The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-18
I'm not yield
To kiss the ground before young Msloolm's feet"

10 AIS ~ eEOG14 OS4bAc sN~1e @oA~~@-
The life of Margaret was a romantic one. She
was the granddaughter of that Saxon Edmund
whose prowess in battle earned for him the sur
rame OF Ironsides. Her father whose name was
Edward ought to have been King of England in
stead of that other Edw Ird who re-estabished
the Saxon line of Kings after the Danish usurpa-
ton. He was then in Hungary and marrying a
German princess became the father of Edgar
Atheling and of Margaret. When Harold was
slain at Hastings, her brother Edgar made an
Intellectual attempt to stay the tide of Norman
conquest, and soon he and Margaret were again
in exile. The ship in which they fed from Eng
land, was wrecked on the coast of Scotland, and
the Prince and Princess were handsomely cared
for by the Scottish King. Margaret's charms
were more fitted for the conquest of a King
than her brothers hastily raised ieyiss had
proved, and in 1910, she was married 70 her host
and became Queen of Scotland, being then In
her twenty-fourth year. And a good Queen she
seems to have been. Her memory is still kept
fresh in Scotland by the name Queensferry,
which was given to the place where she crossed
the Firth Of Forth on her way to Dunfrmline,
where she was married, and the visitor to the
last named picturesque corner of the world il
yet shown Queen Margarets stone" where
she is said to have rested by the wayside. Mar
garet was q true wife and an admirable mother.
Her piety led her to adopt the ascstic habits
which were in those days considered one of the
surest marks of the truly religious spirit. Yet
tradition says that the Court of Malcolm was q
gay and splendid one, and that no one there was
more noted for personal beauty and magniicencs
of apparel than Margaret. But in the midst of all
this regal splendor, she preserved herself ''unspot
ted from the world, and history tells us that it
was said of her that - in her presence nothing
unseemly was ever done or uttered.' Even III the
religious austerities which she ~practised the
sweetness and goodness of her disposition made
itself evident, as was instanced in her daily
practice to remain fasting until she had with her
own hands prepared and served their breakfast
to nine INDECENT women. The adversities of her
youth were In some measure repealed in later
years. A painful illness overlook her, caused by
the long fasts by which she aimed to mOrtify
the flesh and purify the soul. Lying PROSTATE
and with little hope of recovery she received the
news of the death of husband and son in battle,
and the shock precipitated her end. She was
canonized by Pope Innocent II a century and a
half after her death, and to this day her festival
is kept on the 10th of June. When the sour
products of that effervescence which is known
as the Reformation drove the old faith out of
Scotland, her bones and those of her husband
were carried away to Spain and Philip III built
a chapel for their reception in the Escurial.
Many others who in their day acquired a
widespread fame were born or died on November
10th. Those of whom the record is available TO
us all belong to the old world, and both their
times and the scenes on which they acted ont
life's brief drama are too far removed from US
to permit of a living interest being given TO
their stories. Among them was one Jean dAl-
embert, who was born in Paris on November
10Th, 17l7, great as a mathematician, but greater
still as the founder of a work which left its
mark on the age in which he lived and whose
consequences form a long part of the history of
our own time. He projected that great French
Encyclopedia which did SO much to pave the
way for the great Revolution and he with Di-
derot, Voltaire and a troop of other men of
learning and genius carried out the project which
has proved so important a factor in the history
of the world, as well as in that of philosophy.
Jean Lambert Tallien, one of the Terrorist lead
| es during the dreadful scenes of the French
Revolution died on Nvoember 10th, 1920. Six
I--.l.al o,l ton .,aoro ora fhio 1ou dia1 Hanr~
III of England, O prince of whom it Is recorded
that his reign was longer than that of any
other monarch who ever occupied the English
throne, extending to no less than SO years.
We can hardly venture to look for SO lengthy
a reign as in store for another monarch whose
birthday occurs ON the 10th November; our pre-
sent Sovereign Kalakaua /. His Majesty did not
enjoy the advantage Cor disadvantage may We
not rather say of ascending the throne as Henry
did, when little more than a child in years. 1t
was ON November 10th, 1886, that David Kala-
kaua, the son of Kapaaksa and Keohokalole, was
born. No Plantagenet could trace back so long an
ancestral line as the King of Hawaii can. Judge
Fernandez in his york on ''The Polynesian Race"
| gives us the list of His Majesty's ancestors from
Wakea down to Aikanaka his maternal grand
father. These form a genealogy of 50 genera
tons according to the most reliable OF the lists.
Going back seven generations from the present
time we find the point at which the line of the
Kings ancestors becomes identical with that of
Kamehameha /. If His Majesty has the adj
vantage of the Plantagenet Kings of England IN
the long roll of his ancestry so he has also in
the peaceful possession of his throne.
The circumstances of His Majesty's life and
reign are too well known to need repeating
here. Our readers. we are sure, are ready to
join with us in heartily wishing His Majesty
many happy returns of the 10TH of November.
May the reign of Kalakaua be long, happy and
prosperous. He cannot boast of tho splendors
which surrounded Tiberius at Rome and at
Capreae, neither has he to fear the intrigues
which made that Emperor's life q daily care and
finally changed one whose spirit had seemed in
his younger days to rise calmly above all earthly
troubles iuto q ferocious and cApricious tyianl
and n despicable debuuchee. His is a happier
lot, n throne founded on the esteem of his peO-
pie and established by unceasing effort to bone
fit his people.
GoD SAVE THE KING.