The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-04-28
JOHN BROWN.
Some of the Stories About Queen Vic-
tOria.s FavOrite ssiIlie.


fOriass EavOrite ssiIlie.
From the Philadelphia TeIeprapbl
On one occasion the queen, accompan-
led by two of her daughters, was re-
turning to Balmoral from visit TO Glas-
salt, when suddenly two horses started
aside from new road they were unac-
customed to. 1t was an awkward spot
for an accident, but John Brown realiz-
ing the danger at glance, vociferated,
"Pull up!" SO vigorously to the coach
man that serious consequences were
averted. AS it was, the carriage was
overturned and the royal party were
thrown out. At little distance the
coachman lay insensible. The outrider
was on before, and only John Brown re-
manned to do duty for all. With great
GOODNESS he whipped out his clasp-knife
and quietly cut the traces to free the
struggling animals, and bore the occu-
pants of the carriage to place of safety.
1t is alleged that only for a moment he
was perplexed, when his lamp went out,
and an emphatic exclamation escaped his
lips, which the royal ears that heard it
construed into an ejaculatory prayer.
The outrider CHANGED to look around as
he galloped along, and seeing no lamps,
he RODE back to ascertain what was
wrong; but the danger was past. He has
served the queen in greater strait.
When young mad O'Connell darted out
on her from the shrubbery at Bucking-
ham Palace, pistol in hand, he positively
plucked the puny wretch up from the
ground as if he had been an offending
kitten, and held him out so, clawing the
air with his paws, till the queen had
passed out of harms way.
So, too, he was death 90 all intruders
on the queens privacy. Once when be
met some reporters whom he suspected
of DIGGING her footsteps for 'copy," he
ordered them off the public highway as
though he held all the highlands in fee
1t was grossly illegal, but they went
1t is well known, too, that his ready tact
has smoothed the queens way into the
humble highland homes she has honoled
with her presence. ''You see, he is one
her majesty puts heart into u.s." With
out native pioneer it can be easily I'M
agiued how difficult it would have been
for the queen TO make her way amongst
people whose language and manners
and customs were strange to her. And
upon the other hand, how little SYM
patty there could have be n between the
exalted lady and the simple cotters! Her
majesty sometimes made her calls upon
unfortunate days, when cleaning" was
going on, and there was thorough turn
up in the household. On such occasions
an ordinary herald would have been non
plussed, probably. but not he. Coolly
seeking out the guidwife, he informed
her officially that the queen was at the
door, and IN the same breath rated her
soundly for rot being able to receive her
majesty. He did not leave her in the
Iurch, however, but vigorously set to
work to whisk pals and brooms out Of
sight, and make things straight before
the royal visitor appeared on the scene
In return for his faithful and discrim-
mating service, the queen was at times
inclined to be overgenerous in substan-
tial acknowledgements. On one notable
occasion, the queens son-in-law, Prince
Christian, who was the ranger of Wind
sor Forest, proposed before the close of
the pheasant season to have a small shoot
ing party of his own friends. AS is the
custom in such cases, he submitted the
names to her majesty, and they were APP
proved, with the hope that Mr.. Brown
should be included IN the number. He
politely bowed to this request, but in
stead of sending out the invitations as he
had intended, he withheld them, and he
and "Mr. Brown" had the sport to them
selves. The queen, however, was by no
means satisfied with this arrangement.
and as the slight came from the one
member of the royal circle for whom her
majesty has a most profound regard, and
whom she consults more than any other
member of her family, this little annoy
ance was felt with all the more acuteness.
On another occasion, when the court was
established in Ravena, IN Italy, Brown
was indisposed. As he had no faith in
the skill of any one raised south of the
Tweed, he declined the services of Sir
William Jenner, who was deemed clever
enough for her majesty, and clamored
for Dr.. Marshall, the ordinary attendant
of the royal household, who was absent on
a holiday, the first for several years. So,
In order to appease Blown, DIR. Marshall
travelled across Europe TO attend to bis
very ordinary ailments, at all expense to
her majesty of some hundred guineas.
A more substantial reward than such at
tentions as these, however, was given to
Brown year or two ago, when her ma
iesty had built for his use, within the
grounds at Balmoral, a plain but spa
cious square mansion, occupying apleas-
ant situation in the center of a lawn-like
expanse of the royal demesne, with a
carriage drive leading to it from one of
the avenues. This abode was doubtless
intended for his use in his declining
years, after his royal mistress had pa sed
away, but it was destined never to be
permanently occupied. Brown remained
III personal attendance on the queen up
to the time of his death, aud he sat ID
his accustomed place behind her carriage
when the last attempt was made upon
her life, at Windsor, little over year
| ago.