Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26

hlOWlt illltl Wei tNtll
in England. ! am preacher and lee
turer here, without parochial duties,
though l live at present where you see
me, in the Wears house. / am also
chaplain to the Royal Ophthalmie hos
pital, close at hand. But, having no
parochal work. ! have leisure for lit
erature and / am able to devote my
self now to the cause of the non-mo-.
toring public"
FRIEND OF ROOSEVELT.
You have not spent much of your
ministerial life in American"
No, mainly on the continent of Eu-
rope and in England I have been at
tached to all the American Episcopal
churches on the continent except one
Geneva. II was ordained in Paris after
a year in deacon's orders in New York,
and took charge of our church here for
n short while. Then was locum ten
ems for some months at Rome, before
becoming rector of st. James American
Episcopal church In Florence. In 1892
1 returned to America and engaged in
literary work, my principal productions
being my Americans in Europe and
my contributions to The Churchman'
on church colleges. Then I canyassed
for my friend Roosevelt when he ran
for the presidency. Then 1 was APP
pointed chaplain to the American
church at Munich, and worked there
six years"
"That was where you lived ina cas-
tie of your own, was It not?"
OWNER OF OLD CASTLE.
Eyes, I was the owner OF the oldest
castle in. Germany. Schloss Grunwald,
which, according to- notice in the
grounds. dated from is &c. IT had
last been used as a hunting-b box by
Ludwig Of Bavaria, when I bought it.
From that, time until last year, when L
sold it again, entertained in the
castle q most interesting collection of
visitors OF all nationaiities. Americans.
English and the rest. Here is my visit
sors' book, containing just 1000 names
and q large number of drawings, many
of them by celebrated artists. Those
are all pictures and photographs OF
scllloss Grunwald which you see round
Z the room.
Mr.. Royce is full OF anecdotes OF his
wonderfully varied career But must
keep them for my autobiography" he
protested. He said, however, that he
had been a soldier and a candidate for
the assembly on tho Reform ticket in
New York, as we'll as, a parson. TIc
appealed to the patriotic American as
having served in the army as Il Viz
.ginian hoy of u and having been
wounded. His experience OF war he
incorporated in his book Trhe Little
tBuglerr of which something like S0,00Ds
copies We're sold in England and which
has been tile cause of numbers OF let
ters written to him by readers whom
the story touches deeply.
Once in this country Mr.. Royce's
military career stood him in good stead
and the fighting parson in real life, . is
not entirely forgotten in Brighton yet.
JJa had Ipt,n III, To ,.,f
away from the London fog for a few
days one winter. He took a cab from
the station to his lodgings and was
followed byone of the local "cab-run-
ners," a class OF 5toughs which at that
time caused much annoyance and fear
to visitors to the popular Sussex sea-
side resort. On Mr., Royce refusing
to employ his services to remove tbs
baggage from the cab, the runner first
kicked the horse and then struck the
parson violently on the right temple
causing a cut of which the mark re-
mains to- this day. Mr.. Royce did not
hesitate.
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.
II Knocked him down three times.
and when he made off II followed him
up he told me. when caught him
he threatened to assault me. but gave
in when asked him il he wanted any
more of what he had just had The
man was handed oversto the police and
ultimately got three months in j:sil.
The local press made much of the cas-.
and called attention to the curious fact
that, while the theatrical placards had
recently been full Eof popular nelo-
drama called The Fighting Purson.',
the Rev. Mr. Royce had brought this
real article to Brighton
The best of the Joke, however, said
this muscular Christian, had still TO
come next day. when went into the
local branch Of my: hank to draw some
money. was a stranger In Brighton.
and said to the cashier, as passed
him my check: suppose that you
will require evidences of my identity, as
you don't know me here The cashier
looked first at my signature and then
al. my eye and said, No. Mr.. Royce, you
can have your money. We won't con-
test the matter with you. Z
FRANCIS HOPKINS.