preparatory work of construction of the railway from Haifa to Jerusalem. The line will use the metals of the Haifa Damascus railway as far as Aphule, and from there it will run via Dschenin and Nablous to Jerusalem.
Private messages from Constantinople (writes a correspondent of the Manchester "Guardian"), point to the extreme probability that the Jews will shortly obtain large concessions in Palestine. M. Pavolus, the department chief of the Agricultural Ministry, who had been sent to Palestine to investigate the agricultural and industrial condition of that region, has just returned and presented a detailed report of his investigations. He contends that in order to develop colonization in Palestine it is absolutely essential to grant the Jews far-reaching concessions. M. Pavolus complains that the Government neglects the forests around Mount Lebanon, protesting that such neglect will be disastrous to the country. He warns the Government that unless preventive means are taken the whole of Palestine will be ruined in the course of a few years. To obviate this, the departmental chief suggests the granting of wide concessions to Jews. He maintains that they will develop plantations and guard against the destruction of the forests. Anyone who has seen the flourishing condition of the number of Jewish colonies in Palestine, he says, could not but come to the same conclusion.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times, in a telegram, says:
"A message from Constantinople to the Politische Correspondenz, states that many foreign Jews have recently arrived in Palestine in order to purchase land there. It is reported, adds the message, that these events are causing excitement among the Mussulman population."
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Do you credit "Brigg & Julius? Why, everybody knows that they are on their last legs!"
"Is that so?" asked Moore who happened to be present. "O'Donnel secured it for us. I'll tell him to cancel it."
"I'll cancel it now," said Bernstein emphatically, and he did so.
When he returned in the afternoon, however, he found that the goods had been "sent." O'Donnel had misinterpreted his writing and shipped it off. The worried look in Bernstein's face grew intense. In fact, there was a suspicion of tears in his eyes. "Sent?" he gasped. "Are you business men?" he exclaimed scornfully. "It's the principle of the thing!" he muttered in exasperation, as he hurried out to stop the shipment.
The blood in O'Donnel's face visibly boiled ext:
Moore paced back and forth. Vista upon vista rose in his mind of things he could do in the way of "booming business" in the future. He did not suspect that it was Bernstein who had