Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-14
SMALL Pox
Is Giving London a Great
IRISH POLITICS
Take On a New Aspect. All
|rishmen Now United

Lon(on, Jan. IA ALL Ltndon is
very much disturbed over the epidem-
ic Of suall pox which Eas broken out
here. There are now upwards of 900
cases known with prob ably many cases
as yet unreported. The cases art so
scattere d that they create the great
est anxiety. 1t is feared on all hands
that the epidemic will become SO gen.
eral that the whole city will be quar-
antined by the time the day arrives
for the coronation of Edward VII
Medical men point out that the
danger lies not so much in the pro
portion to the population as in tho
proportion to the usual smallpox fig.
ures OF the metropolis, viii b. gener-
ally scarcely amount to sore per an
mum.
London lab ratories are all prero Z
enally busy in turning out lymph,
thousands OF tubes of which are daily
supplied. Even. then, the demand
cannot be met.
Almost all the large firms are order.
ing their employees to be. vaccinated
and it is doubtful if ever city in the
history Of the wo Id contained SO man
sore arms as London does today. Cor
porations are appfopriating sums for
Jhe erection of smallpox additions to
the hospitals while several steamers
have been purchased in London for the
accommodation OF the present and ex.
p cted pa tents.
ExpeEt DpiniOn i)rOpheSieS that the
epidemic VIII not reach it's height un-
til May If the cases only increase at
the present ratio, and not at double
and treole;the present rate as some
people declare, there may be several
Thousand small pox victims in Londol.
The effect of such state of things on
the coronation. international business
and English trace S almost incalcula-
BILE.
"Whitaker'a Almanack the famous
English year boJk which is almost as
we'll known here as in its native coun-
try, has caused some sensation by re-
cordlng X ng Edward VII, not as
ruler OF the house OF Hanover but as
the first British sovereign of the house
of Saxe-Coburg thus making the late
Queen Victoria the last ruler Of line
which has given to the British EN-.
pire six sovereigns.
The feeling in London is at''Whit-
aker" is almost disloyal, and that the
change is wrong: yet ia little study Of
the British history shows that the
almanac is entirely correct. The first
change in the reigning house after the
conquest came at the accession of
Henry H., who claimed through his
his mother, the Empress Matilda, and
was the first of the Plantagenets. Az
ter the wars of the roses, Henry, Earl
of Richmond, who claimed the crown
by right of his mother, Margaret
Beaufort, great granddaughter Of John
of Gaunt, became the first Of the Tu-
doris his father being originally
Welch gentleman named Tudor.
The Stuarts came in through wo-
man, the daughter of Henry VII. and
cid carry on the Tudor line in
name:nor did George of Hanover when
he gained the British throne by right
Of his grandmother, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of the first English Stuart, con.
tinue to represent the house of his
grandfathers; he was the first Han
Gverian to reign in England. Each
incoming house, though claiming
through Il daughter of it's predecessor
gave its own name to it's sovereignS
1t is strictly correct historically there
fore, that the line should change with
the death of Queen Victoria, and that
the succession of the foreign Kings OF
Great Britain should be continued by
a ruler of the house of SAKE, ,Coburg,
. the name of the German house to
which the father Of the new King be-
loDged.-
The Dublin cores espondent OF the
Sunday Observer declares that the
national convention of the United
Irish league viii h opened in Dub.
lin, Jan s, was great success and
he first Irish gathering in Dublin,
since the death of parne'l that was re,
ally inspired by spirit Of unity. No
one present, says the Sunday Observer
could fail to note the firm hold that
John Redmond had got in the country
and no question of an alternative
chairman was ever thought of. He