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Show GLADSTONE AO t" OrtATOR. I; Great Statesman Hrd Many Tricks for i Use In Argument. ; In bis prime, In a great debato ' when political parties v?rc sot In bat- ' tie array, Gladstone's transcendent , oratorical gifts had full play. Thero ( ; was marked contrast In his manner of r answering n question addressed to ' him in his ministerial capacity. After ; purporting to mnko reply nnd taking , somo ten minutes to do It, ho sat down, frequently leaving his Interro- ' gntor and tho houso In a condition of ' dismayed bewilderment, hopelessly attempting to grope their way through the Intricacies of tho sonorous sentences sen-tences tKBv had listened to. If, as happened In expounding a bill or replying re-plying to n debate, ho desired to mako himself understood, ho had no equal. Sometimes he, with gleaming eyes "llko a vulture's" as Mr. Lecky genially described them pointed his forefinger straight at his adversary. In hottest moments ho beat tho brass-bound brass-bound box with clamorous hand that occasionally drowned tho point ho Btrove to make. Sometimes with both hands raised above his head; ofton with left elbow leaning on tho box, right hand with closed fist shaken at tho head of an unoffending country gentleman on tho back bench opposite; oppo-site; anon, standing half a step back from tho table, left hanii hanging at his side, right uplifted, so that ho might with thumb-nail lightly touch the shining crown of his head, ho trampled his way through tho argument argu-ment ho assailed as an elephant In an hour of aggravation rages through a Jungle. Henry W. Lucy In Putnam's. |