Show r MOURNING LONDON I i London Is darkened by funeral plumes At Irregular Intervals for more than a thousand years Kings and Queens have died but never since the great Alfred has England lost so much hy the death of a sovereign But when Alfred died the United Kingdom was peopled In the main by only 1 rude halfsavage men and women All modern mod-ern England has been created since all the splendor and power and enlightenment enlight-enment of EnglSml lJl l have COllIe trlnf for since Alft9Tjdlc4Jhhy i qnjcritrons of men have lived and died Oflyutf < i lllpratiire has been created Inws have boon pijt t In force and T3ngllshincn have Miluluofl Ihoniflolfnfl I Info ohifllnnro to J I I those laws Today the millions of London I Lon-don swelled by hundreds of thousands I moro from outside fill London with mourners They realize as perhaps I never before that All that beauty all that wealth oor give Await allko tho Inevitable hour Old people who have seen the Qu non n-on state occasions all their lives are waiting for n glimpse of the spectacle of her final Journey to the grave younger ones aro thinking that royalty Is no specific against death children wpnderintr how it was possible for the EmpressQueen to die and so funeral plumes abound and if music is heard It Is in the subdued strains of tho national air or tho mournful numbers of the dead march In the churches the prayer hag been changed it is no longer for her Majesty for all the majesty has lied All that la left is some crumbling clay I I it win all pass in a lew uays U51 1 ness will bo reaumcd the world will be L rushing on just as before for the procession is moving and the pause is only a moment more when a Queen falls out of tho ranks than when ape a-pe CLnt dies for the paths of glory like all the reat lead but to tho grave |