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The East Huron Gazette, 1893-03-16, Page 3mumilummomommoilre • rsted Coatings and oiesare !rises. We ; etc.. eat std of Goodsc e the first choice. for, unple pound of ou r have said, the stare of things he has be. THE BRITISH PREMIER. hind him has now become so vast t abreast of,the catalogue, ranch lessper. If You want to Save Money_for outsiders no longer attempt to )s Eisave 1 " tend to have mastered their corelativq meanings and valves. Yet he has every item of the whole huge Mass quite at his fingers' ends. He knows everything that he has ever said on every subject under the sun, and has it docketed in its place in those marvelous mental pigeon holes ready for production at call. This quality, or -sublimated aggrega- tion of qualities, is strictly Scotch. There is a certain pathos in the shock with which the English people wake up every now and again to a renewed con- , . sciousness that the greatest -Of living Englishinen is not English at all but I belongs, by every drop of blood in his veins, beyond the border. It was his intrusion of those words about the com- pleteness of his Scottish origin, in his letter to Maj. Douglas Campbell, which lent so wide, a public interest to the discussion still going on over . the latter's book. " The Puritan in Holland, England and America." That one phrase caught the universal eye. Of course, the fact was as old as the hills ; everybody was entirely fam- iliar with it; yet, all the same, England visibly winced at its restatement. The Tory and Unionist papers in Eland— led, as usna.l, by the Times—talked quite as if the venerable Prime Minister had behaved badly in speaking of his descent. All through their diatribes ran a tone of condemnation, as of one who had blurted out something w?,.ab should never be mentioned pubs i One would have gathered from "rte talk that they held the remark to be gen' patriotic. The reviving self-consciousness of Scotland—enormously helped as it is now seen to have been by this past de- cade of Irish agitation—has taken full note of this episode you may be sure. It seems now quite on the cards that the coming session of Parliament may see Dr. Hunter's old plan for the refer- ence of all strictly Scotch legislation to the Scotch members, sitting and debat- ing as a grand committee, put into work- ing operation. From this to an arrange- ment by which this committee should meet in Edinburgh instead of London would not be a long or difficult step. Sanguine men are indeed already build- ing up visions, of such a thing coming about while the Grand Old Man is still with us, and of seeing him in person at- tending, as member for Midlothian, the inauguration of this great change at the old Parliament House in the Scottish capital. Enough would be said then, it can be foreseen, concerning the fact of Gladstone's Scotch parentage to make a permanent and vivid impression on the English mind.—London Cor. New York Times. INTEREST -thee- 8TOFtIES OF HIS LIFE AT MONTROSE. dlways Had His Way—A Parliamentarian From Ms Cificidko®d—Anecdote of His Father and the. Fishwife—His Scotch Blood Annoys the:Tori3f - There cannot DOW be many people roundabout Montrose who remember Mr. Gladstone's years of boyhood spent there,, but the- whole district; remains thiclrencraated with legends of the per- iod. Perhaps, in truth, they multiply among themselves as time goes on, after the fashion of legends. Some of the stories told on- Eskside about' those- far- away days when 40Mestet` :Wnilie'•'- =was' a "bit laddie" bear a remarkable family likeness to tales told of the boyhood of other great men in quite other climes. I picked out one, though, from a budget of these anecdotes related the other evening by a Montrose man, which is characteristic, and perhaps has never before found its way into print. One never can be quite sure of these things, especially since I find that the very "No 1" of our own Chauncey's published series of original and popular stories, that of the widow who saw eel -pot pos- sibilities in her drowned husband, was printed in the "Ingoldsby Legends" be- fore he was born. ' But in Forforshire, at least, they think this particular story of Mr. Gladstone's youth has not gone abroad. There could be much that is entertain- ing told of the father as well, old John Gladstone, who- with the money he made in business at Liverpool kept up the con- siderable estate of Fasque, near Mont- rose, when the century was in its teens, and, I believe, for some time afterwards. In those days, before the rise in the price of wool and the spreading of railways combined to change the character of agriculture in Scotland aid Ireland alike. there was still a large rural popu- lation on Eckside, and Montrose was still on market days the centre of a busy and picturesque local life. Old Mr. Gladstone had little to do with the country gentry, or -rather, because he has been in trade, they had little to do with him. Accordingly, he came often to Montrose for the diversion of company ' and an exchange of wit with the fish- wives on the quay and the hucksters in the market place. Many of his sayings and doings survive in the town memory, though to be fair to the Montrose people they seem to remember even bet- ter the smart things they said to him in tetort. There is one special tale in which hey have a peculiar satisfaction. The old gentleman was, it seems, freer with his tongue than his "siller," and was re- garded by the fishwives in particular as a thrifty body. One of them_ planned a -hi trick upo m f v and as he -was driving into town one day met him on the road, going up the hill, with a cod in the bas- ket on her arm. The master of Fasque stopped her, praised the fish and offeired her a shilling for it—which was only a penny or so under its value. The woman shook her head and said she was taking it up to the house of a country laird whom Gladstone specially hated. Upon this he offered two shillings. No, she replied, the laird was giving a great din- ner the night and "maim has his fush," or else everything would go wrong. This only inflamed the others desire to have the fish at any price, and on the strength of this Meg ran the price up to 7s. 6d. Then she reluctantly consented, took the money and raced wildly back into Montrose to spread the story of her achievement. Old Mr. Gladstone, they say, avoided the fish market for weeks after that. He had great notions about the .bring- ing up of his children. One of these was that they should from the first be train- ed to orderly and intelligent usages of self-management. He encouraged them to discuss and deal themselves with all ' manner of personal questions as they arose, and drew up rules by which they debated these things in the nursery - Parliament assembled. Out of this grew the story I spoke of. One day t sere arrived at Fasque two pictures designated for the walls of the nursery, and the children went formally to work to thrash out the problem of where they should be hung—the butler standing by meanwhile with hammer, nails and cord to execute the decision whenit was reached. The present Premier—it lays a tax on the mind to think' of him, as a little fair -faced lad in knee -breeches and with long curling . hair-hadvery clear views as to; where - the. pieture should be placed and maintained them at extreme length in numerous speeches. The others were against him and final- ly voted hint down, directing the butler to hang the pictures as the majority wished. Returning a little later, they found this done, but they found also that other nails had been driven in the wall at the places favored by Master William. They heckled the butler on this, and he made reply: "Driving nails is no my work, and I jest made the one job of it. You're bound in time to come around to Master Wullie's opeenion or you'll never know peace of mind again." This early characteristic of pertinacity is recalled by stories of the boyhood of many other great men. Almost all the big leaders of peoples and movements must have begun very early in life to have their own way among those about them. What differentiates Mr. Glad- stone from the others is the curions manner in which he has managed to combine this apparent dogged and tile" lees Salty of pgrpose wfeeminglyi most astonishing openness of mind to new ideas and altered conditions. One must use these qualifying reesioua because the experiencekof, aplib i career are of such-en'ormeiis bhii[ and magnitude, cover such an un- paralleled stretch of time and involve such a bewildering variety of subjects and issues, that comment on any one phase of it all has long since ceased to stand on its own legs. To understand even relatively anything which Mr. Glad- , stone says or does it is essential to un- derstand some 5Q other things which, iomewheee, at sometime, he has said or done. The task has grown too big for even the clearest -headed of those who Watch him and write about him day by Now and again the newer and -: or aeagercritics think theyhavecaught him tripping. and they quote against him his words in 1857 to prove their Jubi- lant charge of self-contradiction. Upon the instant he hurls back his remarks in 1851, his conclusions of 1844. and the inferences he publicly drew in 1832, demonstrates with 'overwhelming force they . line o£" olkitinuity connecting all .the ©pinions of 'all these dates, and covert= the scorners with confusion by- that,logty the ohne leads Experiments With Oxygen. In some interesting experiments made by Prof. Dewer of England with oxygen, attempts were recently madeby him to determine what effect- a temperature of 180° C. below zero would . have upon that gas in the magnetic field. Having previously ascertained that liquid oxygen does moisten or adhere to rock crystal, and consequently maintains in contact with that substance a perfect spheroidal condition, Prof. Dewar poured the liquefied gas into . a shallow saucer of rock crystal, and placed it between the poles of a powerful electro -magnet, the result looked for was the total or partial arrest, under magnetic stress, of the violent agitation caused by ebulition of the spheroidal mass, but, on the con- trary, on the magnet being excited, . the whole mass of liquid oxygen was -liter- ally lifted through the air and remained adherent to the poles until dissipated by the heat of the metal; briefly, the feeble magnetism of oxygen at ordinary tem- perature had become a force to which no solution of a magnetic metal offers any parallel. Thus, in a word, was strikingly and beautifully exemplified the relation between magnetism and heat, of which the entire loss of mag- netic qualities suffered by iron at a red heat is a familiar illustration. The Farmer's Better Half. "The gray mare is often the better horse." The following, from the corre- spondent of a western paper, credit for- gotten, is a case in point: About Febru- ary, 1892, my wife said to me, "I want a pig. I am feeding three or four worth- less dogs for you and the boys and I would much rather feed a pig for my- self." I tried to impress upon her the idea that the pig would be & source of more annoyance than profit. I thought asshe'made no reply, that she had aban- doned the idea of keeping api;. I knew, however, that she had a peculiar, knack of carrying her point, and -was-° lot sur- prised a few days later, on discovering in the back yard a diminutive pig in a chicken coop. I said nothing, but kept an eye on the. pig. I was astonished at the way it thrived. It soon outgrew its narrow limits and I built it a comfort- able stye. Though my wife never called - on me for more than one bushel of corn, that pig by December, turned the scales at 300 pounds. The worthless dogs are no longer on the farm, but.. there are three,pigs in the stye thati.wlll` -pu r out eighthundred or a thousand pounds of pork, besides lard and sausage galore. ,-"Ports!(. Elates. Tlie Erna -decorator- of all families that boast such a genius may now get out her . paints and the photographs of the goodlooking members of the house- bta 6 oitsteaplptes with the faces of the f ni l smiling' from their centre are now considered a desirable thing. The fact that in the coarse of time wear and tear (obliterate one eyeof the father, hot wash away part of the baby's -- curls, leaving him prematurely bald, and scrapings scratch the cheek of the mother, giving her the appearance of a prize-fighter, does not matter at all. They are now considered a most delicate and complimentary thing to place before guest.. Electrical Notes. - A new electric switch has been de- signed for use in connection with the lock of a door, so that when a key is turned in the lock lights iniddeatrel on. , A Boston max Bae,been- -. , ted a patent for anet dine affee°' ;,.. ed to playa,nnt maicall bm4oe, mando ' giuta„Majgr, 1) A en 111: eotrical lamp recently tested at%1 = 1 of 20 feet ander water proved n g°reat"attraction for fish. It caused the water to be illuminated with- in a radius of 100 feet. The Study of Science. The scientific department of Ameri- can colleges are growing more rapidly than 'the - academic department. That of Yale, for instance, reports an increase of fifteen per cent. in number of students, while the academic interesse; is only nine tier cent, BUY YOUR Dry- Goods, Groceries;' Boots and Shoes Etc., AT e Glasgow Hous We have made our money on all Winter Goods. The balance -on hand must be cleared out to make room for Spring goods. We will make thy- prices sell them. All heavy 'tweeds, Dress Goods, Furs aDd Overcoats Overshoes Etc., - now on hand will be sold at, and sometimes under cost price. See Our All Wool Tweeds, 40c. Former Price 60e. 6. 46 " 50c. 66 16 75c. 66 Dress Goods llc. 44 " 14c. 16 61 " 12.4c. " " 15c. 61 - 66 " 8c. 61 " 10e. Double width Clo.kings 60c. 90e. Suitable for -ping {{ 11 f1 .50c. "All Wool Undershirts 50c. 44 44 . I6 58c, 61 16 " 75c. Overcoats at . 18:75' 6i 61 " 4.50 61 6,00 16 11 64 66 1/ '4 66 61 '4 11 16 750. 65c. 75e. $100. " 4. 8.50. '1 8.00. Space will not permit urs- to men- tion all the Bargains, but the goods are here and must be sold and we are here to sell them, and prices won't hinder us. So when you come to tows:, come in and see what, ire : aro _ offering and come expectingto some extra good value anct we won't disap nt - you. f Don't Forget- to Eaat:dine'=the - Range = of prints :,at -86,, 'per yard (colors guaranteed.) 0 youNnwant afrthbig1fl ttie -Brie • ofPrayer;Hoesa; If so We have BaI�N �� end choose from at all Prizes. arse range` to S^fr I4zsiT naw is a good time to call "- and inspect the "balance of mg tock of WALL Perna and if you see anything ou like you can get it at Awar Dows Pawns. NLESS you attend to that hack- ing cough of yours it nnay end in Consumption. Try a bottle of Cs$noasa Couag BALSAM, only 95 cents a bottle and a splendid medicine. - ' ET your Subscription -renewed ' for the Meir„ (}Cons, Elsrma.or ANT Oma Pim Pantrr,n. We will get them for yeti And ave meth* portage- ifAT•I<iPiE3i3F of `almost -eThry description, an if anything Special is wanted that we do not keep in stock we will gladly procure it for you. - ' Y:es�t bat" not`least. 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