THB COURIER
juFWvj' o ant tKe rveWs of the
World Written atd pictured,
the finest art and the best
literature, then you must
read
COLLIER'S
WgKL,Y
America's Foremost
Illustrated Journal
Hall (aine'j; latest anil greatest nocel,
"Tc Eternal (?ilV begins soon. Send
for free copies of tbc opening chapters
Address COLLIER'S WEEKLY, 555 WEST
THIRTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
AMERIi
THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS
fs the one important magazine in the world giving in its pictures,
its text, in its contributed articles, editorials and departments, a
comprehensive, timely record of the world's Current history. Not
the enumeration of mere bare facts, but a comprehensive picture
of the month, its activities, its notable personalities, and notable
utterances. The best informed men and women in the world find it
indispensable.
' There are many readers in your locality who have yet to
learn of its usefulness. We wish to establish active agents in every
city and township in the country. We will pay liberally for ener
getic effort in the subscription field. Leisure moments can be utilized
with substantial increase of income. Make a list of the persons in
your locality who should have the " Review of Reviews," and send
to us for agent's terms, sample copies, and working outfit. Then
solicit their subscriptions. It is a compliment to approach a person
with a subscription proposition for the " Review of Reviews," and
consequently orders are easily secured. This is the active subscrip
tion season. Make application at once, naming your references.
Price. 25 cents a number. $2.50 a. year.
THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY.
IS Aslor Place, , New Votk City.
r
f A XK1 V CDC Send The Courier yourLEGAL- notice
LA. W I lL l0 files are kept in fire proof building
The Queen's Wish.
"If, when I am dead," said Victoria
several years ago, ''the English people
honor me enough to think of what I
would wish and what I would pray for
on their behalf, I would have them al
ways associate my name with peaco and
the amity that promotes the ends of
justico and of right. The English peo
ple have been exceptionally blessed by
Providence, and greater things, I be
lieve, aro expected of them by the Al
mighty; and in what way could they
please Him more than promoting tho
ends which, during my reign, bavo been
the rueanB of causing so much general
happiness, so much widespread content?
I have the confidence to believe that
such is their destiny, and nothing that I
know of would give me so much pleas
ure as to be assured that my spirit
could in any way watch over and aid in
the accomplishment of that noble
work."
These remarks were made in the
course of a conversation with a maid of
honor, who wrote an account of it for a
British magazino. According to ber re
port, Victoria was seated at a window of
Osbornn House on the Isle of Wight,
looking out on Spithead, which was
crowded wish ships.
"1 have often been struck with the
Bight," said the queen, ''but it never ap
peared, I think, so wonderful as today.
Just now it seemed so astonishing to me
as to be hardly real. I suppose I am
getting an old woman; and as one nears
the end of the chapter that closes this
earthly pilgrimage the underlying spir
itual fact is apt to strike one more than
it formerly did, while the hard material
ehell. with its tendency to corrode and
drop away, becomes less and less impor
tant. "Just now. when you came in, I was
dreaming, day-dreaming. Seeing all
those ships coming and going, my spirit
seemed to be carried away, first by one
end then by another. Now I was in Aus
tralia, now in India, Africa I saw, and
Canada; then all the islands and their
people; the rocks of Gibraltar, Hong
Kong, Aden and Seychellers passed be
fore me. And at every port I saw ships
entering and leaving, and men at desks
receiving and transmitting messages.
And it was everywhere: 'What are they
doing what are they thinking in Eng
land?' When I was a child, my dear
mother took me about a great deal, and
I saw people at work in all kinds of
ways and in every sort of industry. The
things I saw made a deep impression
upon me, and I have never ctased to
think of them. All these people ask is
i to be allowed to do their daily task in
peace, to earn their daily bread, and to
have a little fringe of play.
See what they have done since I came
to the throne by their thought and toil;
they have made this empire what it is.
"The work will continue after I am
gone, but I sometimes wonder in what
way. Sovereigns have their influence,
and when they die it stops, or seems to.
In only a few instance it is otherwise.
King Alfred turned the national mind
to learning, and perhaps the influence
he exerted never wholly died. William
I. set a hammer going that in the end
turned a nation of iron into a nation of
steel. Tho last Henry made the country
Protestant. Elizabeth the great Eliz
abethtransformed it into a nation of
heroes."
"Her influence surely has not died,"
observed the maid of honor.
"No; it would seem as if something of
her spirit still inspires the people who
speak the tongue she spoke still sends
them in those winged ships around the
world. I ran hardly hope to leave such
an intiuence; and yet under my rule the
people who were counted by hundreds
have grown to thousands, the thousands
to millions; and that has come about be
cause, for the most part, my reign has
beou one of peace. Thore have beon
wars; but they bavo beon to establish
peace, to give people security in pursu
ing the arts of peace.
"Wars 'or that end aro justifiable, but
for uo otner. My influence has ever
been for peaco. Only under a regime of
peace can tho people grow in those
graceo and virtues which is tho aim of
our religion to inculcate. Thore is no
reason why a nation devoted to peaco
should become weak and effeminate.
Tho labors of men in thoir peaceful
callings, in mines and quarries, on the
sea, in the furnaces and iron wotka,
building railways and laying submarino
and other cables, exploring and plant
ing new colonios all these labors aro
as arduous as thoso of tho soldisr, and
they call out stronger and more endur
ing qualities. I would not have tho
English people study less and practice
themselves lesb in the art of war; I
would not have them show one whit
less or that high spirit that has carried
them so far; but, if it were in my powor,
I would have all thoso ships, when they
moet in tho ocean, and when thoy touch
at a port I would have them say to
each other, 'Friends, the watchword is
Peace.' "
A critic of Victoria. W. T. Stead, edi
tor of the British Review of KoviowB,
declares that sho has proventod two
wars and would havo prevented u third
had she beeu able to havo given closo
attention to the circumstances leading
up to it. Her moderation, combined
with that of her husband, did much to
prevent war with America over tho
Trent affair. In 1863 Lord Russell and
Lord Palmerson would have committed
England to war with Germany in de
fense of Denmark if the queen had not
compelled them to take back their war
like dispatches and adopt a policy of
neutrality. Her failing eyesight, in Mr.
Stead's opinion, kept her from watch
ing the dispatches to South Africa,
which resulted in tho recent war. At
the time of the Crimean trouble she
was for fighting. On all other occasions
her influence was on the side of peace.
Victoria was not expressing an unrea
sonable request when she uttered the
wish that her name should always be
associated with peace and amity.
BURLINGTON ROUTE.
Low Rates, West and Northwest.
At the lime of year when thousands
will take advantage of them, the Burl
ington Route makes sweeping reduc
tions in its rates to the West and North
westto Utah, Montana, Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia.
Dates: February 12. 19 and 20.
March 5, 12, 19 and 2G.
April 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30.
Rates are shown below:
To Ogden, Salt Lake, Butte, Helena ) -y.
Anaconda and Missoula J
To All Points on the Northern Pa-'!
cific Ry., west of Missoula, Includ- j
ing Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, r 528
Portland, as well as Vancouver j
and Victoria, B. C J
To All Points on the Spokane Falls')
& Northern Ry. and the Washing- V 528
ton & Columbia. River R. R j
Never has the Pacific Northwest been
so prosperous as now. Labor is in con
stant demand and wages are high. Tho
money-making opportunities are beyond
number in mines, lumber, merchandis
ing, farming, fruit raising, fishing, and
all the other industries of a great and
growing country.
Literature on request free.
J. Fkancis, Gen'l Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Nebr. (3-23)
Miss Glitter has written a society
novel.
But she doesn't know a thing about
society.
That's why she wrote it.
ft I
ftl