Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — Senator Ingalis Couldn’t Fool Him. [ARTICLE]

Senator Ingalis Couldn’t Fool Him.

“I used to know Senator Ingalls yearn ago,” said a gentleman from the far* "West to a reporter for the Washington Post. “He was thinner then than he is. now and looked just about the same. He lived in Atchison and had the reputation of being possessed of more brain and less flesh than any other adult in. the State otKansas. One day he went • up to the office of a friend of his, a doctor, and while he was in there a newsboy dashed in. Now, the kids who sold papers around Atchison in those dayswere the noisiest I ever heard, and thodoctor’s assistant, a cheerful youngstudent, was always on the alert toshut some of them up and to prevent., them from invading the privacy of hisroom with their stamping feet and easpiercing. yells of ‘S’u Louay paper’. The assistant had seen this particular boy as he entered the building, and in an instant had placed inside the doorway of the office a full-grown skeleton. When the youngster threw the door open and was midway through one of his declamations the skeleton fell overon him. With a shriek that was worse* even than his regular street cry the boy rolled down one flight of stairs and! stumbled into the street and his murmurings continued right straight along. “ ‘You have scared that boy to his. death!’ exclaimed the budding Senator, who was overflowing with indignation.. Thea he went to the window and bending out called to the grimy but pallid' face of the victim: “Come back here, boy; I’ll buy some of your papers. Heshan’t hurt you.” The response was instantaneous.. The boy’s cobs ceased and he shouted: “No. you don’t! You can’t fool me if you have got your clothes on.”