JOHN BROWN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3882, 28 December 1883, Page 4

JOHN BROWN.

Tlic writer of the '' Notes and Notions " in the Dunedin Saturday Advertiser has llic following:—" What ii fuss the Queen makes about the death of a mere ilunkey !" siiy niul write sonic other envious fiunkcys whoso claim to the designation in, beyond doubt, of the most legitimate kind, and may bo admitted in the widest .sense. Straightway the parrot Press and the parrot people catch up the words and repeat them and enlarge upon them, and sometimes pre.sent them in a way that any deeenilytaught parrot would be ashamed of, Now I can sympathise with Her Most Gracious Majesty in the loss of her faithlful gillie. The sadness she has felt and the sorrow she has expressed for the death of one •who, as tried and true, w;is trusted by her husband, and wilh the faithfulness of a dog and the intelligence of a Scotchman, spent his lil'o in her service, honors alike the Queen, the widow, and the woniim. Honest, brave, vigilant, unselfish servants like John Brown arc none too plentiful in these degenerate days. The time-servers, the aristocratic paupers, the parasites, those whoso creed is that "to live at the expense of (he Government is tho highest luck of all, and full of noble dignity," all these with one accord clamour at such dangerous rivals as John .Brown, and depreciate them, and call them mimes, and push them down and trample , them in the mire if they can, and spit venom over the good name on their graves.