People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 28

People We Hear About

Two noblemen of the British Peerage have fhe privilege of standing covered before the King These" are Lord Kingsale. the premier Baron in the Peerage of Ireland, on.who.se ancestor the privilege of appearing covered in the presence of his Sovereign was conferred by King Johr. ; and Lord Forester,' on whose ancestor, William Forester, a commoner, the like privilege was conferred by Henry VIII. - - The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth has just- entered on his 52 nd year. Mr. Deakin was born poor, became a law student and a journalist, and then a parliamentarian. ' He was a Minister of the Crown at 27, and was offered knighthood ;iL the _af«e of 33. He declined the distinction-twice. Mr. Deakin is a tall, thin, bright-eyed man, with youthful manners and enthusiasm, but has very poor health. Cardinal Merry del Val was ordered recently by his medical advisers to take the cure at the Thermal Sulphur Springs of Vicarello, near- Lake Brecciano. These springs have been popular since the time of fhe ancient Romans. " The Cardinal return' d~ several times to Rome to attend- to business during .his sojoiitn at Vicarello, and used a motor-car for. the purpose. His Eroinence"was the first Cardinal to use a motor-car in Rome, but he has a good precedent in the case of his Grace the Archbishop of Westminster. The announcement that Senor Pedro Alvarado, the. Mexican millionaire landowner, has given £"400,000 for the purpose of aiding poor Mexicans recalls the fact that he started in life as a day laborer on a ranch. Born of humble parents, Senor Alvarado in his younger days worked as a common day laborer, on a ranch, but his honesty and industry, earned steady advancement, and he soon became, his own master and one of the wealthiest men in the country. But he never forgot his class, and ahyays set himself to alleviate the none 100 happy lot of the peon. Lord Herries (Marmadukc Constable-Maxwell), a Scottish Catholic nobleman, was born in 1837. He was educated at" Stonyh.irst College, and succeeded his father in the Scotch. Barony (created 1491) 'in 1876. He was created Baron Herries of th'« United Kingdom in 18S4. He married, in 1875, Angela, second daughter of the first Lord Howard of Glossop. He has been Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding, Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, President of the Council for Great Britain of the Association for ihe Propagation of the Faith, President ff the Catholic Record Society, and Vice-President of the Middlesbrough Schools Association. Of .the twenty-five President* of the United States, exactly twelve have died at an earlier age than that of ex-Presidcrt Cleveland. He was 71 at the time of his decease, ani had given up office eleven years. The youngest President in point of ago at death was Garfield, who Was only . 49 s - when the assassin Guiteaii struck him down. Of .' the. other, .murdered Presider.u Lincoln was 56 and McKinley 58.. John>sdams, the successor of Washington, lived to the patriarchal .age of 'ninety. Madison saw 85, Jefferson 83, and John Quincy Adams was 80 \vhen lie died. Martin van Buren was 79, Andrew Jackson '78, an.i Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was 77. It' would seem tint the atmosphere of the White House has" something' which" makes for longevity. ' - The prominent part which" the Duke .of- Norfolk took In the discussion on the Coronation Oath at- the recent EucharisticCongress, in calls to mind one of the. many stories re--garding his modesty and amiability. A Brighton" woman, "it seems,- took her little girl on an excursion to Arundel. They had third class tickets, but as th«' train. was crowded they were put into a^fiist class carriage. The little girl • at' "once" mad* friends with the only occupant' of the compartment; a gentleman" 7 who had been reading a paper, but. put it aVay- to talk to the child. They became so friendly that she opened her basketand gaye -him -a banena. He accepted- it, and amiably ate it, so ..the little girl became, more chatty. "than ever' about' what she meant or expected to do at Arundel.. He asked whether s!t would like to see inside the .< astle, >'nd as "the train pulkj up at the station he gave the mother a card, telling her that U would admit them to "all parts oj the; castle. The kind gentlenui , got out and quickly disappeared, and the .astonished mother di>" . covered from the card that he' was the Duke of Norfolk. .'"-'''

For Children's Hacking Cough' at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. is 6d and 2S 6d.