The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-06-10


been done toward accomplishing the right in
these 60 years
There have been mistakes, calamities, wrong
doings that have hiHdered the great onward
sweep, but i'm the Jubilee days these are not
to be thought of, and indeed the list of sue.
cesses is overwhelmingly larger and the world
is better, despite the say SO OF our grand.
mothers.
LITTLE ONES MAY BE THANKFUL.
The children have every reason to rejoice in
what has come to them. The English factory
laws now prohibit that any child under 12
years Of age should be put to work, and it is to
be remembered that there was time when the
child of tho poor was sent to work in the mines
and factories as soon as he was able to toddle
away from the threshold Of his home. There
was no fun nor frolic for him ever again when
he took upon his little shoulders the great re-
spoBsibiIity Of bread earning.
Now there are great, airy schools, public play
grounds, free baths parks, hospitals for the sick
and crippled; and. in a measure, the orphan is
cared for, although the conditions of life for
him are not rs geutle and loving as they should
be-.
The poor man can devoutly say "God bless
the Queen" for she represents Nation that
has established for him the penny post, cheap
telegraphs, newspapers, street railways-has en-
couraged thousands of devices for his ease and
comfort. Since his Queens coronation matches
have been invented and postal-cards have been
devised; steam in many ways makes his work
aud play easier. He has free libraries, muse
ums, and art galleries that are finer than the
rich mans collections. He has shorter work
hours, higher wages, cheaper food and cloth
ing.
The statistics 20 to prove that in England
| there are fewer criminals and paupers than go
/ years ago in proportion to the whole number Of
lx~L, tknr~u
| lively that England is happier place for the
| poor man now than it was then.
| Nor has the rich man been neglected in all
| this time. Electricity has become his house
| hold servant steam does hundred duties for
| him, and there comforts and delights of
| which his grandfather never dreamed. When
Victoria came to the throne steam was just in
its feeble infancy. Now in two great fields it
does mans heaviest labors-in transportation
aud in manufacturing.
WORLDS SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.
Knowledge and skill and discovery have
widencd the domain of medicine in the Queens
time to an extent that tho good doctors of her
uncles Court could never have dreamed. The
bacterium has been discovered. and plague and
pestieuce are rapidly coming under control
Victoria was the first of the royal family to be
vaccinated, and she has witnessed the wonder.
full effort that has barred the path of this most
terrible of sicknesses once the terror of men,
now under control of the doctors Little chill
dren are saved from diphtheria, and consump.
ton even Is beginning to yield to the scientists.
Chloroform is q discovery of our day, and by
the use Of anesthetics great part of the pain
of the world is done away WITH and wonderful
operations are performed to make life possible
and easy for man. Now the X-rays promise
new wonders. The knowledge of the eye has
| been brought nearly to perfection, and blind
L haaf oyu ci rfi Onl U a M all
part of the wonders wrought in medicine. and
that have come about during these so years.
The world has become less brutal. Witness the
single fact that executions now are not public
Besides, when Victoria came to the Throne
there were ID crimes punishable with death
Now there are only two-murder and high
treason. The transportation OF criminals, with
all its cruelties has been abolished, and Aus
traIia, once miserable penal colony, is now a
| happy, thrifty Nation. We have found that
the criminal can be treated humanely and vel
be punished, and prison reforms are an import
ant part of progress.
Religion is fresr with every day that the
world lives. Christianity is now recognized
despite warning creeds. The great Salvation
Army has been mustered to help combat the
wrongs and suterings of the poor, weak and
ignorant The Society of the Red Cross, which
softens the horrors of war, has been organized
i'll these later days.
Victoria has watched host of glorious men
and women in the realms of craftsmanship art
science. and literature. Gladstone has work ed
calamity for his country during many of these
!, long years. Wordsworth and Tennysou have
been the Queens laureates- Robert Browning
has lived and sung and died during her reign
Dickens wrote stories of the London of hel
early days. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Georg,
!. Eliot, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightin
gale, and many other brilliant men and womer
have added to the glory of her years.
vIcToRIA's LONG EXPERIENCE.
!: And for Victoria. What has all this mean
f for her? As child she was precocious bu
/ her later years did not fulfill the promises o
! her baby days-she has never been brilian
{ woman. When she was slender slip of CIR
IS years old she became Queen, and blushe.
7 and laughed in embarrassment when be-
} dignifed uncles kissed her hand aud VOWED
allegiance to her. and she kissed them heartily
| as a good niece should. In 1910 she married
her cousin, Prince Albert of Sake Coburg
; Gotha. 1t is said that she proposed marriag,
to him, and blushed and found it difficult a
would any modest maid. be she Queen or no.
As the years rolled on she has had many chill
dren and grandchildren, and has busted hersel
with their care aud in her home life, and lef