his patriotism with an ardor and enthusiasm worthy of the cause.
Thousands quitted the Ghettos, and gathered around the tricolored
flag. Among the warm-hearted soldiers was Simcha Kalimann. He
followed Kossuth as a simple honved (volunteer), and fought at
Kapolna, Vaitzen, and Temesvar.

High hopes and golden dreams were succeeded by despondency and
disillusion; then supervened years of impatient waiting,--a standing
with folded arms when so much remained to be done, a time of
despair, of restless suffering. But the Jew had acquired his
franchise, and gratefully he remembered those to whom he owed this
priceless blessing.

When the Austro-Hungarian Convention gave Hungary her king and
constitution, the hearts of the people of the Ghetto beat high. This
time, however, liberty did not make her entry with clang of arms and
beat of drum,--peace and reconciliation were her handmaidens, and
progress followed in her footsteps.

It was at this epoch in Hungary's history that Israelites began to
speak the language of the country, and to accept Hungarian names. To
her credit be it said that no such shameful sale was made as
disgraced the time of Joseph II., when surnames were sold, according
to their attractiveness or desirability, to the highest bidder.

Consequently, as a high-sounding name cost no more than a simple
one, Kalimann chose the most imposing he could find, and, his
country's hero in mind, called himself Sandor Hunyadi. This historic
title revived, as it were, his latent patriotism, and, digging his
gun and cartridge-box from their hiding-place in the garden where he