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 tion, and is there no bed he can be put into?" At that moment the landlord came up:—"You see (said he, addressing the woman) my rooms are so crowded, that I cannot possibly let you stay here; I have no room for sick folks." The woman raised her head:—"What would you have me do, he cannot move?"

"Do!" cried he, "why let somebody help to take him into the out-house, he can't die here."

Ferdinand turned full upon him, and was going to speak, when a sudden groan from the woman, who fell towards him senseless, and dropped the head she had supported, stopped him from speaking. He caught her in his arms, as the servant did the old man, who, to his great terror, proved to be lifeless. All present crowded round those moving objects; Ferdinand conveyed the woman to a seat, and supported her until, by the assistance of water thrown in her face, and forced into her mouth, she began to shew signs of


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 life. In doing this they were obliged to remove her head dress, and open her cloak.—Greatly was every one astonished to behold a young and lovely female, whose complexion, hands and arms, exhibited a delicacy but little suited to her garb or situation.

There is something attractive in beauty, even to the most vulgar souls, and though I would hope the humanity of every man would be excited towards objects in so deplorable a state, yet it is most certain, that when the young woman's face was discovered, all eagerly flew to administer relief, and the buzz of pity was general through the room, except with the landlord, who was rubbing his face with vexation, and exclaimed—"A pretty piece of business this! Here is a dead man, no hole to put him in, nor any one to bury him: Come, come, carry him to the stable for the present."

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! How many bosoms have swelled with rapture, how many cheeks have blushed for shame, how many hearts have been filled with joy, and how many have sunk in despair, at the sound of the magic name of London! !—Well! there's no doubt that London is the Heart of the World-that its provinces are its arteries that the issue of its ventricles gives the prevalent tone throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; and that therefore the pulse of the world is influenced, if not indeed governed, by its action. But viewed as it is, without reference to its external influences, what a mass of all that is vicious and virtuous-pleasing and repulsive—horrible and honourable—profligate and pious—beautiful and brutal—philanthropic and ferocious—artful and amiable—tyrannous and slavish—sceptical and credulous—solemn and absurd—profound and superficial—corrupt and correct—convivial and cold—impudent and diffident—subtle and soft—atrocious and true—cruel and confiding—sincere and satanic—benevolent and heartless—courteous and crafty—courageous and craven—obsequious and despotic—voluptuous and virginal—venerable and contemptible—in fine, what a mass—what a chaotic mass—of all that is good and bad—admirable and abominable—with all the varied shades which intervene—does this "mighty heart" of London present!

Nor is it the Heart of the World only!—it is a world of itself—a world in which all existing feelings, motives, passions, and propensities, are to be found in perfection developed. To know London well is to know the world; and, albeit there are thousands of Londoners who never travelled ten miles from London in their lives, and who, notwithstanding, know but little of it—a London man strictly is a man of the world.

The first appearance too, of London, strikes a stranger with amazement, let him enter at which point he may; and more especially effective is it if he should enter in the evening. It was evening when Sylvester arrived, and as he entered at the cast, and had to go by the coach as far west as Charing-cross, the blaze of light by which he was dazzled, the noise of the various vehicles by which he was deafened, the magnificent shops which he beheld, with the myriads of human beings streaming on either side as he advanced, had the effect of inspiring him with wonder. Where could these people be driving to? What object had they in view? Upon these questions, when they suggested themselves, he had not time to dwell. The motives by which they were actuated were as various as their forms: misery, hope, joy, pride, vanity, crime, love, relaxation and revenge, respectively impelled them on: but


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 She sprang from the encircling arm of Ferdinand, threw herself on the body, and exclaimed, in a wild, piercing tone:—"To the stable! Great God! the stable! Never, never shall my father be so degraded. O! that I could but expire with him; for me, for me, he died!"

Her heart-wounding shrieks brought out Mr. D'Alenberg and his daughter, who stood shocked at the scene before them; she had sunk on the floor, and dragged the lifeless body on her lap. On their entrance she looked up with such an expression of woe and horror, that both involuntarily started back; but suddenly the young Lady exclaimed,—"Good Heavens! Do I not see Louisa Hautweitzer?"

"Yes," said the other, in a tone of voice which touched every one present, "Yes, I was called Louisa Hautweitzer, but now I am nobody; there (putting her hand to her father's cheek) there is the author of my being, he exists no more, and I am a wretch


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 without a name, a home, or a parent. Pray, pray, afford us one small spot of earth, bury us together!" She threw her head down on the face of the deceased, with sighs that seemed to burst her heart-strings.

Miss D'Alenberg took her hand, and addressing her father, "My dear Sir, this young Lady is an old school-fellow of mine, good, amiable, and of genteel birth, save her, pray save her from despair and death!"

The old Gentleman wanted no persuasions to serve the unhappy; he ordered his attendants to carry her into his apartment, but she clung to the body, screaming, "No one should carry her father to a stable;" that he was compelled to have the body taken there also. Ferdinand attended, and Mr. D'Alenberg ordered the priest of the village to be sent for, that he might, through his means, procure a place for the deceased to be carried to, and give some assistance to the unfortunate young woman.


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 On their entrance into the room the body was placed on two chairs, and Miss D'Alenberg administered wine and drops, which fortunately she had in her pocket, with the most soothing expressions of tenderness to Louisa.

The poor afflicted at length shed a torrent of tears, which greatly relieved her; kissing the hand of the young Lady, "I feel your kindness, but I am undeserving of it; my imprudence, my credulity, has destroyed my father, and made me miserable for ever!" Before any reply could be made the priest appeared, and being informed of this strange event, and assured by Mr. D'Alenberg that he would be answerable for every expense, the priest readily consented to receive the body at his house, and to take care of the young woman for the present: Understanding also how greatly they were crowded, he offered to accommodate Miss D'Alenberg with a bed, and as his house was but a few yards distance, and the hostess could lend her


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When thus this winsome dame had sped

Her tale, which I had hearkenèd

With right good will: “Dame Idleness,”

I cried, “words fail me to express

What great delight were mine to see

Sir Mirth and all his company

Of joyous folk assembled here,

So pleasant, blithe, and frank of cheer,

Mor would I tear myself away

Therefrom throughout the livelong day,

For doubt I nought they all will be

Fulfilled of gentle courtesy.”

No more I spake, but thanked kind fate,

When Idleness the garden gate

Threw open wide, and unafraid

To that sweet spot quick entry made.

Then burst on my astonished eyes

A dream—an Earthly Faradise;

And suddenly my soul seemed riven

From earth, to dwell in highest heaven;

Yet doubt I much if heaven can give

A place where I so soon would live

As this sweet garden, sacred haunt

Of birds whose soft melodious chaunt

Ravished mine ears; the nightingales

Here sang, and there the green wood-wales;

The bullfinch piped beneath, above,

I heard the crooning turtle-dove,

Near by, the sweet-voiced tiny wren,

While high in air, beyond my ken.

The skylark soared; the titmouse shrilled

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 cloaks, with the permission of her father, she readily accompanied the unhappy Louisa, who seemed mechanically to follow the body of her father without being at all curious, or even heeding the conversation that had passed. Ferdinand requested leave to attend them with the servants to the house, and taking leave of them at the door, returned, as desired, to Mr. D'Alenberg.

The old Gentleman saluted him with much complacency: "This is a melancholy business," said he; "my daughter seems much interested for her young acquaintance, and indeed the poor girl's situation is very pitiable. I am sorry that a particular engagement will oblige us to leave this place tomorrow: I know not what can be done for this young woman, as her circumstances are unknown to us."

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 gladly contribute my share towards her relief; the heart-felt blow she has sustained, time and reason only can reconcile her to bear with patience and resignation."

Mr. D'Alenberg paid Ferdinand a compliment on his humanity, and having learned which road he was taking, seemed not a little pleased that they were going the same way. "My house (said he) is about twenty miles the other side of Stutgard; I have concluded a very advantageous marriage for my daughter, during a visit that I have been making to a friend, and am now hastening home to forward the necessary preparations: I shall, however, borrow a few hours in the morning to see what can be done for the peace and comfort of this poor orphan." Ferdinand had made the same resolution, and after partaking of a very poor supper, he retired to take possession of the bed intended for the young Lady.

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 Mr. D'Alenberg. They quickly finished their breakfast, and proceeded to the priest's house, where they met the young Lady with every mark of sorrow on her countenance.

"Ah! Sir," cried she to her father, "poor Louisa is extremely ill: A physician was called in about an hour ago by the good father here, and he pronounces her to be in a violent and dangerous fever; I cannot leave her in this situation, without either a relation or a friend; I knew her, I esteemed her, in happier days, it would be inhuman to forsake her now."

"Indeed it would," answered the good Mr. D'Alenberg; "we will see what can be done to reduce this fever, and then get her removed to our house; if she is only unfortunate, we will protect her; if her conduct has been faulty, she shall be placed out of temptation, and means afforded her to atone for past errors."

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 "you know not how happy this kind intention of yours makes your Theresa!"

Ferdinand, who had scarcely looked at Miss D'Alenberg the preceding evening during his concern for Louisa, and who was on his entrance engaged in speaking to the priest, found his attention suddenly engaged by the animated voice behind him; he turned quick round, and met a countenance so interesting, so illumined by a glow of humanity and tenderness, that his eyes were fixed on the young Lady's face, until her blushes, and the confusion with which she turned aside from his eager gaze, made him sensible of his rudeness. It was the enthusiasm of the moment, for the sweet accents of pity and humanity vibrated to the heart of Ferdinand. Mr. D'Alenberg declared he would freely retard his journey for that day, until some information relative to the health and situation of the young woman could be rendered satisfactory to his daughter, and Ferdinand, who was not limited for a day or two, readily


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 offered to remain there also, as he was equally desirous, to the utmost of his abilities, to share in the pleasure of assisting the unfortunate. The priest, who happily was a man of a good and humane heart, voluntarily made an offer of his humble accommodations to their utmost extent. His sister, an ancient maiden, resided with him, and was equally good and charitable as her brother. Mr. D'Alenberg desired to be at the expense of the burial of poor Louisa's father, and Ferdinand hastily requested the physician might attend at his expense. Miss D'Alenberg was permitted to remain there, and the two Gentlemen took a walk round the village until their return to the miserable inn, where they had ordered dinner. As the Castle of Count M lay in the route of his companion, and the landlord was ill prepared to receive or entertain so many persons, Ferdinand sent off his servant with a cursory mention to the Count of the cause that detained him on the road for a day or two, when he should have


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 the advantage of a large escort within a mile of his house.

Towards the evening a message from Miss D'Alenberg carried both Gentlemen to the priest's. They found her in extreme agitation; Louisa had been delirious for several hours, but by copious bleedings, and other applications, now lay more composed: "But, my dear father," added the young Lady, "you will not wonder at my emotions, when I inform you that in the height of her delirium she continually called on Count Wolfran, and in such terms as imply a degree of intimacy very incompatible with his professions to another."

"You indeed surprise me," answered the old Gentleman; "but be not too credulous, my dear Theresa, nor judge rashly on slight presumptions; I hope this young creature will get better, mean time I wish to be informed who she is, and what you know of her."


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 "My dear Sir," said she, "very soon after I was placed at Ausburgh, Louisa Hautweitzer came there as a boarder; her father was an officer in the Imperial service; she made a very genteel appearance, and was much esteemed throughout the Convent.—As I was her elder by at least three years, she paid me great respect and attention, which I returned by a very sincere attachment.—Four years we continued together. About that time her father came to fetch her from the Convent: I had understood her mother died when she was a child, and she appeared surprised and sorry to leave us, as she was not more than sixteen, and rather too young to conduct her father's family. We parted with regret, and she desired to correspond with me; but from that day I never heard of her, although many of the boarders made inquiries among their friends, which all proved fruitless, as we knew not where her father resided.


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 "I left the Convent about six months after, and frequently, when I wrote to my companions, inquired if any information had been gained of Louisa; but no one had obtained the least intelligence, and I have often thought it was a very singular circumstance. It is now near three years since I saw her, and it is certain some uncommon misfortunes must have reduced her father to that poverty which is apparent in the dress of Louisa, and the situation in which we met with them. Last night, when I accompanied her to her room, she kissed my hand with an energy that surprised me.—"Dear Miss D'Alenberg, I deserve not the honour of your attention; I am an unfortunate wretch, a victim to my own credulity, and the baseness of a perjured man; my follies, for sure they were not crimes, yet why should I seek to soften those errors that have eventually destroyed my dear unhappy father! There, there," cried she, in extreme agitation, "is the climax of my miseries!'


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 She fell into violent hysterics, and recovered only to experience a temporary madness which brought on a terrible fever for many hours. During this suspension of reason she raved on Count Wolfran, called him the "destroyer of her peace, and the murderer of her father." Then again she exclaimed, "Heaven was a witness of our union; I am, I am, your wife!" In short, Sir, I cannot repeat every expression, nor is it necessary, enough was said to convince me that she has been very ill treated, and to determine on being perfectly acquainted with every circumstance relative to her intimacy with the Count, previous to any preparations for an event, which possibly may never take place."

"I cannot blame your resolution," answered Mr. D'Alenberg; "I am equally anxious with yourself to have this affair elucidated; if, indeed, we are deceived in the Count's character, no prospects of rank, or fortune, shall induce me to entrust him with the happiness of my Theresa." The entrance


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 of Mrs. Dolnitz, the priest's sister, changed the subject; the Gentlemen paid her many compliments on the humanity of her brother, and her kindness to Louisa. She was a woman of plain sense, with a very good heart, and appeared to be much gratified that she had the power of being useful to a fellow creature. "This poor village (said she) affords no accommodations but in our house and the inn; you must experience great inconvenience there I have no doubt, as very few persons lodge in it but from necessity.—I am sorry we can only entertain Miss, and the sick young woman; but our power is more limited than our wishes and good-will, for my brother is one of the best men in the world, he is truly the father of all his flock. I beg your pardon for saying so much, but when I speak of my brother I could talk for ever."

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 mind, and you cannot give us a better eulogium on your own character, than by your praises of a worthy brother. Heaven has conducted us to this spot, I trust, for our mutual advantage." Ferdinand spoke little, but his eyes said a great deal, and his heart sympathized in every word of Mr. D'Alenberg's. Mr. Dolnitz and the physician soon after joined them; the latter had found his patient more calm, and the extreme violence of the fever abated. They consulted on proper measures for the interment of the deceased, when Louisa was more composed to speak on the subject. Mr. D'Alenberg drew the physician aside, Miss Theresa returned to the sick chamber: Ferdinand therefore entered into a conversation with Mr. Dolnitz, whose modest and unreserved manners, charity without ostentation, and beneficence without a hope of reward, from a very moderate income, denoted real piety and goodness of heart. When the others joined them, Theresa's father drawing a purse


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 from his pocket, put it into the hands of Mr. Dolnitz, saying at the same time, "My worthy Sir, you must permit me to share with you in your charitable attentions. Be not offended, if, knowing that your income is very inadequate to the benevolence of your disposition, I entreat you to disburse this money in whatever manner you please for the advantage of those persons now in your house, or any others deserving or wanting your donations."

"I will not decline the office of your almoner, Sir," replied Mr. Dolnitz, respectfully; "but you must permit me to be accountable to you for the disbursements; on no other condition can I receive the trust."

"It must be as you please," answered the other. The physician, who lived about two miles from the village, finding the strangers were persons of consequence, offered the two Gentlemen beds at his house, but they declined the civility; for although their accommodations were extremely indifferent, yet, as


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 they were permitted to consider themselves at home in the house of Mr. Dolnitz, they were very well reconciled to sleep at the inn.

Ferdinand, indeed, began to consider himself as a useless person; the generosity of Mr. D'Alenberg left but little for him to do, and having no other interests but those of humanity towards the unfortunate Louisa, and as it appeared very probable that the others would be personally concerned in the events of her story, he was fearful it would betray rather an unwarrantable curiosity, than a concern for the melancholy objects that had at first engaged his attention, if he remained at the village. He was revolving this in his mind, and consequently looked very thoughtful, which Mr. D'Alenberg observing, said, "Are you not well, Sir, or has any thing particularly occurred to give you pain?" The other recovering from his reverie by this address, frankly confessed what had been his ideas, and given him that momentary thoughtfulness.


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 Pleased with his ingenuousness, the old Gentleman said, "I know not the nature of your engagements, or whether you are at liberty to spare us your company. If a day or two will not break in upon other plans, I do assure you, Sir, that you will make me very particularly happy, by obliging me with your conversation and residence here for the short time I hope, that I shall find it requisite to remain."

"You do me honour, Sir," replied he, "by the request, which will be a gratification to myself I have not the resolution to decline, and must trust to the kindness of a friend to allow me." They refused an invitation to supper, and returned to the inn, where Ferdinand gave a slight account of himself, as the brother of Count Rhodophil, and an officer in the Imperial service, now going to a friend, who was also about to join the army.

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 surplus for the service of the unfortunate.—"My daughter (said he) has chiefly resided in a Convent, until I thought her age and understanding were mature enough to preside at my table with ease and dignity to herself, and satisfaction to me. I have reason to be perfectly satisfied, and I must think very highly of the man to whom I would entrust the happiness of such a daughter; you have heard enough to understand, that in Count Wolfran I thought such a man had met my wishes. I cannot easily relinquish my hope; his external appearance was decidedly in his favour. The friend, at whose house we met, gave him the highest character, and on his judgment and word, I think, I can place implicit confidence. The exclamations uttered by this young woman in her delirium certainly give rise to unfavourable conjectures, and if on an investigation I discover such circumstances as must impede his marriage with Theresa, I confess to you that it will give me an infinite deal of sorrow, not only


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 because it is an advantageous settlement, but for the honour of human nature I shall regret, that such an exterior, so much understanding, and so many plausible, and apparently, so many good qualities should cover a depraved heart."

"Justice demands an impartial and an unprejudiced hearing on both sides," replied Ferdinand, "before we should venture to condemn any person. If Louisa recovers sufficiently to disclose her situation, you will then, in some measure, be enabled to judge what degree of credit may be allowed to her, and give the Count an opportunity to vindicate his own character, if unjustly accused. Miss D'Alenberg appears to be a treasure no common mind can deserve; her beauty, which I believe is superior to most of her sex, I have scarcely remarked, for the heavenly goodness, and animated compassion, she has displayed towards a distressed and unfortunate young woman proves the excellence of her disposition, and entitles her to equal


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 admiration and respect. Heaven forbid that such a mind should not meet with its kindred heart when united for life!"

The old Gentleman, charmed with the energy of Ferdinand's expressions, and delighted with the delicate praise bestowed on his child, felt a lively interest in his behalf, and ventured to inquire more minutely into his situation and prospects. Among other things he said, with a smile, "I do not suppose you are married." Ferdinand started; his whole frame was agitated; he attempted to answer, but his faltering tongue was incapable of uttering a word. Mr. D'Alenberg was surprised and concerned: "I beg your pardon (said he) if my impertinent curiosity has given you pain; be assured that I meant no offence, you will therefore confer an obligation on me, by obliterating from your memory the question I incautiously asked."

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 recalled many painful ideas, which he endeavoured to repress, and with a half-smothered sigh, that did not pass unobserved, he bowed, saying, "You are very obliging, Sir; there are certain questions which sometimes cannot be answered satisfactorily, and particular situations which cannot be explained, without entering into details tedious and uninteresting to a stranger. As a parent of such a daughter you must doubtless be exceedingly uneasy, until the expressions that fell from Louisa are explained to your satisfaction.—A short time, I hope, will elucidate them, for, if she is an ingenuous character, the generous humanity of Miss D'Alenberg will unlock her heart to repose a confidence in that young Lady, otherwise my conjectures will be less favourable of her than they now are."

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 passed in conversing on a variety of subjects, and when they separated for the night, each Gentleman retired with an increased good opinion of the other, and each internally was desirous of a more intimate acquaintance."

The morning came, and they had scarcely exchanged the customary salutations before a message came from Miss D'Alenberg, requesting the presence of her father, and from the messenger they learned that Louisa was much recovered.

As Ferdinand was not, nor indeed expected to be, included in the invitation to Mr. D'Alenberg, he was preparing to leave the room, after desiring his respects to the young Lady.

"How!" said the old Gentleman, "will you not accompany me?"

"Undoubtedly, Sir, if you wish me to do so. I am only apprehensive of being an intruder."

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 fran is worthy of my daughter, it is for his honour that you should know it; if on the contrary he proves to be a worthless character, it is equally proper that he should be exposed; therefore I beg you will go with me." Ferdinand readily assented; they quickly dispatched their breakfast, and set off for the house of Mr. Dolnitz.

They were received by the good Lady of the house with kindness and complacency.—She gave a very favourable account of her patient, the violence of her disorder was abated, and there was less turbulence in her expressions of grief.—"The consolatory attentions of Miss your daughter," said Mrs. Dolnitz to the old Gentleman, "has greatly aided the doctor's prescriptions, perhaps has been of more real service, as it appears the disorder of the body was occasioned by the emotions of the mind."

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 embarrassed at the presence of Ferdinand, which he observed, and politely rose to leave the room.—"Stay one moment," cried Mr. D'Alenberg. "Tell me, Theresa, in two words, what am I to think of Count Wolfran?"

"As of a man unworthy of your notice, whose crimes disgrace his rank and character. I speak on good grounds, my dear Sir (added she;) Providence has preserved your daughter from infamy and wretchedness."

"Good Heavens!" exclaimed the Father, "can such an exterior, such an apparently polished mind, cover a depraved heart!"

"Yes," replied she, with some emotion, "his person and accomplishments are the superficial covering to veil the blackest designs, the most abandoned and selfish passions. The poor Louisa is a melancholy victim to his baseness, nor is she the only one; but I am writing down her story, which may be perused at leisure. What I have now to request is, that you will send off a servant with a few lines to Count Wolfran, just to


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 say, 'that your daughter, having thoroughly investigated his character, declines, in the most decided manner, the favour he intended her of a hand, without a heart, or a name, to bestow.' Do not add another word, my dear father, his conscience will speak all the rest that may be necessary."

"I will comply with your wishes," answered Mr. D'Alenberg; "my dear Theresa, you are a heroine."

"No," said she, with a faint smile, "it requires no heroism to give up a man one despises. Count Wolfran is not the man a sensible mind can regret. When once the object we had been taught to esteem through false lights, is proved to be a man capable of the vilest duplicity, and most atrocious wickedness, our detestation and contempt must rise in proportion to the deception of our senses, and the heart can endure but little pain in shutting out such an object for ever."


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 She instantly changed the subject, seeing both Gentlemen were preparing to speak in admiration of her sentiments. She understood the expression of their eyes, therefore assuming a supplicating air, "My dear Sir," said she, "as my obligations to the unfortunate Louisa are infinite, as she is deprived of every friend, and in want of every necessary, though legally entitled to rank and fortune, I trust, you will not refuse to permit your Theresa to be her comforter and friend, to offer her an asylum in your house from the machinations of a base enemy."

"Undoubtedly, my dear girl, you are at liberty to make what offers you please, both for me and yourself; I will confirm them all, and shall look up with gratitude to Heaven for this signal preservation of my child from dishonour and misery."

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 rejoice that the event has turned in her favour. "I flatter myself," said Miss D'Alenberg, "that our joint attentions will quickly restore her, and that in a day or two we shall be able to take her in a carriage by easy stages to my father's house." After spending three hours in the house of the good priest, the Gentlemen returned to the inn: Here Ferdinand appeared to be under some degree of inquietude, which the old Gentleman remarked, and asked the cause of."

"I confess to you, Sir," answered the other, "that I feel the warmest admiration at the conduct of your daughter, and I am greatly interested for the unhappy Louisa. I am sensible of the honour and pleasure of your conversation; but I am under engagements to meet a friend, whose mind, from some untoward incidents, is but little calculated to bear disappointment, or to be left to its own reflections: Mortified as I am for the necessity which obliges me to leave you, I should not, however, forgive myself if I gave pain to my friend."


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 "Then you must leave me?" asked Mr. D'Alenberg.

"Indeed I must," replied Ferdinand,—"because it appears you will unavoidably remain here two or three days, and as I dare not intrude so long on the kindness of a friend, the sooner I leave you the better, as my regret to part from you must hourly increase."

"You are a worthy young man," returned Mr. D'Alenberg, "and it is no compliment to say, that I shall part from you with very great reluctance.

"After the deception I have lately met with, you could not wonder if I shut the door of my heart, afraid of entertaining another delusive guest; but I trust that I have not lost my charity, though my confidence may be more guarded. A countenance like your's is a letter of recommendation, and I do assure you, that you will do me a very particular pleasure, if you continue in this country, by bringing your friend in your hand, and insure to him a welcome reception at my house, on your account."


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 Ferdinand was not backward in his acknowledgments for this kindness, and having now broken the ice, gave orders for his departure immediately after dinner. At Mr. D'Alenberg's request he promised to write to him before his departure for Vienna, if he could not pay him a visit; and the former assured Ferdinand, that if the story of Louisa was of a fit nature to be communicated, he should certainly receive a transcript of it from him. "My daughter (added he) will be surprised and disappointed, when informed of your departure without taking leave."

"Be so good, Sir," said Ferdinand, "to make my best respects to Miss D'Alenberg; I have had so little opportunity of recommending myself to her notice, that I am not vain enough to believe my departure can for a moment engage her attention; but of her I shall ever think, with pleasure, admiration and respect. My best wishes also attend the unfortunate young Lady, she so humanely protects; to offer any pecuniary


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 assistance would be an insult to her goodness, and your benevolence; but if on any future occasion either my purse, or personal services, can be useful, command me as freely, Sir, as you would do your own son."

"By Heaven!" exclaimed Mr. D'Alenberg, "I wish you was my son; but ."

"You do me infinite honour, Sir," said Ferdinand, interrupting him; "I hope you will find a man deserving of the appellation, and whoever he is, his destiny will be enviable, because he will be the happiest of mankind;" then rising from his seat, he inquired if his horse was ready? and being informed it waited for him at the door, he took a hasty, but an affectionate, leave of Mr. D'Alenberg, and followed by his good wishes, set off full speed for the Castle of Count M.


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arrived at the Castle without any accident, and was joyfully received by his friend. "I began to complain of you," said the Count; "I am a selfish mortal it is true, for, as I heard from the servant you kindly sent forward, that you were engaged in an affair of distress and sickness, knowing the benevolence and sympathy of your heart, I ought not to have desired to monopolize such a disposition to myself."

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 without even presuming to offer my mite when I left the unfortunate young woman you have been told of. I left her, indeed, in much better hands, and feeling myself useless, when I understood she was out of danger, I hastened away; though I confess to you that I left hearts so congenial to my own, and I will say, to yours also, that I lamented the distance which seems placed between us."

At the Count's request he related the scenes already described, and mentioned the characters with esteem and respect.—"It is a singular affair," observed the Count, when he had finished his narration, "and a most providential meeting between the D'Alenberg family and Louisa. I have heard often of Count Wolfran before my seclusion from the world, he was then a very young and a very gay man, he can be but little turned of thirty now. I remember I once saw him, and thought him a most elegant figure."

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 deal only with what the African regards as merely one class of spirits—an important class truly, but above it there are at least two more important classes, while beneath it in grade there are, I think, about eleven, and equal to it, but differing in nature, several classes—I don't exactly know how many. This class of spirits is the human soul—the Kla of the true Negro, the Manu of the Bantu. These human souls are also of different grades, for one sort is believed to be existent before birth, as well as during life and after death, while other classes are not. There is more interesting stuff here, but I am determined to stick to my main point now—the medical. Well, the number of souls possessed by each individual we call a human being is usually held to be four—(1) the soul that survives, (2) the soul that lives in an animal away wild in the bush, (3) the shadow cast by the body, (4) the soul that acts in dreams. I believe that the more profound black thinkers hold that these last-named souls are only functions of the true soul, but from the witch doctor's point of view there are four, and he acts on this opinion when doctoring the diseases that afflict these souls of a man.

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 is a villain, and would, most probably, but for this fortunate discovery, have ruined the happiness of a most lovely and amiable young Lady. I hope I shall never see him; but come, my dear Count (added he, in a quick tone) tell me in what manner you have been received coming from death to life, and in what way you found all your affairs?"

The Count told him he had found but little difficulty in being acknowledged by his friends, whom he had amused with an account that he had been travelling, under a borrowed name, to avoid trouble, and had resided both in London and Paris as a private man, until he was tired of the frolic."

This story, he said, had gained credit, and, as it was supposed he did not live without a companion, he had been rallied on his English and Parisian Ladies, which he bore tolerably well, and had therefore silenced curiosity by giving way to their own conjectures.

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 good old steward, Mr. Duclos, that he had presented him with a pretty little estate, and made him independent for life. "I have still enough (said he) I trust, to satisfy the demands of gratitude and friendship, and sufficient in my own power to make the man I esteem superior to receiving the narrow bounty of selfish, contracted hearts, who are incapable of doing justice to virtues they know not how to estimate, because no such inhabits their own bosoms.

"The variety of occupations in which I have been engaged," continued he, "since my arrival here, has given a diversity to my thoughts, very favourable towards recovering that tranquillized state of mind I wish for. Happiness is fled like a vision of the brain; but when I remember what I have been, and what I am now, I should be ungrateful to Providence if I was not thankful for the good, and submit to bear the evil with patience and resignation."


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 Ferdinand was delighted with the rationality of the Count's sentiments, and presaged much future contentment to a mind capable of such proper discrimination. His friend told him, "that having many accounts to settle, and leases to renew, he apprehended it would be at least a week or ten days before he could conveniently leave the country. Mean time (added he) command here as myself, the carriage, horses and servants, are your's. Do not confine yourself, but make a circuit round the environs of the Castle, you will find amusement and information.—Follow my example, engage your ideas in a continual variety that you may get out of yourself, and avoid a train of unpleasant reflections."

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 hills and dales, mountains and glens, his mind's eye had other objects in view, and he found it a vain attempt to turn his thoughts on the beauties of nature, whilst the barbed arrow still rankled in his bosom, and the remembrance of past events, of Claudina, his brother, and other recent occurrences, obtruded on his memory. On the contrary, without society, and at liberty to "indulge meditation even to madness," he returned always fatigued in body, and distressed in mind.

The fifth day the weather was bad, and he could not take his accustomed rides; the morning, his friend being busy, he passed in the library, but his temper took its colouring from the weather, and when he entered the dining parlour, the Count was extremely concerned to see his features clouded with melancholy, and all the marks of a deep dejection. "Are you not well," said he, hastily.


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 "I am certainly not ill," replied Ferdinand; "that is, I have no bodily complaints; but I feel a weight on my spirits which I cannot shake off."

"Ah! my friend," returned the Count, "this inactive life ill agrees with a discontented mind. I am sensible that the present composure of mine is but temporary: I can easily allow for your feelings, and am provoked that my haste to finish all my affairs here, compels me to leave you so much alone. In our present state of mind (added he, with a faint smile) we are not fit to be trusted alone; company and active employments suit us much better than solitude."

Ferdinand was about to reply, when a servant entered with a packet for him; being a stranger to the hand, he opened it hastily, and saw the name of D'Alenberg. "Ah! cried he, here is a large packet from Mr. D'Alenberg; from its bulk I dare say it contains the history of the poor Louisa."


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 time to come home. For if either of the four souls of a man have their intercommunication broken, the human being possessing them gets very ill. We will take an example. A man has been suddenly roused by some cause or other before that dream-soul has had time to get into quarters. That human being feels very ill, and sends for the Witch Doctor. The medical man diagnoses the case as one of absence of dream-soul, instantly claps a cloth over the mouth and nose, and gets his assistant to hold it there until the patient gets hard on suffocated; but no matter, it's the proper course of treatment to pursue. The witch doctor himself gets ready as rapidly as possible another dream-soul, which if he is a careful medical man, he has brought with him in a basket. Then the patient is laid on his back and the cloths removed from the mouth and nose, and the witch doctor holds over them his hands containing the fresh soul, blowing hard at it so as to get it well into the patient. If this is successfully accomplished, the patient recovers. Occasionally, however, this fresh soul slips through the medical man's fingers, and before you can say "Knife" is on top of some 100-feet-high or more silk cotton tree, where it chirrups gaily and distinctly. This is a great nuisance. The patient has to be promptly covered up again. If the doctor has an assistant with him, that unfortunate individual has to go up the tree and catch the dream-soul. If he has no assistant, he has to send his power up the tree after the truant; doctors who are in full practice have generally passed the time of life when climbing up trees personally is agreeable. When, however, the thing has been re-captured and a second attempt to insert it is about to be made, it is held advisable to get the patient's friends and relatives to stand round him in a ring and howl lustily, while your assistant also howling

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 "You will then have something to amuse, or at least to engage your attention (said the Count) and I am glad of it, as I am obliged to meet two persons for an hour or two after dinner." Ferdinand's impatience, and this friend's engagement, caused them to make a hasty meal, which, when finished, the former retired to the library, and perused the following letter:

"I do not forget, my young friend, that you seemed to feel an interest in the late occurrences that fell under your eye; and you impressed me with too favourable an opinion of your heart to doubt of your being anxious for an explanation of such circumstances relative to Louisa, as materially concerned the peace of my Theresa and her father. I have full leave to acquaint you with every particular of the villainous treatment the much--


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Dr. John R. Mott, Director General of the United War Work Campaign, which begins today and will last until Nov. 18, announced yesterday that in every State of the Union, and in foreign countries where Americans live, the machinery is ready for the solicitation not only of the $170,500,000 asked for the seven war work agencies, but also for an over-subscription of 50 per cent. Calling attention to the greatness of teh task, Dr. Mott warned against undue optimism.

"The only hope of accomplishing the desired end is for every member of the nation-wide organization to keep right on his toes during the next eight days, and for every last friend of the United War Work agencies, Protestant, Catholic, Jew, to back it to the utmost limit," he said.

The Chairman's statement was echoed last night at Carnegie Hall, where spokesmen of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths, both clergy and laymen, meeting under the auspices of the Salvation Army, urged on members of all religious denominations to subscribe liberally to the fund. The speakers were the Right Rev. Peter J. Muldoon, Chairman of the National Catholic War Council; the Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman, rabbi of Tample Emanu-El; the Rev. Dr. Karl Relland, rector of St. George's Episcopal Church; Miss Evangeline Booth, Commander in Chief of the Salvation Army in this country, and George Gordon Battle. The Chairman was former Ambassador Myron T. Herrick.

The Carnegie Hall audience was enthusiastic and responsive, applauding wildly when a group of Salvation Army workers who had just returned from France were introduced. Among these were Adjutant Helen Purvelance, "the original doughnut girl," and the McAlister sisters, who made 3,000 doughnuts and 100 gallons of coffee a day for the soldiers.

An appeal by Cardinal Gibbons, President of the National Catholic War Council, for generous contributions on the part of all citizens to the fund, was made public yesterday.

"It would be a great mistake to think that the end of teh war will diminish the need of the work of these seven organizations that have done so much for the comfort and welfare of our soldiers and sailors," the Cardinal said.

"The peace treaty will not be concluded for several months at least after the fighting has ceased; all that time our force of 2,000,000 soldiers will remain there on duty. After the signing of the peace treaty it will take many months for the repatriation of our troops, even if they are then free to return; ardently as we desire to see all our brave boys home once more. We must resign ourselves to the prospects that large numbers, if not hundreds of thousands, must remain abroad much longer as an army of occupation.

"Besides, nearly all of Europe east of the Franco-Belgian frontier will see stormy days. Disorder and revolution are sure to break out in many places. Who can foresee what services our troops may yet be called on to render for the re-establishment of order and cilization in Europe? We must see this thing through to the end, until the foundation of peace and justice is securely laid.

"It is very evident that in this period of waiting and during the time of occupation the services of these seven welfare organizations will be more needed than ever. It will be a time of great danger to our soldiers, of danger more fatal than shot and shell. It is our duty to do our utmost to protect our beloved boys from these moral perils. To slacken our efforts now, to lessen our generosity, would be great ingratitude to the men who have encountered such hardships and dangers for our sake and are bringing to a happy end the greatest war in history.

"They have earned the best and the most that we can give them," concluded the Cardinal's statement, "and the American who will not give all he can and help all he can is unworthy of our noble army and navy and the holy cause for which they fought."

Every business establishment in Greater New York will be canvassed this week. The Industrial Captains have adopted "an amendment to the tax laws," an act "to provide revenues for the welfare of the boys in camp and on the battle line." The voluntary law calls for a subscription or voluntary tax of not less than one-quarter of 1 per cent. on the outstanding capital stock of each corporation doing business in the city; a voluntary tax of not less than 2 1/2 per cent. of its net profits during the week on every firm doing business in the city, and a voluntary and self-imposed tax by each and every employe of the firms and corporations specified of one full day's pay. The last provision does not include higher salaried officers and firm members, of whom greater donations will be expected. The amounts due are to be paid in four equal installments, beginning on Dec. 1, 1918, and on the first of each of the three following months.

Appreciation of the work done by the Y.M.C.A. women connected with the Navy Hut at the French base of the naval forces in France was voiced in a cablegram received from Vice Admiral H. B. Wilson and made public yesterday at the United War Work Campaign headquarters.

The Allied Theatrical, Motion Picture, Music and Entertainment Team inaugurated its part of the drive last night at the Hippodrome, where a monster program arranged by E. F. Albee was presented. The list of performers included almost every headliner in New York. Among the attractions for the week arranged by this section are a concert and boxing carnival on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, a football game between Princeton and Camp Upton on Saturday afternoon; every afternoon this week from 2:30 to 11 P.M. war relic expositions at the 1st Field Artillery, Sixty-eighth Street and Broadway and the 23d Regiment Armory, Bedford and Atlantic Avenues, Brooklyn; tomorrow night a gala concert at the Metropolitan Opera House by John McCormack, Maggie Teyte, and Jacques Thibaud; Saturday night a Victory ball at the Hotel Astor, and Sunday night the Friars Frolic at the Metropolitan Opera House.

"Now that the war is ending happily for everybody, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Y.M.C.A., the K. of C., and the other war work organizations will for many months need our support more than ever," said Jacob H. Schiff, speaking yesterday at the dedication exercises of a canteen in Seward Park. The meeting was under the auspices of the Jewish Welfare Board, and the speakers were, besides Mr. Schiff, Abram I. Elkus, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Israel Unterberg, Jonathan C. Day, Dr. Leon L. Watters, and Colonel Harry Cutler, Chairman of the board.

An appeal to the workingmen of New York to continue to volunteer for war work until President Wilson announces that the great need for war workers no longer exists was issued yesterday at the headquarters of the United States Employment Service, 489 Fifth Avenue.

The United War Work Campaign in the Oranges opened last night with initial subscriptions of $226,395 out of a quota of $650,000. On Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Fruit Trade Building, 204 Franklin Street, there will be held an auction of fruit and produce donated by the members of the west side wholesale trade. Among the speakers announced are Dr. William T. Manning of Trinity Church, Dr. George E. Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rev. Father John L. Belford, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Albert E. Roberts, and Colonel McIntyre of the Salvation Army.

A performance given at the Hippodrome last night in aid of the allied war work fund resulted in gross gate receipts of more than $10,000, while a collection taken up following an address by United States Marshal McCarthy was estimated at several thousand dollars more. The program was arranged by E. F. Albee, and was made up largely of vaudeville headliners.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—The United war Work Campaign will be inaugurated in this city tomorrow with a parade. President Wilson has been invited to review the pageant as it passes the White House. Units of the nation's land and sea forces will march with representatives of the seven organizations and the various Government departments and contingents of Boy Scouts with their band.

Secretary Daniels spoke at Baltimore today in the interest of the drive and Secretary McAdoo issued a statement here asking the people to oversubscribe the fund.

In response to the appeals that corporations contribute from one-fourth of 1 percent. to 1 per cent. of their capital stock to the United War Work Campaign, the New York Times Company will contribute 1 per cent—$10,000—and in addition the 1,500 employes of will contribute the full amount of one day's wages—$6,000—this making a contribution of $16,000 from.

BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 10.—An armistice does not end the war, but merely halts it, Secretary Daniels said in an address at a mass meeting here today in behalf of the United States War Work Campaign which begins tomorrow.

"If the armistice is signed today or tomorrow," the Secretary said, "It does not mean our men are no longer in military service, and it does not mean that concern for their entertainment and welfare can be relaxed. On the contrary, it will be a challenge to increased zeal and an appeal to new resources."

The War Work Campaign, the secretary added, would be responded to by all who thought more of the courage, clean living, and home interest of the nation's fighting men than of anything else.

A plea for hearty support of the United War Work drive was the keynote of the sermons in churches here yesterday. Revolution in Germany and approaching peace also were discussed.

The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton in his sermon in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church said recent events marked the first time the world had passed consciously from one era to another. He paid tribute to Cardinal Merster "as the greatest figure in the religious world today."

Rabbi Silverman in Temple Beth-El said the world was nearer its millennium today than ever before, and asserted the war had brought mankind nearer to brotherhood than had centuries of religious teachings. War, he added, had brought religion back to its original task of combating bigotry, fighting sin, and uplifting mankind. The rabbi dwelt upon the comradeship and co-operative spirit of chaplains of all creeds in the army and navy.

"The very angels of God have been fighting with our soldiers," the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton said in his sermon in Calvary Baptist Church. He expressed belief that the world war had recreated spiritual thought, and cited teh declaration of "a man so practical as Marshal Joffre" that he believed the first battle of the Marne was won by God.

The Rev. Dr. S. Howard Young, in the Bedford Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, said "in the Providence of God Kaiser ished by the German people themselves," ished by the German people themselves" [sic] and that their face could not come more bitterly than at the hands of the Socialists they had denounced. Retribution upon the war lord he described as divine, and as the first world lesson to be derived from the German downfall.

Page of San Francisco, one of the members of the Shipping Board, has decided to resign and plans to present his resignation to Chairman Hurley soon. Mr. Page is a lawyer who has devoted particular attention to maritime affairs, and has specialized in the work with the board. It was said tonight that Mr. Page feels the necessity of getting back to his business.

William Banks, a negro, 55 years old, of 234 West Sixty-first Street, who had been interrupted in a robbery at the Hotel Navarre yesterday afternoon and had fled to the roof of a house at 340 West Thirty-eighth Street, was shot and killed by Policeman Sabatella of the West Thirty-seventh Street Station. James Denham, captain of the hotel bellboys, caught Banks trying to get out of the Navarre with the stolen things and forced him to drop them. When Sabatella tried to follow the negro to the roof the latter jammed down the door and lay on it. The policeman fired at the door and the bullet went through it and into Banks' body.

The National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A. gave out yesterday a financial statement covering its operations from the beginning of the war to July 31, 1918. The statement was issued by George W. Perkins, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and shows that the Y.M.C.A. has handled during the period $54,354,034, of which more than $400,000 represents interest earned on the contributions given to it. In connection with the statement the council said:

"July 31 is the latest date for which figures could be made available from the Paris headquarters, and the operations on this side are given as of the same date for the sake of presenting a complete and uniform picture. On that date the Y.M.C.A. had still on hand a balance in excess of $17,000,000. In the intervening period the demands of the work overseas have grown by leaps and bounds because of the vastly accelerated movement of troops, so that the balance on hand at that date has now been entirely spent and has been succeeded by a deficit. In this intervening period Y.M.C.A. men and women workers have been sent abroad at the rate of very nearly 1,000 a month, and the number of buildings, restaurants, hotels, huts, tents, &c., operated for the A.E.F. in France has increased from 895 to 1,5000.

"On July 31 the expenditures for work in the country were still in excess of the expenditures for work overseas. This situation has now been reversed. Expenditures overseas have grown not merely because of the growth of the army, but because every operation in France costs far more than a similar operation on this side, due to the fact that the men are not gathered there into great cantonments, but are billeted in hundreds of villages and are constantly moving about.

"Up to July 31 approximately 9,500 uniforms had been furnished to workers in the United States, and 7,222 uniforms to the 3,311 secretaries sent overseas. Many of these workers are bearing all of their own expenses, but the majority receive an expense allowance from the Y.M.C.A., which covers their bare necessities, in this case of unmarried workers, and gives to married workers approximately the allowance of a Lieutenant in the army. The statement gives some idea of the scope and magnitude of the work undertaken by the Y.M.C.A. for the soldiers. The association is now one of the largest operators of hotels and restaurants in the world; it is the largest single exhibitor of motion pictures; it has the services of approximately a hundred actresses and actors in its huts in France, and has sent abroad the largest consignments of athletic goods ever placed in the history of organized sport. One single order was placed recently for more than half a million dollars worth of athletic equipment.

"In the period of demobilization the educational work of the 'Y' is counted upon by the military authorities as a factor of vital importance. In preparation for this the 'Y' has recently placed an order for more than $2,000,000 worth of textbooks for France."

There will begin in this city tomorrow what is considered the most important convention of Lutherans ever held in this country. The three older bodies of the Lutheran Church, the General Synod, organized in 1820; the General Council, organized in 1867, and the United Synod South, dating back to civil war days, will meet for the last time as independent organized bodies. Before the week is over their forces will be combined under the title of the United Lutheran Church of America, representing a communicant membership of 800,000 and a baptized membership of 1,600,000.

The convention will open tomorrow with the three bodies meeting separately to wind up their affairs. The General Council will meet in Holy Trinity Church, Central Park West and Sixty-fifth Street; the Central Synod in St. James's Church, Madison Avenue and Seventy-third Street, and the United Synod South in the Church of the Advent, Broadway, at Ninety-third Street. On Thursday evening the united church will go in procession to Holy Trinity Church for communion service. The procession will be led by the Ways and Means Committee, in which are the Presidents of the three general bodies, Dr. Theodore E. Schmauk, Dr. V. G. A. Tressley, and Dr. M. G. G. Scherer. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. E. Jacobs, Dean of Mount Airy Seminary at Philadelphia.

Friday morning the business meeting at which the merger will be formally carried out will be held in the auditorium of the Engineers Building, 33 West Thirty-ninth Street. The first business will be the election of officers of the general body, and there is much speculation as to who will lead the Lutherans in America. The public ratification meeting will be held at the Hotel Astor on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. A large public meeting will be held in the Hillodrome on Sunday evening. The centre of the decoration scheme will be a gigantic bust of Martin Luther, from whom the Lutheran Church takes its name. At the same time public meetings are scheduled for the Academy of Music in Brooklyn and another in Jersey City.

Lebanon Hospital, in the Bronx, is enlarging its facilities for the care of the sick, it was announced yesterday. The changes are bine gmade under teh direction of W. H. Abbott, the new Superintendent, who succeeded William Daub, who retired recently. The interior of the hospital is being rearranged and redecorated and new private rooms and a maternity ward are being added.

Lebanon Hospital has just passed through a very trying time with the increase in sickness and with so many of its doctors and nurses in service and others too sick to attend to their patients. Notwithstanding this handicap the hospital opened its doors to all who needed its care and advice. The Medical Board was one of the first to recognize the seriousness of the influenza epidemic. Restrictions as to visiting, special care in isolation of those sick with influenza and pneumonia, and other precautionary measures were immediately adopted. The hospital announded yesterday that, with the epidemic on the wane, it will again open its wards for general treatment.

The training school for the nurses is launching a new scheme whereby any young woman acceptable to the management may be prepared for the nursing profession free of charge and yet receive the monthly allowance for pupil nurses in training. Full particulars may be obtained by writing to the Superintendent.

The Italian Discount and Trust Company, incorporated under the laws of New York State with a capital of $500,000 and a surplus of $250,000, which was organized recently under the auspices of the Guaranty Trust Company and the Banca Italiana Disconto, will begin the transaction of a general banking and trust company business at 399 Broadway this morning, special attention being given to Italian export and import trade.

George P. Kennedy, formerly assistant treasurer of the Guaranty Trust Company, is President of the new bank and G. Biasutti, manager of the Florence branch of the Banca Italiana Disconto, is Vice President. Among the directors are Alexander J. Hemphill, Eugene W. Stetson, Harry Lawton, and Theodore Rousseau of teh Guaranty Trust Company; Comm. Angelo Pogliani, Managing Director of the Banca Italiana Disconto; Emanuel Gorli, Judge John J. Freachl, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Biasutty.

The Banca Ialiana Disconto, with which the Company is affiliated, is among the leading banks of Italy, having 70 branches in that country. Gugilelmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, is chairman of its board of directors.

Mayor Hylan sent a letter yesterday to United States Fuel Administrator Dr. H. A. Garfield explaining why he had ordered the Police Department to make a census of the coal supply of the city and denying that it had been asked for or was being done in the interest of the Fuel Administration. The Mayor assured Dr. Garfield that there would be no investigation made for the Fuel Administration unless it was so requested. The Mayor stated that on Oct. 3 he had requested Police Commissioned Enright to make the census, and, after quoting his letter, said:

"This investigation is made for the purpose of having an inventory of the coal supply in the City of New York, so that those who have an excess supply could be appealed to, to help the less fortunate who might be without coal, as hundres of people were last Winter, resulting in great suffering and distress. Request has been made upon the Fuel Administration authorities in this city as to the amount of coal on hand here, and their response has been that there is no man or body in this city who has in his or their possession the information above requested.

"I note by the the press that you have allowed another increase in the price of coal of 95 cents per ton because of the increase in the wages of miners, which, if report is correct, amounts to about 50 cents per week. The people who were unable to secure coal where they had complied with all the requirements of the Fuel Administration months ago must now pay 95 cents more per ton. This will take millions out of the pockests of the poor people of this city.

"The people look to me as Mayor to be sufficiently interested in their welfare to be prepared in the case of an emergency to assist them. Unless I know the actual conditions, I will not be in a position to advise or help them. It is my plain duty to the people of this city to guard and protect their interests, as far s it lies within my power, and I cannot see what objection there is to the Mayor knowing the actual conditions of the coal supply in this city. There is no intention on my part to in any way embarrass or interfere with the Fuel Administration work in this city."

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, and Major Herbert C. Earnshaw, Commandant of the Students' Army Training Camp there, will be the speakers tonight at the annual meeting of the Columbia College Alumni Association, to be held in the Columbia University Club at 4 West Forty-third Street. The war activities of the college will be the subject.

Announcement was made yesterday of the organization of the National Committee in the United States for the Restoration of the University of Louvain, with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University as chairman. The committee includes fifty of the leading public men of the United States, heads of American universities, financiers, educators and publicists and diplomats. Among the members are the two former Presidents, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. The secretary's office where those desiring to aid in the restoration of the great Belgian university may send books is established at the J. Pierpont Morgan library in this city.

"The wanton destruction of the ancient and celebrated University Halls of Louvain, including the treasures of its splendid library, has evoked the unanimous indignation of the entire civilized world," says the announcement of the committee. "This application, after the sacrilegious invasion of Belgium, of the policy of monstrous terrorization by which it was planned that Kultur should be substituted for European culture, developed through the ages, is to receive universal condemnation by the restoration of the university. Founded in 1425, the University of Louvain has for five centuries been an international centre of science and learning, attended by students from all nations." National committees are being organized in all the leading nations, to co-operate with the International Committee for the Restoration of the University of Louvain.

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1. 500 shares of the capital stock of the Kaffee Hag Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, of the par value of $100 each.

2. The complete apparatus and factory equipment belonging to Kaffee Handels Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation of Bremen, organized until the laws of Germany, now installed on the premises of Messrs. E. R. Squibb & Sons, New Brunswick, New Jersey, for the extracting, drying, roasting and sorting of coffee and for the refining of caffeine, including 1 Oldsmobile 1918 Model 5-passenger automobile and office furniture and fixtures.

3. About 34,836 pounds raw green coffee, about 63,145 pounds unroasted, caffeine-freed coffee, about 6,691 gallons C.P. Benzol, and a Lot of packing materials, cartons and labels as more accurately inventoried immediately prior to the sale.

4. The claims of indebtedness and accounts receivable of the Kaffee Handels Akiengesellschaft, a corporation of Bremen, organized under the laws of Germany, not including cash on hand and money owing by, or on deposit with, banks and/or trust companies, against the Kaffee Hag Corporation, and other debtors, residing or doing business in the United States.

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b) A contract between the Kaffee Handels Aktiengesellschaft and Messrs. E. R. Squibb & Sons, dated May, 26th, 1914.

c) Another contract between the Kaffee Handels Aktiengesellschaft and Messrs. E. R. Squibb & Sons, dated May 26th, 1916.

6) All the right, title and interest of the Kaffee Handels Aktiengesellschaft in and to the following Letters Patent of the United States:

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JOSEPH F. GUFFEY, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF SALES, 110 West 42d Street, New York City.

A. MITCHELL PALMER, Alien Property Custodian.

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 injured young woman has experienced from the most abandoned of men: Crimes like his cannot go unpunished, and it shall not be my fault if the world does not brand him as a villain. I bow with reverence to that Being, whose benign hand conducted us to the spot where the late unfortunate Mr. Hautweitzer breathed his last sigh; had it pleased Heaven to have prolonged his existence to this hour, that he might have seen his child under my protection, the last pang of nature had been stripped of half its terrors; but to regret is useless, it is our duty to think all is as it should be. To-morrow we propose to leave this place; our poor invalid thinks she is capable of taking the journey. This morning her worthy father was consigned to the grave; I trust he exists in happier regions.

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 generous humane feelings. You know my address; I again repeat my wishes to see you and your friend; if this lays not in the chapter of possibilities at present, I request to hear from you.

"Remember, young man, that you have opened a fresh account; once more I feel an esteem, and place a confidence on a slender knowledge: Old age ought to be wary and circumspect, particularly when deception has so lately wounded an unsuspecting heart; but I have not learned the ungenerous maxims of the world, nor, because I have unfortunately been deceived by a worthless wretch, suspect each man to be a villain.—You, I hope, will justify my candour, and when I tell you that you possess my regards, will, by your subsequent conduct, give me credit with myself for my discernment.

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 unhappy: But if the cause originates from no vice or folly of your own, take comfort, all may yet be well. My respects to your friend, I know him only by name, that speaks in his favour; I should be glad to know more of him. My daughter desires her compliments: Louisa scarcely remembers having seen you, but she is grateful for your attentions. Adieu, my young friend, remember my claims upon you. "

This letter was very gratifying to Ferdinand; but he looked it hastily over, being impatient to read the story of Louisa, which was thus prefaced:

"By permission of her friend, and at the request of her father, Miss D'Alenberg sends this transcript of Louisa's misfortunes, in her own words, to Mr. Ferdinand Renaud."


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father was descended from a younger branch of a Noble family: He lost his parents before he attained the age of manhood, and found his commission all his patrimony, and his sword his only friend. He conducted himself so properly in the management of both, that a Captain's commission was his reward at the age of two and twenty.


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 lustily, but in a professional manner, beats a drum. This prevents the soul from bolting again, and tends to frighten it into the patient.

In some obstinate cases of loss of dream-soul, however, the most experienced medical man will fail to get the fresh soul inserted. It clings to his fingers, it whisks back into the basket or into his hair or clothes, and it chirrups dismally, and the patient becomes convulsed. This is a grave symptom, but the diagnosis is quite clear. The patient has got a sisa in him, so there is no room for the fresh soul.

Now, a sisa is a dreadful bad thing for a man to have in him, and an expensive thing to get out. It is the surviving soul of a person who has not been properly buried—not had his devil made, in fact. And as every human surviving soul has a certain allotted time of existence in a human body before it can learn the dark and difficult way down to Srahmandazi, if by mischance the body gets killed off before the time is up, that soul, unless properly buried and sent on the way to Srahmandazi, or any other Hades, under expert instruction given as to the path for the dead, becomes a sisa, and has to hang about for the remaining years of its term of bodily life.

These ensisa are held to be so wretchedly uncomfortable in this state that their tempers become perfect wrecks, and they grow utterly malignant, continually trying to get into a human body, so as to finish their term more comfortably. Now, a sisa's chief chance of getting into a body is in whipping in when there is a hole in a man's soul chamber, from the absence of his own dream-soul. If a sisa were a quiet, respectable soul that would settle down, it would not matter much, for the dream-soul it supplants is not of much account. But a sisa is not.

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Works

 * A Dictionary Persian, Arabic and English (1852)
 * Hitopadesa (1880)

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 At the best, it would only live out its remaining term, and then go off the moment that term was up, and most likely kill the souls it had been sheltering with by bolting at an inconvenient moment. This was the verdict given on the death of a man I knew who, from what you would call faintness, fell down in a swamp and was suffocated. Inconvenient as this is, the far greater danger you are exposed to by having a sisa in you lies in the chances being 10 to 1 that it is stained with blood, for, without being hard on these unfortunate unburied souls, I may remark that respectable souls usually get respectably buried, and so don't become ensisa. This blood which is upon it the devils that are around smell and go for, as is the nature of devils; and these devils whip in after the sisa soul into his host in squads, and the man with such a set inside him is naturally very ill—convulsions, delirium, high temperature, &c., and the indications to your true witch doctor are that that sisa must be extracted before a new dream-soul can be inserted and the man recover.

But getting out a sisa is a most trying operation. Not only does it necessitate a witch doctor sending in his power to fetch it vi et armis, it also places the medical man in a position of grave responsibility regarding its disposal when secured. The methods he employs to meet this may be regarded as akin to those of antiseptic surgery. All the people in the village, particularly babies and old people—people whose souls are delicate—must be kept awake during the operation, and have a piece of cloth over the nose and mouth, and every one must howl so as to scare the sisa off them, if by mischance it should escape from the witch doctor. An efficient practitioner, I may remark, thinks it a great disgrace to allow a sisa to escape from him; and

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USAID supports the Government of Mexico’s development and climate priorities through a series of programs and partnerships promoting energy efficiency and natural climate solutions.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Energy efficiency measures are often among the most cost-effective ways to reduce GHG emissions in Mexico. USAID is planning to support energy efficiency collaboration at the subnational level with counterparts in city and state governments and the private sector to reduce energy consumption and cost. USAID, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory System, plans to partner with subnational groups on commercial and municipal building efficiency. USAID will also explore scaling up renewable energy technical assistance and technologies in partnership with U.S. and Mexican companies, as well as subnational governments.

NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

USAID supports Mexico’s goal to achieve net-zero deforestation by 2030 through initiatives that enhance transparency and use market based solutions to reduce deforestation and land degradation. USAID's support includes partnering with the private sector and key communities to promote sustainable value chains and working with the Government of Mexico to improve forest management systems to reduce illegal logging.

RESULTS

 * Mexico’s programs to implement natural climate solutions reduced an estimated 500,000 tons of CO2 equivalent in Fiscal Year 2020, the equivalent of taking around 100,000 passenger cars off the road for one year.

 * USAID supports the development of the country’s first-ever stock instrument to be listed on the Mexican stock exchange that will raise funds from institutional investors looking to decarbonize their portfolios by supporting sustainable value chains.

 * Programs promoting natural climate solutions are leveraging $14 million in private sector investment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

 * The new Sustainable Landscapes Ventures activity aims to unlock $30 million of additional mobilized funds toward natural climate solutions in targeted landscapes.

KEY PROGRAMS

 * Sustainable Landscapes Ventures (Conservation International Foundation): $10m (USAID; Anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds)/ $2m (leveraged funds), 2020-2025. This activity will mobilize investment capital to enable smallholder farmers to implement solutions that reduce deforestation, forest degradation and grow local economies. Interventions will help targeted regions overcome financial barriers and catalyze commercial investments in sustainable supply chains that USAID.GOV


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 preserve forests and improve livelihoods.

 * Alliance for Sustainable Landscape and Markets (Rainforest Alliance): $4.1m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.7m (leveraged funds), 2018-2022. This activity aims to increase the profitability and competitiveness of community-led sustainable farm and forestry businesses by improving sustainable production practices in agroforestry and forestlands by assisting in developing partnerships with the public and private sectors for sustainable sourcing.

 * Sustainable Management of Community Lands II (Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible): $4.2m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.2m (leveraged funds), 2018-2023. This activity supports improved management of community forests, increasing the economic viability of community-based forest enterprises, and reducing deforestation and forest degradation in the states of Campeche, Estado de Mexico, and Quintana Roo.

 * Applying the “LandScale Assessment Framework” in Mexico (Rainforest Alliance): $1.3m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $1.25m (leveraged funds), 2019 2023. The purpose of the activity is to test the LandScale Assessment Framework’s effectiveness as a tool to catalyze multi-stakeholder planning and coordinated action in one landscape in Jalisco to reduce deforestation. The LandScale Assessment Framework provides a standardized approach for monitoring, verifying, and communicating sustainability status and trends at the landscape level and creating corresponding incentives for land-users and companies to adopt forest-friendly practices.

 * Improve Livelihoods through the Recognition of Standing Forest Value using Market Mechanisms (Pronatura Mexico): $4.1m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.1m (leveraged funds), 2019-2024. By applying the Climate Action Reserve’s forest carbon protocol, the activity will certify 202,000 hectares in different states, including in Oaxaca, Aguascalientes, Veracruz, and the state of Mexico. Work is divided into three components: (1) generation of carbon credits, (2) public policy and market strengthening, and (3) organizational capacity strengthening.

 * Sustainable Landscapes and Forest Transparency Activity (U.S. Forest Service): $5.5m - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds, 2019-2023. USAID, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, builds the capacity of the Government of Mexico in forest management and governance by implementing a robust and transparent national forest inventory and monitoring system to improve decision making and forest management, strengthening Mexico’s forest management system to improve the transparency and legality of raw materials and forest products, improve sustainable land management, and reduce illegal logging and improve sustainable natural resource management practices at the community level. USAID.GOV


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 such an accident would be a grave blow to his practice, for people would not care to call in a man who was liable to have this occur. However, our present medical man having got the sisa out, he has still to deal with the question of its disposal before he can do anything more. The assistant blows a new dream soul into the patient, and his women see to him; but the witch doctor just holds on to the sisa like a bulldog.

Sometimes the disposal of the sisa has been decided on prior to its extraction. If the patient's family are sufficiently well off, they agree to pay the doctor enough to enable him to teach the sisa the way to Hades. Indeed, this is the course respectable medical men always insist on although it is expensive to the patient's family. But there are, I regret to say, a good many unprincipled witch doctors about who will undertake a case cheap.

They will carry off with them the extracted sisa for a small fee, then shortly afterwards a baby in the village goes off in tetanic convulsions. No one takes much notice of that, because it's a way babies have. Soon another baby is born in the same family—polygamy being prevalent, the event may occur after a short interval—well, after giving the usual anxiety and expense, that baby goes off in convulsions. Suspicion is aroused. Presently yet another baby appears in the family, keeps all right for a week may be, and then also goes off in convulsions. Suspicions are confirmed. The worm—the father, I mean—turns, and he takes the body of that third baby and smashes one of its leg bones before it is thrown away into the bush; for he knows he has got a wanderer soul—namely, a sisa, which some unprincipled practitioner has sent into his family. He just breaks the leg so as to warn the soul he is

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 not a man to be trifled with, and will not have his family kept in a state of perpetual uproar and expense. It sometimes happens, however, in spite of this that, when his fourth baby arrives, that too goes off in convulsions. Thoroughly roused now, paterfamilias sternly takes a chopper and chops that infant's remains up extremely small, and it is scattered broadcast. Then he holds he has eliminated that sisa from his family finally.

I am informed, however, that the fourth baby to arrive in a family afflicted by a sisa does not usually go off in convulsions, but that fairly frequently it is born lame, which shows that it is that wanderer soul back with its damaged leg. It is not treated unkindly but not taken much care of, and so rarely lives many years—from the fetish point of view, of course, only those years remaining of its term of bodily life out of which some witchcraft of man or some vengeance of a god cheated it.

If I mention the facts that when a man wakes up in the morning feeling very stiff and with "that tired feeling" you see mentioned in advertisements in the newspapers, he holds that it arises from his own dream-soul having been out fighting and got itself bruised; and that if he wakes up in a fright, he will jump up and fire off his gun, holding that a pack of rag tag devils have been chasing his soul home and wishing to scare them off, I think I may leave the complaints of the dream-soul connected with physic and pass on to those connected with surgery.

Now, devoted as I am to my West African friends, I am bound in the interests of Truth to say that many of them are sadly unprincipled. There are many witches, not witch doctors, remember, who make it a constant practice to set traps for dream-souls. Witches you will find from

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Global climate action is critical to sustainable development. The United States for International Development (USAID) works with our partners to accelerate equitable, resilient, and ambitious actions to address the climate crisis. In Tanzania, USAID prioritizes climate change programming across its portfolio. The governments of the United States and Tanzania address the drivers of climate change through mitigation and using adaptation to protect people and ecosystems from climate change impacts. From deforestation mitigation to food and water security, to livelihood adaptation strategies, USAID works with government and local partners to include development goals with climate smart actions.

Ongoing Activities

USAID’s Natural Resource Management portfolio integrates climate mitigation and adaptation activities as part of their execution of biodiversity protection conservation goals. Climate change threatens biodiversity through the accelerated loss and fragmentation of habitat and ecosystems. The protection of biodiversity necessarily increases resilience of ecosystems to climate change impacts in the following ways:

 * Land-use planning helps reduce deforestation. This reduces land-based carbon emissions, and conserves upstream forested watersheds and the water they provide. Land-use planning also preserves biodiversity which is key to adaptation and community resilience. Local land-use planning is supported across the USAID natural resource management portfolio in the Kigoma, Rukwa, Singida, Tabora, and Mbeya regions via the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) activity, Southern Highlands, and Ruaha-Katavi Protection Program (SHARPP), and the Usimamizi Endelevu wa Maliasili (“Resilient Natural Resources Governance”) activity. Climate Change - December 20221