The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-19

D4eU5e0 10 ISxsOx8fSe fJi AtsStsSltie s<s-sN ~
tho watchers about him.
Thousi, = national funeral VIII probably
- Accepted by the family. there IL little
doubt that tho remains OF Mr.. Gladstone
Win be laid TO rest In the peaceful grave
xxfd at HAw&Tden. adjoining the church
where he was married raore than half a
oentuyy ago.
Mountains have fallen.
haaxsRf { gap IN the clouds and win the
HeckinT tx<ar Alpine brethren, -.
n December Of 1860. whssa william Ewart
0aadoeone was thorn. the paint Was siili
ffonA On the only Steamboat in the world.
Thus far and no farther had proceeded
III evolution OF human passage BY water
ways and rivers. The methods Of presary-
1x9 life and the means of destroying tt
& Vore scarueiy improved or modified since
The mtddle ages. In January OF that year
III yokn Moore 1T -Coruna, won his fatal
viotcry over the Franch with fiutiock
1G1rSts. Ali the arts OF modern life were
oelh In the rudtzueftAry stages.
IA Crest Britain IL cost IA pence 10 send
Iottor 100 miles. and I'm the United States
n cents for tho same service. There Was
not IN Grrn barred traxnway on the face OF
s the globe. Men hoped TO fy throagn the
oiY, bUt had no expectation OF beng pro-
PEELED by steam. In that year, altar his
6ixtysst42h ascension. died Francois Bian-
chard, QYnf ssFonsut 10 cross the English
channel. In tho farm sheds Of the world
thoro was perhaps not a single piow with
iron or steel mD1dboArd. The harvest
hands in the whcatfieids Of all countries
from Poiand to tho Alleghanies cut their
grain With xsckles. The most rapid transit
on the earth or sea was the sailing vessel
and that might be surpassed In speed by
rncehofses.
. Mans knowledge OF nature was only ru-
dtmensary Uranus was then the outside
member OF The solar systern< The first
four asteroids had been discovered In tho
zen preceding years. Sir ilumpary Davy
was just recovering from the nervous
fever with which he was Frustrated on his
discovery OF sodium aud potassium. The
greA&est telescope Of the world was the
30-foot refsctog of the elder Herschel.
Young Fraunhscer. if the Institute az MI
Mich. was experimenting with his lenses
and rrisrs. trying to analyze tho aulas
opectruui.
The social and domestic life of mankind
was equally fsr away. In Great Britain
the system OF servitude Nas stili protected.
Only . year before the slave trade In the
United States had been openly pracuced
hy the merchants or Boston under The con-
atltution. In the home life OF England the
right Of husbands to whip their wives as
freely ~ they might whip their slaves was
denied BY q few scpfrers who had no in
6uerce.
In the political states of the world history
had appointed France and France had ap-
poiateA Napoleon to lead revolutionary
storminE party against the lancseut order
In Europe. Tho European countries were
crouchipg down close to the walls, hoping
that The storm might pass and that they
might again emerge TO sit on thrones and
hunt In parks and gather beauty OF Doubt
tut reputation into courts where fashion
reiEned and virtue was not even remem-
bered.
In our own country the third yirginlsn
president had Ia the preceding spring cone
20 tho chief magistracy of tho young re-
pubic. Our brief federal ascendency had
yielded TO moderate democracy impar-
sonated In Madison and his secretary OF
state. Hamilton was five years dead.
Henry Clay was leader OF tho house The
elder Adams was contributing 90 the Ros-
ton Patriot letters IN defense OF his roiicv
while president. caildren born on the day
Of tia death OF Washington were complete
Ing their tenth year. Pitt ard Fox were
three years dead. On the 9Th Of July Ma
polecn Tough; his great battle of wagran.
and On the 18th OF December he divorced
Josephine
lt vas under these conditions aud these
atarU that William r.. Gladstone was born.
His ifSe line has been drawn lengshwlss
through the century. but other great lines
~ USNAO &<sts oiA1Sftftt Gu HOT Come or
90 alosse- The year Iss WAS ~ conspicii-
Gus for its human products as had been
thAt fortieth preceding year which brought
Into bsinG the two world eonquerors Hum
boidt and Ronapartc. The planetary tu,
was powerful IN 100. On the 18th Of Feb
ruory IN this year. and coincsdentaily on
the came day. came into the world Charles
Rebdrt Darwin IN England ard Abraham
Lincoln IN America III this year also was
born AHrud Tennyson, chief singer OF tho
Veteran era, ana Edgar 4. Poe, the SOM
bG spirit % the West, In this year also
came Mandeissohn tho great and Oliver
wendell HoAmss the CHIEF y,t. ~ t,,a ,,sxx,
weird
CensrRl in this group OF imn,or,als Wa
the son OF Sir John Gladstone born r,
Liverpool on December - 1859. 10 Do s,Tu-
Gated at Elton, trained privately for ,eo
yeasu by DR. Turner (afterwarf hishap Of
Calontsss and finished schoiastscaiv by
the university discipline at Chr,stoaurek
Oxfoe4 from which he was graduated ia
1851
Gladstone began public life as A C.,nS.r-
vatiSe. He was the soa OF a merchant.
lie Inherited that commercial spirit whicA
regards business as the first concern Of
human Hfe Il Ii doubtful whether Clad
stone ever In his career considered snv
great question without first estimating lis
business effects GA Great Britain and IS
commercial aspects in relation with tho
affairs or the world. He was strictly
business Statesman. His temper was eau
ccas and reserved. lie believed in dls-
turning thiags~with words. and in retoFm-
Ing thinss-with Legislative vnacssnznts
The conservative spirit ~ Gladstone
manifested even In thase parts of his life
which are regarded as radical ard re-
forsnatary. was always predominant He
was courageous in thc conflict - debate
ana sadsc.ouS a. . distance, Ne stale--
man ever more eagerly embarked Il. for
easn AFFAIRS. none WAS eVeF raasa F.ad{sal
as X respected conditions Sc Ghe lest hur
moro was ever snsga prudent ahau. dis
turosng British soese,y VITA acfaas ssdf-
cSsism. except when Brush Scesetxt HAD
already reformed Itself ane oab, called fer
some one 70 deliver Its purpose n words,
II WAS in this frame shag Gladstone in
lSS Suffered public life. he VAS sen, snto
parliament as Tory Representative a.
newark under tas patronage as the Duke