The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-08
A STUDY IN TEARS.
How They Have Been shed BY Great
Folks.
From the London Mail.

Many of the great people who have writ
ten their names large in the history of
their time, have been known to shed tears.
The majority, however, wept for others
woes, but smiled upon their own.
Queen Victoria wept when informed that
1t was her destiny to wear ascrown and
rule a vast empire The Incident was
seized upon by Mrs. Browning for one of
her most beautiful poems "she Wept 10
Wear a Crown" and her majesty has ever
since been a warm admirer of the writings
of this poet. Sixty years later, at the jul
bilee last year, the Queen sobbed before
thousands of her subjects. Another nota-
Bile occasion was at the funeral of Prince
Henry of Battenberg. As the burial serv-
ice was being recited, Britan's monarch
was seen to be crying piteously.
One will never forget the universal lam
entation aroused by the death of the Duke
of Clarence. When the end came the Prin-
cess of Wales, who had throughout her
sons illness watched him with the great
est devotion, utterly collapsed, and cried
for some time as though her heart would
break. A few days later, as the funeral
procession left Sandringham for the rail-
way station followed on foot by the Prince
of Wales. 1t was impossible to hide his
grief, and the heir apparent was forced to
find relief in copious tears. The Duke of
Sake Coburg-Gotha has also been seen to
cry in public. In April, 1896, while the
marriage ceremony of his daughter was In
progress his royal highness was observed
to be weeping
Mr.. Gladstone during the delivery of one
of his great oratons concerning the Bull
garian atrocities was 50 carried away by
his feelings that tears coursed down his
cheeks, and the flow of his eIoduence was
q cd
might recover his composure. The grand
old mans great rival Lord Salisbury,
too, has been known to play the wo-
man." The tragic death Of the Earl Of Id
desleigh will not easily fade from ones
memory When Lord Salisbury knew that
his old friend the earl HAD expired, after
ascending the stairs al the foreign office,
he was so overcome that for a time ne
sobbed bitterly.
Thirty years ago the Earl of Haisbury
then plain Hardinage Giffard) was de-
Tending ex-Gov. Eyre concerning the mas
sacres that had occurred i'm Jamaica. Hav-
ing depicted Eyre protecting the people
from outrages, Mr.. Giffard asked passion
ately whether for so doing his client was
to be done to death by persecution. Good
God" he exclaimed, is this justice?' and
wound up his apostrophe by bursting into
tears. Then the court adjourned for lunch
eonl
When the present lord chief Justice was
known to fame as Sir Charles Russell, he
on many occasl Ions, by the stirring force
of his eloquence made judges weep and
bathed jurles in salt tears. He has him
self, too, more than once been so enthusi-
! astic in his clients behalf that the flood
gates of his eyes have been opened. AT the
historic trial known as the Parnen COM
mission so moved was he during the de-
livery of his great speech in defense of Mr..
PARCEL that he wept for some moments,
while many of the Onlookers had damp
eyelids.
Prof. Herkomer, r. A. tells in one of his
lectures that his well-known picture,
Chelsea Pensioners in Church." was
painted against the advice of all his friends
but he completed it. and sent it to the
royal academy. What expectation, what
anxieties and fears were in that act! How
he waited! two letters, respectively by
Leighton and Richmond, r. A, brought
news that the judges, on seeing the work,
clapped their hands. Herkomer at the
time was at a click bed, and as he read he
fell on his knees and weDt.
When that brave man Dr. Jameson re-
allied at the battle which put the climax
10 mis- famous raid that he had failed in
mis- mission and was compelled to surren-
der, he burst into tears and cried for some
time like a child. But 1t was not through
fear for his own safety, but owing to the
thought that his failure might place his
countrymen in jeopardy.
Rossini. on being asked how he liked
Paganinfs playing, said he had only wept
three times in his life: First,on the failure
of his earliest opera; secondly, when In
boat with some friends a turkey stuffed
with truffies, Wi ch had been provided for
their dinner, fell overheard and was lost;
thirdly on hearing for the FIRST time Pa
ganinis divine performance on his beloved
violin.
Lord Eldon when attorney general was
in the habit of closing his speeches with
some remarks justifying his own charac-
ter. At the trial of Horne Tooke, speaking
of his own reputation, he said: ut is the
little Inheritance 1 have to leave my chill
dren, and, by Gods help, l VIII leave It
unimpalred." Here he shed tears, and 10
the establishment of those present Nit
ford the solicitor general, began to weep.
Just look al Milford" said the bystand-
ers to Horne Tooke-'what on earth Is he
crying for?' Tooke replied He Is, cry
ing to think what a small Inheritance Ell
don's children are likely TO get"
From the examples given it may be con-
clu1ed Il is not always unmanly 10 weep.
Indeed, as Henry Ward Beecher said tears
are often the telescope by which we see
far into heaven.
-''Womens crowning glory Is her hair"
he quoted. mot now" returned his pes