Show STORIES ABOUT GL IDSTONE when the grand old man dared to say must to the queen oi of england JP from the chicago agnews A fra tradesman lesman in kt st james street has a fine collection of cf which I 1 intend to tell you one of those mornings this tradesman ia is a dealer in spectacles and eyeglasses and bis his slimp ia is patronized by the best people in london it is interesting to hear him tell of the notables with whom 11 M he has had dealings gladstone has traded with him many years sears and the man tells of an e experience per 1 which illustrates illustrate the thong bufu j ness of the grand old mn 11 one time this abo shopkeeper shop i keeper koeper had a visitor in the person ot of a r ch uncle who had come in born ili the country try to theeo see the eights rights and of course the tile house of commons wae was one of the sigi fights its w which in i ell the tile uncle was most anxious to pee it occurred to the tile nephew that lie might without presuming too far apply to mr gladstone for a ticket of admission to ohp gallery of the house it was true that air mr gladstone w waa gladem premer premier pre mer and should hai baiely adli r b birther other ed with a trifling matter of this kind but it was aleo also true that the twenty y veara ars business relations between the rem i er and the tra tradesman deeman justified to a degree the hope that the request should be granted so my friend a polite n note 0 to to the premier the next day happened to be sunday but in tha the morning there came a beatty knock at t the tr trades ades mans door it waa vas mr gladstone Glad htone who on oil his ilia way to church bad had called to leae aeao the he ticket cf ct admi aImi sion Bion for which his humble townsman had asked I 1 am told that glad tone has al always ways been most scrupulous in his ilia attento na no to the humbler classes conducting himself hinie ell toward the lowly with ith a EL t which he does not always observe toward the nobility and the wealthy my own opinion fa paid id tho the blades man I 1 have spoken of ia is that the ilia policy now advocated by mr bir gladstone ia is the worst one that avul ind could co 11 id adopt but all partisanship aside if you were mere to ask me the na name me of the greatest englishman at the resent time I 1 should say Gl altone C y all means G gladstone Glad atone e ia is hated by his p political lotical opponents with A virulence I 1 I 1 able I 1 have a letter from the leading loading literary man in london in wh ulrch ch the tile ex premier is yeter to as a inet punishment sett by god to punish ns us tor for our hypocrisy i a tile common assertion among L ina bitterest it terest adver is that gladstone Gla detone is weakening intellectually that senility baa has developed to an eitra extraordinary ordinary degree his natural banit vanity v and a ud that he ia is now simply a paranoiac yet in spite of his alleged weakness lie iti ig strong enough corej ct peremptorily eiery jiro reposition position to elevate elev ata him to tho the pee peerage ragi 3 he ile might bavo been an earl ear long ion ago but he prefers to remain a commoner moner the old queen has hated and feared him moet most cordially for many years the two have quarrelled quarrel led like cats and dogs doga on numerous i occa ions but gladstone has never yet weakened eak ened ia in the face of 01 ro royalty ally 1170 you ti must do so and so he once said to the quen whereat her majesty bridled up and beato upon him awit herine look fhe cried angrily 11 must d did you eay say and do 0 you know krow sir air N a ho I 1 IL am in ladame 1131 i adame answered Glads gladsone lorle coolly you are tho tile queen of enz land but brit doyon 1 know vow who I 1 am I 1 am m the people of england and in t ahia h is emergency tho the people say must |