Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
KING Edwards Health.

II would be pathetically sad IL King Ed
ward should be unable to enjoy the crown
he waited for so long, and IL death should
say to his royal ambition as King Cannte
did to the sea: $50 far and no farther.
May Il not be expected?
While the gamblers are betting immense
sums OF money that the king will never
live through the well-advertised corona
ton exercises, 1t would not be surprising
IN the least, II somebody should try to
pick him on and win bet.
But IL paralysis ever seizes him In a
natural and very common way the end
will come in the near future no matter
how we'll guarded his person may be kept.
and the rumor is current that he has
had a paralytic attack. perhaps a light
one within the last few days, due to I'M
wonted excitement.
II the king was not a royal parsonage
his strain OF mind under existing circum-
stances would possibly tend to paralysis,
but with the pomp and circumstance add
ed there is every reason in the world to
expect him to suffer from undue excite
ment, with more or less danger to both
mental and physical faculties. Kings de-
light TO giorify their opportunities and 1t
is not to be supposed that King Edward
would abate one jot or title OF his ex-
eeptional advantage on this line. but II
he was open to well-seasoned advice or
counsel he would go II slow, and very
steady, when risks are so great and chan
ces for miscarriage are many. When
''Unser Fritz" his brother-in-law. was
slowly dying with cancer and his aged
father, Emperor William the LIST, hung
on to life with so much tenacity, 1t is said
that King Edwards sister. the wife OF
"Unser Fritz" was In q fair twitter or
anxiety and fear lest her husband would
die first and never wear the crown OF Ger
many and IL was pathetic thing to read
about, as far removed as we are from
the German nation, that the dying man 8
last days should have been so much min
gled with sordid cares and over-strained
ambition, as earth was slowly receding
and inevitable fate stood beside him in
plain view. Doubtless he would have been
glad IL his mind could have been left free.
and at peace, and IL was both a farce and
a tragedy when his father died and his
ambitious wife realized her wishes, pla-
cling the bauble on head that was surely
marked as deaths own trophy. despite
the crown and the coronation, so eagerly
schemed for.
We may truly congratulate the English
sovereign II death steps back for a season
and gives him a little playtime with his
honors. but the chances are that his reign
Will be brief and his successor willing to
take up his burden and furnish another
coronation, for British royalty and par
venue Americans Win Money as SOON as
death claims him.
Vanity OF vanities," said the preacher.
and perhaps there is not a more extreme
ly anxious person in the United King
dom OF Great Britain and Ireland than the
man who has his coronation regalia laid
out and which he may never put on IN
life. with possibly his strenuous efforts 70
glorify his ambition, working his own dis
appointment. where he so much expected.
But IL he dies now he is quite as much
in possession OF his inheritance as he
would be a day or month later: so what
the use OF being concerned in one way or
another2
One cannot eat his cake and still have
II, and II he chooses to run himself to
death when he has the chance to rest
and be quiet. why fling away your SYM
pathy?
I should not care particularly II our
American snobs had their pains for their
money. but King Edward may thank his
stars IL he makes a success OF his vain
glorious undertaking and gets through
GROWING himself without an accident OF
serious proportions. His efforts to mag
nifty himself would seem to invite disaster