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They were eight in number, three of whom, including Gillis van Ledenberg, lodged at the house of Daniel Tressel, first clerk of the States-General. The leaders of the Barneveld party, aware of the purport of this mission and determined to frustrate it, contrived a meeting between the Utrecht commissioners and Grotius, Hoogerbeets, de Haan, and de Lange at Tressel's house. Grotius was spokesman.
"Hear, hear!" said De Haan, while "Epikouros" rumbled through the air, like distant thunder. "Didn't I say an Englishman could never master the Talmud?" Sugarman asked in triumph. This reminder of Raphael's congenital incompetence softened their minds towards him, so that when he straightway resigned his editorship, their self-constituted spokesman besought him to remain.
It's not worth twopence." "Well, bring it out at a penny at once then," laughed little Sampson, reinforced by the arrival of his editor. Guedalyah the greengrocer glowered at him. "I am very sorry, gentlemen, I have not been able to satisfy you," said Raphael. "But in a first number one can't do much." "Can't they?" said De Haan.
The following orders are confirmed: Special Orders No. 5, Headquarters Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, August 6th, 1898, placing First Lieutenant W.G. Haan, 3rd U. S. Artillery, in command of a separate battery to be organized by details from batteries of 3rd U.S. Artillery, to man the Hotchkiss revolving cannon brought on the transport Ohio.
"The paper was founded to inculcate the inspection of cheese, the better supervision of the sale of meat, the construction of ladies' baths, and all the principles of true Judaism," said De Haan gloomily, "and there's not one word about these things, but a great deal about spirituality and the significance of the ritual. But I will begin at the beginning.
"Sha, Ebenezer," said old Sugarman imperiously. De Haan thereupon hunted up a young gentleman, who dwelt in his mind as "Little Sampson," and straightway secured him at the price named.
It was a small shop in a back street with jargon-papers and hand-bills in the window and a pervasive heavy oleaginous odor. A hand-press occupied the centre of the interior, the back of which was partitioned of and marked "Private." Gluck came forward, grinning welcome. He wore an unkempt beard and a dusky apron. "Can you undertake to print an eight-page paper?" inquired De Haan.
Schlesinger and De Haan. To his surprise he found it crammed with the committee; all gathered round little Sampson, who, with flushed face and cloak tragically folded, was expostulating at the top of his voice. Pinchas stood at the back in silent amusement. As Raphael entered jauntily, from a dozen lips, the lowering faces turned quickly towards him.
Why, we get the Co-operative Kosher Society to start with." "Yes, but we ain't: going to pay for that," said Sugarman the Shadchan. "That doesn't matter," said De Haan. "It'll look well we can fill up a whole page with it.
"No, how can we say that?" said Raphael, pausing. "No, of course not," said De Haan. "I was thinking of the subsequent posters. Look out for the first number on Friday, January 1st. The best Jewish writers! The truest Jewish teachings! Latest Jewish news and finest Jewish stories. Every Friday. Twopence." "Twopence?" echoed Raphael, looking up. "I thought you wanted to appeal to the masses.
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