Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-21
The Wandering Jew.
N. d. coNwAY's ACCOUNT or THAT AND
LIKE LEGENDS.


Conway recounted n number of legends OF
Legendary survival like that of Barbarossa
the sessn-sleepers, etc. and then spoke oil
the Wandering Jew. who when Christ stag.
Rered under the cross in the stony stree,
struck HIM and told him to go faster. In
the 18TH century venerable man appeared
in Germany claiming to be the Wandering
Jew. Tie denied that he had struck Jesus.
but had said to him, go on faster. Jesus
why dosi thou linger2" The answer was,
81 am going. but thou shalt remain until
return. He was visited by the doctors of
divinity, and all the learned men Of the na-
ton aocked around him. He gave accounts
Of interviews that he had had with Mo
hammed, and claimed that he had been bap
tlEed with Ananias. lie told new stories of
the crusade and seemed withal learned
man. He travelled from city 10 city in the
empire. and the myth took a powerful hold
IN the minds of these of that day and gem
Grafton. The man claimed that every hum
dred years new life would be infused into
his veins, and he then began TO feel Young
again.
In the southern regions Of Europe the
wandering Jew became mixed up with Pom
hus Plate. In the apostles creed he suf-
iers stigma though lauded in another II
Is SAID that PLATE threw himself into the
lake al the top Of the mountain now known
as Mt Plate (cloud eapped) and to tbs dAy
there are people who claim that they or
their fathers or their grandfathers, have
seen some man come out of the mist and
wash his hands in this Internal lake, and he
they say. is Plate. The circumstance of
Judas's death is clearly described in the BIZ
BILE Christian animosity fell upon the race
OF which Judas was a member, and in The
Wandering Jew was preserved all III. terri
bic feelings about him. ltvas believed that
ne va, destined agent Of Satan, regarding
him as simply dlaboiicsl being. to be hated
as such. IL is said tina; Judas's mother had
dream Judas would Hill his father She
told her dream TO her husband. and a, the
ohIlds birth he vas shut up in ches, and
cast upon the sea. only to be picked up by
King and queen. They proposed to keen
him. though they had son Of their own.
Judas was Of fiery temper, and over a
game of chess he killed the boy of hi. ben
efaetor. lie escaped and vas taken into
Pilates service. but it claimed that h.
vas familiar with every crime in the cod.
A, last he was led TO sec faults. He fell at
the feet Of Jesus. and Jesu. seeing in HIM
his destined hctrayer, accepted him as fol-
lower. FIcnd .ncarnat. as he Was. i, j.
known that he felt r,mor.e for hi. final
CRIME and brough; down death upon his own
head In all this is depicted the supcrsti-
iiOns which have made the Jews the cr,,ei-
he'd race. For thousands Of wears il appear.
that no man ever considered Jew a man.
When one was punished II was said ,hey
~err not 'oriurlng men, but only devils in
human form.
Sh,loCk va. the first to arouse even
suspicion that Jew va, a man as well as
Christian. As Mohammed said. ..th.y are
a nation Of book" Strange a. il NAV APP
pear, through all the ,.sr. ~ o...,.nra
~ heard Of but one instance where a
Jew triel TO escape by cunning. That was
years ago when one Of them laughed at res
revelation OF the Virgin Mary. lie was led
of by the enraged followers Of Catholicism
TO be hanged, but on the way TO his doom
he asked TO be taken to the fountain he had
rcsiled. THIS vas granted. and he kissed
the waters. He began to dance and cry out
that hi. rheumatism had been cured and TO
sing out praises Of the new discovery lie
I. as led TO the priest. the miracle portrayed,
and be was pardoned. II was intended to
send him out TO tell OF the wonderful oc-
currenee. bu, during the night he managed
TO escape.
The idea that the Jews ar. an ayaricious
race is a mistaken one. II is because they
had no country that they accumulated all
the wealth they could. II vas considered at
one time they 90, all their money from
Satan to set up kingdom of anti Christ in
the world They accumulated wealth be
cause they did not care 10 spend Il on so
cIety hostile To them. They did not care for
the baubles or pomps Of gentle life. Shy
lock refused many times the amount of his
money for the pound OF flesh which repre-
sented to him great blow at Christianity.
Wealth was the only means of their sur
vival. They hoped. too. at one time. to
have country of their own. Indeed they
would have been utterly destroyed in several
nations had it not been for their wealth.
They were there protected by needy princes.
who knew where they could find favor
The tale Of Shylock is that he wagered a
pound Of flesh with a Christian. He lost,
hut refused TO pay ii. The matter was
brought before the pope. and Shylock was
fined 1900 scudis for not paving the debt
and the other the same amount for risking
his life The cruelty upon the Jews was
not visited by kings and princes. The only
real danger was from popular fanaticism.
There were times when Christianity would
have failed had it not been for the Jews.
Their contributions during the reign of
Henry ii. enabled him To follow up the
crusade TO the Holy Land Some people
used to think that all the Jew would have
to do to get gold would lie 10 turn over his
hand. They used to think that this had got
into their blood II was simply the Chris
tian intolerance which forbade the race to
own land that made them incline toward
tha, kind of property which they could take
with them.
In Turkey, where the Jews are treated
best, they number 10000 In SYRIA, there
are 10000 Of them; in England. 10000;
in France, 10000; in Germany, 400, 900;
and in Austria. 100000. In Roumania the
population reaches 1000. 900; but of this
number 100000 are Jews, and in Russia,
the country they hate most, there are 2,O00,-
900 Of them. They always seem better off
in stronger nations, and it is a significant
fact in history that they gave nearly mil
lion of dollars to have Charles III. restored
to his throne. Somewhere in a synagogue
in Prague it is said that God had traced his
name. For centuries the church has not
been cleaned, in the fear that the name will
be rubbed out. They explore il with torches
as they would the Mammouth cave. and by
this incident was reminded Of some Of our
Christian churches, where. for fear of rub
bing out something this little error and that
is left, until life itself would not be worth
living.
In England there was a Law which did
not permit Jew to prosecute a Christian.
One Of the former sued Christian for bill
he owed him. The Christian claimed be-
fore Judge Jehreys that the prosecutor had
no rights in his court. The Judge thundered
out, "Pay him the money; you're more Of
Jew than he is" The Jews introduced cof-
fee into England. and before they came there
the beverage was unknown. 4 part Of the
religion of Nathan Rothschild, whose sue
cesses the world all know was never to
loan Spain . farthing, and he pever did any
thing for the country that banished his peo-
pie. 1t Is said that on one occasion Roths-
child secured position in the market by
BY trickery. During the battle Of Waterloo
he appeared with q decidedly long faSe.
Government stocks all went down and he
bought them all up. He he'd direct commu-