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The Huron News-Record, 1896-09-30, Page 6Over Thirty Years Without Sickness. .Mr. H. WETTSTEIN, a well-known, enterprising citizen of Byron, 111., writes: "Before 1 paid much atten. tion to regulating the bowels, I hardly knew a well day; but since 1 learned the evil re- sults of constipation, and the efficacy of AYER'S Pills, I have not had one day's sickness for over thirty years — not one attack that did not readily yield to this remedy. My wife had been, previ- ous to our marriage, an invalid for years. She had a prejudice against cathartics, but as poou as she began to use Ayer's Pills her health was restored." • Cathartic Pills Medal and Diploma at World's Fair. To Reston Strength, take Ayer's Sueapullk The Huron News -Record '.i'6 a Year -41.00 in Advance WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 300, 1890 "GOD SAVE THE QIIEEN." She Holds the Rowed Among Monarchs. SIXTY BRILLIANT YEARS The Vast Changes That Have • Marked Her Sway. A MODEL WIFE, MOTHER AND QUEEN HER INFLUENCE HAS BEEN GREAT IN THE COURT, THE HOME, AND THE EMPIRE. Wednesday Queen Victoria had reign- ed longer than any other British mon- arch. Hergrandfather,KingGeor•ge III. ascended the throne October 25th, 1760, and died January 29th, 1820, having reigned 59 years and 110 days. Tues- day Queen Victoria had reigned as long as that. Wednesday night, she has reitrned 59 yea's and 111 days. A fact so remarkable in all senses of the word may well stir the loyalty of the millions of subjects of the British Empire. The occasion affords a fitting opportunity to look back over some of the events of a reign which has been as historically interesting as it has been morally glorious. There is something in the position of Queen Victoria as she approaches the confines of late old age, which deeply moves the world's imagination. In all history there has been no such reign, so long, so little marked by col- lisions between Sovereign and sub- jects, so little broken by public calam- ity or failure of any description. George III., when he died, had reigned a few months longer ; but George I1I., though at intervals personally popular, was at war with the majority of his subjects during the greater par t of his reign,the advisers he chose for himself, from Bute to Addington, were usually inferior men, and he lost by sheer mis- management the greatest possession -of the British Crown. The Queen throughout her reign has lost nothing which was hers when she ascended the throne except the seven Greek Islands, which her people never valued and, in part no doubt from ignorance, do not .mise. Her advisers surrendered the 'Transvaal after shedding much blood for its protection — Isandlana was fought and lost in protecting the Boers rather than ourselves—and that sur- render has turned out disastrous ; but the Transvaal was no part of the Queen's hereditary dominion, and the loss, as Englishmen have reaped the profit of the gold mines, is trifling when compared with the total acgiuist- tions of the reign. Neve Zealand ill the South Pacific, kingdom after kingdom in Asia, provinces in Africa whose vastness Englishmen even now do not realize,have been added to the Empire, until the Queen, though she calls her- self only Empress of India, is practical- ly also Empress of Alva and of the Nile. It is, however, when we employ the terminology used by the diploma- tists at the Congress of Vienna that we realize the full degree in which Pro- vidence has raised Her Majesty's posi- tion, for under her gentle and toler- ant rule population has increased even faster than the area acquired by con- quest Or settlement, and she probably reigns to -day over a hundred and twenty millions more "souls" then obeyed her, when, as a girl of eighteen, she first ar:cended the throne, the total number of her subjeeteno'ir amounting to four hundred millions, or nearly one clear fourth of mankind. The revenue drawn from this vabt multi• tude is wore than twice the SAID of which her Majesty's advisers all over the world disposed in 1837, yet so lightly does taxation press that there is no division of the Empire, which is not far richer, while at home the in- crease of wealth has been so vast that the demand of the royal tax -gatherers may be said to be comparatively un- felt. We say nothing of the incrertse of trade, for we cannot admit that ex- ternal commerce is the best barometer of a nation's greatness, or that Amer- ica, France or Russia are so far be- low England in importance as the re- turns from their custom -houses would seem to indicate. We would rather point to that increase of loyalty which, hut that the length of the Queen's reign has nearly killed out the genera- tions which knew her predecessors, would seem to all men the most strik- ing of the political changes that have 'narked the Victorian era. The Queen has been called upon to sup- press one insurrection so widespread and terrible that it threatened for a moment to terminate her power in Asia, but it was never from the first a successful insurrection ; so little was it universal that during its course her Majesty never controlled less than one hundred thousand soldiers, all volun- teers from awoug the peoples in rebel- lion; and since its suppression the feel ing of loyalty to the Crown has wid- ened and deepened throughout the Empire, in the white provinces as well as the brown and black, until it is difficult to write of it without using words which seers to savour either of vaingloriousness or adulation. We may, however, without. being guilty of either, declare, what the most Radical among us would adwit,that the throne as one of the institutions of the coun- try was never so safe, and that much of its new popularity, if in part due to an access of Imperialist feeling is also due in part to the deep personal res- pect which the lady who now occupies it has inspired., There is no country within which her face is on the coin where the news of a real personal mis- fortune to the Queen, a severe car- riage accident, for example, would not he received with a quiver of pain, or where the man who had attempted to assassine her would not be over- whelmed by the curses of the entire population. There is no corner of earth within her dominion, or one in which the English language is spoken, where the Queen would not be as safe as within the walls of Windsor. How much of all this can be fairly carried to the credit of the Queen ? No one will be able fully to answer that question until some flfty years hence the secret memoirs of this reign have begun to pour thick and fast up- on the minds, possibly the slightly be- wildered minds, of intending histor- ians. It is one proqf among many that the Queen has been a good Queen, that to this day, when she has reigned so nearly sixty years, her Majesty's personal seclusion has been maintain- ed, and she is still to the mass of her subjects, indeed probably to all except three or four close relatiyes and friends, something of a veiled figure. The veil which shrouds our Monarchy would not be respected for a week if the monarch were bad either personally or politically. Some few facts, how- ever, may be taken as certain, and are indeed matters of common knowledge. The Queen, at flrst through her hus- band, afterwards in her own strength, has for the last fifty years exercised a great influence upon affairs est,ecially upon foreign politics, has accelerated or impeded the choice of Ministers, has been the close confidant of every Premier, and has on every adequate occasion exerted the full influence which must belong, be the Constitu- tion what it may, to the person who, being armed with the imprescriptable and self -derived chars' of the throne, has the right to compel ell Ministers and servants to explain their plans. \Vhen you roust explain to your wife, your wife has influence, and t he Queen throughout her reign has been at least wife to the Ministry of the day. Yet in all that time no one can point to an occasion on which the Queen and her Ministry have been in collision, or in which she has done any act over which wise Ministers grieved, or in which she has in the slightest degree, we will not say forfeited hut diminished, the confidence of her people. Rumor, probably false in detail, has attributed to the Queen many preferences fur one Premier over another, and it is incredible that she liked theta all equally, but she has in• variably accepted the Preruier whom the nation expected her to choose, and the most malignant of talenion- gers has never accused the palace of intriguing against the party in power. Rumor again, possibly accurate this time, has attributed to her Majesty strong pre -possessions as to particular measures, but can any one point to a measure, even in relation to the government of the army—always the sensitive place in every Sovereign's mind—which a Ministry has definitely recommended, and which has not been carried nut? Doubtless one or two have been delayed, doubtless, also, the lines of foreign policy have in one or two instances been deflected, and doubtless, also, the Queen has occasion- ally vetoed a political promotion, but then that is not resistance, but, only the influence which the head of the per- manent service of the state must ne- cessarily exercise, and, indeed, when convinced, could hardly fail to exer- cise without neglect of duty. The Queen, it must not he forgotten, gov- erns by taking council and in insist- ing that that council should be distinct and intelligible, and should he the re- sult of strong conviction in the emin- seller, she does but fulfill the function which the Constitution, as interpreted during her reign by a succession of strong and thoughtful men, has en- trusted to the throne. it must often, if the Queen is mortal, has been a misery to her to find her view rejected, but whenever the . finistry has been of one mind she has postponed her own judgment to theirs, and bas loyally supported the plan adopted and hoped for its success. To have played that part for nearly sixty years in the midst of persons so greatly differing, and events many of them so intoler- ably exciting, seems to us proof aheo- lute that the Queen, though neither a "divine" figure nor a woman of genius, has been adequately equipped with sense, perception, and nerve for the immense position she has been called upon by Providence to fill, a position, we must add, which would of itself have turned any but a solid brain. Just think of the blunders all living monarchs have made, even Francis Joseph of Austria, yvhotn men now account a Nestor, and all the Premiere of our time, and then reflect on this reign in which there has never been a blunder great enough to he per- ceptible to the million eyes which al- ways watch at Court. It seems to us that, wholly apart from the difficult question of the proper limits of loyalty to an individual, there is enough in the known facts to justify all the re- verence with which the Queen is re- garded, and which extends far beyond the limit of her sceptre, wide as that limit has now become. Foreigners occupy in many res- pects the position of poster- ity, and among foreigners capable of judging the reverence for the Queen is at least as great as in England, her opinion when known to foreign Courts weighing at least as heavily as it does with her own Ministers. That is due, say several of our contemporaries this week, to the intermarriages which have made her Majesty the common ancentress in so marry Courts, in every Court, indeed, not strictly Catholic, and no doubt the strange position of the Queen in that respect is one rea- son for the special honour in which she is held a)n•oad ; but it is not the principal one. Relatives can hate one another very hard, and the Queen is as greatly respected in Washington or New York as in Berlin or St. Peters- burg. Her Majesty is great because her reign has been great, great in its enterprises, great in its successes, great above all, in that compatibility which, owing mainly to the character of the Sovereign, it has shown to be lipossible between a more than Repub- can freedom and Monarchical insti- tutions. The British Empire is the greatest object -lesson ever given to the world to show that a state can enlarge its borders without living un- der tyranny and without universal military service. EARLY LIFE. The Queen was born on May 24th, 1819, at Kensington palace,and was the only child of the Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. There seemed little chance at that time of her ascending the throne, but all her father's elder brothers eventually died childless. Her portraits show, among other things, that the Queen was a singular- ly pretty child, and had more than average good looks as a young woman. At the age of nine, according to Wil- liam Fowler's portrait,, she was an ideal of a certain type of childish beau- ty. That this is not an artist's flattery of his Royal patrons seems to be proved by the fact that all the like- nesses of this period by different art- ists agree closely. The Duke of Kent is on record as calling his daughter "plump as a partridge," His affection for her had a curious connection with his death. He came home with wet feet, and,instead of changing his shoes, went into the nursery to play with her, and, in consequence, caught cold and died. At five years the Princess Victoria is described as having "a countenance which bespeaks perfect health and good temper." She had fair hair and com- plexion and very large eyes. She used to ride a donkey "gaily caparisoned with blue ribbons in Kensington gar- dens, and would accost passers-by with 'How do you do?' and 'Good morn- ing.' At the age of twelve she learned that she was heir to the throne, and, according to "The People's Life of Their Queen," by the Rev. E.J. Hardy, she made this solemn and remarkable utterance:—"Now many a child would boast, not knowing the difficulty. There is much splendour, hut there is more responsibility." Then she put her little hand into that of her teacher and said :—"I will be good 11 will be good I" Little Victoria was truthful, and al- ways ready to acknowledge a fault. Her tastes were so simple that when once she was asked what refreshments she would like during a change of horses, she replied, "A small piece of stale bread." The Duchess of Kent trained her daughter very thoroughly. She was careful that she should appear very seldom at the court of her uncle,George 1V. One of the effects of her mother's training was the simplicity in dress which has always characterized her. She was eighteen years old when she became Queen by the death of Wil- liam IV.,on June20, 1837. Atthat titne she was a very sweet -looking young woman, with very fair hair, large blue eyes, and rosy cheeks, easily blushing Above all, her appearance was fresh and wholesome. Old Mr. Greville says that she blushed with embarrassment when her elderly uncles had to kneel and swear allegiance to her on her ac- cession. Writing of the Queen's voice as she heard it at the coronation, Fanny Kerehle says : "The enunciation was as perfect, as the intonation was melodious, and I think it impossible to hear a more ex- cellent utterance than that of the Queen's English by the English Queen." With her coronation robes she wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter, the highest order of knighthood in England. There was some doubt as to where the garter should be worn. The left arm was finally decided on. Her portrait at the time of the coronation indicates a steadily increasing plump- ness. it is also remarkable for the way the hair is done, in long plaits, covering the side of the face. Her marriage followed within a few years. Not only reasons of State required it, but she was a normal and affectionate young woman, and felt the need of a hnshand. She was fortunate in find- ing in her cousin, Prince Alpert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, one who was ac- ceptable to the country. and wham she herself loved. The Queen had to pro- pose to her husband. Once she asked him if he liked England, and he said "Very much." "Then why should you ever leave it?" she asked. By little en- quiries of this kind she nscertained the state of his feelings, and finally made a declaration She told hint that he would make her intensely happy if he would sacrifice himself and share his life with her. The Queen and Prince Consort bad a honeymoon of three days. There were many uncomfort- able features at first about the latter's position. The law gave him no exact social precedence. Lord Albemarle, Master of the Horse, maintained that he had the ril�gght to sit in the Queen's carriage on State occasions and not the Prince Consort. The Duke of Wel- lington, however gave his opinion that the Queen could put Lord Albemarle where she liked—either on top of the coach or beneath it, or anywhere else. The Queen took wonderful care of her beloved husband, whom she was to lose so early. MARRIED LIFE. The Royal marriage and the happy married years ensuing for a while made the heavy circlet of empire light- er on that most gr&,cious and noble brow. The Princess Royal was born ((since, in her own exalted turn, an Empress and a widow), and a year later the birth of the Prince of Wales rejoiced the whole country. The Queen then, as always, possessed two Em- pires, that of Great Britain and of her own household, and a month after the coming of the Heir Apparent she wrote to King Leopold of Belgium :— "1 wonder very much who my little boy will be like. You will understand how fervent were my prayers --and I ani sure everybody must he—to see him resemble his father in every re- spect, both in body and mind We must all have trials and vexations; but if one's home is happy, then the rest is comparatively nothing. My happiness at home, and the love of my husband, his kindness, his advice, his support, his company, snake up for all." See how the Queen loved and loves that thoroughly English word "home," —the secret of the story of nation and sovereign alike! Its utmost meaning is not felt or known by those who translate it into "chez lui" or "chez moi," and it tends to evaporate in re- gions where life is carried on in flats and hotels. Climate and the English instiuct for isolation have had some- thing to do with the intensity of senti- ment which has come to cluster round the word; but that word is the roost truly English and the niost significant of all in our dictionary, so that Shake- speare could find no better one for heaven when he wrote :— "Thou thy worldly task has done, Home are gone, and taken thy wages." "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," and "More Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," two books written and published by the Queen, make us acquainted with the home life of the illustrious lady who has just left us. It is almost impossible to open these books anywhere without finding play- ful but solid manifestations of those two feelings forever governing her Majesty's great and generous heart.— the love of home, and the love of her people. There befalls no disaster to the alining or industrial classes; no dreadful wrecks at sea; no sad railway accident on hand; no striking sorrow; no sudden public loss—but a motherly love of the Queen is promptly shown in tender and graceful words of pity and sympathy which she knows so well how to employ; and many a sorrowful soul has been thus comfort- ed. For her army and her navy, when ever and wherever they serve herself and the country, her solicitude is, and bas ever been, intense and vigi- lant. A thousand instances miglit be adduced of this, which needs indeed no other proof than the ardent loyalty of those who—from the barracks to the field-mar•shall's tent, from the fore- castle to the admiral's cabin—wear "the widow's uniform." Is it thought that such an influence must be senti- mental only? In truth it is a force, and has been a force, like that of a great military leader's personal pres- ence. When in 1853, •her Majesty's heart was weighed down with anxiety for her soldiers in the Crimea, -who were severely suffering, it was her own hand which wrote ag:lin and again to headquarters directing or suggesting atueliorations. And when Lord Rag- lan was leaving Windsor to return to his command in the Crimean camp, it, is reported that one of the little princesses said to hits: "You must hurry hack to S.ihasLopol, please, Lord Raglan, and take it, or mamma will die of her anxiety." Not merely in name has our Sovereign Lady been commander-in-chief of the naval and military forces of the realm. We have watched with amusement and admiration before now, at a levee in the palace, some general officer of proud renown and superb warlike ac- hievments crumpling up his white gloves into a boll, and nervously fidget - ting from head to foot, with a tremor never felt in the presence of Death or of the enemy, as his turn came to pass the barrier and he announced by the Lord Chamberlain to his military superior, her Majesty the Queen. We doubt if a better proof could be furnished of this wide and compre- hensive royal interests in all her su• sets than the fact—slight but sign' cant that the Queen should have set herself to learn Hindostani, the lan- guage of her Indian people, and should have so mastered it, as to he able to read and write, as well as to converse in, this lingua franca of the Oriental Peninsula. There would he risk of being sus- pected of exaggeration if we attempt- ed to say how widely this mark of sin- cere sympathy and concern has affected the princes and the people of India. The Mohammedans, especially, of whom the Queen rules more than sixty millions, and to whom Hindostani as a tongue particularly belongs, have heard with delight and pride of the Dairy which her Majesty keeps in Urdu, and at this day the Maharani, the Kaiser -i -Hind, the Adhirajni-- "Victoria the Empress."—is for the mass of her subjects in India a power, an influence, absolutely immeasurable for service of peace and obedience, al- most touching, among the reverential and susceptible Hindoos, the region of the gods. The heart of gold, the will of iron, the royal temper of steel, the pride, patriotism, and the deep piety of Vic- toria have been enshrined in a small but vigorous frame, thn mignonne as- epect of which especially strikes those who behold her for the first time in these her "chair -days." 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