Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-01-23

oeen opposed 10 war.
We are to mention that Victoria never
was born to the crown and never was
married to a king.
Her father was a ruined younger son
Of a king; her husband the younger son
of a poor German duke. The vices of
her uncIes emptied the throne of good pos
terity and let her up. She married be-
fore she was spoiled, and her husband
was her own cousin. How many private
lives are there demure and acquiescentl
She has proved that ''the meek shall in.
herit the earth"
The woman who paid her deceased
fathers debts in a spirit of honor he did
not have became empress of 100000, O00
of the Oldest people and princes in the
world
Had Victoria disdained her friend Leo.
pold's advice to marry his nephew Al
bert, the perils and batteries Of court so.
ciety might have made her another Eliz.
abeth, but she hearkened to advice and
blessed the poor young man with her
hand and awoke to the blessings Of ma
ture in smiling babes and the dignity of
large motherhood Eugene with one
babe mourns his barbarous death. Queen
Isabella of Spain loses her crown and is
an exile from her son. Victoria, nodded
by the hand of love and husbandry, sur
vived every contemporary of her corona
ton and takes precedence of the women
of all the world ''Three queens" say
the English, Elizabeth, Anne, Victoria,
c.9v- L7e44
It is high treason in the queen to be
unchaste. She would be tried by the
peers. She pays no toll, is relieved from
amercement in any court. Her husband,
however, does not commit high treason
if unfaithful.
Victoria surrendered at the commence.
ment of her reign her hereditary revenues
for the sum Of nearly 100000 per an.
mum. OF this her purse received direct
$500, 900, her house and household ST..
10000; for aims, the court, ETC., the re.
mainder Her probable personal income
was 100000 a year clear, 10 times our
, presidents, not including her own prop.
erty The Prince of Wales receives
$500, 900, his wife $50 900, and each of
the family liberal provision. Pensions
of $6, 600 year she was allowed to give
amounted in 1892 to 1925, 600 She there.
fore handled $2050, 600 year Vic.
toria's refusal to change the official la.
dies of the bedchamber in 1889 led to the
prolongation of Melbournes ministry till
1841, covering the period of Victoria'a
courtship and marriage.
Victoria lost by death in 1878 her
daughter, Alice Of Hesse; the Duke OF
Albany, Leopold, in 1881, and the Duke
of Clarence, her grandson. She had
IS administrators or premiers-Mel
bourne, Peel, Russell twice; Derby three
times Aberdeen, Palmerston twice; Dis
raeli twice; Gladstone four times; Sails
bury twice She was called 1.-THE most
constitutional monarch England has ever
seen.
The Prince of Wales has visited the
United States, the Holy Land and India
was field marshal of the army and grand
master of the Masons. His wife at one
time did her parents housekeeping, even
to cooking, it was said. Baron Stock
man and Leopold projected Albert's great
marriage His salary was $3.50, 900, cut
down 500, 900 by the Tories. He always
believed that Prussia should be supreme
in Germany.
When the queen came to her kingdom
| it had about %, 900 people; when she
/ died it had near 90, 600, 000-less than
/ $50, 900 foreigners. In her colonies were
some 220, 000, GOO The revenues for the
state were $3.50, GOO, 900.
| GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND