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Show rt OGDEN, CTAIIj THE MOItN'ISO EXAMINER SUNDAY MOJININQ, Andrew Carnegies Particular Crony England's Most Distinguished Plain Citizen John Morley, Whom Carnegie has Persuaded to Visit America for the First Time, Won His Place in Public Esteem by Paying no Attention to Public Opinion. OK AND BIOGRAPHER GLADSTONE WAS AT FIRST AN ALARMING FAILURE IN POLITICS A REVERENT MAN WHO USED TO SPELL "GOD" WITH A HK HAS NO AMUSESMALL "Q MENTS EXCEPT HOOKS WOU LI SACRIFICE EVEN A MINOR PRINCIPLE TO SAVE EITHER HIS PARTV OR HIMSELF. FRIEND "HONEST JOHN." It la not to Morley'a profound scholarship, bia rare Intellectual gifts, bia brilliant literary arbievemeuta or bia statesmanship that be owea tbe unique poaition which be occttpiea la public esteem here. People may differ from him on matters of opinion the majority have generally dona an but political Mend and foes alike era all one in their belief in Ida bedrock boaeaty of purpose, it la tliia which baa won for Curtis Drown.) Al last Andrew Carnegie baa succeeded in getting hia particular crony, Jao.Murley undoubtedly the moat intiuiata of bia friends, and alao iba man who of lata baa had moat Intiuance over him to premise to go with him to America. Kp thia interesting pair will act forth In n few day, after having talked It nil over at Skibo Cattle tor the last two weeka And the Right Hon. Jobn Morley will He cornea nearer be worth seeing than any one alee to being the successor of bia old friend Gladatona aa him the familiar sobriquet of "Honest John" In the Unties of Common. Not even for the advantage of hia rty and for party ends many good men have done Konte shady tlilngi and found no difficulty In quieting their fonaclenePB will John Morley stray by a hairs breadth from what he believes to lie the right course. On thia implacahle rectitude he furnished a striking example early in hia parliamentary career, in the general election of 19fi he had then been only atood for three years In lh Newcastle. Organized ' ' r had thers declared In favor of iSic ei'tht-hoday. I Copyright. 1904, by London, Sept. 20. WfeMt Chew, Mm luvi-e-h- nr THK MIGHT HON. JOHN HOMLHT. Os rase Is, Uss at US.Mnl Mia u "tut tks Usltsd Btatsa England's most distinguished plain cltisen, partly because of hi great name aa a man of letters and partly because of the height and general remoteness of tha political pinnacle on which ha alts, looking down rathef sadly un the squabbling and muddling that goes on below him. There was a shrewd and sympathetic a Zang-wllipicture of John Morley In Israel novel. "The Mantle of Elijah, of which tha statesman who ia alxiut to vial, the United State fur the first tluw was undoubtedly the hero. Therein yon can get sortie Idea of the only man in political lite on whom the King ha conferred the recently Invented order worth conOrder of Merit-- an siderably more 1o John Morley Ifthan he tha peerage he could have had bad cared for such tawdry things as coronet. Carnegie's personal devotion to John Morley la ao pronounced as lo have Whenever the become proverbial. statesman speaks, either In the Commons or on the stump. Hvro if he the can get there millionaire, drinking in every word a if It were gospel, and applauding like a achooilNiv every time he g'ta a Whenever Carnegie cornea chance. to Li niton, these two qitceily assorted pa Ik are snre to be together most of ihe time, and whenever the of Skibo is in the Highlands, the lalch-sirinis always out for his dearest I Pititliurg-Kkih- o g friend. and Insisted that, their parliamentary representative should adopt the same view. Hut Mr. Morley believed that rompulaory limitation of the houra of lalmr by legislative action Inimical to the interests of tha workingman. He declined to obey the mandate even If it cost him hia seat end it eery nearly did. Arreptlng office In Gladstone's new ministry as chief secretary for Ireland he waa fared with the necessity, in accordance with English law, of again Bpiealing to his constituency for election. Opimsltion to him on account of his altitude on the eight-hoquestion was atmnrer than aver. The temptation to temporize would hsv been Irresistible with most man now in public life. His defeat would have administered a staegerlug blow to Gladstone's government and ' might have Involved Its mllapoa. Apart from al rnniddera-tlon- a of his own nolitlcst future on seemlnrtv high nlanslhle reasons for tstnnerlng with hia convictions. Rut such a course never seemed to have spevestrd Itself to hia mind. He went down to Newcastle, nailed Ms colors with firmer lisnd to the mast, fought the fight over again, and won It again by a greatly Increased roatnrlty. Since then, an proofs of ills Indifference to personal and worldly nnccess have accumulated, respect for hl character has grown even stronger than admiration for Ms great Intellect. pal powers, lie is commonly regarded. tut nut as s partisan, torn a a among t steamed, an advleer of the nation in times of doubt, and one whose chastening la accepted in time of trouble. It was, by the way, Gladstone's selection of Morley aa Irish Secretary, which first caused a personal estrangement between the Grand Old Maa and Mr. Chamberlain, producing a rift within ths luta that, quickly widening, made the music of their friendship mute. The pushful Birmingham member had expected the office himhe Had obtained it the history of self. the liberal party in recent year, might have been a very different one. hut it made no difference in the cordial relations between Morley and Chamberlain. Though they have so king been political foes, they remain fast frienda When Iarliament is In, session "Our Joe" and "Honest John often drive down to the House together aud indulge in a friendly fight aa to who shall pay the tabby. NOT SO COLD AS liE SEEMS. In moat reaMtcls the two men are striking dissimilar. John Morley ha not a personality which makes for popularity with tbe masses. To moat people he appears as a stern, unsympathetic riermn the incarnate genius in a frock coal of s,l ! but. lie baa an austere phyami b siognomy which keep people at a distance. hut those who know him Intimately. aa Andrew Carnegie does, declare that the common view of him as a frigid philosopher who is indifferent to all tbe softer emotions is founded on an entire misconception of the real man. Ha has a rich, well cultivated imagination and a great deal more of the poetic teiniierainrm than moat of hia contauiMirariea In private lire he is described as one of tha most genial of hosts and cordial and delightful of rompanlonn hut one thing he lacks which marks him as a man apart from most of bia fellows. He neither Ha has no amusements. rides nor ryrlee, nor does he Indulge In that favorite past! line of the man much given to meditation fishing. Golf has never tempted him. There ia no record that In his younger days he ever played cricket or football. From hia youth up only intellectual pleasures have appealed to him. He revels la long walks arruaa the hilla or solitary meditations In country lanes. Still more does he enoy a good book and a shady seat la some quiet garden. He seldom goes to a theatre. His tme relaxation is music, of which, ilka Mr. Ilalfuur. be la passionately fond. Hut from the House of Commons or the platform he delights must of all to retreat to hia library, where, with some well thumlied work lu hia band, ha forgets tbe intrigues of tha lobbies and the heresies and vagaries of hia political associates. While to the world at large he appears as tha embodiment of hard, cold intellect, he la aa tender with animals aa if ha were a believer In metempsychosis. At one lime when living in the country soma distance from London, at the top of what la called tha Hogs in the luxury of Hack, ba Indulged keeping a horse, and the noble animal used to ba sent to tha nation to meet bint. But ho could never bear to ride behind the horse except when on a The boras tolerably easy gradient. used to walk down the hill to meet him and used to walk up again In front of him, and It was not until ho reached the summit of the hill that ba entered tha vehicle. While niget meg ant. aith W. T. Stead as his assist, 2, 1901. BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS Now Mr. Stead is a first fleas Journalist, though he has made several d irighttulJy Lad break. He has a admira.loa for Mr. Morley, but magazine is a citing a philosophicalfrom running a very different thing daily paper, and Mr. Stead ha frankly stated hi opinion that as a newspaper editor Mr. Morley was uoi a success. "Mr. Morley'a mental characteristic." he says in one of his character akecebes, "la out asy- - hut solidity. ol aJnd waa a Thia lack of nimblehe-of a drawback to him aa aa editor Jour-aliat. daily paper. lie w a not a horn lie was deficient la tha range of bia sympathies. No power on earth could command Mr. Morley a attenof the matter that tion in three-fourtfiiis the papers. He i in intellect an aristocrat. He looked down with infinite contempt on mot of the trilJos that interest the British tomfool, as to tile general reader used sometime he playfully designated when consideration at management clashed with editorial aspirations. He had no eye for news and he was toi ally devoid of ihe Journalistic tuntiuct. To him a pulpit from uwpaper was simply a and aa which he could preach, who are abpreacher, like all of ushe was apt at sorbed ia our own ideas, times to he a little monotonous. have it was rather hard on Stead to to aubinit to Morleya blue pencil and to find his articles returned to Rim, as he records, "with all tbr 'fj1' for lag pasaagea struck out. for naverity of was a great atfckU-or style and restraint and sobriety waa "Hut," writes Mr. Stead, there never any trouble in the office- - He believed in authority and 1 believed as one '' implicitly in obedience. N took lilwrtiei with Mr. Morley. Every ? one went more or 1cm in When the thundercloud gathered in hi waa eyes or the goutwe all minded our P a bis extremities, t the Pall Mall Gazette. But and q we all liked him. and, for my part, l one before had never worked with anywaa at once with whom comradeship a au'-and a such pleaure H19 MAIDEN SPEECH An FAILURE. when Morley was only twenty-sevehe first tried to enter raTllHinajnt and met with crushing defeat. again, years he waited before tryingforty-six and It waa not until he was with nt that lie found a constituency Hit him. elect to faith in him career In the House of Common ha furnished a striking exception to the rule that only those who enter it in their young manhood esn xchieve ntgn Parliamentary renown. Hut hi maiden siieech waa a failure. It waa carefully and prepared, foil of weighty mailer, read beautifully, but aa he painfully stumbled through U. with parched tongue and blanched fare, it fell flat. It seemed to hia friends that the diaclple to repeat tha tragic waa demined Parliamentary failure of hia maater, John Stuart Mllla The poaition that he has long held aa one of the ablest aiteakera In the House of Commons waa acquired by alow, It In dogged effort. He always had could not him, but for several session orator get it out. Aa a platformas a Parlia-he now shines even more than mentary debater. Hut It waa some sra before he mastered that art by warding carefully prepared addresses d letting himself go trusting to the re in hia belly.'1 to use a favorite riylean phrase of hia it la only a great man that ran win b friendship of great men, and many rat men have linen numbered among lin Morley'a friends. The intlmale that exist ail between him and at apostle of sweetness and light pro-foun- Manager R. Alexander Grant announce that the opening of the dramatic proper at the refurnished Grand Opera House will occur on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 10th and 11th, shea Ue gifted actress and the Ogden favorite, Florence Roberts, will appear In her two latent successes, Teaa of (he of DTbervlllee" is n dramatization Lowlands." two of the finest and pretentious productions that Mias Roberts has ever made. 'Teas of tbe of IVL'bervilles" is a dramiuuitatUm Thomas Hardy's famous novel by the late Loriiuer Stoddard and waa originally produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre lu New Vork, where it had a long run. The scenes are laid in rural England and there are ample opportunity for magnificent stage pictures, l it story is on of the moat powerful and impressive In the range of the drama "Marta of the Lowlands" 1 a Spanish romance by Angel Guimera, a Catalonian patriot and poet. Although hia plays have been popular in all the Latin countries for years. Marta ia the first to Its translated into English and teceived its first production last Oct filter at the Manhattan theater in New A urk City. While Miss Roberts' appearances have always been of fashionable anil social imimrtance, iter forthcoming engagement will be doubly as under tha new conditions. Several large theatre iTU parlies are arranged and there doubtless be many elaborate toilets displayed aa fashionable society will In out In force. Manager Grant is makfor this ing elaborate preparations event which he Intends to make memorable in tbe theatrical history of Ogden. n ust h r D11 ? strela Is still under the direction of W. Sisters, Fanny Trumbull ar.d p K. Ninkervlila Montrose, ail headliners fa vaaer"J After an absence of a year or two the Western and Pacific coast cities, where she has for five or six previous seasons been n most welcome annual visitor, Miss Jane Corcoran is to return to us during tha coming season aa n star. She ia to be presented at the head of her own company, under the management of Arthur C. Alston and J. Emmett Baxter, In Pretty Peggy, the very successful IVg Woffington play by Frances Aymar Mathews, which scored n distinctive hit in New York last season and the season before, during its two lengthy runs at the Herald Square and Madison Square theatres. Mias Corcoran has long been recognized aa an exceptionally clever young actress, and aa a star it ia reasonable to presume that she is to hare a brilliant career. FREDERICK WARDE AND suf-flee- FLORENCE ROBERTS THE LOWLANDS. AS. MARTA OF arranged for W. E. Nankeville's Wall greater Haverly's Sinatrele, which or- that of artist before the ganization ia to be aeen at the Grand, Americanany other He ia the one Amerpublic. Oct. IS. When the curtain goes up n huge ican conductor and composer who haa watermelon ta aeen which fills the en- won international fame and success, is equally popular in Europe tire stage, then the melon opens and and who shows n plantation scene in the sunny and America. Bousa ia Juat beginning year of hia present band Southland, with the dark )ra at work tha thirteenth in a field, all enjoying themselves eat- and ! about to embark on hia seventh tour. He has made ing the succulent fruit. After this, another drop goes up diarloalng g regu- three European tours with distinguishlar first part" semi-circ- le with twelve ed Buoreas, and ia contemplating n end men and a host of singers and mu- fourth in the near future. He will be arn sician. The principal with heard In thia city at nn early date, the Haverly company this season are rangement! to that effect having rebeen effected by the local manthe comedians, "Billy Van cently and "Jimmy Wall. Haverly's Min- - agement Grand Oct 14th. Manager Grant promise a lively Life was Goethe's Das Gottliclie'' evening next Saturday at the Grand, the Divine Tbe last years ia wellMa when he will present the newest edithe Divine. The last verse ia well tion of Flnnlgan's Ball" with Gallaworth quoting as tha faith by which gher and Barrett in the leading roles, Mr. Morley llvea Literally translated supported by a strong company of comedians and specialty artiste The it runs: latest song successes of the metropolis TTa the glory of man have been Introduced and new and To be helpful and good. handsome costumes provided. Tit Unwearied procuring company Includes Stoddard aud The useful, the right: Mayme Taylor, Fred Wllsop, Homer Of the gods we grope after. re-io- ns end-me- well-know- n that time. With such a hackpounf and with such a tempestuously story, nothing la wanting to rnsti Salammbo" the big show piece of thi present theatrical season. From the many elaborate productions made by managers Wagmhsk and Kemper in the past. one may sell imagine the glittering gorgeous sti(i settings tbey have provided for It ia said they have exported hot less than thirty tlumsznd dollars on costumes and scen Ty slow, Delightful incidental music written tj the eminent composer. Henry K. Hailey ia another feature which is Mid la make the play a delightful as well m a thrilling evening's divrrtlon. Tte costumes are by Madame FrcMaper from designs by Mrs. Seidel ol U Metropolitan Opera House. X V York Bspt New York. Oct. FraiiK Iledley of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, controlling Manhattan elevated and subway pte ertiee, haa been appointed general ager nf Ihe company. Mr. Hcdlejr h gun bis career aa a machinist. So groping after gods.1 and finding ts none, to this faith, both in hia and hia practice,, he waa certainly been true. "The one commanding law la that men shall do right, if tne very heavens fall, he says somewhere. He is a viritable Puritan of pollUca, with a luuison for rlgbteousness. MUCH INTERESTED IN AMERICA. Moat characteristic of tbe man was hia presentation to Cambridge University of tbe late lxrd Actons splendid library, which Andrew Carnegie had pnrrlmseil as a gift for his chum. For some time," he wrote to the Chancellor of thn university, "I played w Ith the fancy of retaining the library fur i.iv own use and delectation. Hiit I am not rovctoiia of splendid possession!: life is very short, and such a collection Is fitter for a public and undying Institution than for any private individual. pre-rep- CARX BOB'S SPLENDID GIFT TO H1B BKST FRIEND. BsaaH UN Srtwa's Uknir 1 SO.UUU Vstaae- - Mug af TU of ft Joka Maflar, US M Latter lWchlsd Ilia ii!eet Present I h t a.Heh i.i Kere iLA Onllee-to Uliswir. anS. with Ihe firifuTo ChBhrlilfSb I.,.,,.,, Jt 1 ' lerahieTVsiuag Cur Maces ua ZaTabSw1 tkl ,l,ft.., i , kuuh gftlneJ Mm iiHcgnition. and he waa Invited to Join the hand of brilliant young men who weie fighting the early battles of the Saturday Rei lew. The late Lord Sali-- ; liury. Fir William Hr.rcourt and other men who subsequently heipctl ntako l lstory weie among his a.M fates on the Saturday Revllcr. a It soon ( ante "it he (ailed. In 1M7. when only etitv-nlnhe was made editor of the ''orlntghliy Review, a position which ba been railed the blue ribbon For of the English literary world. fifteen year he controlled It deatlm . and meanwhile wrote some of hia best known hooka. Then he entered the realm of dally journalism and for three year was editor of the Fail Mall lii , : ! ill era ry atyic. e. : i I '' ' will be in Wagenhels- - Kemper, pendous ecenlc production of -- sll amnbo. The new play lg found"T on Flaubert's wonderful novel of name and is the wurk of the ry.wj dramatist Stanislaus Stsitgc. two leading characters id Maihu m! Salammliu. Mr. Stacge ha, fuaJ scope for the robust forccfol ii,,,.'.' of Mr. Wurde. and the beauty and dramatic power of wu! Kidder. Although there exist hut little &uu. entic history of ancient earths where the action of the play ,7; place, there la sufficient data to rant the conclusion that the Sousa is the greatest conductor of magnlflcance and extravagance the gieatest hand in existence, and he ancient republic has never Imh n atth enjoys n following far greater than led by any form of government trans-continent- al isn't, abide cm he Is very partial to them, preferring them to Uiy.s. it Is perhaps because they are more addict-- ! ctl to a life of quiet contemplation, ami a iv rot eternally on I lie go. SiV.I.LEH GOD WITH f A I.ITTI.B "g it i rather curious to mall that first John Morley. who. when he sDiifht to enter puli'Ic life, was fterce- ly assailed a an athdHl. and denumic-t'- J from the pulpit because he once Mpellod God. Christ and the Holy (ilm:. without the intiial capital, was designed by his faiiicr. a Blackburn surgeon, ' mr ilie church. Hut In his Oxford day he fell under I lie influence of .Iniin Stuart Mill s terhi igs. and f.ir lin-wn 1:1m. thereafter, the clmr.-ptMsihle. It. wai from Mill work he iirbihcil that itairion for jut! Ice which iins siways distinguished him. 1'iiniiiig to l.ondon in the early aix-- 1 when just over twenty, he sought 'in, In make a living by hi pen, aud weut through the 118111 Grub street experience of young literary aspirant, at ouc time hatiug lo sell some of his he- -: loved book lo keep the wolf from tlw dour. Hut hard Mines did not laet ' long with him. HI power of logical rcHsoulug, combined with the clnrm of Kat IlYN KIDDER IN "SALAMMft) HAVERLY'S MIKI8TRRLS. A moat novel first part" has been ur I JOHN MOm.KT'fl DRW Hot SB AT WIHM.EDON. Wekr m TW Kil'liif ib H ffe I H'o f i - X' - lons-lr- r ft Xrit.i. Gazette, OCTOBER biography of Gladstone ia a monument to another friendship. Hut among all hia friends, tlm one who exercised the influences over him most, beneficent when his mind was still in the formative iwrloij Is. as he had acknowledged. GmccMg rnlarliullfto-MeddkkowiiilGeoi ' Meredith, the novellst.lt was Meredith, more thnn any other, who took him out of himself and awoke in him that feeling for nature which has ever since remained one nf the great-epleasures of his existence. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS HOME. His intense love of nature la well shown in hi nw home on the outskirts of Wimbledon, otic of the prettiest suburbs of London. In many respects the house ia charaeterintts of its of it that which occupant. The greet the passerby la severely plain and sombre. Hue hark of it is a large and beautiful garth'll. And here, connected with Ih house Itself by a covered paseavc. Mr. Morley has built a study, where, nmong his books he does bia work, finding solace and Inspiraand shrubs and tion in the tree that he sec when he glances out. of it-- window. And here he reicive hi friends ard shows himself aa he la and n"l as the world conceive him to he. His life la said to be a happy one. hut Mr. Morley Is one of those wive o' great men who stay very much 111 t i background. She accompanies her husband when he take part in public gunetfona (nr vlits disMntilsbcd people. Tbey have na children, although Mr. Morley has a daughter by a former marriage. There Is not space here n go Into the question of Mr. Morley" rellglou or lack of If. That is set forth in his writings. nut denunciation of him as an atheist because be rejects the claim of Christianity to be regarded as a divinely Inspired religion has long given ay lo the perce;ition among the best Bad rings that sentence "life is very short from Mr. Morley, for he will soon be within four years of the allotted span. For many years he lias wished to visit America. Alfred Mosely wanted him to come along when he took out hia educational commission, but Mr. Morley was then too busy with his "Life of Gladstone to accept the invitation. Besides, as a member of n dclrgnllon pledged to a specific object. he would hardly have found an opportunity for doing mnch' spying around on his own account. Ha bos always been greatly interested in ths of American poliworking machinery tics, and -. 'Timcnsely pleased that he to witness the fierce batwill he n tles and huil scene of a Presidential election. Iacidentally. while in New York he will investigate Tammany a lilt and try to find out the secret of tlii tiger's strength. Educational and industrial matters will engage v.ttch of his attention, and generally h.t will try to ascertain why Uncle Bam is Aa forging ahead of John Bull the biographer of Cohden and one of the great apostles of Free Xrd it is not likely, however, that he will become a convert to Protection. He will he heard occasionally in public, hiving already consented to address the Pittsburg Chamber or Comnovce on November 4. He is one of the men who never permits himself to be int j. viewed in England, nnd tha American reportcQt will probably find him as exponents of Christianity that he ia a hard a proposition to tackle as the man of intensely reverential spirit. He Archbishop of Canterbury. once told a friend that his "Psalm of FREDERIC HARLAND MORRIS. xt How-er- a don-.e-::- .' -- eel-do- w FLORENCE R0BEP.TS AS TESS OF THE D'VRBERYILLES |