Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-12-12
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THE JEWISH BABY.

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THE JEWISH BABY.
The following 'true story" is from the
" Youths Companion," and shows how
great events result from apparently tritiing
causes and also, it shows how the heart
less and cruel find their wickedness follow
ing upon themselves with crushing weight,
overwhelming them with disaster, or ruin.
How much better it is to do right, to deal
justly, and love mercy!
ss1taly has been at war with Austria again.
You are hardly too young to have forgotten
or not to have heard about the last great
war between these two European pow.
ers. France and Italy were allies in 1853
against Austria, and defeated her in the two
great battles of Magenta and s'olferino.
"What was it that prevented the Aus
trians from going on with the fight at that
time? 1t was not fear, it was not lack OF
men, it was not because they were so beat
en- that they could not hold out no longer.
No, they were not overpowered, nor in
desperate position, nor in danger of being
driven to the wall Far from it; they
had reached the neighborhood Of their four
famous fortifcations-the Quadrilateral ;
and the strongest military works in all the
world are formed by these. Why did they
make peace then, and quietly submit to the
disgrace of double defeat It was for
want of money. And who prevented them
from borrowing money to carry on their
war? 1t was Jewish baby. How ? BE.
cause the baby died Of hunger
81 will tell you how the little Hebrew
corpse came to rise up as it were, and call
down the vengeance of the God of battles
on the Austrians.
"You know, s"np"se, that in certain
countries of Europe, both Catholic and
Protestant, the ignorant people have ha-
tired of the Jews, which the papal priests
encourage. In past centuries the poor
Jews have been prosecuted with the utmost
cruelty, and the people who tortured them
and put them to death imagined oil the
while that they were doing Gods service.
They thought that in making the lives of
the Jews insupportable they were avenging
the death of Him who said, Love your enc
mics, and who prayed for His murderers
as they put Him to death!
"Well, in 1859, q Hebrew mother in vi
emma gave birth to daughter. 1t was a
delicate little babe. The mothers health
was so infrm that she could not nurse the
infant, and its parents soon saw that unless
they hired some other mother to take her
place, their darling would die Of starvation.
cit happened that at that time there was
no Jewish nurse in Vienna. But at last
they found q Catholic mother who agreed
to take care of the child, after great deal
of trouble, and the offer of q large sum Of
money. The feeling against nursing Jew
ish baby was nearly the same that a North
ern white lady would have against nursing
q negro child.
"But the joy of the parents was short
lived. The Catholic mother told them one
day that the priest had forbidden her to
feed the Jewish child! She did not dare,
poor woman, to nurse it again. The fran.
tic father tried to get another nurse, but
no Catholic dared to defy the order of their
priest. The father then appealed to him,
but he might as we'll have prayed to a stone
He then sought out the priests ecclesiasti'
cal superiors, and besought them to save
the life of the child by repeating the order,
They refused to allow any Of their people
to 20 near it, unless the father would con-
sent to give it up to be baptized and edu'
Gated as Catholic. He could not do that,
of course, and the wretched parents saw
their child growing feeble every day before
their eyes. 1t was too delicate to be
brought up by 'hand, as we call it, when
children are fed with common milk from 8
bottle.
"The Jews of Vienna were indignant
They did all they could to get the order re-
voked, and telegraphed to Rome to induce
the church authorities to do so. In vain
Priests are pitiless. The Pope was hard o.
heart, and the Austrian government refused
to interfere.
'The, poor child quickly faded away. Il
died in convulsions brought on by starvation
"Almost Immediately after the baby's
death the Austrian government needed mon
ey for its armies. They applied to the ricf
Jewish bankers, the Rothschilds, for loar
to carry on the war.
''Not dollar would he advance them
and he gave as his reason that the Jewish
child had perished because Austria was in
human. The government pleaded and plead
ed and pleaded; but Rothschild was as deat
to them as they had been deaf to the Jew
ish father.
."And so Austria was defeated in battle
and driven out of Eastern Italy ignomin
iously. UNCLE JAMES,"
ADAY's FOOD FOR A. SPIDER.
In order to test what spider could dc
in the way of eating, we arose about day
break one morning to supply his fine wei
with fly. At first, however, the spider