The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-01-27
The Power Of Song.

! lCopyr1ght, 1909, by American Press ASSO-
ciation.l
sQueen Margaret Caroline Frances
! Josephine Stephanie Lucille Eulalie de
Raganza succeeded to the throne at
twenty under the title of Margaret Ill
From her earliest childhood she had
shown an independent disposition. In
these times she would be a suffragette.
| for she believed not only in women
having a voice in the government, but
in their governing. Scarcely had she
been proclaimed when she startled her
! people by calling for the resignation of
! the cabinet and filling the places made
vacant with women.
women and the men were stand
/ ing about, holding their hands. Then.
a fat political job being given to wo-
| man, the men thought it time to bestir
themselves. They sent the most ac
complished, handsomest and most Sc
ductive men to the queen on one pre-
text or another, hoping through her
heart to attain their ends. But the
queen saw through their designs and
/ laughed at them.
! One day knot of politicians hungry
/ for plumber were discussing the situa
! ton when a little. half deformed, home
/ ly man said to them: eff you will
back me UP l will go to the queen and
accomplish those things you desire
All want is a suit of fine clothes"
A shout of laughter greeted his offer
Then some one suggested that for a
! joke it be accepted.
/ Not long after this the queen re-
/ ceived a message that a special am
! basSador from neighboring sovereign
had arrived with view to making "a
treaty.
I Margaret expected to see man Of
/ imposing appearance and, being some
what timorOus of such men, steeled
herself to meet him. She was sur
! prised to see a man barely five feet
three inches high, with long arms and
legs and a slight curve in his back
Nevertheless his head was large, and
he possessed one feature of remarka-
BILE beauty and intelligence-his eye.
! Margaret unbent to this insignificant
creature at once, assigned him a wing
/ of the palace and as soon as he was
! ready-he seemed in no hurry-began
! to talk over the terms of the treaty
I XVhanovar tbo nToaO rr1oHa dame nd
/ for a slice Of territory, a payment of
| indemnity or any such matter the am
! basSadOr would say in soft voice:
"Your majesty's mOdesty in your de-
! mands is what is to be expected from
woman of such loneliness. l shall
advise my sovereign to double the
amount you claim"
There was no difficulty in making a
treaty on such terms, and the queen
closed the negotiations, delighted with
the envoy Then the treaty was sent
/ to the other sovereign interested for
confirmation. and the ambassador,
obliged to wait for an answer, re-
turned to his apartments.
That night the queen heard a voice
singing in the ambassadors wing, ac-
companied by guitar. 1t seemed to
her that it was the voice of an angel.
She listened till the song had ended
and, not hearing more, sent request
for the singer to resume. He did so,
and Margaret went to bed filled with
the most enhancing thoughts.
The next day on inquiry she learned
that the singer was the ambassador
She asked him to sing to her. but he
excused himself, saying that the spirit
of music came to him only in accord
ance with it's own sweet will. 1t came
however, on balmy nights from a pleas
ant distance and sounded especially
sweet when the moon cast it's soft
light over the palace and the grounds
in which it stood. Queen Margaret al
ways listened to it sitting at her bed
room window and continued under its
spell long after it had ceased. Gradu-
ally the singer and the song became
one. OF the homely body nothing re-
manned, but from the ambassador
eyes the queen saw a spiritual body
of transcendent beauty, soul that
seemed to beckon her to higher
hOlier existence.
Meanwhile during the day, there be
ing no treaty to talk about, the queen
began to speak to the ambassador
about her affairs. Never had she heard
such wisdom. such farsighted sugges-
tions. He told her that such queen
as she would be blessing to every
people. but in all Kingdoms there wa
low grade work that only coarse ma.
tured men could properly perform.
The treaty never came back, and the
/ ambassador at last confessed that he
was no envoy, but one who. having
seen his queen from a distance. so
worshiped her that he. had been i'm
PEELED to do a dishonorable act for the
sake of passing few weeks in her
adorable companionship.
One morning the journals announced
that all the ministers had resigned
and their places were to be filled witt
men. Then the people waited for an
announcement of the names of the
members of the new cabinet. When
the name of the prime minister was
published no one knew him. At the
first meeting of the cabinet crowd