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-DECEMBER 20th. 1888.
I'D Moves.

a false prophet or one fitted for an
insane asylum; and yet such q
strange thing has come to pass in the
person of Sir Moses Montefioro. who
on the Sth day of last November Ell
tered on the hundreth day Of his
blameless. brave and universally be
neficent life.
The occasion was made one of great
rejoicing in England, especially at
Ramsgate, Sir Moses Montcfiore's
residence.
From the London Weekly Dispatch
of November 1lth we make the fol
lowing extracts. from Il description
of the festivities at Ramsgate:
The streets were hung with bunt-
ing, most of the business establish
ments We're decorated with ever
greens, and several triumphal arch
es We're erected along the route OF
the procession. The lamps III the
principal thOroughfares, to the mum
Der of $50, We're removed, and mono
grams, crowns, and stars. made of
gas piping, fixed in their places.
Around the Town Hall, which was
astefully decorated. We're the words
for illumination-"GOd bless Sir
Moses MontefiOre" his motto, think
and thank" and above all crown.
AT nine o'clock in the morning a
party of singers gave serenade
concert in front of Sir Moses Monte
fore's window at East Cliff Lodge,
Ramsgate, and the venerable barOnet,
who was in bed, sent his special
thanks, and desired them to repeat 1t
IN a fortnight's time. During the
concert the following telegram was
received from the Queen Il con
graduate you sincerity on your en-
tering into the one hundreth year of
useful and honorable life" A sim
liar message was received from the
Duke of Edinburg. Sir Moses
thereupon desired them to give the
National Anthem, which request was
complied with. The public process
sion, which started punctually to
time, exceeded anything of the kind
ever attempted in this nelghborhood.
1t is estimated to have been over
two miles in length. and occupied
three-quarters of an hour in passing
given point. All classes of the
community wers strongly represented
There were five bands of music, the
mayors of neighboring boroughs,
with councillors, several lodges Of
Freemasons, friendly societies, fire
brigade with engines, thousands of
school children, Volunteer corps, el
ephants and camels, brewers drays
loaded with hops and bine, and fol
lowed by employees in new white
blouses and red caps; flour van la.
den with sacks of flour, and pretti-
ly decorated, all of which drew forth
expressions of admiration from the
thousands of spectators who lined
the route. The procession then pass
ed around the grounds of Sir Moses,
and returned to town. The aged
and deserving poor were entertained
at the different parishes to dinner
In the evening a grand banquet was
given at the Granville and there was
q grand display of fireworks and an
enormous bonfire.
AT the banquet Sir Moses, who
persisted in standing regardless OF
his advanced age, among other re,
marks said he had "been consider
able traveller himself, having been ii
the course of his travels seven times
to Jerusalem, and he was proud of it
and thanked God for it" He beg
ged the gentlemen present that they
would tell their friends they had moi
seen an old man, for he felt himself
to be young nan of certainly no
more than sixty-two. He concluded
by again repeating his warme5t and
heartfelt thanks for the honor he had
received.
The London weekly Dispatch il
anticipation of the event offered a
prize Of two guineas for the best six
teen lines of original verse, which
was awarded to Mr. j. Phelan, OF
Dublin, for the following:
For thee, o aged patriarch, today
The hearts oil Israel beat,
And grateful Gen'ilcs with loves fervor lay
Their off'rings at thy feet.
We know no race or creed while honoring thee
Who honorest men alone;
The worlds heart homage oomesafar and free
And sweet, TO thy hearts throne
Wherever Freedom lives its spirit sighs
blessing and a prayer
For thee. who heardst tn oppressed millions
cries,
And free'st them from despair.
And so the fair AMI shining crown today,
OF nobly-crowned years.
Is that undylng love that men do pay
To him who dries their tears.
The editor of the Dispatch remarks:
There is plenty of phariseeism, or
heathenism of one sort or another. in
English Christianity, but we are bet
ter than some of our neighbors
in one respect at any rate. The hon
ors now being paid to Sir Moses
Montefiore are in admirable contrast
with the Jew-hatred of which so
many exhibitions, IN so many ways
have been made in other parts of
Europe.
Any one who wishes to know how
Jews were treated in England ole
hundred years ago should read Ivan
hoe, by Sir Walter Scott, and con-
trast the cruel treatment of Isaac
of York, with the ovations one hun
dred years afterward to Sir Moses
Monteforte. Truly the world moves.
The Skagit coal field is said to be
widening. Late discoveries are in