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The Jewish advance., 1878-07-05
CHICAGO, JULY 5, 1878.

mony, which fills the soul with music
wild, natural, rapturous music-not con-
trolled by bars and lines, as free as is
the spirit of the devout student. An
expression of such feelings is the sing
song with which the Talmud is studied
in Lithuania.
The sound of such tunes lulled our
poor Treitel to sleep and caused him to
dream Of wonders and felicity. The
sounds Of such music walked him in the
morning to his humble duties
In the summer Treitel would play
with other children in the yard of the
Beth-hammedrash, or at their respective
houses. There is no feeling of aristoc-
racy among the Jews, and no pride Of
riches among my countrymen, conse-
quently there is no grade Of distinction
between their children no well-dressed
boy would shun the company of poor,
ragged orphan
About the education of our Treitel
there is little to be said No Jewish
community of lithuania will allow a
Jewish boy to grow up like a heather.
We may state, as positive fact, that
there IS not single Jewish child in the
whole population Of Lithuania and Rus
clio Do1,Yd x,,bo 20 NOT ob1o a. +bo oro of
eight or nine years to read Hebrew
fuently and to translate most of his
prayers, the Pentateuch and the Psalms.
You will always find in those places men
who will consider it duty, nay privi-
lege to instruct poor children in the
tenets of their faith. Our Treitel, whose
home was the Beth-hammedrash, the
house Of learning) had, of course, the
best chance to acquire his knowledge of
Hebrew the Bachurim instructed him,
and every member in the community
took an interest in the progress of his
studies.
Treitel was not bright scholar. At
the age of thirteen his scholarship did not
go beyond the commentaries of Rashi.
When fourteen years old he was able
to attend a course of instruction in the
Mishnah. He had the foible of antici-
pating what the teacher was going to
explain. In his great zeal he would
catch up the argument as soon as it was
started by the teacher and would endeav-
or to lead it throught, according to his
own notion, in loud voice. OF course
he failed in nine cases out of ten and
was laughed at by the scholars For this
habit of catching up the teachers argu-
ment he was surnamed the Chaper
(catcher) and was known for the rest OF
his life as Treitel Chaper.
As Treitel grew older his condition
grew better. When he was sixteen years
old he was hired by parents to lead their
Children to school, for which task he
would get his meals or small remunera-
ton in money. During the day he
helped the teacher instructing beginners
for which he was also paid. Being hon
est, and kind to Children, he always had
sufficient patronage to gain a decent
The Jewish advance., 1878-07-05
One Day Out of Seven.

Birds cannot always sing;
Silence at times they ask to nurse spent
feelings,
TO see some new bright thing,
Ere fresh burst of song, fresh joys
revealing.
Flowers cannot always blow;
Some Sabbath-rest they need of silent
winter,
Ere from it's sheath below
Shoots up a small, green blade brown
earth to splinter.
Tongues cannot always speak,
o, God! in this loud world of noise and
clatter,
Save us this once week,
TO let the sown seed grow, not always
scatter. (SPECTATOR.)
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livelihood. His home was still the Beth
hammedrash and he was still an assid-
uous attendant at the Mishnah course. [
hardly need say, that the more his
position grew independent the greater
was his zeal to catch the wisdom of his
teacher in it's flight, the greater chaper
he became. In the course of time he even
attempted to study Talmud, but he never
excelled in this branch.
When Treitel grew into manhood some
good people took notion to marry him.
1t was considered great sin to have
young man Of eighteen or nineteen years
going about unmarried The sages Of
old were of the opinion that if a man
does not get married before the age of
twenty, heaven is displeased with him.
1t Treitel had attracted such displeasure
of heaven, of course it would fall on the
community which had to take care of
him, for he could not help himself in
that regard.
Having arrived at this point of my
narrative it is but proper to give des-
cription of TreitePs appearance.
He was Of medium size and rather.
feshy; although very angular in all
movements, and even in appearance.
He had large head, which was little
bent to the right, either from habit or
from some contraction of nerves His
face was round and with deeply-marked
features his eyes were of deep gray
lustre. He had small mouth, and his
lips were always curling in a good
natured smile, which agreed very well
with the mild lustre of his eyes, but
contrasted strangely with his furrowed
forehead, and with his nose, which was
turned little upward and might have
been taken as a monitor of proud dis
position. When Treitel did not smile
he had very serious appearance, and
when he was angry or annoyed he looked
quite formidable. The tout ensemble of
his face, together with his thick red
hair, and the curls hanging on both
sides of his countenance like shavings
just out of carpenters plane, made a
rather strange impression at the first
time, but this impression soon wore off,
as soon as Treitel was heard speaking
and seen smiling, and he never spoke
without smile
Those good people who found it neces-
sary to marry our Treitel, were not
slow to find a match for him. A poor
orphan girl who had been brought up
under circumstances similar to those of
Treitel's, with the only difference that
she was hiring out as a servant to pri-
vate parties, was destined to become his
helpmeet. Her name was Grune Fradel.
AS Treitel had a more promising future
before him than his bride, her friends had
made collection of ten rubels for her,
and this dowry made the match equal.
Thus Treitel and Grune Fradel became
husband and wife. The Rabbi of Rum
shishok performed the marriage cere-
mony ; the best people of the community
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There are yet hundreds of such poor
boys living in the same manner in the
various little towns of my native land
1t would be mistake, however, were
the reader to imagine that Treitel's
childhood was quite destitude of enjoy
ment. Poorly as he was clad, badly as
he Jared, and uncomfortable as his
quarters were, Treitel was not without
some happy hours during the day. A
Jewish orphan may miss the comfort OF
a parental home, but he never misses
paternal kindness he receives it at the
hands of every father and mother in
Israel Treitel had to run three times a
day for the meals Of the poor students
but after the meals had been brought
he had nothing more to harrass or to
worry him. He stayed in the warm
and well-lit -hammedrash where
every student in his hour of recreation
chatted or played with him, and every
member of the community who came in
had cheerful and kind word to tell
him. And in the cold winter night,
after the evening service, Treitel would
sit down by the grown folks and listen
to their conversation about worldly and
religious matters he would hear won
derful stories Of the great rabbis of yore,
and his little brain and his childish
imagination would feed on the most
agreeable, although not necessarily
wholesome, spiritual mama. His little
heart would beat high at the story of
spiritual greatness and religious won
ders !; he would laugh merrily at the
sharp wits, with which the peculiar con-
versation Of that peculiar people in
their peculiar language is sparkling, or
would sigh feelingly at the tales of woe
and trouble. And after all the members
were gone, and only he with the Bachu-
rim were left in the Beth -hammedrash,
he would lay himself down by the warm
stove and fall asleep under the soft and
pathetic sing song Of one or two students
who remained up the night studying
their Talmudical books aloud.
That sing-song with which the Talmud
is studied in Lithuania has most pc
culiar charm. My enlightened American
reader has probably never heard it, and
would perhaps find it ridiculous if he
had heard it +; but those who know how
the sharpest arguments are studied with
feeling, yes, with feeling as an incentive
to reason, and not as an overwhelming
drawback to it those who know how a
difficult task in learning is performed,
not for the sake of the indirect benefit
it may bring, but for the love of the
subject itself; those who know, how
happy a Jewish student feels when he
has the privilege and occasion to ponder
on the wisdom of the ancient sages, will
perhaps be able to imagine how the
repetition of such studies in articulate
sounds is performed not with we'll
regulated mechanical expressions and
modulations Of the voice, but with a
feeling that moves the heart with har-
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY l2, 1878.

nell, to be exempt from the common lot,
and know not. after all, If to crown your
splendid life, it would not be better for
you to perish than to triumph These
Saxons can plunge You into dungeons, lead
you to the scaffold, rob you from the land
of Ireland that would no longer see her
O'Connell or hear the laundering tones OF
his voice. But they can never prevent the
sacred names of justice, of liberty, OF
country, to be murmured in whispers on
the lips of Irishmen, to DO repeated by
every heart, and at the name of O'Connell
to thrill from the summit of your noun
tains to the borders of the sea. And they
will not prevent, generous children OF
Green Erin, the accomplishment of your
religious and political emancipation, nor
future generations to kneel and to pray,
and to sing songs of glory at the tomb
where repose the bones of your Liberator
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12
LETTER FROM PENNsYLvAN1A.

HOWARD CENTRE COUNTY, PA.
Editor Morning Star;
A year ago / spent considerable time in your
city and State, and made mp my mind that lis
the place for some of the eurpius workingmen
of the North, especially the Democratic Catho-
lie who, by sobriety and industry, has saved q
few hundred dollars with which to undertake
the venture--I should rather say, the assured
success, from the evidence of Catholic schools,
churches, aud the exemplary piety Of the
throDgs in attendarcs. I am free to cay that
religion or politics has nothing to do with the
material success of the immigrant, but
those of our religion who go to your State to
improve their condition, are doubly fortun ate
to bave the consultations of the Holy Church
ever near ut hand-andI Its tninisteIs and holy
women occupied throughout the interior.
This is not so in Kansas and the West, as
many years must elapse before church fAoilis
ties can compare with Louisiana.
have been eudeavoriug to seoure a colony
for Attakapas and st. Landry country, but the
Kansas excitement has been SO furious, the
agents have made suoh extravagant offers, and
put such stress on the swsmps of your State,
that am greatly retarded in my work.
One great source of regret is the meagerness
tion concerning your State, and no positive
knowledge of any action Of your Legislature
to encourage immigration.
have "Louisisns As 1t Is" by bennett,
which is good in it's way, but designed more
to advertise an agency than as an Official
guide. 1 have little data as to the cost Of
freight and passage from New Orleans to
the district 1 speak of. If l could get in
comm unicatian with some Catholic planter or
other person who controlled sugar machinery
in the st. Landry. Iberia or st. Marys parishes,
and would give me Inducements, l would
bring to the country few (two or three)
mechanics-say q mschinist, blacksmith aud
wright-experts in their business, who
would be glad TO be engaged this coming sea-
son, and return North in the winter, after the
sugar making was over, whose report would
have great weight with the colony, and in the
spring following l could lead q colony of fifty
to one hundred families who are desirous OF
engaging in sugar and mixed farming.
II you will be kind enough to place nae in
communication with some party who has
machinery, in the region mention, and who
may want mechanics, both purposes may be
served. Or if the State bas an authorized
agent, to give me hia address and such in
formation at your command as may assist me,
will confer q great favor.
refer you to Father A. J. O'Brien. of Belle
font, in this county, who is our pastor.
w. G. CoMERToRD.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

While in Turkey Grant met come American
travellers with whom be conversed in the most
unreserved manner. He said he considered
Joseph e. Johnston as the ablest General on
the Confederate side during the war. Lee had
a splendid genius and thoroughly understood
the theory of war, but was not so able in prac-
tice. Stonewall Jackson he considered the
most overrated man Of the war. Tho cores
pondent of the Norfolk TirgiHiaH, who reports
these statements, says: "These opinions will,
1 AN sure, be counter to those Of tho future
historians. Already shiebert of the Royal
Prussian Engineers, has shown what . host
'.stonewall" was and ow his cbieftain felt bis
loas."
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

Last week the Buffalo Catholic Union cele-
brated the seventh anniversary of its estab-
lishment by appearing in new dress. 1t also
had the satisfaction of publishing strong
letter from the distinguished Bishop of Buffa-
10, Right Rev. s. v. Ryan, commencing its
course and recommending it to the support Of
clergy and people. The Bishop has faith in
the power of the press, as is evidenced by the
following decided language:
I'VE believe it to be the duty of all good and
zealous Priests to encourage and exhort their
people, sin season and out of season. in public
and in private, to subscribe for and sustain
tho Catholic Press"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

The Cork Examiner publishes the details of a
meeting held by some of the late Lord Lei
trims tenants whereat speeches were deliver
ed and resolutions adopted denying all the
charges made against him aud pronouncing
him to have been one of the best landlords in
Ireland. What q miserable fraud the whole
affair was is thus exposed in an editorial which
appeared in the same issue of the Examiner:
If it were the fact that his tenants voluuta-
rily came forward to repudiate the accusations
against his memory, the fact would be strong
one, but it is impossible not to note some cir
oumstances which materially affect the weight
attachable to the meeting we publish. The
requisition to the meeting Yves q circular
issued by an attorney in form calculated to
impress on the mind of peasant that it WAS
legal document of coercive effect. 1t COM
mences with a preamble like the recital cf
deed, and then it goes ON in most approved
leg al form to add, Il, therefore, ask each and
ell of you to meet at the Court House, Mohill,
on Wednesds sy next, etc" Notwithstanding
the formidable nature of this summons the re-
porter of the meeting says "the Court House:
which is q small building, was pretty we'll
filed but the main body OF The tenantry not
present" At the end Of the day about seventy
sign stures were got to the memorial, incl cluding
sixteen who signed by proxy, and those who not
being tenants helped to compose the meeting.
As the tensntry of the late lord were counted
at seventeen hundred the demonstrstion, then,
WAS, to say the least of it, very inconciuBive as
regards their opinion with reference to the
charges against Lord Leitrim.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

Lat month the venerable Father Peter
Becx, General of the Jesuits, left Rome for
Florence, perfectly restored in health. he is
no. eighty three years old,
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three companies of Irish patriots are armed
and equipped here ready for service, and one
fed so that they can be here in twenty-four
hours while there are 5000 more in this vcin.
ity that will rendezvous for raid within
three days after orders are issued but nothing
authentic can be obtained to substsntiate
these rumors.
SYRACUSE, May s.-Colonel Mulligsn, the
Fenian leader, is here for the purpose of or
ganzipg and equipping Fenian force in this
city. Col. Mulligan declares that in the event
of q raid upon Canada, fully 100 600 men, well
drilled and armed with Remipg gton rifles, could
be relied upon to march on Canada on thirty
hours notice. The society claims to have
plenty of funds and have advioes from st.
Louis and other Western cities, which state
they can have all the money they want. A
prominent citizen in Cleveland has contributed
$25 600 towards the purchase of arms. Col.
Mulligan left for Os wego last night. He pro-
poses to visit every large city to ascertain how
many men can be relied on, and how many
Remington rifles are needed.
A epeciel from Syracuse, N Y, says: A
Fenian meeting held in this city on the 9Th,
was largely attended. Letters were received
from General O'Nell, stating he was the
action. Dispatches from Buffalo were read
stating that 600 men in that city were under
arms. Five steam tugs and number of canal
boats have been secured in Buffalo to transport
the Fenians to Canada.
Letters were read from Col. Mulligan, now
in Os~ego, stating he had secured three
steamers Ia tpaE Guy
MISCELLANEOUS
The Paris Union publishes retraotion by
Father Curci, in which he declares that he
entirely adheres to all the teachings of the
Church respecting the temporal power of the
The telecti6p in Monroe, Louisians 8,
on the 9Th resulted il tho choice of white
Democrats, one colored Conservative end q
oolored Republican, as Counoilmen, and the re-
election Of F. Endom, Esq as Mayor, by "a
MAORI The will of the San Franoifoo
million are, oBrien. shows his estate to be
worth Sc 600 600. He gives the Catholic asy-
lum of st. Rafael $50 0C0 and the Catholic and
Protestant Asylums Of San Francieco respeo..
tivly $50, 600 and $40, 600 THO delegates of
the Orange Order in Montreal have refused by
a vote of 367 to 6. to aocede to the quest made
of them by the Protestant clergy not to parade
on the 18th of July y-Remington s. Sons,
the great rifle manufacturers, are financially
embarrassed. Liabilities 81 600 600; assets
81 00O 600 The Episcopal Bishop of Pennsyl-
vanis in address to his clergy expresses
alarm at the efforts of Communicate leaders to
bring about a conflict between labor and capi.
tai whic ch can only result in devastation and
ruin, and he exhorts the clergy to study this
question of social science.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-12

Extracts from the French 'Livre des Orateurs' by
Timon, published in 1874
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Morning Star and Cathe.ie HsEss&sss

TIE MORNING STAR has bean stazsaaa
with the approval Of the ecclesiastical
authority Of the Diocese, 70 supply az
admitted want In New Orleans, anA 10
mainly devoted to the interests q tA6
Catholic Church. It will not intersszs In
politics except wherein they intseises
with Catholic rights, but will sxssge
iniquity in high places. without regard ta
persons or parties. Next to the spirit1A1
rights OF all men, 1t will especially shaM-
pion the temporal rights of the poor.
Approval Of ns Noss Rsv. AssAstsAsp
We approve of the Aforesaid nnaas2
taking, and commend 1t to the Catholics,
lof our Diocese.
4 -tJ-MrAReHBtsHeP erNEw 0R1zAMnf
Dseessbsrl la, 1867.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-04
Monday. February 4. 1878.
Letter Writing.

Mr.. August Belmont has written letter
to prove that reported interview with
Gov. Hendricks must have been mis-
take, Mr.. August Belmont, who is a
wealthy man and the agent Of the Roth
childs in this country, really believes, nc
doubt, that the people of the west and
south are crazy, or fools, because they nc
longer bow down and worship the GOLD
dollar, Mr.. Belmont has occupied prom
inent position in times past in the demo
cratic party, and he has managed to have
the party pretty thoroughly defeated OF
two or three occasions. Such leadership
as his is no longer wanted. If democracy
needs dictator there are other men wh'
are more acceptable. Whether Gov. Hen
bricks survives the leFt-handed thrust o
the old bondhoIder or goes under, Mr.
Belmont can't play Joab to the democrac.
By shifting Hendricks under the fifth rib
Leaders cant exist without following
but the people are not necessarily oblige'
to follow any mans leadership-sooner o
later Mr.. Belmont will become consciou
of that fact.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-04
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