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Show ' i " gSCA R J 1 7 0 FS V Eg M p I Th Moat Democratic of Monarcho t'" j vi p ' I I 9PtCIAL COHHtaPONUIINCLI t'v. Oscar 11. K,n of Sweden. Is one of tho monarcl.a mhn is net of royal descent. I'0 i:'.i-doi, of Jules llernsdoite. who a. one of Napoleon's m.'tt r.oia'de general. and who was elected to the throne of Sweden In 1M0, hemming king In 1R1I under the name of t'harl.s XIV. Indcod, lis Is thn only monarch Napoleon set up bo Is still represented repre-sented on a throne, i Among llvl't Kovorrlgns there Is and bis children have Inherited nellh er his ph) sirs) nor Intellectual qu:il Itles. King Oscar Is not ashamed of the grandmother who took the praani'a penro In exchange for the wine of the south, before Napoleon's mnr- , shnl, Iternadotte. happened by tha 1 little Inn and carried her away on horsehnck. Tho comparative promiscuity promis-cuity of the t o'clock suits King Oscar Os-car well. Ho hates pomp and cere- j '.'--,-. '''' . ' '.- " ' -v ' ' ..: y. ' ' ?.. '''''';'.'' '. ' ,.. a..J..-,-.a,:. -ii liar asm--1 . ivi 1.1 . v irn , M m'at f- '' 1 An Inland Lake. andoiibtetttT do more talcuted or gifted gift-ed monarch than King Oarar. If proof were needr-d In support of this assertion, his ma)rsty'a 70th birthday birth-day last year furnished It In the most unmistakable and compllmeulary manner, for the ttnlrersltlus of many countries oa that oi-raslon conferred 1 mora degrees upon King Oscar than have, It la believed, ever before been held by any one Individual, let alone a king. Kir i Oscar In a poet, a historian, his-torian, a writer on military and, per haps more especially, naval matters, a great lover of and authority ou mil- sic, and an orator of singularly wide and compreher.hlve ratine both aa regards re-gards subject snd language. As a speaker ho Is possessed not only of tl a happy gilt of saying the right ttiltic cl the rii'.l.t time and place, hut of cinlowlt.it his utterances with a rnrt, st times most drsmntle, eloiiueur-e. The king Is also a our nallst of crlt, aud It Is aiuliorlls tlvely state) that he occasionally con tributes te mure I ban one paper articles ar-ticles on tarlous subjects. A mnn aissesnkug these faculties Is excerTisiM'saiinpany, unite Independent of the charm which proverbially rllnga to royally. Ho la a llrst into host, active nnd attentive, and although al-though or ton statllcsl Imaginable presenre there Is altogether a considerable con-siderable amount of I'auclen regime stnte slioiit tho Swedish court-Ills nislesty mov.is about In bis sulons with almost youthful vivacity, bailor, a kind word for everybody and in the gu.-st's own language. King Oscar wall, a In the sire. Ms of bli rnpltal, often iinntlended: he visits vis-its the llieniers. anemia all athletic and mllltury toiiiiiniuentH, and loves nothing to well as to board bis yacht, the Droit, ai.d be off to Msrstiaud, or some oilier quiet seaside resort, he-fore he-fore his court officials know that he contemplates the trip. His constant oompanlon la CapL tnoiiy, and there's very llttla of It to bore him there. Tho Queen of Sweden has of lata years been aomewbat of an Invalid, although her majosty Is able to take outdoor eierclso on borsobark. Queen Sophie Is the true and faithful friend of all In trouble, and her work In the caiiso of charity is manifold aud comprehensive work In which her royrel husband often helpa her. The queen only rarely attends court functions, func-tions, bar tastes lying more In the direction di-rection of homely quietness. She Is a grest reader of books and pnpers, and exceedingly clever at artistic needlework. Their majesties have four sons, but no dsughtiTS The rrown prince, riiiatnvus. Is tall, and Is, like his father, ihe king, a good anorininsn and a capital idiot, hut more retiring and reserved In mannera and tastes. The crown prlnoeas, a cousin of the Herman emperor. Is delicate, and, to the great sorrow of the royal family and loyal Stockholm the beautiful capital of Sweden loves a court and all that thereto appertains she has of Into yenrs been compelled to spend a grest portion of ths year In mors southern dimes. Their royal hlgn-nosses hlgn-nosses huve three fins boys, who promise to grow tall llko their father and grauiuntiinr. Prince Oscar, Ihe klng'a second son, renounced his right to succession od the occasion of bis romantic marriage, and he and bis wife have more and mora withdrawn from court life. Ilut I'rlnce Carl, tho soldier prince, and his charming wlfo. mo I'rlnceas In-geborg In-geborg of lienmsrk. aro extremely popular. i'rlnce Kugene, the youngest of their nitilcMttrs' sons, baa Inherited his full shure of tho Iternadotte talents. tal-ents. I.Ike his uncle, the late King Charles XV. of Sweden, he wields the brush, and Is pssslonately fund of hla art Ha has aludled under the masters of Paris and elsewhere, a d '-". saM. ' tr. '. : ' .':V'.". ' ' jv ' v , , . ; ; M- .I--'-. ".." , Protected Bay on Swedish Coast Aukerknro. who haa been by the side of his king everywhere and at all times fur I early sixty years The king's great love for hla country coun-try anil countrymen was abundantly proven to the writer of this article, who In l'JXl bad the honor of visiting hla majesty upon the Drott The king's nrst question, upon learning that his visitor waa an American, was: "What sort of citizens do my co'jntrjmen In your northwest territories ter-ritories make?" The best wo have, your majesty," was the natural answer. Whereupon, his face h'-amlng, tha king answered; "That delimits me Immensely more than I can tell you." King Oscar, thanka to bis pessnnt origin, is a superb apeetmen of manhood, man-hood, and. In point of stature, ap pearance sr.il Intellect, the most majestic ma-jestic figure among tae monarcha of Europe. He married Princess Sophia of Nssssii. daughter of a race whose blond hns hern .mated by a long succession suc-cession of consanguineous marriages, can hold his own even In the best compsny. I'rlnce Oscar, It will he remembered, remem-bered, renounced hla rights to tho throne to marry ova of the queea's maids, and he Is now known aa I'rlncs Iternadotte. He Is very religious, snd la deeply Interested In i .0 Salvation Army, he and his wife, frequently speaking before the meetings. |