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THE GOLDSrEIN CASE.

room in the afternoon nowadays may see
strange sights and hear strange sounds.
He may see learned Jewish rabbi with no
less than twelve documents to prove that
he has gone honestly and honorably
through all the degrees of his profession,
including the csttle.killing degree. He
may see an ex-judge, not long ago re-
spscted and we'll paid member of the Rus
sian Czar's judiciary, and now an exile,
made 80 on account of a too-free express
sion of some opinions which he felt obliged
to have and utter. He may see strange and
old papers, written in Hebrew and bearing
the curious stamps of venerable and ven
Grated rabbis. He may see Jews
filled with all the learning of the
Talmud and yet unable to answer
simple questions without having fits of
wild contortion and picturesque gesticula-
ton. He may see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Aaron, Moses, Lsvi, David, Solomon and
Eleszar. He may see men and women
who carry in their names, their faces and
their experience reminders of the most
wonderful and impressive part of the
worlds history, from the time of the
persecution. Their ancestors, with the
same names, were nomadio shepherds in
the early days. Later others, with the
same names, wandered in the desert, were
alternately favored and punished by God,
warred and were warred against, made
bricks without straw in Egypt, pros
pered in "the land of PROMISE"
became the spoil of the Egyp-
tians, the Asyrians, the Bsbylonians,
the Persians and the Romans. looked for
the Messiah with steady and patient long
ing and did not know him when he came,
suffered at Jerusalem, spread through all
nations without losing themselves in any,
and handed down even to their descend
ants of the present day their racial charac-
teristics unimpaired, their religion un-
changed, and their ancient language
we'll kept. They have bsen called .'the
chosen people," and 1t is certain that no
people on the face of the globe have been
chosen to make such a record of honor and
shame, of prosperity and disaster, of
change and permanence, of glory and
gloom. And after all that las happened
to them they stand to-day strong, pious
and persistent, almost msnace to the rest
of the world by reason of their inherited
and acquired capacity and quality.
1t ia said that novel writer's are haunting
the court room in New York city where
the Meyer trial is going on. They are
wasting their time while the case of the
State against Isaac Goldstein and Ernes-
tine Goldstein is going on in the City
Court of New Haven. These two are
charged with bigamy. Twenty three years
ago in Russian village Isssc Goldstein
was married to girl nsmsd Zsisel. The
marriage took placs in the front yard of
her house in the evening twilight. There
were few years of happiness and peace.
Children were born. Then there was rob-
berry. The Russian police officers visited
the house of the Goldsteins one evening.
Isaac went to England and Zeissl went to
jail. Isaac starved in England as long as
he could stand 1t and then went to Mon
treal, and from Montreal to Winni-
peg, where, as he said, money was
to be made. BE made 1t. He went to
New York and from New York to Penn
sylvania farm. He cent q ghet (or d.
vorce) to Zaisel. She did or did not &C.
cept it. She says she did not. At any
rate here she Is, after wandering over half
the world, from Eli zsbethgrad, Russia, to
Winnipeg, Manitobs, and then to New
Haven, and after being separated from
Isaac for twenty three years, the chief
witness in the suit against him and Mrs.
Goldstein number two. The testimony
deals with plots and conspirscies, all the
motives and the passions of human ma
ture, the msnners, the customs and the
languages of various countries and races,
the learning, the piety and the business
instincts of the jews, the despotism of
Russia, the laws of Moses, of the Gear,
of the Qaesn Of England and of
the Republic of the United States,
human rights aud human wrongs,
the hostility of a son toward his
father, Nemesis, the penalties of loving
and hating, the romance of trade and the
waving of many lives. Most of those who
testify are strange and curious and their
testimony Is strange and curious. Some
of them tell stories like chapters out of the
bible, and there are letters read which are
gems of quaint and impressive expression.
Once in a while a witness will drop q
saying which Is worth remembering,
such, for instance, as "Gold and silver will
clean bastards," and there are all manner
of odd and notable phrases of various
countries where the wandering Jews have
been.
The only thing of human interest thus
far lacking in this remarkable trial is muir
der. No murder has cropped out in 1t yet,
although insanity and suicide have played
their parts In 1t. 1t has looked several
times as if all that prevented some
of the perplexed and enraged Eliza
betbgrad and Petrikovks witnesses from
staying lawyer on the spot was religious
scruples, but nothing of the kind has hap
pened yet. If the trial Is ever finished II
will be quite remarkable enough without
even the 'kosber' killing of an sggravat-
ing lawyer.