The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-07
A LIVING SACRIFICE.
Greeks Who Wanted to Make a Sale
Are Neatly Caught.

oOAAAC0 CAAA - - 49,
Grand Rabbi, of Smyrna, and asked to
see him on very important business.
The venerable Abraham Palacci be-
ing unwell, they were asked to come
another day. Next day they called
again; the rabbi not having yet re
covered, his son, a man OF forty-fiye,-
learning that their business was
urgent. asked if they could not
explain to him. After some
desultory conversation they consent
ed, at the same time requesting to be
conducted to some remote apartment
where there was no danger of being
overheard. This being done, n OF
them said to him:-"Every II has
his particular religion; we are aware
that part of yours is to offer at Easter
a Christian child in sacrifice. Now
we are ready for the sum of 81, 400 to
furnish you with a fine. plump and
healthy Christian child, a little
Greek girl of four years old, for your
sacrifice, and the child shall be OBJ
tanned in such a as to insure
the most profound secrecy"
The rabbits son, as may well be sup
posed, was thunderstruck at the pro-
posal, but he dissembled his feelings,
and stated that before he could enter
into any definite arrangements with
them it was necessary he should con-
suit his father. They having assented
to this, he withdrew to his fathers
room, and briefly related to him the
| story Of the grim proposal. Speaking
in the Hebrew tongue, for fear the
men outside should understand, the
father told him to despatch a
messenger speedily to the head
quarters of the police, requesting
the Chief of Police to send llnmedi-
ately an officer with a body of gem
darlnes, and then to go back and keep
the Greeks, under the pretence OF
discussing the price of their crime,
Emin Effendi speedily answered the
summons, aud on the arrival of the
zaptiehs the rabbi posted them be-
hind a door concealed by d heavy
curtain, and sent word to his son that
the men had come, this message, like
the previous one, being delivered in
Hebrew.
One of these individuals asking
what the man said, Nissim Palacci
answered that his father, although
ill, wished to see them. Ushered into
the presence of the rabbi, he began
asking them in Turkish, SO that the
officials might understand the affair,
how and where they got the child,
how the sale was to be effected. and
many other particulars. The exam
nation of the case satisfactorily con
Guided, he whistled, the police came
in, and, having manacled the men,
led them off to prison. AS they were
led through the streets some inkling
of the affair seems to have got
abroad and the police had to be
strengthened to repress the people,
who looked as If about to take
vengeance on the miscreants.-
LeUdnt Herald.
what to Teach Young Women.
a mother writes to me:-"What
shall / teach my daughters?" This
one important and tremendous fact,
my sister;-That there is no happiness
in this world for an idle woman. 1t
may be with hand, it may be with
brain, 1t may be with foot; but work
she must, or be wretched forever. The
little girls of our families must be
started with that idea. The curse OF
our American society is that our
young women are taught that the
first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thous-
andth thing in their life isto get some
body to take car OF them. Instead OF
that, the first lesson should how, under
God, they may take care of them.
selves. The simple fact is that a
majority Of them do have to take care
of themselves, and that, too, after
having, through the false notions OF
their parents, wasted the years in
which they ought to have learned
how successfully to maintain them.
selves. 1t is inhuInan and cruel fol
any father or mother who pass then
daughters into womaLhood having
given them no facility for earning
their livelihood. Madame de Stael
said.-''It Is not these writings that ]
am proud OF, but the fact that | have
facility in ten occupations, many one oil
which / could make a livelihood
We should teach u daughters that
work of any kind, when necessary, II
a credit and honor to them. 1t is d
shame for a young woman, belonging
to a large family, to be inefficient
when the mother and father toll theil
lives away for her support. 1t is {
shame for a daughter to be idle while
her mother tolls at the wash-tub. i
is as honorable to sweep house, make
beds or trim hats as it is to twist
watch chain or embroider q slipper
REQ. 4. De Witt IGtmGge. ID. d, f7
Ladies' Home Journal.
Foreign Women in the East.
A French lady. who al the frs
European female to visit the town D
Nim-Dinh, Tonkin, made a grea
sensation when she first appeared ii
public. The fair sex of the towI
gathered around, and their comments
gave great entertainment to thu
Europeans who understood them
The ladies regarded the whit
woman's blue eyes IS the heigh
of ugliness. They could not under
! stand the hustle at all, but for
! lnally decided that it was a nat
ural deformity, which, however, ex
t cited d fire of pleasantries instead 3
4 commisseration, and when they SAY
: the young woman take the arm of he
q husband and walk away her conduc
i was regarded as supply scandaious
/ and there was a chorus of intersection
4 exactly equivalent to our word shock
Y ing. Like Leigh Hunts fish, the
thought the sight of a man an