The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-14
WITH ANCIENT RITES
RosH HAsHANAH CELEBRATED
 IN SELMA.
Interesting History of the Jewish Holiday and What It Portends. For Thousands of Years It
 Has Been Observed.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau, | Selma, Sept. 13.
 With the setting sun this evening is celebrated the great annual feast of the
 Jews. called Rosh Hashanah, or New
 Year Saturday according to the Jewish caller dar is the first day of the month of | Ilshri, the 5662nd year since the creation
 or the world. This event is celebrated in
 every synagogue in all climes and zones.
 celebrated with befitting solemnity and Is perhaps the most important in the
 calendar of Jewish holidays.
 | It has not always borne the name | "Rosh Hashanah'' and although univer- | sally kept it has not always been known
 spokan nder the he same y title In the Bible It is
 of blowing the triumph. Tishri, was then
 according to the Biblical calendar, the seventh month of the year. In post ex-
 ilic times the Hebrew year began in the
 latter part of March or the first of April.
 After. the return of the Jews from Ba-
 oyIonian captivity; mere than three thou to the beginning of the month of Tishri and has remained there since.
 | The annals of this feast date from a | tme when the history of other people is shrouded in mystery and Is traced down to the present day without the slightest | break. In most of the synagogues of the great cities the Jews of the orthodox per l forms of celebrating the New Year that were prescribed for their ancestors ages ago. It was early received as a solemn feast of a religious and moral mean. It became the day of memories on which ev- cry man was to review and judge his past past life in the light of divine justice and goodness. It was also called Day of Judgment because on it the pious Israeli ite was to judge himself according to the highest standard of the divine laws. AS | the poetic conception of the feast broad. ened and deepened it came to be con sidered as a day on which God judges aiI nations and individuals, according to rnerr merrv merits. aId and M in harmony with His
 L,shono Tovo Tekosave"-may good year be written onto you. the idea De iGeiRg 1s that ht all are written on this day blown in every synagogue. In most con grfgatfons the rams horn, or shofar. ia still used as in the days of holy anti
 The Rosh Hashanah, however, is only the commencement of long succession oi solemn days extending throughout the month of Tishri. It ushers in the ten dsys Of penitence, during which occurs the Sabbth of Return or Reconciliation. the tenth or hnai day is known as " om Ehppur,IDay of Atonement on which (Lev. xvi, 30. The Day of Atonement is therefore day of resting fasting, prayer and spiritual improvement.
 Il There came near being a panic among the passengers on the Southern's south. pound passenger train from Rome Ga for Meridian, caused by the discovetv of blaze in the roof of the first class coach the train crew. who immediately assured the thoroughly frightened passangers there was no danger to be feared, was all all that sI,rs Prevented @ panic among them,
 The train was coming down Pryor Hill, about eighty miles north of Selma, when the blaze was discovered eating It's way through the ceiling in the end of the car and devouring the woodwork of the com partment. Immediately a commotion be- came manifest among the occupants of the car, and Flagman McAllister started to locate the cause of the disturbance, when he, too. discovered the blaze, and immediately pulled the bell rope, signall- ing the engineer to stop the train.
 As soon as the train was brought to a Standstill the crew formed a bucket brigade, and some heroic work saved the car rom being entife ely consumed. Pas sengers did all in their power to assist the train crew, and to this tiIhely aid much ot the credit of extinguishing the blaze so promptly Is due. Everybody on the car was thoroughly frightened and the damage to the coach is considerable, but fortunately nobody was injured by jun ping off, due to the cool-headedncss of the entire crew in charge of the train
 A man who knows Joe Taylor, the col cred dairyman and truck gardener. who lives or the outskirts of the city, at Fay lor's request. asks The Advertiser corre- spondent t0 say that the latter had no burglary at his house and has not beeiI nothing to forfeit the esteem in which his white neighbors hold him. The man who called stated that he has known Taylor for a long time and that his in fiuence for good in the community in which he lives Is not surpassed by any colored man here.
 Mrs. R. E. L. Neil has returned home from Newman, Ga, where she has been | visiting her daughter for about a week | past.
 Miss Mabel Burfitt will leave In a few | days for Montevallc to enter the school | for girls at that rlace.
 News reached the clty yesterday of the death of James. the 5-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. Charlie D. Walker. which | family residence on the south side. The | child had been i'll only short time, and l his death was due to congestion. Mir. | and Mrs. Walker, who are pro,ni 1ent | people in this community. are receiving | many expressions of sympathy from their | numerous friends.
 Mir. R. R. Kornegay, one of the pres ent proprietors of the Hotel Albert has | purchased the house on Broad Street, | formerly owned by Captain D. Frank building and erect modern two-story | structure, which will be used as a board | ing house. The present lease on the All bert will expire soon and the hotel will hereafter be managed by Mir. Ravenel for the stockholders.
 Last night while seated in the parlor of a young lady"s house upon whom he had called, MT. Charles Seymour was taken suddenly i'll with an attack of ver- tigo and the services of a physician was required for about two hours in order to resuscitate the young man. MT. Sey- mour had been riding all day in an open vehicle and at night carried a young freely in dancing. Upon returning to the young ady's home he was seized with an attack of vertigo. His condition was improved this morning.
 The tax assessors and tax collectors arpotntments for city precinct 36. are as follows: First round, October 18th and 2ist Second round, November 22nd to 18th. inclusive.
 Mrs Jud Brislin and daughter have re- turned from Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
 Messrs Joe and Fred Lamar left to- day for Lexington, Va, where they will resume their studies.
 Western Railway of Alabama and As sistant Auditor French of the same sys- fem are in the city checking up the | accounts of the road.
 Miss Frances Holley left yesterday for a visit to friends and relatives in that l. city
 George w Ely, Traveling Passenger Agent of the Sunset Route, with head olIarters at Montgomery, was here yes terday.