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Volume IX—Number 4. RICHMOND, VA., FEBRUARY 4, 1898. Whole Number 210. s — IRicbmonb Mews, Governor Tyler has appointed Mr. Lee Reinheimer a notary public. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hutzler have returned from their bridal tour. Mrs. David Hirsh, of Fredericksburg, is the guest of Mrs. I. Cohen. Mr. Gabriel Schlachter is quite sick at the resi dence Of $lr. Labenberg. Mrs. Motz Prag, of Baltimore, is visiting her mother, Mrs. I. M. Rosenbaum, 607 east Grace street. The late charity ball netted $1,400, which will be turned over to the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Asso ciation. Mr. Felix Hessberg nas'left, for Boston, Mass., where he will engage in the wholesale shoe business oh his own account. ( About fifty or sixty friends of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac , Held took then? by surprise last Sunday night upon ' "the occasion of 'twentieth Anniversary of 1 tHajHage;; ;v ' ;":j •" l .. . The new board of the Jefferson Club is making good its determination to popularize the "Ladies' Evenings," for the musicale and hop last night was certainty 6rie of the most enjoyable affairs yet given. Mrs. S. J. Piatt and her step-son, Mr. Aaron J. 'Piatt, celebrated their birthdays jointly last Sunday " t nigjit at their residence, No. 9 south Morris street. . A number of invited guests were in attendance, among them being Mr. An*cl Piatt, of Hampton, Va., Mrs. Piatt's brother-in-law. ' .', The large congregation at Beth Ahaba synagogue Jast Friday night proved indisputably that The Jewish. South is not only the proper but a thorough medium of conveying information to the Jewish com munity. The announcement that Rabbi Benja nin would officiate was made in our columns alone, and the result was an attendance many times the usual size. ' In searching among the records of the Beth Ahaba Congregation several days ago, Mr. Isaac Held came across a marriage contract book kept by the late 'Re.v. M.: J. ifaiChelbacher from 1846 to 1860. During that time "he performed eighty-eight marriages, a much larger number proportionally than have taken place for many years past. Stra'hge to .say, the first certificate in. the book was that of Mr. Held's parents. : ' lMeaoeb tor tbe Sabbatb X*amp. ... A genuine, ''.Yom Kippur" congegation greeted Rev. R. Benjamin at the synagogue Beth Ahaba last Friday night. Mr. E. Bottighimer read the regular services, and at their conclusion the visiting rabbi an nounced as the text of his discourse the words of Bilaam when sent for by the King of Moab to curse the Israelites: "How beautiful are thy tents, 0, Jacob; thy tabernacles, 0, Israel." The rabbi began by stating that there was some thing that had been worrying the Jews for a long time, and which had troubled him for several years. It is the fact that the Jews nowadays seem to have so little religion. He had cast about for the cause and he believed that he had found it in the fact that no attention is paid to the faith in the home by the wives, sisters, and mothers. Continuing, the speaker alluded in turn to many of the customs of former days, and made a strong plea for the restitution of the Sabbath lamp. Not that the light itself amounts to anything, but it is a tenet of Judaism that one good deed leads to another; and as by making a distinction between the Sabbath and other days, one Sabbath might be observed, so the keeping of one Sabbath would lead to the keeping of another. There was nothing to be feared by tne Jewish housewife, that her husband or children would deride her for lighting the Sabbatical light. The chil dren are too well raised, and every husband who comes home from his week's work would but feel all the happier and greet his wife all the more fondly by token of this reminder of his boyhood days. The rabbi advocated sincerity in all things, and strongly deprecated that in many pulpits nowadays it was supplanted by "pyrotechnical eloquence," which did naught as a religious help. Dr. Benjamin spoke in a fatherly, sympathetic manner, which greatly impressed his hearers. Saturday morning he preached on the value of home influences. Sunday morning he addressed the children of the Beth Ahaba Sunday school. Those who met Rabbi Benjimin at the synagogue after services and at the home of his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. I. Cohen, were charmed with his delightful so cial qualities. ©olden "BGleootnfl Celebration. The Peoria (111.) Herald, of January 27th, pub lished a double column picture of Mr. and Mrs. A. Woolner, of that city, with an extended account of their goldtn wedding celebration the preceding day. This lady and gentleman, as our readers are aware, are the parents of Mrs. E. N. Calisch, of this city, who, with her husband, the rabbi, was present at the fts tivities. Mrs. Woolner is 70 years of age, and her husband is five years her senior.