The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-15

much. He left the luncheon table before
i did. He began this. / did steal his
hat, but he began by taking mine l
make that intersection because 1 would
not accuse Archdeacon Wilberforce of
stealing my hat-I should not think of it.
| confine that phrase to myself. He mere
, ~ took my hat. And with good judg
ment, too-it was a better hat than his.
He came out before the luncheon was
over and sorted the hats in the hail. and
selected one which suited. 1t happened
to be mine. He went off with it. When
L came out, by-and-by, there was no hat
there which would go my head except
his, which was left behind. Ny head
was not the customary size just at that
very nice and complimentary attentions,
and my head was a couple of sizes larger
than usual, and his hat just suited me-
The bumps and corners were all right
intellectually. There were results pleasing
to me-possibly so to him. He found out
whose hat it was, and wrote me, saying
it was pleasant that all the way home,
whenever he met anybody. his GRANTEES.
his soemnities, his deep thoughts, his elO-
quent remarks were all snatched up by
the people he met, and mistaken for bril-
| liant humorisms. l had another expert
tnce. 1t was not unpleasing. was re-
ceived with a Difference which was en-
| tirely foreign to my experience by every
body whom l met. so that before 1 got
home L had a much higher opinion of
myself than I have ever had before or
since. And there is in that very con-
nectiOn an incident which 1 remember at
! that old date, which Is rather melancholy
/ to me. because 1t shows how a person
can deteriorate in a mere seven years. 1t
| is seven years ago. | have not that hat
now. l was going down Pail Mall, or
| recognized that that hat needed ironing.
| 1 went into a big shop and passed on my
\ hat, and asked that it might be ironed,
| They were courteous, very courteous,
even. cOurtly. They brought that hat h. elk
! to me presently. very sleek and nice, and
| 1 asked how much there was to lay.
/ They replied that they did not charge the
| clergy anything. 1 have cherished the de-
/ light of that moment from that day to
| this. 1t was the first thing | did the
other day to go and hunt up that shop
| and hand in my hat to have it ironed. l
| said, when it came back. How much to
| pay?" They said 'Ninepence." In seven
years I have acquired all that worldliness
| and 1 sorry to be back where l was
seven years ago.
But now I am chatting and chatting
| and chatting here, and L hope you will
| forgive me for that; but when a rlan
/ stands on the verge of ", you know
perfectly well that he never reached that
place without knowing what this life is
| heart-breaking bereavement. And so our
| reverence is for our dead. We do not
/ forget them; but our duty is toward the
living; and If we can be cheerful, cheer
/ full in spirit. cheerful in speech and in
| hope that is benefit to those who are
| around us. My history includes an Incl
dent which will always connect me with
| England in a pathetic way, for when
| arrived here seven years ago with my
| wife and my daughter-we had gone
| around the globe lecturing to raise money
! my daughters started across the ocean to
| bring to England our eldest daughter.
! She was "a years old, and in the bloom of
young womanhood, and we were unsus-
/ pecting When my wife and daughter
| and my wife has passed from this life
since-when they had reached mid-At-
! lantic, a cablegram-one OF those heart
/ breaking cablegrams which We all in our
days have to experience-was put into my
| hand 1t stated that that daughter Of
| ours had gone to her long sleep. And so,
as l say 1 cannot always De cheerIul, ana
cannot always be chaffing; must
sometimes lay the cap and bells aside,
and recognize that 1 am of the human
race like the rest, and must nave my
cares and griefs. And therefore L no
tioed what Mr. Birrell said-I was so glad
to hear him say it-something that was
| in the nature of these verses here at the
| top Of this:
| He lit our life with shafts of sun
| And vanquished pain.
Thus two great nations stand as ere
In hOn0ring Twain.
I am very glad to have those verses.
am very glad and very grateful for what
| Mr.. Birrell said in that connection. l
| have received since 1 have been here In
| this one week hundreds of letters from
all conditions of people in England men,
women and children-and there is in them
compliment, praise, and above ell and bet
| ter than all. there is in them a note of
affection. Praise is well. compliment is
we'll but affection-that is the last and
| final and most precious reward that airy
man can win, whether by character or
| achievement, and l am very grateful to
have that reward. All these letters rcake
| me feel that here in England-as in
America-when l stand under the Eng
| lizh flag / am not a stranger / am not
| an alien, but at home.