The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-01

that DfeFity ana punctuaiity are diuOil5
the best elements of success l don't be-
lieve in long business letters. There is no
business so important that you can't put
the whole of Ii on one sheet Of paper. L
have cultivated breyity throughout my
life and / think il has paid me 70 90 so. L
believe in early rising, and ind that my
brain works best between the hours OF
and 10 the morning. Whenever L nave
anything important which requires
thought come in during the day | lay II
aside for the next morning, and then con-
slider and pass upon IL. | am always out
of bed before 8 o'clock, and rs soon as L
have dressed I go down into my library
andwork until the breakfast bell rings,
which is at 7:30 or s.
STORY OF GLADSTONE.
No man in the United States has more
friends across the water than CYRUS W.
Field. John Bright called him the
Columbus of modern times, who, by his
cable, had moored the New World along
side the DID," and he knew Disraeh and
has for years been well acquainted with
Gladstone. During my conversation he
spoke of Gladstone, saying that he had
known him since 1854. Said he:
"Mr. Gladstone is great man and a
wonderful man in many respects. He has
one Of the quickest minds in the world to-
day. and he has the power of reading book
faster than any man | know. l remember
an incident in connection with him which
illustrates this. IL happened during our
civil war. Mr.. Gladstone was then chan
cellor of the exchequer. | had come to
London and had some business with him.
| had been reading book which had
greatly interested me. 1t was entitled
"Tbirteen Months in the Rebel Army" l
took it with me when | went to see Mr..
Gladstone, and / told him l thought he
would be interested in it. He asked: is
the book true? Do you believe the state
ments IN it can be trusted2 Do you know
the author2"
mo-" replied, "I do not But know
his father, and | think he tells the truth"
The author was young man who had
been in the South for his health ct the
time the war broke out and had been
forced into the rebel service. Well, when
/ answered in this way Mr.. Gladstone
asked me to leave the book. / did so.
This was laie in the afternoon. The next
morning went out Of my hotel. When |
returned about noon | found letter of
seven pages from Mr.. Gladstone, giving
a complete review of the book and thank
ing me for it. The letter showed that he
had digested II completely, though it con-
tanned at least $50 pages. The letter was
full of expressions about the war, about the
South and about our condition and pros
poets. II was such a remarkable pro-
duction that | wrote at once to Mr.. Glad
stone and begged permission to send copies
OF II TO my family and to President Lin
coin. The next day l received a reply
which read: Ny dear Mr.. Field, you
may do anything you please with my let
ters except publish them in newspapers.
The public sentiment in the two countries
Is so sensitive at this time that it will not
do 20 publish anything bearing upon the
struggle as coming from me- This was
substantially the letter. sent copy that
day TO my family and another to President
Lincoln. He was very much pleased with
1t and read it aloud to his cabinet"
EDISON ON THE NORTH CAROLINA GOLD FIELDS.
l asked Mr.. Edison the other day to tell
me something about his experiments in
the North Carolina gold fields. He re-
piled:
"My experiments were all right. The
trouble was the lack of gold. l spent
several months travelling over North Caro-
lima and found in fact that every farm
had gold mine. but the gold, if it ever
existed in large quantities, has been taken
out The mines had been dug down to the
water level In slavery days and there was
nowhere gold enough to pay. found the
country too far off and too much out of
the world for a civilized man to settle in,
and l concluded to come back to New
Jersey and devote my attention to iron.
There Ia moro money in iron than in gold
and the New Jersey iron mines are going
to produce some of the best iron products
of the future"
''Why don't you go to Mexico2 ?" said I.
There's plenty of gold and silver there"
"It's too far off," was Mr. Edison's re-
PLY, land life is too short to waste time in
travelling from one place to another"
cHAUNCEY DEPEw TALKS OF GAMBLING.
During an interview which had with
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew a few days ago
asked him as to the business prospects.
lie replied:
''The big crops of this year are going to
make times good for two years to come
and think we will have three or four years
of prosperity. The national exposition
will send plenty of money aioat and for a
time the whole country will boom. More
railroads will be built. new manufactures
will be started and everything will boom
on a credit basis until some financial fail
ure like that of the Earrings trouble
in London will precipitate matters
and We Will have q crash which will make
every man who has ventured out beyond
his depths go up the spout. The tendency
of the present age Is speculation or gam
bling. The two things to large extent
mean the same thing. | have Travelled
through many countries and / have had
good opportunities for observation, and
] believe that the world Is getting better
all the time. Governments are becoming
more liberal, The people are every there
averaging up 20 higher standard of
morals than ever before, They are inn
proving both in their social and business
relations. Public life is becoming more
honest, session by session and year bv
year. and there seems 20 me 70 he only
one wee that IS increasing and this Csn-
teammates the whole. TINS ylce is grow
ing With tremendous rapjdity all over the
earth and especially among civilized ma
tiOns. This vice Is gambling"
"N hat do you mean by gamhling?"
Il mean by gambling" said Mr. Depew,
"the betting On results which no kuowl-
edge nor reason can foresee. We now bet
an everything We put up our money on
stocks. on food products and upon eycrv-
thing that enters into our markets We
c~caie artificial conditions and bet upon
them. We do the same With real e~t ate.
ami Ue now bet in q Hcreut way anon
our amusemeuts, our baseball system
has become lottery, and betting grows IN
these RESPECTS sui on races aud at cards
n. over tue world. The telegraph enables
IS ~ carry the netting stands of the
Jerome Park track 20 san Francisco. and
ttftIc - . tEeN0 SF#h8A tle t.3tA 1tar! IN
every c3ty betting on the races.
In clubs and private houses. more
in the cid world than here. games
Of chance OF every kind. with wacers upon
results, are becoming as common as the
daily dinner and you viii lni a Monte
Carlo going privately on at every one Of
the great watering p aces Of Europe. The
condition of the public sentiment on this
subject Is illustrated by a conversation |
had a hfta abroad Tins SIMMER y,f.F 81 adv.
widely known for her charities and for the
support which she gives. both personally
ana financially. % 81 religious and beuev-
oieut work. Ii was IN large car0rary