The age-herald., 1901-01-23

event or instance Therefore the great Queen has been free from political bitter ness, free from the details of ordinary gov ernment; and as a consequence she the sovereign, was no nearer to being responsi- ble for the bread riots of her early reign, the troubles of the Scotch Crofters the unhappy conditions in Ireland, or the war in South Africa than she was to responsi- bilfty for the Galveston stormi All those occurrences were outside and apart from her power or duty.
 We shall now hear much of these things, and much of morbid islanders and scandals of one sort or another. Already yellow journals know the Queen died of broken heart" because of the Boer war whereas 1t is beyond the reach of every newspaper to know what the Queens private opinion of that war was. These same journals will give the minutest details of things said and done in Osborne House, which in fact were never spoken, never transpired "Our special correspondent will date his fiction from the very lodge gate of the Queens private home, and the journals will be bur dened with hundreds of thousands of words in special cablegrams" written in New York the padding of skeleton false hoods cabled over. During nearly ten years which l lived abroad l never knew but one European correspondent of an American newspaper who didn't scorn the truth, and met a great many correspond ents Their cabled falsehoods to the news papers at home, in scores of instances statements that I personally knew to be false, were simply amazing. This simple truth about special cablegrams' is here stated as a timely warning to the public in ths hour when the demand for real news from England is greater than it ever was before, greater perhaps than it will ever be again. And this has no reference to the Associated Press, which, according to my somewhat close observation of the news agencies of the world, is the fairest and mot reliable in existence except Reuters Agency.
 Final and the First.
 This much is of interest concerning the last moment of the ilustrious Queens life and the first moment of her illustrious sons reign. According to the precedent of thousand years and more, the members of the Queens family, some of the high servants, cabinet minister, a dignitary of the church. and the physicians stood about the dying sovereign's bedside wait ing the end in most solemn and silent sor- row. The Queens household physician, Dr. Reid held his finger over her pulse. Slowly he released the poor, wrinkled old hand of her who was moment before the greatest of earth, and rising he looked at the Prince of Wales and said simply
 Your Majesty, the Queen, is dead!'
 Instantly every person in the apartment, without lOOKlnB to the rlSnt or to tie lelt, or parting of lips without so much as glancing at the mighty dead approached the King and kneeling to the floor said softly:
 God save the King!''
 It was all done in an instant. The last heartbeat of the aged Queen made her aging son King, and he having been So greeted according to most ancient custom all those present paid their humble and pious devotion to the dead and every soul there was ringing, She was good to me, she was good to me, she was good to me!' Ringing, ringing, ringing! and so ring the souls of millions