The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-24

Another thing call to your attention IN
this illustrious woman's career Is that she
is specimen OF high life uncorrupted.
Would she have lived to celebrate the six
tieth anniversary OF her coronation and the
| seventy-eighth anniversary OF her birthday
had she not been an example OF good prin-
ciples and good habitsp While there have
been bad men and women In exalted station
and humble station who have carried their
vices clear into the seventies aud eighties,
and even the nineties OF their lifetime, such
persons are very rare. The majority OF the
vicious die In their thirties, and fewer reach
the forties, and they are exceedingly scarce
in the fifties. Longevity has not been the
characteristic OF the most OF those who
have reached high places in that or this
country. In many cases their wealth
leads them into indulgence, or their
honors make them reckless, or their op-
portunities of doing wrong are multi
piled into the overwhelming, and It Is
as true now as when the Bible first pre-
sented it, "The wicked live not out half
their days" Longevity is not q positive
proof OF goodness, but 1t is prima facie evi-
dence in that direction. A loose life has
killed hundreds OF eminent Americans. "a
loose life Is now killing hundreds Of emf
nent Americans and Europeans. The doc
tors are very kind and the certificate given
after the distinguished man Of dissipation
is dead, says, "Died OF congestion OF the
brain. although 1t was delirium tremens,
or Died of cirrhosis Of the liver" al
though 1t was round OF libertinism,
or Died OF heart failure" although II
was the vengeance of outraged law that
slew him. Thanks, doctor, for YOU are
right In saving the feelings OF the bereft
household by not being more specific
l'ook,all ye who are In high places OF earth
and see one who has been piled by all the
temptations which wealth and honor and
the secret place OF palaces could produce,
and yet next Tuesday she will ride along In
the presence OF 1000 900 people, II they can
get within sight OF her chariot, in the yigor-
Gus old age, no more hurt by the splendors
that have surrounded her for seventy-e eight
years than IL tine plain country woman
come down from her mountain home In an
oxcart to attend the Saturday marketing.
believe more people die Of improper
eating than die OF strong drink. The former
causes no delirium or violence and works
more gradually, but none the less fatally.
queen Nictoria's habits, self-denying and
almost ascetic, under good Providence
account for her magnificent longevity. II
may be homely lesson for seyayesimal
anniversary in British palaces, but II is
worth all the millions OF dollars the cele-
bration will cost, and the laborous con-
vocation OF the representatives from all the
zones OF the planet, IL the nations will learn
the sanitary lesson OF good hours, plain
food, outdoor exercise, reasonable absti-
nenceand common sense habits That which
raul said to the jailer is just as appropriate
for you and for me-"Do thyself no harm.
And here let me say no people outside of
Great Britain ought to be more Interested
In this queens jubilee than our nation. The
cradles OF most of our ancestors were
rocked in Great Britain. They played In
childhood on the banks of the Thames or
the clyde or the Shannon. Take from nv
veins the Welsh blood and the scotch blood,
and the streams OF my life would be a shal.
low. Great Britain is our grandmother
Again, this international occasion i'm
presses me with the fact that woman is
competent for political government when
God calls her it. Great fears have been
experienced In this country that woman
would get the right Of suffrage, and rs a
consequence after awhile reach the chief
magistracy. Awful Well. better quiet
your perturbations, as you look across the
sea, In this anniversary time. and behold a
woman who for sixty years has ruled over
the mightiest empire OF all time and ruled
well. In approval Of her government the
hands OF all nations are clapping, the flags
OF all nations waving, the batteries OF all
nations booming. Look here! Men have
not made such wonderful success of gov
ernment that they need be afraid that wo-
men should ever take turn mt power.
Tho fact is that men have made bad
mess OF it, The most damnably corrupt
thing on earth Is American politics after
men have had 1t all their own way in this
for l2l years. Other things being
there are fools among women as
well as among men-l say other things be-
ing equal, woman has generally a keener
sense OF what is right and what is wrong
than has man-has naturally more faith
In God and knows better how to make self
sacrifices and would more boldly act
against intemperancc and the social evil. |
aud worst things might come to this coun-
Try thau supreme courtroom and Senate |
chamber and u House OF Representatives in |
which womanly voices were sometimes |
heard. We men had better drop some of |
Ihe strut out OF our pompous gait and with |
little less OF superciliousness thrust the |
thumbs into the sleeves Of our vssts and be |
ess apprehensive OF tho other sex. who |
seem to be the Lords favortes from the |
'act that he has made more of them. II |
woman had possessed an influential and |
vote on Capitol hill at Washing
on and in the English Parliament, do you
hink that the two ruflian and murderous
'"siOhS VI 'hV Vhith toulu uuNt gone on |
Until this time with the butcheres in Ar.
nenia and Cubap No. The Christian
iations would have gone forth with
'read and medicine and bandages and
military relief until Abdul Hamid would
lave had no throne to sit on, and weyler.
he commanding assassin in Cuba, would
lave been thrust into n prison as dark as
hat in which they murdered DR.. Ruiz.
I'M no advocate for female suffrage, and | |
10 not know whether it would be best to
lave 1t. but point you to the queen OF
treat Britain and the nation over which
he rules as proof that woman may be
politically dominant and prosperity reign.
rod save the queen, whether now on the
hrone in buckingham palace or in some
ime to come In American White House.
But as all OF us will be denied attendance
IN that sixtieth anniversary coronation [
invite you not to the anniversary OF coro.
lation, but to coronation itself-aye, to
wo coronations. Brought up us we are. to
owe as no other form OF government that
which Is republican and democratic, we,
wing on this side OF the sea, caunot so
'asily as those living on the other side OF
he sea appreciate tho two coronations to
which all up and down the Bible YOU
md 1 are urgently invited. Some OF you
lave such morbid ideas of religion that
'ou think OF it as gong down into a dark
ellar, or out on barren common, or as