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A GORGEOUS CEREMONIAL;

BMEARITH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE DEDI¬

CATED WITH G???.

silk hats upon their heads, this procession moved

around the further side of the altar, up toward

the Ark. The rabbi's voice could be heard In

sweet tones of chanting, ami the choir re¬

sponded. The bells fastened on the metal tops

of the scrolls (these tops nre known as the

THE CZAR FAVORS POLAND.

material welfare a« their tenant» they are

morally responsible.

Had the reign <;f Nicholas II bepn signalized

by no other fact than the beginning of thi« new

and liberal policy toward the Poles. It would in

Itself have been sufficient to render It notable

and conspicuous In the history of Russia, The

present Czar and his advisers have at length re¬

alized what has long been apparent to every un¬

prejudiced student of statecraft, namely, that,

whereas an antagonistic and malcontent Poland

must necessarily be a source of weakness and of

acute danger to Russia, a loyal and contented

Poland, on the other hand, would constitute a

bulwark of defence to the huge Empire against

it« most execrated and hereditary as well as

dreaded foe, namely. Germany Poland can never

t?* Russianized. The national sentiment, the

national religion and the love for the national

traditions are too deeply rooted In the heart« of

the people for that, and all attempts In that di¬

The mastery which the Baronesa, by quite legiti¬

mate means, obtained over the young Emperor

A SAILORS' SOCIAL.

JACK'S INNOCENT AMUSEMENTS ASHORB.

W. Pett Ridge In The fit. James's Budget.

Through the noisy rattling of dominoes and

draughts, the click-click from the billiard-tablee

In the corner of th·. smokv hall, and a screaming

accordion In the passage mst the door, an earnosl

young man on the stagi. Inserted In th* wall IS

singing with tr< m« i.-i-.i.H vigor "Jerusalem." The

singer was blown up a few years sine* with a

petroleum ship on the 8«:ln»i. and was unique anmng

was so great that It led to His Majesty's com¬

plete reversal of tho Blamarcklan policy toward

NICHOLAS OP RUSSIA BEOINS A POLICY

OP JUSTICE AND CONCILIATION.

the Poles, whereupon inc. ex-Chancellor. In the

course Of a public speech, declared that "the

Polish Influence augments to the detriment of

Prussia always In the measure that some Polish

"Trees of Life," and ar«· fantastic and decora*·

tlVS In design! Jingled as the bearers advanced,

it Is a great honor tO carry a scroll of th«· Law

at a time like this, and in the hour that th»so

sacred rooOTda were carried around the aUar

THE AXCIKNT PJTEi AND TRADITIONS OF THE

Spanish-ronTrorr.s:·: AST·.ftfÜUO OT

great aJIIKrUITT.

It wa« thirty-Seven years ago. In the year

«f»62(V-this being BEBÍ, according to the Hebrew

calendar-that th·· strange and mystic cere¬

monies of consecration by the Spanish-Portu¬

guese Jewish rites were last seen In New-York.

Under mor.· elaborate uuspicos, and with a dra¬

matic effect BUCh as this city has seldom, If

ever, seen, this rame ritual was given last

Wednesday evening, the occasion being the

formal "opening of the d .ore" Of Sheartth Israel

Synagogue, the new worshlpplng-pleos of this

mo.·-·, orthodox body of Jews. They have only

four OOOgregatlons In the United States and

family obtains more or b-ss Influence at court. I

need not mention that Of the Radztivllls.and to¬

POLISH NOBUH ALLOWED TO REGAIN THEIR

ESTATKS AND INFLUENCE.THE EMPEROR

OF AUSTRIA'S WIHE TACTIC"» AND THEIR

RESfLTP F.Mrirr.OR WILLIAM'S BUD-

DKN ClIANOE OF FRONT.

From tho tlm?» when Thaddens Koerlunsko

day wo have exactly the same state of affairs."

nearly one hundred HMO Of the congregation

Rlsmarok's allusion to the Radzlwllls was a ref¬

the rrtw, In that Ik- a;i. Sown again compara¬

tively whole. The hall, while acknowledging his

Officiated and had the precious relics plaood In

their arms. Tln-re was a constant changing gtt·

Ins on, but those chosen fov the entry were the

Seniors and the leading spirits of the congrega¬

tion.

As the band of worshippers wound Its way

to the Ark, the choir broke forth Into the "Hymn

«.f Welcome." "Hymn of Welcome" hardly tells

the story, however. In orthodox Jewry It is

known ns the "Song (.f the Sea," and is con¬

sidered by the Jews to be the oldest piece of

music In the world. Migrations and transplanta¬

tion, the destruction of Jerusalem und the scat¬

tering of the Jewish race have not caused It to

be lost to Israel. It Is the pong that Miriam,

the steter of Aaron, sang after the Red Pea

was crossed, and tradition has preserved it.

erence to th'.· old Emperor's "grande passion"

for that lovely Princess Elizabeth Radzlwlll

right to slr.g "Jerusalem," seerr.-- to f-el that, not

having shsred his petroleum experience, it is un¬

der no obligation to listen to his song At a table

near the stage four sailors are wntma; laborious

letters, dated from Poplar, which will presently

requlr«» tw iper.ny-r.elfp .any stamps anrt in»·»·»

nudge each oth«;r now and again auA demand ad-

v|c« in regard to the spelling of perplexing worls.

Most of the draught and dómino players ere little

whom he was at one moment on the point of

marrying and to whom he remained devota.

throughout her lifetime.

This, however, did not stay young Emppror

William. On the contrary. It served merely to

Incite him to show more and more favor to the

Kosclols, and In deference to their entreaties bo

not only re-established the Polish language in

the schools and churches of Posen and nominat¬

fought for the Independence of the United

".tntes as aide-de-camp and orderly officer to

Washington, the people of this country have al¬

ways manifested a marked Interest in the fate

of 1'olan 1. All oppressed and downtrodden na¬

tions struggling for freedom meet with generou«

and whole-henrted sympathy on this side of the

Atlantic, no matter whether they be Armenians,

Japanese sail ira In blue sei«*.- suits with N. Y. K.

on their caps; they ere all about four foot some¬

thing In height and as they move In the gam·

ed a Polish ecclesiastic to the Archbishopric of

that province, but likewise appointed a number

narrow silts of eyes ar»« half-closed In the «ff.it

of thoueht. Nearly e·.ery one Is smoking; a Oer¬

of Polish nobles to Important offices at court and

in the army.

All things come to an end. even the reign of a

man sailor Is puffin* nt a pipa e mfalnlng S special

brand of tobacco tiiat makes those who art» near

it weep bitterly.

rection have lamentably failed, the only result j

hnvlng been still further to accentuate the differ¬

ence between the two races by reducing the Poles

to the condition of political pariahs, that Is to

«sy. a caste apart, deprived of the civic rights

«nd privileges of the Russian-born subjects of

the Czar. But while Poland cannot be Russian¬

ized, it can be transformed Into an invaluable

ally, and If any doubt prevailed In the mind of

the present Czar It must have been set at rest

by the phenomenal success which hns attended

th* policy In this direction pursued In Austrian

Poland hy Emperor Francis Joseph.

THE AUSTRIAN TACTICS.

Austria's tactics toward her Polish province«,

have been entirely different from those" of Russia

and of Prussia. While the two latter have en¬

deavored to crunh tho national sentiment, the

Viennese authorities have fostered it. nnd Francis

Jceph has made a point of "onoodlng as mn 'h

autonomy II hi possil.lv could toward his Pol¬

ish llejref». Th«· result I» that tc-day there are

no more devoted elherents, no mor-» ehtvslrously

loyal rapporter· of the Hapshurc; dynasty than

the Polish ari itocracy and the peasantry of

Galicia. They h'.11 Francis Joseph, not as their

beautiful and clever woman. If court gossip at

Rerlln Is to be believed, lioth the Empress Victo¬

ria August, and her mother-in-law. Empress

Frederick, showed themselves aggrieved by tho

"Now tb-n, men! Slnglrar part of O'ir to-lal

evening Is ever, and wVr* fob.g to hav- »ramee.

Honjo. what shall we have first? Como* r.ov.:"

Honjo's fac«. like ths 'aces of the other Japan¬

amount of talk created both at home and abroad

through the attentions Of the Kaiser to the fair

ese, runs away Info a broad ««mile ilir-etly he

takes the braw* off Hi.-to takes his elsarette

from nia moith and look« respectfully at theflo>r.

"Muaeecelehalr"'

"Speak up, Honio. We didn't quite eaten th_t.·*

Pole. Moreover, during the grand army

man.uvres, that took place in the province of

Posen, some of the Polish noblee In whose cas¬

"He say it «a mother * ft deferential roteo

that translates."he say he ? ogg«-»· t to ??*? m-ma-

Cal chair."

"Good! Musi-al ehi 1rs If «hall he. 7_er« ajet forty

chairs, with twenty fa ing this way arid twtsntf the

ti· s Bavarian, Bason and other princes of the

confederation known as the German Empire had

been quarter".1 w-re emboldened by what they

looked upon ao the Bmperor*S favor toward their

other. an«I so-ríe one .-it up o. ! play the piano.

And If that se<COrdloa out In the passage woa't

stop, we shall have to make I' "

Chairs arranged Hon -, ..«-;:··< * ccnin re-

race to adopt a spirit of Independence which took

the form In several cases of a refusal to hoist

the flag of their royal guests over their cast!· s <-n

tho ground that no olors could be permitted to

spcnaibiiity in the msti directs his four-foot·

sc meihlng colleaguea; «· m itatto In a licht twe«d

fly there »XOSpt thOM of Poland. The climax,

suit, and Btnofcing h long ifi·* goes ».;. to ·:-<>

however, carne s ?t»? the Raron Kos.-iol-Kos-

Ctelskl, on me-Mlng the Austrian Emperor at the

piano: the Germ p Hors < m* round stolidly to

lech on. Forty-one players ? '«»? end the forty

chairs carefully counted, All r ght? Go:

"Suzuki!"

"I'leace, sar "

"Where Is your friend Kono tonlithtT'

Question spoken slowly and d ? tly, tecs«ise

opening of th«· exhibition at Lomborg. In Aus¬

trian Poland, hailed not Emperor William, but

his Austrian Majesty as tbe real and only "King

of Poland." the "only king'' to whom alone all

Poles were willing to accord allegiance.

A IUDDXN REVULSION.

This speech was Immediately communicated to

Emperor William, and as It happened to reaeh

bis ears simultaneously with angry protests rfora

the King of Saxony, who romplained of the

slights to which his brother, Prlr.ce Oirge. had

been subjected as above described by the ?

Suzuki's knor.-!«--d(fe of Enalfsh, alth u:;i. reditsbla

Is pot without Its limitations,

"1? n- e

aa« 1 iiukl, with a grin hat goe« over

his high crv.-H.ori·'» Irto hl» smell, narrow eye«

ami touches his low forehead."pieace, be kr.ottln

stlckln."

"f»..lnir what?"

"Ho-he stickin knotMn "

"Try ac.'iin. Busukl W* can't tuite eatcV.

Emperor." but ns their "King." and are now en¬

gaged In raiding by popular robscrlptton a na¬

tie nnl fund to be used In the restoration of the

former Klorl·«: of the old Polish Ktr.ps' palace on

thi Mount Wavet, at Cracow, which is to be

presented to Francia Joseph on the forthcoming

fiftieth fnniversary «f his secession to the thron·.

The Galicien peasantry make magnificent cav-

olry soldi··::;, and the Polish .'nobility the most

darhlng and brilliant of cavalry officers. More¬

over. th«> Polish aristocracy possess so much In¬

tuitivo shrewdness ar.d innate diplomacy that

from their ranks have been recruited many of

the most responsible and valuable Ml vants of tho

Austrn-H.tng.iilan Crown Thus, the Prim·'

Minister of Aiutrla. at the present moment is a

Polish noble, Count Baden!, while Emperor

Ftancis Joseph on the occasion Of his recen". Stan

visit to the Court of St. Petersburg whs ae-

ccmpanled ? > another irreal dignitary of p..iish

rationality, Count (3olOUChoWlkl, popularly

known as "fjolou." who mis thi ofllci of Minister

of Foreign Affairs for the dual Empire, and like¬

wise the duties of Mir.bter and Chancellor of

what is known ns the imperial house of Austria.

Without recommending the Czar to intrust th"

destinies of Russia to Pol.nh nobles, as has been

done In the case of Austria by the Emperor

Fiancls Joseph, who has never made tho mistake

of aitemptini to Auatrlautss his Polish subjects,

there Is no rer.son whatsoever why Nicholas, if

hi continues in his pres-nt enlightened course

of policy, IhOUM not convert the Poles In his do¬

minions Into Just as loyal and as devoted va--als

ard supporter« «>f his thr. r.« as ari the Gali.'ians

In connection with tbe Crown of Austria-Hun¬

gary. And it may be added that no hat. pier timo

cculd have been chosnn for th« beginning of a

rew policy of this kind in Russian Poland. For

"Kono Is-Kono is," wi:h a determined effort a*

lucidity, "s'.ottin knl-kln."

"You mea "in»r stöckln«."

"Pteace, ear!" With a broad amile of satisfa tlon

at having, In a difficult tai

noblemen at whose castles he had been quartered

during the army manoeuvres, be determined, in

his usual Impulsive fashion, to cut adrift from

Influences that had become a matter of public

gossip and popular ill-will. So he lntlnia:<--l t »

Very carefully, very warily, the forty-one p.-.?

are creeping to the ¡ou.l mu«.|c from the piano -?

and down and around tha forty chairs The mu¬

latto at tho piano, with hla long cigar Bt ar. ß",·-?

arpie, muke«·, a f«int of Btopptag v

the Haron and to the Raror.ess that th--ir ab¬

sence from court was prefem ? to their presence;

! m 1-

ley of airs, and manv «it down pros iturely to

an.l when the Baron travelled to Pots-lam to try

to explain matters th« Emperor sternly refused

to receive him, and suggested in a manner that

their great confusion. When presentii ? uto

(Who has an artful brain under his Ollshed .«hlnlng

fac ei does stop ther»» Is a t.-rrlfi

aiiowe-i no misunderstanding that th··» Baron

should leave the city at once and remain on his

estates.

That ended Polish Influence at the court of

Berlin, and as if to atone for his Infatuation,

which, while it luted, seemed to estrange many

of his Prussian nobles and his South Orman

a'üe« William is now manifestine as much blt-

ternesj and Ill-will toward the Poles as he for¬

merly showed favor. He has as far as possible

removed all the Polish nobles from the positions

Of dignity and trust to which he had appointed

finir·": the contest ever, It Is seen that Honjo him¬

self, the manager, almost the proprle-.-r of the

game, la the one who has be- a nnsutxeesful in the

contest and has no «eat. Off again, you tir: atto

gent nt the pianoforte. Off you go again wtth a

buataeesllke e:r and a nodding Of the head, as

thoutrh you wer» eolng to play "Way Down

struggle for

th* Suwanee River' right tbroutrh to the e.nd; pull¬

ing up, though, unexpectedly at the third bar e.:A

creating again the swift dash for i-halrs. An Eng¬

lish tailor, who Is this timo the defeated candidat«»,

could not be more perturbed If ha had m.sst-d bis

ship.

"Just my d-luck." he says ruefully. And alma

accurately at one of the ciant round cuspidors.

Indeed, the members of the home team are not

pearly so successful In the game as tn<j visitors.

Honjo is not caught again, and the wilmess of the

mulatto at the plar.o rarely catches th« other Jap¬

anese. The accordion out In the passage wake* up

again In a temper, and some one goes out to sooth*

them while subject to the thraldom of the

Ranmess, and loses no opportunity of saying

harsh things about the Poles in general, de¬

nouncing them as ungrateful and disloyal,

threstenlng them with the fullest measure of

his wrath in the event of his discovering thftm

engaged in any practices that can possibly bo

con-trued as treasonable. Naturally, his subordi¬

nates take their cue from him, and the result Is

that at no time have there been recorded so

many instances of persecution, oppression and

downright brutality m the part of the Prussian

authorities toward the Poles as of late.

Of course this only serves to accentuate the

conciliator/ course pursued by the Czar on the

eastern banks of the Vistula, and one of the af¬

fects thereof has been to lead many gteat landed

chair goes over, broten, and there Is a tussle b»v

tween two Of the player» for it» po»»«aslo_, th*

geme is stopped.

"Stop that, please! We want no disturb·«noe*

Now then, what do you say to General Post?"

If General Post were the came of the 'most popu¬

lar officer tn the world it could not be more loudly

acclaimed. General Post prove* to be another

gome of one's forgotten childhood» P.lr.g formed

with chairs that have served for the last gam«,

ports selected and taken d.iwn on paper, a sailor

proprietors In Prussian Poland to migrate across

chosen and blindfolded. Now it Is that the little

Japanese are sometimes caught- becaus* when "I

have a letter from Yokohama to Hull" they do not

the frontier and to transfer to the Czar the alls-

giani a hitherto accorded to Emperor William, at

tho ¡fame time placing at the disposai of Russia

the valuable knowledge, strategic, economic,

pdltic, administrative ami military, which they

have olitali·.·-! «bile still puhjeet to the Herman

Kaiser. Numbers .»f them are being naturalized

as Russians. Among lbs most recent Instance«

quite catch th* words, and. a conference hartxg

TUE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF TIIE CONGREGATION OF SHEARITH ISRAEL,

sometimes to b* held before any action Is taken, a

fatal hesitation when starting ensues and they are

caught by th* blindfold««*! man. (>mmi__caf!ons

are announced from and to many obscure and __*»

apart places.

"I have a letter from Valparaiso to Bl^ao.·

"I have a letter from Simon's Bay to 'Frisco."

Canada, ar.d they cleave to the faith of their

fathers without the turning of a hair, as If they

were even now In Ipaln, and as If the dlsrer-

elon into Holland had never cop

Romantic and Oriental In the highest degree

vere thes< rites that have ! «¡? bended down

unchanged through the centuries, and they

lost none of their Imprasslveness from the fact

that the v.-n wh officiati ? In them.over a. hun¬

dred Jews of the leading families «if New-York.

were In mi lern evening garb and wots silk

hats throughout the evening The Tribune a

year ago d.« ·· i' this buildll f, i\ Beventieth-

6t and Central I'ark West, in d< tail, just be¬

fan the cornerstone was laid. It la, therefore,

merely necessary now to mention a few of lis

eallcnt features. The scene that formed the sea¬

ting for these rites was itrange and plctureequ I.

? Spanisi^ PortUgUlse eynagogue Is curiously

planned. At Its eastern en3 stands the Ark of

the Covenant.the Eachal (In Hebrew).here a

euperb front of .Siena marble, veined In Iri¬

descent brown, with a cornice and an entab¬

lature decorated in gold and led op t.» by steps

of blood-red Nurnidian marble. The floor to the

Une of the galleries Is empty, save for the large

square altar, on which Is placed the reading

desk where the ecrulls of ths law are unrolled.

This ia well down by ths western wall. The

great empty srac* of floor !s carpeted In the

new Shearith Israel in deep red. harmonizing

with the yellows and browns of the walls and

glass. Under the gali(rles ths «eats run from

front to back, facing tha altar.

MEN BELOW, WOMEN IN THE GALLERT.

When, at a few moments past 8 o'clock on

Wednesday evening, the stringed Instruments In

the wide gailery over the Ark commenced to

play the overture, every «eat und»r the gallery

was filled with black-coated men. In aceoid·

anco with the unvarying traditions of the Span¬

ish-Portuguese race, not a woman wan to be

.een on this floor. Overhead the bread galleries

on three sides of the synagogue wera filled

With the flower of New-York Judaism, with

never a man among them. Daintily, arrayed,

a trass of brilliant colors, of silks and satins, th:s

throng of femininity presented a vivid contract

to the «ombre black below.

The open «pace in the centre, the Ark and the

eltar were deserted as th« Stringed instruments

softly played their medley, a potpourl of Span¬

ish Jewry airs, hundreds of years old. A

great bush f« .11 over the asse m blag«:. Not a man

or woman moved in the seats. The muslo

ceased, and th»-n. after a «second's wait, two

loud rapa were heard at one of the doors at.

the rear of the synagogue. A voice ooutdl bo

heard chanting In Hebrew, ck-ar and d.stlnct.

It was the voice Of ihe Rev. H. Pereira Munies,

the rabbi, and In English this was what be in¬

ter ed:

"Open for me the gates of righteousness; I

would inter through them, I would praise the

Lord."

Slowly and with dignity a gray-haired man,

wrapping his talith about bis shoulder«

(the talith is a fringed shawl (Jf whit«: silk,

tordered with blue, Which ministers and mem«

b>rs of any Orthodox Jewlsta agrégation

must wear when performing religious rit<s),

came forward and opened the door« He was

X>r. Horatio QomOS, a lineiti descendant <>f Louis

Gomez, who was «t.«· of the flrst Jew« to urrlve

In New-York, some time before ion. f\ r those

that could s» the «cene broughl up e picture «>f

what once must have been In Palestine. ?a tbe

hallway was ,«. forest of white «satin rolls, th«·

.'ecrolls of the La .v." bold In th«* arms >.f dis¬

tinguished men. Behind ihem were the Uve

tne Ark render this ancient melody, with the

s-'ft tonea of the violins making an undercur¬

rent of harmony. The entire musica', pro¬

gramme, in fact, was curious. The m<

Cretans, Irish or Jews. But somehow or an¬

other the case of Poland has appealed more

¦trongly to the American heart than that of any

of the unhappy people Just mentioned. Their

light for liberty, which ha« continued almost

without Interruption far more than one hun-

drod years, has been Piminllzed by so many

romantic episodes has furnished such remark-

able exemples of bravery, of patriotism and of

ChlValrOttl eclf-sacrifloe, that anything which

: ffectl their welfare meets with a keener appre-

« iati· n in North America than anywhere else In

the world, .

This b'ing th<* case, attention should he drawn

tn a remarkable feature of the new policy of con¬

ciliati·^ which yung Emperor Nicholas from

the rery moment «>f hi.-» secession to tho throne

'. Russia has begun in the Polish provinces of

hi» dominions It is nothing more nor less than

the repeal of that Iniquitous law which pro¬

hibited every one professing any other than the

Orthodox Qreek faith from owning or occupying

land In the >rmer Kingdom of Poland. Inas¬

inii, h as the Poles, in spit»· of the cruel persecu¬

tions t«. which they bava Leen snl.Jected on re¬

ligious as well as on racial grounds, have re¬

mained fervent adherents <>f the Romsn

Catholic Church, this was equivalent to de¬

barring them from retaining possession of such

<.f their ancestral estates as had been left to

them after the wholesale confiscation which the

Russian Government was in the habit of de¬

creeing after every revolutionary movement, and

ever, without any such cause, but on the most

frivolous and trivial pretexts. It Is worthy of

note that In spit a of the reputation for tyranny

enjoyed hy the first Emperor Nicholas, and the

renown for the possession of more enlightened

and liberal principles accorded hy history to hi«

¦on, the Ill-fated Alexander II, this law was en-

f«.rccd with far greater severity under the reign

of the latter than under that of his father. In¬

de, -d. there Is no Czar of Russia beneath whose

rule th» Poles may be said to have suffered so

much from persecution and oppression of every

conceivable character as that of the so-called

Liberator Czar.

POLISH NOBLES REGAIN THEIR ESTATES.

The present Emperor has changed all this and

has caused it to be made known that not only

is the obnoxious law In connection with the

tenure of land in the western provinces re-

pealed, but, moreover, that h» would be glad to

see the Polish DObUIty on«·»· a^aln occupying their

ancestral estates. Ever time this has been un¬

derstood abroad there has been a steady flow

«as!ward of the Polish arlStOCTSey, and they are

rapidly recovering by nvans of purchase all

those casti'S and domains with which the

names of their families have been Identified

since time Immémorial. Among those who have

already taken advantage of the Czar's new

policy In this particular are the Counts Potockl,

ZsmoysU, Starzrnskl. Czartoriskl and about

one hundred more bearers of squally Illustrious

names, who will doUbtlese become In course of

time quite as loyal to the Czar as their fellow-

countrymen In the Austrian portion of Poland

ar" to Emperor Francis Joseph. It Is pleasant

under the otreumstances to i>« able to state that

these Pllsh princes and counts are recovering

their estaies at a relatively small cost. F«»r the

old proverb, according to which violence and

persecution always end by Inflicting more Injury

upon Ihe people who made use thereof as Instru¬

ments than upon the.?«· »iKainft whom they were

directed, has proved true once more In this In¬

stance. While the Russian noble« who obtained

the Polish castles and estates either by grant

from the Russian Oovernrnent, which had con¬

fiscale.] Ihem, or else at a merely nominal price

at the compulsory sales, are now In su«h astate

of financial distress and bankruptcy that Nich¬

olas has Just been forced to appoint an Im¬

perial commission to devise some means for

their relief, the Polish nobility have prospered

to such a denrree In exile that ere long they will

constitute what is to every monarchical country

a source of boundless strength, namely a rich

and affluent territorial aristocracy, possessed of

sufficient means to develop the latent resources

..f the country and, abovs all, to ameliorate the

condition of the peasantry and masiu for whose

and played were almost altogether old sh¬

ot ni Jewa in Spaia .Many of them ara aald

to hav- been aung in th-· Temple of Solom m,

and there are a few which iewlah ? corda p» ai-

lively assert were played by King David on his

.mm., ii is only tha Spanish Jewa that have

irried down these wonderful rhythms and

-, a music that is unknown t" the world

at large. Even to th- few who ¿Id noi kn-.w

the story ».r these qua.m ¡.its played on Wednes¬

day night, the melodica had a charm and a

Bwsetnesi it would be hard to describa

LIGHTING THB "PERPETUAL LAMP."

Once at tho steps of the Ark th" BCroll-besrera

saeended until they formed an Impresslva plct-

ure against the glided ? tora The rabbie« si·.od

at the foot. The hour had onie for Ihe light¬

ing of the "Perpetual Lamp," which must n.-.-r

be extinguished while stone remains upon Btono

of the "Temple." This honor was given to L.

Napole.-.n Levy, who presented th«· lamp to the

congregation (It haiga directly In front of the.

ark and is of gorgeous'silver), and Bolomon La.

Cohen, whose father lighted the lamp at the

consecration of the Nineteenth Street Syna¬

gogue, in IStiO. This ceremony must be per¬

formed by a Lev, and a Cohen.literally. In

Jewisii ritual, a priest and his assistant An in-

terestl&g detail Is that the taper with which

the lamp was lighted on Wednesday night was

the same taper that lighted the Nineteenth

Street Synagogue lamp, it was presentí ? nt

that time by Isaac Phillips, one of the pillars

of Bpanieh-Portuguese Judaism thirty yesra

ago, ami the father of N. Taylor Phillips, "clerk"

of the congregotion to-day, to Andrew H. Green.

Mr. Green, who wai present on Wednesday

nlg'it, lent it for this occasion.

After th<i lighting Of the "Perpetual Lamp"

the procession filed bach to th·» altar again, and

then the rabbles going upon the altar, com«

menced its seven circuita seven being a myatio

number In the Spanlab-Portuguesc Jewish ritual.

Ther-9 were seven patriarchs, it will )<·· recalled.·

Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, the "three fathers":

Moses. Aaron, David and Bolomon, There ere

seve.-, days in the week, and the "seventh year"

Is tha yee/ of rest, when the land is ? it to be

tilled, when all deb's are "retaased" (our "Stat¬

ute of Limitations" comes from tins. The

seventh yea? In pastoral Judia was the year of

Juhal (Jubilee).

Nearly an hour was taken up with the "cir¬

cuits," the "Hayan," the Rev. A. H. Nieto,

chanting the Psalnifl and the Law, together wüh

the choir. In stately processional the BCrollB

went around and around, gorgeous In their shim·

niering white "gowns" and glancing metal

above. Following this, the entire fifteen, includ¬

ing u new one t.y th<» Rev. Mr. Nieto, the task

of writing which took two yeara were di posited

in the Ark. Most of the scrolli si very old,

THE NEW BHEAU1TH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE, LOO KIM i TOWARD THE ARK 0G THE COVENANT.

and the oldest w.-re written in Spa,·:

The ceremonies concludi d with s prayer by the

Rev. Mendoia de Sola, of Montreal, an -? ilr.-ss

by the Rev. Dr. Sabato Morata, of Phila Iphla,

gad S sermon by Dr. Men.les. of the ingrega-

tton. Tb<· famous hymn. "Adon 'd'ani." was

then sung oy the choir, and a benediction WSS

proriúu:; Bheaiith Israel was Installed la It!

nan abiding pia'«·. The Kebn w words on tho

cornice of the Ark <.f the Covenant bad me

true-"Know in wh.se presence thou art atan»_-

Ing."

it coincides with a renewal of Emperor William's

singularly Ill-advised sndeavotl t«> Prussianize

Pesen, that is to say, thit portion of ths form« r

ktrgdom of Poland which at the time of Its par¬

tition In the last century was awarded to

Plussio.

People in the past have been so much ac¬

customed t<> look f«.r d«s;. itllffl t'tid tyranny on

'.he part of Russia that nobody hr.s paid much

attention to IVassla'a psrsecujlon of her Polisti

subjects. True, there have he^n times when the

Mfseeutloa ban abated for s period, but the ret¬

iens for this have been of a nature to reflect DO

credit on the authorities at Berlin. Tt has been

Invariably due, not to nn> asnso of fustics, nor to

any consideration of stalecraft, but merely In

consequence of the influence exerctied at Court

hy some Polish noblswomsn possessed of ihe

beauty «nd uptlvatlng ehsrms of her rac«:. a«

kr.g as Hlsniarck remained at the bead Of nffalrs

this serve! to Intensify his hatred of the Poles.

at.d the latter, looking upon him as one of the

bitiercst foes of th-ir race, naturally took con-

spleue us part In every curt calmi against him,

for which, It Is tni". h»· I«'·*! no opportlTI Ity of re*

\<nging himReif. When the «.id Emperor died

rnd the influence which 'he princely boues .>f

Pudziwlll had ex.t Is d upon him came t«. Sfl

erd. Bismarck had a ft«·· hand and tppreesed the

poles, nobbs as well as the peasants, to his

heart's content.

EMPEROR WILLIAMS CAPTrVlTT.

Thi« continued until his dlegrae'e. Shortly

afierward tho young BmpirOf became subjugat¬

ed by the grace and beauty of Baroness Kosclol-

Kosclelakt, wlfta of one of the leader« of the Po¬

lish party In the Prussian House of Lord«, and

perhaps the moat popular among hi« country«

of ol ? Emperor William's principal lid -de-camp,

"I have a letter from Mlddlesborough to J.t-

matea."

"I have ? letter from Boston to Odessa."

Honjo dletlngulahee hlmaeif hy a kiit.-nltke way

of eluding tin· staggering, blindfolded niati in the

and formerly one «»f tii«· most brilliant ligures f

the court of Berlin. Poland has so many friends

in this country that widespread satisfaction can*

not fall to I»«» created In the United states by the

Czar's beginning of a policy which, while just to

th« chivalrous and yallant Polea is llkewtae ear*

tain t > prove a BOUrc* Of strength to his immense

empire. BX-ATTACH1.

THE TINTS OF MRUS.' EGGS.

From a letter In Nature.

The beautiful nini delicate colors observed on ths

eRKs of birds ar not very feet to light, moro eepe-

plally when thei beloi ? the lighter class of

centre «if the ring, and ts thus able t<> Slip a good

many time» (rom Nankin to Cardiff without t«..ng

Intercepte«! on the w .y. When Honjo, Just a« h· is

running tii* blocked near the Bri«toi Channel, ia

eventually caught, «nd is condemned in conse¬

quence to have the Knitted woollen scarf tied over

his eves, he Is so al«-rt and so nimble that he m-

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A PRECOCIOUS PICKASISNY,

Krom Tne Nsshviiie Banner.

Nashville Is rapidly gaining reputation as a pro¬

ducer of sensati ins. 'J'.'.e country has scarcely

colors. Egg eollectione should i.e earefully pro-

tected from the light t·>· tome covering over the

cas« srhen they ere not i·· m « :t.>¡. ted; othcr-

wlae much of ti.«ir beauty of tint become« lost in

cours.« of time It Is "»ratifying to notice that In

muaeum« and natural history collection« this pre¬

caution <->f protecting ogs-caaee with covers is now

almost univers.illy observed. In many ínstanos«

Isn't good at It.

"You want to he either In your second el.Ud'ood."

growls

the blindfold, d

English sailor, "'relee

ceased ;»» .iim- usa Professor Barnard's su ful

trip In the air-hip when anothei phenomenon

equally

f j.rung.

Scarcely any one believed that navigating tha ulr

ble for s three-months old child to u.ik Ho·* ¦·

?- ?. li iba case and any one can rerlfy thi truth¬

fulness of Ibis statement with v.r. little trouble

Tho parents ut t.-..· child ara ki- hard ai d Pi inkle

«orna of thi ne«l snd mesi cimract«<ristl.* tint* of

severs] era« disappear on exposure t» much »un-

ltght. A ...non n example may be found in the

beautiful pale blue >>f the ..¦'.rung's »gg This, on

Cleveland, colored, living al Ko 11 Bbore-st and

the child has been ialini.? Blnce li wai one weel

old Hundreds bave visited the little wonder and

!:6vm left the boos»· completely myatiru-d at what

they have seen nr.d beard.

expoeure to sunllghl for « few «lav« 1. s.·* its clear

bluent«« >.f tone, ...

inori« t.. th« «let« tint. Hr.ch Ik also the caso with

ni.'st of the greenlsh-blue «'gg.'i, like those of many

»«¦a bird«, the common guillemot's, for Instance,

th.· beauty of which largely depends on in« clear

jpanlah-Portugueee ministers «<f Ameiics. Rt «.-

The child is a git I, and differs only from other

balles In thai It ? an talk as plainly arai be und r-

stood as distinctly sa a grown person, The ¦¦ ¦

of course, Is naturally weak, bul has none of tn.«

baby ?»rattle about It. In addition to tha child's

freahneoa of Its blue tints.

Thr» writer BOSM time ago mail» nomi experi¬

ments on tii- fastness to sunlight of those egg

tints. Tlie method employed wus a very «Impll

srently. as they advanced up»n the synagogue's

icor, the (hoir «.f Hebrew men and boys In the

high gaJiery over the Ark chanted <in Hebrew):

ignea have tinpronlonaWe r·.«.«·!*, Kuwa-

Engllsh beer mskee them forasi their

pollteneee and anxious t.> aghi th«· Chlao-Jaseaess

war anew by tui'.Miig tit.» long pigtails of Cnlnes«

sail«, rs. .So sii .-...t.-g them, Ruualura; convoy

them, we pray you, in safety.

"Sar." replies little Kuwahara with ht« cap off

talklna propensities, it seems to i-o possessed of

superior Intelligence snd (..vea voice to utteran ea

On«, .'¡"1 may he t r i. r". > «h'tcrlhed as follow a. Vari¬

ous birds' «ra« were «elected for experiment, thost

having decided ami well-marked col «re being- pre¬

ferred The·· shells were salved lengthwise, car·

"This in the Kate of the Lord; the rlKhteous

fiay inter therein. I win praise The.-, for Thou

nioit astounding,,coming as they do from ono m

young.

The Rev. O. W. Martin, a colored preacher, who

.at answered me, and Thou hast becOBM my

'«Salvation."

a wonderful procession.

Then It was that the Incident of the greateet

Viatorie interest occurred. The genius of the

yast came forward and clasped the hand of the

«Present. Moving with slow and measured step,

tn single file, HSfOO «ucceedlng scroll, the rab¬

ule« behind, «an man wearing hi« U:.th of dos-

has a church In tho vicinity, and a majority of his

be .; taken before the op. ration m divide it ?« that

each half ehotild, as nearly as posjlhle, present th«

HUM .»mount oí «·».;«.ring (Me half was k* j»t from

the light for future OOmpartOOB, while the other

politely, and «peaking In iones that com

ivey a.-sji-

flock cailid at the hoosa to convince themselves

of the truth of the rumora which bava been circu¬

lated con· rnliiF tl;e iiiid. The liti!,· ono ffiind

to enjoy tho présanos of the crowd for ? while,

half wad »spoeed In a glass case to direct sun¬

shine. Aft.r various exposures, amounting to on·

hundred hours' sunshine, each exposed naif was

thnn (.«'»mpared with Its unexpostd counterpart, and

the changes la hue carefully noted. Little change

was visitile In the darker colored eggs of the olive-

brown, or chocolate depth, but In the lighter tint«,

especially among the plu·· and green-blue«, the

change· bacsm« more marked»

/G U'()í7./> NOT GO. {

From The Chicago Tlmes-H«rald.

"Did It ever occur to you?" asks "The Videos

but. soon tiring, remark···, to Its mother, In a

vole* audible to all prisent: "I wish all th.-ss folks

would go borne, ml am tired." Tbe esliera took

the hint and soon ?< parted.

Officer Baker hee also »».en the wonderful child,

as hav* many others, and they all tell remark¬

able stories ot the loquacious youngster.

railroads are managed?" It did: It did. Do you

recoil the lines from "Kxcelslor"! 'Try not the

peas, the eld man said?"

jillng white over hi« black clothing, and all with [

men of all their national poeta and playwrights.

they rub their black rat-!ike heads of hnlr; their

It and persuade It to go to bed. when presently a

Exquisitely, too, did the Hebraic choir behind

thereof is that of Prince George Radztwiil, SOB

rarmy."

as curious though differing lastly, is

v. possible, and few· r still win believe it t ·-.-

b«vcomee purpller, approaching

ance, "ear, >ou bet my boOM»

(Dak.) independent,'' '"how ridiculous It ts the way

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