Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
C. T. u. COLUMN.
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QUEEN VICTORIA.

#stween that date and the accession
III Queen Victoria lie 1,O37 years. But
Itlwn that long stretch of time there
lines a direct line of descent from
y glands first soveign to her present
81 ereign. Egbert was one of Vieto-
Is grandfathe~s, so were Alfred the
Freat and William the Conqueror and
enry I. and Edward III, and Henry
Il, the first of the Tudors. And on
Ill., Scottish side of the line was NAL
JIM and the great Bruce, hero of
ia nnockburn, the Stuarts, from the
an who fought beside conqueror at
Hastings, to James VI, who united
he two thrones and kingdoms. So
hit Alexandria Victoria Guelph is at
nee Saxon, a Norman, Plantage-
ID. a Tudor, a Stuart and Hanove-
"a.
But this is not all. She is also a
III pet and Valvis, of France, and a
|hristian and Waldemar, of Denmark.
nr more than 400 years her grand
les were on the throne of France.
been Isabeau, of bad name and
licked work in the story Joan of Arc,
rs one of her grandmothers. Her
randfathers ruled over Denmark for
lore than $50 years, and even Bohe-
la tried one of them on her throne
II a winter in the person of the
Frederick of Palatine.
over before did human being as
nd a throne with so much royal
bod in her veins. The daughter of
hundred earls' has been pronounc-
a myth; but that Victoria is the
aughter of bewildering number of
ibgs and queens is no myth.
AeBlood tells.n But this stream of
val blood tells strange and tragic
J we'll as great story. 1t is story
storms, of battles, of victories and
Heats, of plots and crimes, of death
d the bloody field and murder in Sc
ct chambers of castles and dun
IONS. What little thing might have
rned it aside! Another repulse IN |
at fierce struggle when the sun was
|tting on Hastings, and it might not
I've been. Or if Mary Stuart had
1T made that foolish marriage with |
|e boy Darnley, who would be on |
E throne to-day? But then destiny
ruled by higher power. Think,
viewer, what it means to be born of
bod which for a thousand years has
len flowing in the veins of ancestors
BIO have not been under the re-
raints of common mortals. That
Gloria has tanned this fiery, passion
e blood, that she has purified the
ream which flowed through polluted
urts for ages, is in itself an achieve
ent to make her name illustrious.
Victoria redeemed the House of
anover and royalty itself. She put
Q throne back again in the hearts OF
e English people. The tide of re-
blicanism was checked, for by her
nv virtues the Queen made its
owth we'll nigh impossible. Even
Liicals find it easy to reconcile them
YES to such a representative of
>narchy.
Victoria's intellectual endowment is
a high order. At twelve she was
eaking English, German and French
tn fluency, and was on her way to
B mastery of Latin and Italian. To
tier understand her Indian subjects,
studied Hindustan, and now reads
d writes it, and speaks it to the
sky skinned attendant who stands
her chair while she is dining. In
her teacher said that she would !
a noted painter were it not for the
)wn.
The strength of the Queens charac-
rests upon religious conviction.
Gloria is a woman whose faith is the
sat foundations. The progenitor of
) House of Hanover was a man of
III religious life that he was called
William the Pious." His father had
under the preaching of Martin Lu-
n, and the son was an ardent fol-
yer of the great reformer. This
cam Of pious blood afterwards ran |
der ground for time, but in the s
me of the Duke of Kent it reassert 7
itself, and in Victoria the old Prot i
antism again became a power on {
, throne. 81 ask your prayers in l
behalf, !" were the first words which {
young Queen uttered when salut- /
as sovereign, and with the high t
.nitaries she dropped upon her {
ees in prayer. "Grant your little f
lighter the first request she makes c
you in her regal capacity" she said '
her mother when she returned from
public proclamation; 'sI wish to v
alone for two hours" These hours
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