Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-06


dynamite monsters and dAstardly as
eassiOs.
A PettCd seryans and m Eceentrtc
Queen,
You will have heard all manner of
stories and gossipG about the Queens
love for hermenial, John Brown. Some
years ago the Queens singular and not
only public but ostentatious and often
sive attentions to this servant raised q
storm Of social indignation and even
suggested the most unpleasant scandal.
The Crown Princess Of Germany had an
open quarrel with her mother over this
pampered servants relation to the
royal household. The Duke of F,din-
bnrgh was once made to apologize to
him for shooting upon some preserve
allotted 70 him, and thereafter never
spoke 20 him, and the Prince Of Wales
always treated him with the utmost
contempt. John Brown has been not
only the constant but the close attend.
ant upon the Queen ever since the
death Of the Prince Consort. Gossip
has gone so far as TO assert that the
Queen has at times wished to change
the social position of this man from
that off servant to that of a titled gem
tleman.
The Queen ~ NOtoriousIy Pcnurious,
She hoards her wealth like the yeriest
miser, and never spends or gives PEN
ny If she can avoid SO doing, Aud yet
she made this servant rich. She built
and furnished him . house near Bal-
moral suitable for a prince to dwell in.
IL Il commonly reported that he died
worth quite a million sterling, For
twenty years he is the only man who
has been permitted to begin CONVEX
satIOn with tho Queen. Perhaps he has
had more influence over her personal
life than any human being in this
realm since the death Of her hus-
band. He has attempted 10 interfere
in the political destiny Of the kingdom.
W hat all this means no one can account
for accept upon the charitable aud no
doubt tTue>t ground of hercditS. The
Queen Is eccentric. She comes Of an
eccentric family. The Georges were all
an odd lot. The Queens blood breaks
out in many strange ways. Her breaks
are watched 10y her Prime Ministers
and her medical advisers.
No one doubts but that the queen is
dS pure SNliLiSnl. one II III every
way self respecting and above reprOach.
Never did Il more high-minded Sover-
eign rule over a devoted people.
The QueenlhaS always been feminine.
she has always leaned upon some one
else. She never had thought, during
his life time, aside from the will of the
old Duke of Kent. She was as dutiful
.as wife as SHE mad been rs a daughter.
When her husband was taken from aCr,
she, 10y some freak of fancy, turned To
this man servant for human support
and sympathy, and has, during all
these years, given him her confidence
and her affection.
John Brown Was = Handsome Scotch.
man,
somewhat younger than the Queen. Ne
Was shrewd, retiCeut. oppOrtune. He
served his royal mistress with intinit
devotion and colossal patience. He
interpOsed his life three times between
the life Of the Queen and the attempt of
thea>Sassin. Hewasa tyTant in the royal
hou>t hold, aud was dreaded and hated,
not only by the under servants, but by
all the royal attendants. He was not
only the constant page of the Queen,
but, il must be laid, her most attached
companion.
Those vino know Her MaJestry'-
affection for her late personal servant
and friend deeply cOndOue with her in
her great loss. She needs now all the
sympathy and support her rOyalperson
can command. Probably in John
Brown the Queen has lost the only true
intimate friend she had OH earth. She
was good wife and has been a wise
mother, but SHE has held the world at
arms leugth. She has made few con-
fidants, indeed few friends, all through
life. 1t is said that she really learned
to like BeaCoustield through John
Browns admiration OF BcacOnsfeld's
Semitic genius and power. Through
all her reign this splendid jew was the
only Prime Minister for whom she had
personal affection. He was chival-
TOus gentleman aud always land sincerely
consulted his Sovereign and was ad
vised by her. Her political experience
i greater and her sagacity greater than
that Of any subject in her realm with
the exception of Mr.. Gladstone. Mr..
Gladstone has never, except formally,
looked to his royal mistress for guild
| ance, and she uUly locked upon Mr..
Gladstone as political necessity whom
she must endure. With this type Of
mind she ha- no les degree Ofsympathy.
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