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Three Jn I J square, f 12 lines) $ 50 $ 75 $1,00 1 quires, 24 lines J 1 00 1 00 J 00 I Squares, 36 lines 1 60 2 00 3 00 j 3 months. 6 do. 12 do ! i lines or less. $1 50 $3 00 $5 00 ' I s.piarc. 1 12 lines 2 50 4 50 9 00 I 2.pi;trcs, 24 lines! 4 00 7 00 12 00 1 .squares, f3tt lines 6 00 9 00 14 00 j half a column, he column. 13 00 12 00 20 0C 15 00 22 00 35 Ot L o r c n a The years creep slowly by, LoreLa, The .-now Is on the grass again. The un' low down the sky, Lorcna. The fr'.-t gleam where the flowers have Wen ; Tut the he:ut thn ls on as warmly now As when the summer days were nigh, lii! the miii can nevir dip so low Ailuuii alfi-etiou's cloudless sky. Al:ii!,lred months have pasel Lorena, Sur e hot I held that hand in mine, Ai 'l U It thr pnl.-e beat fast, Iorctr, T!i"' iiiine l-eat f.u-ter far than thine. A l ui 'licl tii'Miths 'iwas thiwery May, Wlarii up the-" hilly .sh-pe we cliiiibed T w;.tcli the dying of the day. Au'. In ar the i.L taiit thuith bells chimed. i h vi-' ,nh other then, L-rena, M k r ue cverd.mii to tell, Aui nii.it ue miht have lieen, Loiiua, U.i.l inn our h-ving prospered well, bur tlii-ii 'ti- past the years are gne. I l! ii' t call up their shado.vy forms. Ml iy to them, hot yt-ars. j.lep n, Siu p en, r. er heed life's pelting storm. Ti c ht. ty .f that pa, lorcna, !.! i - ..... . . .. - .. ii.ii ri jx'ai, 'lie li..n-s that could not hi.-.t, Iorena, Tliey lived, but only lived to ihc.it j 1 iv.. ul. 1 i.,,t cause cVu 'one regiet. 1 lihkle in niir Uusom now, Y r. if we try we m iy forget. Were word-, of thine, luiig years ago. W. th4 were Words of thine, Lorena, Thy burn within my memory yet, liny touch some tender chords, I-orena, Which thrill ami tremMe with regiet, 'IwMs l ot thy woman's heart that spoke, Thy heart wa.-always true tome; A duty, stern and pres-sing, broke The tie thut linked my soul with thee. h matters little now, Lorena. The pat is in the eternal past. in l, a.!s will soon lie low, Lortua, hil'e's tide is ebbing out So fat. There is a future Oh! thank God, (,1 bile this is so small a part, ''is dust to dust Iteneath the lut there, up there, 'lis heart to heart. He-member ' 31c. BT oKHTKCDK .UfcY. ! not in youth's bright spring time When skies are brightest o'er me. When with flowers fair and sweet My I'iilli fc strewu before me; "t when upon my eheuk The glow of health you see, Vhon life and joy are in my eye Not then remember mo. And not when bright wing'd IIoo Shetls her mystic radiance round me, W hen in life's garish noonday Summer friends surround me ; -"t then when Fortune Emiles, W Imn my heart is light and free, 1 hen earth is but a fairy land Not then remember mo. hut. 0, when friends forsake me, When all is lone and dark, V. hen wintry storms o'ertake me, Tossing my foundering bark ; And when my cheek is fading When Hope's bright day-dreams flee, When sorrow my brow is shading, Then then remember me. CiT Always have a good stock of pa tience laid by, and be sure you put it where you can easily find it... T''X0S OO". -' , V. SHOULD BE DBTRlBUTED A,lKE, UPON .V1 W. , ,. " i vir i m i im ! i rnf thnir v i i . . , LEGEND OF THE MIDDLE AGES. In the year of Our Lord 1200, the Jh.shop of Me wick was travelling through the country of Wittenberg, on his way to Ilainburgli, to visit the small city of Sa lem one of his friends, Francis Kyaeii, a leanied philosoher and theologian. After the usu:U coniplinicnts were passed, the c-onvers;ition having turned on preaching, Francis Eysen remarked, 4lmt in fultill nient of duty, he was to preach on next Monday, the feast of the 'lliree Kin.'s or Magi, and that he would be very anxious , to nave tut tne company present It would afford me the greatest pleasure, sjiid he, :uid if you would remark any fault in my sermon, I would Uikc it as a mark of the greatest friendship to have ' it Muueu out iint corrected. 'l he ilay of the sermon being arrived, the friends kept their promise, and were seated right before the pulpit. Duiiiv the seriiion the liishop of Newick beheld ' a viry old man, with, a large, flowing ! white beard, whoseenieHl to tike the most j ...... .xvv. ni.n. . .a. mi viiatoiu sv. livery time he bcartl the name of Jesus, he struck his breast violently, and uttered deep and biitcr groans of dispair. The l'ishop, thinking that the old man may have been oppressed with some over- ! u helming grief, commissioned one of his 1 servants to watch him, and invite him to ! t lie house of Traneis Eysen, after church. The stranger readily complied with the Hi.-hop's invitation, and seated himself among the numerous guests. At first he hesitated to reply to the l'relate's piestion, but, 011 In-ing pressed by the gm-sts, the aiideiing .lew, lor it was no other, j touched with the warm hospitalitv of the 1 Cerninn, consented to relate his history. ( We will ht him now tell his own story, j The narration of his hovish siHirts unfolds i to us an ingenious and touching legist id 011 j I the origin of the wood of the Holy Cross, j I I was bom of the tribe of Xehtali, ' in the year o'.b'2 of the creation of the j world, three years U fore King Herod put : j to tleath lus two sons, Alexander :uid j Arislobulus, by order of the Emperor Augustus. My name js Ahasueriis. My fa:h r was a carjH n'er by trade, imd my mother earned lu-r hvchliocxl as a seam stress. She was eontanlly employed on ) the vestments ot the JaMtes, winch she embroidered w ith perfection. My parents taught nie how to read and write, and when I was ot of a more advanced age j they gave me the- Hook of :!:c Law and i the l'rophots to read. IWules these lxioks ny father had another, large, very old one 1hju:i1 in parclunenf, which he i:i- , herited from his tmcestors, and in which ' 1 have often read many wonderful things : some of which I will tell you briefly, be- cause they are intimately connected with J my own ersonaI historj". j After our first parents, Adam and ; his wife, Eve, had two children, Cain and ', AIh.1, they believed that one of these two i children would Ik- the Mrtuntii. anil that he would pardon them their sin of diso- j bedience. This hope soon vanished, for j Cain killed his brother AM, whose death j Adam Wwailed for one hundred years. 1 At last, having had several sons and ' daughters afterwards, and seeing that the ' time of his death was near, he called his j young son, Seth, and said to him, 'Go; to the earthly paradise, and request the ; angel Gabriel, who guards, its gate with a ilaming sword, to permit me to j enter once more lefore I die, its beauteous j enclosure. Seth, who was quite ignorant i of this fact, went thither according to directions, found the angel and delivered Ins message. J5ut lhe angel answered ' him thus: Neither your father J nor yourself nor your josterity, j can ever enter the earthly paradise ; but j by the grace of the Ivc-diviner to come, 1 y ou, may be celestial." Having said j this, he. allowed him to see at a distance , this elysian place of beauty, where his ! father and mother once had dwelt, and ; where they committed the sin of disobedi- j ence. When Seth had beheld this charm- ; ing abode he was quite astonished, and alllicted with such sudden grief that he buist into tears. His sorrow was keen and intense, he was going away downcast and broken-hearted, when the angel called him back and said to him : Your father j will soon die ; here are three kernalsof the , fruit of the forbidden tree, take them, and when your father is dead place these three j kernels on his tongue, and bury them with j his body. Seth then departed, and ful filled exactly nil the commands of the angel. I should here remark, said Ahasue riis, " that in tho same place where Adam was interred, there grew up, some time afterwards, three trees, which bore fruit of 1 the most beautiful appearance the eye EBENSJJURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, and nauseous and crittv. Thev were, not edible, and for this reason the trees re mained there unvalued and undisturbed. When our ancestors were led away cap tive into Egypt, Moses saw a burning forest in the place where he spoke to God and from this same forest he took the rod vith which he performed so many prodi gies. As, for instance, changing this rod into a serpent, irr the presence of PJiaraoh ojiening a passage through the IVhI Sea drawing water out of a rock, and many other miracles, which you may read of in the Holy Scriptures. . When our fathers came into the Holy Land, they began to build cities and castles to defend them selves from their enemies. These same trees above mentioned were still in the same place, on the mountain where the city of Jerusalem was built, and remain ed there, outside the walls of the city, until the royal prophet, David, after the death of King Saul, surrounded them with a wall, and built a home for himself near them, because their fruit was ex tremely beautiful to sight. One day, having gathered three of these apples, he divided one of them into two parts, and found in it nothing but eartlu In the second, he found the word Chaschecab, written, which is, interpreted lie ac cepts this through love." In the third he found all the l'assion of our Ixrd Jesus Christ, which the royal prophet had pre dicted in the IVnlms. In tine, to be brief : after different wars between the kings of Israel and other countries, the city of Jerusalem was utter ly razed to the ground, after it had been several times sacked. The palace of David was on the aforesaid mountain, and the trees removed from the city about a quar ter of a league, and they remained entire until Antipatcr, the nephew of King He rod, threw down the palace and the trees, 111 the year JIMU. to render the summit - , , , . ; more spacious as a place destinel to put I niaieiaciors to ueatn. lhe nalacc was called Golgotha. The trees were then taken lo the city of Jerusalem and planted against a wall, near the Temple, where I have sat a thousand times, and played joyously with my young companions. These are the xery trees which were used in making the cro.-s on which our Loisl Jesus Christ was crucified." Ahasueriis paused here, overwhelmed with the memoirs of the ist, and silence crvadcd the whole company. The idea of making the Saviour be put to death on wood that grew from the kernel of the fatal tree, whose fruit seduced and ruined the author and posterity of the human race the still more ingenious idea of making this kernel grow out of the ashes of our first parents, has always apiH'arcd to us the most pathetic, the most artistic light of imagination in the jioctry of the middle ages. We will see this idea more jioliahcd still, wlien the author, narrating tho passion of Jesus Christ will show us the cross, m.ule from the tree planted on the tomb of Adam, and nourished with his substance, raised on this same tomb, and the blood of the divine licdecmcr flowing down to, and reanimating, the allies of our first juirent lSut wc must return, for a few moments, to the history ot the wandering Jew. It contains some very interesting mythological details. Al.asurus nine years old, when he heard his mother and father saying that three kings had' just arrived in Jerusalem, in search of a new bom king, whom they desired to adoie. He ran after them, and overtook them just as they were entering liethlehem. He describes them such as all the paintings of the middle ages re nresent them. The two first. larrn and t ' n strong, the third, of black complexion and and African features. From this time till the flight into Egypt, the story Aha sueriis contains nothing of imjiortance that we have not recorded in the Gofjiel. liut the voyage of the holy family across the desert is full of wonderful circum stances, borrowed, without doubt, from some apocryphal gospel, which has not come down to us ; for, with some excep tions, we have not found these facts in any of the known writings. " When the holy family had com menced their departure for Egypt," said Ahasucrus, " Mary, looking behind her, from time to time, ierecived several sol diers in hot pursuit. She became so alarmed that she would have fallen from the humble ass on which she traveled had not Joseph supjiorted her. They to conceal themselves quickly beneath a 1 .1 1 . large oaK mat was close yy; ana no sooner were they under the oak, than its . ,ua mi, y ntrir; 1M V IllLlAT- I It'll SI. vrilll" I hntvh 1 T i : j , . h,,,,, iiximxj me pawn urancu lias branches, of their own accord, lowered become the symbol of victory and suc themselves forruinir with its tlnrk fnli.inro I c. i 1 themselves forming with its thick foliage a secure shelter. The soldiers of Herod passed by in pursuit, little thinking that the holy family was so near. , When the assassins of the Innocents whose " .- .. , pcarctl, the branches of the oak lifted themselves into their natural position ; and the holy family pursued their journey undisturbed. On the day following, they entered into the dreary, inhospitable des ert of Egypt And as they had travelled a long and cheerless journey, they deter mined to halt for tm tiirrli :.. . they had come to this conclusion, two fu- -.lt . - nous roooers rushed Irom their hiding place, violently seized Joseph and Maryt with her beloved infant, ami dragged them, trembling, to the cave where they lived. Arrived there, breathing ven gence, they asked the poor captives, fiercely, who they were, whence they came, what their business was in such in hospitable wilds ? Poor Mary trembled for their fate. At this frying moment the Infant Jesus looked up into the robber's face with such an innocent, such a smi ling mien, that the stern hearts of these lawless men were instantly subdued, and they unbound Joseph, and treated Mary fvilh gentleness and respect. Oiic of t hem ordered his wife to fetch clean linen for the infant Jesus, and bring refresh ments to Joseph ami Mary. The wife of this robljcr had an only beloved child, in the last stage of dropsy: and, after haing bathed the infant Jesus and dressed him in new linen, she did the same with her own drooping son. Hut no sooner did she bathe her own dropsical child in the water in which Jesus was cleansed, than he was instantly and completely cured. The robber and his wife were de lighted aud astonished at the sight of such a miracle. Joseph and Mary were more kindly treated, and received the dwelling for their acconiniodotion. Next morning the good robber invited them to breakfast, helped Mary fo gel ready, con ducted them in safety to the bhOi ro-.-l i and wished them a hunnv i -n.H- . . . j - i""""0 auuiiwin uicsu worus to the infant Jesus: Lord, I firmly believe paning, lie addressed these word tliat thou art more than man : for. thoii"h willing, I had not the heart to kill v.m Y,ou are the first person who ever left my cave in safety, and for this, Lord, remem ber me and the miserable life 1 am lead ing. He rushed away, bathed in tears. This is the same robber who, according to the testimony of the Holy Virgin, who was crucified with Jesus on Calvary, and who said, 4 Lord, temember me w hen thou contest into thy kin'dom.' " About noon, on the next dav, the holy family reached the outskirts "of the lonely desert Man', exhausted with the long journey and the burning rays of the sun, was seized with the most exces sive thirst. Seeing a shady tree, a dis tance off in the desert, she said to Jos H!', 1 It us rest for i while; in yonder shade, for 1 feci weak and thirsty.' Alter they were seated, Mary lifted up her eyes, and seeing that the" palm tree was loaded with beautiful dates, expressed a wish for some to allay her hunger and thirst. How can you h ive smjh a de sire,' said Joseph, in astonishment, 'when you see it is impossible to reach them at such a height ? What is troubling me,' said he, 'is to get some water, which is beginning to fail us, and I know not where to find any,' In these straits, the infant Jesus, with a cherub smile, looked up into his mother's face, where resiima tion to Providence had already rebuked the appetite of nature, and spoke to the tree thus : ' Palmtree of the desert, lower thy branches, and cool with thy fruit my mother s thirst.' And immedi ately the fig-tree bowed his lofty head dow n to the feet of Mary, who,-with Jo seph, refreshed themselves with the well timed gift. In the meantime, the tree still remained bent, awaiting the com mands of the infant , to rise up a"ain, erect and majestic Jesus spoke again thus : Palm tree retire now, andbe eome a companion to the trees that bloom in the paradise of my father. Loosen thy roots, and let the refreshing fountain that sparkles there concealed, gush forth for my mother's comfort. The palm ti?e oienod up its roots, and immediately there bubbled up a limpid and delicious spring. The hearts of Mary and Joseph were gladdened at this sight. They drank and knelt down to return thanks to Almighty God. As they were leaving this place, next day, the Infant, turning to the palm tree, said, ' I ordain that one of thy branches be carried by angels, and transplanted in Paradise ; and it is my will, that hereafter, the brows of all who come off victorious in the battles of dod, be encircled with a crown of thy foliage.' Hence, the nalni branch has cess. After these words a scrardi wc seen to detach a branch from the ton of the tree, and then soaring up into the azure firmament, the angel-chorus hymn ed forth in Micir ca rapturing melodies 1863. Gloria in excel tits J)ro, et in terra jxix hom tiibus Lome voluntatis Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. After a short stay, the holy family again resumed their journey. Egypt is distant from Judea a journey of sixteen days. On their arrival in Egypt, all the false gols of the country full from thcirpe destajs, wherever tho holy amily passed. Hie Egyptians, seeing this, hastened in great multitudes to adore the holy family. The philosophers, however, railed at and rebuked them for prostrating themselves in worship before people who, they said, were human beings Hike themselves. To whom the simple minded countrymen an swered 'Our own gtnls have fallen down in their presence, and should not we do the same? Having sojourned for a considera ble period in Egypt, an angel appeared to Joseph in his sleep, and commanded him to return to Judea where King Herod had just died a miserable death." Wc will not at present follow Aha sueriis, narrating all the details of the boyhood of Christ, although they con tain some of the most charming incidents of domestic life, and which we may, per haps, commit to writing at some future time. We will hasten on to the recital of the Passion, where the author intro duces the frightful biography of Judas, the second type of the deicidal Jew ; and will relate in the simple but energetic lan guage of our biographer, Ahasuerus. 15ICM ;haiiiy OF JIIAS. " I have now come," continued Aha suerus, " to the geneology of Judas. I lis father was decended from the tribe of Keuben. A gardner by profession, in his spare hours he planted and cultivated a considerable orchard of his own. When liis mother was pregnant with Judas, she nati a terrible dream one night, that she brought fourth a child, with a crown glitering with gems ami precious stones in nisiiaus; winen, alter admiring a few moments, he Amur to to the cround and broke in a thousand pieces. Then she thought in her dream, that she saw this same child, with demon passion on his brow, stealing unawares, like a tiger on his prey, and felled with one blow of a heavy axe, his own father to the ground. She saw him then, after this awful parri cide, bursting in through a window of the holy temple, breaking yll the holy or naments, stealing the most valuable, and then rush away to hide his sacrilegious t robbery. " I lis mother started from sleep, af frihtl with such a terrific dream, and related it to her husband, who, in alarm sought everywhere for some person to in terpret the dream. At length he was told that he would have a son who would murder a king and his own father, and would lie guilty of villainy of the black est dye, to gratify the grasping avarice that would reign in his heart. " The jKior father on hearing such an awful prediction, became sad and incon solable. At length to escnoe tin. tl.rrM.f ened catastrophe, he and his wife resolved 10 pui me iniar.r, as soon as born, in a basket, and float it down the river. They put their plan into execution. Ju das was only ten days old when he was consigned by his lather to the waves of! the Jordan, a river that disembogues it- ! self into the Dead Sea. TheC basket which contained Judas, driven by the j winds, drifted toward the Island of Can- j dia. The king of the island, walking ...:.i. 1 .: . ,.:r. -.1 .1 . . v mi ms wie aioug me sea shore rier- l eeiveil the basket floating in the 1 1 . r- . water, 1 i and ordered 11 to uc fetched in, to see what might be; it contents On opening the basket, they were astonished to per- ceive a beautiful infant, gasping for suste- j nance, and ou the point of death. Ue- ! fivshmeiit was immediately administered, ! and he was brought to the palace to be 1 raised as the king's son. When he was ! six yewrs old he gave him the name of j Judas, for he knew by the clothes found - in me oasKci, mat lie was a Jewish child. " Judas received the same tivntmi! as the king's only son. This young j prince was one year older than Judas? I When they reached a more mature age, ! the prince observed that Judas was ac- i customed to pilfer and steal jewels, mon-1 ey, and any article of value that his I skill could enable him to conceal. The I prince complained Of him to the king, his I father, who immediately sent fer Judas ' and had his lioekcts carefully searched, j The prince's complaint was too true. ' 1 hey found hid on his person money, 1 jewels of great value rings, and other j ,a,uaurc oiiianienis ne had stolen from the prince and the queen! Tj1Q kin" got quite enraged, and w hipjied him se verely. ' Begone, instantly!' ij he know that you are no son of mine you are a foundling, rescued from a watery VOL. 10tNO. 28 grave, and, through charity raised at our court.' On hearing tliis stunning sen tence Judas was stung with rage, and re solved to take deep revenge. Thinking the young prince was the cause of all his misfortunes, he prowled abont tho palace, thirsting to imbrue his hands in his blood. The opjiortunity was cot long wanting. The young prince, a fer days after tho occurrence mentioned above, was seated beneath a clustering vine, enjoying all the beauties of the gorgeous sun-set, whoso sinking rays tinged with gold the moun tain's top, and sparkfed in a thousand gems on the waveless ' ea, before he plunged down into his evening bath. The calm unruffled sea throwing back the golden tints of the setting sun the beauty of the azure sky undimmed by a single FiK'ck of cloud the cooling breeze, laden with the fragrant perfumes of the summer twilight the universal repose of nature above and eround, reflecting back the bliss and glories of their creator, held the young prince fpell-bound to the spot, almost entranced at the Elysian beauties of the scene. It was a time, and a spot where none hut the holiest thoughts should obtrude a scene that might well soften the most savage heart. And the prince feasting his soul on the Eublime spectacle dreamt of peace and happiness. Hut it had the contrary effect on Judas, from his hiding place. His dark brow grew darker still, as he viewed the smile of in nocence that lit up the features of his former brother, and he clutched his axe with a deadlier grip, to make surer of the fatal blow. He forgot all the joyous pastimes of their youth, siicnt in tho en dearing bonds of brotherly love ; he tore from his memory the tender caresses of the loving queen. II thou-t only of his deep disgrace his high hopes blasted forever, and his scowling eyes looked the base murder, over which ho gloated in h"i6 heart lie crept noiseiesJy tJong the . ground, like a serpent eteaiiiig on its vic tim, till within n few reel cf the unsus pecting youth, aud with a singhi stroke the prince's head, severed from its trunk, rolled muttering on the ground. Look ing around a few moments, for fear of detection, he lied to the sea-coast, whero he embarked in a vessel bound for Egypt. From Egypt he went on foot to Jerusa lem, where he insinuated Jnmself into the good graces of a wealthy nobleman, who retained him in his servico. As ho had been circumcised, he was taught the law of the Jews, and the customs of Is rael. " He was not long in this employ ment till his master sent him to purchase some apples, and pointed out the house where he was accustomed to get them. It was no other than his father's honse, but Judas was completely ignorant of the fact. Wishing to gratify his love of nuiiey, and in order to keep the price of the apples for himself he climbed over tlu garden wall, and began to fill his basket with apples. His father, who was pass ing by at the time, happened to see him and, running up, called hiui a thief, and ordered him to give un the apples he had stolen. ' How dare you,' said he, como into the garden of a poor industrious man, to rob him of the limit of his honest labor? Begone, instantly, vile thief, or you shall be punished to the rigorous let ter of the law.' Judas, maddened at the insulting epithet, and alarmed at the threat of legal punishment, rushed on his father with clenched list, struck hij help less gray-haired sire to the ground, kicked and bruised him, till ho left him h.Uf dead in the garden. Snatching up his basket full of apples, he stealthily crept over the orchard wall, and hastened home. His mother being informed, by an eye-witness to the scene, of the author of the brutal assault, laid a complaint next day before his master that her hus band was at the point of death from the violence of his servant, Judas. He was arrested and tried ; but, by cunmn and Injury he received the leslont seatence; that if the husband should die, he should marry the widow, according to the law of Moses. I lis Jathcr gradually grew worse and, after a brief struggle gave back liis spirit to his Maker . and Judas, in pun ishment of his awful crime, solemnized the incestuous marrifcgc rite with his own mother. He then received the surname of Titxtriot, which signifies in our lang gunge, murd(Tcr or Iiomic'ule. He lived for a long time with his mother, whom ho continued to treat with the most abusive language and savage violenee, "Tlie poor wife and mother's heart sunk daily within Ikt at the infidelity aud coarse conduct of her new husband, and the fretted away her health insensibly. Coming home ono day, half intoxicated, and infuriated at the loss of a precious diamond, which with great skill and ruse he had possessed himself of, he vented tha Continued on Fourth page.
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