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Show .TRUE TO HIS PRINCIPLES. Soldier's Admiration Won Fidelity of Queen Victoria. What Is believed to bo an unpublished unpub-lished story about the late Queen Victoria Is told by Rev. n. Harris Lloyd, who for six years was a Wes-leynn Wes-leynn army chaplain. Ono of tho color sergeants ot the Scots guards under his pastoral euro was selected, he said, to drill Prlnco Arthur ot Connaught, and for that purpose was frequently at Buckingham Bucking-ham palace. On one occasion Queen Victoria Invited him, with others, to attend a theatrical entertainment at the palace, and -as astonished when the young soldier asked to be excused, stating that that form of entertainment had been a snare to him In his younger days, and that ho had made a vow never to have anything any-thing to do with It again. In a few days he was summoned Into the royal presence, whero ho found a beautiful breakfast service on the table. Addressing him, Queen Victoria said: "I have sent for you, sergeant, to tell you how much I honor you for tho stand you made for your Christian principles, and I ask you to accept this breakfast service as a token of how your queen appreciates appre-ciates men who are true to their deepest deep-est convictions." |