Amador ledger., 1901-01-25
DEATH Of QUEEN VICTORIA.
The World Mourns Demise
Of England's Ruler.
SURROUNDED BY ROYAL FAMILY WHEN END CANE
England Deeply Affected by the Call
ing Away to Higher Kingdom
Of This Great Woman.

OF Tnls treat woman.
Victoria, Queen of England and
Empress of India, died at Osborne
House, Isle of Wight, at $50 p. m. Jan.
%, 1901.
Around her were gathered almost
every descendant of her line. Well
within view of her dying eyes there
hung portrait of the Prince Consort.
1t was he who designed the room and
every part of the castle. In scarcely
audible words, the white haired Bishop
of Winchester prayed beside her as he
had often prayed with his sovereign,
for he was her chaplain at Windsor.
With bowed heads the imperious ruler
of the German Empire, and the man
who is now King of England, the wom-
an who has succeeded to the title of
Queen, the Princes and Princesses, and
those of less than royal designation,
listened to the Bishops ceaseless prayer.
Six O'Clock passed. The Bishop con-
tinued his intercession. One of the
younger children asked a question in
shrill, childish treble, and was imme-
diately silenced. The women of this
royal family sobbed family, and the
men shuffied uneasily.
avoof1u holfnoct To
Reid held up his head, and the people
knew that England had lost her Queen.
The Bishop pronounced the benedic-
ton.
The Queen passed away quite peace
fully. She suffered no pain.
The body of Queen Victoria was en-
balmed, and taken to Windsor.
An incident characteristic of the
Queens solicitude for others occurred
two days before her death when, in one
of the intervals of consciousness she
summoned strength to suggest to her
dressers, who had been acting as nurses,
to take the opportunity of getting some
fresh air.
The greatest event in the memory of
this generation, the most stupendous
changein existing conditions that could
possibly be imagined, has taken place
quietly, almost gently, upon the ami
versary of the death of Queen Vietoria's
father, the Duke of Kent.
The end of this career, never equaled
by any woman in the worlds history,
came in simply furnished room in
Osborne House. This most respected
of women, living or dead, lay in a
great four-posted bed, and made a
'shrunken atom whose aged face and
figure was cruel mockery of the fair
girl who, in 1887, began to rule over
England.
The funeral of Queen Victoria will
probably take place at Frogmore,
though nothing in regard to this
matter has yet been announced. Her
majesty was so closely related to the
European courts that the gathering of
royalists at the obsequies will be I'M
precedented.
/ The record of the last days of the
reign of Victoria is not easy to tell.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press was the only correspondent ad-
mitted to Osborne House, and his in
terview with Sir Arthur John Bigge,
Private Secretary of the late Queen,
was the only official statement that
had been out.
For several weeks the Queen had
been failing. On Monday week she
summoned Lord Roberts and asked him
some very searching questions regard
ing the war in South Africa. On Tues
day she went for drive, but was Wis
IDLY affected. On Wednesday she suf-
fered a paralytic stroke, accompanied
by intense physical weakness. 1t was
her first illness in all her eighty one
years, and she would not admit it.
Then her condition grew so serious
that, against her wishes, the family
was summoned. When they arrived
her reason had practically succumbed
to paralysis and weakness.