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! this. Enemies rose up against him
None night he found three fresh pgtals
| tied to the inside of his bedroom door
whereupon he pasted upon his door
| inside and out, a challenge calling up-
| on the despoiler of the pigs TO come
forth and take a receipt for THAR offer.
ing, which | will sign in good round
| hand upon their faces. But Glad
! stone, Jr., was regarded as a tough
| foe, and the kind invitation was never
acknowledged or accepted.
| In 1856 he was travelling in, southern
| Europe. when he heard runners of The
despotism OF King FerdinandABomb
of Naples, who, without any form 4
trial, had imprisoned in filthy dungeons
over 2G0G0 persons accused of political
/, offenses At this time Mr. Gladstone had
been nearly 20 years in parliament, so
that he had full understanding of the re-
sponsibility of meddling in the affairs ot
other countries. He went 70 Naples, made
a personal investigation Of the prisons
ana found everything worse than had
been told about the wretched despot. HIS
Letter to Lord Aberdeen" QS5D resulted
in mild remonstrances from that nob.t-
were later enlisted by pamphlet that
clearly pictured the sufferfngs Of the Me-
podtans, and the tempest OF indignation
that followed these disclosures engulfed
Bonaba and ended his kingly days.
AS a Greek scholar Mr.. Gladstone was
not Person or a. Jebb. but he was capa-
BILE of taking the same delight in new
Greek play that he did. in Middlemarch'
Robert Elsmere," or a drama by Dau'
det He also considered Esther Waters
ana 1.-THE Year Of Jubilees'' "strong and
able works. which ought 10 live when
many of their contemporaries are forgot
ten" This would have been regrrdod by
some as atrocious literary taste. Fl own
published works are 1.-The State IN Is
Relations with the Church" e volumes,
1889, Church Principles Considered
QS4m. Studies of Homer ana the Homer
ic Age" e volumes, Oxford, 1859. rs
says on Ecce Homo and a pamphlet oD
the Irish church question, entitled "A
Chapter of Autobiography dSiSi. ard
"Juventus Mundi, the Gods and Men N
the Heroic Age" dS69). with transiatioa'
and other pamphlets. Some of his frenis
have discovered an ode he wrote for The
SidI hlSGtlletilSF III HIS iiiithN' 'l4'it ".'
which differs largely from the tone Of lis
anti-reform speech. 1t is inscribed 40
the Shade of Wat Tyler" and one stanz4
proceeds in this fashion:
] hymn the gallant and the good
From Tyler down to Mistlewood.
Ny muse the trophies grateful sings
The deeds of Miller and Of Ings.
She sings of all who soon or iate
Have burst subjection's iron ehIn
Have sealed the bloody GCSppt $ Iltt
Or cleft peer or priest i'm twain
This is not bad. considering thal III
of his intimate friends at Exon ar 'a'
time were either sons of peers or prizes,
But the liberation of Greece Was in t.t
air. and Lord Byron's poems were IT,
companions of every bright stho"'F
who had ever heard of Athens or Sp'
ia Gladstone was an enthusiastic IA'-
helene, and Wat Tyler was d i'r-.t
enough point to break forth up'h ~
revolutionary rhadsodies.
Good Americans long ago forgaNe un
for his enunciatiop of the rights 'f 09
"Confederacy' and even oppon' prs v
his Irish home rule conceded thr h''+-
rity of his character and the purity OF A'5
motives.
In 1888 he married Miss Margaret
blNIiIGS, VINO WIS lfsif "H
years old She aided and hum"rea n''
husband from the first ard made u d l''"-
lily rule that he should never be c'haf
dicted
The last years of his life were pas.
at Hawarden Castle, the properly on -
wife. which is practically in tht Ea'.""'
to Wales. This residence is on ihF '
overlooking the valley Of the 'ta.'''
Dee, six miles east of Chester, in i....
esque park of 700 acres. And fatI+
lived. surrounded by four sons
daughters and seven grandchildren me
loved him with intense devotion
seven children are not clever 81.
they are not considered clever. e''
could you expect Of sons whose 4I'
is so overshadowed?
William grew up to be lord oi .h'
or of Hawarden; Stephen, tAe
son, was rector Of Haward-n
Henry, after service in India, was -"-
to be country gentleman ana H'.
the youngest son, was the only OF.
couraged to take up public lit"
the daughters are married-ltte b'.
Drew being the daughter OF 'A
the third, Miss Helen Gladston1 ..a
been an Instructor in an EngASH