Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — WOULDN’T BITE. [ARTICLE]

WOULDN’T BITE.

Judge Benson, the new Senator from Kansas, was sworn in about five minutes before the airship came over the Capitol, to the great detriment of business in that staid and august body. Senator Long, Benson’s colleague from Kansas, was hustling out to see the wonder. He stopped at Benson’s desk. “Judge,” he said “don’t you want to go out and see the airship?” “Now, see here, Long,” Benson replied, “I’m a Rube and I’m from Kansas, and this is my first day here, but I’ll be darned if I’ll bite on anything like that.”—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.