The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1912-05-10
TWO 0f TIfanlc VIcflms.


full that no respectable minister
would consent to perform the cere-
mony.
On the same ship we're Isador
Straus and his faithful wife WAC had
spent years together doing good to
humanity with their vast wealth.
The faithful wife refused to be separ-
ated from her husband. She said they
had come all the way together and
she would remain true to him in
death.
The following beautiful tribute to
this good old couple is clipped from
the Houston Chronicle:
IsadOr Straus.
A friend of the friendless, a help
err of the poor, minister to those
who were In need, a benevolent ser
want to the very lowliest and hum
blest and most helpless of Gods
children, a lover OF his fellow man,
one who recognized his obligations
to society and unselflshly and with
prodlgal generosity performed them
was lost to the city which he honored
by his citizenship and to the world
which was better for his having liv-
ed in Il, when the freezing waters Of
the northern sea received all that
was mortal OF lsador Straus.
The friend OF the poor children Of
the tenements, tho man who used his
wealth as a trust for the benefit Of
those who lived in hopeless poverty,
who gave Of It lavishly that little
children might by pure food be saved
from early death, went to his watery
grave mourned ~ countless thous
ands.
He found no pleasure in ostentati-
Gus and vulgar display OF wealth. He
had acquired It honestly, and admin
istered 1t nobly. Sensuous indulgence
and bacchanalian revel had no charm
for him. He lived as became a gentle
man, and out of his abundance he
helped those who most needed help.
When some with numerous ava
rice took from the poor dweilers in
the tenements their hard earned pen
mics for poisoned milk, Isador Straus
drove out the nefarious traffickors
in the lives Of children and gave the
starving liillcohcs milk which scicn-
tiflc skin. paid for by him, had made
pure, and day by day, month by
month, year by year. carried on the
good work.
However rich in other benefactions
his llfe may have been, that he pro-
vlded the starving, crying children Of
the tenements win be longest remem-
bered
All men will be ready TO believe
that I'm so good a work he must have
had the announcement and sympa-
thetic aid of the noble woman who
WAS his wife. who, when she was bid
den TO enter the boat waiting to save
her. turned to her husband and
placing her arms around his neck
said: II will not go. We have lived
too long together 10 be separated
now" Hers was a love that was de-
FAINT OF and out lived death, and she
chose rather to die with than 10 leave
the noble man without whom, In her
sight. life was not worth living.
Isador straus belonged TO that
chosen. historic race winch for four
thousand years has furnished tho
world great men and heroes I'm every
field OF human endeavor. He doubt
less held TO the teachings Of his
fathers. and kept the faith handed
down TO him from generations back
I I'm misty antiquity, but he lived In ac-
cordance with the teachings Of that
greatest OF all Jews. the crowning
glory and consumate flower OF Da-
vld's royal line. and IN that day when
all men shall stand before the bar
OF the unerriug Judge and when they
viii be Judged not by the splendor OF
their deeds. but by hoN they dsa'i
with their fellow man. most III will 70
be for Isador Straus 20 receive the
plaudlt. "Inas much as ye have done
o. 10 one even Of the least OF these
ye have one Il unto me"
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