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The lead Victoria.
| III all things she was u woman, n loyal
| wife, IL loving mother, with the divine at
| tributes of Il superior and unseltish love
| for little children. In the years of her
loAg and glorious reign no stain sullicd
her fair name or tainted in one degree
| the sweetness and bcnignancy of her
womanly naturc.-Omaha World Herald.
| She redeemed the English court from
centuries of scandal: She wore her honors
with dignity betitting her high station;
Willie the world was undergoing IL trans
formation she was to England what the
north star is to the night-hcr position
the same, the light from the palace al
ways steady and purc.-Salt Lake Trib-
une.
1t will be rare when the nation shall
see her like again. Her reign will he
known as the Victorian era in the worlds
history, as during it almost every science
and every Improvement for the benefit of
man developed i'll IL degree SO prodigious
that there was more real progress i'll the
siNty-threc years of her reign than has
been recorded in the history of centuries.
milwaukee, Evening Wisconsin.
Queen Victoria leaves the British en-
pire richer. frccr. mighticr than she
found it. She discerned Mt the start the
drift of her age and conformcd her con-
duct TO the dominant ideas of her time.
Strong she was as IL ruler, but she mani
tested this quality not in futile intcrfcr
ence, but in impressing her will upon her
ministers and inducing sobriety and con-
servatism.-Chicago Evening Post.
The extent OF Queen Victoria's direct
influence in domestic and foreign policy
cannot be measured now, and may never
be accurately known. But the influence
of her character and example is visible to
everybody. For many years it has been
one of the strongest influences in Eng
land for wholesome living, for simplicity,
for goodness. The Importance of such
an influence for good cannot easily be
over-estimated.- Sentinel.
1t was not the glory of her reign which
won for Queen Victoria n place in the
hearts and memories of men, but other
and homelier qualities. The unassuming
young girl who more than sixty years ago
was called from comparative obscurity
to mount throne; the tender wife and
devoted widow; the good mother and be-
nign head of IL multitudinous family of
descen,iants--in all these characters
Queen Victoria represented femininity of
the most admirable type.-Philadelphi
Record
That West Point Surrender.
The cynical view, of course, is that the
young men have simply taken time by the
forclock in anticipating a legislative in
tcrliction of hazing by abolishing it of
thcr. .-(Nhinupn Jnu,,n.l
The action of the cadets in agreeing to
give up all forms of hazing ut West
Point is a surrender to public opinion SO
timely and complete as to mt once restore
them to favor.-Louisvillc Courier-Jour-
nal
1t would have been more creditable for
these young men if they had abolished
hazing by their own volition, as the
classes in many colleges have done in re-
cent years. hut the main thing is the fact
that it is to be stopped-Chicago Trib-
une.
The cadets will have to show the peo-
pie before the people will believe that
hazing is abolished. The cadets have
more than once taken IL solemn pledge
not to engage in the practice, and just
as often they have broken these pledges.
Omaha World Herald.
1t is to be presumed that the pledge
made by the classes will be kept, not only
by the present classes, but by future
ones But to make sure, it will be we'll
for Congress to incorporate in every APP
preparation bill Il clause absolutely pro-
hibitins the haZing practices under the
severest enaltics.-AIinneapolis Tribune.
1t may be said without fear of contra
diction that nearly anybody who has read
the testimony of these students will take
the announcement of their good inten-
tions for the future ut exactly its face
value. There need be no discount. They
say there will be no more hazing, and
everybody is confident that both in letter
and in spirit the promise will be kept
Milwaukee Sentinel
England's New King.
If in his early manhood more than one
scandal was laid to his reproach he has
for twenty years past discharged the du-
ties of n crown prince with tact, indus
try and ability which have won a uni
versal praise.-Philadelphia Press.
1t is, perhaps, fortunate for the people
of Great Britain and for the world itself
that the new monarch should have az
rived ut the throne only after cXhausting
nearly every other round of possible hu-
man experience. The duties of kngship
will scarcely be strange to this favorite
of fortune and descendant OF u hundred
liings.-Philadclphi Record.
There will me no lack of opportunity
for the new king to impress himself on
the government of his country. Placed,
as he is, ut the head of an empire i'll
which the Rome of Caesar and Trojan
and the greater Macedonia of Alexander
could be hidden, he has opportunities
such as never before We're bestowed on
prince or president.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
While it is difficult matter to teach
an old dog new tricks. and while the
prince was so long in his mothers lead