sprang from the bowl and fell to the floor in great distress.
Then the pike commented: "I did not know the carp was such a good tongue-lasher; his mouth is full with something like honey."
The carp groaned.
"Why don't you bestir yourselves," advised the pike again, peevishly.
The carp attempted to move. They trembled. "Oh," they groaned, "the pond is still so far away; our bones ache, and breath fails us!"
"Make another Vayivrach (Exodus)," cried the pike. "You fools! You should mass your strength! Be brave now! Take another jump, it's not so far away now....try again!"
But the carp were beyond the reach of advice. They bled on the floor while the pike discussed the situation.
It was said, that one good jump should have accomplished the purpose. It was also believed that feet were necessary for such a venture, a peculiar kind of feet; no carp method of locomotion could do it; a carp makes slow progress. He needs air and food. He should have something besides all this. A wise pike was of the opinion that such a feat was impossible for one carp. Many, many, of them might be able to do it. Now, if only one hundred thousand carp-were to jump at once. Eh? It could be done. At least, one might reach the goal. And then? Ah, then! !...
The Way of Life.
THE purpose of this article is to present a translation of an appeal whose immediate result was the formation of a small society with a brief but interesting history. Over and beyond this intended result, it has performed the larger service of formulating the programme of an ever-growing Jewish party, whose history promises to be long, as well as interesting and important. The programme-appeal requires for its better understanding an introduction describing the circumstances in which it was launched. For the facts herein given, the writer is indebted to Mr. A. E. Lubarsky and Mr. E. W. Lewin-Epstein, the two gentlemen who recently republished, for private circu-
lation, the rules and statutes of the B'nai Mosheh, the society above referred to, of which they were members.
Sixteen years ago, the date of the appeal entitled "The Way of Life," the centre of Zionism lay in Odessa. It was a Zionism that pretended to be nothing more than a philanthropic movement, looking to the gradual colonization of the Holy Land by the "Lovers of Zion" (Chobebé Zion). The head and front of the movement was Dr. Leo Pinsker, the author of "Auto-emancipation," a brochure written, in German, in the year of our sorrow 1882, when all hearts quick with Jewish blood were brooding over the renewed agony of the Jew, and the heart of Pinsker alone