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his personal property schedule. The poor
| landgrave, who was overthrifty and had
been selling his subjects for British gold
| to fight the French, was in despair, for
ne had boarded $5,0O0,000 in silver, and
| the ratio was only about IL to 1. He sent
for his friend, the Jew money changer,
and turned over to his hands, without
even receipt, this enormous sum of
cash. Then he fed.
Meyer Anselm Rothschild made good
use Of the money-that was his business
and laid by its investment the founda-
| ton of that immense fortune which Is
| probably the greatest the world has
known in modern times and civilization
but when the emperor had been pack
| ed off to Elba and the fearful landgrave
| came back to Frankfort, the Jew sur
prised him by proving himself an honest
man and restoring the treasure, which,
history declares, he. might have kept had
he been So minded. Since that day those
who decry the native integrity of the
Jew, as such, have had no reply to make
to this historical incident.
Wherever men remember deeds of noble
generosity, where unselfish striving to up
| lift a race, to snatch them from oppres-
sion, where q broad philanthropy which
harbors no prejudice Is esteemed and
honored, the name of Moses Montefore
IL still exalted as one typifying such viz
tues, Youth is taught to emulate those
principles which made the name of this
grand old Jew revered in many lands. 1t
may be said of him that during his near
century of life his guiding nature was
to do good His personal influence with
Car Nicholas induced the suspension of
stern ukase affecting the Polish Jews.
He secured from the sultan Of Morocco
fi1man granting the prosecuted Jews OF
that kingdom equal privileges with Chris
tians. He rescued from condition Of In
dignity a host Of his coreHgionists in
Palestine He secured long-sought priv
i'eges for the Jews Of Roumania. Found
err of hospitals, giver Of libraries, en-
dover of colleges friend Of the oppressed
and father Of the poor, he was knighted
by his queen, and aftcrward made
haronet for his distinguished philanthro-
pies, and died at a great age as full OF
honor as of years.
The late Baron Hirsch's enormous gifts
to philanthropic enterprises and the no
less imperial benefactions Of his widow to
like causes have probably not been equal
ed in amount by any other person of
whom history has made record This en-
inent Jew, the friend and intimate of
princes, bore in his breast heart which
beat in sympathy for the poor and the
distressed of world. From his giant
fortune he poured out millions into the
lap Of charity and seemed ever ready to
give heed to a cry for aid. His name IS
enrolled high on the golden scroll of
those who have sought to do good to their
fellow men.
Out of the humble cradle which a poor
Jewish mother rocked in the obscure
hamlet of Munf, in Switzerland, four
score years ago, sprang Elisha Rachel,
a tragic actress than whom no other
woman ever wore a rarer laurel. What
boots 1t In depreciation to say that her
character was unanaiable, her DISPOSE
ton covetous, her manner arrogant and
her morals not to be spoken OF. The
heaven-born genius was hers, 1t sat upon
her brow shining diadem Of glory, and
the burning intensity which character
lied her rendering of human passion was
beyond the expression Of language Said
one eminent critic of her Phedre: 1T is
an apocalypse of human agony; she docs
not act, she suffers" Rachel recited the
Marseillaise hymn with such feeling. with