The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-09
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Some Interesting Notes About Those
Prominent in the Public Eye.

j. H. Seaverna. a native of New Jersey
is candidate for Parliament in one o
England for some ten years and recent!
became a naturalized subject of KIM
Edward.
Prime Ahniser Balfour must already b.
placed among the record breakers in Brit
ish politics. In a recent speech he men
; toned a fact that came as surprise 4
rine-tenths of the public He said he ha
now led the House of Commons for Ion
ger continuous period than any other par
liamentary leader of either party sine
the day of the reform bill of 1892
1t is said on excellent authority tina
Russell Sage's street loans are rarely les
than $50, 900. 900 and that a, few weeks ago
when he was taken Ill. he had $4,000, 90
out on call and time loans. This is ,actua
cash which he has on the market all thu
time. so tnat his income from this source
alone must be somewhere about 81, 90
a year. His collateral loans are prob
ably twice as much.
Baron Blenchroedor, Privy Councillors
Goldberg and Ravenpe and other promi
nent in Berlin official and commercial cir.
Giles have Joined with United States Con
sui General Mason and other Americans
in forming the Observation-Disclosures
Klub at the capital of the German EN-.
pire, it's chief aim being to promote pleas
ant relations between the United States
and Germany.
Rev. David /. Cheney of Gloucester
N. j.. is known as the hard working
minister" He works during the week az
a carpenter and on Sunday breaches the
years ago while president of the Metho.
dist Congregational Conference and estab-
lished a church. Later he left the con.
ference and started an independent
church. A year ago he transferred his
church to Camden, where he now conducts
services.
1t is said that a brother of the Khedive
of Egypt has fallen in love with an Amer
lean heiress who returns his affection
and that AbpaS II, the khedive. looks
brothers spent their boyhood together al
school In Vienna where they imbibed free
~ of liberal ideas. learning among other
things that women are intended to be
titles. according to the prevailing orien-
tai idea.
It has been suggested that memorial
window be placed in Westminster Abbey
in honor of the late Duke of Westmin-
stcr. Considerable indignant protest is
being heard on the ground that such hon
'or should be reserved for really great
men. One critic says: "He was merely
a good average duke. Of a kind that we
breed as easily as we breed good average
grocers. 1t is intolerable that Westmin-
ster Abbey should be spoiled to do him
DR.. Alonzo B. Garrett. United States
Consul at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has re-
turned tn his post after perilous tour of
sixty-seven days in the Sierra Madre
Mountains. whittier he went with a pro-
speeding party to explore the rich mineral
deposits of that district About the time
he intended to start back he was detained
by tremendous transforms. The DOWN
pour made the roads almost impossible
and the party was retarded every mile or
50 by booming streams or trees fallen
across mountain paths. 1t was beginning
20 be feared that the doctor and his party
had been killed by hostile Indians.
The Crown Prince of Siam seems TO be
a sort of financial agent for his Govern
ment and an advance agent for his royal
father, who it is said, is to visit us this
year. The Prince has been sounding sew
erai New York capitalists with a view of
interesting them in the development of
his country. While being shown through
Columbia University the other day the
Prince had his attention called to the
chair of Chinese literature and history.
THAT is good" said the royal tourist
and where Is that of Siam" The pro-
fessor who had him in tow diploma tically
replied that as yet only beginning had
been made in the oriental department.
w. W. Denslow, the artist, formerly of
Chicago, but now Of New York, was re-
Gently on his way to railway station in