but a good way back.  By his questions and final remarks one feels assured that the topic introduced has been attentively listened to and fully grasped.  While conversing, other audience-seekers would drop in, and, while waiting their turn, coffee would usually be served to all.  The manners observed are devoid of any stiffness of etiquette, but rather marked with a cordial decorum approaching intimacy, most assuring to the simplest and humblest visitor.

The only leisure the President enjoys is the interval from 12 to 2, between his official labours at the Government buildings, which are about half a mile distant from his house.  He drives there and back in a modest carriage attended by a guard of mounted policemen.  His Honour is invariably dressed in black cloth, with the usual tall silk hat.  Six feet high, with a slight stoop, broad shouldered, deep-chested, with well-developed limbs, arms rather long, the President presents a stately, burly figure, portly without obesity.  When younger he was noted, as something like a Ulysses, for personal strength and prowess as well as for sagacity.  Although seventy-five years old now, Mr. Krueger has still a remarkably hale bearing and an intellect of undiminished quality.  His eyesight, however, has been suffering of late, rendering the attendance of an oculist necessary.  His Honour is in his fifth term of presidency, and has held the office twenty-two years.  His salary is L8,000 per annum, of which he probably does not expend L1,000, his habits being exceedingly simple and frugal, Mrs. Krueger being equally conservative and thrifty, preferring rather to expend money for her children and in unostentatious benevolence than in superfluities.

President Krueger is an exemplary Christian, an earnest student of the Bible since his youth, ever ready to employ his gifts to strengthen the faith of his people and to maintain their religious standard.  He often occupies the pulpit, and on other occasions gives exhorting discourses.  Upon the completion of the imposing Johannesburg synagogue his Honour was requested to preside at its dedication.  It was an impressive function, and withal so anomalous and unrabbinical a departure—­the head of the State, a devout Christian, opening the edifice for Jewish worship and addressing a discourse to the thousands of assembled Israelites.  In his zeal and concern Mr. Krueger could not refrain from adverting to their blessed Messiah, the God-man of Jewish stock, rejected through ignorance by their forefathers, exalted since, but who loved His people nevertheless, as typified by Joseph’s narrative when he revealed himself to his brethren in Egypt.  He adjured them to a prayerful reading of their Old Testament, and he invoked God’s mercy to remove the veil which obscured from their eyes their own and also the Gentiles’ glorious Immanuel.  The ceremony was concluded with perfect decorum, despite the surprise that the address had drifted into an impassioned Gospel sermon.