The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

effect that 1t is flor conspicuous and ex- traordinary yaIor on the battlefield.
 Let me add that the Emperor, nNe the members of his Privy Councii. oo.a Albert and Nathaniel Rothschild having been promoted to that dignity, while there are are also several protesting Hebrews In
 In Fgance. despite the anti-Semitis nloyemcnt-which Is led by two renegade Hebrews. namely. Arthur Meyer and Ed. ouard Drumont-there are at least wo professing Jews holding commissions in the army, among them Brigadier Gen erals and even Generals of division. Tnere are. however, no Jews in the French diplomatic service, and while Hebrew race. sucff as Achille Fouid, Gambetta and others, who have held off, flee as ministers, there has not been in France who has been what may be described as professing Jew.
 There are few If any officers of the Hebrew faith in the German army, and certainly none of them holding field in onering seat In the prussian Cab- inet to one of the leading business men in Hamburg. intimated to him that the fact of his being a profe:sing Jew would constitute no obstacle to his appoint ment. But for all that, this enlightened and uo-to-date monarch does not appear to be able to refrain from <discriminati ting against Jews where. hts army is com cerned, the number of Hebrews who held commissions at the time of his accession having dwindled to the vanishing point. The responsibility for whatever prejudics he may retain with regard to the Jews must 1t ts strange to state, be laid at an American door, For 1t was in the sa- Ions of his wife's aunt by marriage, the Countess Waldersee, daughter of David Lee of New York, where Pastor Stockers s Semitic movement had It's head had ina hia mind the feeling against the members of the Hebrew race--a feeling which was de- plored both by his parents and also by his political mentor. the late Prince Bis marck. The latter entertained no ill., will whatsoever towards the Jews. His maternal grandfather, Anastasius Men ken. was a converted Jew. and the old Chancellor always prided himself upon that 1t improved both morally and physically the Bismarck breed"
 There Is but one nobleman in the whole Russian Empire who is g professing Jew. frequent visitor to this country. On the recommendat ton of his close friend and associate, the Minister of Finance, Count Witte. the Czar conferred upon him the This carries with 1t hereditary nobility, and he immediately applied to the As senibly of Nobies of the province of spolensk. in which he owned large es- tdAcs, HIS HdH1e snOuiu pe entered on the Golden Book of Nobles of the Province. The assembly indig- nantly rejected the demand on the score of his faith, as well as of the fact that he had commenced life at Jewish ped dler at Warsaw. Rothstein thereupon ap- peaied to the Senate of the Empire, which Is the highest tribunal in Russia. Ths Senate, after carefully considering the matter, issued a decree declaring that inasmuch as every recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Vladimir, no matter what his race. becomes ipso fact ), by his admission to the order an hered- itary noble of the Russian Empire. the application of the banker must be grant ed. The decree of the Senate received the approval of the Czar, and constitut $ the only case on record of the grant of hereditary nobility to a protesting Jew in Russia,
 In conclusion I may mention that Sir Marcus Samuel, the Lord Mayor-elect of London, bibliophile of exceptional culture and attainment, received his knighthood for services to the govern ment in connection with the rescue of the great man-of-war Victorious, when badly aground in the Suez Canal. He ,s the senior member of the firm of Sam uel & O., of London and Yokohama. and has done, perhaps more than any other Englishman to develop the trade be- tween Great Britain and Japan. In Engiand he is regarded as the originat or of the tank steamer for the carrying of oil in bulk, and certain 1t is that this innovation in the handling of cargoes of petroleum has contributed in no small measure to his large fortune.