The Dickinson press., 1901-01-26

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VICTORIA WHEN A Girl.
ter, was sentenced to death, but was
transported for life. The day after his
sentence was committed q drug clerk
named Bean tried to shoot her with
pieces Of clay pipe in a pistol. He was
whipped and put in Jail. In 1910 she
was again shot at by an Irish laborer
named Hamilton on Constitution hill,
but the pistol contained only powder.
The next year Lieutenant Pate struck
her in the face.
Victoria. visiting Scotland, Holyrood
and the castle. told Alison that she was
glad she vas descended from Mary and
had nothing to do with Elizabeth.
April, 1913, was born the Princess
Maud or Alice.
In 1s43 Victoria went on her yacht to
see the king of the French, whose daugh-
ter was her step aunt. and staid I've
days at Chateau d,Eu. She had never
been out of England before. Thence
they went to Belgium. Nicholas, the
car, paid her visit. Louis Philippe fol-
lowed.
In August, 1874. Prince Alfred was
born.
In 1851 she opened the Crystal palace.
In 1885 she purchased Osborne. isle Of
Wight, and $500 acres.
In 1a48 she visited Germany.
Helena was born May Is. 1916. and in
l648 the Princess Louise.
Louis Philippe, an exile. died at Clare
mont, England, in 1849.
In 1858 was born Prince Leopold, just
before the Crimean war. Louis Napoleon
and Eugene visited her.
Beatrice was born 1857.
Prince Albert died Saturday night,
Dec. IA, 1851, at the age of only AZ. No
wonder the widow felt the loss of her
spouse at that young. manly age and
was long inconsolable. He died of fever
from cold and said to his daughter Alice,
"Your mother cannot bear to hear me
speak of it yet" Only a year previously
her mothers death made her say, "I-I,
wretched child, have lost the mother ]
80 tenderly loved, from whom for these
Al years I had never been parted except
for a few weeks"
"'Tis your own little wife" she said to
the dying Albert. He said he heard the
birds singing outside the windows at
Windsor, and with his fevered breath he
kissed her, thinking of Germany. He
had his daughter play him German airs
in his last days. Victoria's s%tepbrother,
the Duke Of Leiningen, was with Albert
when he died.
The queen mourned long, and some
thought her mind would be affected. The
%insensate London tradesmen shrieked,
"Be done with your hiding away and
come and get US trade" Albert, like
Handel, the musician before him, knew
the difference between German love Of
art and knowledge for their own sake
and English mining for knowledge al a
means Of wealth. He had written be-
fore his marriage of England:
'These people cannot understand the
profound genius Of our German litera-
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 q mausoleum at Frog
more for Albert's remains, and a grand
monument-the most elaborate in Eu-
rope-s erected to that prince consort
In Hyde park gardens. 81 have had
Gods teaching, !" said the widow, land
learned to bear all he lays upon me-"
She gave renewed attention to the pub
Lie business from . desire to carry out
the training her husband had given her.
The queen indulged 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 au-
thor Of this paper saw the Princess Of
Wales enter London by her atlanced
spouse, and 20 years afterward enjoyed
the possession Of q box at the Wild West
show next to the prince, princess, the
now deceased son and three Of the girls,
Of whom Maude was married within two
months.
It was five years after Prince Albertt's
death before the queen resumed the
throne In public.
German conscientiousness, German
system, German household art a diam.
lily devotion had made Of the daughter
Of the Duke Of Kent q being a. iu,i16lileplsal
him q. Cordelia was unlike t y f u i
Lear. The SPIRITS Of Goethe, Schiller and
Mendelssohn have for IS years beenxfM-
ing England. +' 7f&s7 =
Ten years after her fathers. death the
Princess Louise married the Marquis 81
Lorne. Two Scotchmen and several Ger
mems are the queens sonsin:law. Helena
married Prince Christian Of AesWick
Holstein in the mourning period. y
Prince Albert resisted the inadioul
persuasions Of Napoleon III to take parl
IN the dismemberment Of tho 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, ut lisa dirty chimney; lett burn
itself out" The queen sent q 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. Siz
times had this good woman been shot al
and once struckin that brutal country
struck by an officer of hussars. Not an
insult was eve offered her In Ireland o.
II any other country.
Her learned and letters ll9ying hus
band, In his effort to improve the civil,
cation Of England, vas frequentlyh 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 Me- buchanan con
Ratplsted upon the strong likeness OIL