Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
TIE BERLIN CONGRESS-.
Biographical Sketches OF the Eminent
Map-makers.

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Now that the work of the represent
atives of European diplomacy has actu.
ally begun, it may not be uninterestine
to glance at some of the distinguished
individuals to whose deliberations the
settlement of the Eastern question, and
of the fate of the Turkish Empire, is in
| trusted.
OF the main figure of the Congress
there is little to say. His life and career
are well known to every body Son of
a poor and modest literary man, Benja-
min Disraeli followed in the footsteps OF
his father, so far as regards poverty and
literary ability, but certainly not in the
matter of modesty. The obscure He
brew who came forward some fifty odd
years ago as the author of "Nivian
Grey," is now the Earl of Beaconsiield,
Grand Vizier Of Great Britain and a
probable Duke. His start in political
life was marked by a series Of failures,
notably his maiden speech when he
succeeded at last in obtaining seat in
Parliament for the borough of Maid
stone. The House of Commons re-
fused to listen to him. He simply said:
81 am not surprised at the reception |
have experienced. Ihave begun several
things, and have often succeeded at last.
! shall sit down now; but the time will
come when you will hear me- They
have heard him. He was then 80 years
of age; he is ~ now.
The Lieutenant of Lord Beaconstield
is the Marquis of Salisbury (Robert Ar
thur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, p. c.,
Earl of Salisbury, County Wits; WIS.,
count Cranborne, County Dorset; and
Baron Cecil of Essendine, County Rut-
land. He began his political career as
member for Stamford. He was Sec
rotary of State for India from 1866 to
1867, and was reappointed to the same
post in 1874. He succeeded his father
in 1868. Being a junior member of the
family, he had to work for his living
when he was young, and, as in Disraeli's
case, literature supplied him with the
means of gentlemanly existence. The
articles he wrote for the monthly and
weekly reviews are still remembered.
He is As years old, was educated at
Eton, and graduated at Christ Church,
Oxford, but has as little knowledge of
foreign languages as his chief 1t must
be remembered, however, that Disraeli
has described the English race as pecu-
liarly Aryan and noble in their inability
to speak more than one language and |
their love of life in open air. Both the
Grand Vizier and his Lieutenant talk |
English at the Congress, the usual |
language of which is French. But the
members of the distinguished assembly |
listen to them with as much delight as
did the congregation of De Quincy's old |
clergyman, who knew a little Hebrew,
and used 10 quote texts "in the very
words used by the Holy Ghost"
The third representative of England
is the British Ambassador to the Ger
man Court, the Right Hon. Sir 0do
William Russell, styled by courtesy
Lord Odo Russell. He can speak almost
any language, having been in the diplo-
matte service all his life, and having
used his best efforts to pick up the
tongues of the various countries he has
lived in. He is the youngest son OF
Maj Gen. Lord George William Russell,
second son of the Duke of Bedford, and
was raised to the rank of Dukes son
BY royal warrant in 1872. He entered
he service in 1S49, and has ever since
prominent positions in the
diplomatic and social centers of Austria,
France, Italy, Turkey and Germany.
Some years ago he was a member of the
British Embassy in this country. In
$50 he filed, for short time, the post
# Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The chief representatives of Russia !
ire Prince Gortschakoff and Count
,chouyaloff. The former is 80 and the |
after about So years of age. Prince
is descendant of an an ,
,ient stock of Russian nobility. Hewas
eucated, with the great national poet
4 his country, Alexander Pouschkin, at
he Lyceum of CZarskoe- Selo, kind of
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