Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-06-06
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OLD rROM tlhSI fAGE
laboring over their school books, little
know that tomorrow they will be the
great men and women of America.
Syneva Grindeland followed with
a well written essay upon one whom
we all delight to houur.- s.
QUEEN VICTORIA"
The one, who in time when the
world was fast outgrowing it's king
ship, so graced her royal station as to
make the shadowy power IF the Brit
ish crown a strong and beneticent
force throughout the world, was
Queen Victoria.
The little queen opened her bright
eyes to the world in her beautiful
home at Kensington palace on the ::::4th
day of May, 1919.
She was brought up very simply and
even severely. AS a little girl she
had no knowledge of the prospects
which lay before her. but was only
young girl of eighteen when she
day of June. 1887.
During the life of her beloved hus-
band, Prince Albert, whom she mar
ried in 1910. the queen leant entirely
on his advice. One can realize what
a support and stay he must have
been to her in the early days of
her reign, when experience had not
mellowed her Judgment. Not only in
political matters was he her greatest
friend. but in the wide education of
their children, in the nameless WAYS
in which he exerted his influence, Civ
ing his time, even his life to further
and promote her comfort and the we'll
being Of her people,
When the dark days of her widow
hood weighed her down, it was always
her. constant cry, ''What can I do
without him; he was everything to me
and my people" Her devotion to his
memory and the patient, constant
waiting for the time to come when
they should again be reunited, was
one Of the pathetic incidents in a life
full of pathos
The queen died january %, 1901, at
Osborne, Isle of Wight.-died pain
lessly as the result of old ace and no
specific disease
The secret of the queens unap-
preached pre-eminence lay chiefly
IN her social power. In a country of
an aristocratic, social structure, a So
clal head has natural function.
when the queen used this great and
very real power so wisely and so
uprightly. it was this that made her
queen in fact. English society owes
her a debt that can be paid with
nothing less than affectionate graft
tude.
During her reign she always pur-
sued the most constitutional course.
and that at varying periods of great
national interest, when her sympa-
thles must have led her into positions
of opposition to her advisers, and vet
publicly she displayed an impartiality
which was perfectly admirable.
The number of times that the queen
may nave prevented war, may never
be known. But she did a service to
the United States that will always be
held in affectionate remembrance. ~
When Captain Wilkes of the United
States navy in 1861 by force took
the Confederate agents, Mason and
Shdell. from the English merchant
ship Trent. he of course went beyond
international rights. There was a
very strong feeling in the United
states against the ruling class in Eng
land, because Of it's sympathy with
the Confederacy.
Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston's
dispatch to our government was sent
TO the queen. The Prince COnsort
was lll,-was in fact on his deathbed.
But memorandum from the queen.
IN the princes handwriting, was re-
turned to Lord Palmerston, contain
ing proposed changes in the dispatch
Which made it very much more con-
clllatory. 1t gave our government an
opportunity to settle the matter sat-
isfactorily
There is no doubt that this mod
lfication of Lord Palmerston's note
saved us from war, and enabled us
to preserve the Union, without for
elSn wars.
Yet, after all. it is not the queen
whom the world, which so long has
known her, will really miss. It is the
woman, who, ripe as We're her years,
will be sincerely mourned the woman
who has in her long,, patient, u~eful
life. glorified and dignified her sex, xas
never yet has, perhaps, another wom-
an Of her station. Never was there
another woman, queen Of so many
reverent, respectful hearts.
The queen was, above all, a woman
with strong moral sense. Her standard
of life was a high one, and her sense
of duty the. ruling spirit Of her life.
No one worked more laboriously in
the interests of her people, than she.
1t was the noble simplicity and pur-
ity of the queens life that makes our
country poorer today, and we realize
that we have lost a powerful and con-
slant factor for good in the world,