The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-21
TnE nAPPINEss OF QUEENS.
A Pathetic Translation Prom the French
when SHOWS How the Heads that Wear
Crowns Die Uneasy.

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Crowns Die Uneasy.
There Is nothing we hear sooner tina
this. When We are children our nurse
charm us, and make us envious with thei
marvellous stories Of life In the palaces
. Can we aver forget the Prince Charmin
, and what the princess 'wore-her dres
the color Of the sun; how she rode in
carriage ornamented all over with rubles
that her sceptre was a single diamond; ant
her crown made Of stars snatched from
Heayen2
Later the Almandck de Gohd recalls
these golden fables Of our infancy, and we
see again the Queens with their blonde
hair and bright eyes, their crowns high
upontheir heads, and thei1 great cloaks Of
velvettrailing from their naked shoulders.
They smile with the smile Of tranquil god
dessei; they are beautiful among the beau
tiiul, happy among the happy; before
them one bows OF goes upon his knees;
the earth is made sweet by the caress OF
theirfeet; men only breath as they nod;
Joy Is eyerywhere about them.
0, Jovereignsl o, rulersl look what des-
tiny las done for you.
QUEEN Victoria reached the throne
adorable, charming! Crowned at West
minser when Just sixteen, she married
the husband OF her choice-one OF those
Cobugs, who were the handsomest men
OF their time. She loved SO ~passionately
that ihe poisoned her own life and that OF
her husband, who was a martyr to her
idolaFy. Her jealous Imagination saw in.
fidelity everywhere and always; ladies'
once her dear friends became odious 10
her. She drove away the ladies OF honor
haaagt Court ball, she slapped the face
ola retty girl}to whom Prince Albert had
addresed a few words.
A lay came when death called this hus-
band so fondly loved, and, on that day
died also, England's Queen. The heart
had sone out OF the body of the woman,
and bothing was left. Everything seem.
ed tahaye been brusquely torn away, and
so graf was her despair, and 80 long did IL
last, hat, years afterwards, they discussed
a reency In Parliament. The motion was
detected; but after that the living corpse
OF sb who had been Victoria came, from
timdo time, to open Parliament. The
Engsh who respect the dynasty, lowered
theiselves before the eternal grief OF this
old oman, for they Jaw still the crown OF
theaueen above the widows cap. But
sheleyer smiled save when the name OF
Prize Albert was mentioned.
Te Queen Of Belgium has an only son.
Thichild Of ten years is as sweet and ex.
quite as a cherub. This royal infant Is
SICK 1t is night and he suffers, for he
burs with fever. He tries to smother his
crit Of pain. The Queen, n%otwithstand-
niger agony, worn out with long watch. I
ingtnd obeying the supplications OF her i
lads, retires for a little repose. But she j
canot sleep. She leaves her bed and re- /!
turE in haste to her SOL. She approaches i
soff. The Prince appears to be soundly i
sleiping. His breathing is equal and !
cas-. The pale face OF Marie Antoinette !
ligtens with happiness. Her boy is saved i
siln he can sleep. She goes out. Then :
thtoyal baby calls to the doctor. The i
door bends over him. "Do not tell
mder, he says. ut makes her so happy 4 !,
TO link that l Sleep" I
lat child will never be a king. To- {
mfow, in the evening, he is dead. g
1Aoteh fehie SLhCo tuo peiSual IIluCe 4
is sad, and no other child has come to {
thQueen. At Brussels they seldom see g
he She is always with herself. II she 4
60 out she sees nothing, hears nothing. i
Ell hair is white. Her dress is always y
blk. Her ladies OF honor are old and L
ug, and made still more uglyu.by the
ua ennui Of this court in lethargy. Mo-
ondare smile before the Queen, who still n
wps, who weeps always, and who n
crs, .For me there is nothing more in Z
thworld." Il
L alone the Empress OF Russia plunges r,
In the intoxication Of her tears. She g
kfRs that, for a long time, the true crown b
ole Empress Is not that which she wears. a
sfyas7lWays with her the portrait OF y
thEmperor-the likeness OF the man y
Wioves her no more. In
(%arearet Of Italy dies slowly with a ter 9,
rip malady. She knows that her days al
Numbered. IN
10 Empress Eugene lies upon the nj
gtnd with the seven spears driven right 90
thigh her heart. Throne, husband, son, NJ
btty-all are gone. gt
If having touched the crown OF Spain, d.
twoung Queens fall as if struck by az az
LINING. The Duchess OF Aosta flies to y,
II and wastes, in sickness and agony, r,
toath. Mercedes, that Queen of eighteen 10
ye, for whom life seemed so full, is &C
cols marble in her tomb. III
fistina, OF Austria, hears nothing but 81
thioise OF the pistol, sees nothing but ST
thleam Of the dagger.
kimilian went to Mexico, and paid
fois ambition with his life. When the
grt closed over him it held also the "a
wd for Carlotta. Since then her pres e. y.
en- the past. Her brain is blinded, and ";
shbes not even know that she suffers. ii