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Zbe JSabassek Jew. Yes, that's it. Old Mrs. Minz was brought to Babazsek as a "Jew," at the salary of forty florins, because there was no Jew in Babazsek. She had to . be procured at any price. The thing happened this way. Babazsek is a miniature town, which is distin guished from the Hungarian villages surrounding it" by the title given to its judge, who is addressed as mayor, and on a certain day in the year one or two pieces of cattle are driven from the surrounding vil lages .to the market-place,««nd that oh that same day the ginger-cake maker from Solar, Samuel < Plokar, makes his appearance, displays his wares, consisting of ginger-bread hearts, soldiers and era-" ( dies, which were sold in less than no time. Expressed . tersely,.Babazsek had its annual fair. Every native of. Babazsek is not a little proud of that fair. It r' divides the calendar year in the events of the world iuto two parts. So that one partis made to occur so and so: many days before the fair, and the other part afterward. I v As, for instance, the anniversary of the death of i Francis Deak, which- occurred on the second day of t the tairof Babazsek. The cause of all this, however, V were the old kings, who when they hunted in the neighboring forests brought with them the privilege i. : of tovynsbipto the villages that weresituated around , the hunting-ground. After all, this was a very valu p: .able privilege. In the city ground, garden arid even v.irnanar* of special value arid greater consideration. * : To be a citizen means something. To be a coun •s-A'Cilmari confers ttbe title of senator. The straw\cov • * .ere'd antiquated house'wherein the cpuncilmeri hold M their sessions is -called 'the council-house. The justice E«''Of the peace, who. wears sandals instead of shoes! - Bjike ordinary people, inst« ad of the dolman wears bi-copper-buckled laeesy has the title of Haiduck,.and fi the HaiduCk rhust 'also know how to beat thedrums. m. ;.: -.The city has -its own drum. Nay, the wealthier : citizens procure for themselves a fire engine, and all I 'for nothing;-because rarik is rank and something frtust represent it; but since from the central govern, .jraent house such a breeze blows, according to which the major part of this little township, which'only 70Oto800 inhabitants, had to bechHriged, Ist great Contest arises. Each one wanted to furnish "evidence of its •vitality and reason of existence; each one mounted a high'KOfse, though from its fodder sack only xi colt would'find enough to eat. Verily, jthe thing will end, well, and who that lives will see. -...•-.•.■,;■.- ,r . . . • ' '"-; The good township of disputes the right of Tot Pelsace. ''Why, that's ho city at all, with only brie drugstore." Sohl ;cou(d drown Pelsace in a spoon, ! not every little bit of the town „ shipcan advance claims.like the streets of London, but Pel-ace puts on airs like a bulldog. It howls and exposes its teeth again and again against Babazsek. "Babazsek, that's no city at all; it has not even a Jew"; and the place where no Jews are settled has nO future, and certainly there is apt a Jew there, and it, therefore, cannot be called a city. * * Babazsek, on the other hnnd, decried the other little cities, but I'm not here for the purpose of paint ing these disgusting controversies. I only remark, in brief, that the worthy officers of Babazsek, having become enlightened by the criticisms of its enemies, like the bee who knows how to suck honey from poisonous plants, opened negotiations with Mrs. Minz tor the purpose of having her move to Babaz- _ sek and open a store there, opposite to the smithy. Yes, opposite the smithy,' so that every stranger passing through the place should at once see it, espe cially as the following articles were exposed for sale: Soap, whips, paint, combs, shoe-tips, nails, spices, cinnamon, linseed-oil —in short, every article which did not grow within the precincts of Babazsek or could not be manufactured there. Thus Mrs. Minz came to Babazsek, where she was received with great honor, and in fact was spoiled jn every direction. She was actually carried on the hands of the people, which, if taken lite rally, would have been no joke. Mrs. Rosalie Minz weighed nearly two hundred pounds. First off, many of the citizens were displeased be cause the authorities had only secured a Jewess and not a Jew, as would have been much nicer and more satisfactory if they could have said: "Our Jew has said this or that, our Moritz or our Tobia has done this or that," instead of saying, "Our Jewish woman, our Rosalie." After all, this sounds modestly; or, in short, a Jew ought to have been brought to Babazsek, with long flowing whiskers, crpoked nose, and, if possible, red hair. That would-bave been the right thing to do; but Mr. Konocks, the wisest senator, who had been conducting the negotiations with Mrs. Minz, and who brought her and litr whole furniture in a wagon ordered for the purpose, silenced all grumblers. His arguments were convincing. David could not have succeeded better with his sling. "Don't be so stupid. Ifoncea woman could be queen in Hungary, why should not at any time another woman be the tradeswoman of Babazsek ? " And in fact the ter n per of the people cooled down, and they even began to applaud the selection made by the magistrate, especially at every tabernacle festival. The sons of Mrs. Minz—she had seven of them— came to see her from all directions, and the Babazsek people could see them in their festive attires with lace-titd shoes on their feet and high hats on their 1 head, pass the market-place. On days like these the Babazsek stood trt front of their houses, and when they looked after them with hearts filled with pride, they addressed each other something like this: "Well, wom_n; if this is not a city already, then.a bat can be nothingJelse than a fly." "In Pelsace, lewsarenot seen at all. Not one of them in ten years," replied his' neighbor, patting his belly in great glee. Mrs: Minz, however, looked upon her sons with great joy and pride, when she stood be fore her store or sat there, because she usually occu pied that place knitting socks for her grandchildren, With copper-rimmed'spectacles upon her n.ose, and even this, her nasal ornament, gave her a distinguish ed appearance. " >'■'■ . ' ..... However, Mrs. Minz was a, friendly, agreeable matron, and with her snow-white hair, her well-fitv ting cap, and the market-place with its white-wash ed building and the dignified looking front pf the town-hall, so that nobody could , pass her without : lifting his hat a little, as before the statue of the holy Nepomuk, because after,all these w/tjre the orjLy, two notable things of Babazse,k. ; /Eerily, tbe,v,,instin,ctively felt that this little w as flpsely intertwined with her plants ofßaba.zse,k grove. "Good , day, young woman." ftow goes it, ypung woman ?" " WelU my dear children." " How's., ; business, young woman?" "Good, my dear." They were very glad to see that the woman was quick as a bird,,as sound as an apple, and that she was yisiblygrowing richer, and they boasted of if wherever they came with their Wagons, "Our Sallie is growing richer." .. ,•, Gracious me/you could see the feather grpw: on our Sallie, and why np't'£" is a gold mine. Babazsek is the virgin so{l. Actually, "the young woman" Rosalie was spoiled. .She had passed her seventieth year, arid. tfiey called her still the young woman. There was logic in that. The kinghad,,ap- h propriated all valuable titles, whi^h rj only he; could confer; the' people in,their sqyercigri.popscious.ness - conferred youth as a , already, said, -the young woman Rosalie Vas appreciated andspoiled, and when a few years after her removal to the mar ket-place she planned the erection pf a resi dence, all the owners of wagons offered to carry stone and wood free of-charge;, the common work men, each of them, gave free service for a day ; hardly 'were there one or two lazy dwellers who would not show up. Naturally these were the of a good deal of raillery on the part of the better class of citizens. •" He is a tramp," they would say of such a fellow. "He has no respect for God or the priest or the lew." : . Yes, the respect of the local authorities went so far that at the staking of the.lots two lots were set aside, at by one pf the officials, who could see a little further than the rest, for the purpose of erecting there a Jewishirerrfple"and a Jewish ceme tery, though for the time being there was only one Jewish woman in the town. This might be, how ever, of no account;-they looked to the future, and who knows what may be in store? And, finally, it made thcr_ feel good to be able to say in a conversa tion with a stranger, "A stone's throw from the Jewish cemetery of our town," or something like this: "If a ne passes the Jewish temple." But of this the neighboring towns smaller than Babazsek heard with a <jood deal of envy and chagrin. Behind her back they were in the habit of saying, "Oh, these ac cursed Habazseks, they are full of conceit." — Trans lated from the Hungarian in the Menorah. _otioebeepino in tbe Sixteenth Centurg. There was a very clever method of keeping a large retinue of servants up to the mark several hundnd years a<r o# For every offense, every neglect of a specified duty, a fine of from one to twelvepence was exacted. It cost a servant a penny to swear, or to leave open a door that he found shut, or to appear on Sunday with soiled linen or missing buttons, while to toy with the maids meantfourpence, and to revile a fellow servant was an expensive luxury that came to twelvepence. All such annoyances as un made heds, halls left unswept, and candlesticks un scraped were provided against in the same way, and the sums taken out of the quarterly wages were given to the poor. If we could carry out the idea in some of our modern households, the poor who profited by it would soon be keeping carriages.— Puritan. Thk promulgation of an order of the Turkish Gov ernment restricting immigration into Palestine has led to inquiry as to what is thecause of such a meas ure. By the census taken previous to the last one —the census of 1856—there were 1,200,000 inhab itants ofPalestine, and the population at that time was considered stationary. By the last estimate ; the populatic n ofPalestine was 2,711,000, and-this increase was shown in the large cities as well as in the country districts. Ten years ago there were 15,000 residents in Jaffa; to-day there are nearly 60,000. The present population of Damascus is 150,000, and of Jerusalem 41,000. Since the Russian persecutions of the Jews there has been an immigra tion into Palestine from Russia, and the increase of population has been further augmented by the agita tion of Zionism. Smltbfceal JSuslneee College, NORTHEAST CORNER BROAD AND NINTH STREETS. The College is now located in its own grand new building, northeast corner Broad and Ninth streets, ~Richmond,. Va. Constructed of iron, granite and gray brick, 40x124 feet, four stories above basement, it is oneof the handsomest and mostsubstantial and comfortable school buildings in the country. The oldest4*«siness in the State, and the only one owning \its ow i building. With one exception in each case, this is true of the whole South. SPECIAL OFFER. Our regular New Building discounts will be con tinued till the night of the 16th January, 1899, when we will have our Formal Opening in our New Build ing. Call or write lor particulars. ■ For thirty-one years this school has been pre paring young people for practical business life. Seven experienced and practical teachers, four of them authors of valuable books; thorough, indi vidual and business-like instruction; kind, but firm discipline, are some of the explanations of our suc cess. For catalogue and full particulars, write or call on the President. G. M. Smithdeal, President.