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The Wandering Jew.

The Wandering Jew.
This legend is the foundation of Croly'
Salathiel, and we know not of how many
other romances. Dr.. j. o. Noyes has recent
ly brought out volume entitled, 1.-THE Bor-
der land of the Christian and the Turk ir
which he gives, professedly. the literal ver-
sion as it exists among the Musselmen:
A wild and terrible legend is that of the
middle ages, which personi6ed the Jewish
natiou by the traits of the Wandering Jew.
1t represents an old man with naked feet
uncovered head. and long white beard, wan
dering ceaselessly over the earth. His face
is pale. A mark of blood is upon his fore
head. His eyes burn like sapphires beneath
their oblique lids. With an eagle-like nose
and b.ood-like eyes. squalid and harsh in
his features, and clad in a coarse woolen
gown, he ever pursues his interminable
journey. Speaking all languages and ira
versing all lands-knowing not the purposes
of God concern ing himself, and ever driven
onward by secret impulse, he is transport
ed from place to place with the speed of the
wind; AMI as the long centuries come sue
cessively to close, his old age renews itself
with the vigor of youth, in order that he may
complete tho weary round of ages
The people wonder as he hastens past
Once or twice only has he paused to tell his
story. He was of the Jewish nation;
Ahas uerus by name, and a shoemaker by
trade. Dwelling in Jerusalem, he perse-
cuted our Saviour, and was of those who
cried "crucify him." The sentence of death
having been pronounced, he ran to his
house, before which Jesus was to pass on
the way to Calvary. Taking his child in
his arms, he stood at the door, with all his
family to behold the procession. Our Saw
10 ur, weighed down by the heavy burden of
the cross, leaned for a momont against the
wall; and the Jew, to manifest his zeal,
cruelty struck the innocent one. and point
ing to the place Of execution, bade him 60
on. Then Jesus. turning to the unfeeling
child of Israel, said:
'Thou refuseth rest to the son of God:
go, for it must needs be; but for thee there
shall be no rest or repose until return. Go
forth on thy Journey; leave thy own; ira
verse mountains and seas-pausing neither
in the cities nor the deserts, nowhere-not
even in the tomb. As an example to the
Universe, and bearing everywhere the heavy
weight of my curse; much shalt thou long
for death, thy deliverance. but shalt not die
until the day of judgm ment!'' He assists at
the crucifxion, and then goes forth a mys-
terious stranger, whose feet shall becom e
familiar with lands.
How, age after age, he longs for the sweets
of death. and the repose of the tomb! But
in spite of death, he must live on; his dust
shall not mingle with that of his ancestors.
He drags himself from a gloomy cavern of
Mount Carmel, shaking the dust from the
beard grown even to his knees. Nine grin
ming skulls are before him. He seizes and
hurls them from the top of the mountain,
and they go bounding down from rock
They the skulls of his parents, of his
wife and six children. all of whom have
been able to die; but he cannot. He rushes
into the flames of falling Jerusalem, and at
tempts to bury himself be meath the crumb
ling ruins of Rome; but in vain. Flying
from cities and men, the wanderer seeks the
solitary places of the earth. Passing beyond
the region of verdure and of dashing torrents,
his feet tread the seas of amethyst and opal.
Above him are only peaks shrouded in
msts and eternal SHOWS. The daring eagle
scars not so high. There are no sounds
save the cracking of the glaciers. The soul
seems almost to touch the heavens above
There, surely the Wandering Jew shall
rest! No. An Angel unsheaths sword of
flaming fire, and, 10! the wanderer beholds
once more in the heavens the drama of the
Crucifxion. The way from earth to heaven
is storied with myriads of celestial being
radiant with light. Before him are all the
martyrs, and saints and sages who ever lived
and died. For moment he gazes upon this
vision. then turns away, chased by the sword
Of flame and demons of frightful form.
Again he wanders over the EARTH ever
with five pieces of copper in his pocket,
ever with the mark of blood upon his fore
head. Maddened with the agony of life, he
throws himself into the crater of Etna, but
the boiling liquid and sulphurous flames
harm him not. The floods of lava vomit
him forth, for his hour is not yet come
Embarking upon the sea, the wind raises its
surface into mountain waves-the vessel
divides. and all perish save the Wandering
Jew. Too light to sink in the ocean. its
waves cast him upon the hated shore. He
plurges into hundred bloody conflicts
without sword or shield. All in vain The
leaden balls rain harmlessly upon him; hat
tie axes and scimeters glance from his
charmed body. Where mounted squadrons
fight with fury of demons, he casts himself
under the feet of the horsemen, and is un-
harmed, so riveted are his soul and body to-
gether. He says to Nero "Thou art drunk
with blood" To Christian and Musselman,
"Thou art drunk with blood" They invent
the most horrible tortures for his punish
ment, yet ipjure him not. Leaving in his
vain pursuit of death, the lands that throb
with life and industry, the Wandering Jew
threads the solitary jurgles of the tropics
He walks in poisoned air. Fierce serpents
sports around him, but none dare venture to
harm. And thus he wanders,
"Traversing mountains andsea,
Pausng neither in the cities uor the deserts,
Nowhere-not even the tomb"
| PROPHECY FULFILLED.-"If these Internal
fanatics and abolitionists ever get power in
their hands, said the great Webster on a
memorable occasion, "they will override the
Constitution, set the Supreme Court-at def