii liimcst, upright man, nul when his con-tit units lunrd the rumora üfnlntt liis iutefiiity thi-y wiTt' uum' delégate vu appolntad to go down te I.an tlng aad hinf lus side of iin' ttory, mhI wlicn this man returned home be was nvited tu make known hi researdns Ixjlonan n]xn incptin? "Mv trirnd," he bepan, ''I Wist to Luinf; with deteiiniiiatioii ti sif tinmatter to the botCom. I touml that S was living hifrti umi (Ireiisln Hke a lonl." A groan wcrit throtlgil tin? BWettng, and men tbook their hcails in a solcmn way. "He ipoitl ii ijoM watcfa and ¦ cane." continued the Uelejfnte, "nid lie was talkU; Of' lni I hoIVe to ((rillLT liotllc with him. You reinember lie wenl away trom liero a poor man." "Tlien Ce old lus vote!" ihouted onu of tbc yoeiiH'ii. "Í conti- il looked that way to me at first," replied tlie delegute, "luit, wlien 1 came to tackle bim tcraonaUy heexplained evfiythin-i M clcar M day. He had not soUl'liis vote. He had not forgOUen that an honest oontltnency was behlnd him, no nioiiey couM hare hrihed hls con-c'iWMji'. ,'.., iny l'ricnct, therc is uo stain on hfs repntsHon." 'Tlien bow did b :et liis uionty '" askeU three ar tour at onec "Well, I don't kaow an I can expl.nin it a well as he did, and I'm sorry I dldu't write it down It nfmi lh1 the meinbers ilon't have anything to do evtninOB, and n-ti ad of reaiiiiifr novéis iir atteinliiif; tlie W'ioVeU theater they (fathcr in iittle cmwds around the table and the onewho has tour of a kind of soiaething or ether in sometliIiiK or otUex callea the pot 1 don't kaow wliere tlie money comes in, but its somehöw or otlier, and souiehow orother our Mteemed reppe6ntfttl?e always has inoie of a kind than any one else. Th9 is na near as i eau leineinlxr, :uid I sogest a vote of contimied conlfdence in our mem Iht 11 nt i ! he him.sulf returns to expluiu wliat the "kinds" are nml what tl. e pot has to do with it."