wn in Austria, and he is considered
well fitted to be the leader of this great movement.

Dr. Herzl says that he does not think there will be much difficulty in
making terms with the Sultan.

He visited Constantinople last year, and had two long conversations with
the Grand Vizier on the subject. While this minister did not answer Yes
or No to his project, Dr. Herzl says that he can but feel that the
Sultan was favorably impressed by it, as he sent him a decoration.

A "decoration" is a badge or emblem, such as a cross, star, flower, or
the like, which is bestowed by a sovereign as a special mark of favor or
in recognition of some great service. Medals received for bravery on the
field of battle are decorations.

Some of these decorations, or orders, as they are also called, are
extremely beautiful in workmanship and design. Each country has its own
special orders, a certain few of which are only bestowed on royalty, or
persons of very high rank.

Decorations are intended to be worn on the left breast. To attach them
to the clothing they are threaded on a ribbon which varies in color and
design for every order. In Europe, medals and orders are only worn on
full-dress occasions, but for ordinary use the proud owners of these
marks of distinction will wear a small strip of ribbon belonging to the
order.

These favors are not, as a rule, lightly bestowed, and the possessors of
the important European orders are rightfully proud of them.

The decorating of Dr. Herzl may have been nothing more than amiability
on the part of the Sultan, but it certainly showed that his Majesty was
not displeased with the doctor's mission.

The leaders of this new movement are not, however, pinning all their
faith on the Sultan.

If it becomes impossible to secure Palestine they will treat for a tract
of land in some healthy part of South America.

The land once secured, it is the intention to send a number of the
poorer Jews out to it.

These men are to be drawn from the laboring classes, and it is to be
their work to lay out streets, build bridges and railroads, etc., and
generally prepare the way for those who are to follow.

It is not intended to make any class distinctions of rich or poor, or to
send out a class of rich persons to profit by the work done for them by
their less fortunate brothers. The leaders of the movement will lay out
extensive works in the various kinds of building that we have mentioned,
and it is expect