The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

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clusion of the rendition of her part.
Il see at the further end of the hall a
handsome Highlander sail Chairman
Harrison before introducing General
Barnes, the orator of the day. Il should
Judge he IS mem Der OF the Clan Mac
PheTson. Can you hear the sound OF my
voice down there2 ?" shouted the chair
1t Is well, said Chairman Harrison. 81
wanted to see how far the orator who is to
address you would have to throw his
beautiful voice TO be heard.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, 1t is
not necessary for me to introduce TO yol
the speaker. Yet as matter of form, or
rather as a matter of poll eness. 1 shall
introduce the orator of the day-and never
has 1t given me such supreme Joy and
satisfaction to introduce a speaker-Gen-
eral w. II. l. Barnes"
a storm OF applause greeted the general
as be rose 10 address the audience. In
The course OF his Grafton be said:
The magnificent pageant which began
| this morning under the meridian of
| Greenwich is ended. The music of the
martial airs of England has ceased That
human ocean, lifting its living waves high
above the pavements, ,foaming IN every case
ment. rising above the roofs of tie habi-
tations of London and hoarse with loyal
gree citing, has at last eb5ed. The pealing
OF cannon, the Ginning of bells, tne march
of civic societies, the cadenced Steps of
soldiery and the noisy tramp pling of artil-
Iery and cavalry-alI are now silenced,
and a million Witnesses OF the Jubilee
ceremonies, full of rejoicing sympathy,
gathered from every Brltls possession
and every friendly nation on earth, have
! been dispersed to palaces, luxurious
abCdes or lowly homes, while at this
moment, let US hope, the beloved object of
so much homage and such limitless re-
1G a m hnr Oh a
grand children and great-grandchiIdren
after day OF unprecedented excitement
and emotion so exhausting to the aged.
but as the sun which shone upon her
as the vast procession threaded the streets
OF London Travelled from the east to the
zenith and from the zenith to the west
over ocean, island and continent his
beams have illumiEed everywhere the
same rejocings and have behe d the same
manifestations OF loyalty repeated with
equal enthusiasm, and he will continue
to hear the same strain chanting the
Queens glory until he has circled the
globe. Tomorrow, and for many DAYS
succeeding, the electric wires that thre ad
and bind the world together will throb
and burn with messages of congratulation
and generating love tor the British Queen,
succeeding one another with endless
iteration, as the tireess waves of the
Atlantic follow fast and beat upon the
I
History has recorded no such story as
this. 1t is not likely 10 be repeated in the
ages of the future. No monarch has
hitherto received such benson; none
have ever so well deserved it.
No one possessing a spark OF human
sympathy can fail to be touched by the
story Of her accession to power, of that
first meeting with the council on the dav
of the death OF King William. There
were Assem- bled at kensiEgton p lace, the
only home the q Ieen had ever known
between seventy and eighty of the great
men OF the council, its masters in diplo-
macy, Its veterans IN war. Only six hours
after she had been informed OF the vast
change in her position this girl delivered
to such an assemblage with great dignity
and emphasis the speech which Lord
Melbourne, Prime Minister of Eng
land, had prepared for her, and entered
upon a career whose history cannot yet be
written.
What a scene for the pen of the histo-
rian and The pencil of the painter. Each
has e>sayed the task and neither has.uone
il justice. 1t is beyond the art of both
An apartment in KensIngton Palace
hastily prepared for those assem- bled TO
receive from her lips the declaration of her
assumption of the British crown, was
filled with the mem bers of the Council
standing TO receive the Queen OF England.
Tue door opened and there she stood.
hardly five feet in height, slender and
delicate in form, with her blonde hair
plainly brushed back from her forehead,
her blue eyes shining with irrepressible
tetrs and clad in simple mourning robe,
this alherless girl took her seat at the
head of the long table, around which
stood The constitutional witnesses of her
accession, and received their homage with
dignity and modesty that contempora-
neous history cannot too highly extol. Is
it any wonder that the British heart was
touched and thrilled in every fiber by such
a spectacle2
las at the commencement of her long
reign so all succeeding events and condi-
tions personally affecting the Queen have
tended TO keep this sentiment perpetually
alive in the hearts of che people. West
minister Abbey had be n the scene Of
many exhibitions of loyal devotion 10 the
constitutional monarchs of England, but
the coronation of Queen Victoria sur
passed in manifestation of personal re-
gard all that had ever preceded if, and
the same appeal was made to the popu-
lar heart and responded to by it when The
story of the Queens courtshiD and mar
riage has been told.
mo woman whatever more fully real
iZed the blessing of tender domestic love
from husband and children. Its happi-
ness is recorded by the Queens own pen,
through which she has opened the doors
OF her household lie u the intimate
knowledge of the world. hsye, again, the
people were drawn to her as she passed
through the experience of bridal Joy, the
birth, growth and development of her
children. and the uniorgoiten bereave-
ments of later years, so saturated with the
spirit OF the noblest Christian fortitude
There was not an eye in England untitled
with tears whenV Victoria bade her lover and
husband last farewell and turned from
his bur a! place a widowed Queen
1.-The British people love her, too, because