Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
LOYALTY 70 THE MONARCHY
EVIDENCED EVERYWHERE
NO RULER EVER TOOK THE CROWN
WITH MORE GENEROUS SUP
PART THAN EDWARD VII. -
NO REPUBLICAN TENDENCIES.
STRANGE TENTH CENTURY SET
TINGS FOR A TWENTIETH
CENTURY EVENT.

LONDON, January 26.-Barring the
disillusions caused by few modern
embellishments, such as railways, Eng
land this week might be imagined to
be in the tenth instead of the twentieth
century. Mobiles and local officials ar
rayed in archaic costumes, with an
cient symbols of Office in all cities and
towns, have everywhere been perform
ing the olden rights pertaining to the
accession of a sovereign. Placards,
printed in quaint type and quainter
Shakespearean language proclaiming
Edward VII King of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland and
Emperor of India, are surrounded by
openmouthed crowds, as they have
been in centuries past, reading eagerly,
as though they had not already read
in the newspapers the proclamation.
Any one crediting the English with
republican tendencies must be con-
vincer by the present demonstrations
of the absolute, unquestioning loyalty
of the people to the monarchy.
Thousands of columns of editorials
in journals of every political shade,
save a few Irish publications, contain
no hint of dissatisfaction with Ed
ward Rex-only confidence and good
wishes.
The same good feeling towards Ed
ward VII. pervades Europe. Only the
d., -
tack him.
The tributes to the dead Queen
cause an era of good feeling on the
part of England toward her sister ma
lions. However brief Emperor Will
liam's filial conduct, his willing aban-
donment of the celebration of the BIZ
centennial of the PruSsian monarchy
has done much to strengthen the
-Anglo-German alliance, while the
tribute of the Boer prisoners at Cape
Town, in giving up their sports pend
ing the Queens funeral, softens the
animosities Of war.
The solemnity with which the Eng
lish people look on what seem tC
Americans to be queer ceremonies is
remarkable. Every Englishman thinks
he has personal share in the affair
The proclamation at the Cross of Ed
inburgh, where Walter Scott, from the
window of COnStable's book shop saw
George ~. proclaimed, was no less
brilliant than. the London Pageant
HeraldS and pursuviants assembled the
battlements and the octagon turret
Around the tall shaft was swathed roy
oil = h hp II
guns saluted and the Scots sang God
Save the King" The ceremony was
repeated at the gates of the castle and
at the Stuarts Palace of Holy Rood
at the town boundary. The-city olfic-
ials, the university professors and the
local sOldiery were in the procession
which took place in a snow storm.
In the meantime, the government
will probably ask parliament to in
crease the sOvereign's allowance by
half a million on account of the in.
creasing pecuniary demands upon the
Office. Queen Victoria'5 allowance was
fixed at the beginning of her reign a.
$3.50, coo partly betrayed by the crown
estates. the cost to the nation wa!
G170,000.
A new edition of prayer books. to-
morrow, from His Majesty's printers
has been necessitated by the change:
OF the names of royalties occurrin;
frequently. If the Duke of York i!
made Prince Of Wales another edition
/ will be printed.
The new form will be used in all thu
/ churches.
The King, in his message to tn,
navy. which was ordered to be IeaC
upon all ships. thanks the navy for it!
renowned services during his mother
reign. The message concludes with al
expression Of confident reliance upoT
the unfailing loyalty of the navy t
him. Similar sentiments are promuI
gated in an army order.
1t is suggested by some observer
that the king in these communication
is taking somewhat the tone of In
per0r William.
The genius Of the poet laureate, Al
fred Austin, fell to the lowest tide in
the hastily turned out poem which APP
peared the day after the Queens death
1t was long. commonplace and Of Iaul
ty metre. A great outourst of poetry
. is flooding the papers. in which the un-
noteworthy effort OF Austin is the only
conspicuous poem yet printed.