Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — A Story About Ingersoll. [ARTICLE]

A Story About Ingersoll.

Here is an entirely new story about the late Colonel Ingersoll, which is quite as good and fully as genuine as the usual run of them: When Ingersoll was a young man he went iDto a short-order restauraxvt in Peoria and called for an egg. “You are an agnostic, I think?” said the waiter, who was a college stadant In the winter, and had just associated himself with the restaurant business. “Your habit of thinking has not betrayed you this time—l am,” replied IngersoU. “Then you do not have faith in the integrity of this egg?” quoth the waiter. “I have no faith In Its int-egg-rlty,” replied Bob. “I have no faith in anything. I believe only in what I see, or in what is proved to me.”, “I have faith In the egg,” said the student, and he regarded the colonel with sad eyes. “My faith tells me that it contains a yolk.” “My doubt admits nothing of the kind,” said the agnostic. So the student broke the egg, and, lo! It contained a chicken! But the fact Is the agnostic took an unfair advantage of the student. He had eaten at that restaurant before.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.