WHO'S WHO?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 9

WHO'S WHO?

jL'oiK Feu. Kit, the wonderful dancer, who is ; how at Monte Carlo, is, it is stated, almost i blind. She herself says her sight was ruined by dancing on mirrors upon which ; 'limelight was thrown to give the effect o! j flame. i I The Emperor of Japan is probably the most poetic Sovereign in the world. His love of poetry increases with years, it is said, and scarcely an evening passes that His Majesty does not compose from 27 to ■ 30. of the 3i svllabled couplets called " WaKa." | The Marquis de Soveral. the Portuguese : Ambassador in London, who is one of the • King's greatest friend*, enjoyed, when he ; was a voting man. the reputation of being the (jest waitzer in the world. Although inot so light on his feet as he was, lie can even now claim to bo able to dance with as I much agility as most, people. ,j Canon Lyon, the blind vicar of Sher.borne. Dorset, who is resigning his vicariate '[after 40 years' occupancy of it, possesses the unique distinction of having actually ;been born under the roof of his own church. '•As headmaster of Sherborne school, his I father occupied as a dwelling-house what was. originally the Lady Chapel of the fatuous abbey, and it was' here the blind vicar . was born. | Dr. John Clifford, the famous preacher, owes his success entirely to his own unflagging zeal and industry* HI", parents were | working people, and he received but a very scanty share of education at the village school. " 1 began life," the doctor said 'once,." in a lace factory when I was 11 iyears old, and I may say that I know the [lace trade from top to bottom—at least. 'as if was 50 years ago. I worked at first as an ordinary 'hand,' as in those days the j factory laws were in their infancy, and the I conditions of labour exceedingly onerous. [The hours were terribly long, and. I have I worked all night again' and again when a | boy." \ The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who is on [his way to England to conduct an elaborate ! temperance campaign, is the author of the famous religious novel, "In His Steps.' This little human story is circulated by the 'million, and has been'translated into several languages. Mr. Sheldon became pastor of the'Topeka Church in 1883, at the age 'of 30, and since then the membership has: /increased tenfold. M'r. Sheldon is by no means the typical pastor, indeed, his big, bronzed, sturdy figure and his unconventional dress give him the appearance of a •gentleman fanner. Neither is his diction [rhetorical nor dramatic. Perhaps his popularity is duo to the simplicity of his themes jar.cl to the sincerity of his utterance. | Captain Boyd Alexander, who a little [while back returned from a journey of 3000 jiniles across Africa, from the West Coast, 'ithrough the heart of" the Soudan to the Red |Sea, had many thrilling experience.*, and has made some'most interesting and important discoveries. Once his expedition came across a fierce pagan tribe of head-hunters, 'presenting certain points of resemblance to 'the Dyaks of Borneo; and they encountered 1 another tribe who lived on the sides of a [rocky hill, in mud houses cemented to projecting rocks, which could only be reached jby the steepest and narrowest of paths. The people, seen from a distance, looked like monkeys squatting on the rocks. They [were keen hunters, accustomed to the use ot i poisoned arrows. Captain Boyd Alexander and his comrades had frequently to defend themselves from attacks made on the. expedition by the fierce tribes of Central Ltfrica.