Show SLUMS llblllltA A > AMIItktN A I1IOTO11IH or Till SHots CIIAII At I hit IN ltANilokA 8AII 1IOMANUK That a young woman horn In leos rylvauln wbo during her life time wai never beyond Ibo confine of I bM native lauJ and who cuss to ebrliik log and modest In hir dlltOlllollu ti bnrion > lly unknown even to man ot those who grMefully accepted bet bounty should be tho rolntyie if the licroluu of the greatest roruiuce eye written the author of which wa > never In Amerioi seems at tint clance tho height of Improbability liners It abundant evidence to prove however how-ever that lUbttca Urals a 1hlladtl plila woman of Hebrew tlrtceut war this olgln1 of Itebetoa lit cJawe a In tllr Waller rtcollt Ivan or the UI family pomtevd blod ai blue ai can bo found even In the arlitocratlo Juakcr city and Ilebeoca was born and reared a geullewoniau In every nine of the word The Hebrew birth did mil prevent the family from numbering among Ihelr friend the moil dmtlngulihed ls I r IJIIIKH lit what cuss then the leading city of the country and lu tin brilliant tocioly of whldi Uounl Wafhlngton u Imldent of the UHltod Stale wai the ciuter the nom of Ufa x was always prominent HIV nor beauty Of Itebecca allle1 wltb her accoinllilitii nli and al tractive mannerr brought many ad rnlrtri lo her feet but the only one whose lanlonibe reclirowtel wai a Cbriitlau Although the lovej thus youth ai only a lilgh ilrutig delicate being can love her couicleucii would not iermll an alliance with one tide btr own faith anJ 10 the retoiuttly trampled uxiii her fMllnti The final Hireling between tare lovers was too taJ to be dwell lilion but It U I laid sire told her Uenllle ixrrllirill that allbouKh tho could not marry him the would fuser wed another avow which wai aicrrdly kept t 11 wai abortly after this epltode that Wiiblnktou Irving piM d utomlder able erlod lu rilllaUllpllla ai the guest ol her brother lu tho Ono old country buuie m of the Iran family which strand on a large farm then several mile distant from the city but which Ira long sloe been built over ruse houe waitUiidlnic until recently near tbo corner of llglileenlh and Diamond ilreilt being razed lo make room for a church edlllcr Here Irving learned the story of Itebeocaj abnegation a tale which lu Imprmed llrelf Unn hit mind that wtien be went auroad iom time later the re uinmbMiice of the young womini wonUerfiil telfdnnlil for me lake 01 her religion recurred BJ oouilantly It seas but natural He should nivntldu the Incident to Walter Hcott when slum plug wllb that mailer The novellit once taw how strong ly I tucb a character could bu brtugbl out I In romance and Itibeom if York Hie leading feminine eriomge In Ivaubor alb remit Hit fact Hint Mltl Orals wai Ibo tolotyi > 0 ol the character wat very well known to her frloudr but an far ai cm be learned no communication ever took puns between lbs author and the heroine Alter the irjaratloii from her lover Mill Urals devoted her lite to charily and among other aotlont founded the lint Jewlih HabbalU lohool III l the world an Initllullou which li I Jet Inactive In-active exltteucr with a memberiblp ot over 1600 Hire died 01 lb 1IUIId all e ofB4 In 15JO and U I bulled lu a little Hebrew graveyard III Bpruce street rblladelpnla directly opoille old 1eiiDiylvanla lioijllat Turougb the rusty and ancient Iron gateway one may catch a gllniue of her lomb bearlni limply the locrll tlool lie brica Uratt born March 4 nil 1 tiled August 1609 |