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THE COURIER. his the the f 5 THE JEWISH NEW YEAR. 5 Wednesday of this week ended the Jewish ceremonies at the snagogi.e. They have been interesting in them selves und they are hoary villi the rime of time past. Der Alte Uarbarossa, who has sat 60 long before his stone table inside the mountain that his beard has grown through it, is a lad when years are compared to the age of Mosaic ritual. In Christ's time Scribes und Pharisees were chanting the 6enic that thousands of jeare had already made impressive and last week in Lincoln the Rabbi took the scroll from the Ark and read it to descendants of the tribes of Ishmael, Levi, Judah, Gad, Manassch, Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Benjamin, Ephriam, Issachar, Zebulon, Xaphtaii and Asber. The ancient people listened with rev erence and undeiHtanding to the words that Moses and the prophets spoke to the children of Israel.the choir sang the Psalms of David in Hebrew and a New Years service especially arranged and comparatively modern, for it was com posed only a few years before the Chris tian era. In all the Jewish synagogues of the world the New Year festivitities have been celebrated by an unique peo ple who have retained their homoguneity in spite of the lack of geographical unity. All the world over they are the same. This is the 5C53th year in Jewish An nals. A New York paper says in regard to the Jewish celebrations. It be gan with the celebration of Rosh Hashannab, the Jewish New Year, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it includes Yom Kippur, when every Jew must make atonement for his eins, repent or pay a penalty. Never before have these anniversaries been so openly observed in this city. The Jewish race is uow suf ficiently assured of its ascendancy in business matters to proclaim itself tri umphantly and hire two Bowery theatres for its public celebrations. London and Paris have frequently complained of the supremacy of the Jews. In this coun try we do not complain about it, but cannot help acknowledging it. At any time within the past twenty years the Jews could have bought Jerusalem and reoccupied it, but they have preferred to establish new Jeruealems in the cap ital cities of both continents. Besides its great financiers, the race has pro duced great philanthropists, great musi cians, great statesmen and great scholars. In every country it is the best patron of the arts and of amusements. If no Jew has yet succeeded in entering the mjs ticcircleof the 400, the Jews can proudly assert an aristocracy of their own, the oldest in the world, and a blue-blooded Levi of Cohen has a pedigree that out ranks all modern nobilities. It is easy to ridicule the Jows, to persecute them with satire here as the have been per. eecuted with fire and sword in other co untries, but success commauds respect, and no other people have equalled the Jews in their progress and achievements during the last eenturj . SOME A DVICE ABOU r HAMMOCK READING. "What I want," she said, tapping the rows of books with her gloved hand, "is something for hammock reading." "Yes," said the clerk, with a tine as sumption of intelligence. "How would 'A Man and A Woman' do?" "This hammock ie not built for two." "Then there is no use recommending We Two,' I suppose? Well, may I ask perhaps we are going too fast whether you are looking for tiction, o verse, or philosophy, or history, or" "It doesn't matter very much," she said, looking up at the shelves and shelves around her, "and I am asking you because you are supposed to know." "Herbert Spencer is soothing. How do you think you would liko to try some of his books?" "Do they end happil ?" "H'm, really, 1 forget. I .don't believe they do. Then there is Henry George. The most fascinating theories" "About love?" "No. I'm afraid he omits that. A great many people are reading Nietzche now; he is considered the newest thing in philosophers." "Does he discuss the auctions?" "I forget. Perhaps not. But Paul Bourget does. His 'Physiology of Mod ern Love' if a masterpiece of anuhsie." "Is it illustrated by Gibsson?" "Is that a requisite?" "Oh, no. I merely thought of it. Am I very hard to suit?"' "Not at all! Or course jou've read 'Dodo,' and the 'Twins.' and the 'Red Badge of Courage,' and Corelli's latest? How about Hope?" "I like him." "Have you his 'Comedies of Court ship?" "No. But then I want to forget court ships. What I want is relaxation." "Here is a pleasing pamphlet of 500 pages on 'Humane Progress: What Can Man do to Further It? Does that ap peal to you?" But the fair one had reached a sudden resolve. She saw something of Laura Jean Libbey'e. 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