Show HE understand bat thousand dollar kill cleared the colonels intellect colonel R G ingersoll lawyers to whom his profession yields a fortune every year A quarter of a million is a small valuation to place upon his receipts and he is one of the fews men who shine either as a pleader or counselor he has accumulated abo chicago journal begrudges him his ace and form are familiar to all wall and broad street men and bis of i flees on wall street new york aro handsomely fitted up and elegant are comfortable offices just as bob isa comfortable man great numbers of stories are told about him here is one guaranteed to bedew A stranger went to him one day and without any reference to the matter of the retainer began my father died and made a will and then went on to tell about his trouble with the will do you understand the case now asked the stranger 1 ko sir responded mr ingersoll I do not somewhat embarrassed the stranger went away ho told a friend of his experience peri ence with the philosophical lawyer go back to him said the friend lay a 1000 bill on his desk and then talk the advice was followed ho as one who bad sever been in tee office before he laid the big bill down and said my father died and made lawill mr ingersoll was at once interested he interrupted his new client how said he could your father die and make a will do you not mean that he made a will and then died business proceeded |