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THE JEWISH SOUTH. A JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF JUDAISM. published Weekly. HERBERT T. EZEKIEL, Editor aud Publisher, 826 East Main Street. Subscription, Si per annum, in advance. Single Copy, Five Cents. Resolutions and other Reading Notices, 10 • cents per line. . Entered at the Post-Ofl.cc. Kichmond. Va., a* second class matter. Now that French justice seems to have come to itself, it is pursuing the straight track without fear or favor. Baron Christiani, who assaulted President Loubet at the races last Sunday a week ago, has been sen tenced to four years' imprisonment, almost the ex treme limit of the law. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate were afraid that the government did not intend to prose cute the guilty ones in the Dreyfus conspiracy because of their high position. As a result they failed to give a vote 6f confidence, and a new and more liberal cab inet has been formed. • » • A*T twenty minutes past six o'clock last Saturday morning the French cruiser Sfax, with Captain 1 Drey fus on board," set sail from' Devil's Isle rof Brest, France, where it is expected to arrive about the 26th of this month. The chief of government detectives has been ordered to make special arrangements for Dreyfus's safety upon his landing at Brest and at the subsequent court-martial at Rennes. So soon as the verdict of the Court of Cassation was received the despised convict became once again Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, and as such was saluted by those who a lew hours before had been his jailors. He refused to p'nton the»uniform brought him, but said he wOulo! in France don one to be given by his heroic wife. # * True to his word, President Loubet attended the races last Sunday.. Every precaution was taken for Jiis safety.. .Instead of a hostile demonstration as on the preceding Sunday, he was tendered an ovation. All of which goes to show that courage excites uni versal admiration —even down to a French mob. .:!■'•'■"..;.!.•.*■' ' '• .'. And the poor, little, insignificant Countess di Cas tellane —what has become of her, the comic character in this tragedy ? Her bid for recognition has fallen as dead as did the heads of the aristocrats when fed to the guillotine for the general welfare. History may repeat itself, and it might,be well for the pur chaser of a title that does not exist to keep quiet and let decent people be heard. f[*he Jew betrays an absolutely unprecedented te ity of life. It far exceeds, especially in the United gdom, that of any other known people. This we may illustrate by the following example: Suppose two groups of 100 infants each, one Jewish, one of average British parentage, to be born on the same day. In spite of the disparity of social conditions in favor of the latter, the chances, determined by statis tics, are that one half of the British children will die within forty-seven years,, while the first half of the Jews will not succumb to disease or accident before the expiration of seventy-one years. The death-rate is really but little over half of that of the British pop ulation. This holds good in infancy as in middle age* Or, of 1,000 Jews born, 247 die before the age of seven years, while 453 Christians-—more than twice as many—are likely to die within the same period.— Jewish World, \ Hbe "Glh.qu.tous f>ebrew. It has been frequently remarked that the Jewish race has a wonderful; power of adaptation to all climates. Jews are found in all parts of the globe, and seem to possess a remarkable facility for accli matization, even under the most unfavorable cir cumstances. Mesopotamia is considered the mother country of the Abrahamic family, as well as the cradle of the human race. Some years ago a small colony of Jews were found in the ancient city of Sen nar, in the so.ujth of Mesopotamia and in the vicinity of ancient Babylon. Of thcseventy families composing the colony one claimed to be descended from King Joachim* the rest from the house of Levi. • A colony of Jews appear to have settled in China about the beginning of the third century of the Christian era, under the dynasty of Han. In 1704 Father Gouzani, a Roman Catholic missionary, found seven families near Pekin. In 1686 a Portuguese Jew of Amsterdam, named De Pavia, discovered a sect of Jews in Cochin China. According to.a tradition preserved among them, they were descended from a tribe of Jews who had quitted Palestine on the destruction of the second temple. From their long residence in Cochin, they had become completely bronzed. These are not the same as the Malabar Jew*. : A Jewish traveler, Ben jamin, sometimes called Benjamin, the Second, dis covered a colony of Jews, evidently of Persian origin, in Hindostan. They were known as "Babylonian