The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-20
WHAT VICTORIA HAS SEEN.
Fresh Suggestions OF tho Worlds
Marvellous Progress During Her
Life.

Fresh Suggestions OF tho Worlds
Marvellous Progress During He1
Life.
| "Crowned heads hold low place Ia
the space Of longevity" 1.-THE French
author Of this expression bad fOreseen
Victoria his assertion would not have
been quite so sweeping. England q
queen, born eighty years ago, has long
She has gone much farther beyond the
average official life OF tho worlds
crown-wearers. SixtytwO years will
have passed on Juno 20 since she as
cended the throne. This exceeds In
duration by over two years the reign
Of her grandfather, George Ill, hither.
to unexampled In British annals. No
other monarch OF q great nation in tho
worlds history has been on the throne
as long except Louis XIV, Of France,
seventy.two years, and he WAS only
! !itr!ar king, and during his minority
his mother ruled in his stead as re-
gent. Victoria, however, was oigh.
| teen at the timo her predecessor died,
and she has exerted sway ever since.
Victoria during her lifetime has
seen the entire world transformed.
On the day Of her birth, May "a, 1919,
tho first steamboat which ever crossed
the Atlantic Or any Other ocean started
from Savannah for Liverpool, making
the voyage In twenty-six days. The
same distance is now made In less than
six. She was six years OF age when
the first railway train In the world
started to carry passengers. She Was
eighteen years OF age, and had just as.
cended the throne, when the Morse
70 nf 70 ,hIyo uf IF ~
and WheatstOne were first patented.
Thirty mine years OF her life had passed
when tho first cable was laid under tho
Atlantic, and that ono almost i'm
mediately ceased to operate. Fifty
six years of it expired before the fret
telephone won't into practical opera
tion.
Scott and Byron were in their primo
when Victoria first began to read the
printed page. None OF tho great
writer's Thackeray, Dickens, Bulwer-
Lytton, Tennyson, Gsorge Eliot, the
Brownings and the others whose names
during the past half or two thirds OF q
century-had yet begun to work. Dar-
win, whose lab )rs have revolutionized
science and have profoundly affected
the thought OF mOralists and theOlO.
gians, WAS not hoard Of.
At tho time Of Victorias birth the
tramp Of Bonaparte's armies had just
ceased to shake the world and Bona
parte himself,was q prisoner on Bri-
tish island in the South Atlantic. She
has seen every throne In Europe vacat-
ed many times. She has seen her own
country transformed politically from
an oligarchy, In which only one out OF
fifty OF the population WAS permitted
to vote, into democracy Ia which the
voters number one out OF six OF the
inhabitants. France has changed It's
form Of government four times since
only geographical expression" to
use Metternichs phrase, has since be-
| oome one OF the greatest powers Of
Europe, while the empire OF Germany
was still far in the future.
The United States was In the midst
OF tho "era OF good feeling" when
Victoria was born. Monroe has had
nineteen successors In the presidency
since that time. This country
had only 100000 population then.
| Buffalo and Pittsburg were frontier
towns, and not q house existed on the
site OF the magnificent metropolis o
the west, Chicago. The annexation oi
Florida, Texas, New yuS Ms5tG9} ss55tG9}ns 'sIr Of tn,
| moro recent accession OF territory, al
came since Victoria's birth. The
worlds map has been changed in many
places, the worlds ideals have beor
altered in many respccts, and the
whole face OF human society has beor
transformed In the four score years
which have elapsed since Britain.
queen first saw the light. t.-Loslie't
Weekly.