The age-herald., 1901-01-23

and the other two were her daughter who is now Empress Frederick and her daugh- ter-in-law who is today the new Queen of England
 Death had made great changes in the ten years that closed with the celebration of the diamond Jubilee. The crown prince of Germany had become emperor, and his son had succeeded him. first as crown prince and then in the imperial dig nity the Duke of Clarence, the Queens grandson, and heir prospective to the throne of England, was dead: the young grand duke Nicholas had become Tsar, and other changes were noted the Queens brother in-law the Duke of SaXe-Coburg, having died and been succeeded in the German dukedom by the Queens second son, the Duke of Edinburg, now dead too!
 The Greatest of All Pageants.
 The diamond Jubilee was splendid be- yond all comparison, noble beyond the con- ception of half the world, though it did not differ in essentials from the golden Jubilee. It was from a window in Piccadilly that viewed that greatest of all the world pageants. It required no practiced eye to discern that the burden of the years and the cares of the greatest of all earthly honors were weighing down the poor lit- tie Queen," then seventy-eight years old
 Soul of Song.
 She naQ a heart or SunSnlTe dIiu SOui Ol song, the great and good Queen. Some per sons who were acquainted with the Court told me a little story that is sweeter in its human impulses than all the panegyries that will be sounded by the great, now that the Queen is gone. One of Her Majesty S immediate servants, a woman, was Ill and confined to her room, on the floor above that which the Queen occupied. One night an attendant brought the information that the servant was suffering greatly The Queen arose and taking her stick she started to the servants room The rheu- matism was paining her intensely and 1t was with great difficulty that the aged and afflicted woman-the wife and mother and Queen adored by the world-dragged herself up the stair but at last she reached the servants door and entered. The poor ser want was overwhelmed by her conflicting emotions of amazement at the condescen- sion of the Queen of the globe-encrcling empire and her joy and pride in that touch of nature which made the two women, the servant and the Queen-Empress, kin.
 "Oh, your Majestyr' the servant cried.
 No, no, my friend! I am an old woman and suffer much, but am strong enough to come to you. So I shall stay here and we'll talk it all over and both be better. Lie still and I'll give you your medicine!
 So spoke the greatest Queen who ever reigned, and yet there will be those who
  the world loved this one woman, and will answer themselves vapfdly.
 God save the Queen!'
 Writ from the Queen Herself.
 One bright day toward the end of July, 1893, in Queenstown, Ireland, l was made glad by receiving from the Queen, through the British Foreign Office and the United States embassy in London, the writ called in diplomacy exequatur, which was essen tal to my continuance In office as consul, to which President Cleveland had for the second time appointed me, thereby honor ing me beyond my deserts. The royal Writ I have preserved and looking at 1t tonight, signed as it is in the upper left hand cor ner, as the universal monarchlcal custom is in affiXing signatures, the bold penman- ship, Her Majesty's own handwriting done with a quill pen, 1t has far more intense human interest to me than it had when 1t came @ high honor nearly eight years ago. It spells many things to me, this writ from the great Queen, things l would not forget years with my beloved Irish whom 1 shall not cease to love; years in studying the great principles of her wise reign; years spent sufficiently near to the outer rays of the white light that beat about her thone of virtue to be enabled to read clear ly and distinctly the lessons of incompara- ble greatness.
 Here is the Queens writ, countersigned
  Minister of the Queen:
 'Victoria, R. l.
 "VICTORIA by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c &c, &c To All and Singular Our loving Subjects to whom these Presents shal come Greeting! Whereas, the President of the United States of America has by commission bearing date the Sth day ol June last appointed MT. Lucien Julien Walker to be Consul at Cork and We hay ing approved of this appointment accord ing to the Commission before mentioned Our Will and Pleasure are, and We here by require that you do receive, counten- ance and as there may be occasion, favor ably assist him, the said Lucien Julien Walker in the exercise of his Office, giving and allowing unto him all the Privileges Immunities, and Advantages thereunto be- longing.
 | Given at Our Court of St. James, the twenty fifth day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-three in the Fifty-seventh Year of Our Reign. By Her Majesty's Command. "ROSEBERY."
 Truth and Falsehood.