The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1898, Page 4

SPAIN'S NEW CABINET HAS BEEN FORMED Senor Leon y Castillo the Minister of Foreign Affairs. War Portfolio Falls to General Cor- reo and That of the Marine to Senor Aunon. Minister of the Interior—Senor F. : ‘ . . | R. Capedepon. President of the Council of Minis-| g0 " 00 e SenorO. Grelz- | ard. ters—Senor Praxides Sagasta. | Minister of Foreign Affairs—Senor| wnpister of Public Instruction— | Senor Gamazo. ADRID, Mas abinet has been formed a: w Spanish| * follows: Leon y Castillo. Minister of Wnr—LleutemmbGen-‘ eral Correa. | The Premier will act as Foreign Min- Minister of Marine—Senor Aunon. | ISter pending the arrival here of Senor Minister of the Colonies—Senor | o5 § Gir Senor Sagasta has telgraphed Senor Bowem Glign | Leon y Castillo, now at Paris, to come Minister of Finance—Senor Lopez| o Madrid immediately to take up the Puigcerver. | Foreign Office portfolio. fidence, and the proposed tinkering in WAR FEVER ABATING | the Ministry is simply \19:}\":1 by the B | masses with dispairing in erence. THROUUHOUT SPAIN This circumstance, and the opinion daily growing among thinking men | that Spain is drifting toward defeat, | may at any moment determine the for- | mation of a peace party. But it is still Gordon Bennett. ; Premature to speak of peace. The sub- ¢ . | Ject can only be whispered here. The The war fever | memory of Cavite, calling for venge- | Masses Begin to Realize That Certain Defeat Awaits Their Army and Fleets. edly abating in Spain, and 10ng | ance, is too fresh for peace yet. winded debat in the Cortes, reveal- | F e, if Spain is to initiate pro-| ing the helplessness of the country, | posals for it, can be had only alteri have contributed thereto almost as |more fighting. The Atlantic fleet must‘ | either be knocked to pieces or gain a | partial victory as a set-off against | Cavite before the idea of peace with | honor can really take root in this land of Don Quixote, the defeat at Cavite. A ictive feature of the present crisis is that there is not a single pub- lic man who inspires the smallest con- much a CLAIMS BRI River and it is now beginning to move | out of the lakes. Six thousand Klon- dikers are camped around Lakes Lin- derman, Bennett and Tagish, bullding boats and waiting for the ice to move, after which, when once in their boats, they will be in Dawson within two BIG FIGTRES Mining Boom on Little Munook Creek. weeks. The scenes that were characteristic | of Sheep Camp, the scales, Dyea and | Skaguay, are now transferred to the | lakes. he whisky seller, the gambler, | the sure-thing man and other evils of | frontier communities are following the | gold hunters. A noticeable difference | from last season is the unusually large | number of women on the trail. | HAL HOFFMAN. PRAISES THIS LAND OF LIBERTY WASHINGTON, May 18.—Senhor Salva- dor de Mendonca, who has represented | Brazil at Washington In the capacity of FORTY LOCATIONS WORKED FORTUNES TAEEN OUT BY THEIR OWNERS. letters of recall, preparatory With the Opening of the StreamsWill transferred to Lisbon, Portugal. Come a Stampede of Gold Seekers to This Dis- trict. remarkable from the magnificent tribute geid, to our great republic by Senhor endonca, who had occupied the position of Consul-General for Brazil at New York for many years preceding his acces sion to the Ministry, and has had more | abundant opportunity for just_ criticism than falls to the lot of most diplomatic representatives. The Minister sald dur- ing his speech: Opening your since the times as a land of refuge, and establishing your commonwealth on the solid foundation of the freedom of conscience; giving to the world the principles of the Declaration of Independ- ence; affirming by the consolidation of the union and by the abolition of slavery that this continent was thenceforth consecrated to Iib- erty, your people has come to the front rank as & powerful factor of modern civilization. Fearless before the strong, magnanimous to- ward the feeble, deeply convinced that justice and right are the corner-stones of the state and fairness the measure of international deal- ings; industrious, intelligent, law-abiding and peace-loving, your nation can well be proud of its achievements, and no one has had a bet- ter opportunity than I to satisfy myself, by a careful observation of men and laws, of your steady advancement and progress. I have seen your country in its days of joy and of scr- row. I saw, at the celebration of the centen- ary of your 'independence, the past master in the art of war open the great falr of the arts of peace and reveal to the world the double greatness of the nation, which in ten vears had transformed swords and guns into imple- ments of industry. I saw the great hero laid to rest in the heart of your great metropolis amid the mourning of the whole land, and wit- nessed his apotheosis celebrated by the volce of the entire union. I saw the chief magistrate of the nation fallen by an assassin’s hands, and observed the republic continue firm and serene “under the empire of the law. In its joy or sorrow the mation did not depart a mo- ment from the confidence in its high destiny. 1 have visited the different regions of your broad land: I know the active men of the East, the open-hearted inhabitants of the West and the chivalrous Southerner; it has been my fortune to meét the statesman, the scien- tist, the artist, the manufacturer, the farmer and the workman. Wherever the duty to my beloved country will call me I can assure you that my heart and sympathy will be ‘with your noble people and with the standard-bearers of the republican America, which is advancing the outposts of human freedom into the last intrenchments of the past. President McKinley, replying, paid a high tribute to the personal worth and sterling qualfties of the retiring Minister, and expressed deep regret at his transfer to another post, though at the same time he congratulated Senhor Mendonca _hat the Brazillan Government had assigned him to another important mission, as a further lproo! of confidence in his ability and zeal —_———— FEARFUL TRAGEDY ON A PLANTATION SEATTLE, May 18.—General E. M. Carr and Frank Hawley reached Seattle to-day after a somewhat peril- ous trip of 110 days out from Rampart City, Alaska. Mr. Hawley has been in the north several years and speaks confidently of the bright prospects of Little Munook Creek. He reports that great excitement exists there and claims are already bringing enormous figures. Mr. Hawley.says Johnson & Lang- ford refused $50,000 for claim No. 6, and in the spring clean up they will take out $100,000. John Sally, who staked No. 8, sold this claim for $11,000 to ex- Governor McGraw and General Carr of Seattle. Willlam McLean and Ira Hinckley located No. 8, and McLean sold his interest for $10,000 to Al Mayo, Philip Kafenberger, Archie Mitchell and Frank Hawley. There are forty-one clalms on Little Munook Creek, and, excepting No. 2, all are being worked, the amounts taken out averaging about $1 a pan. The pay streak is wide and deep, many claims measuring seventeen feet across. Among the other creeks that are be- ing worked in the Munook district are the Hunter, Chapman, Hoosier, Gold Pan, Chicago, Alder, Russian and Marshall. Hunter is among the most promising. It Is believed that with the great Influx of people on the first river boats there will be considerable of a stampede for Munook and adjoining streams. PLACER GOLD FOUND NORTH OF JUNEAU OF CALIFORNIANS IN POSSESSION. country colonial PARTY ‘Will Purchase the Necessary Machin- ery and Commence Hydraulick- ing Operations on a Very Lerge Scale. HORN LAKE, Miss.,, May 18.—A horri- ble tragedy occurred at the Foster plan- tation, four miles southeast of this town, at 10 o'clock this morning, resulting in the death of four men. Four Deputy Sheriffs—R. B. Campbell, R. H. Campbell, W: C. Cooper and C. I. ‘Jones—visited the Foster place to arrest Nimrod Littlefleld and William Littlefield, his son, both negroes, charged with a murder committed in Bolivar County sev- eral years ago. The negroes resisted the officers, whereupon Deputy R. E. Camp- bell fired, killing Nimrod Littlefield. Tge younger negro selzed a Winchester rifle, and it was used with fearful effect. His first shot killed Deputy ngpen JUNEAU, Alaska, May 14, by steam- ship Queen to Seattle, May 18.—Califor- nia gold seekers have arrived here, re- porting a very rich find of placer gold in ruby sand near the beach between Lituya Bay and Yakutat, north of this place. They have located about 2000 acres of the ground. They are O. H. Savage, Mrs. Savage, who is credited with being the mascot of the party; C. L. Blakemore, a mining expert; W. ¥. Gardner, Louis Meyers of Chicago and Skaguay, and Mr. Wright. With the exception noted all are Californians. They arrived in Juneau last Janu- T}‘i‘e in- ary, bought a little steambodt named (a‘anlx bell lflu‘w!l‘ngt hltxln mm(‘hg head, ea resulting instantly, while a thi the Dora B, and have been hard at | death resulting Instantly, while a third rk making their locations and pros- ing the country ever since. Hard- p was far from being a stranger to them, though they had plenty to eat and wear. Mr. Blakemore is from San Francisco. He says their locations are the richest and most extensive he has ever heard of either in Calfornia or Alaska. The party will go south from here on the Queen. It will proceed at once to San Francisco to report to friends interested with it, and to buy machinery for hy- draulicking on a large scale. The ice has all gone out of the Lewis eputy R. B. Campbell eat a mmf retreat for assistance, and on returning to the scene of the trag- y & posse found the bodies of the dead men horribly mutilated, their heads hav- ing been beaten into a jelly. Bloodhounds were secured and immediately put on Lit- tlefield’s track, and he is caught a lynching will occur. Eround, a corpse, u —_———— William Dean Howells advises you how to succeed as an author in next Sunday’s Call. Read his story. - 3 ———e——— Advances made on furniture -d planos, with or without removal. J. Noonaa, 1017-1023. Minister since 1891, to-day presented his | senility. to being | old age. He was youthful in feeling and | The | even 1 ceremony, which is in many cases little | last. more than an idle form, was in this case | for twenty years, bate. Riimion. | His tndependence ag,g Peslite GLADSTONE WITH THE MAJORITY Continued From First Page. to have arisen until this century. There were men who ruled before Gladstone's time. Walpole and Chatham kept com- mand of Parliament and directed the affairs of the British empire with the firm grasp of power. Smaller men than they have also had this ruling quality. But statesmanship now re- quires, in addition to administrative, the legislative gift, the capacity to shape measures which the expanding requirements of the country dictate as necessary. Supplementary to this the gift of luminous exposition is almost essential, not necessarily eloguence, but convincing explanatory lucidity on con- crete propositions, in which the graces of rhetoric are less evidences of wis- dom than of culture. To lead the House of Commons to-day, to be a leader in English politics, a man should have the quality of originating measures, shaping a policy and inspiring confi- dence among the masses and those who represent them. It is a states- manship altogether different in many respects from that which yet prevails in the rest of Europe, where the head of a Cabinet is still very much the mouthpiece of the monarch, and is held continually under restraint if he has broad aims of his own. An English Ministry cannot hold office without the confidence of the House of Commons. In the capacity to lead the House of Commons on every conceivable subject of statesmanship Mr, Gladstone has never been excelled. No one has trans- cended him in inspiring enthusiasm, either in the House of Commons or in the country. His is not the fame of the dextrous juggler of policies who confutes and triumphs by mere clever- ness, which is afterward laughed at as shallow and tricky. Disraeli was of this type. So different was Gladstone that he almost gave rise to the belief that in everything he did he had con- vietion to solemnify his proposals, whereas in reality much of his action could only have been expediency, ac- cording to his opportunity, and not strictly an expression of his full pur- pose or conception of what was de- sirable. He was wisely content to at- tempt the achievement of the possible, to gain a bit at a time, and to wait for more. No one has had a better gauge of the pulse of the nation and the House of Commons, or knew with truer instinct when to act and when to wait. The countryas awholeregarded him as a high-minded man of pure motives and | pure in all aspects of personal life. | Even in the heat of party strife the most virulent aspersions cast on his policy cannot be said to have assailed | his personal character. The most ran- | corous of opponents during the frenzy of the home rule struggle would admit that in ability he had no match in Par- liament, and would take pride in him as head and shoulders the most brilliant man in the House of Commons. Com- pliments of the most eulogistic as well as sincere character were in 1893 passed upon the venerable Liberal leader, four times Prime Minister of England, by his often venomous opponents Mr. Bal- four and Mr. Chamberlain. A states- man of the scoffing, flippant, laissez faire school, such as Palmerston, as- sertive and meddling in foreign but dormant in domestic policy, is no longer possible as a successful leader in Eng- land. A Prime Minister must work if he is to command respect. Mr. Glad- stone toiled as never statesman before has done, and probably the majority of his countrymen adored him because his oratory was not fine words alone, but a guide to deeds. A more healthy physique than Mr. Gladstone’s was perhaps never seen in | man. He can scarcely be said to have had ailments in youth, middle age or Senility hardly applies to his n physical activity clmost to the | Sir Andrew Clark, his physician declared that there he should not see five- score. Up to within a year his body was sound from head to foot; his eyesight only dimmed and his hearing impaired. He could walk with as vigorous a stride as a young man, erect in gait, the head carried well and the arms swinging. His eves, always deep and expressive, retained much of their fire. and although the lines of his face fell into furrows and pallor took the place of the former ruddy glow, there never was any in- dication of dotard feebleness. He con- tinued to fell trees at Hawarden when past 80, and walking was_delightful to him both as exercise and as a whet- stone to his thinking. As a young man he must have been strikingly hand- some. As an old man his figure and mien distinguished him notably from all others. It was impossible to think this man commonplace, wherever he was. During at least thirty years he | was the domlnating personality of the House of Commons, the foremost’ statesman of his day, compared with whom all others were as pigmies, at the most only eminent in departments or specialties and not invested with his many-sided characteristics and endow- ments. Mr. Gladstone’s career was remark- ably progressive. Just as soon as he left Oxford in 1831, taking a double first degree, he entered Parliament, be- ing returned for Newark in 1832, one of those pocket family burroughs in the practical possession of the Duke of Newcastle. He was a Tory, but mod- erate in his party feeling,and prone ‘to serious views of utility in adminis- tration and legislation. With such a temperament, education in poli- tics toward the popular side was a process inevitable, but it tcok time to step across the di- viding border line. As a devout church- man, he had very strong views on the relationship of church and state, and gave them literary form in a well- known work, torn to tatters as unten- able by Lord Macaulay. The progress he made in thought on this subject is shown in his_legislative achievement whereby the TIrish church was dises- tablished, with the inevitable corollary that all other forms of state church establishments are doomed as soon as the facts and the argument are strong enough to convince the electorate. The logic of maintaining religions endowed out of taxes or grants by the state has vanished. Sir Robert Peel, of whom Mr. Glad- stone to the end of his life was a warm admirer, exercised a great influence over the young entrant into public life. In 1835, three years after winning his seat, he was a Lord of the Treasury and then Under Secretary for the Colo- nies. In 1841 he was vice-president of the Board of Trade and in 1843 full president. This was rapid promotion for a young man of 34. But he had shown conspicuous ability in solving those very problems of statesmanship which were then plunging England into throes of agitation almost as violent as if she were in a revolution. It was Mr. Gladstone who performed much of the work which resulted in the repeal of the detestable and cruel corn laws, and in establishing free trade, the policy which of all others has advanced Eng- land commercially in this century. The talents of Mr. Gladstone shone con- spicuously in this legislation. He had a mastery of commercial knowledge that the patrician statesmanship which had been in vogue for centuries, and which concerned itself with the grand aims of alliances abroad and the affairs of courts, could not pretend topossess,and this was combined with a ripe scholar- ship and remarkable readiness in d was no reason fact, was so startling to “5 country, GLADSTONE'S HOME, IN WHICH HE DIED. free-trader cost him his seat at Newark. His patron, the Duke of New- castle, would have no more of Toryism of his shade. Think of such a nobody being a patron, a mere territorial auto- crat! Mr. Gladstone went to Oxford. His university returned him proudly as a scholar fit to represent it, and for eighteen years he held the seat with confidence. 3 Here again the progress of his po- litical education severed the relation- ship with his constituency. His dawn- ing liberal views on church matters were taking shape in political purpose, and as the university constituency is largely composed of graduates wWho have entered holy orders, he had ar- rayed against him a very large pro- portion of the ecclesiastical voters, and they overthrew him at the general elec- tion of 1865, which followed the death of Lord Palmerston. What was Ox- ford’s loss was South Lancashire's gain. During these years his work made a_stir in Europe as well as at home. He made known by a visit to Naples in 1850 the infamies and bar- barities of government in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and Europe rang with the exposure. He also took the strong ground of advocating Itallan independence, and carned the undying gratitude of the Italian people by his attitude. He next went on a mission to the Ionian Islands, then in the pos- session of England, and the information he obtained led to the cession of the group to Greece in 1864, Two great legislative proposals were carried. One was the commercial treaty with France, negotlated by Cobden, which formed a most valuable bond of sym- pathy and trade during twenty years, and the other was the repeal of the duty on paper, which had operated as a heavy tax on knowledge. It was the removal of this impost which instantly called into existence a number of daily newspapers at the then unprecedented price of 1 penny. No man in English bistory has ever held the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer with thesignal ability which Mr. Gladstone displayed. It is the sec- ond position in the Cabinet, and ordi- narily carries with it the leadership of the House of Commons when the Prime Minister is a peer and is com- pelled to sit with his class in the House of Lords. From 1852 onward, whenever he was in office, Mr. Gladstone was either Chancellor of the Exchequer or Prime Minister. He was first Chancel- lor under Lord Aberdeen in 1852, a year which marks the turning point in his career. The Earl of Derby offered him office in his short-lived Ministry, but Mr. Gladstone declined, and his after- ward wily opponent, Benjamin Dis- raeli, was installed at the Exchequer. Disraeli began as a Radical and ended as a Tory. Gladstone began as a Tory and ended as a Liberal of a very broad though not radical type. It is curious to note that Disraeli also preceded him in 1868 in the honors of the Premier- ship, taking office in February and go- ing out in December, when Gladstone succeeded. = ~ The way was not clear for Mr. Glad- stone as Premier until Lord Palmer- ston and Earl Russell had passed away. Other men have been at the head of Cabinets longer, but none have been called upon so often to form Ministries. Thus William Pitt, from 1783 to 1801, had a tenure of seventeen years and eighty-four days, and was again Prime Minister from 1804 to 1806. Lord Liverpool also held office from 1812 to 1827, nearly fifteen yearss Mr. Glad- stone's first Ministry lasted five years and seventy-four days, his second five years and fifty-seven days, from 1880 to 1885, and his third, in 1886, had the brief life of 178 days. Then in 1892 he formed his fourth Ministry, and in 1893, in his elghty-fourth year, work- ing almost harder than ever he had dome in his life, carried home rule for Ireland through the House of Com- mons, but suffered defeat in the Lords. Quite a number of statesmen within this century have been Prime Minis- ter twice, and Lord Derby was the head of three administrations, but only Mr. Gladstone formed four Ministries. During the greater part of his official life, therefore, Mr. Gladstone was chosen for the highest offices, but he did not lead the House of Commons until 1866, after the death of ILord Palmerston. His_good qualities as Chancellor of the Exchequer were con- spicucus in his thorough grasp of the nation’s finance and his thorough knowledge of all affairs of commerce and trade. Had he thrown the same ardor into the transactions of private business that he bestowed upon the af- fairs of the nation he would have suc- ceeded as a merchant, manufacturer or banker in probably amassing mil- lions. But he had a moderate private income and he was contented with that and his official income, which had the maximum of £7500 a year when he was both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer. b © A budget night was positively inter- esting, W)_mn Mr. Gladstone unfolded the nation’s financial position and sub- mitted proposals for fresh taxation or the remission thereof. He alone could make figures eloquent and luminous, could evolve perspicuity out of debt and interest, and weave a romance out of trade and its fluctuations. The House of Commons listened to his sil- very volce and followed his enuncia- tion of policy on finance with an al- most unquestioning willingness of as- sent, though the opposition was bound to make good its constitutional status by criticism ana occasionally by hostlle votes when details were considered. Ordinarily, a budget speech is a DOS- itive torture of complexity, and dry as dust, and Mr. Gladstone may be al- lowed the rank of genius in elevating financial statements into fascinating oratory. But he did more than this. He made finance successful. He gen- erally had a reduction of taxes, or the easing of some burden to announce, and the revénue was usually redundant, leaving a good surplus to be applied to the re?uctlon l;f the national debt. He was also careful to avoid running u debt afresh, his aim being to meegt afl expenses, whatever they were, out «f current revenue. This was sound finance which kept the country out of embarrassment. So facile was his mas- tery of resource, that his budgets were in striking contrast to those of the Tories, who rarely did anything to re- duce debt and frequently added to it by wasteful muddling, with the result :htntt dw:lxefi thgy]went out of office they e eficits as legacies, not nest e , as did the Libersglm b As Prime Minister, Mr. Gladstone's first term of five years from 1868 was one of remarkable energy. He swept away the Irish church as a state es- tablishment, dealing with it generous- 1y, but taking from it such endowments, amounting to millions, as were clearly public property, and devoting them to national uses. The outcry was great, but the church itself has benefited. An Irish land measure and a complete change of the edicational system of the whole country were part of the legis- lative programme. The legislation, in Fhich had ness and herculean labor in domestic reforms under other Ministries, that discontent had gradually been foment- ing, and when Mr. Gladstone asked for the confidence of the country in 1874 on fresh proposals of beneficial finance, he found he had lost it. Mr. Disraeli took office and was in Downing street until the spring of 1880. There is some reason to believe that Mr. Gladstone at this time contemplat- ed retirement from politics. He did remain in the House of Commons, but not as leader of the Liberal opposition. He abdicated his functions in favor of Lord Hartington, and, as the phrase went, was Achilles sulking in his tent. It thus happened that when Lord Bea- consfleld was defeated at the election in 1880, Lord Hartington was asked to form a Ministry, but declined. The victory had been won by Mr. Glad- stone in the Midlothian campaign. Suc- cessively he had been ousted from Lan- cashire and from Greenwich as constit- uencies, and he had repaired to EQ- inburgh and the county of Midlothian for & seat, and there he delivered a series of speeches so stirring and pow- erful that they made the whole country ring with the enthusiasm of Liberalism, and the Tories were routed everywhere decisively. The majority at Mr. Glad- stone’s back for his second Ministry was beyond precedent. This was also a hard-working Parlia- ment. Two or three Radicals for the first time joined the Ministry, including Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Mandella. Almost an avalancke of legislation was set in motion, and much of it related to Ireland. Another Irish land bill was carried to remedy defects in the former one, mostly due to the selfish landlordism of the House of Lords. The question of home rule was now taking shape ~nder Mr. Parnell's leadership of the then limited but de- termined Irish party, and Irish difficul- ties contributed in no small degree to run down Mr. Gladstone’'s majority and introduce dissension into the Min- istry. Mr. Bright resigned from con- scientious objections to be in any sense responsible for the war in Egypt to suppress Arabi’s rebellion, and Mr. | Forster, who had been plotted against basely by Mr. Chamberlain, resigned because a halt was called to coercion in Ireland under his Secretaryship. Lord Frederick Cavendish succeeded Mr. Forster, and upon going to Ireland to begin his duties was, along with Under Secretary Burke, murdered in Phoenix Park by the Invincibles. This atrocity had the effect of canceling all Irish reform proposals at the mo- ment. At the death of his attached friend, Frederick Cavendish, Mr. Glad- stone was deeply moved. He had con- fidence in his capacity and sincerity for his position, and had probably some complete change of policy in view when selecting him. His first sentence in moving the adjournment of the ng: of Commons after the event was, heart that was full of love for Ireland has ceased to beat.” The Tories came to power again in| 1885 under Lord Salisbury, bu\ in the following year, under a reformed elec- torate and a complete change of con- | stituencies, which now return as far as possible single members, both in coun- | ties and boroughs, Mr. Gladstone took | the Premiership for the third time and | broached his home rule proposals for Ireland. The Irish Nationalists now numbered over 80 out of 103 members returned by Ireland, and the question had assumed an entirely new phase. It was the paramount question of vital politics and must be faced. By means of obstruction or filibustering Mr. Par- nell had hamstrung the House of Com- mons pretty much as he pleased from 1880 onward, and had easily evaded all | the rules of debate framed tc suppress obstruction. Mr. Parnell was still the master, and what might he not do with eighty-five members behind ‘'him? The Premier's measure split the Liberal party up and dissolved his majority. Defections broke out in the Cabinet and in the rank and file. Mr. Cham- berlain was one of those who severed allegiance, and from that day drifted farther and farther apart from Liber- alism, and joined the Tories under their disguise of Liberal Unionist. The home rule bill was defeated by the weak-kneed Liberals and the solid phalanx of Tories, and then for six years Mr. Gladstone ‘and his party were out of office, and Lord Salisbury was Prime Minister. When Mr. Glad- stone again formed a Ministry in 1892 | he had a substantial majority of 42, including the Irish vote. This was proof | assuring that the education of the | constituencies on the justice of his so- lution of the Irish question had pre- | ceeded favorably. In spite of numer- ous difficulties and a malignantly bit- ter opposition which went far to strip the House of Commons of its traditions of being composed of gentlemen, Mr. Gladstone carried his home rule meas- ure brilliantly. It went to the Lords, and they killed it by a vote never be- fore heard of in the largeness of its majority, but Mr. Gladstone declined to recognize a club of Tories as of any weight against representatives re- turned by constituencies, and refused to dissolve Parliament at their behests. Only the desire to do justice to Ire- land kept Mr. Gladstone in power at | an advanced age. His heart was in this work with transcendent intensity. It was the aim of his life to heal the wounds inflicted by England on the sister island, and he has succeeded to a great extent, and thereby assisted very materially in giving stability to the British empire. Irishmen recog- nized his sincerity of purpose, but dis- puted the completeness of his meas- ures, and it was only when home rule took practical shape that the Na- tionalists were for the most part in ac- cord with him. The extraordinary fascination which Mr. Gladstone exercised over the House of Commons can only be judged of ac- curately by those who have observed him in his place on the right or left of the Speaker, as the case might be, when in or out of office. To listen to him was to be under a spell, His voice was silvery, but sonorous, everywhere heard In clear tones. Always his sub- Ject was well marshaled, and his sen- tences flowed in*unimpeded mellifluous- ness with nicely adjusted inflections and emphasis, aided by impressive but not too demonstrative gestures, varying from the lifting of the hand or the pointing of a finger to an emphatic slap of the palm on the box at the table, but this rarely, and, as it were, in a paroxysm of clinching earnestness. His face in speech was a delightful study. His fine, lustrous eyes flashed with animation and every feature was stamped with concentration of feeling. On great occasions he was a grand ac- tor in exposition, debate, retort and generalship, easily leaving all oppon- ents dwarfed and beaten, at least in the style of the combat. What sur- prised in the man was his versatility, his marvelous command of iHustration and precedent, his felicitv as well as fertility. No other parliamentarian could make so graceful a speech on occasions when votes of thanks were needed, or votes of money had to be ered upon royal [CYOROJOXOOYOOXOXOLOOLOJOJOLOIOX OXOXOJOXOJOJOJO] | who made the customary rush to the roof | to avoid the officers. |leg in the fall Mwwm&u-k [oJofoJooloJoJoJoJoRoOJoJoXo) PAINFUL INJURY TO “BOB” EVANS. Copyrighted, 133, by James Gordon Bennett. KEY WEST, May 18.—Captain Evans of the battle-ship Iowa met with a painful accident and narrowly escaped losing his life. As .a result of it his right arm is now in a sling, but “Fighting Bob" is still on duty. h The accident occurred when the Iowa was casting off the hawser o a vessel she had temporarily taken in tow. The line, whipping across her deck, capsized a 600-pound battle hatch which had been stood edgewise near the hatchway and sent it crashing into the cabin oe- low. Almost directly beneath Captain Evans and Lieutenant-Comman- der Kimball were seated at a tadle. The heavy plece of metal wrecked the table, and, toppling over, struck Captain Evans, badly bruising the muscles of his shoulder and causing a severe contusion of the right arm. No bones were broken. PPEEEPEPRPPPRPPOPPPPPPPIPRPPRPEOPRERRRE NEW SLIPPER FOR UNION PARK. JIM WREN WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF R. L. TAYLOR. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1898. ) QEeEeEE00000000000000 [cJcJolS ofolofolofoJolofoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoXoXo) ments paid them in addregses. In mat- ters of solemnity as well as light and happy touches of oratory he was su- preme in saying the right thing free from all gaucheries or embarrassment. He was chivalrous, gentlemanly and courteous, and never descended to vul- garity, buffoonery or cruelty in his ut- terances. Furthermore, he seemed al- ways to feel that what he was saying was right, and the listener had not the feeling that he was listening to rhetoric or the subterfuge of hollow unreality. The statesman spoke from his head and heart. . It would be misleading to assume that all Mr. Gladstone’s utterances were free from the blemish of ambiguity. No man knew better than he how to cloud meaning or no meaning in a load of phrases which sounded well at the mo- ment, but were a labyrinth of doubt when perused in cold print. As a tac- ticlan he had no doubt reasons for re- serve and mystification. On the other hand, when his course was clear his language was lucidity itself, probably copious and well rounded in rhythmic elegance, but apropos and unambigu- ous. Few public speakers have the gift such as he in eminence possessed of being able to carry an impromptu sentence over twenty or thirty lines of print without a jar in_construction or a flaw in grammar. His accuracy was not only in sentences, but in col- umns. There was no need of remod- eling in his sentences. To estimate Mr. Gladstone solely as a public man in Parliament would Seventy-Two Dogs Have Been En- tered for the Big Meeting on Saturday and Sunday. Seventy-two dogs were entered last evening for a meeting which will be held at the Union Coursing Park Association grounds on Saturday and Sunday. Among the entries are many of the crack flyers of the city and country. Consequently the patrons of the leash can well afford to look pleasantly forward to two days of first-class sport. The total amount of cash prizes for the stake is $810, includ- ing the regular and special prizes. The result of the drawing is as follows: Open stake—Orient Kennel’s Uncle Sam vs. M. Nealon’s Van Knap; L. A. Han- sen's Wheel of Fortune vs. W. C. Glas- son’s Terrona; M. Michalek's Fireball vs. Derby Kennel's Fleeting Fancy; Cur- tis & Sons’ Vanity Fair vs. R. C. Scott's Mystery; McCormick’s Black Prince vs. McGarry & Caveny's Pigeon Toes; J. Kennedy's Lillie Wheeler vs. Cronin & McDonald’s Dottie Dimple; J. J. Ed- mond’s Forget vs. E. J. Brennan's Em- ire; Gibson & Sader's Mollle Bawn vs. ., McKnell's Sportsman; C. Strahl's I\loonli}fiht Chippie vs. J. Connell's Senor- ita; . Brandon’s _Moore's crip- tion vs. Kay's Crosspatch; omit much of the man's greatness. He |J. Sarcastic _vs. H. was a scholar, a many-sided man of &g;{fi;;’n's‘s Em% Sffum{)fi's g;:oplxr»{;s culture, and very broad in his sympa- | L vs. BE. . ulliv: cetric; thies with all that is noble and £00d | Andorsemn B e e e ortar s e R o in life. His knowledge of the classics:| vs. ha kennel's Metallic; Shaler & was profound and critical, but he was | Dempsey’s Captain Jack vg. Brown & equally at home in modern languages | Luther's Van Nida; Larkey and literature, and even the Welsh | Hercules ¥s J. McNells SRS n's Lissack tongue was not strange to him. It |{in's Glenstone: J. Littish's would be difficult to mention a domain | John Kerrigan's St. La: of research, outside Qf modern science, | tal's Gallag vs. M. into which he had n# penetrated and | 'HD*‘”’&, k%flne‘lv made good his title as an explorer. His | Ti¢*Dottie ve. Do “Gleanings” and a number of other | fiower; P. Gorman’'s Kingstone works attest his acumen and graces as | kennel's Ray Alfonso; r'. Sulliv an author, and his lectures and pam- | Vs, Orient kennel's Promise Me phlets are equally remarkable for in- tellectual vigor and range of thought. As a conversationalist he Was one of the most charming of men in company, but was perhaps carried away too much into a monopoly of the talking, a trait which characterized Macaulay and Carlyle and is only excusable among the glant thinkers. In conversa- tion he was far from being a grave man. He was often delightfully enter- taining and jocose, especiallly in anec- dotes and reminiscences. In all walks of life Mr. Gladstone was pure and un- flinchingly honerable, and was be- loved of his family, and almost wor- shiped by hosts of admirers and friends. It is the lot of few to have wielded such vast power and influence, and to have used his opportunities with rare wisdom and magnanimous pur- pose. He undoubtedly passes away the greatest English statesman of his gen- eration, a colossal figure in an age of distinguished men. Joins Stanford’s Faculty. PALO ALTO, May 18.—Dr. Jordan to- day announced the appointment of Dr. Frank Felter, now professor of economics and social science in the Indiana Uni- versity, to a place in the economics de- partment of Stanford, made temporarily vacant by the departure of Dr. Ross, who will spend his year’s leave of absence in research abroad. Professor Felter is a graduate of the Indiana University. He received his Ph. M. at Cornell in 1892 and his Ph. D. at Halle in 1394. After one year’s experience as instructor in Cornell he accepted a position as professor of economics and social science at the In- diana University. He will arrive in the fall of this year and divide the work of the department with Dr. Durand. P s A ey Fell From the Roof. Last night Officers Naylor and Meredith made a raid on a Chinese lottery resort located at 915 Stockton street. They found two men in the room marking tickets, o, & Rock’s Master Glen- . Al Aus- bl 1 : J. Perri- o's Belle Seward vs. T. M. Rodgers’ Olga; . F. Rodgers’ Presito Girl v Son’s Maud S; E. Jones' Ga Pierce & Sullivan’s Santa Bella; J. nell's Log Boy vs. T. Butler's Susi Edmond's Morniug Glory vs. Lt tish’s Rosewood; Curtis & Son’s McKinley VS, Boyle’s Mission Boy; Orient ken- nel’s Fair Rosalind _vs. . Hayes' Chi- quita; R. B. Kay's Eclipse vs. J. McCor- .mick’s White Lily; E. V. Sullivan’s Sky- ball vs. J. J. Edmond’s Move On; Pasha kennel's Gilt Edge vs. J. Lennan’s Little Doubt; H. O'Donnell’s Elma G. vs. C. F. Ingersoll's Glenwood; V. Sullivan’'s ;‘esslfi ]\{300;{9 vs. gibson & gfiooro's Moni- or; R. B. Kay’'s Diana vs. J. Seggerson’. ‘White Chief. i - % R. L. Taylor, who has acted in the ca- pacity of sllp@er since the inauguration of coursing at Unlon Park, resigned his po- sition on Monday last and the managers of the park have wisely selected the champion slln{)er of the plains, Jim Wren, to fill the position left vacant. Curtis & & —_———————— California College Graduates. OAKLAND, May 18—The graduating exercises of the academic department of California College were held to-night. The attendance was the largest in years and taxed the capacity of the house. The themes of the graduates were as follows: “True American Citizenship,” T. B. Boekenoogen; ‘An Innumerable Com- pany,” Stella Eshleman; ‘Those Who Think Must Govern Those Who Toil,” Charles_Garth; ‘‘Productive Industry, George H. Hampson; ““Westward the Tide of Empire,’ D. W. Hobson; “The Minis- try of Physical Science,” Aaron Jackson; “Po-Day Is a King in Disguise,” Gertrude Johnson; “The Barbarity of National Ha- tred,” Bldena Lutts; ‘‘Faithfuiness to Life's Common 71-.ngs,” Edith Morrison; “The Genesis and Genius of American Liberty,” E. J. Whitam; “The Heroism of S%ena,fic Research,” Anna E. Wheaton. . Hobson created the most favor- able impression by his delivery, but Miss Johnson fairly outdid herself in her ora- tdon. The sentiments of Miss Lutts re- garding the cruelties of Spain were lust- ily applauded. The entire programme was of the highest order. President Johnson conferred the diplo- mas. At 10 o'clock to-morrow morning the college commencement exercises are One of them stepped |.the, collegE Eor e C e e P ahe SHE sy on an iron gutter and fell to the ground, a distance of twelve feet, breaking his He was taken to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where he gave the name of Chow Woo. 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