The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-11-16

have been really comic in It's effect He 10
reckoned to have stopped In oil at some sx'
ty or hundred places, before he got back
10 Jerusalem, and at every ono Of these
places, he delivered the same speech, the
only exception being tho one we arc about
to mention.
II happened that Iierod came to Q Ger
tain large town, whose name 10 not - clear
in the manuscript a Il might be, and after
dinner largo crowd came about the earu-
vanseruy where he was stopping and called
for speech. and he had just begun to peg
away at the old cut.and-dried affair thst
had served his turn % far, when he was
interrupted by an III hammered fellow who
cried out, "How about them babies 2"
Herod Immediately grow red In the face
made grub At his crown, and was about
to hun il at the saucy fellow, when his wary
old adviser, Servius Vardius, a,lroitly caught
Il and. put Il out Of harm way, clapped II
on his own head. Herod was in such q
stnte Of rage that for few minutes he was
quite incoherent. hut at length he managed
to speak. Here we quote Prof. Nessuno's
delightfully."- free and naive rendering n
literally as We can into corresponding Eng
ljsb IDEAS Il must be remembered that
Hero,l ,v,. po, = Roman bv h;r,b b,, was
barbarian, and had no advantages Of ed.
ucaiion or of society until bis accidental
elevation to the tetrarchy, which will &C.
count for certain rowdy air bis speeche-
have
You'd better ask about them babies II
yer knew more about babies 10 general. and
sneSe y. yer vso,e' ~ ps.uou' SoI I u ~.
:.vu ques'ons, q ieoson. muo, snou,u hAS
" AnvH' nas suns,ea more uom oAo'es 'nsn
gI h., s' pSS S;dp pes "n I'M o,e rpm % Gun .nsn In.
t,1,., nes ,n uun .Na tnoss ysr .m 1eo,es 'Sey
10 do Il. else they uns would have killed ne ma.
As for me I hev sounded all the depths Of
honor, and my ambition is gratifed to repls::
.on. nave oeen e.srytning oy turns and
h',, ho,n,ns ,ong, Uegsn ',s s, 10 sma IoM May'
and filed frst one ofi;ee. and then snn,bs,
until had sat In the gubernstorisi cheer, and
at length became tetrarch. which hlls the cup
OF my ambition and leaves me sstiated with
glory. IL makes me mad to hear demors.
..su 1ao :uiea =. iI ho o' ,L noet,n OUT "ns
sbout them babis, !" To, ms toll yon ,h., ,h.m
Iunoc.nts ns You call 'em was n moor. f.,bl.
contemplate band Of fanatics
who was engaged In q gigantic scheme to rend
my tetrarchy 10 pieces and blot out the stars
. ,Iom .he 'hpeIlsi pI p,anner.Eihey was utterly
sct tbss thew % VA, onv ,.o ,sar. % ",d an S"d .n
der, made their crime more beinou, and sbom.
Unable. II was we'll known that I had forbid
playing In the market place. and yet these In.
nooents came INTO the market place with pen.
~ Tn'ts .ts. A1i uAs'a lying. ana WIN sucn
n ,h. o,h.r. % ,n ,r.,,s soS,d not oe $1,000; ana
At em and cheer en- On who INV s,;.nd" hs.
suffered more from these babie, than I have 7
sounded all the depths Of honor, I have set
In the CUB
At this moment continues the manu-.
script, scene Of terrible confusion occur.
red. The people refused to hear the te-
trarch any more, and began TO curse him
up and down without cercmony, to jeer
him and insult him in every way. The
air was darkened with shower of sticks
and stones, eggs of every degree of stale.
ness added their perfume to the violet of
his imperial robes, willie the dead bodies
Of the smaller animals and yernin OF the
district were hurled without cessation. and
with the most unerring aim, at his vener.
able head. One young Jew hurled dead
duck at him, another made missile of a |
coney, a creature which, though IL Ia ex.
pressIy stated in the Bible TO belong To a
feeble folk, proved ON this occasion nm.
strong. Il /, NOT recorded ,ha,
4 ,c,rnrc6 was ever 40 abu.ed hefnr. H.
od seems IN hsvs heen Utterly "nohI. - 10
fsnd himself arnins, the storm. and At Ias,
gave it up, retreatinY from The platform
amid whirlwind of ieers, threats. der;,ive
cries and voices that repeated increasingly
y How about the babies |" until the wretcb.
ed tetrarch was nearly mad with MOE and
terror.
Not long after his return to Jcrusalem-l
and his friends hustled him back to the
Capitol without ceremony-he wa. &C