The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-06-27

creature luli OF lntcrast IN every man
and every womans s--work whether
1t was imaginative or technical. She
regarded no thing lightly. Her con
science, her wonderful mentality her
faithful Kindness, gave time aud
thought 10 all
What one is chiefly struck by as
one looks back over long years is the
naturalness, the normal processes
with which her power grew Her in
huence was cumulative As child Of
1S-a pretty creature with roses in
the brim of her quaint bonnet she
and her touching youth were chival-
rously adored There is "a charming
letter of Charles Dickens, written in
his early manhood, IN which he play
fully describes his hopeless passion
for a beautiful young lady he has seen
walking in garden. In his own in
imitable way be paints her loyeliness
and its effect upon his susceptible
temperament. his delight in her and
his frantic despair at the hope lessness
of his flame. He ends by the couies-
sion that the incompatible she is the
young queen of England. whom he
has beheld as she walked in the gar
den OF her palace. 1t can easily be
imagined that many of her young male
subjects in secret swore fealty To her
and IL may be that some of them
proved their faith on Crimcan and
Indian battlefelds when they were Of
ripper years.
She began by pleasing Englishmcn
from the first, by an unconscious ap-
peal to their chivalry and the best
qualities of the sturdy insuIar nature
She took an honest young consort and
gave her people strong boys and rosy
girls 10 be their princes and princess
es. Her subjects knew that her home
was happy and her children loved
She hedged her throne with no diviDi-
~, but lived before her peoples eyes
healthful and normal, kindly ana in
frank confidence in her country's af-
fection. AS the years passed the cyi-
dences of her care for those she ruled
over were countless. When she lay
dying at Osborne one wondered that
in one woman's life there could have
been time for the innumerable acts Of
feeling kindness alone which can be
recorded of her. No calamity by land
or sea. by flame or disease, befell her
people when her grief was not as theil
own.
1t has been said that collection of
the letters of sympathy written by
man or woman would be the best
possible exponent of character and in
some cases might form monument
to which no other could compare
collection of the messages sent by
Victoria of England to high ana low.
gentle and simple, in time Of sorrow.
would form not alone record of deep
feeling but of an executive ability
which seemed to find time to think of
ali things. A woman of passionate
tenderness, widowed in her early ma
turity, her heart turned to all women
bereaved A mother as full OF NOBLE
ambition for her children as of in
tense love, her sympathy for young
death, her praise for young deeds of
courage or honor sped fast to many a
woman's broken or proud heart The
queen has written one read again
and again in the morning papers after
any catastrophe, victory or JOY, ami
her words were always tender and up
lifting things.
Her power and steadfastness in the
matter of work were such as few men
are marked by. Many knew of The
hours spent at night in the labor of
correspondence and the examination
of papers. IL is an old story, that OF
the prime minister who said that he
would rather have ten kings TO man
age than one queen, so determined
was this one to sign no document she
had not thoroughly understood, re
flected upon and approved.