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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1888)
TH! NAMM OF JEWS. IThy C vwp Have Choaen GentHo SnrnamM» E: iq Hah Forma—n>aWgttt Izrl Coleridge touclwd upon tn tn. ferreting theme tlio other day when lia Inquired rf certain Jewish witnesses how it wm Unt they imd adopted th« names I of Mordau.it and Savfii. |n lieu of their natiro patronymic» of Moses and flam- uol. It la not quite correct to »ay that Jews over eharigo llieir original namsa. In the synagogue they bear throughout their lives tbo Eobrcw names—in tho traditional Oriental form of So-and-so, son of So-and-so—given to them shortly after their birth. Tho instabilily of the names by which they are known to tho world is duo to tho fact that originally, like all Oriental peoples, they had no family names, and that wherever they havo congregated very closely together tho secular use of the traditional genea logical forms has been tenaciously pre served. In somo countries, such as Ger many and Austria, special legislation lias been found necessary to compel them to adopt fixed surnames. As, at different times, they havo come into closer con tact with the Gentile world, they have themselves seen tho necessity of sur names, and it is not surprising if, under these circumstances, some of them should have chosen the most sonorous and dis tinguished they4could find. An examination of the lists of scat hold ers in the twelvo principal synagepira of London shows that ............ less th ■I of tho names—such as B< ford, Coburn, Curtis, Gn Hamilton, Hardinge, ft Herbert, Howard, Lumley, Man’ Merton, Montagu, Mo Morton, Tbo Pension Commissioner*» Troubles. Ono woman in the best faith addresses the commissioner and asks that he see that the school house in her neighborhood be established iu tho center of the dis trick Another informs him that her husband has long been absent. Sbo has wandered over tho face of tho country in search of him, and sbo would qow like to have him tako up tho search. Many such cases occur. Letters containing souvenirs dear to tho senders, but utterly valueless to any one also, are received; lottcrs ol advico detailing whole pension schemes to bo substituted for tbo preBent system of laws; letters of extravagant commcnda tion, of censure, of linger, of contempt, of wrath, of unmit ¡gable hostility; letters of insane writers threatening vileuessand violence; letters excited by tho grantiug of pensions aud asking benishns upon the heads of all concernod; letters of bitterest reproach for pensions denied. calling down tho wrath of God and men upon those who havo been trying to do their simplo duty—all these and multitudes of others, fantastic, sober, rational and wild, pour tho hundreds aud thousands into the ail of the bureau; end from tho chanty and patience which forbears to respond, and tho sense of duty which compels the neglect of idle inquiries, arise many of tbo complaints and denunciations of tho offico for its alleged neglect,—Pension Commissioner’s Report. * The Wells of Andalut'e In Andalusia the norias or Moorish wells ore sure to catch your cyo. They are worth examining by tho curious in such natters; tho construction is very simple, but they do effective work- A broad wheel is turned round by an old mule, who is past other work, and attached to this wheel are earthen jays; asit revolves tbo empty jars pass into the water and cono up fail, then as they turn over they empty their contents into a reservoir, v.henco a trough or aqueduct of some simple kind provides for household uso, conveys tho rest of the water into the fruit or vcgetablo garden and irrigates it by neons of channels dug in rows in the ■arth. For drinking purposes tho water is generally caught from tho jars, for. the Spaniards, though they like their fish ■'high" and their oil and bacon rancid, ore very particular about the quality of their water, and are willing tu buy it from the carriers who often fetch it from long dis tances if that near at hand has an evil reputation. —Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. A Failure for Bismarck. Scoro ono failure for Bismarck. The establishment of colonies, apropos of which ho displayed such enthusiasm a few years ago, and for which he nearly precipitated a war with Spain, Is ac knowledged by bis official organs to be on utter failure. Prince Bismarck’»purposo was to divert tho stream of emigrants from tho United States to some land or lands where they would continue to be German in speech, tastes and habits, in- rtecd of liecoining speedily unrecogniza ble es of German origin. This ho pro posed to do by means of bis "agricultural colonies” in Africa and bis "plantation colonies" tn tho South Pacific Islands. For all tbo money expended tn tho effort hot a kreutzer lias been received in profit, and tbo colony craze is to be abandoned.— Once a Week DR. TANNER’S IDEAS. HE TALKS OF PREMATURE BURIAL AND SUSPENDED ANIMATION. n>e Dead In This Country Are Burled tn Criminal Haste—The Subtle Principle ol Lite—The Doctor Convinced That Man Can Hibernate. Eight years havo gone since Dr. a 8, raniier'performed his wonderful feat of taUug forty days and nightB iu Clarendon ball, in New V ork city For sixteen days lio touched neither water uor food. After the Bix teonth day ho began to driuk water, and subsisted on this oTotre during tho re mainmg twenty-four days of his fast. 1 ho public has not heard much of the plucky little doctor for the last few years, Lut uet long ago ho turned up iu Chicago bright1 and chipper, a splendid specimen of .a man iu perfect health, and with a rotundity of form indicative ratlior of the bon vivant than of a man who oats only two meals a day in summer and ouly one in whiter. “Where have you boon keeping your self. doctor!” asked a reporter, after friendly greetings bad been exchanged. "I i.avo just returned from Now Mcx Ico, whore 1 have boon for nearly four years, pursuing certain investigations of a scientific nature. 1 am much interested in the subject of susiiended animation or counterfeit death. I am convinced that a far greater percentage of people are buried alive than even those who have ever given tee matter much thought would bo willing to believe. In niacoun try in the world are tho dead buried with such criminal haste, I may say, as in the United States. I have boon looking into this subject more or leas for tho last twenty-five years, aud the evidence I havo ford, etc.—are accounted for on this accumulated is startling. I tell you, it is hypothesis. murder, horrible murder, and it is high The foreign surnames and place names iim«souie agitation was started for tho preserved by tho Jews of England form purpose of securing needed legislation on a small epitome of the history of (lie, the subject of tbo burial of the dead. Israehtish dispersion. Side by side witn’ - r * ItsiRfc MOVEMENT IN EUKOrit. "Tho principio of life is so subtle,"con the Hebrew Abrahams, tlio Egyptian tinued tho doctor, "that man with all his Moses, and tho English Mordauut, we science knows nothing about it; and the have tlio Greek AMxander and Margolies, only safeguard against the awful crime the Latin Marcus, and the Arqbic Mocatta. of burying alive those wo lovo lies in tho Those derived from mediaeval house precautions that are taken against com signs are Rothschild, Adler, Ganz, Schiff, mitting their bodies to the tomtf before Strauss, Silberkron, etc. Somo of tho decomposition has set in. That is the occupation names arc interesting. Rophe only unsrristakablo sign that death has is Hebrew for physician, and Rappojiort finally taken place. Tho people of Hol is a corruption of Roplie d'Oporto; JaJfon land were among tbo first to awaken to is Hebrew for money changer, and tbo importance of this subject, aud In 1764 a Society was organized in Amster Mocatta is Arabic for mason. dam for the purpose ef looking into cases More strictly Anglo-Jewish are the where death seemed counterfeit rather natural assimilations of Hebrew and than real. In less than four years they Jewish names to English forms. Thus, had resuscitated—saved from entombment Coleman is a corruption of Kalman, alive—no less than 150 persons. Iu 1768 which is an abbreviation of Kalonymoe, tho authorities at Milau and Venice, and the Greek translation of the Hebrew those at Hamburg, followed,the example Sliem Tob (Good Name). Bonny is de set by Uollaud, cud a little later similar rived, through Bondi, from a Latin societies wcro formed at London, Paris translation of Yoin Tob (Good Day). and Glasgow. As a result of the work end Phillips comes from the Hebrew Uri or investigations of tbeso societies, among Meier, both meaning "light," through tho members of which were some of the foremost scientists of tbo times. It has the Greek equivalent Plioebos and its been proved that iu a great number of German-Polish diminutive Plieibul. Sa cases where every known lest had been ville is a more natural corruption of applied and preparations made for tho Samuel than is generally imagined, see burial tho subjects bad recovered. These ing that in Germany the Scriptural name experiences led Processor Morine, of thi has been shortened into Sanvel, and in University of Rome, to offer a prize of England wc have the authority of Mr. 1,500 francs for the best essay ou appar Weller, senior, To spell it with a ‘‘we." ent death; and the Marquis d'Ouche left Freeman is from the German Friedmann, 20,000 francs to bo used iu discovering tbo a translation and apocopation cf Shalom best means that could bo applied in de ben Menachem. Haymen is derived tecting tho counterfeit of dearin And so through Jlynian and Iiyan from the He in all countries statistics collated on this subject are startling, r.s revealing the brew Haim (life). Jesscl is from Ecbes- danger of premature burial.” kel, the Hebrew pronunciation of Eze "Now don't you think," asked the kiel. Yates is from Goetz, an abbrevia doctor, "that this is a subject that pco tion of Gottschalk, which in Low Ger plo should discuss, should be waked up man means "God’s servant," and is > about?” literal translation of Eljakim. Among "What remedy havo you to offer, simpler changes aro Cowan—Cohen, doctor?" "Simply this: 1 hold—and it certainly Lewin—Levi, Victor—Avigdor, Archei —Asher, Jessop—Joseph, and Soman cannot bo’ successfully contradicted—that tho sotting in of decomposition la tho and Slowman—Solomon. Curious m- stances of misdirected translations me af only certain sign of death. 11» tho sb forded by tlie names Marchant and Chap senco of this burial should be delayod weeks and months, If neceesary, for so man, both of which are Anglicizutions long as there is no decay lifo may hang by it the German Kaufmann or Ilaudels- a feeblo thread, aud, by that subtleness innnn. Originally, however, neither of of which I havo already spoken, tho re thSe-names meant ‘‘merchant" among covery be spontaneous. the Teutonic Jows. Kaufmann is a cor THE DOCTOR WILL niBERNATB. "Another discovery that I havo mado," ruption of Koppelmr.li, of which the first two syllables aro a German diminutive said tho doctor, "is that hibernating ani ■if Jacob and the third an abbreviation of mats do not uso their lungs during the Menachem, tlie whole being a contrac period of hibernation. For several years tion of Jacob ben Menacliem. Ilandels- ( have bcou studying tho habits of this mann has a similar history, being class of animals, and, do you know, 1 am about convinced that man can hibcr- derived from Elchanon lien Menacliem,. unto”----- through Handl, a recognized German Ilero tho reporter must have looked the diminutive of Elchanon. In tlie same incredulity ho felt, for the doctor hastenod way Seligman is a contraction of Selig to explain: "Take tho bear for example; ben Menacliem, and Felberinan a cor Its organs of respiration aro tho samo as rupted contraction of Phoebus (Uri) ben man's, and it hibernates for months with out food or drink. I havo also been Menachem. ■ One of tlio most curious instance? of studying the philosophy of the adepts an erroneous etymology is tlie name who used to bo ablo to go into the death Jaffe, which figures among the landed traneo at will. Their preparation for this gentry of county Down. It Li the He was long fasting, auu the trance condi tion following was, in my opinion, a sea brew word for "beautiful," and is a son of hibernation. I am studying now direct translation of tbeGerman"Scbon." with a view of making somo experiments As a Jewish surname, however, Schon or in this line, and the time may como wbpu Sclien lias no meaning. Jb is simply an I will permit myself to bo sealed up in an acrostic of tlie Hebrew SctUiacb Neemon air tight coffin and hid away until such (faithful messenger). Tirese acrostic timo as I shall designate for it to be names arc peculiarly Jewish, and many opened.” “But, doctor, you will not expect to of them orc found among English Jews. For example, Katz, which one of these como out of a test like that alive, will you?" days will perhaps be Anglicized into Cat, "Yoe, indeed,” was tho earnest reply. is derived from the initials of Koben “I havo. twice been near tbo portals of Tzedek (priest Of righteousness); Scluitz, the tomb hi my studies of this subject of which in Hungary lias actually been life principio and of suspended animation, translated into Kincz, tho Magyar , for and I firmly believe 1 can go still nearer— "treasure," is from Schliach Tzibur that I can to all outward appearances be (messenger of 'be congregation); Babad dead, and, remaining that way for a is iron) Dell Ab Belli Din (Son of the length of time, can still come bock a liv President of tho House of Judgment); ing witness of the truth of my theories Sack is from Sera Kadosli (holy poster and investigations.” Speaking of bis fast, he said: "Tbo ity), and when the name of a town be ginning with s is aiidded—as, for exam fact is, with most pooplo tho body rule» the mind, while tho reverse should be the ple, Sera Kadosli Speyer (holy posterity of Speyer)—it becomes Saks or Saclis, case—tbo mind should control tho body. Appetite, and it may bo a depraved one, which has been frequently mistaken for clamors for this or that desired article, an abbreviation of Sachsen (Saxony); and pooplo rush off to gratify it. When Brain is from Ben Rabbi Moses; Bran I began my forty days' fasting I said to (corrupted into Braun, and translated ' my stomach: 'Here, old fellow, I havo a into Brown) from Ben Rabbi Nachman; Job for you. I want you to tako a good Bard, from Ben Rabbi David; Bcrsal long rest, cad I want no grumbling about from Ben Rabbi Solomon tho Lovite, and it.' That settled ft. At 10 o’clock of the last day of mv fast, when 1 bad only two Bril from Ben Rabbi Judah the Levitc. The exeget ical names are also peculiar hours to go. a little child that was in tbo ly Jewish. They consist cf equivalents room where I was thrust a ripe peach un for Hebrew names, derived from colloca der my nose, if Adam was tempted as I wbt then I do not wonder teat bo fell. 1 tions iu biblical tests. Thus the com parisons in Jacob’s blessing furnish equivalents for Benjamin m Wolf, for Judah in Lion and for Naphtnh in Hart. Fislier is an equivalent for Ephraim, be cause it was foretold (Gen. xlriii, IU) lliat lm should multiply exceedingly, aid tho fish is 0 symbol of fruitfulness., It.i» also sometimes a subMitute for Hoses, ’ because Pliaraoh's daughter, iu giving him his name, said (Exodus 11. 10)’ ••For I drew him oe» of 11« water. —St. James' Gaietto. Love making Is one of the afta In which ex- perienoe la not eaaeutlsl to auiveas. ^^w^a NEVER TRAVEL WITHOUT THEM. Persons should never travel without a box of B randretii ’ s P ills . A few doses taken before going on ship will pre vent sea sickness, and one pill every night on ship-board will counteract the costive action of the seaair. 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