The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-08
TALK OF THE WEEK.

The baths Of Apollo were cold, the poet tells |
us, but usually colder far is the modern soup bath
into which the political or public man plunges |
who has lost the game at which he played, and |
who is about to retire from public life. The
clients who sought his favor when the sun of
his power was in the ascendant no longer
throng around him, and the friends who |
smiled on him smile no more, or if they do their
smiles are as cold as sunshine in midwinter.
But Senator ingalls,, who is about to retire
from public life, seems destined to have diff
ferent experience. He may be in the soup, but
the soup is comfortably warm. There seems to
be as much interest and even anxiety in certain
quarters as to what Mr. ingalls, will do when he
retires from the Senate as there is about the
ordinary man when he first steps into place OF
unusual power 1t is notable when Mr.. Ingalls,
returned from Kansas the other day and made
his first appearance in the Senate after his de-
feat for reelection that he was greeted with
great warmth by his colleagues, who shook his
hand and smiled effusively on him, as If he had
just come into new inheritance of power. 1t
does not seem likely that these manifestations
were wholly due to warm personal regard for
the cynical and keen-tongued gentleman from
Kansas. 1t has been suggested that they were
caused rather by reports recently in circulation
! that when Mr.. Ingalls, steps out of the Senate
he will step on to the lecture platform or into
| the newspaper arena If he should take either
! of these courses it is probable he would deal in
! his lectures or letters with his experiences
in public life, and let in flood of vivid light
the inside workings of the legislative machinery.
| Some people have been unkind enough to sug-
gest that the fear of what Mr.. ingalls, might tell
| If he was so disposed caused his colleagues to
! desire to win his goodwill when he was about
to go out from them into new field of activity.
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The hold which Mr.. Ingalls's brilliant intellect
hoc pl,to yol oro md
the newspaper men is clearly shown by the
amount of gossip floating around as to his
probable future movements. Various stories
are told as to what he is likely to do. One is
that he has been offered and is likely to accept
the Washington correspondence of q New York
newspaper at salary of $4,000 a year;
another, that he has been urged to assume edi-
torial charge OF well-known magazine. Then
again it is said he is besieged with solicitations
to lecture by the managers of lecture bureaus,
one offering him SIS 900 for twenty-five lectures
ard another $25, 900 for fifty lectures. These
stories are all based on the assumption that
Mr. ingalls, being poor man, with no source
of income but his salary as Senator, will have to
hustle for his living.
Mr.. Ingalls, has been charged by his critics
with being vain man. This charge seems
easily susceptible of disproof. Vain men arc
never modest in the pursuit of fame and glory.
They always want all they can get of that sort
of thing of legitimate kind Mr.. Ingalls, has
always been regarded as poor man, and has
never done anything to disabuse the public
mind of this impression. If he were really vain
he would have claimed the glory which hedges
the man of wealth. to which it is said he is fully
entitled. Such, at least, is the story told by q
colleague of the gentleman from Kansas. This
colleague is given as the authority for the state
ment that Mr.. ingalls, is worth at least 5000 900
If this is true, it would seem to disprove com
rn1n a1 thn
against Mr.. ingalls,, for he has not only in one
way or another sought to convey the impression
that he was poor, but he has even gone SO far
the story goes, as to actually take means tc
cover up his possession of wealth by holding
his farm mortgages and other investment securi
ties in the names of other people. Nothing
could more clearly show Mr. Ingalls's extreme
modesty than this.
One of the very latest stories as to Mr.. In
galls's future intentions is that he means to @,
l into the pension business in Washington. Hi
fame covers the length and breadth of the land
I and he seems to have especially endeared him
= self to the old soldiers. If he should hang ou
: his shingle here as pension agent it is NOR
8 than likely his success would be even create
than that which has attended the efforts O
Corporal Tanner in the same direction. A busi
: ness of this kind, after it had once been es
u tablished, would require but little attention o
e labor on the part of the proprietor 1t wou
: be nothing like exacting as the profession
= of journalism, or the career of the lecturer
d while it would be vastly more remunerativ
d than either Consequently it would give MI
e Ingalls, plenty of leisure for the pursuit O
d those philosophical and leXicographica studies
n of which he is so fond. For these reasons, it
held by the gossips, there is much stronger pre-
liability of Mr.. Ingalls, becoming a pensio
2, agent than of his going into the newspaper c
st lecturing business.
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~ ~ When asked the other day as to the prospect
"a of cloture or the Force bill coming up agai
N this session, Senator Kenna answered with
le story: SIN Jackson's time," he said, ''Osceo
a. or some one of the Florida Indian chiefs W:
IN imprisoned at Fortress Monroe. jackson wei
Dc down there and saw the big Indian. Osceo
. was noted backgammon player and toe
"a great pride in his skill. Jackson was also
IN nous as a backgammon player. In fact,
H. one could beat him. So game was arrang,
between Osceola and jackson. Jackson co
cluded to Jet the Indian beat him couple
u, games just to tickle the chiefs vanity, al
'N then turn in and demolish him. So Osceo
u won the first game without much trouble, al
th was immensely proud of the exploit. He q
of up and strutted about with his head in the a
as as if he had won great battle. Meanwh
ed Jackson was arranging the board for the secol
he game. Come, chief, he said, 'let us play a
"a me chance to beat you.' Osceoa looked
nd jackson scornfully sWhy more game p
is grunted Me no want to play more gan
- White IN heat -