St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-01-23

cheap postage, by rapid communication
bv cheaper food supplies, cheaper rent,
cheaper clothes, better lodgings, higher
wages. the admission of holidays. the
old discomfort has been driven away so
completely that it is well-nigh forgotten
ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE.
It is impossible to ignore the achieve
ments of science. We have rendered it
possible to perform any operation-the
most cruel-upon q patient painslessly.
What a step is this! We are carried
cheapIy all over the island by steam-we
who formally never left our native vii
lage. We can send messages all over
the world in a moment-distance is an
initiated. We can transact business
without leaving our Office; we can pre-
serve speech in boxes; we can repro
duce scenes acted with all the move
ments OF the actors; our ships are scien-
tihc instruments, and our machines 90
things that formerly required skilled IN
telligence.
These things and many more on which
there is no space to dwell-anong others
art, music, literature-belong to, and in.
crease the Victorian glory. Great and
abiding shall be the name and fame tor
all time of that gracious lady who well
coined and encouraged every one OF these
great arts for the advance OF humanity.
1t is not the part of a sovereign to ad
vance personally any branch OF en-
deavor; it is the art of wise sovereign
to encourage all who attempt and all
who succeed.
KING EDWARD VII.
1t is under the style of King Edward
VII that the Prince of Wales will be pro-
claimed as king. His mother has always
expressed the desire that he should reign
under the name of King Albert, that is
to say by the name borne by her lament
ed husband. But Albert sounds un-
familiar and foreign to English ears, and
it will be in difference to the wishes OF his
people that the prince will figure in his
tory as King Edward VII.
The first official intimation to him of
his accession to the throne will come
from the premier, the primate and secre-
tary OF state tor the home department.
The two ministers will then hasten to
London, and will take steps for having
the prince proc aimed king and emperor.
This will be done tor the first time in
the courty ard of st. James palace by the
roval heralds, mounted on horseback,
arrayed in the gorgeous gold embroder-
ed, medevally fashioned tabards of their
office, after public attention has been
attracted by the silver clarion OF the
state trumpeters. While the herald reads
the procla nation which will commence
with the time honored words, For as
much as it as pleased Almighty God to
call her most gracious majesty Queen
Victoria to another world, ''etc, the assem-
bled cavalry and infantry ofthe guard will
remain at present arms, while guns will
be fired on the horse guards parade by
batteries Of the Royal Horse artillery. A
similar proclamation will be made from
the steps of the mansion house by the
lord mayor of London, who will be ar
rayed in his state robes and attended by
the aldermen and officers of his house
hold. The new kirg will be comps lied to
return at once from Osborne to London,
and Immediately on his arrival will sum-
mon meeting OF the privy council, this
being the only occasion on which the
privy council, which now mum bers nearly
800 members, will meet in its entirety.
At this council the new kirg will confirm
the existing ministers in their Office, will
receive the oaths of allegiance and the
homage individually from all present,
while they in their turn will be sworn
afresh by the clerk of the council, and
then the tenor OF the first proclamation
Of the sovereign to his people will be read
and approved in council"
The coronat on OF the new king is like
ly to be delayed for several months. In
deed Queen Victoria was not crowned
until she had been year on the throne
The coronation will take place in West
minister abby, and will be a spectacle of
great grandeur. All the peers will ap.
pear in their robes OF state, with their
coronets in their hand which they don at
the same moment when the primate
places the crown of Great Britain on the
head of Edward VII.