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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO SOCIAL INTERESTS AND PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM.
VOL. I.
CHICAGO, DECEMBER 6, 1878.
!No. 26.
THIS DlCAOON-FJiY.
Wh< <1 brooks of Summer shallow mil,
And Hcreely {flows tlic ardent sun;
Where waves the blue lla.tr, tall and dank.
And water-weeds grow rich an.) rank.
The ilauntiny Dragon-Fly is seen,
A winged spindle, gold and green.
Bern of the mommy mists and dews,
lie darts a Hash of jeweled lines—
Athwart the waterfall, and Hint's.
From his twice-dupUpato wot wings.
Diamonds and sapphires such as gleam
And vanish in a bridesmaid's dream!
bail not, O Dragon-Fly. too near
The lakelet's bosom, dark and clear!
For, lurking in its depths below.
The hungry trout, thy fatal foe.
Doth watch to snatch thee, unaware.
At once from lite, and light, and air!
f) brilliant llock of Summer's prime.
Enjoy thy brief tieet span of time!
Puli soon chill Autumn’s frosty breath
Shall blow for thee a wind of death,
And dash to dust thy gaudy sheen—
Thy glittering mail of gold and green!
For the Jewish Advance.
LIPi*OLl>, THIS COi/HT-.JISYV,
A vindication <>J' imnor, from old uieliivcs.i
CONCM'DKD.
Ah soon a< it became publie that the
Klee tor was dead. ami Lippold the court
Jew was in prison, the muffled hatred of
the masses broke out in fearful violence
against the Jews. The synagogue in the
KJostei>>ra'se was forced open and plun
dered and desecrated by the mobs. The
houses of the wealthiest Israelites were
pillaged, their inhabitants maltreated in
the most ermd manner. .No one thought
of protecting the Unfortunate commu
nity against the brutality of the mobs.
I.'heir only guardian angel Lippold was
in prison.
iLippohi could not expect any mild
treatment at the hands of Isis judges,
[f Lis innocence and the justice of Ids
cause could not save him, there was no
hop< for him. The committee which
Johann <leorg had appointed to investi
gate Li pi add s cause, proceeded with
rigor, hut they were all. like their presi
dent cun A rnim. men of honor, according
to the conceptions of that time. They
examined Lippold s books with the
greatest care. The accounts had been
kept in the 1 test order, but in Hebrew
characters, and could only he deciphered
by the aid of a Jew. All that the judges
could lino in them, and what the histo
rian can lind in them even at the present
time, for they have been preserved in
the archives unmolested, could only re
flect honor on Lippold. lie had made
the entries of the Klector s expenditures
very conscientiously and with expres
sions of great dissatisfaction, when the
expenses oi love-affairs were to be re
corded. There was nowhere the slightest
shade of faithlessness to be discovered.
From the accounts of the coinage it ap
poared yet that the State owed to tin;
Jew tne amount of 1700 gulden, and
Pan tel Thumb and Matthias, the valets
of the Elector, testified that Lippold
had often handed to tin* prince large
sums iu their.pivsenoe without receiving
any receipts for the amount. A sum of
SOU gulden was missing, for which Lip
pold could not show any receipt, lie
said that, as far as he knew, the Elector
had signed the receipts, but had not
handed them to him. I pon an investiga
tion in the Electot’s papers, the signed
receipts were found.
The committee of investigation could
not help therefore but declare the .low
innocent of faithlessness and corruption
in hjs office. He was let out of prison,
but was to live in his house, in Stralauer
street, under a citizens’ guard. The
pledges which had been found in his
lombard were restored to their respective
owners, without regard of Lippold’s
claims on them. Thus he lived for smne
tithe unmolested at his house.
Once, unfortunately, he had a quarrel
with his wife. She called him a scoun
drel, and said that "he was possessed of
witchcraft, by virtue of which he could
extricate himself from all his troubles,
and for which lie deserved mortal pun
ishment.’ The citizens guards behind
the door, who had become tired of their
serv ice, heard this and reported it to the
new Elector. The latter had nothing
better to do than to deliver the unfortu
nate Jew into the hands of stern judges,
who caused him to he put in chains and
dragged to prison. The accusation of
witchcraft was sufficient, according to
the highest criminal laws of Karl V.. to
have the accused put under torture, for
the purpose of wresting a confession
li'om him. Lippold s judges imagined to
have greater cause for trying him by
torture, because they had found in his
possession a Hebrew hook with receipts
lor the execution of various tricks.
The unfortunate1 Jew. weak and sickly
by nature, and who had been lmrrassed
>o mucli oflate. was now put to cruel tor
ture. I’nder unspeakable pains inflicted
on bin: by the executioner, he confessed
Unit he had ingratiated himself with
Joachim 11. by means of sorcery, lie
also confessed, under torture, that he
had stolen money from the State treas
! ury, although the minute investigations
j of his .previous judges had proven that
| there was not a shade of corruption in
| that regard. He was tortured to make
j more confessions, and he stated that be
j fore the last Christmas he had cheated
the deceased prince out of a gold chain,
i I lie last point is characteristic. The
; judges know, irom the documents which
bad been found, that the chain had been
given to Lippohl for the purpose of melt
ing it. and of coining out of it the gold
medals ( with which Joa
chim presented his courtiers every uew
I Near. Not v\ i t list and ing the clear knowl
; edge the judges had of this unit tor, tlio ;
I con I t ssion of t he poor martyr was taken ;
for the truth. Now a new idea occurred;
to the judges; the dew must also know
; something about the cause of the sudden
death of the Elector. Accordingly, new
tortures were applied to the wreck of
the maltreated dew. and lie confessed
that he had poisoned the Klector with
: "mace oil. smoke of booths and wwch/vm*
I sub/i/iutfits." Even if we had not the
i testimony of !>r. Paul Luther as to the
I cause of Joachim s death, the simplest
| common sense might suggest the ques
| turn: Could the Jew expect any benefit
from the death of the prince? This ques
tion must be answered in the negative,
for we know that Joachim was his only
hope and support; that he alone protect
ed him against his mighty enemies, and
while he lived the Jew had nothing to
fear from the cruelty of his successor.
But the stern judges were deaf to the
• Voice. if wav.'oi rod S5d f.
! the letter of the law. The judges having
! wrung all these confessions from the
1 .Jew. it was yet necessary that he should
! repeat them in public. But when he
i was brought before the public he re
! canted. The torture instruments were
i again recurred to, and the executioner
did his work so well that the poor martyr
j fainted under his treatment and had to
i be restorer! to consciousness with wine.
Of course Lippold repeated again all bis
| confessions. The "highly illustrious tri
: bunal (/ior/n rh Hc/tfi ,'r ,Jmln-iu-fti ) com
mended very highly the skill of Baizer,
the executioner, who had done hi. work so
well. Lippold was condemn'd to <h. nth
by being broken upon the wheel, and,
| according to the chronicle of tlm State
; Secretary of Cologne, dated January
'28th. 1 r>7.). "to be pinched with red-hot
pinchers, afterwards to he broken on the
wheel from the lowest extremities of the
! body upward, and then to be quartered;
each of the quarters to lie hung up on
one of the gates of the city; the head to
i be suspended on St. tieorge s gate, and
the bowels with the book of sorcery to
be sent toward heaven by the flames. ;
A large rat was s*. eu running from under
the pyre which was lit for tic execution.
This was said to be the devil, who had
dwelt in the unfortunate man’s body,
escaping the flames. LippnM s property
was confiscated by the Idlector for judi
ciary expenses, with the exception of a
thousand thalers which was left his
widow.
The widow went to the Etuneror .Max
the Second, petitioning liiiu J(i interfere
in her behalf before the Elector. Max
11. was milder than his time. He wrote
to the Elector that he should not act
unjustly toward the widow of the Jew.
'I'he Elector answered briefly that he did
not dosin' to be enlightened on this sub
ject better than he was already. “Magda
lena Lippold herself had thrown up to
the executed criminal his witchcraft,
and the Jew had confessed that he had
despatched the late Klector by a con
coction especially prepared for the pur
] >ose.
All the Jews of the province had to
sutler by the fall of the unfortunate
Lippold; they were expatriated from the
Brandenburg domain, and had thus to
take to the wanderer's staff a second
time during that century. In the order
of expatriation the following words oc
cur: “They have no other occupation but
usury (as though they had been per
mitted to gain their livelihood by any
other means); they are enemies of the
Christian religion, and the Jew must by
nature.have no kindly sentiments toward
a Christian.” '*
.s [THK END.]
CitUlU'H MUSIC.
Mr. < i. S. Ensel, of" Springfield. ill., lec
tured on the 27th ult. on the‘"Origin
and Progress of’ Church Music, at the
Congregational Church of that city. In
the course of his lecture he said that the
m use unis of Europe, contain collections
of* ancient instruments, brought from
Assyria, Kgypt. *<recce. Koine,and irom
I ; he graves oi" Druids in Caul and Britain,
' but that they were silent witnesses of a
period long passed. Only one people,
once the contemporary of those nations
of antiquity had survived, them the He
brew.- and to tic in we would have to
look for information with reference to
ancient sacred mimic, lie gave then the
liturgy of tlm Hebrews, their psalmody,
comparing it with the liturgy oi the .Ro
man and episcopal churches, which had
adopted it through tlm early Christians
I from the ID brews. .Mr. Knsel gave as
| an illustration tin antiphonel psalm
tune, and tlm die'.ad psalm sin aiug oi the
| undent and modern Jews, d hese, and
rr-pei.dally i he la I ter (psalm lit), showed
a peculiarity and at the same tame beau
ty of meter and melody which made it.
quite a favorite of the audience. An an
’ dent piece, formerly diantcd by the
priests when the\ 1 dossed the people,
was played on the organ, arid the quaint
fantastic flourishes gave unmistakable
■ proof of their < )riental origin. Mr. Knsel
compared the chant oi tin* Lamentation
of Jeremiah, as sung in the Roman
church and in the sy: avomie. and his re
mark- in favor of tim Hebrew style were
well taken. The first part closed with
the iilustatioii of two very ancient hymns
Of the synagogue, entitled (), day 0}
Hod,"’ and "Memorial of the Dead,
which were exquisitely rendered by a
double quartet of ladies and gentlemen,
who had kindly assisted Mr. Kiisel in
briiurmg out these magnificent and sol
emu pieces of ancient worship.
The second part brought the music of
the early f’hristian and the (Iregorian
«tyl(‘of -Mass, Psalm, Kpistle and <ios
pel chanting. The preface and Sanctus
from the (1 regorian .Mas.-. "l)e Angelis.
was sung in fine style by the choir, and
c*on\timed tlii' audience that the ancient
Unman f h.urch understood admirably
the wants id’ the people, in listening