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 ''was from no deficiency of pedestrian endurance. No ordinary frame was, indeed, requisite to carry Mr. Gladstone through the superhuman labors which he imposed upon himself. Gladstone, remarked Sir James Graham, in 1852, 'can accomplish in four hours what it takes me sixteen to do, and he works for sixteen hours every day.—New York World,'' March 25, 1894.

At seventy-seven. Sir Thomas Brassey having landed him from his yacht, The Sunbeam, at a point on the Norway coast which did not just suit him, he is said to have walked eighteen miles into town. At about eighty, on a September afternoon, a multitude of persons saw him chop down an oak four feet thick. How many of us can do that now; no matter about our age?

If any man ever taught the wisdom of daily care of the body so as to always have it ready for all demands, no matter how exacting, that man was Gladstone.

"Of Scotch-Irish stock; born at Walnut Grove, Virginia; raised on his father's eighteen-hundred-acre plantation; at school a few months each winter; fond of the blacksmith-shop on the place; he saw his father make many efforts to devise a reaper, 'the husbandman's best friend'; at fifteen he invented a grain-cradle by which he kept up with the men; at twenty he patented a hill-side plough; at twenty-four a self-sharpening plough; in the same year he invented a reaper, much to his father's delight, for the latter had tried to for years; and at twenty-five patented it; smelted ore a while; then made and sold reapers, one in 1840, six in 1843, seven in 1843, twenty-five in 1844, and fifty in 1845, when he got a second patent; in 1847 he opened his Chicago shops and sold seven hundred reapers; and these shops have been open ever since. They now employ three thousand men, and each year produce one hundred and thirty thousand machines. At the World's Fair in London, in 1851, the Times at first ridiculed the reaper, then, after