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 Rh the drowsy throbbing of the running train attuned one’s mind to dreaming of the past.

“The town of New York”—so ran the extract pasted in the little book—“is pleasantly situated at the lower extremity of the Island of Manhattan. Its recent progress has been so amazing that it is now reputed, on good authority, to harbour at least twenty thousand souls. Viewed from the sea, it presents, even at the distance of half a mile, a striking appearance owing to the number and beauty of its church spires, which rise high above the roofs and foliage and give to the place its characteristically religious aspect. The extreme end of the island is heavily fortified with cannon, commanding a range of a quarter of a mile, and forbidding all access to the harbour. Behind this Battery a neat greensward affords a pleasant promenade, where the citizens are accustomed to walk with their wives every morning after church.”

“How I should like to have seen it!” I murmured to myself as I laid the book aside for a moment. “The Battery, the harbour and the citizens walking with their wives, their own wives, on the greensward.”

Then I read on:

“From the town itself a wide thoroughfare, the Albany Post Road, runs meandering northward through the fields. It is known for some

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 mann’s irony, Falk addressed the hostess:—

“In reply to your query, I may say that the greater part of New Year’s wishes are but empty ceremonial, mere compliment, from which no result is either intended or expected. I might also have added, that I attribute a magical power only to those wishes offered at the hour of midnight, which will considerably diminish the number of those unfulfilled; but I’ll do my best, and take Herrmann’s side of the question, allowing that it was only by way of prelude, and therefore (our worthy host permitting), declare beforehand my hope and belief, that the sincere good wishes we shall presently mutually interchange, will be so many expressed predictions of what may befall us in the ensuing year.”

“You cannot be serious,” said the hostess; “I think you are inclined to retract your opinion. You either do not think your audience worthy to participate in your view of the subject, or you are half ashamed of your own opinions; now make your choice. Which suspicion would you rather incur?”

“Unquestionably the latter,” he replied; “you are not far from guessing the truth. The hour which precedes the entrance of the New Year, is certainly not the moment to place a New Year’s wish in an equivocal light; for the rest, my remark was merely the effect of chance, engendered by the run, or rather spring of conversation.”

“That,” said the hostess, “leads us easier to conceive how presentiments, as you lately expressed yourself, arise between the bier and the cradle of the two years, appearing not in the form of wishes only, but by way of remark, opinion, or some similar casualty. See how attentively yon affianced pair are listening to us, they are living in the very spring-time of happiness. Ask the professor, dear Elisa, to explain this magic to us; he cannot refuse the request of so lovely a betrothed.”

Elisa seconded the proposal of the hostess, and Falk, importuned on all sides, at length began:—

“My error has induced you to raise your expectations too high, and they will consequently remain unsatisfied. During our conversation, I bethought me of the old belief in the import of words and signs, involuntarily made or uttered, at certain periods. The Ancients, it is known, placed implicit faith in this belief; traces of which remain among us at the present day. The Glückauf, or ‘Good-be-with-you’ of the mountaineers, thence draws its origin, as also many other village customs, particularly those in mountainous districts, where the peasantry scrupulously avoid making use of expressions implying misfortune; still more do they shun words of doubtful, or double import, which, however innocently spoken, may be misapplied by evil spirits in the opposite sense, and lead to a miserable fulfilment. And such, methought, may be the fate of many an aspiration; like the prophecies in Macbeth, realized to the letter, only to destroy.”

“Are you really in earnest?” exclaimed several voices at once, whose eyes, with incredulous looks, were turned upon the professor.

“It is certain,” said Anselm, “that many singular instances of this kind have occurred.”

Falk, halting between jest and earnest, remained silent; the rest patiently waited for him to continue.

At length, Herrmann said with a smile—“Suppose we take up the catalogue of legendary lore. I believe there exists no popular belief without its explanatory example. Quick, therefore, give us proof of the magic power of words.”

“An interesting little tale of that description might easily be found,” said Anselm; “with your permission, I will experimentalize on the professor’s lecture; requesting you to observe that I offer you only a simple illustration, and not a brilliant chef-d’œuvre; in fact, I only relate what I have myself seen and heard. In Carlsbad, several years ago, I formed the acquaintance of the Countess Amalia Von Kulm. She had recently become a widow, and with her daughter, a child of five years, visited the baths for the sole purpose of accompanying an aged valetudinarian uncle, for she was herself in the fairest bloom, 1839.


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 of youth, health, and beauty. Her uncle did not derive the expected benefit from the baths, and his physician urged his departure. My stay being concluded, the countess proposed that I should pursue my journey with them, making a slight détour to the old gentleman’s landhaus. The fact was, the lady feared what at the time she did not own, namely, that some mortal accident would occur on the road; for the old housekeeper, who prided herself on her second sight, had been heard to say, that ‘the party would find a corpse upon the journey.’ The very weak state of the invalid did not allow us to perform the journey at once, so we resolved to rest at the pretty little village of Rastag. We had cause to be satisfied with our determination. The young hostess was all attention to our invalid, and her activity and sprightliness so much interested and amused him, that he requested his niece to take a walk accompanied by myself, and leave him in charge of his charming little nurse. We entered upon a beautiful path behind the gardens of the village; the slight improvement in her uncle’s health had so exhilarated the countess’s spirits, that she was more animated than I had ever known her before, and enlivened the walk by relating many scenes and passages from her own life, and those of some distinguished friends. Suddenly, we heard the tolling of a bell: ‘Hark!’ she exclaimed; ‘that’s for a death; come, it is long since I have seen a village funeral. Poor little Minna cried bitterly, and begged her mamma not to go into the churchyard amongst the dead people; but her’s were childish fears, and we went. The coffin, according to custom, was placed beside the grave, with the lid open for the last for the last time; it contained the corpse of a young and lovely girl. An old peasant, leading by the hand a little child attired like himself, in deep mourning, brought fruit to lay beside the corpse, whilst the child placed fresh flowers within the folded hands. ‘Sleep sweetly,’ sighed the old man; ‘I thought thy hands would have closed these eyes; but God’s will be done.’

“The minister, an elderly, but remarkably fine man, then approached, and pronounced a funeral discourse full of grace and dignity. The countess was delighted with him, and signified her approbation by frequent remarks to myself. Just before the conclusion, we observed her uncle coming towards us. ‘Oh! dear sir,’ exclaimed the countess; ‘how much I regret that you should have lost so beautiful a service;’ and when the clergyman, after the sad rites were over, drew near to pay his respects to his distinguished auditors, she instantly addressed him: ‘Pastor, accept my best thanks; your eloquence has charmed me; none other than yourself shall be my funeral orator.’

“Little Minna seized her mother’s hand, and entreated her not to talk so; while the uncle gravely remarked, that such a topic was more applicable to himself. The lady smiled: ‘This,’ she said, is not the place for an explanation of my seemingly hasty speech,’ then addressing the minister—‘favour us, sir, with your company to dinner at the hotel; we will then finish the conversation.’

“The invitation was accepted, and it then appeared that the countess destined for him the vacant and very lucrative living on her own estate. The pastor requested time to consider of it; for notwithstanding his very narrow income, his present flock was dear to him. It was therefore settled that the affair should be concluded in future correspondence; but the letters never passed.

“On the following morning, when the travelling carriage was ordered, the countess complained of severe head-ache, and begged to postpone their departure; the pain increased, followed by symptoms of so dangerous a nature, that no medical aid could counteract them: death ensued. Exactly eight days from the scene in the churchyard, the minister again performed mournful ceremony at the grave of that lovely and amiable young woman. I will not attempt to describe my feelings as I contemplated the old uncle, and the now poor little orphan, Minna, standing beside the coffin of Amalia, forming so exact a repetition of the scene we had all witnessed together on the same spot, but a few short days before. The old gentleman lived for several years after, and often have we recurred to the past,


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 the house to him, and he crossed over and looked at the number.

"Quite right," he said, on returning. "I made inquiries this morning. She was released six weeks ago on ticket-of-leave."

He took my arm.

"Not much use hanging about," he said. "The blind won't go up to-night. Rather a clever idea, selecting a house just opposite a lamp-post."

He had an engagement that evening; but later on he told me the story—that is, so far as he then knew it.

It was in the early days of the garden suburb movement. One of the first sites chosen was off the Finchley Road. The place was in the building, and one of the streets —Laleham Gardens—had only some half a dozen houses in it, all unoccupied save one. It was a lonely, loose end of the suburb, terminating suddenly in open fields. From the unfinished end of the road the ground sloped down somewhat steeply to a pond, and beyond that began a small wood. The one house occupied had been bought by a young married couple named Hepworth.


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 The husband was a good-looking, pleasant young fellow. Being clean-shaven, his exact age was difficult to judge. The wife, it was quite evident, was little more than a girl. About the man there was a suggestion of weakness. At least, that was the impression left on the mind of the house-agent. To-day he would decide, and to-morrow he changed his mind. Jetson, the agent, had almost given up hope of bringing off a deal. In the end it was Mrs. Hepworth who, taking the matter into her own hands, fixed upon the house in Laleham Gardens. Young Hepworth found fault with it on the ground of its isolation. He himself was often away for days at a time, travelling on business, and was afraid she would be nervous. He had been very persistent on this point; but in whispered conversations she had persuaded him out of his objection. It was one of those pretty, fussy little houses; and it seemed to have taken her fancy. Added to which, according to her argument, it was just within their means, which none of the others were. Young Hepworth may have given the usual references, but if so they were never taken up. The house was sold on the company's usual terms. The


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 deposit was paid by a cheque, which was duly cleared, and the house itself was security for the rest. The company's solicitor, with Hepworth's consent, acted for both parties.

It was early in June when the Hepworths moved in. They furnished only one bedroom; and kept no servant, a charwoman coming in every morning and going away about six in the evening. Jetson was their nearest neighbour. His wife and daughters called on them, and confess to have taken a liking to them both. Indeed, between one of the Jetson girls, the youngest, and Mrs. Hepworth there seems to have sprung up a close friendship. Young Hepworth, the husband, was always charming, and evidently took great pains to make himself agreeable. But with regard to him they had the feeling that he was never altogether at his ease. They described him—though that, of course, was after the event—as having left upon them the impression of a haunted man.

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 and talked over the singular fulfilment of his lamented niece’s wish.”

Herrmann remarked, “that it would have been much more singular had the death of the countess been the effect of accident, indisposition being in itself a natural cause. The lady might have felt alarmed at her own sudden impulse, or her uncle’s remark, and consequent agitation might have brought on the illness which occasioned her death.”

“Pardon me,” interrupted the professor; “but I cannot help smiling when the conversation turns upon natural causes, as if it were possible for anything in nature to be unnatural. Whatever happens in the world, must imperatively be natural, or it could not take place.”

“A truce with your literal interpretations,” cried Herrmann, “one is apt to term unnatural all that is difficult of explanation, or that cannot be accounted for.”

“Were I not professor of philosophy,” rejoined Falk, laughing, “I would ask you what, according to your views, may be accounted natural? Our worthy physician here, restores his patients—certainly not by unnatural means—and yet ask him on conscience, if he can comprehend why any of his drugs are efficacious? And if, when a case has succeeded beyond his expectations, he has not exclaimed, ‘Nature has done her best!

“I pray you, gentlemen, cease this war of words,” said the hostess. “In my opinion you have quite lost sight of the point in question. Anselm’s story, however, scarcely strikes me as being an example, as it leaves us in doubt as to whether the malady arose from the words made use of, or from the construction that might be put upon them.”

“Neither,” replied Anselm; “I think I gave you to understand that Amalia had been for some time previously in an exalted frame of mind. The enthusiastic admiration she expressed for the minister’s very excellent, but certainly not extraordinary discourse, alone sufficed to show a high degree of excitement: those very expressions were perhaps symptomatic of her disorder, and their import was darkened by a shadow of prophecy cast upon them by singularly coinciding circumstances.”

“Then you acknowledge,” said the hostess, “that the case in point presents nothing unnatural or out of the common.”

“Certainly nothing unnatural. I am of Falk’s opinion that in nature, where all is open to our inspection, nothing contrary to her laws can take place. But truly the wonderful prevails!”

“May I beg you,” said Elisa, “to explain to us if these appearances may not be termed unnatural, which are so difficult to be accounted for that it is as though nature herself solicited the aid of a foreign power, and used it with regret? I am too inexperienced to express myself with sufficient clearness, but perhaps you will give a form to my confused ideas.”

“You have spoken very intelligibly,” replied Falk, “on a subject which, as you observe, even nature herself treats obscurely. Could you not oblige us with an instance, it would render the discussion easier.”

“Oh!” said Elisa laughing, “that would lead us to a ghost story.”

“And why not?” interposed Herrmann. “Who is not willing to listen to one? See, Anselm is all attention.”

The request was general that Elisa would relate a case in point; but she excused herself saying “that, with all her fondness for listening to a story, she should feel very timid at relating one.”

Her betrothed smiling, said he could guess her meaning, and if she felt diffident would, with her permission, relate the circumstance she alluded to.

Elisa consented, requesting only an alteration of the names. This was of course acceded to, and the baron proceeded:—

“A very near relation of my Elisa, and a little dreamer like herself—we will call her Caroline—had formed the tenderest friendship for her neighbour, Angelica. The two girls were inseparable; their parents approved of their intimacy, and allowed them to pass their time alternately at each other’s house; this was particularly the case in winter, when the badness of the roads made the communication between the properties somewhat dangerous during the long nights. The father of Angelica had formerly been well acquainted with 2


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 Cagliostro, whose mysteries (although many were explained and unravelled to him) nevertheless imparted to his mind a strong bias for the mystic and the supernatural. Besides the best works on general literature, his library contained a quantity of legends and old chronicles. Oftentimes would these two girls sit up the greater part of the night, inflaming their already excited imaginations with tales of apparitions and demons of every description. It happened that, during one of these fits of excitement, they pledged themselves that whichever should first quit this world would re-appear to acquaint the other of it. They had read of instances of such promises being made, and, in order to render the contract more binding, they vowed that were they even induced to retract the engagement verbally, the circumstance should remain unalterably determined. While their hands were still clasped within each other the house bell struck midnight. ‘Hark!’ cried Angelica as if inspired, ‘the hour of my death has tolled, at this time shall my vow be fulfilled!’ The terrified Caroline started up with a piercing shriek. ‘Hush!’ cried Angelica, ‘do not alarm yourself. I spoke in haste; I meant to have said the hour of my birth; sixteen years ago at midnight I came into the world, and the hour is now become doubly sacred to me through our mutual engagement which it may possibly be my lot to ratify.’ The friends had again wandered far into the ideal world, when the self-extinguishing lights warned them to seek their pillows. Some time after this mad freak Caroline was taken ill. For some days Angelica would not leave her friend, until the physicians declared it to be a malignant fever, when the parents of Angelica insisted upon her return home. She obeyed without a murmur so long as Caroline’s life was not in danger, but no sooner were fears entertained for her safety than Angelica hastened to the couch of her friend; that fatal promise now exercised a fearful power over her mind, and she determined to risk her own life rather than endure such anxiety any longer; she conjured the invalid to retract the engagement, which the latter the more readily did, observing her friend’s deep anxiety on her account, who moreover had not considered the subject in so serious a point of view. This scene, so dreaded by all present as likely to produce a most unfavourable effect on the invalid, was, on the contrary, followed by the most cheering result; the effort proved salutary, and Caroline, to the amazement of her doctors, became speedily convalescent; she looked upon Angelica as her preserver, and the two friends came to the determination never again to hazard a wish or an inquiry respecting the unseen world, and at last the passion for the mysterious, if not the belief in it, appeared to have vanished from their minds. In course of time the illness and the vow (which very probably caused it) were almost forgotten, and the two girls, now more firmly attached than ever, soon discovered other sources for a far more genial intercouseintercourse [sic]. It happened one day that Angelica accompanied her parents to a ball in the neighbouring town. Caroline made a plea of domestic engagements as an excuse for declining the party, but she secretly gave up the pleasures of the dance in order that she might prepare a little surprise in honour of her friend’s birth-day, which was to happen on the morrow, and she sat up until late in the night with her own maid, in order to complete her work, and had just finished, and begun to lay it aside, as the clock struck midnight. Immediately so strong a current of air was felt in the room, that the needlework and materials lying on the table were blown and scattered about in all directions by it, and Caroline, looking up, beheld the shadowy form of Angelica flitting before her eyes, and then, apparently sinking upon the ground, it disappeared. Alarmed by her cries, the woman hastened to her, and received the terrified and fainting girl in her arms. The servant had observed nothing but the strong draught and instant dispersion of the work, which she was busied in collecting, when called to her mistress’ assistance. True it was, that at that same moment Angelica, in the very act of waltzing, sank upon the floor a corpse!”

“That is truly awful,” said the hostess.


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 U.S., at page 996 of 60 S.Ct., 84 L.Ed. 1311, 128 A.L.R. 1044, the court said: “Restraints on competition or on the course of trade in the merchandising of articles moving in interstate commerce is not enough, unless the restraint is shown to have or is intended to have an effect upon prices in the market or otherwise to deprive purchasers or consumers of the advantages which they derive from free competition.”

Reading the bill as a whole, there are no facts alleged which would bring the activities of the defendants within the prohibitions of the antitrust laws. The injury complained of is a private wrong which we assume is remedial in some other court.

Since the only basis alleged for the jurisdiction of this court is a violation of the antitrust laws, and in view of the foregoing, the defendants’ motion must be allowed, and the action dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

Joseph Lewis, of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

W. I. Gilbert, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, under the trade name of Borden Publishing Company, charge that defendant corporation and certain individuals have plagiarized and infringed the copyright of the book entitled “A Dweller on Two Planets”, the property of complainants. They pray for injunction, a decree sustaining the copyright and its infringement by defendants, for an accounting of profits, for damages, and the impounding of all copies of the offending book to be finally destroyed.

For defense, defendants made a general denial, coupled with pleas of limitation under state statutes and laches in equity. Thereafter, they moved a dismissal and plaintiffs, in turn, asked for summary


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EOPLE sometimes talk of "unchanging human nature," and human nature is the one thing under the sun that changes at all perceptibly! If a visitor had come to this earth ten thousand years ago, again a thousand years ago, and then again to-day, he would find scarcely any are that man had not made, and none of these changes he had made so striking as the change in man himself. Even a few years may suffice to revolutionise the thought and activities of man, as bitter experience has taught us all. How different the thoughts of men in every warring country to-day from what they were three years ago! How incredibly distant the year 1914 appears to-day! And quite certainly the thoughts of men twenty-five years from now will be very different from their present thoughts. The Great War of the nations will then be an historical background, the passions and the terrors of it be dead; only the memory will live—perhaps it will live for ever, so far as we can say "for ever," in a new order of the world, a federation of the nations so based and so maintained that the catastrophe which befell our generation shall befall the world no more.

It is this incessant change of the minds of men, often so gradual as to be unperceived, sometimes so sudden that we call it revolution, which quite properly robs the prophet of honour alike in his awn country and abroad. Just as a new undreamed-of discovery, the planetary nature of the earth, gravitation, radio-activity, may revolutionise a science, so a new event, the French Revolution, the Great War, may revolutionise society. It would seem as though nothing could be foreseen except the certainty of change.

And yet the change is not meaningless, not without direction. History is more than the record of aimless wonderings and fruitionless disasters. There is such a thing, imperfect and fragmentary though it be, as the history of civilisation. And one thing this history certainly reveals is the way in which the pone of human co-operation marches, step by step, with the growth of human intelligence. The world has grown smaller and the area of real community has grown greater at each successive stage of the world's history. Therefore, with the profound lesson of the present before us, we can safely prophesy this much, that twenty-five years from now Canada will be an autonomous and yet integral part of a closer Commonwealth of the British peoples which, in turn, will be a part of a real federation of the civilised world. And this civilised world itself—how shall we dare draw for it exclusive lines?

I wish to say something of what Canada may be then, and by that I mean what Canada will be if her citizens care enough to make it so. With every discovery and every application of science, with every advance of organisation and co-operation among men, what will be becomes more and more what we will to be.

When people think of the future of Canada they usually think first of boundless yet untenanted areas subdued by the ploughs and tractors of a prosperous fast-growing population. Twenty-five years from now there will still be in Canada boundless untenanted areas. In Patricia, in the region above Lake Superior, in Northern Manitoba, and Northern Saskatchewan, in the Yukon, and the North-West Territory, there will still remain, as now, the wild and the waste; and they will continue to hypnotise the minds of those who think of greatness in terms of vastness. Some regions now desolate will then be peopled, the neglected agricultural land north of Ottawa, the fertile forest belt south of the Albany River, the arid lands of Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan (made fertile by vast schemes of irrigation), and the great promising lands of the Peace River, all these will resound to the blow of the axe, the call to the horse.

But the increased area of cultivation will be a minor part of the growth of Canada in the next quarter-century. Far more remarkable, will be the new organisation of agriculture through the development of the great co-operative associations, through the improvement of communications and of marketing systems, through the application of science to agricultures on a scale unknown in the past, so that farming will take on something of the complex character of industrial production, and give the agriculturist endowed with brains something of the opportunity which is now the prerogative of the business man.

Twenty-five years from now, for all this growth, Canada will be a more industrialised country than it is to-day. A larger proportion will live in towns than live in them to-day. It is no mere accident, and no mere wilfulness of human nature, which has brought it about that in all civilised countries in the world, even in Canada with all its undeveloped lands, the proportion of country dwellers to town dwellers has decreased. No "back-to-the-land" campaign will ever stop the scientific process which makes it possible for an ever-smaller proportion (except in wartime) of the working population to supply the agricultural needs of the whole. his is a good thing, despite its dangers, for agriculture alone, fundamental as it is and must remain, never yet made a country prosperous.

The poorest countries in the world, China, for instance, are predominantly agricultural, whereas for real prosperity, industry and agriculture must go hand in hand.

Canada has all the requisites of an industrial future. She is beginning to realise, partly under the stress of the War, the necessity of the thorough application of science to industry. She has a great, and in some respects unique, abundance of metals and minerals in accessible places. Her one great lack, the absence of coal measures except in the far East and West, may well be overcome by science, and already there are signs of conquest, in new methods of treating peat and lignite, in new processes for the manufacture of gas, and in the development of hydro-electricity. Twenty-five years from now the conquest may well be complete, so that, not only on the coasts of the Maritime Provinces and of British Columbia, and perhaps on the coal-fields of Alberta, but also clustering along the shores of the Great Lakes-and down the richly-mineraled valley of the St. Lawrence, there will arise new and populous industrial cities. Let us hope that these new cities will not require bitter experience to teach them the lesson that they might learn from the unhappy history of older cities, that poverty and squalor are no necessary concomitants of the power and activity which increase the riches of the world.

It may seem strange to say so at this hour of menacing war-taxation, but a grave danger for Canada lies in her prospects of material prosperity. Twenty-five years from now much of her wealth, yet latent, will be exploited, and a portion of her people will be greatly enriched. There lies in wait, even more obvious in democracy than elsewhere, the subtle degeneracy of success, the complacency and hardening selfishness of wealth, the narrow ambition to power and mastery, and the yet narrower vanity which its acquisition fosters. If in the next period of Canadian hist the only progress were economic, it would, under the present conditions of the acquisition and distribution of wealth, be an evil thing for Canada.

UT I think there will also be a great educational awakening, I think there are signs of it already. In consequence we shall see more clearly that wealth is but a means to welfare, an instrument whose abuse brings with it profound demoralisation, but whose rightful use is the condition of all that is worth having and worth seeking in life. We shall thus learn in greater measure the value of the inner interests to which wealth should be subservient, the value of wise and happy ways of living. And the War, in the longer retrospect, will enforce the lesson that the conditions of such living can be secured only if we make the business of the community our business, the well-being of the community our well-being, and no longer dare to entrust it blindly to the keeping of any set of men, let them be the most honest and enlightened in the world, while we devote ourselves wholly to what we are pleased to consider our individual interests. So there will grow a greater concern in government, and a more enlightened, more continuous, and less capricious criticism of it. Twenty-five years on, we shall be a more educated people, socially and politically, than we are to-day, and our laws, especially as regulating industrial conditions, will reflect the change in our thoughts.

N this reformation women will take an increasing part. Women have been more the slaves of circumstances than men, more willing than men to accept as inevitable the power of circumstance over life. The extension of the suffrage is even more significant as an augury than as a present fact. It inaugurates an age in which women overcoming the social inertia inherited from a now obsolete condition of life, will take her share in destroying the evils of environment. Nowhere do these evils and particularly the evils dependent on existing economic conditions, reveal themselves more manifestly than in that circle of life which is nearest to the heart of woman, the family. But this greater emancipation of which I speak will be scarcely begun twenty-five years from now.

In certain respects Canada will have become more of a unity than it is to-day. The bi-lingual problem will have been solved, because the growth of education will have undermined the prejudices on both sides which now stand in the way of solution. The further development of industry and the diversification of agriculture will have made the problems of East and West more similar than they are to-day. The means of communication and transportation will have developed, for in no direction had science been more triumphant than in the annihilation of distance. It may be that then we shall travel by aeroplane or airship as naturally as we now travel by train, but whatever the means certain it is that, in spite of the still intervening wilderness, Winnipeg will have been brought much nearer to Toronto, Toronto much nearer to Montreal, and the walls of partition which distance now creates, will thus be broken down. From Pacific coast to Atlantic coast Canada will be more of a real community than it is to-day.

That condition will give greater opportunity for a national art and literature. I do not mean an exclusive art or literature for no culture worth having is exclusive, but distinctive, breathing the spirit of native reflection and not merely imitative of outside traditions. Thus far the only art which has attained a real Canadian expression, at once native and strong, is that of painting. The annual exhibitions at Montreal and Toronto reveal the awakening of a genuine underivative artistic spirit. They manifest a distinctive vision of those aspects of nature which are themselves so distinctive in our land, caught and treated with fresh vigour and originality, without narrowness on the one hand and without submissiveness to tradition on the other. A quarter of a century hence there will be, in every great city of the Dominion, a Gallery of Art to preserve for the country the greater artistic work of its sons, and stimulate the sense of pictorial imagination which they undoubtedly possess.

So much cannot be said for the other arts in the absence of clear signs it is vain to prophesy. If I may speak out what I myself feel, it is that in the matter of the other arts, and of literature more particularly, Canada has "moved as in a strange diagonal," subject to two diverse forces, of English and of American origin respectively, so that we have not yet expressed our own thoughts, perhaps we have not even found them. Here and there appears an individual note, which may be the beginnings of independent interpretation, in poetry, for example, in the works of Duncan Campbell Scott, Marjorie Pickthall and others. Twenty-five years from now will the real interpreters of Canadian life, social, political, and economic, have arrived? Who can say? Who can bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion? But, be that as it may, as I have tried to show, two conditions may well be realised, which are as it were a preparation of the ground for the heaven-sent seed, a broader education bringing with it a clearer understanding of our aims and our fulfilments, and, freed both from exclusiveness from felt dependence, a greater national unity.

Read Professor Farmer's Article, "Will My Daughter be an Author?" in the August number of, and learn the characteristics and qualities that go to the making of an author.

Every one craves self-expression, and since we all write, more or less, we turn naturally to this method of giving expression to our innermost thoughts. The reasons why we do not all succeed in getting into print are taken up and the difficulties, technical and otherwise, fully explained. If you have any talent this article will help you make good use of it, and show you why you have failed in the past. The information given is invaluable to those with aspirations toward authorship; and it may be that all you need is a little technical knowledge.

Magazines all over Canada and the United States are wanting stories, stories, stories, and are willing to pay good prices if they can get what they want. This article will help you give them what they want.


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 the Ritter and his house for ever, nor its death-toll cease, so long as one of his name or family should exist on earth. The malediction was responded to. The youth had ceased to live—still the maniac rang wildly on. The mountain storm arose, and mingled awfully in the din. The castle was struck by lightning, and a considerable portion of the building destroyed, ere the wretched man, overcome with excitement and exhaustion, lost sight of his sufferings in death.”

“Well!” exclaimed Herrmann, “even supposing the lightning to have been attracted by the bell, the coincidence of the catastrophe with the crime and the malediction was, nevertheless, truly singular.”

“The old man’s curse fell heavier still,” continued the baron. “Some years afterwards, when the subject was probably forgotten, the Ritter was about to celebrate the marriage of his only daughter. The bridegroom was to have been received with all possible distinction and magnificence, and welcomed with ringing of bells. The lady, in her bridal robes, stood in the balcony, watching the splendid cortège of her future lord as it advanced towards the castle. The great bell struck up, and whilst the young lady bent forwards to acknowledge the salutation of her betrothed, she fainted, and fell over the balcony down the precipice below. Her scared attendants fled in all directions, and at last discovered her lifeless, but without external injury, among the brushwood at the foot of the rock.

Many visitations of a similar nature aroused the attention of the Ritter’s descendants. The bell might have been destroyed, but for the superstitious fear that the race would become extinct with it; so they contented themselves by walling up every entrance to the tower, and removing the tongue from the ominous bell. But the cause remained; and whenever a misfortune befell that family, it was preceded by a spontaneous movement of the metal screech-owl (so the old writings term it), and its dull prophetic tone fell mournfully on the ear in the dead of night. So great became the dread of it, that the family resolved to abandon their paternal heritage; and now, for more than three centuries that my ancestors have possessed the castle, the bell has never once been heard. Even the recollection of it has been lost in the lapse of time—at least, it never came to my knowledge. The old tower passes for a prison, which no one has felt disposed to explore, on account of the confined air, and its now dilapidated state. Had it not been for the dream of Elisa I should never have commenced the research, for in recognising every part of the castle she also distinctly remembered a tongueless bell. I made many inquiries of the oldest people in the village without any satisfactory result, and was about to give it up as a hopeless case, when I chanced to light upon some traces of it in the archives, which by degrees I was at length able to connect. I have not mentioned the discovery to my wife, nor do I wish her to be acquainted with it, as it would only excite her to no purpose.”

“That was, indeed, a death-bell,” said Falk, with a meaning look, to Cecilia.

“Avaunt! with your prophetic New Year’s ditty,” said Herrmann; “the bells will soon strike up merrily, to greet the infant year.”

“Yes,” replied Falk, mournfully, “and they will toll the infant’s mother to the tomb. That tale has made me melancholy; I see before me the maniac bell-founder, his white hair and venerable beard streaming in the storm-blast. I hear the father’s groans, as he summoned one child to liberty, the other to death. Really, I should never be easy in the vicinity of the ‘Metal Screechowl;’ I would have had it buried, and a new one hung in the church instead.”

“You only anticipate my intention, Falk,” said the baron; “as soon as the frost is over, the last trace of that crime shall be effaced. I mean to have the bell sunk in the river, the old tower shall give place to a gay pavilion, you shall pen the inscription for the new bell, and we will have a fête at the consecration.”

“That we will, and the sooner the better,” said Falk; “Heaven knows what other calamity the odious thing may not bring upon the house.”


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 . The case has been submitted, first on the motion to dismiss, and secondly the prayer for summary judgment by complainants.

The motion to dismiss is for failure to state a cause of action or grounds for relief, under Rule 12 (b); while the demand for summary judgment is under Rule 56 of the Rules of Civil Procedure. 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c.

This motion alleges invalidity of the copyright in that (a) Frederick Spencer Oliver, to whom the original was issued, did not pretend to be the author of the book “A Dweller on Two Planets”, but stated plainly that it was dictated to him by the spirit of a previously deceased person; (b) the copyright was issued to him not as author but as proprietor; and (c) that this necessarily implied an assignment which could not be made by the spirit of a dead man. Further, that a proprietor has only a limited right of renewal (the original copyright having been issued more than forty years ago and renewed from time to time, the last time to Leslie Robert Oliver, son of Frederick Spencer Oliver), restricted to a “composite work upon which copyright was originally secured by the proprietor thereof”.

It appears from the record in this case that Frederick Spencer Oliver did not claim to be the author of the book as ideas and thoughts of his own, but he describes himself as the “amanuensis” to whom it was dictated by Phylos, the Thibetan, a spirit. The following is quoted from Oliver’s preface:

“By permission of the Author, whose letter addressed to me follows as his preface herein, and to meet the natural inquiry and satisfy, so far as any personal statement from me will, any honest inquiring mind, I humbly appear in order briefly to give the major facts concerning the writing of this, even to me, very remarkable book.

“I am an only child of Dr. and Mrs. Oliver, who for many years have resided in the State of California.

“I was born in Washington, D. C., in 1866, and brought to this State by my parents two years later. Prior to commencing the writing of this book, in 1884, my education had been comparatively limited, and extended to a very slight knowledge of the subjects herein treated. My father, a well known physician, died a few years ago, my mother surviving him. Both were daily witnesses of most of the circumstances and facts surrounding the writing of this book. But further than to state this, I do not think myself called upon to introduce my family into the work, nor, in fact, myself, except insofar as it is meet for me to stand forth and do my personal part as the amanuensis.

“I feel that I am mentally and spiritually but a figure beside the Author of the great, deep-searching, far-reaching and transcendent questions presented in the following pages; and I read and study them with as much interest and profit, I imagine, as will any reader. At the same time I feel with no sense of the natural pride of an Author of such a book, that it is a work of unselfish love, and will help to the betterment of an upward-struggingstruggling [sic] world, searching ever for more light, and feed the hungry for knowledge of the great mystery of life, and of the ever evolving soul, through Him who said—‘I am the Way: follow Me.’

“In these days of doubt, materialism, and even rank atheism, it requires all the courage I possess to assert, in clear unequivocal terms, that the following book, ‘A Dweller on Two Planets’, is absolute revelation; that I do not believe myself its Author, but that one of those mysterious persons, if my readers choose to so consider him, an adept of the arcane and occult in the universe, better understood from reading this book, is the Author. Such is the fact. The book was revealed to me, a boy, and a boy, too, whose parents were mistakenly lenient to such a degree that he was allowed to do as he chose in most things.”

More than six pages of the book are consumed in emphasizing that it is a true revelation by Phylos through Oliver, the “Amanuensis”, and the latter appends to his preface what he solemnly asserts are letters “from Phylos, the author of this history”, which read as follows:

“To-day, my brother, the masses of humanity on this planet are awakened to the fact that their knowledge of life, the Great Mystery, is insufficient for the needs of the soul. Hence a school of advanced thought has arisen, whose members, ignorant of the mysterious truth, yet know their ignorance and ask for light. I make no pretenses when I say that I, Theochristian student and Occult Adept, am one of a class of men who do know and can


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 To a few topics relevant to this subject of educational reorganisation I shall request brief attention.

1. The status of the Mufassal Colleges, styled the Affiliated Colleges, under the new Act has been a subject of discussion. Is there any ground for the apprehension that the new scheme would tell adversely on this class of educational institutions? It has been urged that Colleges of this denomination retain an altogether unaltered, if not a somewhat improved, petition in relation to the University to which they are affiliated. But the real issue is, how does the translation of colleges within a certain area into Constituent Colleges determine the position of the rest? Do these latter stand, as they did before, on a footing of equality with the former? Is the division of the Colleges in this Presidency into Constituent and Affiliated Colleges a distinction without a difference? Are the advantages—the special facilities and opportunities—of a teaching and residential system, of negligible educational value? Or does not the existence of these


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 these mysteries. I, with other Christian Adepts, influence the inspirational writers and speakers through an ability to exert the control of our trained, and therefore more powerful minds over theirs, which are enormously less so. Hence, when the people ask for bread, our media give it to them. Who are these, our media? They are all men or women, in churches or out, who bear witness of the Fatherhood of God, the Sonship of Man, and the Brotherhood of Jesus with all souls, irrespective of creeds or ecclesiastical forms. Because these, our writers and speakers have wrought for human good, so shall, and so does, good come to themselves, bread from the waters. It is proper that the leaders of the mental van should receive generous remuneration. And they do. But at this point enters a different phase. Observing the cry for more light, more truth, observing also how great is the recompense, up springs the imitator, who has no light of inspiration, no conception of the real truth, none of the laws of the Eternal. What does he? Watch! With a pen whose shaft is imitation, and whose point is not of the gold of fact, but of the perishable metal of selfish greed, this person writes. He dips his pen into the ink orof [sic] more or less thrilling sensationalism, muddy with the dirt of immorality and nastiness, and he draws a pen picture illuminated by the tallow-dip of lust and corruption. There is in his work no lofty aim to inspire his readers; he deals with the lowest aspects of life, and, ignorant of the inexorable penalty for sin, has no expiation to demand of his characters. While a little allured by brilliant word-painting, the reader goes to the end, he is conscious ever that the cry of his soul for the bread of infinity has been answered not even by a stone, but by a handful of mud! No good purpose is thus subserved; nothing taught of the real laws or philosophies of life; it drags down, but never elevates. Whoso shall utter thus, upon them shall come retribution, and they shall be judges upon themselves, and executioners also, out in the open sea of the soul, where their own spirit will have no mercy for the misdeeds of the soul. Other imitators there may be, who, fired with a genuine desire to do good, will mimic intuitional utterances, and, however poor the work, yet if the animus has been to do good, in the measure of that resolve shall the Most High judge that whatever is for good is not for evil. But let them beware who, for money or profit, are tempted to give stones or mud!

“And now, my brother, I have another subject to speak upon. Readers of my book, ‘Two Planets’, may consider awhile over those passages concerning the sin of the Princess Lolix and of Zailm, the legal nephew of the Emperor Owauxlu. They may say that the mention of this fact, though liable to occur as one of the varied experiences of life, is nevertheless out of place in a book whose aim is highly moral. But I ask those who know my work, is it? Is it inexcusable to speak of those grave but common crimes, if the author can treat them as examples of broken law, and can place the working of such law so clearly before this unthinking world that men and women will be afraid to break it, fearful of the penalty, which can in no wise be evaded? I think it unjustifiable to keep silence under such circumstances. I have, so far from overdrawing the estimate of the penalty of crime, not given the entire expiatory picture. I know whereof I speak, for this, my brother, is my own life history, and words have no power to depict the utter misery, and similar or equal sin which the exaction of the punishment has caused me! If but one soul shall be saved like misery, and similar or equal sin, or less or more error, then I am content. I have sought to explain the great mystery of life, illustrating it with part of my own life history, extracts which cover years reaching into many thousands; and the greatest of all Books has been my test. I add not thereto nor take away, but explain. Peace be with thee. “Phylos. “Addendum: I feel myself vastly indebted to many bright writers and authors for numerous quotations of which I have availed myself, without making credit at the time; it is impossible to render this award to every individual by name, hence I must do so concretely, just as the world finds itself forced to express its aggregate gratitude, not by words of laudation, but by shaping its life in conformity to the noble precepts in poetry and in prose, devised to humanity as the legacy of all the ages. As the world is helped, so has my work been; I hope I have returned help for help.

“Sincerely,

It is perfectly clear, therefore, that Oliver wished to impress in the strongest


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 * SHEN YANG JING CHENG MACHINERY IMP&EXP. CO.
 * SHEN YANG JING CHENG MACHINERY IMP&EXP. CO.

Designated for having materially assisted Prigozhin. Owned by Shine Dragon Group Limited. Involved in facilitating over 100 transactions exceeding $7.5 million that were sent in the interest of Prigozhin" (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * SHINE DRAGON GROUP LIMITED.
 * SHINE DRAGON GROUP LIMITED.

Designated for having materially assisted Prigozhin. Involved in facilitating over 100 transactions exceeding $7.5 million that were sent in the interest of Prigozhin (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * SPACETY LUXEMBOURG S.A. (SPACETY LUXEMBOURG).
 * SPACETY LUXEMBOURG S.A. (SPACETY LUXEMBOURG).

Spacety China's Luxembourg-based subsidiary, mentioned among companies that had support Wagner's military operations (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * THE FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL VALUES PROTECTION (Cyrillic: ФОHДА ЗАЩИТЬІ HАЦИОНАЛЬНЬІХ ЦЕHHОСТЕЙ) (a.k.a. "FZNC").
 * THE FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL VALUES PROTECTION (Cyrillic: ФОHДА ЗАЩИТЬІ HАЦИОНАЛЬНЬІХ ЦЕHHОСТЕЙ) (a.k.a. "FZNC").

Alexander Malkevich (Malkevich) and his company, the Foundation for National Values Protection (FZNC), have facilitated Prigozhin's global influence operations since at least 2019. (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * No
 * VELADA LLC.
 * VELADA LLC.

An oil and gas company in Syria, involved in supporting or benefiting from the Syrian regime and associated with Prigozhin (UK designation).
 * No
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * ZHE JIANG JIAYI SMALL COMMODITIES TRADE COMPANY LIMITED.
 * ZHE JIANG JIAYI SMALL COMMODITIES TRADE COMPANY LIMITED.

Designated for having materially assisted Prigozhin. Owned by Shine Dragon Group Limited. Involved in facilitating over 100 transactions exceeding $7.5 million that were sent in the interest of Prigozhin (U.S. designation)
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 * No
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 advantages in which only one class of colleges can mostly, if not wholly, participate, place those colleges on a vantage-ground? The Council of Affiliated Colleges, whose sole function is to look to the interests of the Affiliated Colleges, will have, as its first duty, to give the most earnest attention to this question. The Act provides for the establishment of ‘University Centres’. The need for their establishment is thus recognised from the very commencement of the new operations. The Affiliated Colleges can, in my humble opinion, escape deterioration mainly through the creation of such Centres of University efficiency. The Council of Affiliated Colleges should presently set about the work of investigating the situation and formulating definite proposals. A ‘settled fact’ has been loyally accepted but that does not argue that the apprehensions of injury have been disproved. My esteemed friend, the Revd. Principal Meston, expects the establishment of one University, if not of more, in the regions outside the metropolis, before the close of the first quinquennium. May the expectation prove a prophecy!—2.


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518 But he would be mistaken. Ochterlony was a man, not a battle. And he did good and honorable service, too; as good and honorable service as has been done in India by seventy-five or a hundred other Englishmen of courage, rectitude, and distinguished capacity. For India has been a fertile breeding-ground of such men, and remains so; great men, both in war and in the civil service, and as modest as great. But they have no monuments, and were not expecting any. Ochterlony could not have been expecting one, and it is not at all likely that he desired one—certainly not until Clive and Hastings should be supplied. Every day Clive and Hastings lean on the battlements of heaven and look down and wonder which of the two the monument is for; and they fret and worry because they cannot find out, and so the peace of heaven is spoiled for them and lost. But not for Ochterlony. Ochterlony is not troubled. He doesn't suspect that it is his monument. Heaven is sweet and peaceful to him. There is a sort of unfairness about it all.

Indeed, if monuments were always given in India for high achievements, duty straitly performed, and smirchless records, the landscape would be monotonous with them. The handful of English in India govern the Indian myriads with apparent ease, and without noticeable friction, through tact, training, and distinguished administrative ability, reinforced by just and liberal laws—and by keeping their word to the native whenever they give it.

England is far from India and knows little about the eminent services performed by her servants there, for it is the newspaper correspondent who makes fame, and he is not sent to India but to the continent, to report the doings of the princelets and the dukelets, and where they are visiting and whom they are marrying. Often a British official spends thirty or forty years in India, climbing from grade to grade


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 In his Convocation Address the Rt. Hon. M. E. Grant Duff observed that the Madras University existed in the midst of a huge Dravidian people and yet one could hardly make a guess as to what the Dravidians might do. The outside world would seem even now to be little aware of the fact that a Dravidian Culture existed. Anyhow, the imperative duty in this respect lies in the direction of a vigorous development of the study of the leading South Indian Vernaculars. The compilation of Lexicons and the conduct of philological research are good in their own way. But they are accessories; the essential is the recognition of the Vernaculars as subjects of culture and the media of instruction. Vernacular poetry, the study of which is now a very minor concern, forms, according to the people’s innermost sentiment, a rich source of intellectual enlightenment and moral inspiration. The very manner in which a verse in a vernacular is recited by a pandit-educated and by a modern-educated Indian, brings out the difference—in the one case it is a chant, in the other a stammer. The Elementary


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 terms possible, his sincere belief in the truthfulness of his statement that he, a mortal being, was not the author, and to induce those who might read to believe that it was dictated by a superior spiritual being, whose motive was to uplift and benefit the human race spiritually, religiously and morally. In other words, he sought to give the book an origin similar to that claimed by the followers of Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormons, the Koran by the followers of Mohammed, and to some extent the Bible, although it affirms the teachings of much of the New Testament.

In this situation, if we accept Oliver’s statement as true and not fiction, how can we say that King, who wrote defendants’ book, was any less truthful and sincere, even though there be some similarity as to the methods of spiritual communication, incidents, etc., between the two? Who can say that the spirit of the Master or Masters, whether called by one name or another, might not see fit to use both men as instrumentalities or amanuenses for communicating their messages of guidance and direction to humanity? The law deals with realities and does not recognize communication with and the conveyances of legal rights by the spiritual world as the basis for its judgment. Nevertheless, equity and good morals will not permit one who asserts something as a fact which he insists his readers believe as the real foundation for its appeal to those who may buy and read his work, to change that position for profit in a law suit. Davies v. Bowes, D.C., 209 F. 53; Collins v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation et al., D.C., 25 F.Supp. 781, reversed on other grounds, 2 Cir., 106 F.2d 83. One who narrates matters of fact may be protected by copyright as to his arrangement, manner and style, but not as to material or ideas therein set forth. Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corporation, D.C., 34 F.2d 145.

There is no charge of infringement here based upon style or arrangement, but it is upon the subject matter or stories of two earthly creatures receiving from the spiritual world messages for recordation and use by the living. There is no plagiarism or copying of words and phrases as such, but only slight similarity of experiences in that the parties became agencies for communicating between the spiritual and material worlds, of things which happened in other ages. In final analysis, the object of both is to impress what is said to be one of the chief attractions of the theosophical movement, belief in the reincarnation of the soul.

I do not deem it necessary to go into the prayer by the complainants for summary judgment, which must be determined largely by comparison of the two books. It is sufficient to say, I think, that even on this basis, I do not believe the plaintiffs’ case is made out.

The motion to dismiss will therefore be sustained.


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 * MASLOV, Ivan Aleksandrovich (a.k.a. “MASLOV, Ivan Oleksandrovich”).
 * MASLOV, Ivan Aleksandrovich (a.k.a. “MASLOV, Ivan Oleksandrovich”).

Head of ‘Wagner’ paramilitary units and principal administrator in Mali (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * No
 * PERFILEV, Vitalii.
 * PERFILEV, Vitalii.

Wagner operative in CAR (EU designation).
 * No
 * Yes
 * No
 * PETROVSKIY, Yan Igorovich
 * PETROVSKIY, Yan Igorovich

Head of the ‘Rusich’ military taskforce that is linked to Wagner (EU designation)
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * No
 * PIKALOV, Konstantin
 * PIKALOV, Konstantin

Wagner Commander in the CAR (EU designation)
 * No
 * Yes
 * No
 * POTEPKIN, Mikhail Sergeyevich
 * POTEPKIN, Mikhail Sergeyevich

Ex-employee of the Internet Research Agency, M Invest’s and Meroe Gold’s Regional Director based in Sudan (U.S. designation).
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * No
 * PRIBYSHIN, Taras.
 * PRIBYSHIN, Taras.

Pribyshin has conducted influence operations in Africa for the Internet Research Agency in support of Prigozhin’s objectives in the region since at least 2019 (U.S. designation). Founder and financier of the Wagner Group/Network
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * PRIGOZHIN, Evgeny (a.k.a. PRIGOZHIN, Yevgeniy Viktorovich).
 * PRIGOZHIN, Evgeny (a.k.a. PRIGOZHIN, Yevgeniy Viktorovich).
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * PRIGOZHIN, Pavel Evgenyevich
 * PRIGOZHIN, Pavel Evgenyevich

Prigozhin’s family facilitates the activities of his enterprise, which benefits from his favored status within Russia’s elite. Pavel Prigozhin is his son. (U.S. designation).
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * PRIGOZHINA, Lyubov Valentinovna.
 * PRIGOZHINA, Lyubov Valentinovna.

Prigozhin’s family facilitates the activities of his enterprise, which benefits from his favored status within Russia’s elite. Lyubov Prigozhina (Lyubov) is Prigozhin’s wife. (U.S. designation).
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * PRIGOZHINA, Polina Evgenyevna.
 * PRIGOZHINA, Polina Evgenyevna.

Prigozhin’s family facilitates the activities of his enterprise. Polina Prigozhina (Polina) is his daughter (U.S. designation).
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 * No
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 school-master is learned in many sciences, but does not feel at home in Vemana’s verses ; and the simple rustic asks, 'what doth it profit a man to acquire so many sastrams but lose the soul of poetry’? Again, by bands of earnest workers, animated by various motives, the literary prose is being developed, at least in some of the Vernaculars, into a fit vehicle for cultured thought and sentiment. But it is a task weighed down with difficulties; and it merits generous encouragement from the University as well as the public. If modern learning is to be carried to the heart of the nation, it can be done only through the Vernaculars. Without a broad and well-laid basis of wide-spread Vernacular education, higher culture, restricted to a few, would, for national efficiency, mean something like the dwelling-place of Duessa—a mansion on a morass.—3. A former Convocation Address noted that the claims of studies relating to the industrial life of the community had been temporarily ‘waived in deference to the claims of pure learning’. But education along the lines of applied science is the


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 * KHARITONOV, Denis Yurievich
 * KHARITONOV, Denis Yurievich

Deputy regional head of the Astrakhan branch of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, member of Duma of Astrakhan Oblast and Wagner Group mercenary, sanctioned for activities in Ukraine (EU designation)
 * No
 * Yes
 * No
 * KHODOTOV, Yevgeniy Garryevich (a.k.a. KHODOTOV, Yevgeny).
 * KHODOTOV, Yevgeniy Garryevich (a.k.a. KHODOTOV, Yevgeny).

Served as the director of Lobaye Invest. Involved in Prigozhin’s CAR operations since 2017 (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * KUZIN, Aleksandr Yuryevich (a.k.a. KUZIN, Alexander).
 * KUZIN, Aleksandr Yuryevich (a.k.a. KUZIN, Alexander).

Prigozhin’s employee operating in CAR, who has been been involved in Prigozhin’s CAR operations since 2017 (U.S. designation).
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * KUZNETSOV, Alesandr.
 * KUZNETSOV, Alesandr.

Involved in Wagner activities in Libya (EU designation)
 * No
 * Yes
 * No
 * LAVRENKOV, Igor Valerievich.
 * LAVRENKOV, Igor Valerievich.

Director and owner of Shine Dragon Group Limited (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * No
 * No
 * MALKEVICH, Alexander Aleksandrovich.
 * MALKEVICH, Alexander Aleksandrovich.

His company, the Foundation for National Values Protection (FZNC), facilitated Prigozhin’s global influence operations since at least 2019. (U.S. designation)
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * Yes
 * MALOLETKO, Aleksander Grigorievitch
 * MALOLETKO, Aleksander Grigorievitch

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 the Board of Examiners, besides being a Fellow, of the Madras University. He sat on the S.S.L.C. Board for the triennium 1916-18. He was called to give evidence before the Public Service Royal Commission in 1914. He was made responsible in 1918 for the formulation of a scheme of Moral Instruction in Secondary Schools. And he has served as Chairman of the Government Education Re-organisation Committee recently formed. Apart from these, he was a member of the Godavari District Board and the Vice-President of the Cocanada Taluk Board for 6 years, besides being in the local Municipal Council for several terms. He presided over the Kistna, Political and Social Conferences at Guntur in 1898, the Provincial Social Conference at Ranipet (North Arcot) in 1904, the Northern Circars Theistic Conference at Rajahmundry and the Kistna and Guntur Social Conferences at Narsaraopeta in 1905, the All-India Theistic Conference at Calcutta in 1906 (the Presidential Address of which appears in this volume), the Adi Dravida Conference at Amalapuram and the Anti-Non-


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 da, who furnishes a full account of the manner in which Fray Juan Cobos had been received in Japan the year before, and of his own appointment from the emperor as envoy to the Spaniards, on which errand he departed with Cobos. The latter perished by shipwreck, Faranda arriving safely at Manila. He professes a desire for peace and friendship between the Japanese and Spaniards, instead of the subjection of the latter; and asks that Franciscan missionaries be sent to his country. Since he brings no credentials, except letters from Fray Cobos, the governor orders an official inquiry into the whole matter, and examines witnesses about it. Juan de Solis, a Spanish captain who happened to be in Japan when Fray Cobos arrived there, thinks that the emperor is sincere in asking only the friendship of the Castilians. Solis relates the events of the father's stay there, confirming the account given by Faranda. A similar deposition is made by Antonio Lopez, the Chinese convert who comes with Faranda. But there follows a long account, apparently obtained from conversations held with this Antonio and several others, of intrigues and plots among the Japanese to subdue the Philippines, as they have done with Corea. The Spaniards are warned against the Chinese who are in Manila. Much of this is apparently the gossip of the Parián; but it affords curious side-lights on the relations between the Japanese, Chinese, and Spaniards. A letter from Dasmariñas to the Japanese emperor (May 20, 1593) announces his despatch of another envoy, the Franciscan priest Pedro Baptista.

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The events related in the present volume (1593-97) conclude the first quarter-century of the history of Manila as a Spanish settlement. That city, although small, is gaining in importance and prosperity; it is fairly well fortified, and its public institutions are increasing; it is now the seat of an archbishop, and three dioceses are formed to be under his care. Restless spirits among the Spaniards desire to conquer neighboring lands; this is partially accomplished in Mindanao, but that island proves to be of little value. An expedition is sent nominally in aid of Camboja against Siam, but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the Spaniards are not free from danger: the emperor of Japan is apparently plotting their subjection; and the natives of the islands, although nominally pacified, are inclined to rebel. The increasing numbers of the Chinese in the islands render them dangerous, and various restrictions are imposed upon them. Governor Dasmariñas, slain by his Chinese oarsmen, is succeeded pro tempore by his son Luis Pérez; but the latter is too young for so important a post, and the king reëstablishes the Audiencia at Manila. Its president, Francisco Tello, is also governor of the islands.

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 clamant need of the land. The study of science enlists zeal only when it is directed to a practical end. Material prosperity and social harmony stand guaranteed to that nation alone which vigorously promotes the intellectual development of its industrial population. At the present time there exists an estrangement between ‘learning’ and ‘business’-Inestimable as have been the benefits of a liberal modem education, the best influences of the University have, however, been mostly confined to particular classes or communities. A feeling of ‘academic untouchability’ has been generated. For example, it has taken us some decades to realise the relation subsisting between the processes of irrigation and the fields to be irrigated—between Engineering and Agriculture. Similar limitations have tended to make the system lop-sided. A link of sympathy should be established between men trained in intellectual aptitudes and men trained in industrial skill. The University should steadily widen the orbit of her activities so as to stimulate technical training of a high order. Thus alone can a University


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 states the qualifications that they should possess. He intends to found a new Spanish colony in the recently- pacified district of Tuy. All Luzon has now been explored and pacified. The fortifications of Manila are now in good condition; accordingly, the city is safe from outside enemies, and the natives can see that the Spanish occupation is a permanent one. The cathedral is so nearly completed that worship is celebrated therein; and the convent of Sancta Potenciana is well under way. Galleys are patrolling the coast to watch for enemies; but the clergy have so opposed the efforts of the governor to man the galleys that he could not equip them as well as he desired. The permission given to the Indians to pay their tributes in produce or in coin, as they might choose, is leading to the ruin of the country; for the natives are in consequence neglecting their industries and manufactures, and prices are much higher. The royal officials, therefore, now collect the tributes in produce only. Again the governor complains of the marriages of wealthy widows to adventurers, who have thus "defrauded several very honorable and worthy captains and soldiers who serve here;" he recommends that heiresses be not allowed to marry without the king's consent. He also advises that all collections of tributes be made by the royal officials, who should pay the encomenderos their dues. Another letter of the same date is especially interesting, as containing the earliest data thus far available on the first printing in the Philippines. Dasmariñas desires the king to provide some suitable design for the coat-of-arms of the city of Manila. He protests against the heavy duties levied in Mexico on goods exported from the islands. These letters are followed by a


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 called intuitive knowledge. Thus we see that red is not green; that the whole is bigger than a part; and that two and two are equal to four.

The truth of these and the like propositions we know by a bare simple intuition of the ideas themselves, without any more ado; and such propositions are called self-evident.

The mediate perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas is, when, by the intervention of one or more other ideas, their agreement or disagreement is shown. This is called demonstration, or rational knowledge. For instance, the inequality of the breadth of two windows, or two rivers, or any two bodies that cannot be put together, may be known by the intervention of the same measure applied to them both; and so it is in our general ideas, whose agreement or disagreement may be often shown by the intervention of some other ideas, so as to produce demonstrative knowledge; where the ideas in question cannot be brought together, and immediately compared, so as to produce intuitive knowledge.

The understanding doth not know only certain truth; but also judges of probability, which consists in the likely agreement or disagreement of ideas.

The assenting to any proposition as probable is called opinion, or belief.

We have hitherto considered the great and visible parts of the universe, and those great masses of matter, the stars, planets, and particularly this our earth, together with the inanimate parts, and animate habitants of it; it may be now fit to consider what these sensible bodies are made of, and that is of unconceivably small bodies or atoms, out of whose various combinations bigger moleculæ are made: and so, by a greater and greater composition, bigger bodies; and out of these the whole material world is constituted.

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 motion. This appears by the way whereby heat is produced; for we see that the rubbing of a brass nail upon a board will make it very hot; and the axle-trees of carts and coaches are often hot, and sometimes to a degree, that it sets them on fire, by the rubbing of the nave of the wheel upon it.

On the other side, the utmost degree of cold is the cessation of that motion of the insensible particles, which to our touch is heat.

Bodies are denominated hot and cold in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied; so that feels hot to one, which seems cold to another; nay, the same body, felt by the two hands of the same man, may at the same time appear hot to the one, and cold to the other; because the motion of the insensible particles of it may be more brisk than that of the particles of the other.

Besides the objects before-mentioned, which are peculiar to each of our senses, as light and colour of the sight; sound of hearing; odours of smelling; savours of tasting; and tangible qualities of the touch; there are two others that are common to all the senses; and those are pleasure and pain, which they may receive by and with their peculiar objects. Thus, too much light offends the eye; some sounds delight, and others grate the ear; heat in a certain degree is very pleasant, which may be augmented to the greatest torment; and so the rest.

These five senses are common to beasts with men; nay, in some of them, some brutes exceed mankind. But men are endowed with other faculties, which far excel any thing that is to be found in the other animals in this our globe.

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 of light, as iron, earth, &c. The first are called luminous; the second pellucid; and the third opake.

The rays of light themselves are not seen; but by them the bodies, from which they originally come; as the sun, or a fixed star; or the bodies, from which they are reflected; as a horse, or a tulip. When the moon shines, we do not see the rays which come from the sun to the moon, but by them we see the moon, from whence they are reflected.

If the eye be placed in the medium, through which the rays pass to it, the medium is not seen at all; for instance, we do not see the air through which the rays come to our eyes. But if a pellucid body, through which the light comes, be at a distance from our eye, we see that body, as well as the bodies from whence the rays come that pass through them to come to our eyes. For instance, we do not only see bodies through a pair of spectacles, but we see the glass itself. The reason whereof is, that pellucid bodies being bodies, the surfaces of which reflect some rays of light from their solid parts, these surfaces, placed at a convenient distance from the eye, may be seen by those reflected rays; as, at the same time, other bodies beyond those pellucid ones may be seen by the transmitted rays.

Opake bodies are of two sorts, specular, or not specular. Specular bodies, or mirrors, are such opake bodies, whose surfaces are polished; whereby they, reflecting the rays in the same order as they come from other bodies, show us their images.

The rays that are reflected from opake bodies always bring with them to the eye the idea of colour; and this colour is nothing else, in the bodies, but a disposition to reflect to the eye more copiously one sort of rays than another. For particular rays are originally endowed with particular colours; some are red, others blue, others yellow, and others green, &c.

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260 "Yayati then said, 'Ye four orders with Brahmanas at their head, hear ye my words, as to why my kingdom should not be given to my eldest son! My commands have been disobeyed by my eldest son Yadu. The wise say that he is no son who disobeyeth his father. That son, however, who doth the bidding of his parents, who seeketh their good, who is agreeable to them, is, indeed, the best of sons. I have been disregarded by Yadu, and by Turvasu too. Much have I been disregarded by Druhyu and Anu also. By Puru alone hath my word been obeyed. By him have I been much regarded. Therefore shall the youngest be my heir. He took my decrepitude. Indeed, Puru is my friend! He did what was so agreeable to me! It hath also been commanded by Sukra himself—the son of Kavi, that that son of mine who should obey me become king after me and bring the whole earth under his sway. I therefore beseech ye, let Puru be installed on the throne!'

"The people then said, 'True it is, O king, that that son who is accomplished and always seeketh the good of his parents, deserveth prosperity even if he be the youngest. Therefore doth Puru, who hath done thee good, deserve the crown. And as Sukra himself hath commanded it, we have nothing to say to it.

Vaisampayana continued, "And the son of Nahusha, thus addressed by the contented people, then installed his son Puru on the throne. And having bestowed his kingdom on Puru, the monarch performed the initiatory ceremonies for retiring into the woods. And soon after he left his capital, followed by Brahmanas and ascetics.

"And the sons of Yadu are known by the name of the Yadavas; while those of Turvasu have come to be called the Yavanas. And the sous of Druhyu are the Bhojas, while those of Anu the Mlechchas. The progeny of Puru, however, are the Pauravas amongst whom, O monarch, thou art born, [sic]inorder to rule for a thousand years with thy passions under complete control!"

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 ( Sambhava Parva continued. )

Vaisampayana said, "King Yayati the son of Nahusha, having thus installed his dear son on the throne, became exceedingly happy, and entered into the woods to lead the life of a hermit. And having lived for some time in the forest in the company of Brahmanas, observing many rigid vows, eating of fruits and roots, patiently bearing privations of all sorts, the monarch at last ascended to heaven. And having ascended to heaven he lived there in bliss. But soon, however, he was hurled down by Indra. And it hath been heard by me, O king, that though hurled from heaven, Yayati, without reaching the surface of the earth, stayed in the firmament. I have heard that some time after he again entered the region of the celestials in the company of Vasuman, Ashtaka, Pratarddana, and Shivi."

Janamejaya then said, "I desire to hear from thee in detail why Yayati having first obtained admission into heaven was hurled therefrom and why also he gained re-admittance. Let all this, O Brahmana, be narrated by thee in the presence of these Brahmana sages. Yayati the lord of the earth was, indeed, like the chief of the celestials. The progenitor of the extensive race of the Kurus, he was of the splendour of the Sun! I desire to hear in full the story of his life both in heaven and on earth, illustrious as he was, of world-wide celebrity, and of wonderful achievements!"

Vaisampayana said, "Indeed, I shall recite to thee the excellent story of Yayati's adventures on earth and in heaven. That story is sacred and destroyeth the sins of those that hear it.

King Yayati the son of Nahusha, having installed his youngest son Puru on the throne after casting his sons with Yadu for their eldest amongst the Mlechchas, entered the woods to lead the life of a hermit. And the king eating of fruits and roots lived for sometime in the forest. With mind and passions under complete control, the king gratified by


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262 sacrifices both the pitris and the gods. And he poured libations of clarified butter into fire according to the rites prescribed for those leading the Vanaprasta mode of life. And the illustrious one entertained guests and strangers with fruits of the forest and clarified butter, while he himself supported life by gleaning scattered corn-seeds. And the king led this sort of life for a full thousand years. And observing the vow of silence and with mind under complete control; he passed one full year living upon air alone and without sleep. And he passed another year practising the severest austerities in the midst of four fires around and the sun overhead. And living upon air alone, he stood erect for six months on one leg. And then the king, of sacred deeds, ascended to heaven covering heaven as well as the Earth (with the fame of his achievements.)

And so ends the eighty-sixth Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.

( Sambhava Parva continued. )

Vaisampayana said, "While that king of kings dwelt in heaven—the home of the celestials—he was reverenced by the gods, the Sadhyas, the Marutas, and the Vasus. Of sacred deeds, and mind under complete control, the monarch used to repair now and then from the abode of the celestials unto the region of Brahma. And it hath been heard by me that he dwelt for a long time in heaven.

"One day that best of kings Yayati went to Indra and there in course of conversation the lord of the Earth was asked by Indra as follows:—

'What didst thou say, O king, when thy son Puru took thy decrepitude on earth and when thou didst bestow upon him thy kingdom?'

"Yayati answered, 'I told him that the whole country between the rivers Ganges and the Yamuna is thine. That is, indeed, the central region of the Earth while the outlying regions are to be the dominions of thy brothers. I also


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 justify itself to, and command the co-operation of, all sections of the great community, amidst which it exists.—4. The last of the subjects to be considered here is that of Moral Instruction. This subject has, a short while ago, been distinctly integrated into our educational courses. A certain class of educational institutions has always been alive to this responsibility. But the community as a whole has been rather torpid as regards this duty. Our system of education has, there-fore, been almost completely secular in aims and methods. But if ‘the formation and development of character is the central function’ of sound education, too much stress cannot be laid on the moral responsibilities of life. The promises demanded as a condition precedent to graduation are a testimony to the importance of this aspect of education. That all well-directed study has certain ethical tendencies may be granted. Yet, if the distinguishing mark of man is his moral sense—his susceptibility to ‘the three reverences’, direct, active, moral instruction should be a notable and noble feature of our educational system. I believe the best sec-


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 tion of the community will endorse and support a liberal-spirited scheme of moral instruction. It will be in harmony with the finest traditions of the land. I venture to add that morality—man's correct response to his ‘temporal surroundings'—will irresistibly elevate itself to spirituality—man’s correct response to his ‘ eternal surroundings.' And this exaltation of morality need cause no alarm. India’s ultimate unity, consistently with her age-long genius, must rest on spiritual affinities. Let us only realise that sound education is a preparation for ‘fulness of life.’ As Bacon urges, the whole system of being should ‘be thrown out altogether’, as ‘Nature does in forming a flower.’ Thus alone the Teacher becomes the Guru.

Graduates of the Year, Ladies and Gentlemen : I feel grateful for the courtesy of your company in the foregoing* ramble over the field of education. This excursion were a digression but for the plea that to yon, one and all, education ought always to be a subject of absorbing interest. Distant as Utopia may be the millennium when, as a certain.


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 there came a sudden, clear knock at the door. It turned out to be Jetson's foreman, who had to leave by an early train in the morning, and had found that he needed some further instructions. But the terror in Hepworth's face was unmistakable. He had turned a look towards his wife that was almost of despair; and it had seemed to the Jetsons—or, talking it over afterwards, they may have suggested the idea to each other—that there came a flash of contempt into her eyes, though it yielded the next instant to an expression of pity. She had risen, and already moved some steps towards the door, when young Hepworth had stopped her, and gone out himself. But the curious thing was that, according to the foreman's account, Hepworth never opened the front door, but came upon him stealthily from behind. He must have slipped out by the back and crept round the house.

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 no friends or acquaintances except the Jetsons. No one else among their neighbours had taken the trouble to call on them, and no stranger to the suburb had, so far as was known, ever been seen in Laleham Gardens.

Until one evening a little before Christmas.

Jetson was on his way home from his office in the Finchley Road. There had been a mist hanging about all day, and with nightfall it had settled down into a whitish fog. Soon after leaving the Finchley Road, Jetson noticed in front of him a man wearing a long, yellow mackintosh, and some sort of soft felt hat. He gave Jetson the idea of being a sailor; it may have been merely the stiff, serviceable mackintosh. At the corner of Laleham Gardens the man turned, and glanced up at the name upon the lamp-post, so that Jetson had a full view of him. Evidently it was the street for which he was looking. Jetson, somewhat curious, the Hepworths' house being still the only one occupied, paused at the corner, and watched. The Hepworths' house was, of course, the only one in the road that showed any light. The man, when he came to the gate, struck a match for the


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 purpose of reading the number. Satisfied it was the house he wanted, he pushed open the gate and went up the path.

But, instead of using the bell or knocker, Jetson was surprised to hear him give three raps on the door with his stick. There was no answer, and Jetson, whose interest was now thoroughly aroused, crossed to the other corner, from where he could command a better view. Twice the man repeated his three raps on the door, each time a little louder, and the third time the door was opened. Jetson could not tell by whom, for whoever it was kept behind it.

He could just see one wall of the passage, with a pair of old naval cutlasses crossed above the picture of a three-masted schooner that he knew hung there. The door was opened just sufficient, and the man slipped in, and the door was closed behind him. Jetson had turned to continue his way, when the fancy seized him to give one glance back. The house was in complete darkness, though a moment before Jetson was positive there had been a light in the ground floor window.

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 to Jetson anything very much out of the common. Because for six months no friend or relation had called to see them, that was no reason why one never should. In the fog, a stranger may have thought it simpler to knock at the door with his stick than to fumble in search of a bell. The Hepworths lived chiefly in the room at the back. The light in the drawing-room may have been switched off for economy's sake. Jetson recounted the incident on reaching home, not as anything remarkable, but just as one mentions an item of gossip. The only one who appears to have attached any meaning to the affair was Jetson's youngest daughter, then a girl of eighteen. She asked one or two questions about the man, and, during the evening, slipped out by herself and ran round to the Hepworths. She found the house empty. At all events, she could obtain no answer, and the place, back and front, seemed to her to be uncannily silent.

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 had startled him. She seems to have anticipated his questions by at once explaining that she had had news of an unpleasant nature, and had been worrying over it all night. Her husband had been called away suddenly to America, where it would be necessary for her to join him as soon as possible. She would come round to Jetson's office later in the day to make arrangements about getting rid of the house and furniture.

The story seemed to reasonably account for the stranger's visit, and Jetson, expressing his sympathy and promising all help in his power, continued his way to the office. She called in the afternoon and handed him over the keys, retaining one for herself. She wished the furniture to be sold by auction, and he was to accept almost any offer for the house. She would try and see him again before sailing; if not, she would write him with her address. She was perfectly cool and collected. She had called on his wife and daughters in the afternoon, and had wished them good-bye.

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 her she was in the dock, charged with being an accomplice in the murder of her husband.

The body had been discovered in a pond some hundred yards from the unfinished end of Laleham Gardens. A house was in course of erection on a neighbouring plot, and a workman, in dipping up a pail of water, had dropped in his watch. He and his mate, worrying round with a rake, had drawn up pieces of torn clothing, and this, of course, had led to the pond being properly dragged. Otherwise the discovery might never have been made.

The body, heavily weighted with a number of flat-irons fastened to it by a chain and padlock, had sunk deep into the soft mud, and might have remained there till it rotted. A valuable gold repeater, that Jetson remembered young Hepworth having told him had been a presentation to his father, was in its usual pocket, and a cameo ring that Hepworth had always worn on his third finger was likewise fished up from the mud. Evidently the murder belonged to the category of crimes passionel. The theory of the prosecution was that it had been com-


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 mitted by a man who, before her marriage, had been Mrs. Hepworth's lover.

The evidence, contrasted with the almost spiritually beautiful face of the woman in the dock, came as a surprise to everyone in court. Originally connected with an English circus troupe touring in Holland, she appears, about seventeen, to have been engaged as a "song and dance artiste" at a particularly shady café chantant in Rotterdam, frequented chiefly by sailors. From there a man, an English sailor known as Charlie Martin, took her away, and for some months she had lived with him at a small estaminet the other side of the river. Later, they left Rotterdam and came to London, where they took lodgings in Poplar, near to the docks.

It was from this address in Poplar that, some ten months before the murder, she had married young Hepworth. What had become of Martin was not known. The natural assumption was that, his money being exhausted, he had returned to his calling, though his name, for some reason, could not be found in any ship's list.

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 of the Hepworths' house had closed upon him there could be no doubt. Jetson described him as a thick-set, handsome-looking man, with a reddish beard and moustache. Earlier in the day he had been seen at Hampstead, where he had dined at a small coffee-shop in the High Street. The girl who had waited on him had also been struck by the bold, piercing eyes and the curly red beard. It had been an off-time, between two and three, when he had dined there, and the girl admitted that she had found him a "pleasant-spoken gentleman," and "inclined to be merry." He had told her that he had arrived in England only three days ago, and that he hoped that evening to see his sweetheart. He had accompanied the words with a laugh, and the girl thought—though, of course, this may have been after-suggestion—that an ugly look followed the laugh.

One imagines that it was this man's return that had been the fear constantly haunting young Hepworth. The three raps on the door, it was urged by the prosecution, was a pre-arranged or pre-understood signal, and the door had been opened by the woman. Whether the husband was in the house, or