Show In GLAD STOVE The following dispatch concerning Mr Gladstone is going the rounds of the press Glasgow Feb 12The Herald of this city says that Mr Gladstone is greatly inclined to stand again for parliament parlia-ment at the first available opportunity in order to support the Armenians Mr Gladstone does not conceal his conviction convic-tion that both political parties in Great Britain have betrayed Armenia In silence and at night the conscience con-science feels that life should soar to I nobler ends than power That is a sentence which Sir Edward Lytton Bul wer represents Richelieu a reading where he portrays the prieststatesman en the eve of losing absolute sway of France and thus he makes him comment com-ment on the thought ISO sayest thou sage and sober moralist Ye safe and formal men who write the deeds and with unfeverish hand weigh in nice scales the motives of the great Ye cannot know what ye have not tried History preserves only the fleshless bones of what we are and by the mocking skull the wouldbe wise pretend pre-tend to guess ithe features Still I were sweetat this point of the soliloquy so-liloquy his messenger enters and supposing sup-posing him to > be possessed of the documents doc-uments that will secure to him his power empire the fierce old statesman states-man flings away the book crying out Philosophy thou legt and clutches for his sceptre So if this dispatch be true the English En-glish statesman who feeling the infirmities infirm-ities of age stealing upon him In a moment of philosophical exaltation laid down the sceptre would now again take I up But It will be a mistake for him to do i He has served England En-gland long and well and in his voluntary volun-tary retirement there is a quiet dignity dig-nity which adds a charm to his active life and rounds out a career which only seemed to need the calm of his present position as a privaite citizen to complete Let us hope that the ruling rul-ing passion of man his love of power will not tempt the grand old man from his retirement |