Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-01-24
GREATEST RULER DEAD.
Queen Victoria Entered into Rest at 6.55
o'clock Tuesday Afternoon.

"The Queen is dead" Such were the
simple words of the bulletin Issued at 6.55
o'clo k Tuesday a ternoon which chroni-
cled the end of Enel nd's greatest queen
and meant SO much to the vast empire upon
which the sun never sets.
Crowds had hung about the bulletin
boards all day anxiously awaiting. what
they knew to be the inev table.
The queen is said to have bade f'rewsn
in feeble monosyllsble to the family as
sembled at her bedside at midday. She
first recognized the Prince of Wales, to
whom she spoke few words OF great mo-
ment, then Emperor William and the
others present filed past and heard her
Whispered goodbye. All those in the bed
room were in tears.
The papers devote columns of space to
historical and personal "reminiscences and
scenes, incident to the queens life.
lis generally recognized that, until q
few days ago, there was no harder worker
in the kingdom. 1t is roughly estimated
that she signed $4,000 document, yearly.
No despatch of anv gravity was ever issued
from the foreign flee until it had BEEN
seen by the queen, and some idea of the
work thus entailed may be gathered rom the
fact that the foreign office handles consider
ably over thousand dispatches weekly.
The government leader in the house wa
in ths habit of forwarding to the queen a.
abstract o. the busne's done. She pc =
sonsly attended to these and trequentl,
returned explanstion.
An account of the queens Illness from 6
source within court circls places the ven.
| erable monarch in a star ting and pathetic
light.
1t shows that her mind had been failing
tor months, even before her visit to Ire
lani. But tor her ply sical breaking-up o
last week, an attack of paraly sis IN the left
side. it would have been possible for court
and the royal household to keep from the
British people knowledge of the mental de.
cay for an indefinite period. The queer
had lapses of intellectual vigor but thesr
were more distressing to her than her pc.
RODS of mental density.
| w utu UtT IulLu was ClChT euC
" reverted to the horrors of the war ir
South Africa. This war which she strove with
all her power to avert has made the las
hours of Eng!and's queen most wretchec
and miserable.
The queens strong constitution mani
tested the first symptoms OF serious decay
when evil tdings OF the South African wal
began to arrive in rapid succy ssion.
The que did not look for any serious
disaster to her army. She expected roth
ing but series of easy victories. Gen
Bull r before leaving England for tn
South African campaign had as'u'td rh'
queen that the war would be- sd fiji 'ult bu
not dangerous" In consequence tt e new
OF the many reverses came to her with add
ed severity.
THE NEW KING.
The new king of England, formerly r.
Prince of Wales, ascend, the throne as Ed
ward VII. He is now, by the death Of h.
mother, the sovereign, although certsi
formalities will be performed later, includ
ing, doubtless, a magnifce coronation Ger
emony in Westminst.r Abbey.
The Duke of York, son of King Edwsr
VII, is now the Prince of Wales, and tn
heir to the throne.
1t was he wish OF the late queen that b.
son be styled Klrg Albeit, but the Eng
lsh people have af.ncy for the eontInua
tion OF the series of royel Edu a "ds, and s
the new king will be SO called. His n
the Prince Of Wales, has an Edwa d in hi
nsme. snd so has his grand OF, SO thai E
writ VII may be followed by Edw,r
" II
England sha last so long.