The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-12

ment, and OF caution. in the yielding
TO impulse. and frequently In weakness
| that permits the heart to get the bet
ter of the head
During the last few weeks the pub
| lie on both sides OF the Atlantic has
been busily engaged In discussing the
political views and sympathies OF
| William H., described in the London
Daily Telegraph interview
Such indiscretions are not unusual
among members OF royalty
Queen Victoria herself was in her
younger days made the object Of, an
| unmerited charge of indiscretlon
which. publicly condemned by the
press. aroused an amount of public
sentiment against ner of which those
who knew only of her extraordinary
popularity during the latter period of
her reign can form no conception.
This was the episode Of Lady Flora
Hastings who, while a member of the
royal household as maid OF honor TO
the young queen, became the venom
Gus gossip at court In connection with
a tumor from which the poor girl was
subsequently shown to be suffering.
The queens mother, the Duchess Of
Kent. lent an ear to the calumny, and,
without taking any steps to protect or
shield Lady Flora, caused her daughter
the young queen. then an unmarried,
Inexperienced maiden still in her teens.
to issue, through ner mistress Of the
robes. written intlmation to Lady
Flora dispensing with her services and
virtually banishing her from court
The matter developed Into n public
scandal, engaging the attention Of
both parliament and the press. and
when Lady Flora's family. beside
themselves with Indignation, brought
the highest medical testimony In the
land to prove the nature of the NAL
ady to which Lady Flora succumbed
a few months later, the storm broke
loose and the London Times in partic-
ular denounced in the most scathing
terms the cruel treatment to which
snc had been subjected throughout
the matter at court The RESPONSE
bility was laid at the door Of the
young queen by the public, although
IL belonged wholly to her mother, the
Duchess Of Kent
Among the most extraordinary or
lndiscretions imputed to old world roy-
atty is that laid at the door of King
George IN connection with the war OF
Greece and Turkey AT the time when
the CTetan difficulty became acute
Henry Norman, who has since been
knighted. arrived at Athens as spe-
clal correspondent OF the London
('hrnniC1n arrfn ~
the eur of the king was accepted by
the latter as his principal political con-
tidant and adviser It was In vain
that Sir Edwin Egerton. the level
headed and statesmanlike minister
Dlenipotentiary Of Queen Victoria,
urged upn the Hellenic ruler that nei-
tber the English government nor the
English people could ever counten-
ance or support. either morally or ma
terially. the Greek nation In prac-
tIcally self-provoked war against the
Ottoman empire
It was In vain that King Georges
royal and imperial relatives in Eng.
land. at Copenhagen. at st. Peters
burg, and in Germany pressed upon
him the same warning, pointing out
that jealousies between the great
powers of Europe would effectually
prevent any individual or concerted
action In behalf of Greece Henry
Norman. whose essentially middle
class English breeding and culture had
been smartened by a college course
At Harvard, and who was fresh from
Sofia where he had been instructIng
Ferdinand in the difficult art of rul.
"a
upon himself to assure King George
that quite the contrary was the case, |
and that Greece could rely upon Eng
lish backing
The Greeks, after cndeavoring in
vain to provoke the long suffering
Turks into the commission of an act !
Of aSgressiveness, finally themselves |
the first direct breach of !
-he peace, the conflict thus begun re- |
sulting In so ignomlnious defeat for
teh Hellenic nation as practically to |
rob 1t Of all the sympathies of the |
civilized world, which 1t had until then |
possessed as a Christian power ar
-ayed In combat against the Turkish |
Dfidel. In the end the Greeks were |
obliged TO pay war indemnity to the, !
.une OF some S120. 900 900. to submit
o the loss Of a considerable amount
If territory, and to the obnoxious IN
-ernational control, nominally OF tnc
'evenues of Greece. but practically OF
he entire Hellenic administration.
King Oscars indiscretions. like
hose OF Queen Elizabeth Of Rouman.
a. were mainly in connection with his
literary activities. and occasionally in
'olved him In queer quandarieS, due
n measure to his insistence that in
he realm OF letters all consideration
N rank were obllterated Having on
me occasion INDUCED In some rather
criticisms at the expense
# Bjornstjern Bjornson. the famous
Norwegian poet and dramatist, the lat
er. who is renowned for his irascI.
'ility, insisted that the king had been
thereto by mere literary
ealousy, and proceeded TO send him
challenge TO a duel. Oscar, Of
course. was obliged 10 ignore the car
ell But some time later, at Chris
iania., when serenaded by number
# choral societies, he requested them
n loud tone OF voice from the bal
,ony of the palace to sing one OF
he finest poems OF Bjornson. I his
song is very soul stirring
md intensely patriotic composition,
ct to exceedingly grand music, and
vhen tne vast crowd that thronged
he huge square in front of the palace
'erccived that not only had Oscar
Jared his head while the song was in
progress. but that he had actually
oined In the singing. with that voice
or wnich he was celebrated. and
which would have won fame and for
une for him on the lyric stage, pop
lar enthusiasm became indescrib-
BILE. On the following day, and lust