The Maccabaean

din arose, louder and more furious. One weazened little woman screamed: 'He is here, the matricide! Why did he come here?'

"He tottered forward near the corpse with the same expression in his eyes as I have seen in those of a calf just after its throat has been opened in accordance with the rite.

"'Little Ma!' he moaned. His knees bent and his arms strained forward as if to kneel and embrace the corpse.

"'Here, stand still. can't you?' cried the officers as they jerked at his wrists.

"He straightened up and looked from one to the other amazedly, as if he had just become conscious of their presence. Then the expression in his eyes changed: they glared with a hatred which is indescribable. Every muscle in his face quivered, and he was seized with one of these passions, elemental, dreadful, that are subdued only when the physical being becomes completely exhaust-

ed. He strained at his chains like a madman, hurled his body now against one, now against the other of his jailers, and finally buried his teeth convulsively in the cheek of one of them, and held tight like a bull-dog.

"The other quickly pulled a revolver and landed with all his might on his head. Almost immediately the teeth relaxed and the head fell back, limp and unconscious.

"They carried him out of the house and into the waiting cab. On the way back to the prison they brought him back to consciousness, but he only opened his eyes and immediately closed them again. They dragged him back to his cell and locked him in.

"The next morning the newspapers of the city reported as a first-page news-item how --- the notorious gangster, awaiting trial for the murder of "Gypsy Jake" had committed suicide in his cell by slashing his throat with the glass of his watch and slowly bleeding to death."

The Infamous Tactics of the Hilfsverein.

As reported in the last number of THE MACCABAEAN, Dr. Paul Nathan who had been dispatched by the Hilfsverein to convince the Jews of Palestine that German and not Hebrew should be their language, "came, saw" and returned to Berlin to misrepresent and to slander the Zionists. Having utterly failed in his mission, he issued a pamphlet in which he accuses the Zionist element of Palestine in stirring up discord, even among The Mohammedan and Christian populations! In his report to the executive committee of the Hilfsverein Dr. Nathan declared that the same place and the same amount of time was accorded to Hebrew in their schools at present as at the time when Dr. Tschlenow wrote his ap-

preciation of their work, and the same scope would also be given to Hebrew at the Haifa Technical Institute. But he kept silent on the most important question—why the Hilfsverein, after giving all the donors to the Institute to understand that Hebrew would be the principal language of instruction, and accepting a building site from the Jewish National Fund, decided at the eleventh hour to make German the principal medium of instruction. Dr. Nathan's actions in Palestine were approved by his Committee and in view of his poor health a committee of four was appointed to relieve him of his work.

The Hilfsverein has also organized a general press campaign against the Zionists and the Russian Jews, who, according to