The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-16

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also said that wherever he tarried for a
time he made habit Of attending places
of worship, and of listening reverently
to the religious exercises, always rever-
encing with signs the name of the Deity
or of the Savior. He has been known
to rebuke profanity with indignation,
and whenever he heard any one use the
name of the Creator hippantly to say,
"Wretched man, thus TO misuse the
name of thy Lord Hadst thou seen,
as have, how heavy and bitter were the
pangs and wounds of the Savior, en-
dured for thee and me, thou wouldst
rather undergo great pain myself than
thus take His sacred name in vain.
Some of these descriptions of the
Wandering Jew purport to have been
written by persons who have seen ana
talked with him. There are many ac-
counts of his appearance at various
times in different parts of Europe, and
it seems almost impossible TO doubt the
sincerity of those who have chrOnlcled
these visitations, even if we admit, as
we must, that the writer's were deceived
in some manner of which we know
nothing
After hisvisit to England, just alluded
to, he is not heard of until 1905, when
he was reported to have appeared i'll
Bohemia, where he assisted a certain
weaver named Kohot to find a treasure
which had been secreted in the royal
palace of Kohot's father, sixty years
before, at which time the jew was pres
emit. He then had the appearance of
being about 20 years of age. In 1917
he was seen in Hamburg, if we are to
believe DR.. Won Eitzen, Bishop of Schles-
wig, who declared that when he was a
youth in Hamburg he, on certain Sunday
in church, saw tall man with his hair
hanging over his shoulders, standing
barefooted during the sermon. The
visitor listened with the deepest atten-
ton, and whenever the name of Jesus
was mentioned he bowed humbly and
profoundly with signs and beating of
the breast After the sermon he was
Intercepted, aud declared himself to
be Ahasuerus, the jew He had no
other clothing in the bitter cold of win
ter than a pair of hose which were i'll
tatters about his feet. and a coat with a
girdle which reached nearly to the
ground. His general appearance was
that of a man of about 80 years.
Won Eitzen says that he, with the rec
tor of the Hamburg school, who was n
traveller and well read in history, ques-
toned the Jew about events which had
taken place in the East since the death
of Christ, and he gave them much cor
rect information on many ancient mat
ters, SO that it was impossible not TO be
convinced of the truth of his story.
1t is affirmed that the Jew was seen in
Madrid, Spain, in 1875, in just such a
dress as he had worn i'll Hamburg. In
1899 he appeared in Vienna, if report is
to be believed, and Immediately after
ward in various portions of Poland. He
was said TO be upon his way to Moscow,
where he was seen and spoken to by
many persons. In the year 1904 he is
reported to have visited Paris and q
writer of that period declares that the
common people saw the wanderer and
conversed with him. Subsequently he
went to Hamburg again, and to Naum-
burg, where he was seen III church, and
where he received presents of food and
clothing from the burghers. In 1888
two citizens of Brussels declared that
while walking i'll the forest near the city
they met an aged man in tattered gar
ments, whom they invited to an inn.
He refused TO sit while he ate, but
standing he told his entertainers stories
of events which happened many hun
dred years before, and intimated that he
was the very cobbler who had refused to
permit Christ to rest on his doorstep.
A history of the town of Stamford, En-
gland, tells how, in 1868, upon the eve
ming of Whitsunday, certain citizen
heard a knock at his door, and upon
opening it, he saw grave old man, who
asked for refreshment. This was given
him, whereupon he impaired to his host
the knowledge how to cure disease
from which the latter was suffering.
The remedy was tried and was success
full. The appearance and conduct of
the visitor were more than natural, and
it was believed then by many at the time
that he was the Wandering Jew.
In the early part of the eighteenth
century, man protesting to be Jew
appeared in England, and attracted
much attention, particularly from the
ignorant. He thrust himself into the
notice of the nobility, who, half in jest,
half III curiosity, paid him and ques-
toned him. He declared that he had
been an officer of the Jewish Sanhe-
drim-hall of Plate. He asserted that
he remembered the Apostles, and de-
scribed their appearance, their clothing
and their peculiarities. He spoke many
languages, claimed to possess the power
to cure diseases, and said he had tray
eled over the entire world Educated
men who heard him were much per-
picked by his acquaintance with foreign
places and tongues. Certain professors
from Cambridge and Oxford Universe
ties questioned him, to discover the
imposition, if any existed, and an En-
glish scholar conversed with him in
Arabic. The man told his questioner
in that language that historical works
were not to be relied upon. And when
he was asked his opinion of Mohammed,
he replied that he had been well ac-
quainted with the father of the prophet,
and told where he lived. He said Mo-
manned was a man of great intellectual
ability. Once, when he, the pretended
jew, heard Mohammed deny that Christ
was crucifed, he silenced him by telling
him that he the Jew, was witness of
the event. He related also that he was
at Rome when Nero burned the city.
He had known Saladin, Tamerlane and
other Eastern Princes, and could give