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Show ONE JEW BUSSIANS HONORED. Pussia has sustained a serious loss by the sudden sud-den death at St. Petersburg of that remarkable but much abused financier, Rothstein, who, starting in life as a Jewish peddler in the streets of Warsaw, worked his way up to the iwisition of privy councilor, coun-cilor, of grand 'cross of the Order of St. Vladimir, and of noble of the province of Smolensk. Koth-stein Koth-stein on several occasions visited I his country, especially es-pecially in recent years. Few people here, however, realized the all-powerful role which he played in Russia. He was a strange looking man. with grayish gray-ish red hair and beard, terribly short-sighted, with bent shoulders and an appearance of bad temper. He was one of the rudest men that, it was possible to imagine, openly declaring that, courtesy and pleasant manners are useless, since "you never win a game of chess with your heart, but with your head." That such rudeness should have been tolerated in Pussia by nobles, officials, and dignitaries of the highest rank, without being resented, merely goes to show how great was his power. He is ju-;" held responsible throughout Europe for Russia's introduction intro-duction of th" gold standard, and likewise for having hav-ing persistently served as a sort' of drag or brake on the enthusiasm of the advocates in Pussia of the alliance with France. If today the union between these two countries is much less close and intimate than in former years it is largely ascribabie to his late excellency Von Rothstein, who' never lost an opportunity to give France a quiet stab. It. is due to him that there is no nation. whose capital and industry, trade and enterprise in Russia find so many obstacles placed in their way by the imperial government as those of France. This may be ascribed to the fact that Rothstein considered that he owed all his success in life to the , education which he had received in Berlin, and for which he was trulv grateful. " Yet he was the architect archi-tect of his own fortune. For it was not until he had accumulated sufficient money as a peddler that he turned his steps towards Berlin, where he went ihrough aii .elaborate course of study, graduating from the university and then onlering the service of the Bank of Berlin. He accompanied its president, presi-dent, Hanseman, to St. Petersburg when that financier finan-cier went there to engineer the first conversion of the Muscovite national debt, and remained behind, obtained apposition in the International Bank of Commerce at St. Petersburg, and rose to become its manager and the principal director of that great institution. Marquise de Font enoy. , r-4 .. |