The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
VICTORIES JUBILEE
Continued From First page.

| affected, though then5the distress there
was only at it's commencement. After
the dissolution of parliament the royal
| couple, with their children, started on
| q voyage to the western highlands Of
Scotland, where, however, they were
not favored with queens weather"
! When parliament reaSSembled there
| was much to harass the Queen and her
ministers, but by this time it was a
recognized fact that in all weighty
! matters the queen Should have the
| benef1t Of the adviceBof her impartial
| Jud1cious conSort, whq, though he new
er obtruded himself on the nation. was
worthy counsellor to her majesty, and
| who was now honored by the title of
Prince ConSort," and by his installa-
ton as chancellor of Cambridge. A
few days after parliament was opened
the crisis came in FRANCE, and the
| orleans government was replaced by a
republic, this revolution occurring Just
a few weeks before the arrival of the
queens fourth daughter.
In August, 1S49, the royal family Wis
tied Ireland winning golden opinions
on all sides, one old lady exclaiming:
Och, queen dear" as the royal chill
dren passed, make one of them Prince
Patrick and all Ireland will die for
your a plea graciously granted by the
queen in the following year when her
third son was born
The year 1854 witnessed the preparations
Tor the great war with Russia. Early in the
morning OF Feb. % the queen and prince
stood on the balcony of Buckingham palace
to bid God speed to the gallant soldiers told
OFF for duty. We have not space to dwell
upon the great battles Of Alma, Balaclaya
and Inkerman, nor to dilate ON the glorious
charge of the Light Brigade, the tedious
siege of Sebastopol, and the hardships of that
bitter winter, redeemed by the beautiful
0f oh 10 4
her devoted band of nurses. The following
year, when the nation was dissatisfied with
the story of the misery abroad, Lord Palm
erston succeeded Lord Aberdeen and the
capture of Sebastopol led up to the treaty of
Paris, where peace was made with Russia.
For brief while, with the exception of a
war in Persia and China, the land was at
rest, and then suddenly the discomfort of the
natives of India blazed out trihing circum-
stances serving to arouse the ire that had
long ranked. A new rife mad been invented
short time before, in which creased cart
ridges were used, and the Sepoys believing
this grease to be the fat of cows and pigs
deemed 1t sacriligious, and rose in revolt.
1t was the year in which the queens
youngest child, Princess Beatrice, was born
whilst the engagement of her eldest daugh-
ter, the Princess Royal, was announced to
young German prince, who had won his suit
in offering the young girl sprig of white
heather, the emblem of good luck found as
they rode up Craig na-ban.
massacre at Cawnpore, whilst the nation was
wild with joy at the relief of Lucknow where
the starving people had heroically held out
for months.
1t is pleasant to turn from this gloomy
picture to the bright ceremonial of the Prin-
cess Royals marriage, resembling in many
features the queens own wedding. Naturally
enough, the royal mothers heart was full
to overlooking, as she saw her. dear husband
give their eldest child in keeping to the
prince, whose home was over the sea.
The opening of the year 1859 saw the queen,
still in the prime of life promoted to the
dignity of grandmother by the birth of son
the present German emperor-to the Crown
Princess. In America, in the year 1861 owing
to the slavery question, a civil war broke out
in the United States. and as the raw cotton
used in Lancashire came chiefly from the
Southern states, whose ports were now block
AIDED by the North, the result was Distress
ing cotton famine in Lancashire. A second
love affair was now developing in the royal
circle, and the Princess Alice, whose sweet
amiabflity made her beloved by all, was
sought IN marriage by Prince Louis of Hesse,
and the engagement was duly sanctioned al
most at the time when the Prince of Wales
returned from America, and the sailor Prince
Alfred from South Africa. The year which
thus closed so auspiciously was succeeded by
the saddest in the queens reign. Early in
March death took from her majesty the moth
er whom she had loved so tenderly, and who
had so well earned the generous need of de-
yotion which Queen Victoria had always
lavished on her.
In some measure, owing 20 his increasing
work, the health of the prince consort be-
came gradually undermined, and a feeling Of
preScience told him that he could not with
stand any severe illness. In the latter days
or November he was already asSailed by an
1nsidious malady, when a delicate question
arose between Britain and the Great Republic
which necessitated much f1nesse to avert a
war, and the queen and prince consort worked
hard together in amending the letter Lord
Russell suggested should be sent to the Amer
lean government. On Sunday, Dec. l, when
the prince gave the draft note to the queen
his last piece of work for the country he
had served so well, and yet SO singularly I'M
obtrusively-he complained of his difficulty in
guiding his pen, and from that day the
dangers of the malady deepened with awful
rapidity. The record of those sad days when
the gallant prince grew weaker, and his
adoring wife watched at his bedside with in
expressible anguish, should ever remain
sacred 1t is the story, not of queen, but
a loving, faithful WIFE, utterly broken-hearted
at the thought of a separation from the part
ner OF her earthly joys-from the husband
Tor whom she had entertained an absolutely
ideal love. AS the dull December afternoon
closed in, the distinguished patient grew
momentarily weaker, but was conscious when
the wife, bending over him, addr;IS ed him in
his native tongue, telling him it was his little
VIE, his kle1nes frauchen, the pet name
that had so often risen to his lips, but
he could not answer her in words, only the
weak farewell kiss showed that his brain
followed hers, and that their hearts still
throbbed in unison. Before midnight fell the
solemn tolling of the bells announced that the
queen, in the flower of her womanhood, was
struck down-a desolate widow-and that the
nation had sustained a loss which, in the
hrst blow, they were incapable of realizing
to its full extent.
In the terribly sad days that followed when
nothing could assuage the queens anguish
naturally enough she shrank from appear
Ing before her people, remembering the happy
days when she had been amongst them with
her husband at her side. Nevertheless, no
single state duty was neglected, though I'M
thinking people scarcely knew the magnitude
of her tasks doubly hard at this time be-
cause deprived of him whose wise counsels
had ever been offered her. With admirable
self-denial, at time when her heart hun
gered most over her children she sent the
Prince Of Wales to distant lands, in further
ance of her late husbands scheme for his
education, and in her heavy mourning at
tended the wedding of Princess Alice with
Prince Louis.
With her sad loss still ever present on
March 10, 1868. the queen witnessed from
the royal closet the brilliant celebration of
her eldest sons marriage, and as, in her
widows dress, her majesty received the
handsome young bridal pair. standing at the
threshold of life, with all it's joys to come
her heart again ached for that loving father
who was not there to bestow a blessing on
his frst-born son.
In 1866 two wedding ceremonies claimed the
queens presence. Bonny Princess Mary was
led to the altar by the handsome Prince
Teck, whilst early in July her majestys
third daughter, Princess Helena, was mar
ried in st. Georges chapel to Prince Chris
tan of Schleswtg- Holstein. In the autumn,
when the queen opened the new Aberdeen
waterworks at Inverarry, again struggling
with that natural wish for retirement, she
by the lord provost, though she confessed to
feeling very nervous, 1t being, to quote her
own words, "the first time 1 had read any
thing since my darling husband was taken