Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — TOLD OF SENATOR INGALLS. [ARTICLE]

TOLD OF SENATOR INGALLS.

A Yarn from the West Related in the Senate Gaiier>. , Washington Star. “You’ll notice that this long session is not having any apparent effect on Senator Ingalls,” said a gentleman from the Far West in the Senate gallery. There was nothing in the Senator’s appearance to dispute the assertion, so the reporter assented, and the gentlemen from the West went on.: . “I used to know Ingalls years ago. 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 one adult in the State of Kansas. One day he went up to the office of a friend ofhis, it doctor, and while he was in thefS a newsboy dashed in. Now, the kids who sold papers around .Atchison in those days were the noisiest I ever heard, and the doctor’s assistant, a cheerful young student, was always on the alert to shut some of them up and to prevent them from invading'the privacy of his room with their stamp* ing feet and earipiercing yells of • S’n Louay papers.” The assistant had seen this particular boy as he entered the building-, and in an instant 'had placed inside of the doorway of the office a full-grown skeleton. When the youngster threw the door open and was midway through one of the declamations. the skeleton fell over on him. With a shriek that was worse even than his regular street cry the boy rolled down one flight of stairs and tumbled into the street, and his murmurings continued right straight along. “You’ve scared that boy to death,” exclaimed the budding Senator, who was overflowing with indignation. Then he went to the 1 window, and bending out called to the -grimy but pallid face of the victim: “Come back here, boy; I’ll buy some of your papersHe shan’t hurt you.” The response was instantaneous. The sobs ceased, and he shouted: “No, you don’t.L„You can’t fool me if you have put your clothes on. ”