Personalities

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 16 June 1904, Page 7

Personalities

PIETY IN THE PALACE. jKfjftHß Kaiser, who haa made himself so jjhjrfe conspicuous of late as a new de%m# fender of the faith, is by no maans alone among the European b6to*' : reigns who take a warm interest in religions matters. The -King and Qaeen, of Sweden and Norway, are well knowans earnest E7angelical Christians after the English rather than the German type.Taey lately gave a warm reception to the Bev F B. Meyer on his Scandinavian tour, King Qaoar is perfeotly at home in conducting a prayer meeting or Biblereading, and he ia the only European monarch who has, ever recognised the uniform of the Salvation Army at his Court. Not very long ago he received one,-/ of General Booth'd officers on a footing of equality with the offioers of the Swedish regular army. The Qaeen of the, Hellenes, Qaeen Alexandra's sister by mar- ;' riage, is a pions woman of another type. She is an earnest adherent of the Greek v Church, of which she is, unlike the present Czarina, a member by birth; and as the Eastern Church enoourages the reading.Of the SQriptnres, the Qaeen has made great efforts to circulate the new Testament among the poor. The peasantry, however, cannot read classical Greek, and her Majesty has endeavoured to promote a revissd edition in the colloquial dialect. The clergy, for the most part, oppose the projeot. ..-., ':,;,!;■

LOBD BOSEBEBY AND Q/LDiA<jjE. r . AH Lord Bdsabery's frienda ar« 60m«'"""' menting upon hia. appearance 61 robust p health*;. .'.. You have renewed your said a political friend laughingly inifbd parliamentary lobby a few mghta ago. ' Better still,' flashed back the Primrose 5 Earl, * t amßeceiving the overtures,of old age: with cheerful philosophy.*? * f£ Boaebery's hair has become a IttßtronV , silver-grey, but this ehhancea, his" dis- ' : * tißgufshed appearance. His feattiireß **f. seem to have strengthened and sharpened; '•'• and, though even more florid than of yore, * his face impresses everybody withjiite <"&■<? mingled power and suavity of expression. M Lord. Bosebery.. is still an omnivorous .., reader, A friend of his who called upon hun recently.'found him Immersei in ' . literature. There were booka all him. 'Have you, then, flung*awa^p? bitiohP' asked the visitor, jestingly, 'A Scotsman never flings away anything,''v was the half-serious, half-humorous reply*' ■ MB. BAXFOUB'S TEMPE& ..'.' ? There is a widespread Misconception v - .about the Prime "Minister. The public" * " have the erroneous idea that he has a / philosophic imperturbability of that nothing can disturb, and newspaper >,> readers have been fed with delusive * stories of his pensive Halo of nees from the. workaday world. Eat Mr Balfour, though hot a martinet, can bring down the whip", ...... ; on people who offend him, and in the management of hia own private affairs he is as careful and vigilant as the 'most: arbitrary housekeeper. One of hid economical habits is to pay an exact cab fare—not a penny more—and it is a sight which sometimes amuses the people in Palace. Yard to see the Prime Minister demanding sixpence change from the man , who has, driven him some distance to the House, and waiting till he gets it. One day last Session, he was annoyed by some of his colleagues talking while he waa addressing,,,the House. ' 'Ba : quiet,' he-' ■■*"'■' said, in a jpeicmptory stage whisper, 'we cannot all talk at once.' - IN SIBGILBEBT'S OAEE. z't&w Sir Gilbert Parker is resolved to make himself a name in politics as well aa in _ literature. Ha is leas brilliant as si T '' political speaker than as a writer of ,3 novels, bnt considering that he has been . so short a time a member of the House of. Commons he has not done badly. The author of 'The Bight of Way V has achieved titular honours with phenomenal V, quickness, and you have only to' see him . / moving about the parliamentary lobby, ~J*< button-holed by all and sundry, to be sure that, both socially and politically, he knows -hia way afcout. " : ''-^} A FAMOUS LITTLE-KNOWN MAN. ''..J EVeryma has heard of, and some of us ~ have actually experienced, the power, -of ; : the Boutgen rays, but Professor Eontgen,; the inventor, or. rather the disooyerer/iof r ; \? this wonderful aid to modern surgery, is ■' perhaps the least discussed and: toe least ,: known ht modern great men.' Doubtless,' this is owing toihe fact that instead' bf liviteg un Berlin or ia-Vienna, EfOfesed* ■ ■ : Bouts-en iB now attached to the University • of Munich, while for long his beloved M home was at Wurtburg, anVofcfcworid ; ■. Bavarian. university town, where,;*: some * ■ 'seven yeara ago, the greatest alumnus dia-, v ■ covereuthe Bontgeriraye. In one matter : ■.,-, „ the Professor waa indeed fortunate s the importance of hiai ; wonderfnl discovery...... was at once recognised* by hia fellow scientists, Hs has a horror, of \ielfc. advertisement. He has, never been interviewed,<never bean binqdefted, andhe baa - even refused immense sums of Jnoaey v ■ offered him by American rpubliahera fo*V book on what he himself haa modestly.:,: •; styled *fk new..kindof ray.' ,:Oonjad.;'Wilhelm Bintgen, to. giva him his full name, ..... belongs*to the till, fine type, of Indeed,-some of his friends, profess to see;';, in himi';a resemblance to Frederiok the-' -.; Noble? forhe haa the aame kee»i ; f««nk . j eyes, theeame bushy hair, tbe same'thloil:^- v bsard, that distinguished King Edward's ; p Emperor brother-in-law.— He - recently, oelebrated hia fifty-ninth birthday, but , he carries his yearß gallantly,, and looks . more like a man who, has led. outdooriife than one who b"aj"ipent""tha'T""" whole oi bis manhood in investigating strange physical problems. ; MB, CH&MBEBLAINTHES YpUNGEE - Qaietly, but firmly, Mr Austen - beriain;whom people took on,.tr^sfe.be-;, cauae of ; his father's eminenoe, hasestabliahed his own. reputation} ."and h\S , appearenoe at the dinner of .the Liberal Union was one more indioation of his steady advance. Mr Aneten Chamberlain does not'ehatetbepaaaionof: -• the^exColouialSedretary for orohidsjand < - he has views of hia own on several sub- , ; jf.cts. But there ia not merely, the greafc est tMgiion existing between father and ion $ there ia the; keenest sympathy, the truest friendship. Ik one respect only hoi the. Postmaster General so far din. ' appointed his parent, whose experience of the married state haa been bo uaiformly happy—he haa not succumbed 'to ma , charms of the fair aex. All the aame, the romantic atory of his Tftttachment to a ' princess—which has ofiUßed much amusß-' ment at Highbury, and outside haarsogigested the possibility jthftt'Mr Auateiii'Chamberlain will always wWltbe willow —may before long receive,a final, quietus. :