, 1889-06-20

INo p. CARROLL. Editor
CHARLES BRADLAUGH

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A London correspondent in sketching
Charles B~radlaugh, the great radical
leader says of him: OF commanding
stature. over six feet TN his stockings"
broad in proportion to his height, with
an exceptionally large head. the forehead
rising high and broad over the deep
piercing eyes, the hair thinning and show
ing signs of his IS years of life, a curl
ously mobile mouth changing with every
change OF thought, Charles Bladlaugh is
one who stands out in any crowd, one OF
the mcst marked personalities in his gen
Grafton.
CHANGING over the house of commons a
few heads arrest the gaze, aud no stranger
could look at our legislators without stop
ping as the eye falls on Mr.. Bradlaugh,
and asking who is that?'
At home, the dreaded opponent, the
keen aud forcible dcbater, is the g~entlest
hammered of men. easily satisfied and
simple in his tastes. Until last Novem-
Der his home was guided by his eldest
daughter, a woman of considerable scien-
tific ~attainments, whose sudden and prem
allure death left gap not easy to fill, both
in her home and in the work
Tor Others to which she devoted
much of her time. Now, the
younger daughter, Mrs. Bonner, married
some few few years ago, has, with her
husband, gone to live with her father, and
has taken on her own shoulders the dut.
les also of his secretary. She may be
seen any morning. a tall slender figure,
dark haired and dark Keyed, bending over
a table in her fathers room, taking down
in a notebook his rapidly dictated answers
to the letters that rain in upon him by
every post, letters presently to be written
out in a delicate handwriting, clear as
priEt, and placed in a pile to await the
characteristics and strongly marked sigma
turc of Charles Bradlaugh.
Mr.. Bradlaugh's room is very character
istic Of its ~inhabitant. 1t is very large,
being intended for the showroom be-
longing to the shop over which 1t is built.
aud is lined from floor to ceiling with
books. books, books. Nor are the books
confined to the shelves which cover every
lnih oil the wall, save mai above the man
uepiecei there are several standing book
cases scattered over the room, not grim
crack ornamental stands, but heavy, solid
affairs, carrying double lows of
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books back and 'front.' and ms
ing three tiers In height Few
private individuals outside wealthy book
collectors can boast oil such a library as
has been gathered together by this man
who has never been rich. Many OF these
books represent ioregone dinners ana
clothes worn to shaoolness. They have
been earned one by one picked up on
this bookstall and that truck, and are
loved with a strong, tenacious passion
woven out OF the overcome difficulties
they represent. Here may still be found
the well Greek testament and
Greek and Hebrew lexicons which sorely
puzzled his whilom comrades when he
was a raw recruit, and which, with his
ondness Tor tea won Tor him the soubrl-
quet oil Leaves from his fellow sol
d'crs'
In contrast with these relics OF a strug-
GIN past stand IN stately array a com
rlete set oil the Journals oil the house OF
commons marking the distance between
private soldier ana successful legislator
with a certain plquanc oil anthesis. Here,
again, Is a hne collection OF old bibles, OF
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