Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-28

puts on a new one every hour. His private
conversation is full of meat, and when he
talks every sentence makes you think and
every word weighs a pound
He is man of broad reading, and he
draws his illustrations from the antedilu-
Wan periods of geology in one sentence.
takes u metaphor from famous English
novelist for second. and in the third,
like as not, gives you a bit Of the latest
slang from the slunls. At first you are
dazzled by his flow of words and ideas.
You are blinded by his pyrotechnic phrases.
and you give him no credit for his genius
other than that to the God who made him.
As you go on, however. you find that he
is one Of the hardest workers of public
life, and that the vast mental capital which
he has today has been largely made up by
the saving of the Intellectual pennies. For
the past twenty years he has been making
speeches and witty remarks in his study
in order that he may deliver them in pri-
vate conversation or on the stump. Every
bright thought and every expression that
he has come In contact with has been re-
ground and repolished between the mill
stones of his brain until it has left it's
original shape and become new creation,
that of Ingalls, alone He has a peculiar
memory in that when he once writes
thing he pens 1t, as 1t WERE on the tablets
of his mind, to be left there until occasion
shall call it forth. The books he reads are
always interlined and filled with marginal
notes, and these notes are often finished
sentences which he makes thus and lays
away for future use. He is great student
of the dictionary. He knows Rogers
Thesaurus of English words by heart, and
Is happiest when he is studying Crabbe's
Synonyms. He likes odd words, and is
always looking for them and in the making
of his speeches some of his sentences, or
binary at the start, are changed and re-
changed until they become oratorical sur
prises which go ringing round the world.
How He Fights.
Senator ingalls,, in speaking of his regrets
L~;,,
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth."
There was more satire than meekness in
the remark. and when he comes back to
the United States Senate it will be with his
knife out and with desire for the blood of
his enemies. He has received but little
charity from his fellow Senators, and
especially from those on the other side of
the house He will settle many an old score
when he returns and delight his soul in the
agonies .of his fellows. He would rather
fight than eat and he is at his best in a
quarrel. He has always courted trouble in
the United States Senate, and he has been
1appiest when in the midst Of it. You re-
pember the bitter battle which he waged
With Joe Brown of Georgia. Ingalls, had
charged Brown with mutilatng the Con-
gressional Record, and Brown, after a
venomous speech. had intimated that In
gals would not have dared to make such
remarks about him outside of the senatorial
chamber. To this Ingalls, replied that
Brown could take his remarks in any sense
he chose. and that he did not desire to
shield himself In any way whatsoever He
then went on to carve up Brown under the
title OF 1.-The Senator from Alaska" char
acterizing him as the Uriah Heap of the
Senate. as political PecksniH and as the
Joseph Surface of American politics.
luel was expected as the result of this, but
Brown did not reply, and the matter was
dropped
Ingalls, and His Scalp Lock.
1t was the day after this ARRAY that I
called upon ingalls,, and 1 found that
Browns cutting criticisms had not been
without effect The Kansas Senator con-
fided TO me that Brown was no mean an
tagonist, and as he did so. picked up a
piece OF what seemed to be a disk of leather
the size of dollar, with a brush of long.
black hair hanging to it. AS did this, In
gals stopped talking of Brown, and told
me that what / had in my hand was an In
dian scalp lock. He then described the
dian grabs the lock of hair on the crown of
the head. how he grasps it firmly and
twists 1t about his knuckles, how he whrls
his scalping knife about the disk in a blaze
OF light. and then how, bracing his feet
against the shoulders of the diving man. he
jerks it away with a smack like that made
by pulling piece of wet leather with a
string from fiat stone. Senator Ingalls,
gestured graphically as he gave this de-
scrip:ion, and as he did so it seemed to me
mat ne was thinking of Brown. and 1 VEN
ture We're he an Indian there is nothing
that he would more delight in than in the
scalpng of his enemies.
Speaking mt the Point of the Pistol,
There will undoubtedly be much opposi-
ton to ingalls, during his present cam
paign. His speeches will be full of bitter