NOBLESSE OBLIGE.

Evening Star, Issue 11684, 17 February 1902, Page 3

NOBLESSE OBLIGE.

There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over idnety-and-nine just persons. It will be remembered that the other day in Parliament, when the Tariff Bill was discussed, Herr Bebel, in opposing the attempt to raise further the price of bread, mentioned a boy who bad told( his school muster that j he would like to go to Heaven, because ■ there ho need not starve. He was interrupted bv Count Von Amim, one of the richest of German noblemen, who j cyatically remarked that the boy’s father j had most likely spent his money in drink.

These words aroused a storm of indignation, and even the political friends of the count sharply criticised them, the more so as they proved a formidable weapon in the hands of the Social Democrats. Court Amim has now evidently seen that ho was in the wrong (writes the Berlin correspondent of the ‘ Daily News ’). He asked a friend, therefore, to moke inquiries about the family in question, and it turns out that they are really vexy poor. Count Amim has, in consequence, sent an apology to the father, and offered to send the mother, who is a consumptive, to a sanatorium at his expense, and to aid the family financially in other ways.