Christian herald and signs of our times . s, whose noble and munificentcharities have made her name a householdword agedph ilanthro-pist—she isnow sventy-eight—is ini l 1 - h e a 1thand it is saidthat herp h y siciansentertainlittle hopesof beingableto res toreher. T h c::Baroness is;the daughter ot S1 rjjFrancisBurdet te,and was born in 1814. the eccentric banker, Thomas Coutts, she inherited a fortune of nearly $12,000,000 much ofwhich has been spent in the founding of schools,institutions for the education of girls, church-building and missionary enterprises. Thou-sands of emi
Christian herald and signs of our times . s, whose noble and munificentcharities have made her name a householdword agedph ilanthro-pist—she isnow sventy-eight—is ini l 1 - h e a 1thand it is saidthat herp h y siciansentertainlittle hopesof beingableto res toreher. T h c::Baroness is;the daughter ot S1 rjjFrancisBurdet te,and was born in 1814. the eccentric banker, Thomas Coutts, she inherited a fortune of nearly $12,000,000 much ofwhich has been spent in the founding of schools,institutions for the education of girls, church-building and missionary enterprises. Thou-sands of emigrants have been helped by her,»nd when the Irish were starving in 1880, shesurprised the world by a womans generosityMid drew her check for $2,500,000 for their re-ief. For her many good deeds Queen Victoriaraised her to the peerage in 1872. A portrait>f the Baroness is given in this That the North Pole still Possesses a Strangefascination for the daring explorer is sufficient-y shown by the increasing number of attempts. From her grandfather,
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