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STRAUSS 



ing personally reading and sorting a stack of 

 several letters containing appeals for help. Dr. 

 Grenfell also tells the following story, charac- 

 teristic of Lord Strathcona's many private 

 benefactions : 



On one occasion Lord Strathcona was asking 

 me about old Labrador acquaintances, and as it 

 was then fifty years since he had left the coast, it 

 might have been expected that, with all his mul- 

 tiplicity of interests, he would long before have 

 forgotten the individuals. He happened to ask 

 after a certain woman who Jiad been his servant 

 so many years before. I told him that she had 

 long ago passed away, but that her daughter, who 

 was married and had a very large family, had 

 often spoken of her mother's connection with him. 

 He asked how she was faring with so many chil- 

 dren, but appeared to take very little notice when 

 I told him that the family were having hard 

 times. However, the next time I visited that part 

 of Labrador I heard that he had sent a special 

 Labrador order of pork, flour, molasses, butter, 

 and many outfits of clothing for herself and the 

 children. To this day the woman is wondering 

 "where on earth that winter's diet and all that 

 clothing could have come from." 



No sketch, however brief, could do justice 

 to Lord Strathcona without special reference 

 to his wife. During their married life of more 

 than sixty years their devotion to each other 

 was exceptional, and the frequent separations 

 which were necessary because of Lord Strath- 

 cona's many interests never lost their sadness 

 for them both. In 1913, only a few months be- 

 fore her death, she was at Glencoe, their Scotch 

 estate, while Lord Strathcona was in London. 

 He was then in his ninety-third year, but every 

 evening he personally went to the telegraph 

 office to send her a message. A thousand other 

 messages he could turn over to a messenger, 

 but this one message no one but himself was 

 allowed to handle. She died in November, 

 1913, in her eighty-ninth year. Lord Strath- 

 cona survived her loss only ten weeks, his death 

 occurring on January 21, 1914. W.F.Z. 



Consult Willson's The Life of Lord Strathcona 

 and Mount Royal; Preston's Strathcona and the 

 Making of Canada. 



STRATIFIED, strat'ifide, ROCKS. Slate, 

 mica, shale and sometimes limestone are 

 formed in layers and can be split into thin 

 pieces. These layers are called strata, and 

 rocks formed in layers are stratified rocks. 

 Stratified rocks have been formed by sedi- 

 ment, which was first mud and then became 

 hardened into rock. As originally formed, the 

 layers were horizontal, but by folding of the 

 earth's crust they have, in many places, been 

 thrown out of their former position, and are 

 in many different positions, from the horizontal 



to the vertical. The angle of inclination which 

 these layers form with the horizon is called the 

 angle oj dip. See DIP. 



STRAUS, strous, OSCAR SOLOMON (1850- 

 ), an American public official who has been 

 identified with the diplomatic service, the world 

 peace movement and the arbitration of labor 

 disputes, and been active in other notable lines. 

 He is of German birth and ancestry, a native of 

 Otterberg in Rhenish Bavaria, and is the brother 

 of Isidor (a Titanic steamship victim) and 

 Nathan Straus, both well known for their in- 

 terest in humanity. Oscar Straus was brought 

 to America when he was four years old. He 

 was graduated at Columbia University and Co- 

 lumbia Law School and later engaged in the 

 department-store business in New York. From 

 1887 to 1889 he represented the United States 

 in Turkey, and was again minister to that 

 country under President McKinley, from 1897 

 to 1900. 



In 1902 Straus succeeded Benjamin Harrison 

 as a member of the Permanent Court 01" Arbi- 

 tration at The Hague. President Roosevelt 

 appointed him Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor in 1906, and in 1909-1910 he served as 

 ambassador to Turkey. In New York state 

 he has taken an active interest in various fields 

 of public work. An ardent supporter of pro- 

 gressive principles, he joined the Progressive 

 party in 1912 and made an unsuccessful cam- 

 paign for the governorship of New York. In 

 1914 he was chairman of the arbitration com- 

 mission that settled a wage dispute between 

 the heads of the Eastern railroads and their 

 engineers, and the following year he became 

 chairman of the New York State Public Service 

 Commission (first district). He is the author 

 of several books, including The Origin oj the 

 Republican Form oj Government in the United 

 States, Reform in the Consular Service, The 

 Development of Religious Liberty in the 

 United States and The American Spirit. 



STRAUSS, strous, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808- 

 1874), a German theologian and writer, born 

 at Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart. While at the 

 University of Tubingen he came under the 

 influence of the - philosophy of Schilling, 

 Schleiermacher and Hegel. 



In 1830 he became assistant pastor in a coun- 

 try congregation, and soon was made professor 

 of history, Latin and Hebrew in a seminary 

 at Maulbronn. The following year he went 

 to Berlin, with plans to study under Hegel and 

 Schleiermacher. The former died just after he 

 arrived, but Strauss was a faithful attendant 



