The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

-oo+ This is the woman who, by no
-,oon- voung-indeed, the world would
I'm her old-has yet lived every day OF
49, tfa and who, in her old days re-
members with pleasure the delights Oh ner
o,.errful career AS I know her, she Is "
,,ears old. the childless widow OF an an
..oo.elv rich southernef who went abroad
-, before the war, lived there all through
g and only came back within the last
Eve Years, bringing her dead husband that
he might rest with his ancestors.
Di-nffed in manner, handsome in APP
nearance. witty in speech, this gentle
Woman makes me wonder whether any
women of to-day will be like her when
.he, are old. I fear not. They take life,
zoo sadIv and fail to find the proper in
forest in people Always this old friend
Of mine tells me something that interests
.o To-day It is Of the time when the En-
,,ross Eugene ruled not only Paris, but all
+be world; when the women dressed their
hair after the fashion she affected; when
mysterious stories went about Paris OF
tbe attempts to kidnap the little prince
immortal. the poor prince imperial, whose
deatb was SO tragic. Tomorrow am
hearing of Antoneli, that wonderful man
% whom the world was a book which he
road with ease; of his schemes, of his poll
rio manner and then Of the trust that he
reposed in his American friends because
he thought them so natural and so true.
of the little girl who was taken by the
Great cardinal to see the pope; how, with
the dignity of six years, she said; Holy
father. bless these rosaries, so it will not
wear off, for they'll have to go way
across the ocean to America" and of the
mrth that the innocent speech excited in
Plus TX.
Sometimes 1 hear stories Of the great
oueen-she who celebrated her jubilee put
a few weeks ago-and these stories tel
of her when she was young ana OF some
Of tbe mistakes that she made. perhaps
T-or know this one-it is old, but II Is
new to me: When the Queen of England
was first married she was intensely Jeai-
ous of her handsome husband. she was
by no means a beauty, and whenever she
saw him talking to pretJler woman sac
not only suffered herself, but she mace
that woman suffer. No matter now IN
nocent she was, no matter if the good
prince had only inquired as to her health
or her father or given the ordinary saul
tation of the day, if she seemed extreme
" beautiful in the queens eye, then she
had absolutely no excuse for her exist
ence.
Among her ladies-those ladies who take
their turn in being beside the queen-Was
Lady Flora Hastings, the beautiful daugh-
ter of an aristocratic Scotch family. EV-
erywhere her beauty was talked OF, ana
everybody who knew her, after speaking
of her beauty told about her kindness OF
heart her sweetness of manner ana the
gentleness of her spirit. One day, passlns
through the corridor, the queen saw hei
husband laughing and talking with her
ladv in waiting. That was enough. Tbs
queen accused her of want of maidenly
1nodesty The girl, in a dead faint, was
carried from the palace into the city. Inc
horror of the implication brought on her
death, and to-day when the queen drives
TO her Highland home she is obliged
to go past the grave of the girl whose
life she ruined. How? Unsteady of bury
ing her in the great vault where her hon
ored ancestors slept her sisters insisted
on her being laid TO rest just inside the
boundary of those lands in Scotland which
they knew the queen mast pass by. Ana
to mark the spot and to calls attention
to it is an enormous white marble hand
with the forednger pointing to heaven,
while engraved on the wrist are the words
II abide my time" None of that family
ever go to court or speak to a member
of the royal family. And the sisters, wo>
men as old as the queen now, are salts
fled because they know that God judges
rich and poor alike, and, biding their
time, queen and gentlewoman will stand
equal before that Judge who can read the
heart of each.
We are are inclined to think we who
only know of kings and queens far from
their thrones, that to them and to all of
their blood there comes plenty of every
thing, and yet my dear gentleWoman pos
eesses an autograph book which bears
upon it the monogram of Princess Alice
and the English coat of arms. 1t had
been one among many other presents CIV
en- at Christmas to the Princess Alice, and
she standing before her governess, saldr
Madam, l am so poor that l haven't
sixpence with which to buy you CHRIST
mas gift but will you take TINS DOCK,
which was presented to me|' The queen,
entering and hearing her daughter
speech said: "Thats right, my dear;
give madam the souvenir, and under your
name I will put mine' Years afterWard,
when the governess TAUGHT the little Amer
lean girl she gave her this precious Vol-
ume to remind her that although people
might occupy high places they ola hot
always have the most love, the most
money or the most power Illo HiiN 40 A'
ed that was used to write the name Oh
the gentle princess and her great mother.
ana the book is filled with the names oil
The great on this earth, and oh, what
lesson it is to look at them and remem
her theml Here's the name OF the great
banker, a Rothschild; his wealth could nol
keep death from his door. Here lhe
name of the great cardinal, whose name
is in the Book of Life for all generations
10 read Just as it is here beside tnat OIL
the gentle pope Here's the name OF poor
Carlotta. What a tragedy her life was!
And nearby is that of Louis Napoleon
Ana then come great writer's, great artists'
witty men, famous women, who all glad
y gave their autographs TO the pretty
American child who won them py ner
sweetness and frankness and who had Ial-
len heir to the autograph book OF tne
Prince IS Alice. Both of them are at resi- res,
now the American girl and the Englisn
princess. but the book is filled ana tLe
black and white stands after the shrlhes
thai held these two gentle hearts nave
been shattered.
But my gentlewoman is not always III
ierestel in the past. 1t was only recent
" She told me of the new way OF marx
ing Stockings 'You See." said she, "wheh