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in peace and tranquility, and no rebel
lious thought of evil enters their minds.
They possess q country whose area
covers land of ten days journey, and
they have an abundance of cattle,
camel and servants, but do not bring
the horses. nor do they possess any
Warlike Instruments except knives for
preparing food and to kill the animals
for that purpose They are men of
great faith. hating oppression or rob
berry
THE children of Zebulun encamp on.
the mountains Of Paran and pitch their
tents made of the hair of Armania.
and stretch as far as the Euphrates.
The tribe of Reuben dwell opposite
them behind the mountains Of Paran,
and between them there is love- unity
and peace The tribe Of Ephraim. and
half the tribei OF Menassah6 dweis OPP
posite the city of Meuqa.' In a similar
way each and every one Of the ten
tribes is located in this fabulous region
efo the east. of Havila," which every
Bible reader Will easily connect with
the Garden of Eden as located by the
Second chapter of Genesis
Many legends of Moses Daniel and
all of the other famous Bible charac-
tiers are included in this great chronf-
Gle. 1T Will attract the attention. not
only of scholars who have found so
much that is interesting in the legend
ary law of Israel, rejecting. as it doess
the religious consciousness of the pe0-
pie. but it will also interest the mass of
the people, because of the. peoples fan
cies and sympathetic legends which are
here recorded.
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SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 1893

burnt in fire. Immediately then God s
mercy was moved so that he descend
ed from the habitation of his glory, his
greatness, his majesty and the holiness
of his great name and delivered Abra-s
ham, our ancestor. from that shame,
from that reproach and fr0mthe burns
ing furnace, as it is said, ! am the
Lord who brought thee out of the fire
of the Chaldeans
Loss of the Ten Tribes.
There has been a strange fascination
about the loss of the ten tribes of
Israel: and Hebrew legend attempts to
supply an account of the fate OF those
ten tribes in various ways. There is
a. peculiarly interesting legend respect
ing the so-calieid children of Moses,
connected. of course, with the exile
by Nebuchadnezzar When they ar
rived in Babylon their enemies and
captors said to them, Sing Us a song
of Zion, and they replied, How can
we sing a song of Zion upon strange
ground% Nov, retorted their captors.
we shall sing by force. but they at
once cut off their fingers with their
teeth and cast them before them and
they REPLIED How can those fingers,
which struck the strings OF the heart
and the temple. strike them here in a
strange land? And God exclaimed.
If / forget Jerusalem. my right hand
shall be forgotten
CA cloud then descended and. lifting
all the children of Moses, with their
sheep and cattle, brought them to the
east of HaVila. in the night they were
let down, and on that same night they
heard a great noise surrounding them
like that of river, without seeing a
drop of water descending, but heard
only the rolling Of stones and sand
where there had never been a river
This river then rolled great stones and
the sand without any water, made a
noise as of a great earthquake. This
continued until the Sabbath. The river
they called Sabbatyon or Sabbatianus
On the Sabbathit ceases to flow and on
the eve of Sabbath q cloud asce2ds full
of smoke. No one is able to approach
them neither do they approach them
There are no. wild beasts, no, unelean
animals, nor any reptiles or creeping
things. Nothing except their fiocks and
herds. They reap and sow and they ask
the others, and thus they learn of the
destruction of the second temple 1t
is behind this region in which the
children of Moses dwell. that the rem
nants of the ten tribes are said to be
found. 1.-The tribe of Isaacharr dwell
the nethes@most narts of Media and
Persia. and there they fulfill the com
n1andmel1t The book of the Torall
shall not DEPART from their mouths
nor do they take upon themselves the
yoke of any earthly kingdom, but only
Fthe woke of heaven and the yoke of the
law. They have many captains of
the army, but never fight with any
man. but discuss the Torah. They dwell
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REMARKABLE BIBLE LEGENDS.
Chronicles of Jerabmee Evidently Written in Palestine
About the First Century, Just Found in the B0de
ian Library. Tell Many Supplementary
and Interesting Tales.

A most remarkable and unique man
uScr5pt has been discovered in the IA
nous Bodlein library by the we'll known
Hebrew scholar. DR.. NJ. Caster It IS
nothing less than chronicle dating
from about century before the Chris
liam era.
DR. Caster. in publishing a translation
of his find fOr. the Royal Asiatic society,
calls 1t the Chronicles OF Jerallmelq."
Every reader of the Bible has felt,
from time TO time, as if there were
gaps in the narrative. This feeling was
responded to by the ancient Hebrews
in the creation of a large number OF
legends, which are scattered through
infinite volumes CT Rabbinical law.
The Chronicles of JerahIpell embody
many OF these ancient legends and in
clude also a large number Of interest
ing tales hitherto unknown.
The compilation Of the present man
uscript is due TO a certain EleaSar ben
Asher, the Levite. who lived at the be-
ginning Of the fourteenth century; but
his chief source OF information was
Jerahneli, the most ancient of those
who attempted to fill out the lacunae
in the Biblical narrative.
He did not repeat the Bible stories at
all. Those. he knew, were in the reach
of every one. but he tried in every case
to supply what seemed to him lacking
in those stories. He took up the prob
lens which suggest themselves to the
minds of most readers of the Bible, and
for which they look to the Bible for
light and very often in vain. There IS
no detail of life too small for a legend,
and one of the most interesting of these
is that relating 10 the seven ages
Of man.
The Seven Ages of Man.
And why does the child cry at
birth? Because of the world it has left
behind? For at that moment seven
new worlds are awaiting it. In the
first world it is like unto a, king. after
whose welcome all people ask; all
desire to see it and embrace it and kiss
it. because it is in the first year In
the second world it is like unto a swine
which wallowS in mire; a child does the
same until it reaches two years. In
the third world il is like unto a. kid
that skips and gambols about on the
meadows Thus a child slips about
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22
WHITE MICE ARE HIS PLAGUE.
Multiplication of a Pair Is Driving
Their Owner to Insanity.
Chicago Inter ocean.l
Two men met on Ia saIle street.

Two men met on La Sale street.
''Hello!" calculated one of them,
''been ill, Tom?'' The other man shook
his head.
EMO, not i'll; not physically ill, Jack.
lists white mice"
"Great heavens!" gasped his friend.
''Why. l didn't know you ever drank
enough for-for that"
1T wasn't drink, Jack: it wasn't
drink. But come with me. Let me tell
you all"
When they were seated at opposite
sides of a small table the afflicted man
continued:
YES. Jack, it's white mice. My boy,
Thomas. jr., got it into his head that
he ought to have a, pet He wanted a
dog, but the house is small, and the
cook is nervous, and so we told him no.,
not a dog; most anything but a dog,
and we finally compromised on a, pair
of white mice. l brought them home in
nice. roomy wire cage, and Thomas,
tr., was delighted. That was two
months ago" The speaker paused and
sighed feelingly.
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We'll, all. went finely until about
three weeks afterward. Then. one
morning, the boy came bursting into
my room to inform me that the 'nices
had got some lovely little mices. And
so they had; five Of them. Luckily. the
cage was large enough for the growing
family Rut-welI. It'll four weeks We
had forty seven mice in six weeks 1906
We gave up trying to accommodate
them all in one cages and so cigar
boxes. work baskets. cracker tins and
even the bath tub We're brought into
requisftion.
\ Naturally two Or thres escaped
every day and lived ait Iargtss Tasting
in the pantry at night. and begging By
our chairs at meal time. They took
such a liking to the cook that they got
70 making her room sort of meeting
place. The result could have been fore
seem My wife has been doing the
cooking now for several weeks L have
got 50 that shake my boots from force
Of habit before putting them on. One
morning I found two in my shaving
mug. And we have them served up to-
US at table in the cracker jar, the sugar
bowl and the cheese dish"
But why didn't you set cats?" asked
his friend.
Cats? Great heavenst We've had
GW&IIEN QE IuelDs we CdhE Keep ElELll
about. They stay three or four days.
get SO fat that they can't walk and
then crawl dejeetedly to- the door, ar
compaHied by a frfsking contingent OF
white mice! We've tried cats. Jack.
Well, then, rat poison; have you
tried that?"
"0h. yes; quite early in the game
The mice seemed to thrive on that poi
son. We tried traps. too; they caught
few: just drop i'm the bucket. And
all the time they kept right ON increas-
ing. We haven't taken a census for
nearly three weeks now. but moder-
ate estimate would place the number
at about 500. just now. when I met
you, / was on the way to see a man
who has ferrets; l shall try to get "a
few dozen good, healthy ones. If they
don't help-What's that?" he shrieksd.
Whats what?" asked his friend.
THAT? Why just piece of white pa
peri"
''Oh, II thought-weH. L must get
on. 1 don't suppose you'd care to buy
that house, WOULD you? No? Well,
good by"
And the man afflicted with white
mice crept dejectedly around the cor
nyd, looking nervouSly at every piece
II torn paper that fiuttered in the
breeze
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here and there until it is 5 years of
age. In the fourth world it is like unto
a horse, who strives along haughuly.
In the same way does a child walk
along, proud of his youth, until he is Is
years old. In tine fifth world he lis like
unto an ass, upon whose shoulders Dur
dens are placed, In the same manner
burdens are heaped upon mans shout
ders; he is given a wife and children.
He must wander to and fro in order 10
obtain food for them until he is about
40 years old. In the sixth stage me
is like unto a dog insolent and wan
dering about in all places for food;
stealing and robbing in one place ana
enjoying it in another. In the seventh
stage he is like unto an ape, whose ap-
pearance IS changed in every respect.
All the household curse him and desire
his death: even the young children
make fun of him and even the smallest
bird wakes him from his sleep.
Paradise Described.
A description of Paradise, nn-vhere
plainly mentioned in the Old Tesla
ment, is most striking.
Paradise has two gates of carbuncle
and sixty myriads of ministering an
gels keep watch over them. Each of
these angels shines with a lustre of the
heaven. When the just man approaches
them they divest him OF the clothes IN
which he had been buried and clothe
him with eight cloths, woven out of
clouds of glory and place upon his head
two crowns, one of precious stones and
pearls and the other of gold, and they
place eight myrtles in his hand and
praise him and say to him, Go and eat
thy bread with joy And they lead him
10 a place full of rivers surrounded by
500 species of roses and myrtles. Each
one has canopy according to his mer-
its, as it is said (in the Bible) for over
all the glory shall be spread a canopy.
And through it flow four rivers, one
of oil, the other of balsam, the third of
wine and the fourth of honey. Every
canopy is overgrown by a vine of gold
and thirty pearls hang down from it,
each of them shining like the morning
stars In every canopy there is a
table of precious stones and pearls and
sixty angels stand at the head of every
just man. saying to him: Go and eat
with joy of the honey, for thou has
worked assiduously in the law of
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from the 10000 angels that surround
his throne, and ait that time of the dis
persion he COMPOUNDED their tongue into
seventy different languages.
The Legends of Abraham. :
The legends clustered around the per-
sonality of Abraham are innumerable,
but this one is peculiarly characteristic
of the Hebrew conceptions of Abraham 3
work. 1T is related that the whole
household of Abraham's father We're.
idol worshipers, moreover they made
idols and sold them upon the streets
But when a man approached Abraham
to sell him an idol he would ask him,
How much is this image r Three marl-
as he would reply. How oldss art
thou?' Abraham would ask, Thirty
years. Thou art 80 years of age and
yet worshipest this idol which we made
but today,' The man would depart and
go his way. Again another would come
to Abraham and ash How much is this
idol?' Five manas, he would say.
How old art thou2' would Abraham
continue. Fifty years. And dost thou,
who are 30 years of age, bow down to
this idol which we made but today?
With this the man would depart and go
his way. When Nimrod heard of Abra-
hams utteRnces he ordered him to be
Drought rBclOit. itlIls y etllue selus Anuts
son of Terah, make me a. beautiful
god, Abraham then entered his faith
er's house and said. Make a beautiful
image for me- They accordingly made
lit finished it and paintedRit With many
colors. He went and brought it to- MINI
rod. s@
And on that day Abraham's right
Feousness shown forth. 1t was a cloudy
day and rain fell. therefore when they
were about to- thrust him into the
burning furnace, ,Nimrod Shutdown and
all the people of the dispersion did like
wise. ABRAHAM. then entered and stand
ing in the center he pleaded his cause.
After which Nimrod asked. If not the
gods whom shall 1 serve? Abraham
replied, The God of Gods and Lord of
Lords, whose. Kingdom is everlasting in
heaven and on earth. and in the heav-
ems of the high heavens II shall wor-
ship said Nimrod, the God dc Fire;
! and behold / SHALL cast thee, therein.
Let, then, the God to Whom thou testi-
fieth, deliver thee frolnttfie burning fur
mace They then Immediately bound
him strongly and tightly and placed
him on the ground. They then sur
rounded him with wood ON the four
sides-500 cubits thickness to the north
500 cubits to the south, 500 cubits to the
west and 500 to the east. They then
set the pile on fire. The whole house OF
Terah were WorshiperS of idols and I'M
til that moment had not recognized
their Creator. Their neighbors and fell
low citizens assembled. and beating
their heads, said to Terah. oh, shame
great shame! Thy son of whom thou
did say that he will inherit this world
and the world to come, has Nimrod
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which it is said, And II is sweeter than
honey. and drink of the wine pre-
served from the sixth days of creation,
fer thou hast worked in the law which
is compared with the wine, as it is
said. / would cause thee to drink Of
spiced wine The least fair of them
is as beautiful as Joseph and Johanan,
and as the grains of the pomegranate
lit up by the rays of the sun There is
no night, as it is said, And the light
of the righteous is as eff the shining
light
And they undergo four TRANSFORMED
tions according to the four watches OF
the day. In the first watch the dust
is changed into a child, and he enters
the compartment OF children and tastes
of the joy of childhood. In the second
watch he is changed into youth, and
there he enjoys the delights of youth.
In the third watch he becomes a middle
aged man, and rejoices accordingly. In
the fourth watch he is changed into an
old man; he enters the compartment of
the old, and ejoys the pleasure of ma
ture age
The Tower of Babel.
The process of the confusion of lam
guages at the Tower of Babel has al
ways been an interesting question, and
Jerahmell supplies the following ac-
count, as experimenting the Bible
story: "And it came to pass when they
commenced to build the tower that
God confused their tongues and
changed their form into that of mon
keys, so that one could not recognize
his own brother, nor could one man
understand the language of his neigh
Dor, so that when the builders ordered
the people to bring stones, they
1o,.O11ohf wafer and when fhaV told
them to bring water they brought
stubble In this way their. evil inten-
tions were frustrated and they ceased
building the tower and the Lord
scattered them over the face of the
whole earth, For they had said,
Come and let us build for ourselves
a city, and let us take axes and break
open the armament so that the water
flow from there the same as below, that
he may not do to us as he did in the
generation of the flood. And let us
wage war with those in heaven and
establish ourselves there as gods But
how could they build the city, since
they had no stones? They made bricks
from clay and pitch and burnt them
as potter burns his hops in the oven
and hardens them. In this way they
made the brick and built the city and
the tower exceedingly high, with sew
enty steps. The ascent was made from
the east and the descent from the west.
If man fell therefrom they did not
heed it much. whereas if a brick fell
they wept bitterly, and said, When, oh,
when will another be brought up
When Abram saw their wicked ways
he cursed them in the name of the
Lord. but they did not pay attention to
his words. The Lord then descended
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Muddy compilations. nauseating
breath, come from chronic constipation
KarPs Glover Root Tea is an absolute
cure and has been sold for fifty years
on an absolute guarantee. Price, Is
cents and so cents. z. c. NJ. [. drug
department
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13
PEDRICKTOWN.

Sam Snyder and Alonzo Brown returned
from Bay Side Saturday.
The JUNIOR Epworth League recently or
ganized and held in the chapel Friday
afternoon has thirty-five little ones enrolled.
Another new class was formed 10 the NJ
E Sunday school Sunday afternoon with
Miss Emma Walker as teacher.
John Whitaker, of Phila. spent Sunday
with his wife here.
Miss Lizzie Murphy is on a visit to Phila.
The past week has been very busy one
for the scholars of our school, the annual
examinations being in progress.
The steamer Mary E. Justice has returned
here and is being newly painted after under
going repairs at Hillman's ship-yard.
The past week has been very busy on Q
for section gangs. Thursday and Friday
nights the gang No. 8 from this place was
on the meadows between here and Centre
Square watching the new road-bed that had
been laid, but in spite of all their efforts.
some was washed out Friday night and
traffic delayed while Saturday morning
The continued cold weather and SO much
rain is hindrance to the fishermen, so far
bat one shad having been caught in Oldmans
creek Reports from Bay Side are that a
run of chad was on last Thursday and some
nets caught as high as one hundred
The Red Men have built store.room
for Ford Dean, back of their hall for the
storage of ice cream and soft drinks.
William Dugan moved his family from
Phila to this place in Mrs. Ann Pedrick q
house on Monday.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13
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PAULSBORO.

The members of the M. E. church here
gave their pastor, Rev. s. F. Gaskill, q
surprise reception Friday night last,it being
Rev. Gaskilfs fiftieth anniversary of his
birth. The night was very stormy, but
there was about seventy-five persons wait
og for him when he arrived. brought there
by member. He was completely snr-
prised, did not know anything about it,
the hall was tastefully decorated with
bunting, and the words " Oor PASTOR 10
gold letters strung across the stage, aud
the figures 80. After sons singing, playing
of games, purse was presented containing
twenty-five dollars-followed by lunch of
cake and fruits. About eleven o'clock the
party dispersed to their homes well pleased
with their evenings enjoyment, and wish
ing Mr.. Gaskill and his wife many more
happy years together.
Joseph L. HUFF, one Of our oldest citizens
died at his son Charles Huff's on Billings
avenue Monday evening. He was stricken
with paralysis Sunday afternoon, and did
not recover except to say a few words.
Mr.. Huff was seventy-fiye years old. was
we'll known in this place where he has
spent most of his life. He leaves two sons,
James and Charles, who reside here, and
one daughter, Kate Smallwood, living 10
Camden. The funeral takes place from
Charles Huff's residence Thursday after
noon, 2 80 o'clock Services at the house
interment at Eglington cemetery.
John Chesney moved in Mr.. Adamson's
dwelling house on West Broad street
formerly occupied by j. A.. Green, last
Saturday.
Mr.. John Reeves died Thursday, after a
weeks sickness of pneumonia. Mr. Reeves
was employed at the powder works, and
lived on Buck street. He leaves a widow
and several small children. His funeral
took place Sunday morning, interment at
NJ. E cemetery, this place.
As many as fourteen shad was caught te
net Monday morning last, pretty good
for the first.
Mrs Mary A. Pierce, Horace Piercet
widow. died Sunday at her son-in-law's
Mr.. John Reeds on Swedesboro road, and
will be buried Thursday morning. Services
at Eglington cemetery chapel, where inter
ment will be made.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13

Five days after the disastrous fire which
destroyed the Windsor Hotel in New York
City, an old wooden shawl was dug up by
the workmen searching the ruins for bodies
of those who were thought to have lost
their lives in the ere, A brass paddock
evidently belonging to a trunk was also
picked up nearby. Upon opening the
shawl, two paid-up policies Of life insur-
auce issued by the Prudential Insurance
Company OF America and bank book fell
ont. They we're badly charrei and water
soaked but the police deciphered the names
on the policies as those of Elizabeth Me.
Donald and Mary White search of the
hotel records was Immediately made to
ascertain if any persons with such names
were in the hotel at the time Of the fire
1t was found that Mrs Elizabeth Mcdonald
was one of the hotel employees and that
she was among these reported as missing
An investigation by the officials of the In
surance Company however showed that
Mrs Mcdonald was on the fourth floor of
the hotel at the time the fire broke cut but
had escaped. Her trunk she bad been un
able to save. 1t contained $500 in cash and
the insurance policies. The money had
been destroyed. The policy on the life OF
Mary White had been left in Mrs. Melon
aids care. The Company issued new
policies on the lives of the insured and kept
the old policies as mementos Ct one of the
most disastrous conf agrations that ever
visited New York