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n g i h T
George nor his brothers or sisters were
responsible for this. 1t is the system,
rather than the individual men,
who is to be blamed "a sys-
tenn which vitiates church, So
ciety and state of our boosted
civilization. And it would seem as if
the hearts of jay Gould's daughters
and his daughter-in-law were bent
upon making reparation to the needy
world for every dollar through this
process. Almost every day l hear of
beautiful genuine deeds of helpfulness
and charity done by these women. They
do not give their money into the hands
of an unfeeiing agent to distribute. as
so many wealthy women do: they give
it with their personal sympathy and
womanly tenderness. thereby increasing
it tenfold.
Over and over / hear the names OF
Edith Kingdom and Helen Gould men,
toned by people of high and low de-
gree, and always with the same warm
words and tones, which speak volumes.
They Scatter seeds Of kindness. real
benevolence. and genuine Christlike-
ness wherever they go. It is not
enough for them that they epdow a
hospital or church; their hourly lives
are one succession of small thoughtful
acts OF kindness and sympathy for other
people less blessed than they. If all
our rich people we're like them. what
world this would be.
And what shame and outrage that
these tenderlhearted and noble women
must suffer such modification and pain
through the plot of a shameless adven-
turess.
So far as there is comfort in SYM
pathy, am sure the sweet-souled wife
and sister may feel they have that OF
the exception OF their prosecutors.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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AUGUSTIN DAILY.
Angels" at the Irving Place Theater.
and went in droveS to that house, just
to let the manager know that we fully
realized how naughty the playwright
Was.
This time last season we were simply
reveling on the French quadrille at the
Academy of Music-but that was before
our Ieverish symptoms announced
themselves. We saw four brazen
young ladies bifurcating themselves
nightly for few dollars week,
and we went wild with joy. It was
exactly what we wanted to see. So
popular was this dance that at the pres
ent time-and this fact has not yet been
publiShed-lt is being taught TO children
al a dancing school not far from Fifty
ninth street. They call the dance 1.-THE
Slide" instead of 1.-The split" but it is
precisely the same thing.
AdventureSSes and betrayed women
filled our plays week after week. but we
never objected. the Crust" and"The
Froth of Society" fiourished, Lady
Windermere's FAM spread itself out,
the burlesQuers were full of satrf spe
cialties, and dances of all sorts and de-
scriptiOns were openly advertised.
What did we do? We went to see them
before we were taken in. We went be-
cause we enjoy that sort of thing. as
long as nobody tells US that it is hide
ous!y immoral.
Oh. the cant and the hypocrisy that
tester in this city. and break out during
the moral fit! What Pecksnitfs our
managers turn out to be- What brick
heaps of humility and abjectness crop
up at every corner. 1t is sickeniug.
The moral fit shows New York at its
worst. 1t displays the inconsistency.
the unreliability, and the Haunting
pruriency of its people. The present
attack threatens to be even more severe
than usual. We shall probably de-
mand wedding ring on the fingers of
all our actresses, badge Of rectitude
on the breasts of our actors, and moral
fig leaves on the pens of our writers.
The two managers of this city Zone of
these is now in London) who are always
prepared for these occasions are Daniel
Frohman and Augustin DAILY. Mr..
Frohman does not object to an
ultra decollete bodice although
he will probably make Georgia
Cayvan sew on frilI of lace while this
attack lasts-but he will have no ladies
gone wrong in his plays. AS for Mr..
DAILY, his morality has always been on
the surface. When he produced his
American version of "L'EnfanJ Pro-
digue" in this city he insisted upon the
marriage Of Pierrot and Phrynette. for
the sake of sweet, guileless Miss Rehan,
who played Pierrot. ALAN DALE.
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and visit to Rome DR.. McGlynn has
been living quietly in Brooklyn, lectur-
ing occasionally and writing now and
then for the leading reviews. But what
career he has to look back upon! He
was poor and friendless lad when he
attracted the attention of Archbishop
Hughes, who sent him to Rome
and had him educated for the
priesthood. In the twenty years
following his return from Rome, he be-
came the most popular and best known
priest in America. and but for the secret
eabal formed to prevent it would today
be archbishop Of New York Then
came his espOusal of the ideas Of Henry
George. his active participation in pol
ltlcS and his accommodation, the lat
ter followed after years of waiting by
his yIndication and restoration.
Time has played havoc with many of
the bright and brainy men who SUI
rounded DR.. McGiynn in the days
when he figured in politics and presided
at the meetings Of his amous ANTI
Poverty society. Croasdale and Nc.
Cready are dead. John McMackin holds
small place in the custom house, and
his name seldom it ever creeps
into print. Gaybert Barnes, wiz
hest OF the lot, is now
publisher at Middleton. Conn.,.
and is rarely seen in his old haunts in
New York. Henry George, captain of
the troop. has dropped out Of active
politics. and when not Iecturing devotes
his time to the work Oh political econ
only on which he has been engaged for
several years. The relations between
George and McGlynn were at one time
strained to the point of breaking, but
they are now friends again.
EBEN CLAYTON.
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HARD ON BOTH.
The Cuiprit Evidently Had Sym
pathy for the Magistrate.

The Cuiprit Evidently Had Sym
pathy for the Magistrate.
Blackburn Times.
4 tradesman in mid-Lanarkshire
town was arraigned before one of the
local magistrates on the charge of cut
ting down a tree situated in the back
garden of the house he tenanted without
having obtained the consent of the
landlord. The baIlie who was on the
bench CHANGED to be pompous, self
OpiniOnated old gentleman, whose legal
knowledge was almost nil, yet who is so
fond of hearing himself speaking that
he cannot resist the opportunity of
lecturing the unlucky persons who are
brought before him.
What wey did We cut doom the tree?''
the magistrate inquired sharply. adj
dressing the accused.
The tree was quite dead an rotten
ever sin CAM to the hooss. an as it
spoiled the look of the garden, L cut it
doom. Besides, didna ken it was ony
HARM, or l wad hae let it alane."
''1hat'll no'dae, my mon," said the
bailie severely.
''Ye say We didna ken that it was
wrang. but ignorance o. the law is nae
excuse for ony mon."
"Weel, bailie," replied the culprit
gravely, but with the ghost of a hui
morouS twinkle in his eye, ''if that's
the case it's gey hard on the bath O. US"
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of the high school in Amherst, and pro-
fessor Of bellies lettres in Williston's
seminary. East Hampton, Mass. 1t was
in 1874 that he became pastor OF the
Congregational church of LenoX, Mass,
and so impressed himself upon the
wealthy New Workers summering there
that he was invited TO become past or of
the Madison Square Presbyterian church
in this city.
DR.. Parkhurst has travelled all over
the world, has written for various maya
zines, and is the author of 1.-The Forms
OF the Latin Verb Illustrated by San
scrit."
In his pulpit DR.. Parkhurst is not an
imposing figure. His hair is long, his
chin whiskers dropping and unkempt.
looking, his eyes bowed with speetaeles,
and over his thin form fails the black
robe of the preacher. All his sermons
are written out and read from manu-
script most Iaboriously. AS an orator
DR.. Parkhurst is not a success. There
is no magnetism in his manner or charm
in his voice, but he is intensely earnest
and rattles off with glib tongue sentence
after sentence that interests his large
congregation. As student of theology
he has few equals in this city and his
sermons devoted to the discussion of the
SASdS ihCOlOSiCoi plOU4SulS are iuuCGO
masterpieces.
Since DR.. Parkhurst became the most
talked about man in New York, because
Of his efforts to rout the Tammany po-
lice force, the public has learned to re-
gard him as champion without fear
and fighter who never waivers. DR..
Parkhurst'e method of warfare is ag-
gressiVe from beginning to end. HIS
fight in New York City is not generally
unfortunate fallen women into the
streets, but it is his sole idea to
compel what he regards as a corrupt
police department to Stop blackmailing
the unfortunates who live by devious
ways of all kinds. For the fallen wom-
en- who are driven into the streets, DR..
Parkhurst has sympathy and gives aid
freely. Opinions are divided as to
whether his work will be of lasting
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eacn other. There are four of these
rows on each side, with broad passage
between covered with mating. The
great cOmmOner lolled there on the
treasury bench, seemingly Indifferent
TO very dull speech by a Scotch mem
Der. His legs were stretched out in
front of him, his hands lay in his lap,
his head hung on his breast. 1t was the
figure of sad and weary old man.
He was not to be badgered into a
speech the night to which | refer. While
back and played with his t0rtoiSe-Shell
Ryeglass or fingered his shirt studs.
Tie current pictures are remarkably
like him. 1t is easy to give an impress
sion of that fine head with its scant
fringe Of white hair. The features are
strong and prominent. The eyes are
large, luminous and gray. He is a
Slight, lean man, under medium height.
In fact. one is struck by his appar-
Snt fragiiity. One would have i'm
Rgined his restless energy would have
fretted his body to decay long ago. He
dresses earelesSly in old-fashioned
clothes. His usual costume in the house
of commons is long, ill-ttting black
frOck coat, low-cut waiStcoat and plaid
trousers. The caricaturists have made
famous his rumpled and voluminous
shirt front and wide-wInged collar.
With English reticence, however, they
rarely refer TO the fact that he has lost
three fingers of his left hand The
American cartoonist would have picked
on that patch of black silk over the
knuckleS at once. Mr.. Gladstone usu-
ally wears a glove on that hand.
He is tempestuOus old man, full of
restless force and nervous energy.
Gladstone has said that he is proud of
two things, his pure Scotch descent and
his love for Oxford. He was born in
liverpool, where his father, Sir John
Gladstone, was merchant of consider
able Importance. From him Gladstone
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has shielded him from all the worries
and frictions of life, and borne all the
cares of the household and estate.
The Tories are fond of laughing at
this tall, gaunt old lady, with her re-
markable bonnets and iIl-titting frocks,
her homely cares for her husband and
her busy domesticity. And of a surety
she is an odd figure in the flippant soci-
ETY. of London. But the world sees past
the caricature to the ideal wife and
ideal mother. She is now eighty-one
years of age, and her health is robust
and strong. She is so much a part of
her husbands life that if she were to
break down it would be safe to say that
Giadstone'S work would be finished.
They have seven children. The eldest
son, w. A. Gladstone, is lord of the
manor Of Hawarden. he is dull.
heavy, honest man. In fact, none of
the children has inherited any of the
Grand Old Mans intellectual vigor.
Stephen, the second son, is rector of
Hawarden church. Henry, after a
rather wild youth in India, leads the
respectable life of country gentleman.
and Herbert. the youngest son. has
failed to find any success in public life,
in spite of the advantages with which
he entered parliament. Two of the
daughters are married. The third, Miss
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good or not, and there are many relig-
lous men and women who disagree with
bin entirely in his methods. Still, the
lighting parson keeps on. 1t may be
said in all truthfulness that he is the
only-man- of recent years who has rat
tied the entire police force of Gotham.
A man between fifty and sixty years of
aye. OF slight physique, and without any
of the training of leader in great
movements, he has hurled defiance at
the entire police management of this
city, and so far he has created the great
est sensation in police and criminal cir
Giles ever known in New York's erim-
inal record.
Dr.. Parkhurst tells me that the fight
has only just begun. He is going to
carry the struggle up to the legislature
and ask for legislation that will help
him clean the Augean stables. If his
health and life is spared he will give
New York City better police depart
ment within the next year than it ever
knew before. FOSTER COATES.
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ANS literary circles.
He told me. when L ciatted with him
for a half hour the other day, that one
reason why he had decided to live for
while in New York was his desire to be-
come better acquainted with New York
authors. [ think his decision wise
one, and IOpine that his fellow workers
hereabouts will take to him most cordi-
ally when they come to know him. He
is frank, modest, manly, whole
souled fellow, whom success
has not in the least spoiled. as 1t
has some other young authors whom l
could mention, if so desired. Still he
is man of positive opinions, with the
courage to express them whenever oe-
caslon demands. He is hard worker
as we'll as conscientious one, and re-
vises and polisnes with EXTREMIST care.
His success is the result of real genius
allied to an infinite capacity for taking
pains. and so is bound to increase as
time passes.
Mr. Garland has sought out cosy den
up town, and is already busy with his
pen. Possibly in the end he will follow
the example of howeils, Hardy and
many another. and locate here per-
manently: and if he does so. perhaps he
will give US the great novel of New
York for which we have all so long
been looking. RUFUS r. WILSON.
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SLEEPiNG-CAR PORTER.
If He Is Not a Natural-Born Liar
He Becomes One.

He Becomes One.
Chicago Post.
"a sleeping car porter" he said.
bitterly, as he sat in the Office of a little
country hotel, waiting for breakfast,
"a sleeping car porter is born liar"
"Oh, not all OF Them" protested his
companion.
WELL" he said, thoughtfully, "possi-
bly, some of them are not. but those who
are not born liars acquire the habit"
''Oh, no. Eve known truthful port
ers.'
You have?"
Certainly 1 have.''
''I'll bet you the cigars you haven't"
''I'lI take that. But who'll decide?"
You"
Pm prejudiced."
"Oh, no, you're not. You're just
thoughtless. You're thinking about
some Of the ordinary things that some
porterS lie about but others do not.
Did you ever get a small town about
3 o'clock in the mOrning?"
Certainly"
And tell the porter the night before
to call you in time to get off there?"
Yes"
And he called you?"
''Of course he did,
And didn't lie about it?"
mo"
Didn't he tell you you'd be there in
five minutes?''
"Um-ah-you; believe he did,
And watch you frantlcally wrestle
with your shoes and rush for the wash
room?'
II believe l do recall something of
that sort"
And then did you wait and wait and
wait"
Here's the cigar. You win. | guess
there never was porter who wouldn't
lie about that under those circumstance.
l wonder why it Is.''
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Inherited fortune, and. what is of more
Importance, the baggage of Tory
opinions he had when ne entered
political life. He was educated at Elton
eollege and Christ Church, Oxford. In
1881 he achieved one of the greatest
Rcademical feats known by taking a
double first in letters and mathematics.
There still fingers in Oxford the legend
of his phenomenal industry. His first
Intention was to study for the bar, but
through the influence Of the Duke OF
Newcastle determined to enter political
life. lie entered parliament in 1882. as
member for Newark confront He
was then a Conservative, and his first
book was a defense Of the union Of
church and state. When he was twenty
five years old Sir Robert Peel made him
q junior lord of the treasury. A few
months later he was appointed sec
fetary of the colonies, a position he held
until Peel went out of Office in 1885. Dur
Ing the next eighteen years he held a
number OF offices. and gradually swung
round the circle from staunch TOTyism to
the liberalism he has held ever since
1851. III 1858 he was chancellor Of the
pXchequer in the Aberdeen coalition
ministry and held place in the Palmer
BtOn cabinet which succeeded it. He was
sent to the IOnian isles as lord high
commissioner. In 1865 the University
Of Oxford rejected him, and year later
the defeat of the reform bill threw him
and his colleagues into the background.
lie was in his ffty-nineth year when he
was first made prime minister of Eng
land. After the triumph OF the ConSer-
natives in 1874 he retired, and for a
number of years devoted himself to
literary work. The victory of the
Liberals in 1880 called him again in
power. In 1884 through his efforts the
franchise bill was passed, which gave
1900, OCG people the right to vote. The
last years of his life have been given to
the battle for home rule for Ireland.
These are the more prominent facts
In life of brilliant achievement.
His home life has been sinpularlv
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world will prefer to remember, rather
than Gladstone the writer. 1t is with
spoken words that he Is the true magi-
clan. There Is something of the histrion
IN him. as there was in his great rival
Beaeonsfeld. He has the fire, vivacity,
the oratorical coquetry of an Italian.
This was the chief thing that struck
me in his speeches-the art of them.
He has the art of a perfect actor. The
words are the words of the scholar.
statesman, the gestures are those of the
hIstrion cast for the role. But with all
this there is an intense earnestness, a
downright sincerity of Indignation.
laughter or scorn. A distinguished
debater, as Lord MacaulRy called him,
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There is literature of every sort under
the sun, from Sacred Scriptures, ancient
parchments, Homers and VirglIs to
ponderous parliamentary reports, the
latest books of science, art, poetry,
fiction and ephemeral criticism. Mr..
Gladstone reads omnivorously. and
writes-what las he not written? One
remembers articles on theology-he is a
stalwart churchman-Greek and Latin
poetry, jam-making, Italian art, the
Bulgarian question, forestry, the
Homeric question, old china, Dante,
the Irish question, and the women
noVelists. these and hundred other
topics he has taken up and discussed
with the authority that comes from an
adequate knowledge.
A many sidPd old man.
But it is Gladstone the orator that the
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OLD SCHOOL ETIQUETTE.
Polite Manners of3OO Years Ago
Are Still Good.
Hartford Post.

Hartford POST
The Rule of Civility," published in
1867, is not without interest, as the fol-
Loving quotations show:
cit Is unhandsome among ladies or
any other serious company to throw off
ones ecat, to pull off ones peruke, to
clean ones nails. 10 tie ones garter, to
change ones shoes if they pinch, to cali
for ones slippers, to be at ease, to sing
between the teeth or to drum with
ones fingers. 1t is too juvenile and
light, when in the company of ladies, to
play with them, toss or tumble them. to
force away their hoods, fans or cuffs"
In eating" the writer cautions his
readers, ''observe that your hands be
clean. Dip not your fingers In the
foods nor lick them when you have
done eating. If you have occasion to
sneeZe or cough hold your napkin before
your face Drink not with your mouth
full nor unwiped, nor until you are
forced to. breathe in the glass;"
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he is also the one real orator in England
today-the last of the old parliamen-
tarians.
If you wish to get realistic picture of
Gladstone as he is today, picture to
yourself lean, pale old man, an Gag lie
face, few white hairs on the bald head,
petulant nervousness in every gesture;
man whose little vanities have grown
upon him. And then correct that I'M
preston by recollection Of the sweet
benignity, the geDtleness of manner
which defies the crabbedness OF old age.
That is William Ewart Gladstone in his
eightF-fourth year.
He Is fighting the hardest fight of his
life with the petuiance and enthusiasm
of youth and the stubborness of old age.
VANCE THOMPSON.
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Special Correspondence Of the Globe.
Copyright
New York, Dec. D. 1t is difficult to
anticipate the Judgment of the histor-
ianS and assign William Ewart Glad
stone the place he will occupy among
the public men who have shaped the
affairs OF England during this century.
He looms so large to his generation that
even Lord John Russell and PalmerS-
ates the stage" Fifty years from
now it will be less difficult
to estimate the debt England
owes him-this old charloteer who has
guided safely the wild team of dem
Dcracy and radicaliSm. The little thing
that make up his life are more easily
read today. We who have seen him
Slr.ding along Pail Mall. straight, erect,
q gallant old man in shocking bad hat,
Or pOttering over the book stands up
Westminster way, know more of him
than the historians will ever know.
The Doth of December he enters his
Sigor and vitality of a man twenty years
younger 1t is a rare good thing, that
heritage of healthy, pure Scotch blood
which flows in the Old mans veins and
keeps him young.
1t was eight or nine years ago that l
saw Mr.. Gladstone for the first time.
had gone to the house OF commons to
= see i. Z. O'Connor, NJ. P, about
something or other. He told me that
Gladstone would probably speak dur
ing the evening and secured a seat for
me in the peers gallery. The house
itself, as l daresay every one knows, is
Of oblong shape. On either side are
rows OF benches cushioned in green
leather and raised a little above
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happy. Mrs. Gladstone belonged to an
arlstocratic Welsh family. Her father
was Sir Stephen Flynn. of Hawarden,
Cheshire. She was we'll educated, and
by nature as we'll as attainment was
well suited for the companion and
closest friend of the man who was to be-
come one of the greatest of English
statesmen. She is type of the best
English women, sedate, amiable, do
nestle. She has not been conspicuous in
any department of life in which her
husband has won honors, but a great
measure of the work he has accom-
pllshed has been due to her. She has
been his wife, his secretary. in every
sense OF the word his help.meet. She