Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — THE SENATOR WAS EXCITED. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATOR WAS EXCITED.

Fired Two Charges of Blue Pills at a Beer and Dosed Himself with Buckshot. A member of the United States Senate, distinguished alike for bis great ability and the unctuous manner in which he tells a story or relates a joke, even if it be upon himself, entertained some newspaper men recently in the lobby of the Senate with the recital of an incident in connection with a recent successful deer hunt not a thousand miles from the nation’s capital. The Senator was combining a quest of health with pleasure on this deer hunt, and had gone provided with a liberal supply of pills furnished by his Washington physician. He was camped in the mountains, and was meeting with a fair share of success. One morning while preparing to take his departure for the deer stand, a messenger arrived loaded down with glowing accounts of the November Democratic victories throughout the country. Now, the Senator is one of the staunchest and most enthusiastic Democrats in the country, and the great news fairly set him wild. About this time the loud-mouthed bay of the hounds came from the mountain, announcing that the fleet-footed deer had been started. The Senator quickly loaded his double-barreled gun and hastened to the stand. He had been there but a few minutes when a splendid three-pronged buck put in au appearance, scarcely forty yards distant, utterly unconscious of such close proximity to the usually unerring aim of the Senatorial deer hunter. Then there was a loud report, the deer stood motionless, and then the Senator let him have the other barrel. But to the Senator’s surprise the buck took a header through the forest at a rate of speed which showed that he was finaffected in wind orlimb by the fusillade to which he had been subjected. The Senator is now convinced that instead of loading with buckshot he had used the pills, and at most the buck only received a hypodermic injection of blue mass. The Senator did not say, but it is just possible that he also got in the wrong pocket that morning when taking his daily dose of physic, and instead of the pills dosed himself with buckshot. It is certainly possible that he might have done so and been excusable, suffering as he was under the effects of Democratic and buck fever. —Baltimore Sun.