I'HE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 1908 The New Ruler King Gustave V., His Ancestry, His Relations With His Peo- ple and the Popular Queen Victoria. A —— HE new king of Sweden, whe | Sweden Co EEE] has taken the ti of Gustave V., Is a great-grandson of a boy who ran away from his | home in Pau, France, to go to sea, but | got caught in the maelstrom of the | French revolution and became a skillful | general, minister of war and marshal | of France under Napoleon and finally king of Sweden and Norway, His orig- inal name was Jean Baptiste Jules Ber- | nadotte. Anybody who has read that once popular book, J. T. Headley's | “Napoleon and His Marshals,” will re- member that Bernadotte galloped all | through its pages, now here, now there, at Wagram, at Austerlitz, always show- ing high skill and gallantry. Napoleon, who disliked Bernadotte, | preferred to have him fight for rather | than against him. Accordingly In re- | ward for the mar brilliant sery- fces at Austerlitz he made Bernadotte Prince of I’ little Itallan shal's itecorvo, a | painting i A8 4&4 wri { much | deared | & year older | whom he | military 1 | poetic i wonder | i poems | tenden caused him in 1581 to wed the ORIA OF SWEDEN, town 8 the Swedish di . otte crown prince ! was the KING GUSTAVE V. of Sweden. A Cc toria is a first German em an extrem hb) of the present is described as fond of talented is also an excellent » {8 sald to take pride. The ne ueen has en herself ) » of Bwe den by her considerat for the poor. King Gustave | ine years old, : William, ires and whose sald to emulate. as a uth he was and dreamy. This is not to be » his father, the ven- g ir, who has just dled, author of meritorious To ire hi dreamy les Gustave sent into the country, where he became an en thusiastic hunter » 1s still exceed ingly fond of the chase, Another thing young Gustave d the country-he fell y rl, the daughter iral pasto Ile want ed to marry her, but ms of state cousin peror. She cook, in which fa thar great) be wnt When Gustave yo erable K many of his a m of reas Princess was his disposi be quite personal Victoria. He is very tall, as father. He is of a taciturn tion in publ genial and affable among his but is said to co fille, gain the. . leon Jeruadottés ele was extremely dis @ ror, who rdial BARON KANEKO'S CAREER. His Harvard Degree Son's Expe Little ho Is sald y Ja pan he United giving free trade and the be a of the lands ted to ¢ affairs As of BARON KENTARO KANEKO those of his own country. According to the proposal discussed, the United States would give the Filipinos a mar ket for their products In Japan and thus avold the necessity of entirely de- molishing the tariff wall now existing between the Philippines and the Amer. tion iabor J privileges to DI anese labor laron 3 } or to md ot ki import r agree ed as 80 He had negotia tions by | wace was arranged between R and Japan He has tedd States and is rd university » one of Japan's Harvard ¢ hon ry degree Worl Work re. r given In his hon iid to the baron: has conferred We can do d there Is a We elnim him as of the degree con 1 trust he will come orthy successor of bis the been 1 ninit a graduate of Har After he had be most dis ng «1 ta n ferred upon you {0 us an« father” “He will come,” replied the baron, Returning to Japah, he told the Baroness Kaneko about the incident. and she told the child. The idea that he was to go to Harvard and receive A degree made a great impression on | the boy, and whenever he was naughty his mother would say, “Remember, if you are not good you will not receive the Harvard degree” That always brought him t» time, When Baroa Kaneko was preparing to come to the peace conference at Portsmouth his son came and asked: “Where are you going, papa?’ “To thq United States,” said the sire. “Then,” sald the child, “I must go with you and get that Harvard de gree” E be a » d| and His [Family “ The New Crown Prince and His Bride, an English Princess. The Widow of King Os- car, Queen Sophie. A father's standard. This difficult po tion the crown prince bore with ma patience. Having reached a mat age before being called to the thr he has proved his inherent good qua ities and his devotion to Sweden. Gus. tave served several times as regent during the illness absence of his father and therefore is not without ad ministrative experience. Gustave Adolph, the new crown prince, Is a popular young man of twenty-five who married the pretty Princess Margaret of Connaught a year Thus England supplies, if events the natural course, the next queen of Sweden Future Bernadotte rulers of the Swedish people must maintain a high standard to measure up to thelr prede- or ago, take Bo ee THE CROWN PRINCE AXD PRINCESS » four Ber Economy, heritance tay ng dead or his Harper's Week!) mn 1d \ | i ! table { looking young man | young man | Minnesota's Wonderful Climate. lady was visiting a health resort on ‘the advice was the ruddy A sickly who Minnesota of her physician next to a seated at faced, “Have you improved much since came here?” the lady asked “Wonderfully, ma'am,” replied you the in she persisted here 1 was you ever “And yon when you came?” “Why, when I first came probably the weakest saw. | practically of my limbs nor the use of a single faculty.” “Dear, And you ly “1 did, ma’ although 1 was ybsolutely dependent hers foryeyerything, being without power to but I comme help myself, but To nto 1101 were very person had no use dear! ed?” certainly am, upon O1 LH need to gain my murmured you found kind friends “Indeed and to the pure alr of It is Minne to them sota tha father's were with me, but unfortuna prostrated with a tl of my mother severe illness during weakness.” “How sad! have greatly when you a we time greatest Surely, sir I'¢ (Mi [| vou must been d in flesh *{ = | t's Scuond Cholca. robust | bad health “Well, Harry,” said the lady visitor, “don't you think you have a chance to be president of the United States?” “Ch, 1 don't know,” answered Harry carelessly, “Maybe I'll try for it after I get too old to be a pitcher.” A Rising Diplomat. 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