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Show KINO OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Oscar On of th Beit Ruler Who Ever Sat Upon a Throne, If all carlhly rulers und potentates were or the chiiraclor and temper of King Oscar or Sweden, tho Hue about the uneasy hcuda that wear crown would lose a good part of Its algultl-canco. algultl-canco. King Oscar la noted as being not only ono of the best monarch who ever ut upon a throne, but u one of the hundsomcHt, niont urbane and courtly of men. Nearly, If not quite, six feet six Inches tall. Ilnely built and lately, like King Huul, ho tower "head and boulders" above moat of his subjects. Now nearly seventy year old, for thirty years he ha been the beloved ruler of the sturdy liortluiien. Tho king la a deeply reunion re-union man, hut his consort, th queen, Is even more devout. She la Intensely In-tensely religion, sympathizing with every good eflort, whllo hla second on, I'rlnro llernadolto, Is noted throughout Kurope lor his philanthropy philan-thropy anj rellgloua teal. Ho la the president of the Young Men'a Christ-Ian Christ-Ian Association of Stockholm, tna chairman or a missionary society, and or many liko Institutions. II haa himself organized a mission to tha Lapps, to whom ho prcachea the gospel, gos-pel, aa he Ireiiuently .loca to othera when he baa an opimrtunlty. When It la remeniiiered (hut King Oarar I the grandson of Ilernadolte, a wen-known wen-known mursnal of thn first N'apoleoi, and the great grandson of tlio Em-pros Em-pros Josephine, whoso daughter by her first husband married Uernudotte, the religious character of thla royal family may seem the mure remarkable. remark-able. King Oscar has great literary gilt: lie uiu piiblm icl mora than one vuliiino of verse, oi. il he I never happier hap-pier than wli?n surrounded by literary people. |
