Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-25


DIED Of ciIrhOsis Of tie liver" al
though it was a round of libertinism,
or Died Of heart failure, although it
was the vengeance of outraged law that
slew him. Thanks, doctor, for you are
right in saving the feelings Of the bereft
household by not being more specific.
Look, all ye who are in high places Of
the earth, and see one who has been piled
by all the temptations which wealth
and honor ard the secret place Of pal
aces could produce, and yet next Tues
day she will ride along in the presence
Of 10000 people, if they can get
within sight Of her chariot, in a yigor-
ous old age, 90 more hunt by the splen.
dors that have surrounded her for 78
years than is the PLAIN country woman
come down from her mountain home in
an oxcart TO attend the Saturday mar
keting.
The temptations Of social life among
the successful classes have been so great
that every winter is a holocaust Of hu-
man nerves, and the beaches Of this
tossing sea Of high life are constantly
strewn with physical and mental and
moral shipwreck. Beware, all ye sue
cessful ones. Take good look at the
venerable queen as she rides through
Regent street, and along the Strand,
and through Trafalgar square, and by
the Nelson monument. What is the use
Of your dying at 40 when you may Just
as well live 10 be so? If you are doing
nothing for God or the race, the sooner
you quit tie better, but if you are
worth anything for the worlds better
mont, III the strength Of God and
through good habits, lay out a plan for
a life that will reach through most Of
century. How many people are prac-
tically suicides from the fact that their
gormandizing or their recklessness OF
their defiance Of dietetics and plain
sanitary laws cuts short their days. In
deed, 50 great is the temptation Of those
who have bountiful tables aud full wine
closets that Solomon suggests that in
stead Of putting the knife into the meat
on their plate they direct the edge Of it
across their throat. Proverbs xii, /,
"When thou sittest to eat with ruler,
consider diligently what is before thee
and put a knife to thy throat if thou be
a man given 10 appetite. " / believe
more people die of improper eating than
die Of strong drink The former causes
no delirium or violence and works more
but none the less fatally
Queen Victoria's habits, self denying
and almost ayetic, under q good Prov
idence, account for her magnificent lon
geyity. 1t may be homely lesson .or
sexagesimal anniversary in British pal
aces, but it is worth all the millions Of
dollars the celebration will cost, and
the laborious conyocation Of the repre-
sentatives from all the zones of the
planet if the nations viii learn the san
itary lesson Of good hours, plain food,
outdoor exercise, reasonable abstinence
and common sense habits. That which
Paul said to the jailcr is just as appro-
pirate for you ana for me Do thyset
no harm. " And here let me say 10 peo-
pie outside Of Great Britain ought to
be more interested in this queens lubi-
lee than our nation. The cradles Of
most Of our ancestors were rocked IN
Great Britain. They played in child
hood on the banks Of the Thames or the
Clyde or the Shannon. Take from my
veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch
blood. and the streams Of my life would
be a shallow. Great Britain is cur
grandmother.
We have read in the family records
that without our grandmother consent,
her daughter our mother, left home and
married the genius Of American indie
pendence, and for awhile there was bit
ter estrangement, but the family quar-
rel has ended and all has been forgiven,
and we shake hands every day across
the seas. At this queenly anniversary
our authorized representatives will otter
greeting in Buckingham palace and our
warships will thunder congratulatlon
in English waters. They are, over there.
bone of our bone and flesh Of our flesh.
1t is our John Bunyan, our Wilberforce,
our Coleridge, our DE Quincy. our John
Milton, our John Wesley, our John
Knox. our Thomas Chalmers, cur Bish-
CD Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley,
our Walter Scott, our Daniel O'Connell,
our Robert Emmett, our Havelock, our
Henry Lawrence, our William E. Glad
stone. our Queen Victoria. Long live
the daughter Of the Duchess Of Kent!
A Long Reign.
Again, this international occasion
impresses me with the fact that woman
is competent for political government
when God calls her TO il. Great fears
have been experienced in this country
that woman would get the right Of sut-
rage, and as consequence after awhile
woman might get into congressional
chair and perhaps after awhile reach
the chief magistracy. Awful! Well, bet
ter quiet your perturbations, as you look
across the sea, in this anniversary time,
and behold a woman who for 80 years
has ruled over the mightiest empire Of
all time and ruled well. In approval Of
her government the hands Of all nations
are clapping, the flags OF all nations
waving, the batteries Of all nations
booming. Look herel Men have not
made such a wonderful success Of gov
eminent that they need be afraid that
women should ever take turn at power.
The fact is that men have made bad
mess of it, The most damnably corrupt
thing on earth is American politics after
men have had it all their own way IN
this country for l2l years. Other things
being equal-for there are fools among
women as well as among men-I say
other things being equal, woman has
generally a keoner sense of what is night
and what is wrong than has man-has
naturally more faith in God and knows
better how to make self sacrifices and
would more boldly act against intem-
perance and the social evil, and worse
things might come to this country than
A supreme courtroom and a senate cham
ber and house Of representatives IN
which womanly voices were sometimes
heard. We men bad better drop some OF
the strut out Of our pompous gait ana
with little less Of superciliousness