The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

the terSe sentences OF the Old Tesla
ment cannot conceal Moses genuine
grief when Miriam was stricken with
leprosy, nor his enthusiastic pleading
with the living God to restore her
health.
Certainly for any woman less beloved
and less honored than his sister he
would scarcely have done so much, for
it is plainly said that jealousy of Mo-
SEES affection for his Ethiopian wife
brought down this curse upon her. She
lived and worked apparently to a good
old age, and was buried with honors
before her people reached the promised
land.
HOHENzOLBERNS SISTERS.
1t is a curious coincidence that the
sisters who have welded most influence
have been always older than their
great brothers, and the margarine of
Bayreuth, Sophie Wilheimina, Crown
Princess of Prussia, was some years
the senior of Frederick the Great. She
was a strange, passionate, clever and
always a very unhappy creature, but
she stands quite alone as the one wom-
an whom Frederick sincerely loved, for
whose advice he had respect, and
whose memory he tenderly cherished.
During his tragic youth it was in her
he confided, with her he invariably cor
responded, and Frederick had no great
reverence for the feminine intellect.
For his mother he felt respectful in
difference, for his wife not even a SEN
timent of friendship, while his other
sisters merely bored him; but poor
Sophie, with all her faults, evoked in
him a devotion and reverence that
lasted to the end of her days.
Charles V. was another monarch who
said in all his life he had known but
one woman whom he could trust in and
relv OH as he would man, and that
woman was his sister. Mary of Hun
gary. She was a woman after Charles
own rugged and waclike heart, and he
| showed how highly he estimated her
talents and her virtues when he made
her regent of Holland and Flanders.
A less masculine creature would, per-
haDs, have failed to secure Charles
esteem, and in spite of the heavy
beard that would grow on her stern
chin, of her brawny arms that would
pull the strongest horse on his haunch-
es and her savage love of boar hunt
ing, Charles gave her proof of the high
est affection. He hid very little CT his
most momentous plans from her, save
her an absolutely free hand in gov
erning the low country, permitted he
to use an iron hand in the ATTEMPT at
quelling the rising tide of heresy, and
after governing the Netherlands %
years, she retired from the regency
when her brother abdicated mis- throne.
Charles shut himself up in his Alonas-
terry. but the brother ana sister cor
responded until this greatest OF the
Hapsburgs died.
COMFORTERS OF WARRIORS.
Colin Campbell is one of the warriors
| of our country who never married, nut
who found great solace in the devotion
! his sister, Marjory Alicia, gave him.
Early in his career he was too ponr to
marry, and every penny over and above
| the barest necessities of q soldier life
went to the sister in Scotland She was
never brilliant or abeautiful woman
but the hero OF the Crimea and the
Indian mutiny gave her all the faith
full affection that often goes to a
mother or wife. He wrote to her,
among the horrors OF the Indian war he
remembered her needs, and she, a Grip
pied old woman. sat by his bedside
when he died. She lived unmarried as
he had done, and inherited a comfort
able fortune at his death.
Byron, like Lord Clyde, always wrote
! to his sister on the eve of any perilous
undertaking, and among the 10 different
versions of his deathbed remarks, his
sisters name invariably appears. BY
ron, in his relations with every woman,
| was singularly cruel. exacting and un-
| faithful. He abhorred ugliness in WON
en- until he was 4 well-grown boy he
had never seen mis- sister, and yet this
! representative, eccentric, critical and
| high tempered man accorded his plain
faced, conventional sister the only truly
noble sentiment of which he was cap
able.
! At their first meeting he had pictured
a romantically beautiful woman. He
| found in the honorable Augusta BYRON
girl almost ugly, but with the l1indest
eyes, the most amiable smile, and from
that moment he never faltered in his
love. In his most tempestuous moments
when he insulted his wife, beat his
watch to pieces in q rage on the hearth
and fuddled his brain with brandy, Au-
gusta could soothe and control him by
word. She kept tile friendship of his