The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-21

i were highly respectable and most of them wealthy, in vain offered so provide hlm an honorable maintenance He died in ! ITO, a, an advanced age, having spen, more than forty years voluntarily ia the company of gypsies and eeggars. A narrative of his adventures nils large volume Another instance of well-born and educated man. prefcfring 10 sink 10 the loves; depths oi degradation. was . ,ha, of Lilies de Laval. lord of Rais, l sprung in i4io from ore os the most illus ,yioas fam,lies in Brittany. He succeeded to the title and vast estates ot hls anecs- i tors al the age ef twenty. bat his es;raS- aganoes were so great that they soon exhausted his fortune. Lilies. now pcnni. less. but obliged to keep up h;s position. applied himself to the study of alchemy. astrolegy aHd neeromancy generally. He Was one of the first to announce that he had found the philosopher stone With an Italian named preiati he prac- !ioed ineantasions. promising satan he would gise him whatever he should re- quire, except his lie, in exchange for tab ulous wealth. As sacrifices he would offer up the hands, eyes and blood of a murdered infant The monstrous acts of cruelty winch he practieed exceed anything that tyrants the most sanguln- aD and ferocious ever conceived or per pe,ra,ed. Rape. follo~ed by murder, Sas his principal enjoyment.
 Al length he was brought to trial, and i, was proved that he had massacred no less than one hundred infants to obtain victims for his sacrifices, and the number of boys and young girls he had made away with was considerable. During the greater part of the time he was per petrating these infamous crimes, Lilies was marshal of France. He confessed to deeds which his historian says -the purity of the historical page will no, ad- init of full account of the horrid crimes performed by this monster Tn human shape" He was condemned 10 be burned, and his execution took place al, Nantes. We are left in the dark as to fate of h.s companion m crime. PEelaa.
 Perhaps ihe most singular hgure-or superstition Tn history IS that oi the Wandering lew.
 Authors of repute in all ages make mention of this mysterious individual. who. l, Is said. IS yet wandering about under some disguise or other. having no resting place. Novellsts and dramatis;s have perpetulted his fame. Among the former, the most thrilling and remarkable volume ei hotlon concerning him Is bs Eugene Sue. Many accounts by writers are gwen oi m,sieneus men who have appeared and disappeared after the man. ncr ot the Wandering Jew. l, IS to be presumed thA, they were impostors who assumed his character. and played them selves of as the lew for some personal advantage.
 A so-called ver,able Wandering lew teenth century. He suddenly appeared at Venice. making great sensation there, He went by the name of Gaaldl, and on accoun, of his great wealth. learned and polished manners. was admitted into the best society, though no one knew who he was or whence he came. He was versed in all the arts and sciences. and conveIsed with such tiuency and elegance as 10 as- tonish all who heard him. He never wrote or received any letters, never de- sired credit or made use of bills oi ex- change. paid for everything in ready money and lived in splcndor He had d small collection of very fine pictures, which he readily showed 10 any one de- sir ng to see them.
 One day Venetian nobleman. who was an extraordinary good judge of pic lures. having heard of Signor Gauldl's collection, called and asked to see It, Not only Was permission gwen. but ! Gauldi accompanied him through the gallery. The nobleman's attention was suddenly arrested by a very fine portrait Thus picture was drawn for you. sir. he said.
 i The lew bowed low. but returned no answer. The Venetian continued =
 You look like man of fifty. and ye, i Titan, who has been dead a hundred and thirty years. How can this be-"
 Gauldi replied. IL is not easy to know all things that are possible. but there IS certainly nothing wonderful in my re- sembl,ng a picture painted by Titan.' an evasise reply that in our day would probably have been construed 10 mean tha, he greatly resembled some ancestor painted by the great master. Bd the nobleman immediately concluded that he was in the presence of the Wandering l Jew, and. awe-struck, retreated from his presence He spoke of the matter 10 some friends, who determined to see the singular picture themselves. but on going 10 Cauldi's palace the next morning they found il deserted. The Wandering lew had set forth on his travels again. One hour after the nobieman mad noticed the likeness Gauidi had Jeff Venice
 i The affair made a grea, sensation l throughout Europe, and vas noticed in ali the newspapers oi the time. A mys- l terious man. endowed with an eternal i life on this earth, not subject to age and decay as the rest of his race, with an endless source of wealth, is no doubt, legitimate object of surprise and fear. The Jews wanderings, even in Americz, have been traced by believers in his ex- i istence, and ,his is quoted as another proof of the prophecy that the Wander ing Jew will not have a resting place till the day of judgment shall come to pass. But the spread of education in America. E g6A broad <sf k~w r~<~f.