The Gazette, 1894-03-29, Page 4lar
ROMANCEOF THE FAITH.
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HExssRT D. WARD, IN " CENTURY MAGAZINE."
For an instant the two stood out before
the world upon the desolate altar, as clean-
cut as figures upon a signet. Then Am-
raphel the despot discovered his power.
With a voice that carried its speaker's jeal-
ousy and terror and hatred and revenge, as
the wind drives the ram, he cried out :
" Priests of Hurki ! Soldiers of Shiner 1
Away with them to the consuming furnace!
Smite the house of Terakh. t Consume the
tribe of Abu•ramu ! Even where they
stand, smite ye them 1" With that, for-
getting the sacrifice in his arras, he dropped
the babe, and stretched oat his hand to ar-
rest :he son of Terakh.
Iskah swooped down upon the infant,
which fell lightly upon the scented fagots.
unconscious-
ly scattered the wood and heaping frankin-
cense over the edge of the altar. Then she
cast upon ber Lover the solemn and signifi-
aant smile of one who believed herself to
have dispersed the last remnant of an en-
slaving superstition. It was the first smile
of a free `soul.
"Stay me not, Amraphel, for my God
leadeth me !" Abn-ramu shook off the
king's hand. Then with bow and quiver
upon his shoulder, with the hammer in his
hand, he gathered Iskah in his arms, and
with her the babe, gift of Hurki,andleaped
from the edge of the altar, past the steps of
ascent, over the heads of many of his own
tribe, to the pavement below. Not for
centuries, until the final destruction of Ur,
did the legend of that leap cease to make
the blood of strong men start. It was after-
ward whispered that the strange God whom
he served upheld his feet that they were
not dashed to certain death.
Then suddenly, at that moment, as if
of Nana
tortured to the deed, a priest
plunged his knife into the back of a wor-
shiper of Hnrki. It was the madness of
,sublime suicide which sometimes seizes a
e fanatic. A servant of Nebo caught the
fury,and courted the same fate for the `sake
multi-
tude,of his horrified neglected
a d�coBed by Abu-ramu's
deed, fled like sheep before the murderous
priests. Farther away men caught the
groans, and looked upon one another with
suspicion. Then a swift delirium seized
upon them. The familiar smell of humau
blood expanded over the air, and intoxicat-
ed the devotees, who now became wild
beasts. A frenzy, not uncommon in that
wild age, possessed the people. They fell
into indiscriminate massacre. Soldiers at -
'tacked priests, and priests turned upon the
unarmed populace. The fury of an unknown
god caused -the parent to kill his son, and
the son to spring upon the throat of his
father.
All the while Nana and Nebo, seated
apon their distant thrones of diorite,
;tared straight before them—and saw noth-
Many centuries later alnhe Jewish fami-
lies in Egypt did a strange thing. Super•
naturally guarded amid the wild terrors
that were stalking through the land, they
sprinkled blood upon the door -poste. By
this mysterious means their first-born are
said to have escaped the destroyer. By a
like power, inexplicable, irresistible, the
house of Terakh and the followers of Abu-
ramu evaded the madness that smote the
hildren of Ur. What led them unscathed
because of its originality,and which became
a watchword of the new religion :
"Abu•ramu, thou shalt not kill!" The
priestess spoke. The lover obeyed, Over-
whelmed by the revulsion of his escape,
Amraphel, speechless, dropped upon the
fragments of his god.
Thus the men, a,thousand in number, of
the united hooses of Terakh and Abu-ramu
swept unharmed past the murdering popu-
lace, the butchering priests,the red-handed
guards, the venerable temple gate—dese-
crated for the first time, and, leaving their
old religion forever behind, outcasts from
Hurki and Ur, into the silent street and
down it they marched silently until they
reached the mansion of Terakh.
Strange though it be to relate, the ser-
vants of Terakhand of his son killed none
in that onset. The followers of a new God
did not usher in their new religion by the
death of even one man. But the votaries
of Huiki, struggling under a nameless
delirium, slaughtered one another until ex-
haustion and night ended the unparalleled
carnage.
Now in the midst of this scene, Iskah
felt a touch upon her garment,—a motion
like the sleight of a sorcerer, and no more,
—and when she looked, behold, the babe
was gone from her arms.
A wild-eyed man was winding his way
out of the retinue adroitly like a sacred
snake, and if any observed him no man
withstood him'. A woman's cry of ectasy
from beyond, in the street, reached up to
Iskah ; for her ears and her heart were fine.
"That poor mother hath found her babe,"
she said to Antelai. She did not mention
the -matter to Abu-ramu. He had forgotten
about the child.
In the early starlight a great caravan
wound its unmolested flight from out the
gate of Terakh, past the unguarded fortifi-
cations of Ur, into the gray sands,
"Blessed be the Ono God ! He leadeth.
I follow. Dost thou love me ?" Thus whisp-
ered the chief ; for he was but a lover, and
the maiden clung to his bosom.
"As thou livest, let me live : when'thou
diest, I will die."So said Iskah, gently.
tele
•
pression changed ; as it did iii the garden.
from the priestess' to the woman's look, so
now, with a sudden illumination, the wo-
man's expression became that of the wife.
Abu-ramu followed this beautiful- transfor-
mation in rapture.
•
The grand vizier and the general of the
right aroused the king from his stupor.
"Arise, 0 king, and pursue them, and
kill them, for their power is small, and
their booty is great. Even Hurki, the
shining one, commands it."
"Let them go," answered the king slow-
ly. "I have seen a god greater than Hurki,
He hath protected them. Pursue not, and
letethem go."
•
r
"My God;" he cried out, " dist killest
me with thy goodness! Then he- rew
wife toward him,, and hid her in the/olds of
his mantle.that his people might not see the
meeting of theirlips.
A book older than time, for it has pro-
ceeded out of the mouth of God, has told
of the wanderings of these seekers after
the true Ilu through Kharran, through
Egypt, until they found rest in the land of
the Canaanites, For in that book, Abu-
ramu, the aon of Terakh, the inhabitant of
Ur, a prince of the Casidu, is known as
Abraham, the father of the Jews ; and
Iskah his wife is called Sarai, the princess.
And from their heresy, their courage, and
their love
London His
London has a p
dies he must be b
and lot -owners wh
London Dogs' Cem
Sprang the race
That with Jehovah parleyed face to face.
{THE END.]
.RUSSIA'S JEWS -
The Horde Which Inhabits the Czar's Coun-
try—A. Type Easily Recognized.
Russia has more than a third of all the
Jews in the world,and she is doing her best
to reduce this number. Official statistics are
not quite reliable on this subjeet,but it is
assumed by the best informed that Russia
must have close on to 3,000,000 of the He.
brew race. The United States and England
are shocked by the measures which the Czar
is taking against these people and • charge
him with reviving religious persecution.
The Czar replies to this by pointing out that
the United States deliberately closed its
doors against emigration from China,whose
subjects were represented in America to the
extent of only about 100,000- souls,- mostly,
upon the lie & is coast. In this matter,
moreovai, tee 'VIAL' moves in harmony with
the
Far into the night, with the apprehensive
look of flight, the caravan hurried on until
the dawn. Seated upon one camel, Iskah
and Abu-ramu mutely communed with the
future. With welded hands, with a touce
that told their hidden thoughts, the prince
and the princess passed their first night
together as in a sacred dream." Com,, whispered
"Thy God shall be my P
the Chaldean bride. "Thou mightier than
Hurki, thou hast snatchedlord f'as a panther
nbher
doth his prey—O my
thrilled with the pride that the weak feel
in the strong.
"This day hath my God done mighty
thin sin Ur. Whither he leadeth me, 1
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
of his people, high and low ; and were his
people tmm^rrow to proclaim a republic,
one of the few laws which it would not re-
peal edict ! ee that which excludes the Jew
from Holy Russia. The Russian knows his
Jew better tnan we know him and is there-
fore better qualified to legislate on the sub-
ject.
In England, Jews are met in every walk
of life—in the army, the diplomatic ser-
vice, the cabinets, the House of Lords, and'
amongst the boon companions of England's'
future King. As with ns, they have cast
off every distinguishing badge of their race,
and it is frequently only by accident that
we learn the nature of their religious creed.
In Russia, however, it is totally different.
There the Jew is as distinct a type as is
with us the negro or the Chfman. You
can distinguish him as far as you can see,
not merely by the face and form,
through the midst of frightful confusion ? know not. But this I know—I will obey
It was as if they were protected by an in- m, and love thee, until my death."
visible cloud. Only Amraphel glared at hi"Hush !" said Iskah, her eyes roving
them from his is e o altar. uponAt hiseinto- over the horde. "For behold, Terakh ap-
herentshouts his people set one anoth- o cheth e
er the more savagely.
" My son, thou hast undone me !" cried
Terakh, as the tide of fate swept them in,
one ehannel. -
"My father, my God will protest thee.
Follow thou him." So answered Abu-ramu,
shortly and sternly.
"His will be done. I suppose I must."
The old man said this with a wry face,
thinking little of the danger to his life, but
much of the loss of his art.
Antelai, his wife, struggling behind the
old man, shed no tears. She obeyed her
husband, but she adored her favorite, son.
Haran,the father of-Iskah, and Nakhor, his
brother, drawn into the retinue by tribal
gravitation, marched with sullen faces.
They didjnot share Abu-ramu's heresy, and
it takes time for a superior man to compel
the admiration of his kinsmen.
Like a. torrent within a seething whirl-
pool the men of the desert advanced. They
did not know much about this new. God of
Abu ratnu's. Their views of any assistance
they were likely to receive from him were
most uncertain. Thunderstruck at the
sudden carnage abort them, they awaited
the expected aesault. In a solid phalanx,
frowning,resolute,unwavering, they divided
the storm that waged about them.
"Father, we protect the princess 1" shout-
ed the warriors to their chief. " These
citizens are as ants to our feet. This day
shall we make thee king 1"
For answer Abu-ramu pointed to the altar
already in the distance. Upon it Amraphel
still stood raving at his subjects. He dared
not trust himself in the court lest his per-
verted people should slay him in their blind
wrath. The nation would easily accept a
revolution, this Abu-ramu well knew ;,but
the desecration of the god of the land, that mystery."'
t Beloved 1" gbu•ramu's voice
could the h atoned only by blood. poke from a soul faeavray.
"To the house of Terakh—and then, ,ttT� ounded as if itspoke
desert 1" he commanded. knew not thenew`God yet. But I shall
ut thereupon, as if stung by:t sitteine Uow him as the son knoweth the father.
ulse of revenge, Abu-ramu stood, awe( But this I know,
,that vast my than soul
theaveth heavens
no
his bow, and aimed an arrow- at thee with o than the earthha hea and
b. Had his heart failed? + r his ,above, deep
ain the - - + s broader than the waters over the earth."
kah's glance rested for a moment upon
pr a .
They had been riding alone behind the umbrella, in the other a valise ; for tree Jew
tents and household goods. As the old in Russia is usually moving from piece to
man noticed that chisvenerable
close obserer would lace on business, unless he is so poor as to
have noticed that his five was be forced into menial occupation.
much changed. A contest bad passed over Russia has limited the territory in which
him that had left deep marks. For -ad by Jews are allowed to live to a narrow strip,
fate into heresy which his courage never
beginning in the Baltic provinces near
would have Ied him to champion, but Riga and ending at the Black Sea, follows
of which he approved in the inner most in , roughly,
1 f h heart his features had now g+ g y+
wee i�
till.
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therefore place
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THE DOG CEMETERY, =DE PARK, LONDON.
In the rear of the gate -keeper's lodge is a plot of ground which looks like a tiny garden.
In the midst of the flowers, however, are a number of small marble tombstones. Arrang-
ed in rews,eaeh bearing some tender inscription, with tiny gravel paths between and an
arch of ivy to greet the spectator, one counts about forty of these pretty tokens of re-
membrance.
"Poor Little Prince" is the inscription over the graveeo fsthe Duke
Sprite,f Cambridge's
Vic, ge s pet.
Others among the dead have the names of Jack, Tip, Topsy,
g
and. Zoe. Each grave leas its well -trimmed bushes of evergreen, and here and there are
ornaments in the shape of large white shells.
Very few people in London, apart from those whose pets sleep their last in this peace-
ful little spot, are aware of its existence. Should it be duplicated on this side of the
Atlantic, there is no doubt the tiny burial plots would be readily sold. The Pet -Dog
Society, for instance, would naturally be interested in finch an institution, and many
tender-hearted women and some animal -loving men would be glad to bury their dead
petsinjust this sort of a place.
SO GRAPHICALLY DRAWN
by Mr. Pennell in his work The Jew at
Home, but in certain peculiarities of dress,
to which he clings as. pertinaciously as does
the Apache to his blanket or the Mexican
to his sombrero. The Jew of Kovno, War-
saw, Kiev, and wherever else I have run
across him in Russia, wears a carious
curl that hangs down in front of each ear,
sometimes to his chin. His cap of black -
alpaca or cloth sits far back on his head,
close to his ears, with a visor as large as
those once fashionable amongst our brake-
men and conductors. His coat of black
cloth or alpaca is modelled after.that in
which Dundreary is usually portrayed,
reaching down to his ankles, and assisting
•to give him the long, lean, hungry look of
the Shylock type. On his feet are boots
worn outside of his trousers, in one hand an
vaults o 18 ,
that cast of decision which was needed t0 - THE WESTERN FRONTIER
THE PEST 01' THE TWO DAKOTAS.
make his countenance strong. -- of the empire, along the borders of Prus-
A God whom he had seen to be mightier sin, Austria, Hungary, and Roumania.
than the god he had made had taken him These ibur countries—or - rather three, if
by the baud, and Terakh was astonished we regard Austria and Hungary as one—
that he had offered his palm in return. But know more of the Jews by actual contact
Tthen any other . people ; for, according to thickly interspersed with briars. It is con
witherkh was an old man, and he was weak impossible toplow through it, and in some the home of Bishop Y oung—the little ham -
localities farmers have had to abandon the let of Vermillion—is at least ten hundred
much emotion. the last census onga the subject, ; - there
an P miles from Edmonton, the nearesthundred
settle-
humblye Now thou art the `exalted father' of in Austro -7,883 ; y mans1,643, 48 ; - land. He earnestly appealed to the
the people," said the aged man. bending Empire, 567,883 ; Roumania, 400,000: t meat The diocese of Athabasca includes
before his son. "Thy men- inquire - The same census gave for Great Britain spreading throu hoot the entire Northwest
whether they shall offer sacrifice to Shame and Ireland only46,000 Jews ; Franca, g . 1 for existeneeF Federal
ash or to Hurki." - 49,43t ; Norway, only 34 ; Spain, 402. In
" Tell them," said Abu-ramu, without fact, as compared with Russia's neighbors,
hesitation, in a tone of authority, " that the number of Jews in other countries is
they offer neither to the - sun, nor to the hardly worth mentioning.—[HarPee's Maga-
moon, nor the stars, nor to any graven im- - zine,
ages, but let them consume a sin offering to
the One God." Clattle•in London a Oentnry A�o-
"His name?" inquired Terakh, politely.
"He is called Ilu Shaddai, the God Al- r ss correspends ondent
following Mark
a kaLane a
Ex -
mighty." Abu-ramu crossed_hisarms, and p
bent his head as he spoke. Awe .-covered general treatise on cattle, by John Law -
his face like a mantle. Reverence- settled re e, AbD 18 pounds drivingweight hay is the
e to
upon itliken mist.
Moved as he had never been before, the constanthallowancesgy is the
into the fat
old maker of gods, who knew his own im- beast ;
ages only too well,,.bowed and departed. the
hee cattlentoaerie the
night and
torn n .
"Verily," he said, "my son loveth in might,
he believeth in wisdom, he speaketh in London
ro ke n in
are, Many of
tired are their
spirits, that if they were not killed they
would die, and those whose'. feet bear not
the journey well, da so waste their juices
through fatigue, that when they are hill ad
they will not stiffen. -These disadvantages
are infinitely enhanced - by the subsequent
treatment of the cattle, in the streets of
London, where individuals of them, goaded
by the most racking pains, and agitated, by
larm, are driven tib madness; to
Havoc Wrought by the Russian Thistle on
the Land of the Farmers.
A Washington special says :—How to
destroy -the Russian thistle and afford re-
lief to the suffering farmers of the Dakotas.
is the problem that the House Agricultural
Committee has been considering for some
days. The committee had before it a bill
bearing upon this subject, introduced by
Mr. Been, of Minnesota..
The bill provides that the Secretary shall
investigate the extent to which the pest has
lodged in this country, divide the infested
area into districts, with a Superintendent
for each district, and that these Superin-
tendents shall contract with the residents
of said districts for the extermination matd for
the weed. The sum to be appropriated
the purpose is $1,000,000.
Representative Boen, the author of the
bill, stated that, . if the thistle is not exter-
minated, it will not only destroy the wheat
but most of the farm product; of North
Dakota. The weed first made its appearance
in 1878. It came in some shipments of
flaxseed from. Russia, and does not exist
across the Canadian line.
Gov. Shortridge, of North Dakota, said
that the Russian pest is more destructive
than the Canadian thistle. It has no leaves
and cannot be burned. It grows among
the grain, and, when the grain is taken off,
it grows into an immense mat of weeds
• THE NORTH COUNTRY.
Great Possibilities of the Peace River Dis
trict.
Lying beyond the settled portions of the
great prairie country of Western Canada is
a region of such vast extent that it may be
measured upon the map by thousands of
miles. Very little is• known about this
vast country. Portions of it have been
partially explored and are visited by fur
traders and adventuresome persons, while
other vast portions have never been visited,
by white men at least. During the past
season a party of explorers made a trip
through a corner of this great country,
passing through a strip of territory 800
miles wide, which was never before visited
by white man. A large portion of this
back country is known to be wooded, while
other districts are composed of prairie land,
and some is of a rough, rocky nature, where
travel is very difficult.
A few mission stations have been estab-
lished among the Indians who inhabit the
great north country . These stations are
usually hundreds of miles, and sometimes
a thousand miles, from the borders of civil-
ization, or from the nearest point where a
white man may be found. Far away in
the wilderness, a thousand miles from civil-
ization, stands the episcopal see of Atha-
basca, whose bishop, the Right Rev. Dr.
Richard Young, made a trip out this year,
and has given some information about this
ntry. By the shortest practicable route
ver's eyes, and then quickly passed to . - extren.� g not drsvera'
eled sky with a modest motion rare the heartfelt bight, not of the but v a
age to her sex and nation. She felt only,
as encircling her with an imperious beastly and ignorant rabble of all sorts to
is was as if he had forged whom. it is and high gratification
torture.oatioFroto m the
ress
the ealiakr of a sweet server with fright
violept and continued inflammation, -the
power that broug flesh of these - animals is given out to the pub-
•
ti`ood in a state of absolute gatgrtne.
Commitee to give them relief as the pen is
e i
Gov. Shortridge read a letter . from
A. L. Mohler, General Manager of the
Great Northern Railway act t. Pani. Mr.
Mohler, said that, unless united. action is
taken by the farmers, thew damage to the
land will, be, infinitely; greater than from
any of the worst graseho'pper plagues these
districts have ever experiieneed. Unless
checked, it will extend to Southern Min-
nesota- and North Dakota. The danger
from this source is very great, - as, if the
grain from these districts is shipped to
other localities and any of the seed re-
mains, the same trouble will develop in
districts that are now free from it.
In answer to further inquiries, Gov.
Shortridge stated that three counties in
North Dakota near the South Dakota line
have been abandoned because of the thistle
and about 70,000 square miles are covered
with it.
Major Charles W. Butts, of-NorthDakota
concluded the arguments. In one county
that he traveled through last year he no-
ticed fifteen quarter sections that had been
abandoned. The horses' legs were covered-
with
overed
with leather leggins to protect them from
the thistles, and where the thistle is dense
it is impossible to force one's' way through
it. It cannot be exterminated, he said, ex-
cept by pulling it up. It became so trouble-
some in one Russian province that the Gov-
ernment for two years supported the pease
antsy, and only required that the' latter
should twice a year plow the thistle up and
turn it under. He thought the United
States Government ought to destroy it on
its own land, whether it assisted the settlers
or not. No aeon was taken by the com-
mittee. ,F
ggnrat of Hurki, and lie however, needless to the extreme
r, is thy great love for All t� s,
tendered. red. ,. • "f ridicule, is borne with that; laiidable
e the new God.I-will' patience which hail ever induced nine -tenths
him very sweet," So of mankind to dread and rejeot effectual_
ed voice. Her. head drop- remedies." „onire The' empress of China hoe sent five ladies
e dreainhd the ark thecorrespondent etentgto ea t eameet to the court of Berlin in order to learn
is eyes sought tile` d e. the P How would thnseoi the Pres= Gerinan manners and: etiquette.
e
nets o sewers -would � ' t Combatant—" a called
on them. Even now people( little; a Alai, eur." " An' he called -mea lazy
many Indian and half breed missions and
schools, struggling
little or no support from the - e era
government. -
Outside the treaty limit (that teethe In-
dians who are living under treaty with
the government)- the government gives
nothing but a very small grant toward the
payment of teachers, though -the Indians
are increasingly anxious to learn. Dr.
Young relates that a sample of red- Fife
wheat much praised at the - World's Fair,
was grown at the Christ Church Mission
farm at Smoky River. The possibilitea of
the future are almost infinite. The soil of
the Peace River valley, he says, is exceed-
ingly rich and the liability to frost no -,
greater than in Manitoba. At Vermillion the
Peace River is between a mile and a half
and two miles wide, a magnificent stream.
Here the only white settler, Henry Law-
rence, a farmer from Quebec, killed_
winter seventy-five hogs, all raised ky
self. Well bred, with a strong strai3i of
Berkshire, these pigs do so well in -this
far land that the difficulty is to manage
the fast increasing herds. gorses there do
well out of doors all winter, and cattle
thrive profitably with stabling such at they
get in Eastern Canada. The halfbreeds
take well to farming, but not so many of
the pure blood .Indians. Yet they are
acquiring by degrhes the learning of the
Caucasians. The tribes of the diocese are
the Chippewayans, Beavers, Crees and
Slaves or Tinnes. The Cree language is
more or less understood by all the tribes.
of..those who unite love is day -like
_
ne emotion ; help mad ent day lik fi
very quickly be Men."ose that the tope, Peacemaker—" " ouldn'Hilt, myg m
ion by the help of a missioners
they do get hold of in sale -sages
down loafer Peacemaker—"Well, I wouldn't
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The commissioners appointed by Gover-
nor Russell, of Massachusetts, to investi-
gate theNorwegianand Swedish system of
liquor selling report that the plan is a good -
one and ought to be introduced iu Massa-
chusetts. -
According to the latest available a-atro=
nornical data, 10,000 double starsliave bees
recorded by the observers of this cot
and Europe. This exceeds the total note
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