Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — Page 7

Mary Stuart’s Sins and Prayers.

If Mary, who was born in Scotland, wished to live there, she could not enjoy her wish—for out of the 44 years that she lived she scarcely spent a dozen in her native country, to which she much preferred France, the country of her mother, who was a daughter of the Duke of Guise. In her marriage-treaty with Francis 11. she made Scotland a province of France, and she allowed herself also to be proclamed heir to the throne of England. This claim, which Elizabeth acknowledged by selecting Mary’s son as her successor, was very offensive to the masses of the English people, and was the occasion of many political troubles for Mary. But she was her own worst enemy when she undertook to govern Scotland after the death of her French husband, in 1561—Elizabeth then being firmly established as the English queen. To the long list of works published for and against Mary, a British Jesuit, Rev. J oseph Stevenson, has now added a curious one, "The History of Mary Stuart, by Claude Nau, her Secretary.” This title does not very well describy the book, since the part written be Nau, and discovered by this editor in Sir Robert Cotton’d collections, makes but 100 pages or so, while the introduction and appendix are more than 500. There are matters of some importance in the fragmentary papers of the French secretary, and others quite as valuable in a series of reports from Catholic priests found among the. archives in the Vatican. The editor is bound, as a gcod Catholic, to defend the Catholic Mary as well as he can against the heretic Elizabeth—and he takes the ground that she had nothing to do with the murder of Darnley, although Both well, whom she so disgracefully married, was the murderer. Nau’s account, by hypotheses, was derived from Mary herself, and she discoursed with her secretary in the English castle, where she was imprisoned; if so, we have Mary’s own version of some events in her strange career. Nau says that the Scotch lords, particularly Moray, Morton and Maitland of Lethington, “after having used Botkwell to rid themselves of the King (Darnley), designed to make him their instrument to ruin the Queen. Their plan was to persuade her to marry the Earl of Bothwell, so that they might charge her with being in the plot against her late husband, and a party to his death.” This theory of Darnley’s murder is a very extreme one, and carries with it, if accepted, an entire rejection of the casket letters from Mary to Both well, which Buchanan published in 1571, since these letters show great love from Mary ito Bothwell before Darnley’e murder. One strange circumstance is reported by Nau on the authority of Mary, that she was seriously ill at Lochleven in July, 1567, “the result of miscarriage of twins, her issue by Bothwell,” to whom she had only been married on May 15, of that year, while Darnley had been killed by Bothwell February 9. This fact, if it be one, strengthens the opinion that Mary was guilty with Bpthwell before Darnley’s death, as the casket letters imply. Father Stevenson does not dwell much on these letters, but evidently believes them .forgeries, as Mr. Meline treats them in his spirited vindication of Mary against Froude. But after all, Mary is the worst of all witnesses against .herself—for her whole connection with Bothwell, apart from the letters, is .inconsistent with any theory of her innocence, unless she were a fool—of which, except in love matters, no one accuses her. She was one of the most acute and subtle of women, and must be presumed to have known very well what she \was doing. It is impossible equally rto believe Mary innocent and not to compassionate her—a cieature of so many “graces and virtues,” as she described herself in one of her prayers during her .extreme illness at Jedburgh before the .death .of Darnley. This prayer* ie .attached to a will made by her—or rather a letter of dying request —at the end of which is the long prayer. Rather Stevenson prints it from the original at Edinburgh, where it was first printed .by Mr. Small, the University librarian, in 1881. Mary says therein: O my God, .of Thy infinite goodness Thou hast appointed me (albeit I be unworthy) to rifle .and (govern the people, •which has been-oommitted to my charge, >and to be unto them a lantern and light of good life, .£und for this purpose hast .endued me with .divers graces and virtues, the wiaieh, nevertheless, I have mot used as my duty required. Omy most merciful Creator, I confess that I have not used Thy gifts to the advancement of Thy glory and thonor, and gbod ■example of life to my people that has been committed under my charge, as I ought to have dome, but rather I have offended Thy majesty, not using my eyes as my duty required, for the which eause presently Thou most worthily hast taken from me the power of them. (This last word was eaid because Mary wae then suffering from temporary blindness.) It was not until many years afterward —more than twenty—that ahe suffered death by. the executioner, as did her grandson, Charles 1., sixty-two years after her.

The Real Tragedy of It.

Two circus employes, while "showing” in a Miehigan town, deliberately shot and killed each other. The saddest part of the affair is the fact that neither combatant was a clown.—Chi£&go Rambler. R'rofessob Langley claims in Science that the sun is in reality blue.Everyman who happens to have a ixote due at bank, without the wherewitkall to meet it in sight, will readily agree with him.

A Campaign Secret Given Away.

In the campaign of 1881 the two candidates for Governor in a “pivotal” Western State arranged for a series of joint discussions. Both men were popular, both of fine appearance, and were so well matched in mental force and as orators that the contest between them promised to be a magnificent one. For several weeks the scales balanced evenly. But one day the brilliant Republican candidate came up ailing. He see mol overconte, and spoke laboredly. The next day he was even less effective. Later he was compelled to ask his opponent for a postponement of certain appointments, which was granted. Before the campaign ended he had abandoned the field altogether. Meantime the Democratic candidate continued his canvass, seeming to grow stronger, cheerier, and more effective with each succeeding week. He was elected. One evening in December while entertaining several gentlemen he said: “I will tell you a campaign secret—which grave me the election. With the opening or my campaign I began caring for my iiver. I knew that a disordered or torpid liver meant dullness aod possible sickness. I took something every day. When my opponent began failing I knew his trouble to be his liver and felt like prescribing for him, but feared if I did so he might beat me! 1 grew stronger as the campaign progressed, often making two speeches a day. Even my voice, to my surprise, did not fail me once. All because Warner’s safo cure kept mo in A 1 trim." Ex-Gov. Jacob, of Kentucky, also made a campaign tour under precisely similar circumstances, and says he kept up under the exhausting strain by use of the same means. —Rochester Union.

Reminiscences of Lincoln.

A correspondent in North Carolina says: “I heard Mr. Lincoln’s last two speeches. One, extemporaneous, on Monday evening, April 10, from the historic middle front window in the second story of the White House., He had just returned from City Point, and the people thronging around the White House would have a speech. For a good while he did not appear, and seemed to be reluctant to speak without a manuscript, lest at that critical juncture some injurious impression should be made by an accidental word or sentence. “However, the crowd persisted to call till he appeared. It was my first sight of the man. He appeared somewhat younger and more off-hand and vigorous than I should have expected. His bright, knowing, somewhat humorous look reminded me of a well practiced country physician who had read men through till he understood them well. There was the humorous kindness of a good-natured doctor who had seen his patients through a most awful siege of sickness, till they were now fairly and fully convalescent, and who was disposed to let the past, whatever it had cost him or them, go by for the time, and have a little cheerful congratulation. His gestures and expression of countenance had something of the harmless satisfaction of a young politician at a ratification meeting after his first election to the Legislature. He was happy, and glad to see others happy, and willing to accept the congratulation of his friends for his own part in the general victory. “His last speech, on Wednesday, April 12, 1865, was read from separate sheets, by a flaring light, as he stood at the same window. He wore glasses, and as the successive pages were read passed them to a friend who stood near. It was perhaps eight o’clock in the evening; Mrs. Lincoln and several lady friends stood at a side window. There was some talking and diversion during the reading. The reading was in a reading tone, but business-like and good, and the paper not long. It was intended to show the disposition of the administration toward the seceded States, and forshadow the principles proposed for reconstruction. His manner was unpretentious but dignified, manly, kindly, and vigorous.” The same friendly observer sends other Lineolniana.: “‘That rent,’ said a soldier in the hospital at City Point, pointing up to the torn tissue-paper—an embellishment which, I believe, the ladies of the Christian Commission had fixed on the aeiling above—‘that was torn by Mr. Lincoln’s hat as he passed through here ■on his way from Richmond, and shook hands with every man, loyal or rebel, imthe whole hospital.’ He stood, like Saul, above the people from the shoulders upward, and his hat made havoc with decorations overhead. Stepping outside, .and seeing an ax by a log, bis old rail-splitter spirit came over him. In a moment his long arms were putting home that ax toward the heart of the fallen tree. The boys in blue gathered those chips to take home as mementos of the backwoodsman who •beeame President and the emancipator of a race. ” An old soldier at the Soldiers’ Home near Washington said, “He used to walk all about in these paths; he was very kind and familiar with us all.” To a poor woman who desired his signature to a paper, he said, “My name will do you aao more good than pigs’ tracks in the mud.” A soldier stopped him in the road, against the Columbia Hospital, and presented some letters, desiring a furlong. He obtained it.—HarperMagazine.

“ One Nail Drives Out Another,”

is a French saying: that finds exemplification in the way one disease will substitute itself for another and graver ono, in very many cases. Liver disease, for instance, will soon induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin affections and eventually, became of impoverished blood, consumption itself, unless, indeed, it be treated in its incipiency and early progress by Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medical Uiseovery,” which acts as a specific in these ailments, accomplishing a rapid cure by its powerful alterative action upon the great Organs of the body, The African has an oagor look in the vicinity of a henroost. A aortlof “a neager aezl a nipping air,** 1 onnj; or middle-aged men, suffering front nervous debility and kindred weaknesses. should send ten cents in stamps for targe treatise giving successful treatment. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, y. Y. Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an hottest Han? Because both fail to get ileb.

The Famous Notre Dame.

Or the 30th of l&9t January, the Sisters of the most noted Catholic seminary in the United States, the famous Notre Dame, at Govanstown, near Baltimore, Md,, made public a card, certifying to the beneficial results attending the use of Bed Star Cough Cure in that institution. They state that they found it efficacious alike for relieving coughs, oppressions on the chest, and irritation of the throat. Officials of the Boards of Health of Brooklyn. Baltimore, and other cities hive likewise publicly proclaimed tbs virtues of this nor disoevsrg, which is entirely free from opiates, poisons, and other objections.

A Complicated Case.

Larry Rafferty—Jedge, Oi wants the arrist av me nixt door naybor; he licked me turrible this doy mornin’ Judge (interrupting)—On wliat grounds V “Phwat ground is oit ? Me own back yard, to be sure, and ” “Hold on,” said the Judge. “I mean, what is your reason for wanting him arrested ?” “Me rayson ? Oi didn’t hev anny afther the foist blow, far he knocked me insinsible an’ me rayson lift me, so oit did, an’ ” “Sb, sh, 8top! That is not what I mean. What I want to know is, why, and for what, you wish to bring suit?” “Oi doidn't broing anny; thase aur awl the clothes Oi liev; luk at thim! awl tored, entoirely ruined by ” “Tut, tut, quit, "hold on! Ah, here comes the City Attorney; you can give him your complaint. ” “The divil a complaynt Oi hev; Oi’m az biltliy a mon az ” The Judge made’a break for the door, thoroughly disgusted, went down stairs to a convenient saloon and seriously reflected, over a schooner of beer, about the ignorance of a portion of the human race.— Stockton Maverick.

Full of Peril

Are those disorders which, beginning with an apparently trival Inactivity of the kidneys or bladder, terminate in Bright’s disease, diabetes and cystitis. The first two not only interrupt the functions of the organs, but destroy their structure with as much certainty as tubercular consumption does that of the lungs. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitten is an excellent diuretic, promoting the activity ot these organs without over exciting them, thus averting the deadly maladies in which their inaction is ro prone to culminate. The removal from tho blood of impurities which the kidneys should, but do not, when inactive, secrete, is another banefleent effect of this incomparable medicated stimulant and depurent. The Bitters is, in all ca»es, too, a fine restorative of vigor and aid to digestion, remedies malarial disease, and banishes liver complaint and constipation.

Kerosene in Cold Weather.

An oil inspector offers this explanation of why kerosene oil lamps do not give as good light in cold weather as at other times: “Wisconsin test prime light oils will thicken with the cold at temperatures varying from zero to 20 degrees above. Freezing separates the particles of paraffine from the remainder of the oil. They are attracted by the wick and fill the pores, destroying it& capillary power and increasing its tendency to incrust and char in burning. The best kerosene oils for burning in cold weather are water white—colorless—oils of light gravity.”— Scientific Exchange. We may always learn and know more, if we choose, by working on; but the pleasure is, I think, to humble people. to know that the journey is endless, the treasure inexhaustible, in watching the cloud still march before thfem with its summitless pillar, and being sure that to the end of time and to the length of eternity the mysteries of its infinity will still open farther and farther, their dimness being the sigh and necessary adjunct of their inexhaustibleness.—Buskin.

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to tl and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with tho best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. When an owner of a sailing vessel grows wealthy, would it be proper to say that he has amast a fortune?

“Put up” at the Gault House.

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