The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-15
NARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.

Whose who know James V, of Scotland ',ty as the hlgh-spirited, generous Gbmmons king" the Showdown
 ight of scott's Lady of the Lake," 't uld not recognize him in the utterly
 5nerved young man dying of "brok- y heart" in Falkland Palace. Never Ipust and painfully sensitive, the
 aath of his two sons and the weary
 4uggle in the interests of the com apns which he maintained from his
 ayhood with his unruly barons wore lsn out and at the early age of thirty
 N turned to sylvan Falkland to die. A
 iurier followed him to the sick cham
 h and announced the birth of a
 ughter at LinlIthgow. The jaded
 ng murmured Qeferring to the crown
 aich came to the Stuarts through
 .arjory, daughter of Robert Bruce), 38t cam wi a lass and It will gang wi
 lass," turned his face to the wall and
 a week was dead. The lass who thus tained the sovereignty of the Scots at &e age of seven days was destined to
 othe the Royal Stuart with more re-
 bwn than all the sturdy men of the flhe. At the age of seventeen, as Queen N France, she was perhaps the first Sdy in Europe, but the pathetic part of
 er story may be said to begin only ] hen in her nineteenth year she return s4 widow to occupy the ancient throne WI her fathers as Mary Queen of Scots.
 s an infant Mary was a precious pos
 sslon, for her frail being formed the
 hly direct representative of that long
 he of rulers to which the Scots clung
 ith a loyal tenaeity that was almost 8lblime, and as Queen of Scots she was
 ought in marriage for the heirs to the
 nglish and French thrones The na- 1on was divided as to which offer to Except, when Henry VIII. of England
 Rshly declared war, intending to take &Ehe child" by force, an ill-advised ac- lon that consolidated both factions in Scotland into one national party to re-
 st the "auld enemies" the leader of
 he faction which favored the English
 lliance remarl1ing that though he
 ket the match, he disliket the manner
 f wooin'," and the consequence was snat, escorted by the fleets of France sNnd Scotland, Queen Mary in her sixth Y lear sailed from Dumbarton and land-
 1 at Brest on August 30, 154S. Th1r-
 ben years of happy sojourn were allot-
 ed her at the French court, during
 Thich she became the Queen of Francis
 M She naturally took the side of france in the quarrel with England and
 committed the Go the English) unpar-
 enable offense of quartering the arms If England with those of France and #scotland, thereby proclaiming the illi- Sitimacy of Elizabeth-an insult which SS1he great Queen of England never for sFave. After reign of about a year and sA. half Francis IT. died and Mary sadly
 eturned to her native land to assume n person the government of the Scots.
 With but little thought we may ap- preoiate the disappointment of this young woman, whose beauty and vivac-
 ty fascinated even the gay court of sParis, leaving forever "the loved land Of France, the chosen home of chivalry, he garden of romance" arriving ere sshe was expected in the cold, grey, mis-
 y, cheerless Firth of Forth, and so be- Eng accorded but little public reception Little wonder if she compared Holy food with the glories of Fontainbleau, her scant welcome with the gay pa- sgeantries of France and concluded it 10 be a cold reception to cold home by 5Fa people cold as their climate. The S%ough Scottish barons, however, quick s5y gathered, in Edinburgh and accorded Mary a welcome none the less sincere If it lacked the gesticulative demonstra- Lion of France. Mary's religious train- sang had been in charge of her uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine, and she conse- auently grew up devoted adherent of 85the Church of Rome and, like all of the 8SStuart line (whose strong or weak point x sNs according as we may look at it-was sdoyalty to the old church), she adhered gAto 1t to the pathetic end. This, with Finer prominence in the matrimonial BSmarket, were the great obstacles to a 8peaceful career for the hapless Queen 8of Scots The fearless vehemence of SJohn Knox turned Scotland so com 8spletely to Professionalism that it was Swith difficulty the queen could have #private mass celebrated in the Chapel
 
 arlial prize she ranked high, for it gave la great extension of power to whdceve1 aprince or baron contracted the alliance Negotiations were in progress for 4union with Don Carlos, the heir to the sCrown of Spain, when Mary met a pol 5ished imbecile in the person Of he1 3 3cousin, Lord Darnley, whom she i'm pulsively married She was thus at va riance in religious convictions with he1 subjects-a grave, earnest people-ano had taken for husband one whom they knew to be a fool and vulgar lecher Darnley's profigacy (unhid after the marriage) and the murder of Rizzic forced the unhappy queen to realize the true character of the being on whom she had conferred the "crown matri, monial," and she turned from him ir disgust, strangely enough turning fol counsel to the Earl of Bothwell, a mar who was at least the equal of her hus band in profigacy and far surpassins him in unscrupulousness.
 The advent of Boutwell, as favoritt marks the commencement of Mary: downfall. Between the 1st of February and the 1st of June, 1867, she commit ted many acts that those who wish tC deal kindly with her memory would likt to understand in such @ way as to con done such as her journey to Glasgow to induce her sick husband to come tC Edinburgh, and there left in an unten opta5 ho,,ca oyo +ba outskirts Of fhp pitV