The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-05-26
GHlDINS.- HR0MAN SINcER'eE


GANDIaS.- HR0MAN SINCERE:
father and of thy fathers house and
of all thy people"
Il renounce my sins, and whatso-
ever is yet left for me to suffer, will,
by Gods help, SO bear it as to be moi
unworthy of Christ's mercy"
at is as we feared" they said.
she is unrepentant and he is worthy
of death. 1t is not expedient hat the
young adder should live. There is
poison under his tongue, and he
speaks things not lawful for an Israeli
lite to hear. Let him die, that we
may see him no more, and hal our
children be not corrupted by his false
teachings"
.'Hearest thouP Thou shalt die
1t was Lazarus who spoke, while
holding up the boy before the table
and Kissing the words into his ear.
1t was soon done. The two men
took up the cross and set it, with the
body hanging thereon, against the
wall of the narrow court. over against
the house of Lazarus.
Thou mayest still repent during
this night" said the father, holding
up the horn lantern and looking into
his sons tortured face.
'Ay-there is yet time" said Levi,
brutally. HE will not die so SOON"
Lord, into thy hands / commend
my spirit" said the weak voice once
more.
Then Lazarus raised his hand and
struck him once more on the mouth,
as he had done on the first night when
he had seized him near the church.
But Levi, the Short-handed, as though
in wrath at seeing all his torments
fail, dealt him one heavy blow Just
where the a joins the neck, and it
was over at last. A radiant smile OF
peace fickered over the pale face,
the eyelids quivered and closed, the
head fell forward on the breast, and
the %martyrdom of Simon Abeles was
contaminated.
Into the dark court came the rab-
bis. n by one, from the inner cham
cOA, III CdCh, GS IS Cdl1C, LUX up
the horn lantern and held it to the
dead face. and smiled, and spoke a
few words in the Hebrew tongue, and
then went out into the street until
only Lazarus and Levi were left alone
with the dead body. Then they de-
bated what they should do, and for a
time they went into the house and re-
freshed themselves with food and
wine, and comforted each other, well
knowing that they had done an evil
deed. And they anne back when it
was late, and wrapped the body in the
coarse cloth and carried it out stealth
lily, and buried it in the Jewish ceme-
terry, and departed again t. their own
houses.
''And there he lay" said Unorna,
1.-The boy of your race who was faith
full to death. Have you su.1ered?
Have you for one short hour known
the meaning of such great words as
you dared to speak to me? Do you
know now what it means to be a mar
tyr, to suffer for what you believe, to
perish in your sufferings? You are
sta' ling on the very spot where he
lay, you have felt in some small de-
gree a part of what he must have
felt. You live. Be warned. If again
you anger me. your life shall not be
spared you"
The visions had all vanished.
Again the wilderness of gravestones
and lean, crooked trees appeared,
wild and desolate as before. The
Wanderer reused himself and saw
Unorna standing beside Israel Kafka' !
PROSTATE body. As though suddenly
released from q spell, he sprang for
ward and knelt down, trying to revive
the unconscious man by rubbing his
hands and chatting his temples.
Note-The deeds here described
were done in Prague on the 21st day
OF February in the year 1894. Lag
arus and his accomplice Levi Kurtz-
handel, or B~reylmanus, or 1.-THE
Short-handed," were betrayed by
their own people. Lazarus hanged
himself in prison and Levi suffered
death by the wheel-repentant, it is
said, and himself baptized. A full ac-
count of the trial, written in Latin,
was printed, and a copy of it may be
seen in the State Museum in Prague.
The body of Simon AbelSs was *
humed, and rests in the Teyn Church,
in the chapel on the left of the high
altar. The slight extension of certain
scenes not fully described in the Latin
volume will be pardoned in a work of
fiction.