The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-02-20
VOL XYII.--NO. AZ.

The chapters he rea from Isaiah xviii
and from Ezekiel and the Psalms were
really quite wonderful for the way In
4 which they seemed 80 describe France.
II was all admirable and heart stirring
Then prayers were beautiful in which
| he spoke of the sick, dying and wound.
ed upon the battlefield, and OF my son.
in-law and daughters. ''A
| In June, 1879, the Queen records
the receipt of the news of the death
of the young Prince Imperial:
! Brown knecked and came in; he said
| there was bad. news. When In alarm.
asked " hat he replied, "Ths young
French Prince is killed" could nos
take It in, and asked several times what
it meant. Beatrice then came in with
atelegram in her hand, and said, ooh,
che Prince Imperial is killed" / feel q
| thrill OF horror now while / write the
words. put my hands to my head and
Icried out, "Ne, no, IL cannot be true" a"
Then dear Beatrice, who cried very
much, as did too, gave me the tele.
| gram. To die In such an awful, horri-
Bile Wsyt Poor, dear Empress, her only,
only child, ffer ali-g0ne was quite
beside. myself. Brown was so distress.
ed. Everyone was quite stunned. Lit
tie sleep did get. thinking of the poor
Empress, who did not yet know il.
The Prince was so good, and so much
| beloved. Te think of that dear young
man., the apple of his mothers eve.
born and nurtured in purple, dying
thus, is too fearful, too awful, and IL IL
nexplicable and dreadful that others
hould not have turned around and
fought for him. DOT ia 3nt
One section Of the diary gives re-
collections of my dear, valued friend,
DR.. Norman Mcleod Scotch chap
lain to the Queen, who is $50 clever,
agreeable, so kind and good. DIR.
Mcleod is greatly alarmed for the
Established Church of Scotland, as
he fears an attempt will be made to
pull it down, though, thank God,
should this happen, q Free Church
and the United Presbytsrians, with
the present Established Church,
would become one very strong Pro-
testant body. | asked him about
Lord Lorne, and he said he had
very high opinion of him.
During her excursions the Queens
privacy was greatly disturbed by re-
porters, When visiting Glencoe she
writes '
The day was lost beautiful and calm.
sat down on grass for luncheon; then
L sketched. Here, however, here in this
| complete solitude, we were spied On by
lmpul ent, inquistive reporters, who
| followed us everywhere. One in par
ticular, who writes for some Scotch pa
per, lay down and watched us with a
telescope. He logged me ard Beatrice
when We were walking about and was
| most imperIInent when Brown went to
tell him to move. He went away at
last. Brown came back, saying he
| thought there would have been q fight,
| for when Brown said the Queen wished
him to move away he said he had quite
| as good right to remain there as the
Queen had. Brown answered very
str3ngly that the highest gentlemen OF
| England would not do what he did,
much less a manly reporter. The other
reporter came up and advised the man
to come away quietly" .....
The concluding page is devoted
to the death of Brown. 1t contains
these sentences o. .aW
His loss to me is irreparable, for he
deseryedls pc 5sessed my confidence.
He served me truly, devotedly, untir-
ingly. To say he is daily, hourly
missed by me, one whose lifelong
gratitude he won by constant care and
devotion, Is but feeble expression Of
the truth. .sst ra.
So far as political interest is con-
cerned, the book is throughout in
tensely disappointing. All the
Queens remarks have direct rela-
ton to personal emotion. Even in
-hel' allusions to the Egyptian war
and the battle of Tel eI kebir her
only thoughts is for the safety of
the Duke of COnnaught. The diary
says: sa '".I"ls 'A7' y No'.
on the eve OF the attack I prayed
earnestly for my darling child, and
onged for the morrow 10 arrive.
Next day she gets telegram an
nouncing a great victory, and re-
porting the duke well and that be
had behaved admirably, whereupOn
she said: .-'' 3 '-
felt unbouhded joy and gratitude.
/ Shaved the telegram TO Beatrice and
embraced her warmly, saying, rWhat
Joy and pride and cause for thankful
ness have we to know that our darling
is safe and SO much praised. feel
quite beside myself with joy and graft
tude, though grieved and think Of eur
losses' I.5s 81 'f s{Eil 'u}