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Updated: June 7, 2025
Kappel is on foot betimes next morning. Kappel is Catholic; Warkotsch, Protestant; Herr Gerlach is Protestant preacher in the Village of Schonbrunn, much hated by Warkotsch, whose standing order is: 'Don't go near that insolent fellow; but known by Kappel to be a just man, faithful in difficulties of the weak against the strong.
In regard to Strehlen, and Friedrich's history there, what we have to say turns all upon this Kappel and Warkotsch: and, after mentioning only that Friedrich's lodging is not in Strehlen proper, but in Woiselwitz, a village or suburb almost half a mile off, and very negligently guarded, we have to record an Adventure which then made a great deal of noise in the world.
One of the King's first questions was: 'But how have I offended Warkotsch? Kappel does not know; Master is of strict wilful turn; Master would grumble and growl sometimes about the peasant people, and how a nobleman has now no power over them, in comparison.
The poor man then retired to Cassel, where he lived twenty years longer, and was no more heard of. Ended in this part, without farther event of the least notability; except the following only, which a poor man of the name of Kappel has recorded for us. Of which, and the astounding Sequel to which, we must now say something.
Before bedtime, if indeed the King intended bed at all, meaning to be off in four hours hence, Friedrich inquired of Warkotsch for 'a trusty man, well acquainted with the roads in this Country. Warkotsch mentioned Kappel, his own Groom; one who undoubtedly knew every road of the Country; and who had always behaved as a trusty fellow in the seven years he had been with him.
In order to meet our long-standing commitment to make government as efficient as possible, I believe that we should reorganize our postal system along the lines of the Kappel report. I hope we can all agree that public service should never impose an unreasonable financial sacrifice on able men and women who want to serve their country.
Speaking of that very dike of West Kappel," added the professor, pointing to its long, inclined escarpment, "it is said if it had been originally built of solid copper, the prime cost would have been less than the amount which has since been expended upon it in building, rebuilding, restoring, and repairing it. But the money spent on dikes is the salvation of Holland.
The embankments which protect the islands of Zealand are over three hundred miles in length in the aggregate, and involve an annual expense of two millions of guilders more than eight hundred thousand dollars in repairs. "The great dike of West Kappel is there," said the pilot to Captain Kendall, as he pointed to the land on the northern shore of the estuary. "I don't see anything," replied Paul.
Stoute, after the pilot had assured him that the steeples seen in the interior of the island were those of Middleburg. "Though the sea is as diligently watched as the advance-guard of an invading army, the great dike of West Kappel broke through, and a large part of the island was under water.
The first armed collision, half political and half religious, between the Swiss Protestants and Catholics took place at Kappel in 1531, and Zwingli fell in the battle. The various cantons and towns never came to an agreement in religious matters, and Switzerland is still part Catholic and part Protestant.
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