, 1901-01-23

N'S fNNl'S NtaA''N '
profound genius of our German Gtera-
ture, and hence their undertaking of
it." He taught the queen to love seem
cry and said that the heavy London at
mosphere always weighed him down.
Victoria built n mausoleum at Frog
more for Albert's remains, and a grand
monument-the most elaborate in Eu-
rope-is erected to that prince consort
in Hyde park gardens. Il have had
Gods teaching" said the widow, .'and
learned to pear all he lays upon me-
She gave renewed attention to the pub
lie business from a desire to carry out
the training her husband had given her.
The queen INDUCED a species of spirit
ualism very long, believing that her hus-
bands spirit was with her. She could
only look down upon the marriage of the
Prince of Wales and Alexandra two
years afterward in st. Georges chapel.
This occurred March 10, 1868. The u
thor of this paper saw the Princess of
Wales enter London by her affianced
spouse, and 20 years afterward enjoyed
the possession of a box at the Wild West
show next to the prince, princess, the
now deceased son and three of the girls,
of whom Maude vas married within two
months.
1t 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
lily devotion had made of the daughter
of the Duke of Kent a being as unlike
him as Cordelia was unlike the raging
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Lear. The spirits of Goethe, Schiller and
Mendel.sohn 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 the insidious
persuasions of Napoleon III to take part
in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT 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. st is dirty chimney; let it burn
itself out" The queen sent a message
in 1866 to the president upon the com.
pletion of the Atlantic cable, consoicd
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 bruta! country
struck by an officer of hussars. Not an
insult was ever offered her in Ireland OF
in any other country.
Her learned and letters loving hus-
band, in his effort to improve the civil.
cation 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 MI. 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 sol of Eu'
genie and Napoleon was ignominiously
speared to death by a Zulu, suggesting
the similar fate Macmillan was lured tc
in Mexico by that dynasty of filibusters
Victoria's daughters-in-law were re-
spectively q Dane, q Russian and two
Germans.
The queen often spun upon the whee,
In Scotland.
A few scattered extracts from the
queens journals, which have been pub
lished as books, will give some insight tc
her nature:
II read to Albert the first three canto:
of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, which
delighted us both.
"Oh, what can equal the beauties of ma.
ture9 What enjoyment there is in them
Albert enjoys it so much. He is in costa,
sizes here in Scotland. He has inherited
this love of nature from his dear father
II 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.
OulSAoC btoOu JIG AuiIuuIS VI ~ Tx
just . years old, a dear, white, fat, fail
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.)
1.-THE Duke Of Wellington is dead
Gods will be done! The day must have
come. The duke was AZ. In him centereL
almost every earthly honor a subject
could possess. His position was the
highest q subject ever had-above party
looked up to by all, revered by the whole
nation, the friend of the sovereign, anG
ho,o simply he carried these honors!
"Our dear Victoria was this day Qs55
engaged to Prince Frederick William O.
Prussia, who has been on a visit to us O
10 days. He had already spoken to III
nine days ago of his wishes, but we wer'
uncertain, on account of her extrem,
youth, whether he should speak to hel
himself or wait till he came back again
However, we felt it was better he should
do 80, and during our ride he picked
piece Of white heather. the emblem O
this enabled him to make an allusion Il
his hopes and wishes as they rode dow
the glen, which led to this happy con
clusion.
Every year 1850 my heart becomes
more fixed in this dear paradise (Bal
moral). and SO much more so now'tha
all has become my dearest Albert's OWL
rrootypn Dr-p x.-,rly nun, h,1y1linU nyJ1