Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1896-09-08


done You can do, nothing is impossible to him
who strongly wills" And yet while he thinks
that large portion of the misery and want IN |
human life Is the result OF the faults as well
as the misfortunes of the sufferers, Mr.. Houss
does not withhold his aims from even the
most abject and hopclessly condemned. In
deed, his whole theory of giving seems to be
the seeking out and finding of those to whom
others will not give He has no prejudice
against the churches. he does not dispute the
use and the mercy of hospitals but he thiuks
that these self-evidently meritorious charities
will find many will give aims as part of
their profession and creed to support them,
and therefore he goes out into the highways
and bvways and seeks out those whom others
will not find. During the last few years, in
Gliding his Gift of 500, 900 for the Confeder-
ate Battle Abbey. of SIS 600 to the University
of Virginia. his equally splendid donation of
$50 600 for water works for the old town of
Winchester. the peculiar but practical gift of
- OnO for n fence for Mt Hebron Cemetery
in III. same town. his 81 900 TO the flood suf-
| ferers at ,yolustown, his hundreds to the
stricken ones Mt Harper's Ferry and else
where at the same time his gifts TO the
earthquake sufferers in Greece, to the ice
funds of the New York papers aud other pub
lie, benefactions it can be safely estimated
that Mr.. Rouss has given away fully half
million dollars. Those who know him, those
who have Investigated for him the thousands
of appeals which daily food his deck aud those
who have been the recipients of his uuasked
bounty, make an almost equal computation
of the amsunt he has given in private. This
stupcndous sum. more than ninety aud nine
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upon the world by man who has In his time
known actual want and pressing hunger. \
man who has given one fortune to tue people
of the town OF winchester during tne war
who gave to the lost cause OF the southern
Confederacy years OF his me- anu VINO mas
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memorials OF marble ethatinvoke the DRESSINGS
OF the dawn, aud VINO yet mas the means "
go on giving day by day, TO go on preaching
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