' stone enjoys in life.
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HIS HABITS OF LIFE NOWADAYS
AT HAWARDEN CASTLE.
secrets of His Wonderful ”vacancy. his.
Gladstone’s Part in Saving film from
.. Vexation. His Newspaper Beading-
Stead’s Last View of the Great Liberal.
As the westering sun sinks to its set-
ting, a white haired old man comes
out from his library and seats himself
on the stone steps that lead from the
castle front to the lawn. He carries in
his hand a book in which. as soon as he
has seated himself, he is completely ab-
sorbed. The old man is Mr. Gladstone,
the book he is studying is one of the
innumerable volumes which he is de-
vouring in the prosecution of the study
to which he has devoted his closing
years, and he seats himself upon the
steps in order that his impaired eye-
sight may catch and utilize the last
rays of the setting sun. The old states-
man, scholar and student to the last,
is now 86 years of age, but his intellec-
tual vigor is not abated, nor has he lost
the sinewy grip with which he fastens
upon the subjects to which he devotes
his attention. .
Over the mantelpiece in Mr. Glad-
stone’s bedroom there is emblazoned a
text which explains a good deal of the
tranquility which has saved Mr. Glad-
stone from. nervous exhaustion. The
text runs: “Thou wilt keep him in per-
{set peace whose mind is set on
Thee.” . '
{I If _‘ Mr. Gladstone’s simple but for
vent religious faith is the first element in
the secret of his continued and con-
tinuing vigor, the second place must be
awarded to the happy influence of a
fortunate marriage. If Mrs. Gladstone
had been a cleverer woman she might
have been less helpful, for some natures
have such an overpowering individuali-
ty‘pfatheir own that what they seek in a
companion is not a positive so much as
a negative capacity. As iron sharpen-
eth iron so a man sharpeneth the coun-
tenance of his friend; but Mr. Glad-
stone was not particularly in need of
being-sharpened, but he was in need of
being rested. Therefore, Mrs. Glad-
stone was not so much as a sword blade
clashing with his, as the scabbard of his
sword.
Mrs, Gladstone, however, rightly or
wrongly, held the view that it was
the wife’s duty to make life as
"cushiony" as possible for her husband;
she would display a world of patience
and cunning diplomacy to keep any dis-
agreeable thing out of his way, even to
the extent of sit-ting down upon the
Times for the whole evening if it should
contain an article that was calculated
to radio his equanimity.
Besides these two, his religion and
his wife, the two outside influences
which kept Mr. Gladstone in perennial
youth by minimizing the worry of life,
and lubricating the rapidly revolving
wheels of this human dynamo, Mr.
Gladstone had. various habits which
conduced greatly to his longevity and
physical vigor. First of these unques-
tionany is the gift of sleep, a gift he
shared in common with Napoleon and
other notable commanders in history.
Mr. Gladstone throughout the whole of
his life had sleep at instant command;
he could go to sleep at a moment‘s no-
tice, and, what is more remarkable,
wake up' bright and fresh within ten
minutes of going to sleep.
Mr. Gladstone, although not a tee.
totaler, has never emulated the ex-
ploits of some of his more bibulous pre-
decessors. If Mr. Gladstone is not a
teetotaler, he is at least a total ab-
stainer from tobacco; he neither snufls,
chews or smokes either pipe, cigar or
cigarette. Nothing has induced him to
yield to the seductions of the fragrant
weed. ‘Another,quality of his was the
rare gift of concentration. The bump
of concentration must, if there is any-
thing in phrenology, be enormOusly de-
veloped. “Whatever the'work may be
he has in hand,” said a recent visitor at
Hawarden, “it takes hold of him so en-
tirely that he has to be reused from it
as most are roused from sleep.” This
enabled him to be almost totally indif-
ferent to his surroundings, a faculty
simply invaluable to him, when, as
leader of the House of Commons he had
to sit for hours listening to the monot-
onous drone of irrelevant debate.
While able to concentrate himself so
absolutely upon the subject in hand as
to be oblivious of all the world, he was
capable with the utmost ease of varying
his subjects. It has long been his habit
always to have three books in reading
at the same time. .
.. Another achievement that must be
taken into account is the immense di-
versity of interests which Mr. Glad-
He touches life at
every side, with the exception of rac-
ing or gambling, and wherever he
touches it he thrills responsive to its
touch. Merely to be Prime Minister of
the Queen is of itself sufficient to pro-
vide topics of interest for any ordinary
person for the rest of his life. But Mr.
Gladstone was never able to devote
more, than a‘section of his time to poli-
tics; he has probably spent more time
over Homer than he ever did over the
question of Parliamentary reform, and
at all times his interest in theology out-
halances his interest in mundane
afiairs.’
Putting all these things together,
they eXplain how it was that Mr. Glad-
stone, in the midst of the turmoil of
party politics, has ever been able to
preserve an equable and tranquil soul,
while his observance of the laws of
health, regularly exercised, and the
continual variety of interests, enabled
him to keep his mind brightly furnished
to the last—W. T. Stead.
The Spirit of Organization
Teacher—Willie, you are to stay in
after school and do three extra ex-
amples. .
Willie—What? And git put out of
the Scholars’ Union for workin’ over-
true? i Wlll, I don’t think.‘—Cinoinna—
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GLADSTONE’S ”VIGcR.
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ODD PHUTOGRAPB COLLECT! my
Woman Who Saves HEr Husband’s Pics
tures to Accommodate the Magazines.
The Baltimore Herald enlarges on the
funny side ‘ of pictorial journalism as
follows:
“Well, what on earth are you do-
ing?”
“Doing? Why, these are my hus-
band’s pictures.” .
“I know they are; but why such a
collection as that?”
“Well, you see, he is only an alder-
man now, but he hopes to be President
some day.” ‘
“And what then?”
“He will die some day.”
“Yes.” , - .
“And one of these magazine men will
come around and want some photo-
graphs.”
‘tYes.” ‘
“And I’ll have them all read y.”
“Why, how many have you got?”
“Well, you see, I have been reading
those magazines about Lincoln and
Napoleon, and have made a little col.
lection of my own.”
“What are they?”
“Well, here is where he was 18, just
after recovering from a fall caused by
the breaking of a limb in his neighbor’s
cherry tree.”
“Here he is at 21, putting on his
necktie before going to cast his first
vote.”
“This was taken on the day after he
celebrated his fortieth birthday. That
scratch you see on his face he received
in a fight with the chairman of the
ward committee up at Shea’s.
“Here he is at 50; a trifle gray; you
see, but he is still quite active. He had
been defeated for the Assembly, indict-
ed for making fraudulent election re-
turns, and in other ways shown himself
a tower of strength.”
“Have you any more?”
“N 0; but when he dies as an err-Pres.-
1dent there will be ever so many people
have portraits of him that I never
knew were taken nor he never knew he
sat for. It’s the photograph that makes
magazines and history these days, my
dear. That’s the reason I am so saving
of them.” ‘
VASSAR GIRL AND THE CHINAMAN.
He Gould Speak Almost as Many Lan-
guages as She Could.
A lady, who is a graduate of Vassar,
went up into Chinatown to purchase
some curios, while in San Francisco,
says. the San Francisco Post. A partic-
ularly ugly young Chinese was sitting
on a stool behind the counter in a dark
and dirty little shop that the young
lady entered to buy some punks. As
the Chinese was wrapping them up the
young woman turned to her companion
and said in Latin:
“Isn’t he a beauty?"
"Thanks, I’m glad you think so,” re
plied the Chinese in English, without
glancing up.
“Did he understand that?” she asked
in French.
“Perfectly,” said the Chinese.
‘ The young lady smiled very sweetl
and asked: -
“Were you ever back East, John?”
“Oh, yes. I was in New York four
years,” he replied.
“Did you live on Mott street?”
“Oh, no. I lived at the Continental,
while I was taking the classical course
at Columbia.”
VALUE OF A MUSICAL EAR.
The Possessor of One Can Train It for
Practical Purposes.
In the management of rapidly mov-
ing machinery a musical ear, which
quickly detects variation of pitch, and,
therefore, of speed, for the pitch de-
pends on the speed, is of considerable
use, says the Chicago Chronicle. A
farmer with a good ear can detect at
once if the thrashing machint is proper-
ly “fed,” for its speed increases and the
soundit emits is of higher pitch than
when an insufficient amount of grain is
supplied, and in the same way the elec-
trician can tell if an electric motor is
running at its due speed. With a mu-
sical ear the physician more readily
interprets the sounds elicited by per-
cussing the chest, and the potter more
easily separates the sound from the un-
sound.
It is a moot point whether the musi-
cal are naturally the better readers and
speaken, but there is no doubt that
they improve quickly when taught elo- '
cution, for they can appreciate the
pitch of their own voices and so correct
their errors. A good car includes an
acute appreciation of time or rhythm.
She Would Have Enjoyed It.
A woman was on the witness stand
before a badgering lawyer, and was
vainly endeavoring to give her testi-
mony about an assault of which she
happened to have been a witness. The
lawyer, as too often happens, treated
her almost as if she were herself a crim
inal. ‘
"You say he knocked him down,”
said the lawyer. “Now I want to
know how he struck.” .
"Well, sir,” began the witness, “he
stood just—” >
“I don’t care how he stood.” inter-
rupted the lawyer. “I wan’t to know
how he struck.”
“Well, sir, I’m trying to tell you,”
said the witness, growing flustered.
“He stood right by—-—”
“I can’t stop to hear you tell anything
about his standing,” said the lawyer. "I
'wan’t you to tell me simply how he
struck?” .
“I’m afraid my words won’t explain
to suit you, sir,” said the witness, eye
ing her tormentor resentfully; “but if
I had a broomstick here, and was near
enough, I reckon I could show you how
he strqu 1”
It is said that the ant has a larger
brain in proportion to its size than any
other living creature. The advice, “Go
to the ant, thou sluggard,” is therefore
worth attending to. Ants have not only
instinct, which, by the way, is remark
ably deveIOped in them, but reasoning
faculties and powers of calculation than
are some what wonderful. '
CZAR’S TRUST IN HIS PEOPLE-m!
Sign: Which Point to 8. Reign of Liber-
_ .. ' llity. ~
The Czar is said to take much more
after his mother than his father. The
Czar has already reigned for about
eighteen months, but so far he has
wisely refrained from attempting to ini-
tiate any startling new departures.
What he has done so far has beenin
the right direction. He has dispensed
with the excessive precautions with
which the police thought it was neces-
sary to guard his person. He has gone
in and out among the people as freely
as any merchant in St. Petersburg, and
one of his first acts, on returning to
St. Petersburg from the funeral, was to
censure the Chief of Police for issuing
an order forbidding the people to open
the windows or to appear on their bal-
’ conies while the funeral procession was
- passing through the streets, says the
Review of Reviews.
Among the signs of a more liberal
tendency on the part of the Czar, the
observer noted the fact that be caused
the imperial manifesto addressed to the
Finns to be amended in accordance
with the wishes of the population.
When the Polish deputation came to
greet him, he received them with great
cordiality, and is said to have declared
that it gave him great pleasure to re-
ceive them. “Be assured, I make no
difference on account of the religion
you profess. My subjects are all equal-
ly dear to me.” The press, also, was
treated, by the Czar’s special request.
witha generosity and liberality which
was previously unprecedented in Rus-
51a.
The Dog and His Doctor.
The best authenticated of all the sto
ries of sagacity in dogs has been made
public this week. Mr. Arthur E. Reade.
Secretary to the Charing Cross Hospi
tal, wrote to the times recently to say
that at 10.30 o’clock one night a. rough
terrier barked outside the door of the
hospital till he was let in. When ad
mitt-ed, he limped in, squatted on the
mat, and held up an injured forepaw.
The house surgeon came, whereupon
the dog followed him at once across the
chall to the accident room, jumped at
once, when invited to do so. on the
chair, and again held out the injured
paw. '
It wasdressed, when the dog licked
the hand of the surgeon and loudly
barked its gratitude till he had to be
turned out, showing great reluctance to
leave. Mr. Bellamy, the house sur-
geon, confirms this statement, and adds
that on the next 'lhursday the dog
came, like any other out patient, to have
his paw dressed. It is not known to
whom the dog belongs.
Queer Facts About Colors.
According to information given by a
German army oflicer to the House
Guards’ Gazette, an experiment was
recently made in Europe to determine
what col .r in a soldier’s uniform is the
least cox. --picuous to an enemy. Of ten
men who were dressed in light gray uni-
form, two in dark gray, two in green,
two in dark blue and two In scarlet.
All were then ordered to march off,
while a group of officers remained to
watch them. The first to disappear in
the landscape was the light gray, and
next, surprising as it may seem, the
scarlet. Then followed the dark gray,
while the dark blue and the green re-
mained visible long after all the others
had disappeared. Experiments in fir-
ing at the blue targets, according to the
same authority, proved that the blue
could be more easily seen at a distance
than red.
Glass for Bearings.
Should not something more be done
than is being done, experimentally, if
not practically, in the use of glass for
bearings? Some experts speak highly
of it for woodworking machinery. It
is said to require less care than any
other material, running with little oil
and keeping cool. In methods of shap-
ing and cutting glass such advances
have been made that it should be now a
comparatively simple matter toadapt it
to general use. Glass sleeves could, of
course, be easily furnished, perfectly
true, both inside and out; and there are
numerous places where such sleeves,
brushes, thimbles, or whatever they
might be called, could probably be em-
ployed with great satisfaction. Glass
would probably be better adapted to
high speeds than to heavy loads.—
American Machinist.
Unique Mail Service.
The inhabitants of the small group of
islands situated on the south of Iceland
possess a very curious method of com-
munication in their so- called “bottle
post.” When the wind blows from the
south and one of theislanders wishes to
communicate with the mainland, he
puts his letters into a well corked bot-
tle, and to insure their delivery, he in-
closes at the same time a plug or twist
of tobacco or a cigar. The wind speed-
ily impels the bottle to the shores of the
mother island, where people are usually
on the lookout who are willing to de-
liver the contents of the bottle in return
for the inclosei remuneration.
Killed by Light.
Dr. James Weir, J r., who has studied
the strange inhabitants of the Mam- '..'i:
moth Cave in Kentucky, says that the
celebrated blind fish from that cavern
when placed in illuminated aquaria,
seek out the darkest places, and he be-
lieves that light is directly fatal to
them, for they soon die if kept in a
brightly lighted tank: The avoidance
of light seems to be a general character-
istic of the sightless creatures dwelling
in the great cave. Dr. Weir has seen
an eyeless spider trying to avoid the
light, and animalcules from the waters
of the cavern hiding under a grain of
sand on the stage of his microscope. ‘Hg; ...'"7' ~
thm' ks the light in these cases is in: : ‘ '
some manner perceived through the
sense of touch.
l The nightingale always begins his
song softly, like a well trained orator,
and gracefully swells to a climax.
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WHATTllE_YlI_VILllEAT
It will no doubt be interesting to the
members of the C. N. G. to know just
what their fare will be during those ‘__six
days in camp. Each company or rather
each caterer will serve the same bill of
fare from day to day. The bill of fare
-for each day will be as follows:
BILL OF FARE.
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MONDAY.
. Dinner—Tomato soup, roast lamb and
roast beef, potatoes (roasted and boiled),
bread and butter, pickles, melons,
coffee, tea.
Supper—Cold ham, corned beef, hot
rolls, bread and butter, coffee, tea,
stewed prunes.
TUESDAY.
Breakfast-Fried fish, corned beef
hash, oatmeal and milk, potatoes, hot
corn bread,'bread and butter, tea and
coffee.
Dinner—Beau soup, roast veal,
corned beef and cabbage, sweet pota-
toes, :potatoes, pickles. catsup,‘ bread
and butter. melons, cofl'ee, tea.
Supper —Hot oysters, cold meats,
pickles crackers, bread and butter, ber-
ries and milk, tea, coffee. -
WEDNESDAY.
Breakfast—Bacon and liver, baked
p0taioe:, tomatoes, tea, cofl‘ee.
Dinner—Pea soup, roast- beef, pork
l and beans, mashed potatoes, sweet po-
tatoes, catsup. apple pie, bread and
butter, tea, coffee.
Supper—Chowder, cold meats, hot
corn bread, crackers, bread and but-
ter, tea, coffee.
THURSDAY.
Breakfast—Fried ham, veal chops,
hot- corn bread, bread and butter, po-
tatoes, tomatoes, tea, coffee.
Dinner—Tomato soup, roast beef,
corned beef and cabbage, mashed po-
tatoes, bread and butter, pickles, mel-
ons, tea, coffee.
Supper—Cold ham, corned beef, hot
rolls, bread and butter, tea, coffee.
FRIDAY.
Breakfast—Beef steak, broiled blue
fish, fried and boiled potatoes, hot
corn bread, bread and butter, milk and
oatmeal, tomatoes. tea, coffee:
Dinner—Bean soup, roast veal, bak-
ed fish, pork and beans, mashed pota-
toes, pickles, bresd and butter, catsup,
tomatoes, melons, sweet potatoes,
coffee, tea. .
Supper—Raw and hot oysters, cold
meats, bread and butter, cheese and
crackers, stewed prunes, rice and milk,
tea coffee.
SATURDAY. 7 ‘
Breakfast—Steak, fried bacon and
ham, corned beef hash, potatoes, bread
and butter, tea coffee.
Dinner—Barley soup, cold meats,
baked potatoes, pickles, bread and but-
ter, apple pie, coffe, tea.
Milk and sugar with tea and cells at
all meals. '
Heather from the Brae.
In this charming little volume David
Lyall has put forth some Scottish char-
acter sketches that invest the life and
character of the Scottish people, with
new beauty and interest. He has en-
tered with keen insight and profound
sympathy into the common life of this
people, and portrayed it with a realism
and perfection that is most entertaining.
The work is from the Fleming H. Revell
Co., New York, cloth, price 75c.
More Trouble.
Judge Andrew Swleck now of Strat-
ford, but a native and old and honored
resident of N orwalk, has again been
sued on what he alleges to be a fraudu-
lent use of his name by his scn-in-law,
by Marsh, Merwin & Lemmcn, Bridge-
port baukers, who cashed notes for
$6,000.
Mr. C. T. Cornwall accompanied by
his Sunday school class spent yesterday
at Shippan Point. They went in one of
Liveryman Dann’s turnouts and re-
turned home about 9 o’clock after hav-
ing had a pleasant day’s outing.
Hope Hose company proposes giving
a picnic before snow flies.
Made and Merit Maintains the confidence
l
of the people in Hood’s Sarsaparill'a. If a
medicine cures you when sick; if it makes
wonderful cures everywhere, then beyond
all question that medicineposs‘es’ses merit.
That is just the truth about Hood’s Sar-
saparilla. We know it possesses merit
because it cures, not once or twice or a
hundred times, but in thousands and
thousands of cases. We know it cures,
absolutely, permanently, when all others
fail to do any good whatever. We repeat
Sarsaparilla .
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. cure nausea indi estio
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Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil, All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
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even. cempare the ‘size of cans and
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'H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Maiant.
Norwalk Chronicler