Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Greatly Disappointed. [ARTICLE]

Greatly Disappointed.

Famous men are not always famouslooking, and in fact the same may be said of men who .are not only famous, but great. Great generals, great poeta, great statesmen, and even great preachers have sometimes been weak In bodily presence. And still it Is natural for os to form an exalted idea of personages about whom we have read, as did a Maryland farmer's wife of whom the Detroit Free Press tells a story. She anW her husband had; gone to Washington to see the sights. They had taken fleeting observations of the State, War and Navy building, of the White House, the Treasury building,. the Patent Office, the postoffice,and then, after a hurried run about the Smithsonian and the Museum, they bad gone on to the CapitoL Here they Sad no sooner reached the rotunda than a guide offered his services. “What can you show us?” Inquired the farmer. “Everything that Is to be seen,” re plied the guide. „ “Is It wuth payin’ for?” “Well, I should say It was. This Is the finest building In the world.” “But we can see for ourselves, I reckon, can’t we?” “Oh, yes, but you won’t know half what you see. There, for instance, goes a United States Senatob,” said the guide, pointing out a well-known statesman of neither Imposing appearance nor conspicuous neathess of attire, hurrying along toward the House side. The old lady was Interested at once. She had read of Senators In the papers, and held them In great awe. It took her some time to make up her mind that what she saw was really a Senator; then she turned to her husband. ’“Huh!” she said, In a tone of sincere disappointment “Is that a Senator? Well, I thought I was goin’ to see somethin’ that was wuth lookin' at when I saw a Senator. Come on, Hiram,” she added, taking him by the arm. “If he can’t show us anythin’ better’n that, ’taint wurth payin’ for,” and she dragged her husband away.