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THE OMAHA BAIL" ( GLADSTONE IN PUBLIC LIFE IPersonal Reminiscences of Iho Great Briton 'by a Member of Parliament. ( FIERCE CONTEST OF PARTY LEADERS \ of the ritlhtiKtcrliiK TnctlcN "Which I'rrcritod Cilnil- M nnr' Cnnrcrnlon to Home Itnlc Public Affair * . Mr. T. P. O'Connor , Irish member of Par- ' 'llament ' , and editor of the London Sunday ( Bun , recently prepared nnd published In the Chlcatjo Tribune the following as his personal reminiscences of Mr. Gladstone nnd na nil estimate of the great Drlton's character : "U IB nearly thirty years since I saw Mr. 'Gladstone for the first time. I had Just come to London , with $20 In ray pocket , and -while KoliiR through nil the agony of look- JHK for work hnd , llko most Irishmen , felt -that I muat pay a visit to the House of Commons. This was In the year 1870. Mr. Gladstone wan then prime minister , and nt the head of the most powerful administra tion ho ever led. "Those were the days before dynamite lind entered Into the political struggle , and It was much easier to get admission to the pallerloB of the .House of Commons then than now. The view which one has from the strangers' gallery Is not good , but I wan quite happy. "It will strllic your loaders as curious , but the first Impression I got of Mr. Glad stone wns somewhat disappointing. 1 was JjyouiiK Irish Idealist and something of an " Irlsh ascetic at the time , nnd I had formed from the photographs of Mr. Gladstone an PWHfely different Impression from that of the man as he stood In the flesh before me. I had Imagined him a thin man , with a thin , necetlc face ; In fact , I hnd exported to look on a medieval saint rather than on a man of Ilesh nnd blood. Mr , Gladstone's face was a great deal fuller than I hai expected , and the voice , deep , sonorous , above all things virile , struck me as that rather of the man of flesh than of the man of fasts mid vigils , which my untrained Imagination had expected to see. And yet there was eomcthlng that seems to mo strangely alike 1n the Impression I formed of Mr. Gladstone at that moment nnd the Impression 1 got on the last occasion I heard him speak In the House of Commons. 'Tor many years afterward I caw Mr. Gladstone constantly at political meetings nthlch he used to speak , nnd afterward as a member of the reporting staff In the press gallery of the House of Commons I Lad abundant opportunities of hearing and neelng him. It was not , however , until I entered the House of Commons , In the year 1S80. that I had mi opportunity of seeing him nt tiulte close quarters ; nnd even after that It was one year before I ever had an op portunity of personal acquaintance. In those far off days there was , ns everybody rcmcmbeis , n llerce and bitter struggle be tween the Gladstone ministry and the Irish party , led by I'arnell , and the two sides used to glare nt each other from their benches In n way that It Is almost tragic now to recall. ' Mr. Gladstone , of course , was the chief object of our attack next to Duckshot Forsterand ; we did not spare him. Nor did Mr. Gladstone spare himself when severe measures had to be taken ngalnst us. The forty-one hours' sitting In the session of 1SS1 , during which wo kept the House of Commons nt bay and which wound up with a coup d'etat that , has pro foundly changed the whole rules and sys- tcm of the House of Commons , was. one of the occasions when I remember seeing an extraordinary proof of Mr. Gladstone's res olution. Tlie rinnl Chnrce. "In the bleak early morning , after a long eight of work and sleeplessness and anx iety , I was crossing Palace Yard -with a colleague to go to the Westminster Palace hotel to rouse Partiell , who was asleep there for tltu night , for wo knew the end was near and that some striking action was going to bo taken against us which required the presence of our chief. As I crossed the yard I saw the figure of Glad- Btonc approaching the private entrance to the house , which Is always taken by ministers - tors , and I was Immensely struck with the Bight of tliIn septuagenarian with bis throat nnd mouth covered with a big comforter BO as to prevent the danger of cold from the keen morning air. Ho walked along all alone , rapid , erect , with ft look of grim determination on his face. "I knew that the Irishmen were doing nothing but their bare duty , but I could not help feeling some wish that the duty did not linolvo such fierce antagonism between us and that stately and resolute old man , who was giving so strong a proof of his energy and vitality , and whose Intentions to Ire land , wo always know , wcro as good as his lights and his circumstances permitted. "As the years passed the ferocity between the Gladstone government and the Irish members continued , and It was the Irish men voting with the torlcs who put Mr. Gladstone out of ofllce In 1SS5. I well remember . member that famous night It was the night of June 8 nnd I especially remember the nlr nnd conduct of Mr. Gladstone. Wo had been fighting his government for five long years , nnd the fight had been one of the fiercest In parliamentary history. Member after mem ber of our party had been imprisoned ; Par- neil hnd spent six months In jail ; there had been an outburst of violence , followed by a crop of executions , and , In short , wo had made up our minds that the long-sought nnd prn > ed-for hour of vengeance had struck nt last , and that we had the fate of the Glad stone government In our hands. When the news began to circulate that the govern ment hail been beaten news that always circulates before the actual figures arc given a thrill of delight ran through the Irish benches men began already to cheer and when at last it was known that Glad stone was beaten there rose on the air tht wildest shout of triumph I have over heard in the House of Commons. Itvninrknlilt * Composure. "That was the night when the late Lord Randolph Churchill climbed llko a school boy on one of the benches of the house , and , taking oft his hat , waved It wildly , Throughout nil this cyclone It was remark- nblo to notice Mr. Gladstone. Ho had nat urally a fiery temper , a characteristic thai accounted for some of the many awkward bcrapes Into which ho got In the course elMs Ms long career , but ns years advanced he had schooled himself Into great self-control "That composure showed Itself In an ex traordinary way on the night of June 8 , tc which I am alluding. In the midst of the tempest he kept on writing on n blotting pad the nightly report which ho had to send to the tturen of the proceeding of the house. Indeed , when ho was asked some question ho did not entirely arise , but , half standing nnd half leaning , with the letter In his hand and the blotting pad , he stood up to face his triumphant enemies. "Ho could not speak for tnoro than thirty seconds , It not longer , so loud was the tumult. Throughout It nil ho remained qulto Impassive. Just once he dropped his eye lid as If ho were communing with himself , nnd wished to show how little he recked of the tumult around him ; and then when ho answered the question put to him It was In a low , oven voice In which there was not even the smallest Indication of a tremor. "As tlmo went on and when It was clear that Mr. Gladstone had definitely done with coercion , the relations between him and the Irish members were of course different , nnd ho and they often bad meetings and con versations. Out It was not always easy to have n conversation with Mr. Gladstone In the House of Commons. Ho was a man who above nil men perhaps that over lived had a constant and Incessant sense of the value of tlmo. "Tho process of dividing In the house Is rather lengthy sometimes It takes ns much as fifteen to twenty minutes , and this was far too largo n space of time for so busy a man as Gladstone to allow to go unused. The result was that ncaily always ho sat down at one of the writing tables which are scattered through the division lobbies and employed the time In writing n letter or In finishing the dispatch to the queen or In some other work. If ho were not nt work In this way ho utilized the tlmo In getting some Information from a member who bad something to say. A Tlirllllntr Voice. "I used occasionally to manage If I could without an appearance of Intrusion to got at the tahlo nt which the old man sat , and even in private conversation nnd In the rather low tone which Englishmen employ In such conversations It was Impossible to keep from being thrilled by the sound of that magnifi cent voice of the great liberal leader. There was never any voice llko It In my experi ence except perhaps the voice of Salvlnl. It was not merely that It was strong and virile , as I have already said , but that there was such extraordinary sweetness nnd rich ness nnd emotion In It ; the emotion of n strong nnd a composed but also ofix serious and n profound nature. Indeed , I think you felt this omnipotence of the voice of Glad stone more In private than In public. "Often have I heard the whole house thrilled with an interruption which the old nan would make In the speech of an op- lonent ; It was a thunder crash or the boom if artillery across the floor of the House ; t alxvays excited attention nnd often led to n demonstration cither of assent or of dan ger. ger."Tho first time I ever mot Mr. Gladstone it dinner was at the house of an old friend f his , the late Sir Charles roster. Sir Charles Foster was a specimen of many uch friends , men who had entered Parlla- nent nt an nnclent period and had kept up ho Intimacy of early > ears with the great ild man long after he had become the most ) otont force In the politics of the world. 5lr Charles Foster was kind enough to put me next Mr. Gladstone at dinner nnd I was more than delighted at the honor. I found that Mr. Gladstone's conversa- lon was quite unaffected. He took the same nterest In small things ns In big ; did not cek to monopolize the tnlk ; In short , was ilmple , easy , natural nnd. modest ; Just what mo would expect from EO great and fine a nature. Not long after this , however , I had n fine opportunity of seeing nnd studying him torn nenr. It Is now nearly ten years ago md yet It seems but yesterday. This Is how t came about : Glnilnloiic nt Home , "Mr. Herbert Gladstone was the president for that year of the Liberal association of Chester. Though the town of Chester Is BO near the homo of Mr. Gladstone and though t has some strong liberal traditions , It has been conservative for some years past. The Iborals are , however , n sturdy and an en- .huslastlc body , nnd they always make a ; reat fight and there was a strong desire that the year of office of Mr. Herbert Glad stone would bo signalized by n special out- ) urst of enthusiasm and work. Mr. Herbert Gladstone requested me to speak nt the meeting at which he was to make his ap- pearnnco as president and I consented. As [ was BO busy at the tlmo as the editor of an evening newspaper , as a member of the [ louse of Commons and ns a platform Bpeakcr , I was unnble to start for the mcet- , ng until the morning of the day 6n which It was to take place and I had a good four teen hours' Journey from London If no more before I got to Hnwarden castle. : was there some little time before I saw any member of the family , but I remember wel the old coachman who took mo to the castle "With , hls wistful face he .spoke of Mr. Gladstone as though ho belonged to him. It was ono of the proofs of the nobility nnd \vlnnlngnes3 of Mr. Gladstone's character that he was always nblo to Inspire almosl passionate attachment toward him In those who wcro brought nearest to him. "After a tlmo I saw Mr. Gladstone , and then ho Invited me to take n walk over the extensive grounds of Hawarden castle. He was then well on toward SO years of age but I pity the man who thought It was al together an easy task to keep up with him Now and then ho would pause to point mo out some- ruin or point In the laud- scape , or to wipe his brow. It was ono o the many signs of bis great vitality that his skin always narked easily ; for that reason he loved warm weather. Well , we talked of all kinds of subjects. Among other things , wo discussed Mr. Gladstone's great rival , Disraeli , and , although I knew ho did not llko his opponent , ho was able to speak of him with great dispassionate ness , and oven with some admiration o some of bis qualities. Com-rriiliiK I'ollUrnl HlviiU. "Tho year I speak of was 1SS7 and DIs racll hnd been some years dead and thl may account to some extent for the dlspas slonntenoss of tone , but still It was rathe remarkable. Ono of the things ho said wa that previous to the Uorlln treaty he hai Bald of Disraeli that he was the most pic turesque figure In English parllamentar history except Lord Chatham , but that afte the treaty of Berlin he withdrew the qua ! mention nnd would put Disraeli as the inos Interesting figure without nny exception. "Thcro were some allusons to Mr. Cham berlaln and there was a curious and unfor gcttablo look came over the old man's fac when I mentioned that name. I said tba what people most admired In his treatmeu of the member for West Birmingham wa the manner In which ho Ignored him. Th old man's face curled up into a thouean wrinkles , a emllo of Infinite merriment cam vtt ijui Absolute purity is the cliief ornament of this fame-crowned beer. VAL.BLAiy BREWING Co. MILWAUKEE , U.S.A. Foky Brofc , Wholesale Dealer * , of- icc Dellone Hotel , 124 N. Four THE 1TAP MILWAUKEE BEER teenth Street. Omaha , Neb. 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It was In some respects the most Interesting part of a day eventful In my life , for I was able In this Journey to got a glimpse into the relations between the. wife and the Illustrious husband ; and their relations are part not only of their own history - , tory , but of the history of their country. Her affection for her husband was so all- persuasive , so Innocent , that It came out In , every word. " 'I have heard that your father had a good singing voice in his youth , ' I said to the son. He answered with the lukcuarm- ncss characteristic of the young when talkIng - Ing of their parents , or perhaps , to bo more accurate and fair , with the deprecatory tone which modesty compels one to sometimes adopt when speaking of a near relative. At once Mrs. Gladstone burst In with : 'O , ho had a beautiful voice , Herbert ! ' and then she told how coming back to London after her meeting and her betrothal to Mr. Gladstone In Rome , she heard somebody singing in a drawing room , and before she know vvho It was , exclaimed : 'What a beautiful volcel' The owner of the beautiful voice waa her future husband , whoso ac complishments as a singer were up to that time unknown to her. MfiifiivtloI'ower. . "Of course , I had a good many opportuni ties of seeing Mr. Gladstone during his last Parliament. Then ns for many years previ ously I had to wrltea weekly and often a nightly chronicle of the proceedings of the House -of Commons. In those chronicles Mr. Gladstone always figured largely. In deed , If one only v\niched him It was not necessary to pay attention to anything else. "Ho had a strange power of attracting and concentrating attention ou himself ; not | i by nny pose , not even deliberately , by none of the small tricks of stage management by which small beings are sometimes able to make themselves the center of the stage , whether on the boards of real or fictitious life , but by sheer force of his dominating personality nnd supreme attractiveness. "It was part of his extraordinarily rich endowment from nature that ho was as re markable physically as he was Intellectually. I always thought him the handsomest man In the House of Commons. The magnificent head , nearly twice the .size of on ordinary man's ; -beautiful white hair ; the large , finely chiseled features ; the piercing and Hashing dark eyes , made the more remark able In their coaltkc blackness by the deadly but beautiful pallor of the wonderful com plexion and the fine skin ; the broad shoul- dera , the erect walk , the atmosphere of abounding vitality all these things made up the most remarkable combination of physical strength and beauty 1 have ever seen In a human being. "And then his activity was so Incessant that It was difficult for anybody else to make any figure. Ho answered all the questions which could bo put ; he listened to almost every word of debate ; he was nearly always oa the watch ; ho was the center core aad pivot of the whole assembly. "When you add that his face was as mobllo and as changeable as nn Inland lake under an April sky ; that anger , enjoyment , In terest , boredom all these Inner emotions were represented on his face as rapidly and ns faithfully as though his countenance was the mirror of hid" soul you will see how In tense was the interest -which" he Inspired and how easy it was , looking at him and listening to him , to understand everything that was going on , Kurt-well Speocli. "I well remember the evening of his lost speech In the Ilotso of Commons. After the shy manner of Englishmen , there was no preliminary announcement that it was to bo the last speech. On the contrary , there was every Indication that the speech was only the opening of another campaign , for It was a strong , pronouncement against the pretensions of the House of Lords. "Somehow or other I got the impression that the long expected and solemn hour of Gladstone's farewell to the House of Com mons had arrived. The impression was con firmed by the fact that when I spoke to a Scotchman , supposed to be cold-blooded , I observed that his eyes were full of tears and that there was a tremor in his voice. "I have to go back to the first night I saw Mr. Gladstone , nearly thirty years before , and to recall to the reader how the grace of Mr. Gladstone's pose struck me. So It was on this night of nights. There was nothing strained in .his voice. Mr. Glad stone was always at his best when he spoke with prefect composure and when he had his voice , his gesture and his mind under perfect control. The speech , indeed , was not to bo distinguished from other speeches ; there was nothing to Indicate the coming good-by. I nm told by another member of the House of Commons , however , who was present , that before ho left the house the old man got up and stood on the step of the speaker's chair , and , putting his hand over his forehead , took a long , last look at that , assembly , In which for sixty years ho had been BO prominent a figure. It was his wist ful and silent farewell. " . W * time you tiave a tijicll of rheumatism try Chamberlain's I'aln Halm. One application relieves thf pain. MrJ. . H. Leper , a well known druuplst of Iea Molnrn , Iowa , had been troubled wlih""Tireumatara ! In his shoulder for over six months. At times It pained him eo much that b& could not raise hid arm. He finally .concluded to try Cham berlain's Pain Balm and wo a greatly pleased with ttie prompt relief which It afforded. A few applications affected a complete cure. i It Is estimated that , , China now contains 80,000 communicant members of Protestant churches , with 20,000 more applying for membership. ' J The Jesuit order Is said to number 14.251" members ; 6,000 of these are priests who rrac1. mass , and 4 , JIG aru students or nevi tiates. Of the twenty-two provinces Ger many Is the strongest and Spain next. A missionary from Uganda stated recently that five years ago 400 natives In that coun try were converted , four years ago 800 , three years ago l.COO , two years ago 3,400 and last year nearly 7,000 , Father Thomas Bwlne Sherman of St. LouU , son of "Old Tecump. " has accepted the position of chaplain of the Fourth regi ment of Missouri mtlltla. which will be mustered into service as the Fourth regi ment , Missouri volunteers. The ringing of the peal of bells belonging to the new German Protestant church at Jerusalem on Easter Sunday created a sen sation In the Holy City , as they are the first Protestant church bells which have yet been heard there. It U stated that the settlement of a na tive-born American In n London Congrega tional pulpit has just occurred for the flrtt time. Rev. Dr. Isaac C. Meserve. who has been for more than twenty years pastor of a church In Now Haven , has that honor. Some time ago the Rev. Theodore J. Shaftcr resigned the pastorate of n Meth odist church In Brownsville , Pa. , to go to work In n rolling mill , soon bccnmn a boss roller , and has Just been elected president of the local branches of the Amalgamated Association of Iron nnd Steel Workers In Mew York. It Is stated that the French preacher haa this -pulpit custom In the churchepyirst comes the exordium , after which hp takes his seat for the communion nnd then preaches head number one. Then be takes his sent for .rust nnd preaches number two. Then another pause for Ills final effort. This method Is said to bo very effective. A recent christening at Camp Ram fay , where the Minnesota volunteers have been mustered , was performed by n private In the ranks , the Rev. John Dallnm. of TJtcelElor. Minn. He was the rector of an KplsropM church at that plnce nnd entered the ranks because his application for the chaplaincy ot the regiment was made too late. The Roman Catholic cathedral Is the fin est edifice in the city of Manila. It is un der the care of the Jesuits , ns nro many of the churches on the islands. It was twelve years In building , nnd cost $1.000- 000. The very finest nnd hardest woods in the Philippines were used for the finish ing , and the structure Is of n bluish tint nmrblc. There are exquisite carvings , some of which hnvu recently been made. Rev. Ernest Voorhls of this city , who was ordained to the priesthood of the Epis copal church In 1SS9 , and some time after , for conscientious reasons , voluntarily with drew from the ministry , has lately been riincnlcally restored to the priesthood by Ulaliop Potter. For nine years Dr. Voorhls has been one of the masters In the Cutler Eihool , n place he still holds. According to the annual report of the American Bible society , which has just 'been ' made public , 1,362,273 bibles were eent out by the society last year , thus bringing the entire hasne during the asso ciation's' eighty-two years up to < H,5Slfil3 copies. Of last jear's books , C22.13.'i wore distributed at homo , C74.8SO of this latter number being sold nnd the'remainder being sent out as grants. The total sum In vested In the books was $1G5,294. : OK "itniini , " MOMV. .VoU' > < MV < i not ril ut KIICP Vnlni- I'rlntfil In Xrvv York. It Is pleasant to hear , cays the Richmond Dispatch , that though the confederacy has been dead these thirty-three years some of . Its notes nnd bonds are worth their face | vnlue. Those particular Issues were printed by a great engraving and printing bouse In New York and were put forth while Montgomery , Ala. , was the seat of govern- ' ment of the confederacy. I Wo presume that no great quantity of this paper was delivered. Certain loyalists of the north made It very "hot" for the printIng - , Ing company In question when they found that the company had done the work for the "rebels , " and they caused the printing to bo stopped. Hence the rarity and consequent quent high price of specimens of the Issues in question. There was no steel-plate printing estab lishment within the bounds of the confed eracy aqd the best our government could do was to make a contract with Hoyer & Lud- wle , lithographers here , for the .printing of their cotes and bonds. This firm long oc cupied the upper tloor of the building at the southwest corner of Ilrond and Ninth streets. From there it moved , we think , to the upper floors ot the Dasher building , I which occupied the lot upon which thu Chamber of Commerce has ijncc erected Its Imposing home. At any rate there was a lithographic establishment In that building when the war closed. Tor the } ast > ear or two of the war , however - over , most of the confederacy's engraving nnd printing was done nt Columbia , S. C. Numbers of the artists , engravers and printers were brought from England , run- nlng the blockade. Others , however , were citizens of Richmond or of Ualtlniorc. | One of these RIchmondcrs was Arthur Dabney , who In May , 1SG4 , having a fur lough to visit his home here , fell In with the Richmond Ulues , who were returning from a campaign In South Carolina. The Dlucs found the enemy oicupylng the turn- plko between Pcteieburg nnd Richmond , ' nnd with the entire regiment wcro ordered to attack. Dabney was In thu lllnes1 ranks ns n volunteer , and was the first man killed on that victorious day. At the close of the war only the frac tional notes were being pnlnted here. For thcda the confederacy had accumulated a large Block of pink paper , that was cles- lined never to be _ used as designed. The paper and tlie profcses , etc. , were all seized and confiscated by the federal nu- thorltlcs , nnd the building at the corner of Ninth and Main soon thereafter became n newspaper ofllco. First It was occupied by' the Republic and afterward by the Ex- nmlner. The editors and reporters of both thoie journals for n long tlmo had dealt oul to them as "copy" paper some of the paper that bad been bought for the 30-cent notojssuc of the confederacy. The prcss- vvoik on those notes was done on a fine doublc-cjllndcr picss , which having cornel Into the possession of the Examiner was deposed ot by that paper to the Charleston News and Courier. Not only was the work of pilntlng most of our notes and bonds transferred from Richmond to Columbia , but our Treasury department established In that city a bu reau , where hundreds of young women wcro employed In signing the names or the treasurer and register. Many of these women went from Richmond and remained In Columbia until Iho war was over. And here It may bo remarked that It was the confederacy that first Instituted In Richmond mend the pi act Ice of employing women cleiks. Previously 11 was the rarest possi ble thing to uee a girl occupying a clerical position. Diicl.liirx Arnica snl > . 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