Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-26

 countries were by no means neglected. His scheme for transplanting his unfor- tunate Russian eoreligionfsts to South America attracted great attention, Thou sands of colonists were sent to the Ar genuine Republic at his expense and en- abled to establish agricultural settle ments
 Baron Hirsch subscribed largely to the Boulanger-Orleans conspiracy, al- though he never figured in French socie- ty. He was blackballed by the Rue Roy ale club of Paris, for which he had been nominated by one of the Orleanist dukes.
 Baron Hirsch was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, but he thoroughly believed in religious toleration. The cures of his Austrian villages were often seen at his table. While his purse was open to all good causes, the men and women of his own race were always preferred, as he believed that they suffered more injus- tice and persecution than any other race or nationality.
 "Only one child, son, was born to him, and he died some years ago. He had no use for his wealth except as a means of doing good. Hundreds of important per- sonages, including princes of the royal blood, were helped by him in moments of difficulty He once said of his char itabe methods:
 liam desirous of doing something with my wealth to make the lot of the miera- able easier. If one could take his money when he went he might not care to dis pose of it in this way. But 1t seems much better to me to look on it's beneficial dis tribution myself than to leave it to be disposed of by bequests.
 The financial relief recently given Mrs Kate Chase Sprague by Senator Brice and Congressman Sorg of Ohio, in ras- ing the mortgage on her beautiful home, Edgewood, near Washington city has again brought into prominence one of the most remarkable women of America and one who seems destined to appear, at ir- regular intervals, before the public not withstanding that for years she has lived the quietest life possible and has avoided everything that in any way savored of conspicuousness Inheriting in a huge measure the intellect of her distinguished father, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, and possessing an ambition perhaps even greater than his, united with personal magnetism and physical beauty, she be- came in her youth easily one of the most notable women of our nation. She did much to advance her father and gloried In his achievements presiding with charm and distinction at their Washington home. Her marriage and her subsequent sorrows are too familiar to reading peo- pie to be rehearsed. From a social pin acle rarely attained by any other American woman, surrounded by the luxury that came with the immense wealth of her husband Senator Sprague, she suddenly retired from public and so- cial life and has almost been forgotten by the younger generation. This timely and generous act on the part of rich Ohio friends will once more render her con- fortable and relieve her of a burden some debt that has distressed her for years. It is said that she will support flltI1rR raising a the Washington market. Mrs. Chase Sprague, as is well known, has two daughters and one son. One of her daughters, having dramatic talent, stud led for the stage, and was for some time member of Richard Mansfield's com pany. The other daughter resembles her mother in temperament and tactics and Is her constant companion. That Mrs. Chase-Sprague shall succeed in her laud- able effort to became financially inde- pendent every admirer of her celebrated father heartily desires. No one familiar with her mental force has any reason to doubt that she has put the bitterness and discouragements of her past life be- hind her and has now stretching before her a few years of peace, comfort and at least satisfaction, if not absolute happi- ness.
 Perhaps if the bride, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, had anticipated the ripples and waves of excitement that she has created by her remarriage to her famous, though elderly, husband, she would have serious ly debated the question of marrying him. She has been written about variously by every newspaper reporter of the country; her trousseau has been described; her step-children and their alleged griev- ances discussed, and now--poor afflicted woman-she has fallen into the hands of the Indiana politicians, who are using every effort to secure her influence with MT. Harrison to induce him to become a candidate for the nomination of presi- dent before the republican national con- vention. What the outcome will be, of course, no one can say; but it is natural to expect a young, ambitious woman to throw her influence on the side of her husbands political friends. corre- spondent of the New York World who has gone over the entire ground of the arguments, for and against Mr. Harri- sons candidacy, thus writes of the pres ent conditions and political calculations:
 within the last two weeks the poli- ticians.have been trying to get an expres- sion of opinion from him as to whether he would consent to quiet, underground agitation for his nomination. He has persisted in his declination but he has done it in such way that the politicians are much encouraged. They think that the new Mrs. Harrison has been urging him on to make her the new mistress of the White House.
 Tt looks as if it were the old story of the man having his fling and marrying to settle down, only to find that he has planned for domestic quiet without talk ing his wife into the calculation. The new Mrs Harrison is strong, clear headed, ambitious woman. She has mar ried a great man and she does not like the idea that his greatness Is all behind him. The Harrison boomers think she Is their strongest ally. They think that she has about succeeded in convincing her husband that the White House is not such an unattractive place after all. The old man is of course willing to please his young wife in any reasonable way. He feels so much better, so much young er And he must know how grateful the new Mrs. Harrison would be to the man who would make her the first lady of the land.
 '"The people of Indiana have taken very kindly to Harrison's second marriage. They do not look upon 1t as an old mans folly. Mrs. Harrison is young woman, but not young enough or pretty enough to be looked upon as a frivolous person who had trapped an old mans heart and induced him to make a fool of himself.