Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-05-09
Was st. Patrick jeremiah:
New York Herald

Those who have lightly objected to ST:
Patrick being called 4 Frenchman must
buckle on their armor anew, for a Wild
doctor. or rather Rev. DR.. Wild, ASSERTS
that st. Patrick was IN Israelite, and that
| his name was jeremiah. We cannot 90
INTO the ingenious Doctors argument. but
we must admit that he deals very hand
somely with the Irish people in giving
them full grown prophet from the Old
Testament instead of mere "Mossoo."
| The Doctors arguments must be dealt
with on their merits; but if it should turn
of Israel, the standing of the Jews in the
world will be greatly bettered. The ten
tribes must have taken the great fighting
men with them; the rollicking daredevil!
fellows who brought their carpet-bags out
| of the wilderness and We're all tile time
spelling for a fight They were The
| boys that carried the rams horns, and no
| doubt put them to more convivial purposes
than blowing down the walls Of Jericho:
When the ten tribes went to Ireland they
| left behind them in 1udca the solid bust
ness men, and that would explain how it
has come to pass that the people known as
| the Jews in modern history have been
making all the money and the Jews in Ire
land have been doing all the fighting. II
they were united now what team they
would make! The Doctor, we observe,
relies greatly on the well known tradition
about jacobs stone pillow, which now
rests in Westminster Abbey in front of the
English coronation chair But this is not
the only Evidence. Take the name of Jere-
| miah itself Why, there are as many Irish
men who delight in the name of Jerry az
in that of Patsy. Now, the Irish people
must have some occult reason for picking
that name out for such continued rcver-
ence. They do not christen their children
Solomon or Uezckiah or Isaiah or Nehem-
iah, but the line of Jercmialls goes back.
we are afraid to say how far. The Doctor
also says that the Jews when they first
came to Ireland were called the children OF
Dan. Dan is also peculiarly Irish name;
a. everybody knows who has heard Of Dam
o Connell, and to-day the tribe of Dan is
one of the largest in the ceunttt. 1t is
well also to remember that st. Patrick's
fame rests strongly on the way ''he gave
the snakes and toais Il twist and drove
them out of Ireland. 1t Is a bad rule that
won't work both ways. When Moses did
his great rod and .iiakc act before Pharaoh
the latter hardeneii his heart, which in
duced the holy Hebrew to order up an
army Of ftcGs and toais that flopped and
croaked all over Egypt. st. Patrick Jere-
miah was only reversing the Egyptian
snake act. He found the .'varmint'' in
Ireland, and when he twirled his rod D.
Aaron did we have no doubt, rs hls,Gry
records, 1.-THE beasts committed suicide to
save themselves from Slaughter The
question will arise, How are ySu going to
get round the Hebrew nose? This is pt.a-
rile. Take = retrousse Celtic nasal ORGAN
and anoble Hebrew probescis and they
will make pair Of Grsek or straight noses
between them. They have been separated
for twentysix hundred years. The ordin-
ary Hebrew nose has been developing
hill and the Irish Hebrew nose a hollow,
as the DarwiEians would argue, durin5
seventy odd generations, but each is s,,
the complement of the other: These tw
remarkable branches of common peopl,
are tc be congratulated on this discovery
1t is truly touching. "Shereni!ah, mel
long lost brudder, by CmyshnsW "Shweet
mother O. Moses, is that yourself, Abr,,
ham!'