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COPENHAGEN, Nov. 10.—Albert Ballin, General Director of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company, died suddenly yesterday, according to an announcement made in Berlin.

Albert Ballin built up the Hamburg-American Line from a small shipping company, when he was placed at its head in 1887, and until just before the war it was the greatest single steamship line in the world. Hamburg grew with the Hamburg-American Line until it reached and passed Liverpool in its shipping, and became, next to Berlin, the greatest city in Germany.

Hamburg's trade was stopped short at the outbreak of the war. Most of the ships, on which the greatest of the modern Hamburg rested, were either taken over by Germany's enemies or lay idle in her harbors, with the exception of a few used in the Baltic. Hamburg was reduced to a shell, suffering more from the war than any city outside the fighting area.

The creation of the Hamburg-American Line and the expansion of Hamburg were feats of individual enterprise. Although the Kaiser has been personally a large stockholder in the line, and although it has been controlled wholly by the German Government since the war, its growth in peace times was due to personal and individual initiative directed by Ballin.

He opposed plans to tie the steamship company to the German Government by taking subsidies in return for allowing the line to be directly supervised by the German Government, contending that the line would suffer and that Germany would indirectly be the loser if the commerce stretching all over the earth were ruled by rigid and slow-moving Government bureaus.

The line owned twenty-six vessels of 68,000 tons and was capitalized for $3,750,000 in 1897. It had a fleet of 500 vessels, with a tonnage built and building, of about 1,500,000, including the two greatest liners in the world, the Vaterland and the Imperator, in 1914. Ballin opened new routes until the Hamburg-American was carrying on ore than sixth steamship services, making stops at more than 300 ports.

This growth was encouraged rather retarded by the liberal sea policy of Great Britain, but the great sea empire which sprang up as if by magic under the genius of Ballin created visions of a vaster empire still in Germany, and its influence in inducing Germany to make the gamble for world domination was undoubtedly great.

Not only the dream disappeared during the war, but the sea empire in existence at the beginning melted away irrecoverably and probably caused Ballin's death directly or indirectly.

Ballin was 61 years old. He started his career with the Carr Line and was its passenger agent when that line was absorbed by the Hamburg-American. One year later Ballin, at the age of 31 years, was placed in charge of the Hamburg-American Line.

Under Ballin's enterprising leadership Germany forged ahead as a shipping nation until it threatened to rival England, his genius molding the entire industrial and commercial policy of the country. To take care of the business which Ballin brought to Hamburg a policy of physical development of the port and of co-ordination of industries was started.

Its harbor development and general development were greater than has ever taken place in any city in the same space of time. For years before the war commissions were sent from cities all over the world to study the model of harbor building at Hamburg, and the course of peaceful maritime development all over the world received a stimulus from Ballin.

All this was accomplished without arousing animosity in other countries. When Ballin recovered after a severe operation in 1911, telegrams of congratulation were sent him by the heads of shipping companies in England, France, Italy, America, and elsewhere, where Ballin enjoyed many close personal friendships. He was in close contact personally with the leading shipping men in other countries through his efforts in 1908 and later to bring about international co-operation among steamship lines to avert cutthroat competition.

Ballin, though a Jew, was generally recognized in Germany before the war as Germany's greatest private citizen. Frederic W. Wile, in his book "Men Around the Kaiser," said that Ballin stood in the same relation to the Kaiser as did those counsellors of an earlier generation to their sovereigns and governments—Rothschild of Paris to Napoleon III. and Bleichroeder of Berlin to Emperor William I. and Bismarck. He continued in the book:

"On one of the various occasions, when the Kaiser sought to saddle a Ministership on Ballin, or tack 'Von' to his plebeian name, or give him hereditary membership in the Prussian House of Peers, Ballin compromised by accepting his Majesty's photograph. The Kaiser inscribed it, 'To the far-seeing and tireless pioneer of our commerce and export trade.'

"Ballin is a thoroughly self-made man. The son of a humble Hamburg emigrant, he followed the practise, (still in vogue among young and ambitious Germans,) of coming to England as a lad to serve his commercial apprenticeship. The irrepressible Hamburg 'volunteer' went in to master the most infinitessimal details of navigation and specialized in emigrant traffic, the gold mine from which the transatlantic lines extract their richest gains.

"On his return to Germany his genius immediately commanded attention. It was not long before the Hamburg-American Line began to take notice that for some reason the Carr Line, on which Ballin was first engaged, was extracting the cream of the emigrant traffic. It was discovered that Ballin was the culprit. The only way to suppress him, it appeared, was to annihilate the competition, and to annihilate the competition was to buy out the Carr line bodily." * * *

"He is a devout but not a bigoted Jew. None of his co-religionists has a position of consequence in his organization. He has resolutely refused to follow the fashion of plutocratic brethren who embrace Christianity for social revenue. It annoys many German aristocrats that the Kaiser consorts so freely with a man who is proud of his origin."

Ballin's attitude toward the war has been reported variously. According to some accounts, he supported the ruthless submarine policy. According to others, he fought against it and was the man wh obrought about the downfall of von Tirpitz. In Germany he was accused of seeking a compromise "business" peace, a charge which he denied.

In an article contributed by Ballin to the Vossische Zeitung on Dec. 25, 1916, and reprinted in Volume III. of, he said:

"The men who will some day be entrusted with the duty of drawing up the terms of peace will have as their supreme task that of exterminating not only war itself, which has destroyed whole generations, but also the fever of armaments; or at least of restricting the latter within as narrow limits as possible in a Europe, which will remain exhausted for decades. They must also devise some sort of assurance that this bloody war will not be followed by an economic war, which would separate the nations still further from one another. Hence the demand for the freedom of the seas once more comes into prominence.

"It is true, certainly, that in time of peace the seas were always free; but in war, as we know today to our cost, they are governed by the strongest fleet. Means, therefore, must and will be found of assuring the freedom of mercantile traffic by sea, not only in peace, but also in war."

In an intercepted letter written by Ballin to Walter Rathenau in December, 1917, Ballin said:

"Our people have little or no knowledge of the American character. You and I have made a most careful study of it. What stuff our publicists and journalists write about their Mammon worship, their greed, their envy of other nations, their lack of discipline—Oh, that blessed word discipline! You and I know that the Americans are probably the most idealistic nation on the earth's surface. We know that they would not have entered the lists of our foes had they had any doubt as to the justice of their cause. Nonsense to say they have been influenced by Britain. We are mad not to see where we are and whither we are driving. In antagonizing the United States we have done a disastrous thing, a thing which will throw its cold shadow on our economic life for a generation."

Balling was reported to have lost favor with the Emperor, because of his moderate war views or his wish for an early peace, but the truth of this report has not been established. Ballin in letters and interviews repeatedly declared for a German victory and a strong German peace. Regarding his part in Germany's war policy, Sir Valentine Chirol wrote a letter to The London Times in 1915:

"Lord Haldane was quite right in describing Herr Ballin as one of the most remarkable personalities in Germany, for to him probably more than to any other German do we owe the sinking of the Lusitania. He has been for many years past one of the Kaiser's most trusted advisers in all matters of maritime policy.

"It was a matter of common notoriety in Germany in 1912 that it was largely owing to his advice that the Kaiser shrank from a war over the Agadir question. Ballin held that at that time German submarines were not sufficiently developed to exercise effective reprisals on the British mercantile marine for the tremendous damage which the mere pressure of British sea power would inflict on Germany's mercantile marine.

"During the present war it is Ballin's organs in the press that have from the first loudly advocated the policy of ruthless submarine warfare against the British merchant steamers of which the Lusitania has been the latest and most ghastly victim, and I have heard on good authority that his influence with the Kaiser went so far as to overcome the natural repugnance which lingered in professional naval circles against the adoption of such shameless methods of warfare."

Ballin sought to avert war with the United States early in 1917 by proposing a compromise under which England was to allow non-contraband cargoes to go to Germany and to disarm merchant ships, while Germany was to refrain from sinking ships without warning or without provisions for the safety of passengers and crew. He was reported to have inspired several movements toward peace through neutral agents, which were without result.

Early in the Spring of this year, Ballin is said to have called together the Directors of the Hamburg-American Line and told them that he felt himself too old to undertake the gigantic task of seeking to rebuild the German mercantile marine after the war was over, and that he intended to resign this post as soon as hostilities were at an end.

The power exercised by Albert Ballin in the political affairs of Germany was always greatly overrated, according to Ambassador James W. Gerard, who came to know the late shipping ruler of Germany quite well in the four years Mr. Gerard held his Berlin post.

"I don not believe that Ballin was consulted about the beginning of the war," said Mr. Gerard last night. "At any rate, I don not think the militarists bothered to ascertain whether he was in favor of beginning hostilities. I know, indeed, that once the war was begun, Ballin immediately seemed to lose favor at Court. Prior to August, 1914, Ballin was high in the favor of the Emperor, but with the coming of war days a gulf came between the Hamburg-American Line head and the Kaiser.

"Ballin was nothing like as powerful in home affairs as the public generally supposed. The real industrial rulers of Germany, at least, during the days of the early war they were very much in evidence, were the iron and steel magnates of the Rhine, of Westphalia. Although Ballin, through his shipping connections, was well known to the world, his supremacy even in that field was not complete, for he had a strong rival in the North German Lloyd people."

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian, estimated tonight that the total amount of property of the Hamburg-American Line now in the hands of this Government or disposed of, amounted to $100,000,000. This estimate included the ships taken over by the Government when the United States entered the war.

All the property in this country owned by the Hamburg-American Line, except the office building at 45 Broadway, New York, has been sold by the Alien Property Custodian to the United States Government. The office building is still undisposed of but it is being used by the Government for various offices. The property is owned by the Atlas Steamship Company, a subsidiary of the Hamburg-American Line.

The Hudsom River piers of the line and the terminal facilities at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, were both sold to the Government. None of the property of this line has been sold to private corporations.

"Albert Ballin," said Mr. Palmer, "was an intimate friend of the Kaiser. The latter was also a heavy stockholder in this corporation."

LONDON, Nov. 10.—The death of Albert Ballin, reported from Berlin, is deplored here as a loss of a broad-minded, constructive force at a juncture when the world has need of a new organization of the German social fabric on a sound basis.

The French and Belgian Missions which have been delegated by their respective Governments to visit America, especially to honor Cardinal Gibbons on the occasion of that celebration of his golden jubilee will visit the City Hall next Friday. They will be received by Mayor Hylan at the Reception Committee he has appointed at 1 o'clock that afternoon. The committee will meet in the City Hall today to arrange the plans for the reception.

France sends with the mission the Cross of the Legion of Honor for Cardinal Gibbons, while Belgium, which some years ago honored the Cardinal with its highest insignia, charges its mission to express to him the sincerest felicitations of the King and Queen of the Belgians. President Wilson recently received the members of both missions at the White House. The French party is composed of Mons. Julien, the Bishop of devastated Arras; Mons. Baudrillart, a member of the French Academy, and Captain Duthoit and Lieutenant Fory of the French Army. Already the mission has been feted wherever it has gone. Fordham University has conferred an LL.D. on Bishop Julien and Mons. Baudrillart. The French Institute of Letters and Art will receive them this week. The Belgian Mission is headed by Mons. Carton de Wiart. The Reception Committee appointed by the Mayor is as follows:

Rodman Wanamaker, Chairman; Grover A. Whalen, Secretary.

 * Adams, Commander C. A.
 * Adrian, George M.
 * Alexander, C. B.
 * Ball, Wilbur L.
 * Beroizheimer, Philip.
 * Blatch, Harriet S.
 * Bridgman, Herbert L.
 * Brady, Nicholas F.
 * Brisbane, Arthur.
 * Brown, Frank L.
 * Battle, George G.
 * Bell, Major Gen. J. F.
 * Brown, William B.
 * Bruckner, Henry.
 * Brune, Edwin G.
 * Butcher, William N.
 * Butler, James.
 * Chamberlain, Mary.
 * Churchill, T. W.
 * Cohen, William.
 * Collier, B. G.
 * Connolly, M. E.
 * Corroon, R. A.
 * Cortelyou, G. B.
 * Coyle, Francis J.
 * Craig, Charles L.
 * Copeland, Dr. R. S.
 * Coler, Bird S.
 * Dippel, M. W.
 * Dowling, Frank L.
 * Dowling, Victor J.
 * Duffield, Rev. H.
 * Dyer, Brig. Gen. G. R.
 * Dykman, William N.
 * Elkus, A. I.
 * Enright, Richard E.
 * Evans, Henry.
 * Fallon, William J.
 * Farrell, James A.
 * Ferrara, Antonio.
 * Fitzsimmons, C. J. A.
 * Foley, James A.
 * Foster, Roger.
 * Fox, William.
 * Friedsam, Major M.
 * Gardiner, W. R.
 * Garvan, F. P.
 * Gary, Elbert H.
 * Gerard, James W.
 * Gilchrist, John F.
 * Gleason, C. J.
 * Golden, John L.
 * Goldstein, Jonas J.
 * Harriss, Dr. J. A.
 * Hayes, Very Rev. F. J.
 * Hearst, W. R.
 * Hedges, Job.
 * Herter, Clarence S.
 * Hulbert, Murray.
 * Herrick, Walter R.
 * Johnson, Alfred J.
 * Jones, D. H. E.
 * Kaufman, L. J.
 * Kenney, William F.
 * Kernochan, Frederic.
 * Kingsley, Darwin P.
 * Leach, J. A.
 * Lahey, W. J.
 * Lazansky, Edward.
 * Levy, Isidore M.
 * Loft, George W.
 * Lynn, Preston P.
 * Liebert, G. E.
 * MacDonald, George.
 * Macdonald, Henry.
 * McCarthy, T. D.
 * McClellan, Lt. Col. G. B.
 * McCooey, Mrs. J. H.
 * McCooey, J. H.
 * McGarragh, G. W.
 * McGoey, T. F.
 * McCoombs, W. F.
 * Mann, Maj. Gen. W. A.
 * Mali, Pierre C.
 * Marbury, Elisabeth.
 * Morron, John R.
 * Morse, A. W.
 * Mulqueen, Joseph F.
 * Murray, Thomas E.
 * Murphy, Charles F.
 * Nixon, Lewis.
 * Noyes, Charles F.
 * O'Brien, Morgan J.
 * O'Connor, John.
 * O'Donohue, J. J.
 * O'Reilly, L. J.
 * Pendleton, F. K.
 * Penfield, F. C.
 * Porter, Col. A. D.
 * Potter, Mark W.
 * Prali, Anning S.
 * Preakauer, J. M.
 * Rayans, M. W.
 * Read, Thomas.
 * Regan, James R.
 * Riegelmann, Edward.
 * Ryan, Allan A.
 * Ryan, Rosina.
 * Ryan, George J.
 * Strong, Benjamin.
 * Schiff, Jacob H.
 * Straus, Jesse I.
 * Straus, Percy S.
 * Scheuer, A. L.
 * Sheldon, James C.
 * Spinney, William N.
 * Simkhovitch, Mary G.
 * Slevin, Mrs. Mary.
 * Saxe, John G.
 * Smith, Thomas F.
 * Somers, Arthur S.
 * Smith, Alfred E.
 * Switzer, Maurice.
 * Shea, Mary.
 * Shearn, Clarence J.
 * Theothilapos, D. R.
 * Thayer, E. V. R.
 * Todd, William H.
 * Todd, Miss Helen
 * Thompson, William B.
 * Thorley, Charles.
 * Topping, Mrs. H. J.
 * Untermyer, Samuel.
 * Usher, Admiral N. R.
 * Van Name, C. D.
 * Van Tuyl, George C.
 * Van Dyke, Henry.
 * Wallis, F. A.
 * Weinberg, Morris.
 * Wood, Col. W. E.
 * Wilsey, FrankD.
 * Williams, Rev. John.
 * Ward, Maj. Jennie R.
 * Wiggin, Albert H.
 * Wagner, Robert F.
 * Walker, James A.
 * Warner, Charles M.
 * Yeeks, Joseph.
 * Zuckerman, Henry.

The missions are expected to remain in the city several days.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—The treaty which brings into military service citizens of the United States resident in French and French citizens of military age living here became effective last Friday. Local boards in America were instructed today by Provost Marshal General Crowder to suspend the involuntary induction sixty days, to allow French citizens to enlist voluntarily for military service or leave for France to enter military service.

The announcement made by Provost Marshal General Crowder reads:

"The convention providing that American citizens in France of the ages specified in the laws of the United States prescribing compulsory military service, and French citizens in the United States between the ages of 20 and 44, both inclusive, shall be subject to military service in the country in which they are, unless within periods prescribed by the convention they enlist or enroll in the forces of their own country or leave the United States or France, as the case may be, for service in their own country, has become effective by the exchange, on Nov. 8, of ratification between the United States and the French Republic.

"In order to comply with the provisions of the convention, local boards in America are being instructed by the Provost Marshal General's office to suspect involuntary induction into the American forces of every French citizen affected by the convention for a period of sixty days, to allow these French citizens to enlist or enroll or leave this country for service with the French forces. At the expiration of this sixty-day period noFrench citizen in America will be entited to deferred classification on the ground of alienage, but will be reclassified in the same manner as are American citizens. It should be especially borne in mind that this is not a draft by France of Franch citizens in the United States, not does it affect any French citizen who has already been inducted into the army of the United States. The convention merely provides that French citizens in the United States between the ages of 20 and 44, both inclusive, shall become subject to military service and entitled to exemption and discharge therefrom under the laws of the United States, unless within the prescribed time they voluntarily enlist or enroll in the French Army or return to France for military service, or unless within the same period they are granted diplomatic exemption from service in the forces of the United States by the French Government. The diplomatic certificates of exemption are to be issued by the French Ambassador and may be executed in his name, or by the French consular officials in this country, to whom Ambassador Jusserand has delegated this authority.

"No application for diplomatic exemption may be made nor exemptions granted after entry into military service. The certificate of exemption may be special or general, temporary or conditional, and may be modified, renewed or revoked in the discretion of the government granting them.

"Without assuming responsibility of providing transport or cost of transportation, the two governments have agreed, so far as possible, to facilitate the return of citizens to their own country. No citizen of either country who enters the military service of the other shall, by reason of such service, be considered, after the convention shall have expired or after his discharge, to have lost his nationality or be under any obligations to the country in whose forces he shall have served.

"Termination of the convention may be accomplished by a sixty-day notice from one country to the other, whereupon any citizen of either country incorporated in the military service of the other under the provisions of the convention shall be discharged as soon as possible."

The Mayor's Committee on Taxation announced yesterday that it had obtained the services of Samuel Untermyer as counsel in an endeavor to prevent the sale in Nassau County in December of property on which taxes have not been paid. In a letter to Supreme Court Justice Scudder, Mr. Untermyer said that Mayor Hylan had suggested to him to prepare a brief or to argue the case orally. He asked for two weeks' time in which to look into the merits of the matter, and it is believed Justice Scudder will grant the request.

The situation will be discussed at the office of the State Controller, Eugene Travis, this afternoon. Among those present will be Nathan Hirsch, Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Taxation; Samuel Breslin, Grover Whalen, Peter J. Brady, and James P. Holland. Governer-elect Alfred E. Smith has written to the Mayor's Committee saying he considered the present law, with reference to the sale on land on which taxes have not been paid, as good, but he urged that it be amended so as to make it impossible for any one to deprive landholders of their property before having their day in court.

Prayers for the success of the allied navies and for the safety of all sailors were said last night at the third annual Sailor's Day service in Trinity Church. Messages in praise of the allied sailors of the armed ships and of the merchant marine were sent by Secretary Redfield, Colville Barclay, the British Charge d'Affaires; Ambassador Jusserand, Admiral Usher, and many other officers of the allied navies. The Rev. Dr. John N. McCormick, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan, who has been serving in France as a Red Cross Chaplain, was the speaker at the services.

"The future of America is going to be on the sea," said Bishop McCormick. "I was brought up in the atmosphere of the Baltimore clippers, and I am gratifed to know we are coming back to our own. In the days that are to come the freedom of the seas will be safe in the hands of the American and British Navies and marines."

Among the passengers who arrived recently from England on a British liner were Henry H. Andrew, Thomas B. Astbury, C. M. Brooke, the Rev. Raymond T. Brosnahan, Coloney L. H. B. Flaschl, W. G. Connor, Dr. G. W. Cottis, E. Fisher,Charles C. Fowler, W. G. Gray, P. G. Gow, K. H. Hastings, S. A. Joyce, Juhn Hylet, J. Brower, J. Webster, F. Spearing, H. Dyer, G. Syme, W. D. Layton, C. J. Chandler, S. Mowatt, O. T. Rayner, E. C. Smith, A. G. J. Whitehouse, Dr. John S. Unger, C. A. Mullen, R. M. B. Parker, F. A. Price, Lincoln Steers, T. G. Stokes, V. Stapleton-Cotton, Robert Pyper, R. Livingstone.

<section end="Ocean Travel" /> <section begin="Engagements" />

Mrs. Henry J. Hard of Bangor, Ma., announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Margaret Bradley, to Lieutenant Harvey J. Smith, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith of Flushing, L.I. Miss Bradley's step-father, Henry J. Hard, is the Vice President and general counsel of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company.

The Rev. Kirkland Huske and Mrs. Huske of Great Neck, L.I. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Freeman Huske, to Francis Hamilton Sherrerd of Portland, Conn. Mr. Sherrerd is a graduate of Lehigh University and a son of the late Alexander Hamilton Sherrerd of Scranton.

<section end="Engagements" /> <section begin="Charting Air Lanes" />

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Charting air lanes over the United States has been begun by the army. These charts are mosaics made with stereopticon cameras, showing such land marks as waterways, railroads, cities, and mountains for pilots to follow.

From Kelly Field instructors and members of their classes work with the aid of airplanes carrying cameras and motor trucks carrying photographic material and supplies and a portable darkroom for developing plates and films. Sich an outfit is usually set up in some town in the district to be photographed, which has a landing field adjacent. The men employed in the work are rationed from this camp, and the developing and printing of the films and plates delivered by the airplanes are all done here. As fast as one district is finished the outfit moves on to the next.

<section end="Charting Air Lanes" /> <section begin="To Shield Women in War" />

The Committee for the Protection of Women under International Law was organized at a meeting held yesterday in Plymough Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the church, presided, and the Chairman of the committee is Mrs. William C. Beecher, wife of Colonel William C. Beecher, son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mrs. Beecher said that the committee was formed at the request of a million women of France, who had already organized. The speakers included Sergeant Ruth Farnam, Mme. Avria St. Croix, Signora Amy Bernardy, and Miss Isabelle Van der Clite. In a resolution adopted it was said:

"We demand that whatever in the present war would or might stand as a precedent for these dangerous villainies in any future wars be met and broken by the counterprecedent of trial before an international tribunal and punishment as a criminal of every officer, soldier, or civilian of either of the Central Powers, or of any of their allies, who shall be accused, whether as principal or accomplice, of any offence against a woman."

<section end="To Shield Women in War" /> <section begin="Bishop Gore Ends Tour" />

The Right Rev. Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford, delivered his last sermon in this country in Trinity Church yesterday, and announced that he would return to England soon. In speaking of the changes caused by the war, he said that while Americans could live under conditions similar to those prevailing before the war, everything would be changed in England and other European countries. He prophesied that organized labor "would be a great factor in determining the conduct of society in the future."

At a meeting in Cooper Union last night he emphasized the need for a league of nations, and spoke of the great problems in reconstruction.

"If after this war the countries of Europe are permitted to maintain themselves as armed camps, civilization will go down in ruin," he said. "There must be over all nations a higher power to maintain and force peace. We must find some other means than universal military service for training men for sacrifice and service."

"The nearer we approach this reconstruction period the more appaling its difficulties become," he said. "I believe the Labor Party of England may put into effect its plans of reconstruction, and I consider its program a masterful document."

<section end="Bishop Gore Ends Tour" /> <section begin="Ask for German Colonies" />

That the captured German colonies in Africa be turned over to the natives and that educated negroes be placed in leadership there, is one of the requests that the negroes of New York as represented by the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, will make to this Government and to the Allies. These requests were contained in a resolution adopted at a meeting of 5,000 negroes in the Palace Casino in 135th Street, near Madison Avenue, yesterday.

The meeting was presided over by Marcus Garvey, head of the League and representative of the race made speeches. The resolution set forth that it would only be through the granting to the negro his rights and the rights of all weaker peoples at the Peace Conference that future wars would be obviated. It was also asked that negroes be permitted to travel and to reside in any part of the world; that they be permitted the same educational facilities as Europeans; that all segregative and proscriptive ordinances against negroes be repealed and that they be given political, industrial and social equality.

<section end="Ask for German Colonies" /> <section begin="Malting Output Drops" />

The annual report of the American Malting Company for the year ended Aug. 31., 1918, made public yesterday, reveals that during the last fiscal year the operations of the company were carried on under adverse conditions, due to the war.

Russell H. Landale, Vice President of the company, informs the stockholders that early in December railroad embargoes checked the receipts of grain and the delivery of malt; next, the Fuel Administration curtailed the fuel and power requirements of the plants, while the Food Administration further restricted malting operations. Finally the Government issued orders prohibiting the manufacture of malt for brewing purposes, "thus terminating the chief business of your company until the foregoing orders are rescinded."

Under these conditions, Mr. Landale said, the output for the year was only 5,200,000 bushels, as compared with approximately 9,500,000 bushels in normal times. At present the company is engaged in the storage of grain for the Government and private owners at its elevators in Buffalo, Chicago, and Milwaukee. In view of the uncertainty of prohibition legislation and Government restrictions, it will be left to the Board of Directors to be elected at the annual meeting on Nov. 14 to decide whether to continue limited operations or that the company be dissolved.

Total profits for the year aggregated $398,182, of which $135,757 was net. From the total earnings of $398,182 the Directors set aside for depreciation $237,423, and for income tax $25,000. Bonds, with a par value of $180,000, were canceled during the year, leaving the company a bonded indebtedness of $720,000.

<section end="Malting Output Drops" /> <section begin="To Sell Antique for Soldier Fund" />

The British and Canadian Patriotic Fund Society has announced that its efforts in recruiting ceased with the closing of the official mission here and that its efforts would be devoted now to the raising of funds for the relief of the families of the men who were recruited through the mission. It announced also that it had received as a bequest from a California estate an antique Italian lace coverlet, made about 1490. In accordance with the wishes of the former owner, it is to be sold, and offers are being received in Washington by Leonard Wilson, the Treasurer of the fund.

<section end="To Sell Antique for Soldier Fund" /> <section begin="Dinner to Commissioner Enright" />

At a dinner given last night to Police Commissioner Enright at the Friars' Club, 110 West Forty-eighth Street, the Commissioner asked for the co-operation of the members of the club with the Police United War Work Campaign. He was introduced by Rennold Wolf, who sketched his life. Others who spoke were Francis M. Hugo, George S. Dougherty, and John J. Gleason. Present were Herman Metz, Daniel Frohman, George M. Cohan, Mortimer L. Schiff and Fire Commissioner Drennan.

<section end="Dinner to Commissioner Enright" /> <section begin="Does Not Fear Nugent" />

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Nov. 10.—Governor Edge declared today that James Nugent, Democratic leader of Essex County, was counting upon a Democratic majority in the Senate when he made his threat to prevent the Governor from taking his seat in the upper house in Washington, through recourse to a technicality which lawyers have thrashed out and dismissed. The Governor characterized the threat as absurd. He said that neither he nor his legal advisers had the slightest fear as far as Nugent was concerned. He added:

"The same issue which has been raised in my case might be raised without any more or less justification in the cases of Governor Keyes of New Hampsire, Governor Capper of Kansas, and Governon Stanley of Kentucky, all of whom were elected from Gubernatorial offices to the United States Senate at the same time as myself. The ban upon the election of an incumbent of the Gubernatorial office to the Senate ceased to exist when legislatures ceased to elect Senators."

Governor Edge expects that the Jerset Legislature will wind up its session without four or five weeks after it meets in January, so that the road will be clear when he goes to Washington in March to be sworn in as a member of the Senate.

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Declaring that only a few Letts favored Bolshevism, and that the Lettish nation has been misrepresented by German propaganda, Charles A. Carol, Secretary of the New York Lettish Society, yesterday asked all Letts to organize and work for the establishment of a free Lettish Government. The call to unite followed a meeting which, held by the Foreign Language Division of the Fourth Liberty Loan Committee for the purpose of thanking the Letts for supporting the loan, developed into a "freedom for Letts" movement.

"The Letts," said Mr. Carol, "are very much misunderstood in their national, political, and economic life. For centuries they ahve inhabited the provinces of Courland and Livland on the Baltic, with a growing population of more than 2,000,000, and they are almost without exception pure Letts, descendants of the Asiatics who brought the Sanskrit tongue with them from the Oriental continent. They have mixed very little with their neighbors, the Esthonians and the Lithuanians. For years the Letts have been the victims of the Hun oppressors."

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Louise Anderson Crockett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Crockett, of 640 Madison Avenue, dued on Saturday in Denver. Mr. Crockett has been with the Federal Food Administration in Washington since it was organized, and last Winter his daughter, while ill, went to California to stay at the home of Judge David Walker, former Attorney General of Manitoba, an under of Mrs. Crockett.

Miss Crockett's engagement to Lieutenant Charles C. Coryell was announced in July, when the Lieutenant was ordered to France. Her brother, Newton Crockett, also in the army, was wounded at Chateau-Thierry. Miss Crockett died on her way East just after her mother with a trained nurse had met her at Denver.

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The Rev. Dr. James Champlain Fernald, for many years on the editorial staff of the Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, died yesterday at his home, 207 Lorraine Avenue, Upper Montclair. Dr. Fernald was born in Portland, Me., Aug. 18, 1838, and was graduated from Harvard in 1860 and from the Newton Theological Institute in 1866.

Dr. Fernald, for many years was pastor of Baptist churches in Maine, Vermont, and Ohio, and in 1889 became one of the associate editors of The Standard Dictionary. He was dean of the Department of English of the Intercontinental University at Washington, for a time, and among his twenty-four books, the last, "Expressive English," was published only a few days ago.

Dr. Fernald is survived by his widow and by four sons and two daughters, these being Charles B., Henry C. and Luther D. Fernald, of New York; Lieutenant James G. Fernald of the Flying Pursuit Detachment, in France; Miss Grace M. Fernald, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Miss Mabel R. Farnald of Washington. Penn.

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Dr. Raymond B. Earle, professor of geology at Hunter College, and for several years head of its Summer school, died yesterday of pneumonia at St. Luke's Hospital. He was widely known as a lecturer, and three years ago headed a research party in Alaska. Born in Newton, Mass., about forty-five years ago, Dr. Earle studied at Harvard, and was an instructor in New York University. The body will be taken to Newton for burial. A widow, son, and daughter survive.

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A. PHILIP HEXAMER, who died Saturday at his home, 215 Hudson Street, Hoboken, N.J., was educated at Stevens Institute there and also at the Imperial Riding Academy of Austria. He conducted for year the Hoboken Riding Academy and Horse Exchange, founded by his father, as well as the Hoboken Riding Club, and was a Director of the Trust Company of New Jerset and Colonial Life Insurance Company. Mr. Hexamer was 60 years old.

Mrs. CORNELIA M. ANDREWS, widow of the late John R. Andrews, who was a member of the firm of Tiffany & Co. years ago, died yesterday while visiting at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Wilfred J. Funk, 16 Park Road, Montclair, N.J. Mrs. Andrews, who was 67 years old, lived at 146 West 130th Street, this city.

Mrs. ANNA HALL, at one time proprietor of the Old Farm Hotel, West Orange, N.J., died suddenly Saturday in her apartments at 315 Broad Street, Newark, as the result of a fall on the stairway of her home. She was 65 years old.

LEONARD C. McCHESNEY, advertising manager for the Thomas A. Edison industries for sixteen years, died of heart disease yesterday at his home, 170 High Street, Orange, N.J. He was 69 years old and formerly was Secretary and Treasurer of The Orange Chronicle, and President of the Orange Board of Education.

Dr. JOHN HENRY MacDONALD died suddenly of heart disease Saturday at his home, 273 East Seventh Street. He was born at Riverhead, L.I., and received his medical education at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was unmarried. Dr. George A. MacDonald of 802 Madison Avenue is a brother.

WILLIAM A. McLOUGHLIN, Secretary to the County Clerk of Queens, died yesterday at his hom in Alsop Street, Jamaica. He was 55 years old and a brother of the late Justice James McLoughlin.

WILLIAM VINCENT MARTIN, formerly head of the statistical department of The New York Evening Post, died of pneumonia at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., Saturday. He was 21 years old.

Dr. CALVIN F. KYTE, 68 years old, is dead at his home, 77 Garrison Avenue, Jersey City. He was graduated from the New York University Medical College and was Dean of the staff of Christ Hospital.

JOHN JABURG, head of the firm of Jaburg Brothers, dealers in bakers' supples, died last night at his home, 111 West 119th Street. He was 69 years old.

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DIRINGER—KAPLAN.—Mr. and Mrs. Myer Kaplan announce the marriage of their daughter, Mollie, to Mr. Charles Diringer, Nov. 5. 1918. Home, 685 Lafayette Av., Brooklyn.

HERRICK—BACON.—On Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Church of the Holy Communion, by the Rev. Henry Mottet, Pauline Bacon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Bacon, to Lieutenant Harold E. Herrick, U.S.N.

VALENTINE—TREU.—Sunday, Nov. 10, 1918, 1:30 P.M., Mr. Jack D. Valentine to Miss Evelyn M. Treu, at the hom of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Treu, 28 Euclid Av., Forest Hills, L.I.

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GUTTER.—Mr. and Mrs. Sig Gutter announce the birth of a daughter on Nov. 4, 1918.

SPERLING.—Mr. and Mrs. Herman I. Sperling (nee Jane De Boer) announce the birth of a son, Tuesday, Nov. 5, at Lenox Hill Hospital.

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ANDREWS.—Suddenly, at Montclair, N.J., on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918, Cornelia Conger, wife of the late John R. Andrews, in her 77th year. Funeral services will be held from the residence of Mr. W. J. Funk, 16 Irwin Park Road, Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 12:30 P.M. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.

BARUCH.—On Sunday, Nov. 10, 1916, at his residence, 106 West 96th St., Joseph, dearly beloved husband of Lizzie Davies Baruch, in his 64th year. Funeral at convenience of family. Kindly omit flowers.

BEEKMAN.—On Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918, at the New York Hospital, after a brief illness, Gerard Beekman, eldest son of the late James William and Abian Steele Beekman. Funeral service on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1918, at half past ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Av. and 35th St.

BEEKMAN.—The Holland Society of New York announces with sorrow the death of Gerard Beekman, a Trustee and former President of this society, on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918. Members are requested to attend the funeral services, at the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Av. and 35th St., on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 10:30 A.M. SEYMOUR VAN SANTVOORD, President. FREDERIC R. KEATOR, Secretary.

BEEKMAN.—Members of the New York Historical Society are requested to attend the funeral services of our late associate, Gerard Beekman, Third Vice President of the society, at the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Av. and 35th St., on Tuesday morning, Nov. 12, at 10:30. STUYVESANT FISH, Recording Secretary.

BEEKMAN.—The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, New York Branch: With deep regret, announcement is made of the death in New York Citym, on Nov. 9, 1918, of Gerard Beekman, honorary member of this order. J. H. LIVINGSTON, President. K. VAN RENSSELAER, Secretary.

BIRCH.—Alfred E., private, died in France Oct. 4, Co. B, 102d Ammunition, 27th Division, member K. of C., beloved hisband of Annie Birch, (nee O'Reilly,) 360 East 151st St.

BLAU.—On Sunday, Nov. 10, Sarah, beloved wife of Joseph and devoted mother of Mildred, Corinne, Irving and Jerome, and sister of Bernard Stahl. Funeral from her late residence, 132 West 119th St., Tuesday, 10 A.M.

BLISS.—Suddenly, on Friday, Nov. 8, 1918, Ezra Everett Bliss, beloved father of Henry, Everett, Maude, Winfield and Clarence Bliss. Funeral services at his home, 731 Quincy St., Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 8 P.M.

BUTTFIELD.—Nov. 7, 1918, at Officers' Training Camp, Tank Corps Service, Gettysburg, Penn., Marsom Innes Buttfield of Plainfield, N.J., in his thirty-second year. Funeral services private.

BYWATER.—Marjorie Georgina, aged 13 years, beloved daughter of Laurence and the late Delay Emmeline, of 225 8th Av., Brooklyn, on Nov. 9, after a short illness. Funeral at Evergreen Cemetery, Tuesday, 3 P.M. London (England) papers please copy.

CADWELL.—Killed in action in France, Oct. 9, 1918, Sergeant Clifford H. Cadwell, 38th Infantry, son of Joseph H. and Mary Louise Cadwell. Canadian papers please copy.

CARROLL.—William F., St., in his 69th year, at his residence, 532 East 86thSt., beloved husband of Ellen C. Carroll, (nee Barter,) beloved father of Thomas P. Sadie, William F., Jr., Robert, and Stephen, and the late Mrs. William F. Maher. Funeral 10 A.M., Nov. 12, from St. Monica's Church, East 79th St. and First A. Interment Calvary.

CHAPMAN.—Killed in action in France, Sept. 29, 1918, Captain Henry Henley Chapman, Infantry, United States Army.

COLLIER.—Of heart failure, on Friday evening, Nov. 8, at his residence, 1,0967 5th Av., Robert J. Collier, beloved husband of Sarah Steward Van Alen Collier, in the 43d year of his age. Mass of requiem Monday, 9:30 o'clock, at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Lexington Av. and 76th St. Interment private at Wickatunk, N.J.

COLLIER.—The Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York announces with deep regret the death of our fellow member, Robert J. Collier, on Friday, Nov. 8, 1918. Members are requested to attend the funeral services, at St. Jean Baptiste's Roman Catholic Church, 76th St. and Lexington Av., on Monday, Nov. 11, at 9:30 A.M. VICTOR J. DOWNLING, President. JAMES J. HOEY, Secretary.

COLLIER.—The American Irish Historical Society announces with regret the death of Robert J. Collier, a member of this society. Members will attend the funeral at Jean Baptiste Church on Monday, Nov. 11, at 9:30 A.M. (Signed) JOSEPH I. C. CLARKE, President General. EDWARD H. DALY, Secretary General.

CROCKETT.—At Denver, Col., Nov. 9, Louise, beloved daughter of Dolores and Albert S. Crockett of New York and Riverside, Conn.

CUSHMAN.—A service in memory of Joseph Rathborne Cushman, Corporal, Company K, 107th Infantry, son of the late Joseph Wood Cushman and Mrs. Cushman, killed in action at Le Catelet, on Sept. 29, will be held in St. Thomas's Church, 53d St. and 5th Av., on Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, at 3:30 o'clock.

DE COMEAU.—On Nov. 9, 1918, Olivier de Comeau, at the age of 76. Funeral services at Stephen Merritt Chapel, 161 8th Av., corner 18th St. on Monday, Nov. 11, 1918, at 1 P.M. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.

DE LEBZELTERN.—V., suddenly, On Nov. 9, Jesse V. de Lebzeltern, (nee Champagne,) beloved wife of Victor E. and mother of Marie and Edward P. V. de Lebzeltern. Funeral private. Montreal papers please copy.

DE RHAM.—A service in memory of Charles de Rham, Jr., First Lieutenant, Company B, 306th Infantry, 77th Division, who died in France on Oct. 9 of wounds received in action, will be held in Grace Church, Broadway and 10th St., on Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, at 4 o'clock.

DIAZ.—Lutgarda, "THE FUNERAL CHURCH," Broadway, 66th St., (Frank E. Campbell's.) Notice of funeral later.

DOWNEY.—Suddenly, at Merrick, L. I., Nov. 9, 1918. George W. Downey. Funeral private.

EARLE.—On Nov. 10, 1918, at St. Luke's Hospital, Dr. Raymond B. Earle, Professor of Geology, Hunter College. Interment Newton, Mass.

FAHNESTOCK.—A service in memory of Major Clarence Fahnestock, 301st Infantry, U.S.A., who died in France Oct. 5, 1918, will be held in St. Thomas's Church, on 5th Av. and 53d St., on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 12, at 4:30 o'clock.

FARRELL.—The Rev. Peter, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Tremont. Divine Office will be recited on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 9:30 A.M.; solemn requiem mass at 10 A.M., at St. Joseph's Church, Bathgate and Tremont Avs.

FLOCK.—Mrs. Lottie, (nee Hertel,) wife of George L. Flock of 1,308 Fulton Av., Bronx, died Nov. 9, 1918. Servies Monday evening, Nov. 11, at 8 o'clock. Funeral Lutheran Cemetery, Long Island. Tuesday, 3 P.M. Philadelphia papers please copy.

FRANKLE.—On Nov. 9, at his home, 424 East 87th St., after a short illness, Henry G., aged 12 years, beloved son of William and Adele Frankle. Funeral private.

GORDON.—Elias, beloved husband of Sadie and father of Hazel and Arthur, Sunday morning. Funeral will take place from his late residence, 1,410 Grand Concourse, at 10 A.M. Monday.

GOURDIN.—Entered into rest Nov 9. Anna Rachel Gourdin, daughter of the late William Allston and Anna Louise White of Charleston, S.C., and niece of the late Dr. Octavius A. White. Funeral service at Chapel of St. John the Divine on Tuesday at 2:30 P.M.

GREEN.—At Summit, N.J., suddenly, on Nov. 9, 1918, William E. Green. Funeral services will be held at his late residence, 35 Mountain Av., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 2 P.M.

HALBERSTADT.—Suddenly, on Saturday, Nov. 9, Blanche Halberstadt, (nee Ballenberg,) 38 years of age, beloved wife of Joseph and devoted mother of Irwin J. Funeral Monday, Nov. 11, at 10 A.M., from her late residence, 601 W. 156th St.

HELD.—AT Newark, N.J., on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918, Nathan, beloved husband of Hannah Held, (nee Kohn,) in his 54th year. Funeral from his late residence, 68 Nelson Place, Newark, N.J., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 1 P.M. Relatives and friends, also Shakespeare Lodge, No. 274, K. of P.; Emanuel Piske Lodge, No. 13, I.O.B.A., are invited to attend. Interment Bay Side Cemetery, Brooklyn.

HEXAMER.—On Nov. 9, 1918, A. Philip; beloved husband of Adelaide Judge Hexamer. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral on Monday, Nov. 11, at 8:45 A.M., from his late residence, 215 Hudson St., Hoboken, N.J., thence to Our Lady of Grace Church, Willow Av. and 4th St., Hoboken, where a requiem solemn high mass will be celebrated. Rochester papers please copy.

HOBBY.—On Nov. 8, George W., in his 70th year. Funeral services at the home of his son, Theodore Y. Hobby, 880 St. Nicholas Av., on Monday, Nov. 11, at 1:30 P.M. Interment Stamford, Conn.

HORSBRUGH.—Killed in action in France Oct. 1, Bernard Bethune Horsbrugh, aged 31, of the Canadian Engineers, only son of the late Methune Horsbrugh, barrister-at-law, and of Constance Wilson Horsbrugh of 511 6th St., Brooklyn.

HOUGHTON.—Suddenly on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918, Edwina Sherrill, daughter of Suzanne Clark and the late Clarence S. Houghton. Funeral service on Monday, Nov. 11, at 2:30 P.M. at her late home, 74 Shrewsbury Av., Redbank, N.J.

HUBBY.—At Roosevelt Hospital, on Friday, Nov. 8, 1918. Frank Winfield Hubby, Sr., aged 76 years, father of Rollin Germain, Hubby, Major Lester Mead Hubby, Jr. Funeral services at the residences of his sons, 27 West 68th, on Monday morning, Nov. 11, at 10 o'clock. Kindly omit flowers. Cleveland and Buffalo papers please copy.

JABURG.—On Sunday, Nov. 10, John Jaburg, at his residence, 118 West 119th St., after a brief illness, in his 69th year. Remains lying in state at THE FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway and 66th St., (Frank E. Campbell Building.) Notice of funeral service in Tuesday morning's paper. Kindly omit flowers.

KELLY.—Friday, Nov. 8, Mabel Colbe Kelly, at her residence, 28 West 51st, after a brief illness of pneumonia. Solemn requiem mass will be said at St. Patrick's Cathedral, 5th Av., on Monday morning, at 11 o'clock.

LANGSON.—In New York, on Nov. 8, G. Rodney of St. Louis, Mo., beloved son of G. D. Langdon of New York City. Services THE FUNERAL CHURCH, (Campbell Building,) Broadway and 69th St., Tuesday evening, 8:30 o'clock. Interment private.

LEVY.—Bernard, on Nov. 10, husband of Fanny, father of Leo, Bernard, Mrs. Gabe Mariuk, (Jennie,) and Milton, Funeral from his late residence, 601 West 115th St., on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 10 A.M. Funeral private.

LIENAU.—Suddenly, on Aug. 28, 1918, Pauline, widow of Louis A. Lienau.

LINDSAY.—At Riverview Manor, Hastings-on-Hudson, Nov. 10, Edward F., beloved husband of Josephine Toumey Lindsay. Notice of funeral hereafter. Ithaca and Bath (N.Y.) papers please copy.

LICHTENSTEIN.—Jacob J., on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1918, beloved husband of Hannah and devoted father of Milton, Meyer, and Aaron, MRs. Charles Pinkus, Mrs. David Gordon, and Diana. Funeral Monday, Nov. 11 at 10 A.M., from his late residence, 538 West 156th St. Interment Union Field Cemetery.

LINDSEY.—At her home, Nov. 9, 1918, Fannie Sweet Lindsey, widow of James Thorpe Lindsey. Funeral service at her late residence, 260 West 57th St., Monday, Nov. 11, at 10 o'clock. Interment at Wappingers Falls, N.Y.

LOUD.—Julia Perry, on Nov. 10, daughter of the late Henry W. and Louisa S. Loud and sister of Henry F. Loud. Notice of funeral later.

LOW.—On Saturday, Nov. 9, 1918. Maggie J., wife of Henry A. Low. Funeral services at her late residence, Toms River, N.J., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 1:30 P.M.

MALLORY.—Martha Stanford, Nov. 9, at Rye, N.Y., beloved wife of Franklin J. Mallory. Funeral private. Interment Harrisburg, Penn.

McCHESNEY.—On Nov. 10, 1918, at his home, 170 High St., Orange, N.J., Leonard C. McChesney, aged 59 years. Notice of funeral hereafter. Kindly omit flowers.

MEISSNER.—Edna C., on Nov. 7, at 4,080 Fulton St., Woodhaven, L.I. Services Monday, Nov. 11, at 8 P.M.

MERWIN.—At Pasadena, Cal., Nov. 7, Mary A., daughter of Elizabeth Burnham and the late Rev. Alexander Moss Merwin, aged 49 years.

MORIN.—Jane A. Suddenly on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10. Jane A Vandeveer, beloved wife of Ferdinand A. Morin, at her residence, 638 East 22d St., Flatbush. Services at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 13, at residence.

PORTEOUS.—Saturday, Nov. 9, at Bronxville, Edna M. Porteous, (nee Mayers,) beloved wife of A. Carlyle Porteous. Funeral service at her late residence, Cedar Knolls, Bronxville, Monday evening at 8:30. Train leaves Grand Central at 7:35. Automobile will meet train.

RAYMOND.—At Wilton, Conn., Lewis Henry, son of the late Lewis and Catherine Meeter Raymond, at his home, Friday, in his 79th year. Funeral services at his late residence, Wilton, Conn., Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2:30 P.M. Automobiles will meet train at Wilton at 2 P.M.

RHINELANDER.—Killed in action, within the German lines, north of Verdun, on Sept. 26, 1918, First Lieutenant Philip Newbold Rhinelander of the 20th Aero Squadron, First Army, A.E.F., son of Thomas Newbold and Katherine Blake Rhinelander, in his 24th year.

RICHARDS.—In France, on Oct. 7, in the service of his country, Philo Hotchkiss, aged 31, beloved son of Alice Imlay and William M. Richards, of 391 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, and grandson of the late Georgiana Imlay Hotchkiss. Hartford, Conn., papers please copy.

ROSSLER.—Hahnemann's Hospital, Nov. 9, Janet Gordon, beloved wife of Felix Rossler, formerly of Edinburgh. Interment Woodlawn. Funeral private.

RUDOLPHY.—On Nov. 8, Elizabeth, wife of the late Jacob Rodolphy and beloved mother of Mrs. Otto Heppenheimer and Gustave O. and william F. Rudolphy. Funeral services at her late residence, 708 Lexington Av., Monday, 8 P.M. Interment private.

SCHULER.—Nov. 9, 1918, Charlotte F. Schuler. Funeral services at her late residence, 350 West 115th St., Monday evening, 8 o'clock. interment private, Tuesday.

SMITH.—At Greenwich, Conn., on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1918, Florence N. Smith, sister of Mrs. Gertrude B. Ewing and aunt of Miss Edith C. Ewing. Services at her late hom in Greenwich, on Monday, Nov. 11, at 3 P.M.

STREIGHTHOOF.—On Nov. 9, 1918, Sarah M. Straighthoof. Funeral services at 1,215 Washington St., Hoboken, N.J., on Tuesday evening, Nov. 12, at 8 o'clock.

STOVER.—First-day, Eleventh month tenth, Elizabeth Stover, aged 56. Funeral at Friends' meeting house, Purchase, Eleventh month twelfth at 11 A.M.

TAYLOR.—Saturday, Nov. 9, at 1,731 West Farms Road, Bronx. Susan M. Taylor, in her 37th year, dearly beloved daughter of Joseph W. and Mary A. Yalor. Funeral services Monday evening, 8 o'clock. Funeral Tuesday, 10:30 A.M. Interment Woodlawn.

THOMAS.—Suddenly, at his home, on Nov. 8, 1918, at Elizabeth, N.J., Williamson Thomas, son of the late Sarah Williamson and David Provoost Thomas, aged 46. Funeral services at St. John's Church, Elizabeth, Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, at 3 o'clock. It is requested that no flowers be sent.

THURMAN.—At Orlando, Fla., on Thursday, Nov. 7, Irwin B., beloved husband of Katherine Kihen Thurman. Services THE FUNERAL CHURCH, Broadway and 69th St., (Campbell Building,) Monday afternoon, 2 o'clock. Interment Woodlawn.

WOOD.—Killed in action in France, Sept. 14, 1918, Francis Appleton Wood, Lieutenant U.S. Air Service, aged 24, beloved son of Ellen Appleton and Chalmers Wood. Notice of service later.

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GRINBERG.—In loving memory of our devoted and dearly beloved son and brother, Harold Grinberg, who answered God's call Nov. 10, 1915.

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 can see and acknowledge my errors. I have misled you. I have imposed upon your reason, and for my own gratification, have sacrificed your peace; yet I hope it will prove only a temporary suspension." He stopped.—I felt almost choked with indignation:—However, I commanded myself, and said, "Go on, Sir, as yet I do not comprehend you."

"To be brief, then," resumed he hastily, "for the subject cannot be expatiated upon; My father commands me to marry a young lady of fortune and connexions, to whom my uncle is guardian. I dare not refuse him." Here I started and exclaimed, "How! dare not?" "No," answered he, "I dare not: I deceived you as to my fortune; I have a very small independence;—my father can dispose of his property as he pleases: My uncle assures me his, only on condition that I comply with my father's commands. Thus I am compelled to obey; for I have no possibility of maintaining you or myself, if I brave their requisitions, and must

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 be for ever reprobated, if I indulge my own desires by a further connexion with a lady, who, however dear to me, is the daughter of a man hateful to my father, and obnoxious to my family.

"The compulsatory acquiescence I have been drawn into, has given me an infinite deal of pain; the letter you have given to me I must acknowledge (at this moment I was absolutely speechless). Let me add, that on yourself depends your future happiness.—Your father is unacquainted with what has past between us. I have not had the temerity to mention any particulars to mine.—You must know, that you can produce no claims upon me, if I choose to disavow them. Therefore, both for your honour and interest, you must relinquish all idea of making such claims as you cannot justify: By so doing, you will retain my friendship, and a handsome allowance, which I will settle on you for life. If, on the contrary, you persist in your present plan, to expose yourself, and compel me publicly to throw you off, you


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 will make an irreconcilable enemy of me. Your father will hear the reputation of his daughter for ever destroyed, and the hatred of my father will find gratification in the dishonour attached to a family he dislikes.—Consider deliberately on all the arguments I have adduced, for the preservation of your character and future independence."

Here the base deceiver stopped, after having completely unmasked his character, and developed his dark designs. The latter part of this long speech had driven all foolish tenderness from my heart. Conscious innocence, pride, and indignation, raised me to a spirit above all fond complainings.—I viewed the man before me with a contempt that superseded affection: For when once an ingenuous mind feels the object of its tenderness in a despicable point of view, as void of integrity or honour, it is not difficult to change the nature of its sentiments, since true love must be founded upon esteem; and when that is annihilated, the other ceases to exist in a well informed mind. The errors, the


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 imprudence I had been guilty of, in forming this too hasty connexion, perhaps deserved a punishment, but not from him. His behaviour had lifted me above myself, and conveyed more knowledge to my understanding in one hour, than from my little experience I had acquired in years. But to return.

I saw he impatiently and anxiously waited for my answer, as he took a turn or two about the room; whilst I was endeavouring to acquire composure, and some degree of dignity, which might cover him with confusion.—This at length was my reply, with as much calmness as I could assume.

"When I undertook this journey, Sir, it was with a faint hope that some one spark of virtue might inhabit your bosom, and that recollection had before now been my friend, to give you a just sense of your duty to me. I therefore gave you an opportunity to recall yourself to honour, and to do me justice.—No such spark of virtue lay dormant: I see all is treachery, deceit, and sordid interest.—Unhappily my weak mind and unguarded


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 heart was captivated by an exterior too fascinating, and a semblance of honour I had not the penetration to discover from a reality.—But those days of weakness are no more.—I will preserve the honour of my father, whatever is the consequence to myself. I have been weak and imprudent, but never will I consent to appear a guilty creature in his eyes, for any worldly advantages offered as a compensation for lost innocence.—No, Sir—my fame, my character, shall be justified."

"And pray," said he, interrupting me, "who is to justify it? Have you any witnesses to prove it; any testimonies to produce?" "The last, Sir, you know, you have basely robbed me of; my best friend is indeed no more:—But your servant" "is a stranger to every thing between us," answered he with a sneer.—"More than that, you left the Abbe, and resided with me under a false name. You will find, upon inquiry, his knowledge extends no farther."—Tis well, Sir," said I, rising.—"I comprehend all your schemes perfectly; I have no more


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 overboard had failed only because his assailants in their haste had hurled him against an unseen stanchion. Peggy was borne forward and lowered swiftly into arms that deposited her roughly upon something hard. There was a jerky, rocking motion, the sudden splash of oars, and then she knew no more.

The invaders had planned with a craftiness and patience that deserved success. For hours they had waited, silently, watchfully, and with deadly assurance. How they crept up to the "Flitter" in such numbers and how the more daring came aboard long before the blow was struck, no one ever explained. So quickly and so accurately was the abduction performed that the boats were well clear of the yacht before alarm was given by one of the watch who had been overlooked in the careful assault.

Sleepy sailors rushed on deck with a promptness that was amazing. Very quickly they had found and unbound Brewster, carried a couple of wounded shipmates below and had Captain Perry in his pajamas on deck to take command.

"The searchlight!" cried Brewster frantically. "The devils have stolen Miss Gray."

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 to say to you: Leave me, Sir, and see me no more."

"Louisa," cried he, much agitated, "consider well what you are about; I will not have my future happiness destroyed by a rash unthinking girl; do not therefore oblige me to take such measures as must inevitably hurt your peace, and make your father miserable." "Do what you please," I returned; "as your wife, I must obey you: And though I utterly despise you, I never will forego my claims." He looked at me with a contemptuous smile. "And pray what is the plan you intend to pursue?" "That I shall deliberate upon, and you will doubtless know the result soon." He took up his hat—"You have decided your own fate, Louisa, and must abide the consequence." I made no reply, and he left the room.

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 of the old Count, who would doubtless shut his ears against conviction, to gratify his malice. All these considerations arose to my view; overpowered the little resolution I had laboured to support, and threw me into the most pitiable state of distress. I determined, however, to see the Baron the following morning, and disclose every circumstance that had passed between his nephew and myself.

I was now alone at an inn, a stranger, without a companion or a servant. The kind of doubtful appearance that I must make to the people, now first occurred; and when I desired to be conducted to my bed-room, I thought the hostess threw a scornful and scrutinizing look at me. Confused and mortified, I hastened to the apartment alloted for me, which was through a short enclosed gallery or passage, that served for a dressing-room, the inner apartment being small. I sent away the servant, locked the bed-room door, and threw myself down in my clothes,


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 so truly miserable, that I had neither inclination or power to take them off.

Towards the morning, I fell into a short slumber, from which I was awakened by a knocking at the door. I hastily opened it. The servant said, a gentleman waited for me below: I could not mistake the person, and my first intention was to refuse seeing him; but presently I conceived the idea that it was possible he might repent of his unjust behaviour, and wished to acknowledge it. After a moment's hesitation, therefore, I said, I would attend him, and very soon followed her down stairs. When I entered the room, the Count met me, and seizing my reluctant hand—"Louisa, you have conquered: I have ventured to hazard my best hopes for your happiness.—Success, beyond my expectations, has attended me. My uncle forgives me, and has promised to be my advocate with my father. He even consents to receive you, and his carriage will soon be here to fetch you. Forgive my past conduct, which has


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 wrung my heart as much as it has wounded your's.

This address, so unexpected, penetrated to my heart. Joy, hope, fear, and doubt, by turns assailed me.—Love had but a small share in my emotions; for that had received too rude a shock; but my fame, my character, was of far too much consequence to reject the possibility of its being established.—Yet still I involuntarily hesitated. He saw the conflict in my mind.—"I do not blame your want of confidence," said he; "I have deserved it; but respect yourself, if you no longer esteem me." Those words were like a talisman. My dear father recurred to my mind, softened my heart, and I burst into tears, yielding up my, 'till then, repulsive hand to him, with a look, that I saw covered him with confusion, and which I then thought was the effusion of a self-convicted mind.—He desired to breakfast with me. I readily complied, but very little conversation ensued. I was afraid of saying too much on my present prospects, lest it should be a tacit re-


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 proach on past transactions. His silence, doubtless, proceeded from other ideas, but he was extremely attentive and tender in his manners.

A carriage at length was announced:—Tis my uncle's," said he in a quick tone. "Hasten, my dear Louisa, to be received as you may wish for." My preparations were few, as I had brought but a small trunk with me. He discharged the expenses at the house, and with trembling limbs, and a beating heart, I seated myself in the carriage. As it drove off, he asked me, for the first time, to whom I had entrusted the management of my house, and who were acquainted with my journey. The first I told him, was given up; my effects in the house of our old friend, and the cause of my journey, a secret to every one. He praised my conduct and prudence; adding, that he hoped that day would see a termination to all my doubts and fears. I thanked him with fervor, and began to make a thousand excuses in my mind


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 for his past unjustifiable behaviour, trying to restore to him my love and confidence.

When suddenly awaking from a deep reverie, I remarked, we were in a narrow gloomy road.—"I thought," said I, 'that your uncle's house was not a mile from the town?" "His town house is not," replied he, "but another house to which he set off this morning, is about two miles further on." A sudden chill seized on my heart; but checking a rising apprehension, I remained silent, until we entered a narrow road through a thick wood, and I saw the spires of a large building through the trees.—"Is that the house?" asked I.—"No; my uncle's is about half a mile further; but he talked of calling here, to take up a young lady, a relation, as a companion for you." I, blind and credulous, ready to believe what I wished for to be a truth, simply congratulated myself on his uncle's kind consideration. We soon stopped at the outside of a large building with a pair of iron gates.—"Bless me!" said I, "surely this is a convent."—"Yes, you are


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 right; it is in this convent your future companion resides. I will step out and inquire if my uncle has been, or is here." He jumped out of the carriage; was wanting about ten minutes, which I thought an age, when coming up to the door of the chaise, with a smiling countenance—"Step out into the parlour, my dear Louisa; Miss Nolker will attend you instantly. We are before my uncle."

Where was my reason and prudence at that moment, when a duplicity so obvious, a scheme so ill contrived, never struck me as a fallacy. I readily gave my hand to the base betrayer; entered the gates, and in a moment was in the great Court, surrounded by eight or ten nuns, and my companion gone. For the instant I put my foot inside the outer gate, and turned towards the parlour. He dropped my hand; the other gate opened, and the nuns appeared. The whole was so quick, that I scarcely missed his hand before I lost sight of his person.


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 I looked on the nuns.—"Where am I going, and where is Miss Nolker?" I turned, as if going back to the parlour.—"This way, Miss," said one of the mothers; 'this way, if you please." Surrounding me, and urging me forwards—"What is it you mean?" I exclaimed, turning on every side. "What is become of the Count? Where is Miss Nolker?" One of the nuns took my hand.—"Do not distress yourself, by inquiries which cannot be answered to your satisfaction. Accompany us to the Abbess; you will there have every thing explained." I no longer resisted their entreaties. Conviction struck me at once of the vile treachery that had made me it's victim. I saw I was trepanned into a convent to be confined. It was useless to complain to the sisterhood.—I followed them in silence to the apartment where the Abbess was seated in state.

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 lity." Without taking any notice of this "hope," I requested to speak with her alone. She nodded her head, and the nuns retired. I then briefly told her who, and what I was; related the cruelty and imposition of my husband; the crime he meditated of marrying another; and warned her to beware how she became a partner in an action so atrocious, as she might assure herself I had friends who would move Heaven and earth to trace me out, and bring my persecutors to justice.

When I stopt—"Bless me," said she, "This is a very extraordinary story, and totally foreign to the representation I have from Baron Nolker."—"How, Madam!" cried I: "From Baron Nolker?" "Yes, my child," replied she; tis by his orders I receive you here. He is a good man, and he will pay your pension here to preserve you from evil, and the deceits of the world." "If this be true," I exclaimed, "then is he imposed upon by the basest of mankind; but I rather think his name has been used without


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 his permission. What, Madam is the information you have received concerning me?" "Excuse me, my dear child, I am not at liberty to answer your question.—Make yourself easy; here you will find friends, and meet with good treatment. If your own story is true, time will elucidate every thing to your advantage. At present, opposition will be in vain. I am amenable for your safety, and if you behave with prudence, in me you shall find a friend."

This speech of her's convinced me at once, that indeed all "opposition would be in vain," and that the plot was laid too deeply, though hastily conceived, for me to countermine at that time. I therefore contented myself with again warning her of the consequences, when my confinement should be known to my friends, and hastily left her presence. I came so quick into the outer room, that I discovered some of the nuns in the act of listening through the cracks of the wainscot. How erroneous is the opinion generally entertained, that those persons de-


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 tached from the world, and shut up in cloisters, are dead to all the passions which agitate the human frame. On the contrary, all the little mean passions, such as envy, malice, curiosity, and selfishness, are to be found inhabiting the bosoms of too many who have apparently retired from all worldly concerns. The good mothers were confused; but as I addressed them civilly, they soon recovered, and paid me much attention.

When I had been about three weeks in the convent, I was one day much surprised by the information, that my trunks of clothes had been brought that morning, and left without any message or inquiries. On examining them, I found all was perfectly right; my ivory cabinet was also in one of the trunks; but not a single paper of any kind remained. Convinced now that I was to be confined for life, without some miracles should effect my deliverance, my spirits no longer supported me. I fell into a low nervous fever, that reduced me extremely, both in body and mind. One of the lay sisters,


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 who occasionally attended me, appeared to compassionate my situation. She shrugged her shoulders, shook her head, and calling me poor child, gave such indications of pity, that I ventured one day to complain of the cruel deception that had brought me there.

"Have you any friends," asked she, in a low voice, as if fearful of being heard.—"I believe," I replied, 'that I have a father, but I know not in what place he resides."—"That's bad, indeed," said she.—"If, however, you can write to any friend, I will find means to get your letter conveyed; the porteress is my aunt; she will not refuse to pass a letter of mine to a relation in the city, and she shall forward one for you." It instantly occurred to me to write to the relation of the Abbe, give her an account of my being forced into a convent, and enclose a letter of information to my father. As it was most probable he would either write or come there, when he had the power of being absent from his duty. I eagerly accepted her good offices, and promised to have my


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 letter ready the following day. In the small trunk that I had brought with me to Ulm, I had packed up my writing box; and most fortunately, when the nuns, as is customary, examined the trunk, they had not deprived me of this treasure; whether from complaisance, or because they were fearful of doing it, I know not, but now this box was to me of inestimable value.

I lost no time in writing, and anxious to exculpate myself from the charge of guilt in the eyes of my father, I gave him a very circumstantial account of every occurrence that had befallen me since our separation, without, at that time, considering what might be the consequences of such information to a man of honour and a parent. The lay sister performed her promise; my spirits revived, and gay hope once more shed her illusive smiles over my mind. But this temporary ease was of short duration. Week after week rolled away, and brought no change in my situation: Continual expectations wore me to a shadow; 'till months passing by,


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 and no letters or intelligence respecting my father, I all at once entertained an idea of his death.

Despondency then took fast hold of me.—I was a prisoner for life, sacrificed by the basest and most avaricious of mankind. Madness and despair worked me to a kind of frenzy; and one day, after a fit of gloomy recollection, I rose in a hurry, flew to the apartment of the Abbess, and insisted, in very peremptory terms, upon being liberated;—bid her, at her peril, detain a wife forced into confinement, and the daughter of an officer who would soon demand me from her hands. She appeared terrified at the state of my mind, tried to sooth, to reason with me; but finding I grew quite outrageous, she called for assistance: I fought like a tiger with three of the nuns; but being overpowered by numbers, I was carried speechless and senseless to an apartment used as a prison, when any of the boarders deserved punishment.

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 port. Being exhausted by the violence of my passions, and the resistance I had made to the nuns, the turbulence of my emotions subsided, and I fell into a paroxysm of tears, that in all probability preserved me from a state of insanity, so much apprehended by the nuns. After this relief to the oppression of my heart, I dropped asleep, and having some hours rest, waked to a more composed state both of body and mind. I remained alone the remainder of the day, and all night. I was terrified at my situation; the melancholy place where I lay was indeed sufficiently gloomy to inspire terror. Convinced that I should gain nothing by menaces or force, I resolved to adopt a different line of conduct, to subdue my resentment and impatience, if possible, and try the effects of a more conciliatory manner, as if I grew reconciled to what I could not overcome.

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 fear of continuing there would have deranged my intellects. When the nuns came to me, and observed the alteration in my temper, they retired, to make, as they said, a favourable report, and obtain my liberty, which, through their interposition, was effected by the dinner hour, when I appeared vexed and mortified, and with a heart throbbing with grief and disappointment. I endured a short lecture from the Abbess (who persisted always in calling me Miss) with a sort of restrained pride, that sat very ill, I believe on my features; as she gently cautioned me against indulging improper notions or visionary expectations. I made no reply, but from that hour, gave myself up as a lost creature, disclaimed or forgotten by all my connexions.

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now, my dear Miss D'Alenberg, I am coming to the most melancholy part of my story, which indeed I dread to enter upon. Excuse the prolixity of my recital; the conclusion I shall endeavour to hasten over, as too painful to dwell upon.

I had resided in the convent near eighteen months, without any alteration having taken place in my circumstances. Twice, during that time, I had again written to my father, almost without hope, and as I thought, without effect. One day, about noon, a paper


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 was delivered to the Abbess, brought by a stranger at the grate. She opened and read it, with surprise and confusion strongly marked in her countenance. She withdrew immediately. Very soon after she had left the room, I was desired to attend her. My heart fluttered strangely. Good Heavens! thought I, can that paper relate to me. What now is to become of me? I flew, rather than walked, to her apartment. She still held the paper in her hand.—"Miss," said she, "I have here an order to deliver you up to a gentleman, who calls himself Hautweitzer and "My father," I exclaimed, and sunk to the ground.

By the assistance of an attending nun, I was soon recovered.—"Oh! let me fly; let me go to my father," I cried, the moment speech was lent me.—"Stop, Miss," said the Abbess, "you shall be properly conducted: your emotions convince me the claim is just, and that I have been imposed upon." By the bye, I never gave credit to that assertion, because she was deaf and cal-


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 lous to every thing I had urged, tending to convince her of the duplicity practised against me. This was no time, however, for words; I was requested to hasten in packing my trunks, as a person waited for me in the parlour. I had no doubt but that this was my father, and my agitations scarcely permitted me to waste a moment. One of the mothers assisted me; I took a hasty and incoherent leave of the community; slid a remembrance into the hand of the lay sister, and, with trembling impatience, run to the parlour, where I beheld—not my father, but a stranger.

I gave a scream, and sunk back in a chair, gasping with terror at my disappointment, uttering something about my father."Here, Madam," said the stranger, giving me a slip of paper: 'this will satisfy you as to my commission." I snatched the paper, and glancing my eyes over it, saw it was the writing of my father, with only these words: "Come to me, my dearest Louisa, I am at


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 Ulm. My friend will conduct you to the arms of your father."

I no longer hesitated, but giving my hand to the stranger, incapable then of speaking, was by him placed in a carriage. Recovering, in a short time, from my first agitations, I asked some questions relative to my father's situation, and why he had not come for me himself. The gentleman viewed me with an air of compassion, I thought, and seemed embarrassed what answer to give me; but at length said, "he was sorry it fell to his lot to give an explanation of circumstances that must distress me, but that my father had requested him to prepare me for the disagreeable intelligence which must be communicated. Let me, however, assure you," said he, 'that Mr. Hautweitzer is entirely out of danger, in a state of convalescence that will soon restore him to perfect health."

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 mortally so. He lay long in a doubtful state. I have the pleasure to assure you, all apprehensions of his life are done away. Do not therefore alarm yourself," added he, observing my terror, and the emotions which affected my mind. "My friend wished you to be a little prepared, that the surprise might not too greatly distress you." "Ah! Sir," I exclaimed, "if indeed my father is out of danger, I return thanks to Heaven: But who, pray tell me, was his opponent? My heart already divines."

"It was Count Wolfran."—"The father or the son?" asked I, gasping for breath.—"The father," replied he, "who was the aggressor in every sense of the word.""And does he live," said I.—"No, he survived but three days." This answer was like a bolt of ice; it threw me into a fit of trembling. Cold damps bedewed my limbs, and I thought my last hour was at hand.—My companion was extremely shocked;—but being a medical man, he had luckily some drops in his pocket, which revived me.


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 He besought me to be composed. The event had turned out favourably for my father, who had been exculpated by the Count's own confession. This, indeed, was some ease to my mind; but the reflection that my folly and imprudent marriage had brought on such shocking events, wounded my very soul, and I was scarcely able to support myself when the carriage stopped at the gentleman's house.

He gave me drops and wine to restore my spirits, and I accompanied him to the apartment, where I found my dear parent supported by pillows in his bed. Our meeting cannot be described; it was most truly distressing to both. He neither blamed or upbraided me, but soothed me by his kindness, which was a thousand times more painful to a self-convicted mind, than the most bitter reproaches could have been. He saw what I felt. "Forgive yourself, my Louisa, for you are exculpated in my eyes. An ingenuous unsuspecting heart was no match for the dark designing arts of an accomplished vil-


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 lain. You erred, 'tis true, but you was young, in love, and a stranger to the world.—Your faults were venial ones, even in the eyes of prudence; for you preserved your virtue, and knew not that the man in whom you confided would prove a monster, a disgrace to human nature."

He then told me, that the army in Poland, being sent into winter quarters, he had repaired with all diligence to the house of the good Abbe, not having received either of his letters, or any intimation of his death. He was therefore excessively shocked at the news that awaited him, and my letters were put into his hands. 'Tis not possible to conceive the rage, indignation, and sorrow, which he experienced on reading them; he took his measures instantly, and departed for the house of Count Wolfran. On his arrival, he was informed that the old Count was gone on a visit to his son and daughter, at their estate near Ulm. Boiling with increased rage at this information, he pursued his journey, and came there when the whole family


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 was rejoicing at the christening of an heir to the estate and title, the young Countess Theodosia having been brought to bed near six weeks.

My father requested to see the old Count on particular business, and was shown into an apartment to wait for him. In a few moments he appeared, and started on seeing the person before him, who, endeavouring to calm his passions, desired he would wave all former animosity, and hear him on an affair which concerned their mutual honour. The other, with a mixture of surprise and haughtiness, requested he would be seated, and hasten what he had to say, as he was particularly engaged with company. My father then drew out my first circumstantial letter, and gave it to him, saying, "read that, Sir, with candour, and give no answer until you have gone through it.—Although we are not friends, yet I trust you are a man of honour."

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 arm out over the water before many seconds had passed, and eager eyes were looking for the boats of the pillagers. The Arabs had reckoned without the searchlight. Their fierce exultation died suddenly when the mysterious streak of light shot into the sky and then swept down upon the sea, hunting them out of the darkness like a great relentless eye.

The "Flitter's" boats were in the water and manned by sturdy oarsmen before the glad cry went up that the robber fleet had been discovered. They were so near the yacht that it was evident the dusky tribesmen were poor oarsmen. In the clear light from the ship's deck they could be seen paddling wildly, their white robes fluttering as though inspired by fear. There were four boats, all of them crowded to the gunwales.

"Keep the light on them, captain," shouted Monty from below. "Try to pick out the boat that has Miss Gray on board. Pull away, boys! This means a hundred dollars to every one of you—yes, a thousand if we have to fight for her!"

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it was because Mrs. Hardy was determined to show that she was mistress in her own home. At any rate, she gave her consent to the proposed expedition. This was in spite of all Aunt Gertrude's protests and predictions of disaster. The terrible woman raved for an hour when it was definitely decided that the Hardy boys should go on the trip, but Mrs. Hardy was firm. If there was any chance that they might be able to rescue Chet and Biff she meant that they should avail themselves of it.

They explained their theory regarding the letter, and although Aunt Gertrude derided it as nonsense, Mrs. Hardy was disposed to believe that their deductions might be correct.

"You may go," she said. "But take care of yourselves and don't take any foolish chances. I'm worrying enough about your father, as it is."

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 brook. At length, returning it to my father—"I am sorry the wild chimeras of your daughter should have engaged you in such a fruitless journey. Be assured, she never was the wife of my son, although it is very natural a young lady should wish to throw a veil over her own frailty." My father instantly took fire.—"How dare you," cried he, "insinuate the smallest reflection on the character of my child; her only act of frailty was in supposing truth or honour could inhabit the bosom of a son of your's; but her honour is unblemished, without any stain, but what must follow in being the wife of a villain."

He had raised his voice to a pitch of fury. The other, equally exasperated, exclaimed, "Your daughter was preserved from want and infamy, by my son. Yes," added he, "after having prostituted herself to him, he placed her in a convent, to preserve her from the vilest degradation." My unhappy father, raised almost to a state of madness, forgot every thing at that moment, sprung forwards,


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86 their mother's mind and joyfully acquainted Phil and Tony with the news.

"We're going to start right away," they told their chums. "Better get ready."

"I was speaking to Slim Robinson and Jerry Gilroy," Tony told them. "They want to come along too."

"There isn't room for all of us in the one boat."

"I was thinking of that. What's the matter with the rest of us making the trip in the Napoli? I'll get up another expedition and we'll follow you."

"Good idea. One of the boys can come with us and the rest of you can go in the Napoli. Joe and I are starting right away."

But when it came time to check up on the various members of the searching party they discovered that Tony was the only one who could leave that day. Slim Robinson had to work that afternoon, as also had Jerry Gilroy, while Phil Cohen had an engagement for the evening that he was unable to break.

"We'll all leave in the Napoli first thing tomorrow morning, then," decided Tony. "You and Joe go ahead in your boat now and head toward Blacksnake Island. We'll be along in the morning."

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 Three boats shot away from the side of the yacht, Brewster and Joe Bragdon in the first, both armed with rifles.

"Let's take a shot at 'em," cried a sailor who stood in the stern with his finger on a trigger.

"Don't do that! We don't know what boat holds Peggy," commanded Brewster. "Keep cool, boys, and be ready to scrap if we have to." He was half mad with fear and anxiety, and he was determined to exterminate the bands of robbers if harm came to the girl in their power.

"She's in the second boat," came the cry from the yacht, and the searchlight was kept on that particular object almost to the exclusion of the others. But Captain Perry saw the wisdom of keeping all of them clearly located in order to prevent trickery.

Brewster's brawny sailor boys came up like greyhounds, cheering as they dashed among the boats of the fugitives. Three or four shots were fired into the air by the zealous American lads, and there were loud cries from the Arabs as they veered off panic-stricken. Monty's boat was now in the path of light and not far behind the one which held Peggy. He was standing in the bow.


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 and struck the Count.—"Slanderous villain," he cried, "I will choke those words in their birth." That instant the young Count, the Countess, and some others, burst into the room. My father was seized, foaming with rage, whilst some ran to the old Count, whose nose and mouth bled profusely. The son demanded the cause of this outrage, little suspecting who the person was before him. My father exclaimed, "I came here to demand justice, to oblige the son of that man to acknowledge his legal wife. Yes, my daughter is the wife of Count Wolfran."

A faint shriek from the Countess caught the attention of her husband. He attempted to lead her from the room. "Stop," she cried; "if this man asserts a falsity, let it be proved such. I will abide the decision; I will not leave the room, when an assertion of such consequence to my fame and happiness has been publicly declared." The old Count now advanced.—"You have dared to degrade me; you have calumniated my son.—-


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 Though you are inferior in birth, in rank to me; yet, as having borne arms, I wave my privileges, and challenge you to meet me to-morrow at eight o'clock, in a field at the west end of the city. Your blood only can atone for this outrage."—"I accept the offer," replied my father. Then turning to the Countess—"I feel for you, Madam;—and nothing less than the justice I owe to my child could compel me to give you pain.—Read that letter, Madam, and judge for yourself." He gave my letter into her hands:—The Count exclaimed, "an impudent forgery," and attempted to take it from her.—"No, my Lord," said she—"no, I will read it; but strong indeed must be the proofs, e'er I can credit any thing to the disadvantage of your honour."

"Go," cried the old Count arrogantly—"go, Sir, after having interrupted the happiness of this family, to preserve the fame of a worthless daughter; leave it, whilst I can command myself; to-morrow, at eight, I shall expect you." Without deigning any