The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30

Mary Stuart. Queen Of Scots"
was the most beautiful, the
weakest the most attractive and the most at
tractcd of women raising around her higher ir-
rcslstiole destinations, whrlwind OF love. am
bitioh, and Jealousy in which her lovers became
each in his turn the motive, the instrument. and
. the victim Of crime leaving the arms of a muir
dcrcd husband for those Of his murderer!
She was The only daughter of James the Fifth,
King Of Scotland, who was an adventurous and
romantcally inclined man. and something of a
'swashbucklcr" by nature, / assume from n
general reading mostly concerned with his life
Whatever was scnsuous. passionate ana uncon-
trolling in his daughters career most certainly
was Inherited from him; and not from her
thoughtful and ambitious mother who had been
Marie de Lorraine. Of the house of Guise who be-
came Il widow when her child Mary was In the
cradle 1t was on the seventh day of December,
1872. that this babe born and seven days
after that she succeeded to the throne Of Scot
land when her father died But the Kingdom was
In state OF with England and in de-
peted condition. Her first years as she entered
into young womanhood spent at the castles
Stirling and Linlithgow and she was attended by
four young ladies' each bearing her name. These
-Four Mnrys" have been the subject of many
songs.
BY an arrangement that thought would
protect the French and the Scotch against Eng
land. an alliance formed between Mary and
Francis. the OF Henry H. and Catherine de
Mcdic The young girl went to France to receive
her education and in company with the Kings
daughters. went to a convent where she led
life of fervor and tranquility. She was shortly
withdrawn by the King who declared that
vents We're only fit for little else than teaching
lnncts to whistlc!" At this time she tall and
graceful with clearand fair complexion without
much color She spoke well in French and Latin.
somewhat accomplished a musician a
dancer in the mnuct. and expressed herself
charlningly. But she less n child
in mind when at sixteen years Of age she was
married to Francis H.. who not much further
advanced. Henry III. had been killed in a tourna-
ment and the young couple were thus called sud
denly to the throne. Their reign lasted but eleven
months. The young Queen much admired by
the French people. The peasantry made her an
idol Francis died at the age of eighteen and
Mary went to convent at Rheims. Soon after
came the death Of her mother. the Queen of
Scotland and throne was waiting
for her in Edinburgh. At this time the poet Ron
sard adorcd her to such extent that he filled
the very air of France with his adjuatons and
signs over her departure. On her twentieth birth
day. August II. 1861, Mary landed in Scotland
and was escorted with royal attendance Holy
rood. anC the following day was saluted as
Queen of Scotland. John Knox. the Calvin OF the
Scotch and the Savonarola of Edinburgh at once
issued a pamphlet against her bearing the title:
First Blast of the Trumpet against the Mon
srous Regime of Women"
In order to the good will of this strange
fanatic he was invited to the palace but it was
only to alarm the young Queen and make her
weep as he preached against human pomp and
royal devices Afterwards he said to the popuace
There is nothing to be hoped of from this NIoa-
bite: Scotland might well build upon clouds
upon an abyss. over volcano The spirit OF
caprice and pride the spirit of her accused uncles
the Guises, is within her.
Feeling that she had place in the heart OF
the pcoIc she around for friend Rv q
happy impulse she gave her confidence to n ma
tural son Of her father James V. who was called
Lord James. She found him brohcrly and treated
him such. raising him to the rank of Earl OF
Murray. He was we'll liked in tho country mi in
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