The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-21

the colonel. and in every possible wy
arrangements have been made 10 ihaAe
his real life clear to posterlty:
There is no egotism in this. lngerson
appreciates to the full the responslplliIy
of his life, and what he has done To-
wards causing thousands OF peopiG ~
punctuate their religious falth Win
an Interrogation mark. 1t is simply
desire to perpetuate an honest recofu
of what he was at all times.
Mr.. Baker lifts many burdens from
the shoulders of the colonel IN MS
business affairs. The daily mail IN the
law office is a stupendous affair, ana
the number of cranks who call is not
small The mail is carefully sltted De-
fore the colonel sees it. and cranKs are
politely disposed of.
Scarcely a day goes by without bring
ing to the surface some one VINO ue-
sires to convert the colonel. If the call
err is a lady or aogentleman. the colonel
is always ready to be seen. ana ne
listens politely. He is dlfncult man
to argue with, though. and his ac-
auaintance with the Bible is so minute
that few people stand any chance with
him
Many clients call during the day,
outside of court hours. The coionel mas
the faculty of extracting what they
want to say in a very short period. he
has a horror of wasting any time, and
people who are inclined to tread upon
this preserve run the danger OF curt
treatment.
Frequently the coloners business
calls him to cities all over the union,
but he dislikes this class of work, as
it takes him away from his home.
His home is his heaven, and any one
who has experienced its kindly hos
pitality, the gentle culture of its
women folk, can easily appreciate the
coloneTs Discrimination to be any
where else.
1t is usually o'clock in the after
noon when the colonel starts for
home. The dinner hour is at 6, and
the two daughters are invariably AZ
tired in white for this meal. OF Mrs
Brown, it is said that she has only
worn two colors all of her life-whits
in the house and gray in the street.
Fond of the Opera.
Two or three times in the week the
colonel and some of the family go to
they are regular attendants both OF
the girls being musicians of excep-
tional ability The colonel is a great
music lover, although he is no mu-
sician himself.
When spoken to once about his
lack of musical ability, he said. terse-
": THAT is silly. Because you like
cake, it is no reason why you should
be a cook
If the evening is spent at home,
there is always music by the dough
ters and visitors to be entertained.
The coloners only fad is Shake
speare 1t has been referred TO tiIne
after time as his bible. He has col
lection of various editions of Shake
speare's works which rival any pri-
yate one in the country. Hugo and
Dickens are his favori-e novelists.
la MiseraIbles'' he regards as the
greatest novel ever written. and IA
Tale of Two Cities" is second in his
affections. Wagner is his fayorite
composer.
Ingersoll has been generally re-
ferred to as a scoffer. AS a thinker
he is too serious TO treat anything
lightly. and the frivolous handling
of ANYTHING sacred offends him deep
". No better example OF this trait
in this most peculiar man can be
given than a little happening at q
banquet TO which he had been invited.
Tt was during the discussion of the
subject, '1s Marriage FailureF
and this was the main subject to be
talked about. Several men made
speeches in which they treated the
matter fiippantly, and tried to be
witty at the expense Of womankind.
Ingersoll listened with growing I'M
patience. and finally his turn to speak
came. He was terribly in earnest.
and what he said caused more, than
one man to weep. He struck a tender
chord in many bosoms when he said.
1.-THE man who said that marriage is
a failure has never stood. with his
hand locked in the loyal grasp of a.
wife and mother at the side OF a
child's grave"
Whatever his faults may be. Ingor-
soil cannot be called a scoffer.
DAVID FERGUSON
THOMAS. Williams. a hermit living near