Show KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY oscar one of the best rulers who ever sat apoi a throne if all earthly rulers and potentates of the character and temper of king oscar of sweden the line about the uneasy heads that wear crowns would lose a good part of its signify cance king oscar Is noted as being not only one of the best monarchs mon archa who ever sat upon a throne but as one of the handsomest most urbane and courtly of men nearly if not quite six feet six inches tall finely built and stately like iving hing saul he towers head and shoulders above most of his subjects now nearly seventy years old for thirty 3 ears he has been the beloved ruler of the sturdy north men the king is a deeply re legious man but his consort the queen is even moie devout she is in tensely religious sympathizing with every good effort while his second son prince bernadotte Is noted throughout europe for his philan thropa ana religious zeal he ile is the president of the young men s christ ian jan association of stockholm the chairman of a missionary society and of many like institutions he has himself organized a mission to the lapps to whom he preaches the gos pel as he frequently does to others when he has an opportunity when it Is remembered that king oscar is the grandson of bernadotte a veil known marshal of the first napoleon and the great grandson of the em press josephine whose rhose daughter by her first husband married bernadotte the religious character of this royal family may seem the more remark able kinf oscar has great literary gifts he nas published more than one volume of ere nere and he is never hap pier than ahn surrounded by literary people k |