The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-11

age than one Queens so determined
was this one to sign no document she
had not thoroughly understood, re-
fiec.sd upon and approved.
But. with the brain and determine
ton of man. she was beyond all
things woman, and her passion for
her people was that passion OF wo-
man which is mentally in degree
maternal. How she loved them-her
stubborn, stolid seeming, madly fight
ing. uncomfortable English! Their
courage stirred her very soul. During
the last years of her life. we are told,
their slaughter broke her heart. She
lived so close to them that -he bled
with their wounds. II she had been
man born in the days when kings
led their armies to battle what sol
der she would have made! The blood
OF warriors was in her veins. This
| soldierly quality in her, without doubt,
had something to do with the fact
that she-the most impersonal and
untheatrical of women-inspired, as
has no other woman who has lived. a
curiously personal and dramatic devo-
ton.
One was continually struck by the
personal nature of the feeling shown
where she was concerned. There were
DAYS when at this one small, gray wo-"
mans feet the world lay as no world
Law at Cleopatra's. What national an
them was ever sung as meG have
sung God Save the Queen?" What
toast was ever drunk with the impetu-
ous fervor men have been moved by
when they drank The Queen--Gcd
Bless Herr" On the day of her dia-
mond jubilee, it has been said, when
she came before the people-an aged
woman supported by her son-the inn
mensity of the emotion swaying the.
vast multitude in their laundering ac-
|, CARNATIONS was such as made some OF
, the strongest blench with awe. No
, pomp. no power, no magni6cence-
could have awakened such emotion II
. this one creature had been a shallow
or soul. It was the tribute of the
|, world-not a mere nation-to one,
!. woman who had lived with noble..
4 upright courage and great, unswerv-
: ing heart.
!. It seems impossible to picture the
= nineteenth century without this wo-
: man. The far-reachingness Of English
: influence is a great factor In the
!. moving of the world. This 1t is Inn
: possible to deny--the ruling quality OF
q the English nature-a certain uncon-
r trollable desire to interfere, to claim.
3 to persist, makes 1t so. In century
n surging with great wars, with the
y birth and death throes of nations,
4 wondrous through the working OF
those marvels in which the strongest
forces of nature seemed to submit
n themselves to man rocked by the Inn
q petus of the forward rushing move
). ment of thought, it was well that
=. there sat upon the throne OF empire
~ a gravely human creature. full of the
Il nobility of the desire to aid, of rever'
e ence for all things great, for the god
4. like in the human mind, for the aspir
10 ing, for the heroic and beautiful
IN There was no great movement that
v. she did not aid. no effort of art or sci
~ ence to which she did not hold out lei
an hand.
3. When she passed away and mer
as and women wept in the streets FOL
lie her, many required to the last jour
nd ney, which was a thing SO character
az istic of her in its resolution and spir
=. 1.-THE visit to her people in Ireland
he Who is not glad that 1t was made
he But who but that one woman woul'
-. have made It? Was there premonitioI
ho In her desire to let her sometime tuE
10 bulent children see her face grow
a. old which they had only seen whel
I'M young? She had passed the limit Q
nd allotted years, her splendid strength
a. had begun to fail at last She wa
worn and tired, but she had the couI
an age which had taken her fearless t
IN. France, after Fashoda, when eve
a. statesmen hesitated before the poss
70 BILE results Of the rage of an excite
nd populace.
,.v When England heard that the quee
- herself had decided upon this Wis
=. to Ireland 1t seemed at first incred
"A BILE. The disastrous deeds which al
nj q blot upon q nations record are ne
ves inspired by the people-are never tn
q expression Of the peoples self. b
a.. the frenxied act of q fanatic ma
~. cause world to weep. She was
la old. The very fatigue and excitemcl
: were too much for her to be asked
~ bear. 1t seemed more than possib
.ws that she would be dissuaded. But 81
:, - was not. The rumor grew. III
~ Queens journey was being prepare
and o-'.nu s"oSe sa.a.s -, aea