The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-22

uJnsln very lOnS, DcneNlng that her nus
bands spirit Yves with her She could
only look down upon the marriage 81 the
Prince Of Wales and Alexandra two
years afierward IN st. Georges chapel.
This occurred March 10, 1868. The au-
thor OF this paper saw the Princess Of
Wales enter London by her afiianced
spouse, and 20 years afterward enjoyed
the possession of box at the Wild West
show next 10 the prince, princess, the
now deceased son and three Of the girls,
OF whom Maude was married within two
months.
II was five years after Prince Albert's
death before the queen resumed the
throne in public.
German conscientiousness, German
system, German household art and fam
ily devotion had made Of the daughter
Of the Duke Of Kent being asrnlike
him as Cordslia was unlike the raging
Lear. The spirits OF Goethe, Schiller and
Mendassohn have for 50 years been rul-
ing England
Ten years after her fathers death the
Princess Louise married the Marquis Of
Lorne. Two Scotchmen and several Ger
mans are the queens sons-in-law. Helena
married Prince Christian Of Sleswick-
Holstein in the mourning period.
| Prince Albert resisted tho insidious
! persuasions Of Napoleon Ill to take part
IN the dismemberincnt of the United
States. The wise investment the Ger
man people made in American war bonds
assisted them TO maintain the armies
which beat Austria and France. Eng
lishmen of as much hypocrisy and as lit
tie decency as Carlyle said of the United
States, 1T Is a dirty chimney; let II burn
itself out" The queen sent message
in 1865 to the president upon the COM
| pletion Of the Atlantic cable, consoled
| Mrs. Lincoln upon her husbands death
and entertained the son of Lincoln, Gen
| eral Grant and the son Of Harrison. Six
times had this good woman been shot at
and once struck in that brutal country
struck by an officer of hussars. Not an
| insult was ever offered her in Ireland or
in any other country.
Her learned and letters loving hus-
band, in his effort TO improve the civil
zation of England, was frequently hound
ed by public speakers, press and people.
They laid upon him the Crimean war,
which was due TO that jockey, Palmer
ston, the man whom Mr.. Buchanan con-
graduated upon the strong likeness o.
his stepchildren to him.
After the queen had received the sultan
and the shah in England the king OF
| Abyssinia desired TO marry her. He was
killed in 1858 or took his own life, and
Stanley, one OF our American war cor
respondents, sent the queen the FIRST
news of the death of her dusky lover.
In beating the Zulus the son of Eu-
genie and Napoleon was ignominiously
speared to death by Zulu, suggesting
the similar fate Macmillan was lured TO
In Mexico by that dynasty Of filibusters.
Victoris's daughters-in-law were re-
epectiyely Dane, . Russian and two
| Germans.
The queen often spun upon tho wheel
In Scotland.
A few scattered extracts from the
queens journals, which have been pub
lished as books, will give some insight TO
her nature:
II read to Albert the first three cantos
of the Lay of the Last Minstrel which
! delighted us both.
"Oh, what can equal the beauties of ma
ture? What enjoyment there is In theml
| Albert enjoys il so much. He is in costa
sizes here in Scotland. He has inherited
this love of nature from his dear father.
IL sketched the Welsh woman. pic
ture given In the book) A very pretty
| dairymaid in complete Welsh costume
was brought on board for me to see.
"Outside stood the Marquis of Lorne,
| just 3 years old. q dear, white, fat. fair
little fellow with reddish hair, but very
delicate features, like both his father and
his mother. He is such a merry, indie
pendent little child. (Her future son-in-
| law)
"The Duke of Wellington Is dead,
| Gods will be done! The day must have
| come. The duke was SO. In him centered
almost every earthly honor q subject
could possess. His position was the
highest a subject ever had-above party,
looked up to by all, revered by the whole
nation, the friend Of the sovereign, and
how simply he carried these honors.
sour dear Victoria was this day 1880
cDBuStu W a ElnCt IcnttiCh w l1iidtu cl
} Prussia, who has been on visit TO us OF
| ID days. He had already spoken to US
nine days ago of his wishes, but we were
uncertain, on account OF her extreme
| youth, whether he should speak to her
| himself or wait till he came back again.
/ However, we felt il was better he should
do so, and during our ride he picked a
piece of white heather. the emblem Of
( good luck, which he gave 10 her, and
this enabled him to make an allusion to
his hopes and wishes rs they rode down
the glen, which led to this happy con-
clusion.
Every year 1850 my heart becomes
more fixed in this dear paradise (Bal-
moraD, and so much more 20 nowI that
] all has become my dearest Albert's own
creation, own work, own building, own
laying out, As at Osborne, and his great
taste and the impress of his dear hand
have been stamped everywhere.
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