The evening times., 1898-05-21

strongly accentsd, the oayx eyes lash
and glow. che voice grows rosonant. the
iutteFancs emphatic. No one, II seen,s.
has ever tried but once to tell him an an
ecdote depending for Its point upon some
trait Of cynicism, baseness or sharp prac-
&ice. The. tale is received In grim and
diaeusted silence. '.Do You call that
amcsing7 l call II devHish,' was the
comment, with which characteristic
story about Lord Beaconsfield was re-
cefved BY his rival.
z Perhaps the most conspicuous feature
Of Mr.. 0fadstone's character Is its re-
ifgi0usneas. In = his personal habits OF
Systematic devotion. his rigorous reserva-
tion OF Sunday for sacred uses, his writ
ten a.,d spoken utterances, his favorite
studies, his administration OF public af-
fairs. and especially the grounds ON which
he has based his opposition to policies OF
which he disapproved he has steadily as
serted for the claims of religion para
mount place In public consideration. 1t Is
this righteousness which. on the one hand.
has provoked the bitter wrath OF those
sections Of society whose lax theories and
corresponding practice his example has
rebuked. and on the other, II has won for
him affectionate reverence from great
masses OF hts icountrymen that have new
er seen his face.-W. E. RUSSELL 1891.
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Lord Beaconsneid was particularly un-
plying toward him. He defined him
thus: "a sophist intoxicated by his ver-
bosity and gifted with an imagination
which IS egotistical,,. fertile in expedients
for abusing his adversaries and glory
ing himself. ''4H' 70
Nearly every secondhand bookseller In
London habitually sent NJ. Gladstone his
catalogue Sometimes he would repair to
he stnn sHuf M ,tA nd l00k the
books he had marked. giving check 1T
once, which he sometimes wrote in the
shop. for. the amount spent. In more
than one instance check for 81 or some
such small amount has been kept and
framed by a bookseller.
Mr.. Gladstone's post bag in the days Of
his greatest popularity used to contain
the most incongruous medley Of impor-
tant and frivolous letters ever brought
together In the. correspondence Of a sin
gle man.
The famous American horse tanner.
Rarey. when he was In England. spoke
of Gladstone as one OF the finest and
boldest riders he had ever seen. Once
when a chancellor of the exchequer he
was taking his usual ride in Hyde Park
on spirited young horse the horse plung-
ed and ran away. got of the ordinary
track of riders and came along a spread
of turf divided by rails and gateways OF
slender iron. 1t went straight over one
of the gateways. Gladstone was deter
mined to get the better of that horse.
The moment the horse had leaped the gate
the rider turned him around and put him
at the gate again. Again and again he
topped it, and again his master turned
him and made him go at 1t once more,
and surmount 1t yet another time. So II
went on until the horse was fairly but
very harmleSsly conquered, and the rider
was the supreme victor Of the day.
Now. SIR. am not going to argue in
this house whether this view, this mon
strous view. Is a correct one. l say the
Irishman is as capable of loyalty as an
other man: but if his loyalty has been
checked, why, II is because the laws by
which he is governed do not present them
selves to him as they do to us in Eng
land or Scotland with a native and con-
genial clement Gladstone's Home
Rule speech. 1857.
LET us go forward In the good work
commenced. Let us put our trust. not in
titles, not in squires. or in peers, or in
acres-I will go farther and say. not in
man as such. but in Almighty God, who is
the God of justice. who has ordained the
principles of right and equality and free
dom, to be the guide and master of our
lives.'-From Gladstone's Home Rule
sneech 1909