The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-22

passed in prayer and tears. causing the
most profound anxiety 10 her entOur-
age.
The queen lost her appetite and be
gan 70 shrfvels presenting all the char
acteristics Of senile decay.
Revived by Irish Visit.
The excitement incidental to her
visit to Ireland-which. despite every
I thing stated to the contrary. was her
own idea-seemed to revive her. but
before the visit ended a reaction had
set in.
The public, however. was hoodwinked
/ by the accounts OF her majesty's do
ings and utterances given TO the news
papers by her household.
Unusual care was taken to have her
addresses and other evidences OF men
tai activity set before the public. In
reality the queen lived as in a dream
For instance, she was reported to
have made an animated reply to an
address presented her at the Mount
AWHILE convent in Dublin, whereas all
she said was the dazed inquiry, Where
am To-
This. happened, not once, but several
times When she went TO Baimorai,
her Highland home, her spirits revived
under the influence of General Roberts
brilliant achievements in the South
African war, but Improvement was
short
It had always been a source Of Won
der to her physicians that with her
great appetite and physique, she had
escaped an apOplectiC stroke. but about
this time there was falling away of
I her left side, accompanied by a loss Of
power in her left arm ana left leg.
These symptoms caused apprehension
of approaching paralysis. So alarming
was her condition that the royal fam
lily abandoned all idea of making a
trip to the continent, which, it had
been hoped, would revive the queen
mentally and physically.
UnfaVOrable war news and reports
of the acute suffering Of her dying
daughter, Empress Frederick, affected
the queen keenly.
She suffered with increasing frequen-
cy from fits of depression and crying.
Queen Calls for Duchess.
She referred constantly to the death
of the Duke of Saxe-COburg- Gotha ed
inburgh) and expressed a wish TO see
( the duchess
The change to Osborne just before
Christmas time did not work the bene-
fit that was anticipated.
Accordingly, the latter was sum-
mOned 10 Osborne. but at the first in
teTvieW the duchess left the queen
Frustrated with grief. In the midst of
]
unexpected death of her oldest and
dearest friend the Dowager Lady
Churchill, senior lady of the bed cham
Der and member Of the royal house
hold for fOrty-siX years.
While the queen has been sleepless
at night, she has long had strange fits
of drOwsineSs in the daytime When
her mind has been clear the queen has
tried valiantIy to combat this falling.
The court officials have also worked
hard TO keep her from sleeping at the
wrong time
The last time she drove outside the
grounds of Osborne the villagers of
East Cowes were astOunded TO hear
the clear treble of the son Of the Prin-
cess of Battenberg trilling out popular
songs from the royal carriage.
The boy was singing to keep his
grandmother awake. in obedience to
her wishes Now and again she dOzed-
Weakening to tell the boy to continue
his chant, which to the initiated on
locker contained world of pathos.
Falls Asleep on Last Drive.
The queen drove about ia her donkey
chaise within the grounds of Osborne
House for the last time on Tuesday.
The Duchess of Edinburgh or Saxe-CO-
burg GOtha was her companion.
On her return TO the castle the queen
was asleep.
In that condition she was carried to
her bed. never to raise again.
Dr. Pagenstecher. the German Ocu-
list who was attending Somerset for an
injury TO his eyes, was summoned to
Osborne.
She suffered acutely from her eyes
owing to her constant crying. DR. Pa
genstechar made a general examination
on Monday and reported that the
queen had nothing organically wrong
but was suffering from nervous ex-
hauStiOn.
In her periods of mental activity she
haTped 50 necessarily upon the war
that Colonial Secretary Chamberlain
was commanded TO go to Osborne to
console her with the reaSSuTing news,
Mr. Chamberlain led the war party
when the queen favored peace in South
Africa.
Chamberlain's Visit a Mistake.
It was not a wise thing as it turned
out. for her household to summon
Chamberlain. His efforts to console the
queen were fruitlesS, and she abruptly
closed the conference.
Subsequently Lord Roberts was di-
rected to appear at Osborne He
reached there last Tuesday. He did not
attempt to deceive the queen. but
frankly explained the difficulties which
had to be overcome before the war in
South Africa could be terminated. The
interview lasted some time and il was
the last time that the queen displayed
the wide knowledge and shrewd COM
mon sense which played such an i'm
pOrtant part in her dong reign.
1t was after the Roberts interview
that the queen, accompanied by the
Duchess Of Edinburgh. went for the
drive already mentioned.
Two weeks before the public knew
Of it Sir Francis Laking had been as
sisting Sir James Reid at Osborne. On
Thursday last Sir Douglas Powell, the
famous heart and lung specialist was
summoned TO Osborne because of two
attacks of heart failure from which the
queen suffered on Wednesday night 20
At that time the queens condition
had assumed the gravest complication.
but the Prince of Wales. in order 10
prevent public alarm or suspicion at
tended dinner given to Lord Roberts
and subsequently appeared at the the
atre on Thursday night.
On Thursday the queen had a stroke
Of paralysis, followed by a comatose
condition, which continued