Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-09-13
MiseelIann.
Anecdotes Of Victoria.



| Many years ago there was man in
Athens-one Aristides, on whom was pop
ularly bestowed the title of The just"
He wore this honor, prouder distinction
than the crown and purple of an Empe-
ror, meekly; but the capricious A,heni-
ans, then as in Paul's day eager for
new thing" and soon firing of anything
old, grew mortally weary Of hearing the
grand title, and SO banished him and made
his virtue shine all the brighter by con-
trast A few years ago we had great
President, who brought from humber Of
fees and private life, the grand and simple
characteristic ofhonesty. He was eloquent,
witty, fearless, devoted, patriotic, we
all knew and loved him best as "honest
Abraham Lincoln" Yet some there were
who grew sadly weary of this title. 1t
seemed to exasperate and aggravate them.
They were as angry and enyious as though
he had secured an unfair monopoly of that
viriue-taken out an exclusive right at
the Patent office. And so they carped
and sneered and DETAINED, till he ceased TO
vex them with his upright life--till mar
tyrdom set the seal of Immortality on his
honesty.
And now, in England, it seems, the
lpeople are growing little weary of hear
ing of the womanly virtues that over-top
and out-shine the crown of their sovereign
lady, and envy and calumny are at work,
corrupting like moth and rust, the charac-
ter Of the best Queen that ever sat on the
British throne. There are many of her
subjects with whom loyalty is part of
religion, and not the smaller part-who do
the Queen more than justice--exalt her
into Guelphic divinity-whieh she isn't.
But there is another and rapidly increas-
ing class-the gay and idle, who find the
+" Court circular" no longer amusing, and
mercenary shopkeepers, who find trade
dull-who will surely never appreciate her
rare good qualities till she lies at rest, by
the side Of the beloved husband, whom
according to courtiers, haberdashers, and
jenkins, she mourns so immoderately, and
a Prince, pleasure-loving and perhaps dis
solute, reigns in her stead.
The Queens book, now being published,
r | II e A Al.
cause a reaction in public feeling, and
bring home to every honest mind realiz-
alton of the inesfi,nabIa r-~efsr wIieh such
, an example of tender, constant affection,
and of daily Christian thinking and living
in the highest family of the realm, has
i been to England and the world. Desper-
ate democrats and rigid republicans as we
are, we may profit by that example.
When / was in England heard seve-
raj pleasant anecdotes of the Queen and
her family, from a lady who received them
from her friend, the governess of the roy.
al children. This governess, a very inter.
estingyoung lady, was the orphan daughter
of Scottish clergyman. During the frs
!. year of her residence at Windsor, hel
/, mother died. When she first received
:; news of her serious illness, she applied tt
!, the Queen for permission TO resign her sit
a uation, feeling that to her mother sh
owed a more sacred duty than even to he
: Sovereign. The Queen, who had beer
much pleased with her, would not hear 0
$. her making this sacrifice, but said, in
"a tone of most gentle sympathy, 90 Go a
an an once to your mother, child /; stay with he
IN IN as long as she needs you, and then com
ssFs back to us. / will keep your place 70
oy you. Prince Albert and will hear til
en- children's lessons so in any event le
4, your mind be at rest in regard to you
pupils"
: The governess went, and had severe
weeks of sweet, mournful communion wit
E. her dying mother; then, when she ha
seen that dear form laid to sleep under III
,ep no daises in the old kirk-yard, she returne
- to the palace, where the loneliness of roy
al grandeur would have oppressed her sol
on. ON rowing heart beyond endurance, had it NJ
been for the gracious, womanly sympatll
of the Queen, who came every day to h
y school room,-and the considerate kim
ness of her young pupils; year went BY
the first anniversary of her great 10
dawned upon her, and she was owe
whelmed as never before by the ute
TX loneliness of her grief. She felt that !
.ss a. one in all that great household, knew ho
ON much goodness and sweetness passed o
ives of mortal life that day year ago.
nth could give with her one tear, one thoug
and to that grave under the Scottish daisi,
Every morning before breakfast, whi
ray the elder children took with their faith
and mother, in the pleasant crimson P;
ford lor looking out on the terrace at Winds
fosk her nun;,s came TO the school-ro fol-