Mr. Gladstone’s One Sleepless Night
Mr. Gladstone's One Sleepless Night.—Dr. Theodore Cuyler relates a conversation he had with the British Premier when in London. He says: “When I congratulated Mr. Gladstone on his vigorous health and power of achievement, he told me that he owed his good health to two or three rules well carried out. He carefully avoided the sins of the table, he took a great deal of muscular exercise with his ax, and he never allowed anything to rob him of his sleep. ‘When I shut my chamber-door at night,’ said he, ‘I lock out all cares of State and of everything else.’ He said that only one thing had ever kept him awake, and that was one evening when at Lord Lyttleton's place he had begun to cut a tree down, and darkness and a storm came on. He laid awake in some anxiety lest that tree should blow down!”