To Mark Ingalls' Grave

TO MARK INGALLS' GRAVE.

A Red Bowlder Was Requested by the Great Kansan.

The grave of the late John J. Ingalls at Mount Vernon cemetery will be marked by a native bowlder deposited in Kansas soil in the glacial period, says a dispatch from Atchison, Kan., to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This will be done in obedience to a letter written in the senate chamber at Washington Dec. 10, 1890, to Mrs. Ingalls in Atchison. The letter follows:

"The cold wave has passed off, and the morning is like April. The world is so lovely at its best. This life is so delightful that I dread the thought of leaving it. I have seen and experienced so little of what may be seen and known that it seems like closing a volume of which I have only glanced at the title page.

"What an uncivil host Life is to invite us to an entertainment which are compelled to attend whether we like it or not and then to unceremoniously take us by the arm and bow us out into the night, stormy and dismal, to go stumbling about without so much as a lantern to show us the way to another town.

"Our ground in the cemetery should have a 'monument.' I hate these obelisks, urns and stone cottages and should prefer a great natural rock -one of the red bowlders known as the 'lost rocks' of the prairie, porphyry from the north, brought down in glacial times- with a small surface smoothed down. Just large enough to make a tablet in which should be inserted the bronze tetters of our name, 'Ingalls,' and nothing else."

A stone such as described is now being sought.