The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-02

AldSs IOE TIC EEF-
elries, and the worse than Bel.
shazzar feasts, and the more than He
rodian dances, and the scenes from
which the veil must not be lifted. You
need, however, in order to appreciate
the purity and Virtuouh sp1endor of
Victoria's reign, to contrast it some
what with the gehennas and the pam
denUnlums Of many of the throne
rooms of the past, and some of the
throne rooms of the present. / call
the roll of the queens of the earth, not
that / would have them come UP or
come back, but that l may make them
the background of a picture in which
can better present the present septua-
genarian, 50 soon to be an octoge-
arian, now on the throne of England,
her example SO thoroughly on the
right side that all the scandal-mongers
in all the nations in six decades have
not been able to manufacture an evil
suspicion in regard to her that could
be made to stick: Maria of Portugal,
Isabella and Eleanor and Joanna
of Spain, Catharine of Russia,
Mary of Scotland, Maria Teresa
of Germany, Marie Antoinette of
France, and all the queens of England,
as Mrs. Strickland has put them before
us in her charming twelve volumes;
and while some queen may surpasS our
modern queen in learning, and another
in attractiveness of feature, and an
other in gracefulness of form. and an
other in romance of history, Victoria
surpasses them all in nobility and
grandeur and thoroughness of Chris
tian character. hail her! the Chris
tian daughter, the Christian wife, the
Christian mother, the Christian queen!
and let the Church of God and all be-
nign and gracious institutions the
world over cry out, as they come with
music, and hammered host, and million
voiced huzza, and the benedictions of
earth and Heaven: "What wilt thou,
Queen Esther?"
Another thing call to your atten-
ton in this illustrious woman's career,
is that she is a specimen of high life
interrupted. Would she have lived to
celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of
her coronation and the seventy tn
anniversary of her birthday had she
not been an example of good principles
anu ROOu w 1ll6 GLlCEG nave
been bad men and women in exalted
station and humble station who have
carried their vices clear on into the
seventies and eighties, and even the
ninetieS of their lifetime, such persons
are very rare. The majority of the vi
ciOuS die in their thirties, and fewer
reach the forties, and they are exceed
ingly scarce in the fifties. L ngevity
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 indulgences, or their
honors make them reckless, or their
opportunities of doing wrong are
multiplied into the overwhelming, and
it is as true now as when the Bible
first presented 1.-THE wicked live
not out half their days" Longevity is
not positive proof of goodness, but it
is prima facie evidence in that direc-
ton. A loose life has killed hundreds
of eminent Americans. A loose life is
now killing hundreds of Americans and
Europeans. The doctors are very kind
and the certificate given after the dis
tinguished man of dissipation Is dead,
says, "Died of congestion of the brain"
although it was delirium tremens, or
"Died of cirrhosis of the liver" al
though it was a round of iber-
tinism, or Died of heart fail
ure," although it was of ven
geance of outraged law that slew
him. Thanks, doctor! for you are right
in saving the feelings of the bereft
1. Il
Look! all We who are in high places of
the earth, and see one who has been
piled by all the temptations which
wealth and honor and all the secret
place of palaces could produce, and yet
next Tuesday she will ride along in the
presence of 1000, 900 people, if they can
get within sight of her chariot, in
vigorous old age, no more hurt by the
splendors that have surrounded her for
rs years than is the plain country wom-
an come down from her mountain home
in an ox-cart to attend the Saturday
marketing. The temptations of social
life among the successful classes have
been so great that every winter is a
holocaust of human nerves, and the
beaches of this tossing sea of high life
are constantly strewn with physical
and mental and moral shipwreck. Be
ware! all We successful ones. Take a
good look at the venerable queen as
she rides through Regent street and
along the Strand, and through Trafal-
gar square, and by the Nelson monu-
ment.- What is the use of your dying
at 40, when you may just as well live
to be so? If you are doing nothing for
God or the race, the sooner you quit
the better; but if you are worth any
thing for the worlds betterment, in
the strength of God and through good
habits, lay out a plan for a life that
will reach through most of century.
Again, this international occasion I'M
presses me with the fact that woman is
competent for political government
when God calls for it. Great fears
have been experienced in this country
that women would get the right of
suffrage, and as a consequence, after
awhile. women might get into con-
gressional chair, and perhaps, after
awhile, reach the chief magistracy.
Awful! Well, better quiet your per-
turbances, as you look across the
sea, in the anniversary time, and be-
hold a woman who for go 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 are waving, the batteries of all
nations are booming. Look here! Men
have not made such wonderful sue
cess of government that they need be
afraid that woman should ever take a
turn at power. The fact is that men
have made bad mess of it. The most