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0 rLADSTONES
'ILLIAM EWART
OL ADS TON 13,
the grent Com
moner, tho Grand
Old Man. in dead.
The loremost
Britisher of his
time ha (niiml
pence nml rent nf-
ter a long lifo of
MrennoiH mid
splendid activity
i n tho Mgliost
realm of huiuuu
effort
William Ewnrt
ftladatnnn team
born iu Liverpool, England, on De
cember 1800. Ho was spinning
tops, nt five years, when Bismarck
was the new baby nt Schoenhniisen.
He was learning Greek, at the ago of
ten, wheu A'ietoria put in an apponr
nnce. He entered Parliament when
Andrew Jackson wan in his first term
as President, and did not leave it un
til Orovcr Cleveland had bognn his
second term. Ho and Daniel Web
ster were serving their first terms as
GLADSTONE AT THB EBNITH OF HIS PAR
LIAMENTARY. CAREER.
Cabinet offloers in the Administrations
of their respective countries at the
same time.
Although born in Liverpool, Glad
stone was fond of proclaiming that
every drop of his blood was Hootch.
He came of the Glodstone family, of
Lanarkshire, where the Gladstones are
first, heard of. Centuries ago away
back in 1220 Herbet de Gledstone
figured in the Bagman Roll as one of
the lairds who swore fealty to Edward
I. William Gledstone, the last sur
viving soion of the family, removed to
Biggar early in the seventeenth ceu
tury, and by the tiine.Wllliam's grand
son had been born the family name
had been altered to Gladstones. The
Premier was baptized Gladstones, but
in 1835 his father, John, dropped the
final "" from his name.
GLADSTONE IN
His father was Sir John Gladstone,
wealthy merchant, who relinquished
small business in Glasgow, about
1785, ud removed to Liverpool, where
he acquired large fortune in the
East India trade, being created a
baronet in 1846. This fourth son was
sent to Eton, and while there gave
promise of the splendid brilliancy
wbioh marked his coarse at Oxford,
from whioh he graduated at Christ
church in 1831 as double, first class,
the highest honor and one rarely at
tained. . Then he beoame a fellow of
All Bonis.
Alter traveling for short period he
ntered Parliament in December, 1832,
as member for Newark, a nomina
tion borough belonging to the Duke
of Newcastle, which he oontinned to
represent till 1846.
It is a mark of strong character
when a man who finds he is headed in
the wrong path tarns completely
around and leads in the other diree
". Gladstone, when he was first
1 to the Hons of Commons,
' i r the passage of the reform
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Mb!
LIFE-STORY.
government, previously n mockery,
into something like n reality, Jwas a
lory of tlio strniglitosr, oiil-fasluotinu
sect His ninidcu speech in the
Houso was in the debate upon tho
measure' abolishing slnvery in the
Dritinh colonies, niul was a dnfeiiso of
tho slaveholders against attacks mado
by rndicnl abolitionists. l or uonrly
twenty years be was ono of tlio shin
ing lights of tho Conservative party
ami the foremost lieutenant of Hir
Itobcrt reel, its great leader. Then
he gradually drifted into Liberalism,
and, after being for soma time more
or inss ,-a rreo lance, ' lie nocame a
member of Lord l'alinorstoti's cabinet
in 1859.
At the death of that sintesmau he
succeeded him as leader of the Lib
erals in the House of Commons, and
when his party regained oflloo in 1808,
after Disraeli's first government,
Gladstone attained the premiership.
He held it for six years, and again
from 1HHU to 1885, when be declared
himself in favor of the Irish domand
for homo rule, which up to that time
be bad strenuously opposed. The re'
suit was the secession of a large body
of his supporters and his defeat at the
polls in 1880 a defeat which the
dauntless veteran afterward retrieved.
A glance at the following chronol
ogy will show the principal events in
Gladstone's career as a statesman and
author:
1R09 December 29, born nt Liverpool,
lH.'tl Graduated nt Oxford.
1HTJ Enterod parliament.
ism Junior Lord of the T rensury,
1HUS Under Colonial Boeretnry.
Unsigned.
1H!M Married.
1K3 "The Htnte In Rotation to the.
Cnnrnh."
lHtO "Churoh Principles Considered."
1841 Vice-President of the Board of
rrnue.
1H42 Revised the tariff.
1H43 President of the Board of Trado.
1H45 Resigned.
Colonial Hecretary.
1R40 Resigned.
1H47 Advocated freedom for Jews.
1HBSI Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1855 Resigned.
JH58 Lord llllfh Commissioner to the
Ionian ixies.
"Htudles of the Homerla Age."
1859 Chancellor of the Exchequer,
1HH5 Leader of the Commons.
1HH6 In opposition.
1803 Prime Minister.
"Eece Homo."
"A Chapter of Autoblograply."
1809 Carried Irish disestablishment.
"Juventus Mundl."
1870 Carried Irish laud bill,
1871 Unveiling of hit statue bv Adams
Acton in his native city on Heptemberll.
Abolished purchase of arm; com
missions. Abolished confiscation In nal
laws.
1873 Irish university reforms prr ,osed.
Resigned, but resumed powr.
1874 Dissolved Parliament.
1876 "Homer Hynohronlsm."
1879 Mid Lothian triumph.
"Gleanings of Past Years."
1880 Prime Minister, f
1885 Resigned.
1886 Prime Minister.
Irish home rule proposed.
Resigned.
1803 Prime Minister.
RETIREMENT.
1893 Irish home rule passed Commons;
defeated by Lords.
But Gladstone, the Eton boy, was
as interesting as "the Grand Old
Man." His special and inseparable
friend was Arthur Hallam, the subject
of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" The
friendship eommenoed when Glad
stone was in his thirteenth year and
waa never weakened until death came
to loose the silver oord.
On Jnly 29, 1889, Mr. Gladstone
celebrated his golden wedding. His
eighty-first birthday anniversary, in
1800, was made the occasion for the
nnveiling of a memorial fountain at
Hawarden. He carried ont another
Midlothian campaign in 1802, and was
returned at the general eleotion by a
small majority. In August he beoame
Premier for (be fourth time.
There had been many rumors of
Gladstone's retirement, but when it
oame few were prepared for it. His
last speech as Prime Minister was
made - in the House of Commons on
March 1, 180, and was a memorlable
protest spralnst the Jurisdiction of the
House of Lords. . .
Thus Mr. Gladstone closed bis pub
lio life in an attack upon the House of
Lords, against which he fought many
a battle before. Few of his auditors
seemed to realize that this was to be
bis last utterance in the assembly,
plain as his words were. Many a
man would have been pathetic, tragic,
perhnps, at such a point in his career.
HAWARDEN CASTLE, THE
"It is well understood," says Justin
McCarthy, "that Mr. Gladstone, on
his retirement from public life, re
ceived from the sovereign the offer of
nil earldom, with, of course, a seat in
the House of Lords. Mr. Gladstone
gratefully and gracefully declined tho
title and the position. He had already
made a name which no earldom or
dukedom or any other rank could
have enhanced."
Mr. Gladstone, in 1838, married
M 118. GLADSTONE AND DOROTHY, MR. GLAD
STONE'S FAVORITE GRANDCHILD.
Catharine, daughter of Sir Stephen
Richard Glynne, of Hawarden Castle,
Flintshire, a descendant of Sarieant
Glynne, who was Lord Chief Justice
in Cromwell's time. Mr. and ' Mrs.
Gladstone have had eight children,
seven of whom survive four sons and
three daughters. The eldost son, Mr.
W. H. Gladstone, was eleoted M. P.
for East Worcestershire, having pre
viously represented Whitby in Par
liament; the second son, Rev. Stephen
Edward Gladstone, became reotor of
Hawarden; the third son, Henry
Neville Gladstone, keeps np the com
mercial reputation of the Gladstone
family, and the youngest son, Herbert
John Gladstone, was elected momber
for Leeds.
Two of Mr. Gladstone's daughters
married clergymen. Agnes, the eldest,
beoame the wife of the Key. E, C.
Wiokham, M. ' A., . head master of
Wellington College. Mary married
the Rev. Henry Drew. She prao
tioally lives at Hawarden Castle with
her husband and little daughter
Dorothy. Little Dossio, as her family
oalls her, is a little more than five
years old.
Miss Helen' the youngest daughter
was the pet of her illustrious father,
and for several years had devoted al
most all her entire time to him. On
his retirement she resigned her posi
tion as vice principal of Newnham
College so she would be able to devote
herself to him.
The last years of Gladstone's life
were passed at Hawarden Castle, the
property of his wife, whioh is praoti-
cany in tne gateway to Wales. The
residence is on the hills overlooking
tne valley of the beautiful Dee, six
miles east of Chester, in a pioturesque
park of 700 aores. And there he lived,
surrounded by four sons, three daugh
ters and seven grandchildren, who
loved him with intense devotion.
The London News nrints a desorin.
tion given by a friend of the family
who visited the death chamber in
Hawarden Castle from whioh the fol
lowing extraots are given:
I walked to the side of the narrow
little iron bed, whose head was sur
rounded by a simple soreen of blaok
with a pattern of gold. This back
ground was in sharp contrast with the
MISS BILIH GLADSTONE.
snow-white bed linen whioh partially
covered all that remained of the great
statesman, If this was the chamber
of death it was also the abode of peace.
The figure upon which I looked down
might have been some beautiful statue
of grayish-white marble reoumbent
upon a tombstone. Yet stern the
features still are, severely aquiline
the nose, tight drawn the lips. It
was in death the face of some great
loader of men, a mortal hero whose
earthly pilgrimage had evor beon over
HOME OP THE GLADBTONE8
the most arduous and rugged paths;
tliongu dumb, it still seems to say,
'I have striven, I have done my
duty.'
"I turn away with profound venera
tion and dim, unutterable wonder at
the mystery of it all. Not a sound
from the world without; only this
rigid, praying, exquisitely sculptured
piece of clay, whioh not so long ago
moved Senates, multitudes, whole
nations by its fervor, its eloquence and
its great purpose.
LEND A HELPING HAND.
now Olrln May Make Themselves Very
Useful to Our I) rare Defenders.
The Rod Cross Association has is
sued an appeal to the women of the
United States for 10,000 emergoncy
bags to be sent to the soldiers aud sail'
ors now on duty and to volunteers.
In answer to the many requests for
suggestions for "emergency bags,"
housewives, the sailor's "ditty bag"
and the contonts thereof, two patterns
are given by the New York Tribune
wnioii are almost equally convenient.
No. 1 has an oval or round flat bottom
of leather or covered cardboard, about
the size of a large egg. It is made, as
tne sKotcn shows, of two thicknesses,
and serves as a needle-book, pin
cushion and scissors case, the sides be
ing kept olosod with a button and an
elustio hook. The under side is made
like a flat pincushion, and is furnished
with large pins. Next comos a flannel
leaf for needles, darning needles and
safety pins. The flat pincushion might
also,- without taking apany more room,
include an envelope or pocket for court
plaster. The upper side of the bottom
soldier's "housewife."
Of the baS hnS a amnll nu'r n aniaani-a
held in plaoe by an elastio band, a
steel punch whioh is valuable for mak
ing extra holes in leather straps and
mending and a pair of tweezers. Tho
bag part is made of red silk and should
be marked with the name of the owner,
and has a dnnlilml rihhnn aa
Btring. It should contain two spools
. ii i i . .
ui uuurno vurenu, Done ana tin buttons,
two pairs of shoe laces and two cards
of darninir cotton. Tim am a rtA rv ia
large enough to hold bottles, each of
nmuuBuoum nave its own soft Mannel
Case. A bottle of tlirao-m-ain nuinina
pills, a box of liver pills, oarbolio salve,
u ui apiriiB oi ammonia capsules
and a roll of mustard leaves are
enough.
Ihe other pattern for a "housewife"
is in the form of a wallet. Have the
tinsmith roll a Vi ana nt tin Ava (nnTtae
wa. uw auuub0
long and turn over the edges so that
they will not cut, leaviug the tube
on-qnarter open. Place within two
bailor's wallet "house wirs."
spools of coarse cotton, one blaok and
one white, with a piece of wax be
tween them, and through the three
articles thrust a short knitting needle,
eaoh end of whioh is firmly fastened
with a pincushion, whioh fills up the
holes at the ends. . The spools are
now safe and cannot be lost, and the
wax, without whioh, they say. a man
cannot sew, on acoount of taugling
his thread, is "haudy." The tin tube
is then oovered with the strong linen
whioh forms the wallet; this is turned
nnder the edge of the tin and glued
and the points are sewed to the pin
cushions. The rest of the wallet has
pockets, needle-book, etc. and con
tains about the same articles as the
bag.
Massachusetts nonimn1ita thai ...
penditare of 3000 for the illumination
of the.dome of the statehonae.
AGRICULTURAL TOPIC3,
Paint to Itepel Borers.
AH kinds of insects are attracted to
the plants whioh are appropriate fot
their food, or where their eggs should
be laid, by the sense of smell. Any
strongly smelling coating over trees
which will disguise its natural odor
will protect them from attack. White
paint has such a distinct odor, and 1
so permanent that it is perhaps the
best oonting to apply to tree trunks.
Hut a still cheaper substitiito may be
lottnil.in common whitewash, into
which some carbolic acid diluted has
been mixed. This also holds the peon
linr smell of carbolic acid all through
the season.
. Krnfllentlna; Currant'. Worms,
The currant worm is a slow traveler,
and seldom leaves the clfinip of bushes
where it was born aud bred, even when
it gets into the moth stnge. Where
they are once eradicated on a farm
somo years of exemption maybe hoped
for, even when the pest is plentiful a
few miles away. Still, the use of
hellebore every spring, just as soon as
the currant leaves appear, and renew
ing it after every rain, is advisable.
It is far better to bead off the intruder
before the damnge is done, than to
wait until currant bushes are stripped
bare. In tho latter case probably
some of the worms have gone into the
pupa stage before the poison is ap
plied, and will be on hand another
spring.
Orowlng fttorky Tntnato Plants,
Whothor few or many tomatoes are
to be planted, we believe the cheapest
and best way for all who do not own a
hothouse is to buy the plants from a
seodmau rather than grow the supply
for themselves. Even if a thousand
are needed, the seedsman can furnish
them for less than this number can be
grown by some one who builds a hot
bed to provide this number. In the
hotbed the plants are sure to be
crowded, and unless they are trans
planted two or three times they will
grow np tall and slim, with few roots.
The seedsman who grows plants by the
million c-.n afford to transplant at
least onoe, aud do this uuder such
conditions that the second planting
will mako hardly any check to growth
when the plants are set out on the
open ground. Boston Cultivator.
Manuring llean Ground.
It is a common mistake to suppose
that beans do best on poor land and
do not need any manure. Old farmers
often say, "the laad was too rich,"
and therefore the beans ran all to
vines without producing much grain."
But this is the best indication that the
land was not rich enongb. Beans re
quire phosphate of lime and potash.
Many black, mucky soils are snpposod
from their color to be very rich. But
such soils often have a great lack of
lime and potash. In fact, an excess
of loam means that at some time it has
been covered with water, and its min
eral fertility has mostly been washed
ont. Or it may be that the soil is
even now wet, and the bean orop is
very impatient of too much moisture,
which causes many rusts both of the
leaves, pods and beans.
Weed Indicating' Roll. ,
Muoh about the character of soil
may be told by experienced farmers if
they can see the kinds of weeds that
grow upon it. There nre'many weeds
that are never found on very poor soil,
and others that will perhaps grow but
will not amount to much unless tho
soil is very riob. The pigweed and
purslane, whioh is often called chick
weed, is very abundant in old gardens,
and always shows the presenoe of a
large amount of available nitrogen.
So rich are these weods innitrogenons
nutrition that they are aften pulled np
and fed to pigs, which will eat them
in "preference to grass, asftbey are
more nutritious. The common rag
weed grows in all kinds of soils. But
if the land is poor, it will blossom
and seed at a ' few linohes from the
gound, while in rich soil it grows a
foot and a half to two feet high. The
mullein in pastures usually marks the
running out of grass, and probably
that the land is poor.
Controlling Rot of Plum and Cherry.
Professor N. S. Piatt, of Connecti
cut, writes: There is great complaint
eaoh year about cherries and plums
rotting ou the tree. There is no doubt
good cause for the complaint, as
sometimes nearly all the crop is
spoiled by it. Few people seem to
know how to save them, I have had
great loss with cherries rotting, yet I
do not fear the rot nearly so mnoh as
I do the black aphis that I have found
unmanageable and the 'cause of the
death of more oherry trees than all
other causes put together. My treat
ment for cherries is to spray with sul
phate of copper, one pound to twenty
five gallons of water, onoe just before
the buds open and once with bordeaux
when the cherries are one-third or
one-half grown, then pick the cherries
a day or two before they are fully
ripe. If the weather is not persistent
ly bad this will be suooeisful, at least
it has been with me for several years.
As to plums, I have never sprayed
the Japanese varieties except in a
small way as a test, but have de
pended on picking off the decayed
fruit by hand. Ihey might be sprayed
with bordeaux or sulphate of copper
mixture while dormant, which would
kill spores of rot then existing on the
bark, bat I have found the foliage of
the Japanese varieties uniformly too
sensitive to admit oi spraying witn
bordeaux while in leaf. The Euro
pean varieties, however, seem to like
the bordeaux. They should be
sprayed at least twice with it, the
first time when the new growth is
three to five inches long and the aeo-
ond when the fruit is half grown. Ap
plied at this time it will not show
when fruit is ripe. -
A Chinaman eats twice as much
moat as a Japanese.
PEARLS OF THOUCHT.
Doubt magnifies troubles.
Love gives true worth to gifts.
Pride, like a cat, has nine lives.
Duty knocks at every man's door.
fyery heart has a thorn and a throne.
A good nnmo is made, not bestowed.
Public opinion is never tongue-tied.
The abuse of health is veilod sui
cide. Tho grumbler blows out bis own
lamp. ,
Honesty worships in tho temple of
truth.-
Goodness is the printing press of
truth.
If you can't bo a sun, don't be a
cloud.
Kninll boats must keep near the
shore.
A religion of Iovo is born from
above.
The man who thinks, lends the
crowd.
The beauty of holiness is not marred
by time.
Heart wisdom is ahead of book
learning.
Tho lover of truth is a hater of per
secution. Fidelity to principle is the highest
expediency.
More good will be sure to come, if
we are grateful for the good that has
already come. Ham's Horn.
SHIPS' RANGE OF ACTION.
t ime unrlers "BnslneH" ns Pictured by
"Artists" Unknown In Naval Circles.
"The pictures in some of tho news
papers of battloships iu action . are
about ns funny ns the Japanese idea
.of perspective," said a naval officer.
"These pictures represent the oppos
ing ships blazing away nt each other
with thirteen-iuch rifles' at a range of
about a hundred feet, and the artists
certainly work np the thing to make -it
look terrific enough in all conscience.
It's a wonder to me they don't repre- '
sent the crews of the opposing ships
in the act of using grappling irons, as
they did in engagements at close
quarters in the days of the old 70-gun
frigates. As a matter of fact.if either
battleship in an-engagement between
vessels of today got within such a
range of another, or anything like it,
it would simply be a matter of the first
shot. One big shell delivered at such
a range would leave only the debris of
the struck ship on the surface of the
water. Modern ships of war are not
devised to get within any such range
of each other in action. The nearest
that any of the opposing ships in the
great naval battle on the Yalu got to
each other was a trifle nnder two
miles, and what one battleship can do -to
another at that range is something .
beyond calculation. The naval en
gagement of this era is very largely a
matter of maneuvering of presenting
the smallest possible target to the
gnus of the enemy's ships, and of
forcing the nuemy to present their
biggest hull to the range-finders.
When the commander of a ship in the
coming engagements can contrive to
get in his work on the enemy's vessel
while only pointing with his nose in
their direction leaving them practi
cally only a razor's edge target be in
liable to eat them np. But while thera .
id still a drill in the United States
navy culled 'repelling boarders,' the
drill is only retained in the manual for
the sake of exercising the men, and
the oifly boarding that will be done in
the coming fights will be done by
prize crews taking possession of beaten
ships after the latter have struck their
colors."
In the Chllkoot Pas.
General Western Passenger Agent
R. C. Stevens of the Great Northern
railway has returned to the city after
a two weeks' trip to the coast towns
of Alaska. Mr. Stevens says that he
had no unusual experience on his trip
other than his participation in the
scene of rescue and recovery of bodies
from nnder the snow avalanche in the
Chilkoot Pass. There were many
women along the trail in every im
aginable kind of clothing except that
of women. There wore between three
and four thousand packers on the
trail, an endless procession from day
light till dark, winding Us way among
the hilts like a black snake up the in
clines and out of sight. At one stage
iu the route for packers a returu to
the bottom was made by leaving the
trail a few feet. Then the packers
would fold their couts, sit down on
them, and toboggan down to the start
ing place, the return being made like
a flush of lightning. Occasionally
there will be a tired horse in the Una
that will stop a moment to regain his
wind. When this happens the entire
procession comes to a standstill, and
everybody following the tired horse
keeps the air warm with profanity.
The line of inarch is again taken np,
and the horses, dogs, oxen, cows.meu
aud women continue the interesting
panorama toward the summit and tha
land of gold. All along the way are
restaurants, which are liberally pat
ronized, most people preferring to pay
the prices rather thau break their own
package. -Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Parisian Art.
When a lady is sitting to a Parisian
photographer for a portrait, the oper
ator does not, iu a perfuuotory man
ner, coldly request her to look pleas
ant now, if you please. He says to
her in the most natural and graceful
manner iu the world: "It is quite un
necessary to ask uiadame to look
pleasant; she could not look other
wise." The lady, of course, ackuowl
edges the compliment with her moat
gracious and bigh-bied smile. "Click!" '
goes the camera, aud the picture is
obtained, revealing the sitter to I ha
greatest possible advautage. Phil. '
delphia Times.