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GLADSTONE’S ^ LIFE-STORY. K-f 1 born in Liverpool, cember 29, 1809. tops, at five wau the new ILLIAM EWART OIMDSTONE, the great Com moner, the Grand OKI Man, is dead. The foremost Britisher of his time has found peace and rest af ter a long life of strenuous and splendid activity in the highest realm of human effort. William Ewart Gladstone was England, on Be lie was spinning years, when Bismarck baby at Schoenhausen. He was learning Greek, at the age of ten, when Victoria put in an appear ance. He entered Parliament when Andrew Jackson was in his first term as President, and did not leave it un til Grover Cleveland had begun his second term. He and Daniel Web ster were serving their first terms OliADSTOXB AT THE ZENITH OF'HIS PAB- LIAMENTAUV CAREER. Cabinet officers in the Administrations of their respective countries at the same time. Although born in Liverpool, Glad stone was fond of proclaiming that •very drop of his blood was Scotch. He came of the Gladstone family, of Lanarkshire, where the Gladstones are first heard of. Centuries ago—awai lack 'iT figured in the Ragman Roll as one of the lairds who swore fealty to Edward L William Gladstone, the last sur viving scion of the family, removed to Biggar early in the seventeenth cen tury, and by the time William’s grand son had been born the family name had been altered to Gladstones. The Premier was baptized Gladstones, but in 1885 Vds father, John, dropped the final “s" from his name. government, previously a mockery into something like a reality, ;was a Tory of the straightest, old-fashioned sect. His maiden speech in the House was in the debate upon the measure abolishing slavery in the British colonies, and was a defense of the slaveholders against attacks made by radical abolitionists. For nearly twenty years be was one of the shin- ing lights of the Conservative party and the foremost lieutenant of Sir Robert Peel, its great leader. Then he gradually drifted into Liberalism, and, after being for some time more or less “a free lance," he became a member of Lord Palmerston’s cabinet in 1859. At the death of that statesman ho succeeded him as leader of the Lib erals in the House of Commons, and when his party regained office in 18G8, after Disraeli s first government, Gladstone attained the premiership! He held it for six years, and again from 1880 to 1885, when he declared himself in favor of the Irish demand for home rule, which up to that time he had strenuously opposed. The re sult was the secession of a large body of his supporters and his defeat at the polls in 1886—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: 1809— December 29, born at Liverpool. 1831— Graduated at Oxford. 1832— Entered Parliament, I'CH—Junior Lord of the Treasury. 1835—Under Colonial Secretary. —HrslKned. 183ft—Harried. 1839—“The State In Relation to Church.’’ 1810— “Church Principles Considered ” 1841— Vice-President of the Hoard of Trade. 1842— Revised the tariff. IMS—President of tho Hoard of Trade 1845—Resigned. —Colonial Secretary. 1346—Resigned. 1847—Advocated freedom for Jews. 1852—Chancellor of tho Exchequer 1855—Resigned. 1 1858—Lord Ulgh Commissioner to Ionian Isles. —“Studies of the Homoric >ge.’ *1859—Chancellor of tho Exchequer. 1865— Leader of the Commons. 1866— In oppositiou. 1868— Prime Minister. —“Ecce Homo.’’ —"A Chapter of Autoblograp’ y.” 1869— Carried Irish disestablishment. —“Juventus Mundi.” 1870— Carried Irish land bill, 1871— Unveiling of his statue by Adams Acton in his native city on September 11 Abolished rVrehase of army com- Thus Mr. Gladstone closed his pub lic 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 his last utterance in the assembly, plain as his words were. Many a man would have been pathetic, tragic, perhaps, at snch a point in his career. ' hi figure upon which I looked dci?n i lifht have been some beautiful statue ( f grayish-white marble recumbent ipm a tombstone. Yet stern the enures still are, severely aquiline hi nose, tight drawn the lips. It t0 iu death ttys face of some great eider of men, a mortal hero whose ■’thly pilgrimage had ever been over IIAWAUDKN CASTLE, THE B'WE OF THE GLADSTONES. b “It is well understood,” says Justin McCarthy, “that Mr. Gladstone, on his retirement from public life, re ceived from the sovereign the offer of the most arduous and rugged paths; hough dumb, it still seems to say, ; I have striven. I have done my luty.’ an earldom, with, of course, a seat tarn away with profound venera- the House of Lords. Mr. Gladstone gratefully and gracefully declined the title and the position. He had alren'ty. made a name dukedom or any have enhanced.” Mr. Gladstone, in 1838, married ton and dim, unutterable wonder ut the mystery of it all. Not a sound — .^from the world without; only this which no earldom of rigid, praying, exquisitely sculptured other rank could piece of clay, which not so long ago moved Senates, multitudes, whole nations by its fervor, its eloquence and its great purpose.” LEND A HELPING HAND. MBS. GLADSTONE AND DOROTHY,M STONE’S FAVORITE GRANDCHILD. —Abolished confiscation in penal laws. 1873— Irish university reforms proposed. —Resigned, but resumed power. 1874— Dissolved Parliament. 1876—"Homer Synchronism." ' 1879—Mid Lothian triumph. —“Gleanings of Post Years.” 1880—Prime Minister. " 1885— Resigned. 1886— Prime Minister. —Irltih hpipe rule proposed. —Resigned. 1892—Prime Minister. V GLADSTONE IN RETIREMENT. His father was Sir John Gladstone, a wealthy merchant, who relinquished a small business in Glasgow, about 1785, and removed to Liverpool, where he acquired a 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 which marked his course at Oxford, from which he graduated at Christ church in 1831 as double first class, the highest honor and one rarely at tained. Then he became a fellow of AH Souls’. After traveling for a short period he entered Parliament in December, 1832, as member for Newark, a nomina tion borough belonging to the Duke of Newcastle, which he continued to represent till 1846. It is a mark of strong character when a who finds he is headed in the wrong path turns completely around and leads in the other direc tion. Gladstone, when he was first elected to the House of Commons, just after the passage of the reform frill ttut uift'-U KprM5*t*4Y6,3?« 1 a8 1893—Irish homo rule passed Commons; defeated by Lords. a But Gladstone, the Eton hoy, was as interesting ns “the Grand Old Man.” His special and inseparable friend was Arthur Hallam, tlu subject of Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.” The friendship commenced when Glad stone was in his thirteenth year and was never weakened until death came to loose the silver cord. On July 25, 1889, Mr. Gladstone celebrated his golden wedding. His eighty-first birthday anniversary, in 1890, was made the occasion for the unveiling of a memorial fountain at Hawarden. He carried out another Midlothian campaign in 1892, and was returned at the general election by a small majority. In August he became Premier tor the fourth time. There had been many rumors of Gladstone’s retirement, but when it came few were prepared for it. His last speech as Prime Minister made in the House of Commons on March 1, 1894, and was a inemoriable protest against the jurisdiction <>•* the Catharine, daughter of Sir Stepftel Richard Glynne, of Hawarden Casi Flintshire, a descendant of Sarj lynnej who was ^ord Chief Gladstom^Jave had eight thilfip seven of whom survive—four sous three danghters. The eldest son, W. H. Gladstone, was elected M. for East Worcestershire, having pr yiously represented Whitby iu Par’ fiament; the second son, Rev. Stephe: Edward Gladstone, became rector oi | Hawarden; the third son, Henr; Neville Gladstone, keeps up the mercial reputation of the Gladsto family, and the youngest son, Herb' John Gladstone, was elected meml for Leeds. Two of Mr. Gladstone’s daught married clergymen. Agnes, theelde' became the wife of the Rev. E. Wickham, M. A., head master Wellington College. Mary ma the Rev. Henry Drc-w. She p tically liven at Hawarden Castle her husband and little dar^' Dorothy. Little Dossie, as her far calls her, is a little more than years old. Miss Helen—the youngest dangl iter —was the pet of her illustrious father, and for several years had devoted most all her entire time to him. Ids retirement she resigned her tion as vice principal of Newnjbam College so she would be able to devote herself to him. Tho last years of Gladstone’s life were passed at Hawarden Castle, the properly of his wife, which is practi cally iu tho gateway to Wales. The residence is on the hills overlooking tho valley of tho beautiful Deo, six miles cast of Chester, in a picturesque park of 700 acres. And there ho lived, surrounded by four sons, three daugh ters nnd reven grandchildren, who loved him with intense devotion. The London News prints a descrip tion given by a friend of the family who visited the death chamber in Hawarden Castle from which the fol lowing extracts are given: “I walked to the side of tho narrow little iron bed, whose head was sur rounded by a simple screen of black tfith a pattern of gold. This back ground was in sharp contrast with the flow Girls May Make Themselves Vers Useful to Our lirave Defenders. The Red Cross Association has is sued an appeal to the women of the United States for 10,000 emergency bags to be sent to the soldiers and 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 contents thereof, two patterns are given by the New York Tribune which 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 tho sketch shows, of two thicknesses, and serves as a needle-book, pin cushion and scissors case, the sides be ing kept closed with a button and an elastic hook. The under side is made like a flat pincushion, and is furnished with large'pins. Next conies a Haunel leaf for needles, darning needles and safety pins. The flat pincushion might also, without taking up any moreroom, include an envelope or pocket for court ter. The upper side of the bottom ith| ill soldier’s “housewife.” of the bag has a small pair of scissors held in place by au elastic band, a steel punch which is valuable for mak ing extra holes in leather straps and mending and a pair of tweezers. The bag part is made of red silk and should 0- be marked with the name of the owner, and has a doubled ribbon as a draw string. It should coutain two spools of coarse thread, bone and tin buttons, two pairs of shoe laces and two cards of darning cotton. The same bag is large enough to hold bottles, each of which should have its own soft flannel case. A bottle of three-grain quinine pills, a box of liver pills, carbolic salve, a box of spirits of ammonia capsules and a roll of mustard leaves are )enough. The other pattern for a “housewife” is iu the form of a wallet. Have the tinsmith roll a piece of tin five inches long and turn over the edges so that they will not cut, leaving the tube on .-quarter open. Place within two was' MISS HELEN GLADSTONE. snow-white bed linen which covered all that remained of statesman. If this Mas the xtiallff e great chamber .be statesman. If this was the chamber penditure of $2()UU tor tne mur - iat OaUi it Was glso the abode of peece, ^ of the .Utehowe. SAILOR S WALLET “HOUSEWIFE.’ spools of coarse cotton, one black and one white, with a piece of wax be tween them, end through the three articles thrust a short knitting needle, each end of which is firmly fastened with ft pincushion, which tills np the holes at the ends. The spools are now safe and cannot be lost, and the wax, without which, they say, a man cannot sew, on account of tangling his thread, is “handy.” Thetin tube is then covered with the strong linen which forms the wallet; this is tamed under the edg:e oi 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 contemplates the ei- penditure of 12000 for the illumination OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Dope—Harried Departure—A Jar in the Music—Yale Luck—Income Cat Oft— Unwarranted Distrust—A Dissembler- Sorry He Spoke—Her Kingdom, £tc. And what is hope? A telescope That fairest future magnifies; But one eye sees Ail that may please. The other closed to what denies. —Judge. A Jar In the Music. “What gives young Mr. Simpson’* voice that peculiar tremolo?” “The war scare, I guess.”—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Hurried Departure. “What were your uncle’s last words?” “He hadn’t time for any; it was a folding bed.”—Chicago Record. IncuWtp Cnt olY. “What is dear little Tommy crying about?” “I have just told him that he is too big to be paid for taking medicine.”— Chicago Record. , A Dissembler. “He said ho would kill himself if I wouldn’t marry him.” “Well?” “He didn’t do it; the mean thing!” —Chicago News. Her Kingdom. “They say tho way she controls such a large household is wonderful.” “How many are there in it?” “Four children, five servants and a husband.”—Life. A Way They Have In Ilrooklyn. Flustered Old Lady—“Does it make any difference which of these cars I take to the bridge?” Polite Pedestrian—“Makes no dif ference to me, madam. Tale Luck. “A young Yale scientist, while dig ging in a hole for a skunk, found a $5 gold piece.” “That’s Yale’s luck. Anyone else would have found the skunk.”—Har vard Lampoon. Sorry He Spoke. He—“There are at least a dozen women who would be glad to get me if you were to die.” She—“I don’t doubt it. They know I have got you pretty well trained.”— Indianapolis Journal. Improvements. • “Are you getting ahead in your bicycle learning?” said Amy to Mabel. “Getting ahead? I’m doing better than that. That is the positive form, while I have reached the comparative. I often get a header.”—Judge. And Possibly the Examiner. “Now, my boy,” said the exam- laefe, “if I kadril tuince piaunAahould give two-twelfths of it to John, two- twelfths to Isaac and two-twelfths to Harry and take half the pie myself, what would there be left? Speak out loud so that all can hear.” “The plate!” shouted the boy.” Unwarranted Distrust. First Office Boy—“De old chap I work ter is de most suspicious old cod ger I ever seen.” Second Office Boy (who has dropped in)—“Is he?” First Office Boy—“Yes; I’ve been here free weeks, an’ he never gave me de combination of de safe.”—Puck. One In a Thousand. “I don’t see anything remarkable about the man.” “That’s because you don’t know him. I’ve been with him almost con stantly for the last eight weeks, and not once has he undertaken to explain to me the duty of the president and Congress at this time.”—Chicago Post. A Heartless Girl. “Miss Renfrew—Alice!” he cried, “I must speak. For a week I have walked about as one dazed. I have been unable to eat. At night I have tossed upon my bed, to arise, hag gard and miserable, in the mornings. I ” “Oh,” the fair girl interrupted. “I know what is the matter with you. Go and play croquet or golf. You need exercise.’’—Chicago News. GETTING NEWS FROM MANILA. It Makes a Circuitous and Laborious Journey Before Keachlnft New York. News trom Manila,which is pernsed so eagerly nowadays by all Americans — and probably by Spaniards also— has to make a circuitous and laborious journey before it reaches either Mad rid, London or New York. It travels about 14,000 miles under sea and over land, and is passed from station to station by more than a dozen opera tors, almost each one of them in a different country. In consequence of the cutting of the single telegraphic cable which connects the Philippine Islands with China, the news which has recently been received from Man ila was carried to Hong Kong by boat. The distance between Hong Kong and Balinao, the cable station of the Phil ippines, is about 1000 miles. Balinao is 30 miles from Manila. From Hong Kong, telegraphic news destined for New York is flashed over a second cable under the China sea, to Haigon; thence it goes to Singapore,at the end of the Maiay peninsula,M’here it is taken up by another operator and sent on to Penang; its next objective point is Madras, India, from whence it is sent overland across India to Bombay. From Bombay a cable takes the message under the Indian ocean to Aden; from Aden it passes along unde/ the Red sea to Suez, thence to Port Said and Alexandria successive ly. Upon leaving Alexandria it goes through the Mediterranean sea to Malta and from Malta to Gibraltar. The operators at Gibraltar may then transmit the message iu either one of two ways; they can scud it direct to Land’s End, the western extremity of Cornwall, England, or they can send it to Lisbon, Portugal. The usual practice is to send cable messages from Gibraltar to Land’s End; from the latter point the message goes overland to London. The London operator sends it to Waterville,on the west coast of Ireland, and from there it crosses the Atlantic ocean to Causo, Nova Scotia, and the Canso operator passes it on ta New York. All the cables used from Maniia to Great Britain are owned and controlled by the Easteim Cable company. Coming across the Atlantic, tho cables of the Commercial Cable company, or those controlled by the Western Union and other lines may be used. Any individual sending a message from Manila to New York would have to pay $2.35 for each word. If the message is sent direct from Hong Kong it costs §1.60 per word. The rates between the Philippines and Hong Koug are higher iu proportion than between any of the other points along the route. This fact is explained by old telegraph men on the theory that there is so little cable business done between Manila and Hong Kong that the rates must be pretty high in order to make the cable pay. Ordinarily the transmission of a message of any length from Manila to New York will actually consume five hours ef time. One word .oumld bo*, sent through in a little leak than Wo minutes, but in order to (accomplish that feat an operator would have to be on the watch at each station nnd rash the word along. In the regular order of business, however, delays of a greater or lesser degree are inevitable at each station. The difference iu time between Manila and New York is about 13 hours. While the resident of this city is eating his 9 o’clock breakfast the person of regular habits iu man iia is wooing slumber, for it is there 10 o’clock p. m. If a telegraphic mes sage sent from Manila at 10 o’clock in the evening could come through to New York instantaneously, it would reach here at 9 o’clock in the morning of the same day. But allowing for the five hours consumed in transmis sion, a cablegram sent from Manila at 10 p. m. would reach here at 2 p. m. of the same day. In the ordinary course of business a telegraphic mes sage M ill come through to New York from Hong Kong in abont four hours and a half. Expert handlers of telegraph cables say that with a properly equipped cable ship a cut cable in the deep sea can be put together in a very few days. The electricians are able to locate the break M’itkin a mile of the actual point of separation, and the grappling apparatus of the cable ship is able to pick up the loose ends of a cable very quickly.—New York Times. From His Folnt of View. “But you confess, father,” pro tested tho beautiful girl when the father showed indications of a desire to withhold his consent, “that you do not know of a single solitary thing that is in thft least derogatory to his reputation.” “That’s just it,” replied the old gentleman. “I don’t like the idea of bringing any one into my family who is so sly as ail that.”—Chicago Post. Not Sincere. Wheeler—“What do you think of him?” Van Byke—“Oh! he is double- faced. Ho is all things to all men.” Wheeler—“What makes you think so?’,’ Van Byke—“Why, the other day I. showed him a new wheel I had bought. It was a different make from his, and yet he praised mine and said it was one of the best in the market.”— Puck. One Kind of Tact. Robinson—“Don’t tell me that Har ris has no tact. He ought to be in the diplomatic service; that’s where he belongs.” Jarvis—“What has giren you such a high opinion of his ability?” Robinson- • “Up asked me if I could change $10 a little while ago. I supposed he was going to pay me the five he owed me and I said I could. Then he asked me to lend h>m five —.C—Sfava, An Odd Fish. An amusing episode in a recent work, “Audubon and his Journals,” published by John C. Niimno, de scribes how an odd-looking fellow one day handed the great naturalist a let ter without any remark. “I broke the seal,” says Audubon, “and read as follows: ‘My dear Audubon, I send you an odd fish, which you may prove to be undescribed, and hope you will do so in your next letter. Believe me llways your friend, B. ’ With all the simplicity of a woodsman, I asked the bearer where the odd fish was, when M. de T.—for, kind reader, the indi vidual in my presence M-as none else lhan that renowned naturalist—smiled, tubbed his hands, and, with the great est good humor, said : ‘I am that odd fish, I presume, Mr. Audubon. ’ ”— Household Words. The Uses of Manganese. Miners are finding extensive nse |>r manganese bronze for screens, piis metal is unaffected by the acid iaters of mines, and is therefore of freat value in this industry. Manga- fese is largely employed in making a Dbrtitute for German silver by the Lllow ing formula: 18.50 of manganese, 17.25 of copper, 13.00 of zinc, and 1.25 of aluminum. This amalgam live* a very finely colored material, it it very strong, and handles much •“.re ea>ily than the best German ail*