The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-12
HOW HAwARDEN WILL MISS HIM.
Gladstone Was the Idol of the VIII
layers ard All Knew Him.
New York Journal.

New York Journal.
Gladstone never posed among the viii
layers as a great man He knew AL the
shop keepers and most OF the residents
personally He stopped the children in The
streets 10 inquire about their fathers and
mothers. sind ne gossirea with che trades
men on business matters and their personal
affairs. He was always ready 70 give them
advice or counsel and / am told thai he
has assisted more than one Of them finaH-
cisIly, though the knowledge OF such as
sstanca has never come In Others through
him There is scarcely a cottage in the
village that does not contain ar least half
a dozen OF Giaaistone's photographs. his
bust in plaster or marble his portrait in
has relief. and engravings OF important
scenes In his naomenlous life In a public
house is mounted the head and horns Of
the frolicksome heifer that kuocked The
great statesman down six years ago. and
paid for its indiscretIon with it's life. heinz
shot by It's outraged owner. whose name.
Tom Bailey" thus becomes immortal OH
a brass piate affixed to the case containing
these bovine relies. The proprietor OF the
public house informs me that he refused
an offer of Gi0 for the head aud horns
last year from the proprietor of Wom-
bells menagerie. In the postmaster
house is cherished an axe that used 10 he
a favorite OF Gladstone's when his recre-
alton was the cutting down of trees. In
another mouse / WIS SHOWN the S<sil &bfb
by him when ma was run over by a cab in
London, with certain stains. alleged to be
hleod on the collar. One Hawarden fam
iiy possesses a scarlet dressing gown worn
by Gladstone. and many Of the ShopkeeD-
ers treasure his autographs that have come
in the shape OF orders for goods. All these
relics the people exhibit TO strangers with
reverence and none Of them consider an
offer 10 sell without the deepest indigna-
ton. The man who owns the coat In which
Gladstone was run over has, however. al
lowed some of his more important visitors
10 try on that garment for few moments.
but resolutely refuses to accept any pay
ment for this privilege.
Almost every man, woman and child in
Hawarden charishes some personal recai-
lection OF Gladstone. One Old man told me
to-day that he recollected twenty-nine
years ago last week, when Gladstone. then
premier. stopped the Irish mail at Chester,
'!n the queens name, in order TO get TO
London on an important mission. The sig
mailman at Chester was afraid 20 stop the
train. even at the premers request. when
he said; SHOW me the lever. then, and
I'll do it"--aud did 1t.
| asked the village carpenter. who had
cured and used the wood OF many an oak
that Gladstone had felled. ii Gladstone
hewed down his trees Ia workmanlik~
manner: If II would be considered good
work by a professional tree cutter. Did
Gladstone ever do anything that wasn't
done better than anyone else could do II 7''
was the loyal carpenters reply. He in
formed me that scores of the dead of Ha-
warden were buried in collins made from
timber hewed by the sturdy old man who
was now passing away. and that Gladstone
himself would probably be laid TO rest in
oak feled by his own hands.