The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-02
THE WANDERING JEW.


! insulting language, drove HIM away, who.
struggling TO continue his journey, became
overpowered by the weight of His cross,
/ ia tered, and fell to the earl b; yet, without
nJtering groan, He arose again and went
on His way The Savior of the world, con-
dsmned TO death By mau, and made to carry
the instrument of HIS torture on His back,
was sight which should have paIed the
cheek of HIS Prosecutors but they revjled
they Knocked Him
The svenging angel appeared before Sa-
lathisl and said:
Son of Man. Cruel wretch all rest on
earth shall be refused 10 Ghre in return. A
dark demon, let loose FROM hell for the pur-
pose, shalt drive thee from cline to cline.
Salat hie. even the hope OF death and the re-
pose of the tomb shall be wiLh-hsld I"
These words were Kissed into he ear of the
Jew, and he tell upon the earth rs if he had
been struck oy lightning
Nearly two thousand ye rs passed away,
yet SAlsthiei was still pursued by n demon
over the whole face of tire ear; h Que day
he arrived near the cavern at Mount Carmel,
and shaking the dust from his long beard,
he took a skull irom heap of humaa bones
piled up near him aud threw it trnm the
mountain it rolled and bounded and strik-
ing against the rocks below, WAS shive red to
pieces. ut was my iather's," said ealath-
lei.
- no NJ Fri int
ces my wife and children all persisted. All
hey could die hat l. the doomed, cannot
die. The judgment OF Heaven frowus over
nay head-my guilty hrad-and lite, which
TO all else is a blessing TO me is q curse.
~ ru"alem tel by the Roman power; fire
consumed the city; palacrs crumbled TO he
ground. and tbs temples were rs torches to
the maddened soldiery; men, women and
children were but chered all all hut me
alone I courted every danger, defed L.
gions OF Romans rushed upon heir spears,
but an invisible hand ward-d their points
from me; was their conqneror instead o
their victim. Rome. in her turn, t0ttered TO
fail, rushed 10 her that I might b. buried
beneath her ruins The CoOs. Us was broke u
and proslra'ed, but it could not crush me,
though the wise and he great, the good and
the powerful, were all destroy with her.
"NatiOns, empires ana Kingdoms rose and
fell before rae. alone remained alive Pes
thence swept over the land; 1 snuff ID up the
tainted breath of the diving. and Rugged the
dead In my arms. That which was death O
all hut me was narcotic. | slept in the
charne house ard awOks refreshed. Death
passed me in dread
"An4vI%nche 'sII through the air, and
sweep me in'o the sea. thought death had
ptied me, and laughed as was carried into
the foamy waters; but the surgrs threw me
back again on the shore, and The poisonous
cup OF human existence was put again, in all
lis bitterness, 10 rs lips.
- went to he edge oil the crater Of IL Ma,
and sprang into lis profound abyss. and,
bowling with madness and despair, tell in O
the burning lava but the mountain would
not grant me sn aSylum in The midst OF it's
consuming bosom 1t threw me up again up-
on this sinful earth and tough the flames
Of erup' ion set fire to whole districts OF coun
try, though the Highest spires OF ahe greatest
cities diSa ppe&red beneath tho LIQUID lava,
before me the fame and lava stayed their
work Of destructon. A forest caught the
fames-ln the midst of denrium and dis
traction, rushed among the burning trers.
Hot rosin fell drop BY drop upon my scorch.
ing limbs; the fire ragged around me: The
heat dried my bones. md the & 4mes tortured
me with their Kissing fury. Death brandish-
ed his scythe over me; bent my head TO
receive To blow, but at that moment he
caught my fixed gaze, and f.d to DESTROY The
good and happy. Death was no longer the
cODquerOr-he fea' ed me
81 joined the standards Of the mighty war
riors Of the earth-the desolators of the
land, the conquer'ng heroes, the mighty
butchers Of the human race-and followed
them In all their wars. l sought the thickes
! Of the fght. where blood flowed IN rivers,
where menSwere swept away like dry sand
before the hurricane, where destruction pIrd
hundreds.upon hundr DIS; yet | WAS lett
alone. braved the Gaul and the Norman
| dsfed the hordes of Germany; but ,eir
darts and their lances broke like dry reeds
against my body, The scm"ter OF the Sara.
cen WAS broken to pieces when 1t ruck me.
Balls struck against me like hail, and bound.
ed as from &damantine rock. Bayonet
points were blunted against nv side. The
powder mine exploded beneath my feet, and
hurled all but me into oblivion: launched
Into the air, fell back 20 the earth burnt
hmbs Of mortal meE lay scattered around
me. arose, the living from the dead, aud u
voice bad. me on-on-On, forever.
II wandered TO the deserts o. Arabia;
Joined a caravan inurneYing 0 tue holy city :