The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-23
HAS WANDERING JEWy,
 RESUMED HIS TRAVELS? {?

From Russia has recently come a wild story of the reappearance in that country of the '.Wandering Jew the ancient Hebrew who has been wan derfng over the world eyer since the crucidxion of Jesus, and who, ac- cording to tradition, is condemned to so live and wander until the second coming of Christ. According to the reports from X Petrograd, the latest Wandering Jew' has been accepted as bona. fide by the sIperstitiolls peo- pie of the villages in which he has appeared. Like all his predecessors this aged wanderer. bowed beneath a weight Of years twice as great as those of the Methuselah, tells marvellous tales of his experiences in many lands during his long peregrination.s
 The last previous appearance of the ssWandering Jew'' was in Brussels. Belgium. 141 years ago today. April i22, 2,1774. This time the Wanderer gave his name as Isaac Laquedem, and told with great wealth of detail the incidents surrounding the execu- tion of the death sentence upon Jesus. and of his own act which resuIted in the decree that he must travel aEout from pillar to post through countless. centuries. The sad fate of the Io- quacious Isaac aroused much sympa- thy among the bourgeois of the Bel gian capital He soon disappeared, and was not heard Of again until the hysteria of war brought about his recent resurrection in Russia.
 According to the tradition of the Wandering Jew" " Jesus was being
 dragged forth to the cr.ucihxion. and as he passed through the door one Cartaphiius, a porter in Pilates ser vice, struck him on the back and cried, #sGo quicker, Jesus, go quicker; why do you loiter 2s' Whereupon | countenance, saying T am going, and you will wait until return At that time Carfaphflus was thirty years old, and, says the myth, each time he reaches the age of a. hundred he all ways returns to the age of thirty and begins all over again.
 It is declared that CartapIilus em- braced the Christian faith and was baptised by AnaniaS, who also bap- tized the Apostle Paul, and that he
 assumed the name of Joseph and first took up his residence in Armenia In the thirteenth century he was de- scribed as dwelling among the Chris tians of Armenia living life of great holiness. He was. says an ancient chronicIeI, "a man Of few words, l and circunspect in his behavior. for
 he does not speak at all unless ques- 1 toned by the bishops and religious
 men, and then he tells of the events
 Of old times,and of those which oc-
 cured at the suffering and resnrrec- ton of our Lord.''
 In 1542 the alleged sfWanderlng
 Jew, appeared in Germany, under the
 name of Ahasuerus. and his claims I were accepted as credible. He ex- I pIafned thai he had been a saoemak- l CT in the time of Jesus, and that one of the Jews who were clanorous for I the death Of Jesus On the way to the lcrucifiction, he said. Thou shall go I on.'' After that the cobbler was sci zed with an Irresistible desire to wan, l der and had left his wife and chil- I dFen to travel over the earth. He I was described as tall man, apparent- I ly about fifty years of age, barefoot | with long hair, and clad in a petit I coat, sailors trousers, and a. mantle
 In 1576 the tsWanderi1ig Jew, ap- I peareds in Holland, and a little later l he turned up in StFasbuFg, where hf l told the people he had visited taeil town two centuries before. Which l-says a writer of that tifne-sWas T proved to betrue by 8 reference to tht ] registers of the town 2 The Jew wa Il next heard of in the West Indies, an6 s then in France, where the stories tole of him were published as the eHis itoire admirable du lutheran mt. ?