The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-05-26

| lCUJ-DeCGlnO DER ZJCQ, porn az Liver
pool.
lS31-Graduated at Oxford.
1832-Entered Parliament.
1S34-Junior Lord of the Treasury
1S35-Under Colonial Secretary.
Resigned.
1S3S-Married.
1S39-"The State in Relation to tn
Church"
1S4O-"Church Principles Consid
cred"
1S41-Vice-President of the Boar,
of Trade.
1S42-Revised the tariff.
1S43-President Or the Board o
Trade.
1S45-Resigned.
Colonial Secretary.
| 1S46-Resigned.
| 1S47-Advocated freedom for Jews
1S52-Chancellor OF the Exchequer
lS55-Resigned.
lS5S-Lord High Commissioner tc
tie Ionian Isles.
-"Studies of the Homeric Age.
1859-Chancellor of the Excheuuer
1S65-Leader Of the Commons
1666-In opposition.
1S6S-Prime Minister.
-"Ecce Homo"
ga Chapter of Autobiography
1S69--Carried Irish hdisestabl!shment
-"Juventus Mundi.'
1S7O-Carried Irish land bill.
1S7l-Unyeiling of his statue by
Adams Acton in his native city on
September l1th.
Abolished purchase OF army
commissions.
Abolished confscation in pen
al laws.
1873-Irish university reform pro-
posed.
Resigned, but resumed power.
lS74-Dissolved Parliament.
1S76-"Homer Synchronlsm."
1S79-Mld Lothian triumph.
-"Gleanings of Past Years."
lSS0-Prlme Minister.
1SS5-Resigned.
1SSG-Prime Minister.
Irish home-rule proposed.
Resigned.
1S92-Primer Minister.
l893-Irlsh home-rule passed Com
mons ; defeated By Lords
FRIENDSHIP FOR HALLAM.
But Gladstone, the Eton boy, was as
Interesting as "the Grand Old Man."
His special and inseparable friend was
Arthur Hallam, the subject of Tenny-
sons "In Mem orlam." The friendship
commenced when Gladstone was in his
18th year, and was never weakened
until death came to loose the silver
cord. Hallam was delicate boy, and
his associate was much in
clined to outdoor games CT all kinds,
he gave up the pleasures OF play in
order to keep company with his friend
in their long walks across country, or
their heightened talks beneath the old
oak tree around Windsor. Gladstone
at this period was a fighter and an
"argufier." In fact, argument ran in
his family, and the father of the three
young Gladstones at Eton always en-
couraged them to discuss the pros and
cons of every subject, however insight
icant.
William seldom lost an opportunity
of Improving the occasion. Once the
head master called him to his desk to
account for his not having marked
down in his monitors book the late
arrival of one of his schoolfellows.
cit is a violation of your trust SIR
said the pedagogue, 'sand I'll have to
fog YOU"
The boy replied "Sir, If I had
sought the position OF monitor this
might be called a violation OF a trust,
but since the position was thrust upon
me I would most respectively submit
that am innocent"
The old man-who was great on
SO delighted with
his pupils ingenuity that The whipping
did not take place.
Mr.. Gladstone, in later life, remarked
that his reasoning was wrong, since
jurymen, and Others have to
discharge duties which are thrust upon
them aad which they would be glad to
avoid. "My defense," be said, "was
more culpable than my fault, but then,
you know, I had really only forgotten
to put down the boys name, and also
I had to avoid the fogging which I
saw clearly in my taskmaster's eye"
PIG-TA1L STORY.
During the Elton period it was Gus
tomary on market days for some OF the
more fun-loying students to rush
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