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the Committee to make some important concessions in 

 the leases, and when they were explained it was a dif- 

 ferent group of farmers who left the house. 



"Now that we understand one another," said my 

 husband, "we shall get along," and with renewed con- 

 fidence on each side they parted. 



Never was there a happier man than my husband 

 that night. The farmers' hearts were won back to him, 

 and from that time there was no doubt in their minds 

 that his heart was wholly theirs; that he cared for 

 each, individually, and that in time of trouble they 

 could be sure of receiving all the sympathy for which 

 they had need. 



My husband was a man of vision and large dreams. 

 He felt and knew that, with peace in sight, constructive 

 work for Woodbine would begin again. Many plans 

 for the good of the colonists were in his mind and 

 one enterprise after another was suggested to the Fund 

 Committee, as he knew that the public-spirited group 

 of New York and Philadelphia men who made up the 

 Baron de Hirsch Fund Committee was more than 

 anxious to see the colonists prosper. 



A dispute presently arose between the manufacturers 

 and the working people regarding the Sabbath rest. 

 The manufacturers, for purely economic reasons, 

 wanted Sunday as the day of rest. The working 

 people, many of them orthodox Jews, insisted on Sat- 

 urday as their Sabbath. My husband was not ortho- 

 dox himself. To the services of the synagogue he 



