The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-09
BEN BUTLER )g
Daily Life and Business Methods
of the Millionaire Lawyer.

reading or talking, and retires about
midnight. He is Hp ogsin at ak
o'clock. looking as fresh as q school,
boy, and ready for any amount of
hard work, of which he seems meyer
lyet to have had too much. He makes
tour of his grounds, looks at the
beautiful beds Of foliage plants
bordered with sweet slyssums, watches
the coloring of the hydrangeas from
buff to blue, by the charcoal be mixed
with earth about them, takes look
for his squirrels. and then walks TO
breakfast. His table has mass of
flowers in its centre, fresh from bis
conservatory. and as he settles into his
seat, Peter, who appears in a swallow-
tail coat and white peck.tie, pins a
boquet in the Generals left lapel
Thirty years sgo Mrs. Butler began
this practice and the General keeDe it
up. The coffee uru used By George
Washington - afsctlons,sly termed
"Unole George" by the General
grsces the table There lie q conspic
uous cabinet in the dining room,
which is fine specimen OF antique
Flemish carving. tie outline is mass
OF mermaids. grifibs. leaves and
fruits, and although now $50 years
old, it promises;o last forever Upon
one shelf is a coffee set painted with
the pictures of General Butler and
his staff. General Butler is hearty
eater, and be sips a little sherry at
his meals. His breakfast over, Peter
hands him one OF bis big Eavana oi
gas holds light to it's end, and
leads the way to the carriage that has
Just stopped at toe door. AS the
General takes his seat Peter hands
him boquet covered with tissue
paper, and the driver cracks his whip.
The carriage rolls away, leaving a
train OF cigar-smoke behind. General
Butler seems to find
HAPPINESS IN LITTLE THINGS.
And one OF the incidents of his days
pleasure Is to just come within
second of missing the train TO Bostcn,
aud yet not to miss it. He often
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long be can remain in his house or
office, and then how ias; he can 60
to the depot, and then how near be
Can come to being left. Ii his face
looks more benevolent at one time
than another, it is when, after having
purchased mis- newspapers, be steps
upon the train as it is moving cut OF
the depot. He reads the newspapers
in the cars, and has the faculty of
cleaning the news by running bis
reading eye down the column. While
General Butler reads with one eye from
a book or paper which he holds close TO
it, his other eye ia intent on business.
In this way he is double. sighted. In
reading evidence to jury. be keeps
one eye reading, while with the other
he studies the jurors faces. In read
ing Law in the Court, his far-sighted
eye is directed upon the Judge to hold
his attention. At the Boston depot Gen
eral Butler enters csb and is driven 10
his Office in Pembert0n sQusre, which
he reaches soon after O'Clock. He
has DO sign out, so that g stranger
doesn't know where to fad him. His
private secretary, Mr. Msjor, has al
ready gone over his correspondence
and his clerks are all intent upon the
business of the day.
THE BRIGHTEST LITTLE YANKEE BOY
10 be found marks his coming and
looks brighter when be comes. A
tdouble door leads into the Generals
private Office, and the boy swings
both doors open, snd then bows HIM
self out. The lad was but recently
employed, and be feels that he is now
the leader of the aris:Ocracy Of Office
boys in Boston, because he runs Gen.
Buffers errsnds. The boy invites his
companions to stand on the Opposite
side of PembeEton square in the after
noon, and see him escort General
Butler to the carriage and open the
door. The other day the general de.
tected him holding the carriage door
with one hand, while in high gIee he
Ishook bis other hand on a level With
his ear, in the prevailing fashion of
BOys, W hiS 0uflOOS COu1EdO UIA tile OD'
posite side of the square, and the gen.
eral marred the tyro's happy moment
by giving him a poke with bis cane.
General Butler places the boquet he
has brought from Lowell in the utn
of his bronze inkst8nd. Already his
table is Uttered with kilograms and
Ibis Office is filled with clients, al-
though it is an hour when most OF
the young lawyers OF Boston are
breakfasting. His Office desk is pro-
vided with another Of those upset
chairs. Three electric bells are upon
the wall behind him, and be no
sooner touches one than his private
secretary, his detective, his clerk or
his boy opens the door, An ancient
powder horn hangs on the wall be-
hind his desk, and over it a pair OF
Mexican squire. Beneath is a choice
Landscape, painted By his daughter,
Mrs. Ames. Four marble pieces fill
the four corners OF the room. Three
represent Diana, Hebe and Venus,
land the fouth is draped recumbeut
female figure. No one gets sdmis-
sion to the private Office without
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