The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-02

oen oK~oe4tn endurables ana tne WIDOW
anf daughters Of Colonel IngersOll have
not that hope. .,ss=zr
So they clung to what stood to them for
the man who had besA seheIr joyyof Life.
the cold, paie. irFsspdnzlvs figure By the
window. ~
why can't We Keep Aim with IA al
ways" they wspt. ARD ecisacs said:
you may not" Ane1 day BY day and
hour by hour they corhbAtted every EFFORT
to taxa him away.
"onIy little loneerl Oh. why must he
so at all?'' they said. and ths three
strong women, wea I'm their unfaith. had
no word Of consolation for each other.
It was an awful hour when they lefs
the house with the body. It was bit
terar hour when they returned without
the small solace Of the CHASTITY presence.
But stronger than q cable are the
chains Of unfaith. In the depths Of her
sorrow Mrs. Ingersoil sent her message
Of hoDefulness to the JOURNAL.
81 have In no way changed my belief.
do not know whether / shall ever see my
husband again. NY consolation is In
memory"
whatever the great agnostic's errors Of
faith, he was a model OF hdelity as G
husband. Octave Thanet says Of him: III
made one better to know a man the life
long lover Of one woman" Nc one ever
denied that such Colonel Ingersoll was
and that the one woman was his wife.
ST love St Louis" he said to the writ
er, because It some Of the places WIS.,
tied on my honeymoon. All. that was q
honeymoon that vii Hast for life!"
ST fancied he was going to say forever
but the orator disappointed me. For
ever was q vague word that master Of
Words
The story Of Colonel Ingersoll's ro-
nance was told TO the Journal by Mrs.
c. P. Farrell the sister Of Mrs. niger
soil.
''our father. Benjamin Parker. was a
free thinker. He was born in Boston. and
in his studies there became an agnostic.
He moved to Groveiand. a village seven
miles from Peoria, ILL.,. There he heard Of
a bright young orator named Ingersoll.
He heard him plead a case once. and
after that always went TO hear him
wherever he made public addresses.
"a Groveland man let his pigs wander
into his neighbours yard. The neighbor
became angry and drove the pigs to the
city pound. The owner found them there.
He quarreled with the neighbor and killed
him.
'He was tried for murder and Mr.. In
AnfN ia m
hear him. as usual. He invited him to
dinner and there he met my sister. He
had then begun collecting his regiment
and was almost ready to go to the front.
They soon became engaged and they went
to st. Louis, where his regiment was. on
their bridal tour. My sister travelled a
great deal with him during the war.
''How strange these chance meetings
are and what consequences follow! II It
hadn't been for those pigs Colonel Inger-
soil and his wife would never have met"
There was never a happier family than
the 1ngersoils. I have lived with them
since I was years old.' said Mrs. Far
rell. Neither nor any one else ever
heard him speak an impatient word"
She pointed out an engrossed Ingersoll-
ian sentiment upon the wall. 1t took the
place of the scriptural notices that hang
on some home walls.
'-''Love is the only bow on Life's dark
cloud. It Is the morning and the evening
star"
HE believed that. she said simply,
''and he lived It."
Mrs. J. walston Brown Is the elder
daughter Of the dead aInostic. She is a
Beautiful woman and has q rare soprano
voice. She has sung duets with Cam
panini. Critics have styled her ''the best
amateur soprano in America" The In
gersoll love of home is strong in her.
When she married Mr.. Brown 1t was
upon the condition that their home should
always be with her parents. He has kept
his promise.
with them also lived Mr.. and Mrs. c. sP.
Farrell and their daughter, Eva, Mrs.
Ingersoll's niece and namesake.
Perhaps no one mourns the dead man
so wholly as his youngest daughter. Miss
Maud Ingersoll. She was his ''chum."
She studied and read and wrote with him
She always came from Dobbs Ferry with
him on his trips to town.
MAUD has" her aunt faltered, ''lost
her object in life."
Miss Ingerson has inherited much of
her fathers intellectual strength and
brilliancy. Like the rest Of the family
she was wholly in accord with his views.
She Is q young woman OF firm convic-
lions and quick decision. She Is a member
OF the New York Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals. She jumped
from a Broadway cable car one day and
ordered a policeman to arrest a man who
was mistreating q horse. She went
bravely to court the next morning and
gave he Testimony against the cab man.
She secured his punishment. 1t was no.
ticed that she refused to take the Gus
tomary oath but affirmed that her testi-
mcny was true
Miss Ingersoll's father was her friend.
She more than any one else. perhaps,
claims the fitness of this statement. ut
tered by him Of another. as applied TO
himself
FAREWELL II this Is the end. then you
have left Us the sacred memory OF a
noble life. II this be not the end. there
Is no world in which you. my friend. will
not be loved and welcomed. FAREWELL
INGERSOll MADE NO WILL