Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1920 — HE WANTED IT RUBBED IN [ARTICLE]

HE WANTED IT RUBBED IN

Congressman RvMotftly Waa Not flatMM With Knowing Mimoelf to Be a Feel. ▲ wealthy western congressman, ■ays the Argonaut, much against his will, erected a magnifieenOnanston la Washington to please' hawife anA daughter. . The congressman was of plain tastes and had no liking for the social activities of the national capital. One day an old Mend visited him. Wearing a face of the deepest gloom, the owner of the stately home escorted his caller throughout the piece. The’visiter was admiring and enthusiastic, but the heat said little or nothing. ’ When the inspection was finished and the two had returned to the library on the first floor, the visitor said: “Well, Jim, you certainly can’t say that you haven’t everything that you want." “Ten, I can,” replied the millionaire soberly; T want a parrot” “Why a pgrrotr *1 should like to hang him. over the front door, so that every time I enter this place he can yell out, There comes that old fool again l’Tooth’s Companion.