The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-09
pI,IJNDER OF PALACES
zen ARTICLES AT QUEEN WcTo-
l00 oIus ROYAL RESIDENCES.

N. Spells OF African An"
INV w,nd.or Castie-The Crown OF the
of Abyssinia and the Kohinoor
diamond
o,oen Victoria is the most thorough
!. xsssuectable and the most God fear,
' - all the rulers of the earth, yet
i lug Il Is no person in the world who re-
' lives and retains under his roof
' ''.o amount of stolen property. Wind
.~V castle is filed from cellar to garrett
~ ;.b loot and plumber of every kind,
VIZ, Tho things for which she has no
anu there are distributed among her
'O Zoos ot Osborne, Balmoral and in
london. European wars and conflicts
- civilized nations are not very
'aetoble in this respect, and, in spite
,ho firm conviction to the contrary
It'll nreyails among the masses OF
,oe French people, there is not single
, 'a French clock TO be found in any
y tbe nalaces Of the emperor or Ger
''onv the only bit of plumber which
~" oId kaiser carried back with him to
porlin after the close of the war OF
,S-o hpinp n email candlcstick belong
i ~" 70 the palace Of Versailles, of which
i hahod MADE use throughout his stay,
and which in former days had been
similarly used by King Louis XIV OF
Trance At the time of the old emper-
ar,s death in 1888 it was found on the
rttle fable beside his bedside ut Berlin.
Euoland's wars during the last GO
vears however, have been mostly with
Asiatic and African potentates, and on
tbe strength of the plea that 1t was nee
essary to "give the savages lesson
which they would remember" Queen
Victoria's troops almost invariably
have made it point of sacking the pal
aces of the enemy's ruler, and 1t was
luckv indeed for him if they did not
burn his domicile to the ground. In or
der TO avoid any awkward questions or
y,monstrances, the pick of the plumber
always has been presented to her maj
esty. certain minor pieces being re-
served for the Prince of Wales and for
tbe cabinet ministers of the day.
II is thus that the queen has come
into possession of the Kohinoor dia-
mond, the most valuable i'll existence,
which formerly belonged to the rulers
of the Indian kingdom of Punjab.
Priceless porcelain, silks, jade and oloi-
some enamel represent her share i'll the
loot of the summer palace of the emper-
or of China in 1864. At Windsor, too,
are to be found the crown Of Emperor
Theodore of Abyssinia, taken after the
storming of his stronghold OF Magdala;
the gold bracelets, amulets, collar and
diadem of the two kings of Ashanti;
while quite recently there have ar
rived at Windsor large quantity OF
beautifully carved elephants tusks,
found in and about the palace of the
African king of Benin when his CAPT
tai was captured last spring by an Eng
lish expeditionary force under Admiral
Rawson
India, of course, is largely represent
ed in the collection of plumber at Wind
sor CASTLE and some of the finest pieces
of plate and jeweled ornaments, includ'
ing superb tigers head composed en-
tirely of rubies, sapphires and diamonds
have come to her majesty from the treas
ure house of this or that once powerful
oriental potentate, whose dominions she
has annexed during the course of hel
threescore years reign.
Queen Victoria probably would fee
Mortified at the idea of accepting any
article of value that had been stolel
from European sovereign (barring thu
sultan). But somehow or other the pc
tentates and rulers of Asia and of Afric'
seemed to her to be perfectly fair game
people whom it is quite Christian t
plumber and to deprive of their mos
treasured possessions.
IL is inconsistent and not quite in &C
cordance with the teachings OF tn
Bible, but, after all, it is in keeping
with what her ancestors did before her
Tor on state occasions the great side
board in the Waterloo gallery of Wind
sor castle is weighted down with vas
quantities of gold and silver plate, mucl
OF which was originally destined an
even used for saoramental purposes o
the church and which constituted par
OF the plumber of those British bucca
heers and pirates of the Elizabetha
and Stuart era who roamed the seas i
search of SPANS treasure ships, plum
uering and sacking the cities an
churches of what used to be known i
'nose days as the Spanish main. Mar
qulse de Fontenoy i'm Chicago Record.