Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — Just Thought He’d Ask. [ARTICLE]

Just Thought He’d Ask.

Senator Vance of North Carolina lost his hat the other day, says the N. Y. I'ribtuui's Washington correspondent. He came out of the senate cloakroom bare-headed, with his overcoat on his arm, and paraded the corridors, asking every one he ifaet if he had seen a lull hat straying about anywhere. He was asking the question of Capt. May, the doorkeeper at the lobby door, when the page came up with the missing article in his hand. Senator Vauce was just saying: “Of course I don’t think you have seen it, you know, but I was 'just asking.’ like the man who came into my office once when I was governor o! North Carolina. He was a trunipishlooking man, and his clothing was worn and seedy. He looked carefully around the room and then said: •“Governor, you an’t seen nothin’ of a pair of boots around here, have von? I left ’em in in that corner last night, and they an’t there this morning.’ “I answered that I had not seen the boots. “•I knew some d—d thief had stolen them,’ said the unknown. "Of course 1 knowed it wasn't you, but I just thought I’d ask.’” «