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ST. CATHERINE’S CENTER FOR CHILDREN
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
and
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
and
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT
CONTENTS
Page
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Functional Expenses 11
Functional Expenses as Presented in New York State Cost Reports 12
BOLLAM, SHEEDY, TORANI & CO. LLP
Certified Public Accountants
Albany, New York
Board of Directors
St. Catherine’s Center for Children
Albany, New York
We have audited the accompanying statement of financial position of St. Catherine’s Center for Children (a New
York not-for-profit corporation) as of June 30, 2010, and the related statements of activities and cash flows for the year then
ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of St. Catherine’s Center for Children’s management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. The prior year summarized
comparative information has been derived from St. Catherine’s Center for Children’s June 30, 2009, financial statements
and, in our report dated August 21, 2009, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts
and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe our audit
provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of St. Catherine’s Center for Children as of June 30, 2010, and the change in its net assets and its cash flows for the
year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole.
The supplemental information presented on pages 11 and 12 is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a
required part of the basic financial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the
audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic
financial statements taken as a whole.
ASSETS
Cash $ 178,026 $ 159,455
Accounts receivable, net 1,599,548 1,620,781
Prepaid expenses 57,080 18,635
Due from related party - 33,502
Interest in net assets of The Foundation of St. Catherine's
Center for Children 482,347 439,688
Land, buildings, and equipment, net 2,112,173 2,236,634
LIABILITIES
Lines-of-credit $ 628,753 $ 390,329
Accounts payable, trade 273,358 390,026
Accounts payable, related parties 4,442 11,545
Accrued expenses 592,833 781,977
Deferred revenue 103,958 22,267
Due to funding sources - 6,974
Long-term debt 154,386 168,122
1,757,730 1,771,240
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted 2,164,942 2,270,254
Unrestricted, Board designated - 3,565
2,164,942 2,273,819
Temporarily restricted 506,502 463,636
2,671,444 2,737,455
The accompanying Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
EXPENSES
Program services
Group residence 1,407,450 - - 1,407,450 1,340,125
Copson 2,334,124 - - 2,334,124 2,496,190
Foster care 392,413 - - 392,413 376,267
Group home 563,853 - - 563,853 694,124
Medical 539,590 - - 539,590 666,110
Special education 2,447,903 - - 2,447,903 2,856,811
Clinic 589,080 - - 589,080 603,885
Family based treatment 383,271 - - 383,271 384,849
Prevention 666,879 - - 666,879 788,768
Transitional housing 1,144,337 - - 1,144,337 1,027,677
Community based services 407,710 - - 407,710 300,202
231 Sherman Street 141,777 - - 141,777 151,181
Access and visitation 46,549 - - 46,549 59,930
Total program services 11,064,936 - - 11,064,936 11,746,119
Management and general 1,469,499 - - 1,469,499 1,408,272
Bad debts, net - - - - 7,967
Total expenses 12,534,435 - - 12,534,435 13,162,358
The accompanying Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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The accompanying Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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a. Description of Organization
St. Catherine’s Center for Children (Center) is a private not-for-profit corporation operated under the auspices of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany (Diocese). The Center provides a variety of residential, community, and school
based programs for children and families directed toward the prevention of personal and family dysfunction. Included
are services to assess and treat children with mental illness, as well as education and support for parents of these children.
The Center offers a comprehensive visitation program for non-custodial parents coordinated with Albany County Family
Court. In addition to providing a special education program for children ages five to twelve with social, emotional,
and/or intellectual developmental conditions, the Center offers residential programs such as group care housing,
specialized foster families for children, shelters for homeless families, and other educational programs.
A summary of the significant accounting policies consistently applied in the preparation of the accompanying financial
statements follows.
b. Accounting Method
On June 30, 2010, the Center adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards
Codification (ASC). The ASC is an aggregation of previously issued authoritative accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) in one comprehensive set of guidance organized by subject area. In
accordance with the ASC, references to previously issued accounting standards have been replaced by ASC references.
Subsequent revisions to GAAP will be incorporated into the ASC through Accounting Standards Updates.
In preparing financial statements in conformity with GAAP, management is required to make estimates and assumptions
that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the
financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could
differ from those estimates.
The Center reports certain assets at fair value. Fair value is defined as an exchange price that would be received for an
asset or paid to transfer a liability (an “exit” price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability
between market participants on the measurement date.
d. Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are carried at original invoice amount less an estimate made for doubtful receivables based on a
review of all outstanding amounts on a monthly basis. Management determines the allowance for doubtful accounts by
regularly evaluating individual customer receivables and considering a customer’s financial condition, credit history, and
current economic conditions. The allowance for doubtful accounts was $45,000 at June 30, 2010. Accounts receivable
are written off when deemed uncollectible. Recoveries of accounts receivable previously written off are recorded when
received.
An account receivable is considered to be past due if any portion of the receivable balance is outstanding for more than
90 days. Interest is not charged on outstanding accounts receivable.
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Acquisition of land, buildings, and equipment and expenditures, which materially change capacities or extend useful lives
are reported at cost, net of accumulated depreciation. Routine maintenance and repairs and minor replacement costs are
charged to expense as incurred. When buildings and equipment are retired or otherwise disposed of, the appropriate
accounts are relieved of costs and accumulated depreciation, and any resultant gain or loss is included in the Center’s
change in net assets.
Depreciation is provided for in amounts to relate the cost of depreciable assets to expenses over their estimated useful
lives on the straight-line method. The estimated lives used in determining depreciation vary from three to fifty years.
Long-lived assets to be held and used are tested for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate
that the related carrying amount may not be recoverable. When required, impairment losses on assets to be held and used
are recognized based on the excess of the asset’s carrying amount over the fair value of the asset. Certain long-lived
assets to be disposed of by sale are reported at the lower of carrying amounts of fair value less cost to sell.
Support is reported as an increase in temporarily or permanently restricted net assets depending on the nature of the
restriction. When a restriction expires, temporarily restricted net assets are reclassified to unrestricted net assets. The
Center had no permanently restricted net assets as of June 30, 2010.
g. Tax Status
The Center is exempt from income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of Internal Revenue Code and comparable New York
State law. Contributions to it are tax deductible within the limitations prescribed by the Code. The Center has been
classified as a publicly supported organization, which is not a private foundation under Section 509(a) of the Code. This
exemption from taxes is under the terms of an annual group ruling granted to the United States Catholic Conference.
Management evaluated the Center’s tax positions, including that the Center is exempt from taxes and not subject to
income taxes on unrelated business income, and concluded that the Center had taken no tax positions that required
adjustment in its financial statements.
Forms 990 filed by the Center are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service up to three years from the
extended due date of each return. Forms 990 filed by the Center are no longer subject to examination for the fiscal years
ended June 30, 2006, and prior.
h. Subsequent Events
In preparing the financial statements and notes thereto, the Center has considered subsequent events through August 26,
2010, the date the financial statements were issued.
The financial statements include certain prior year summarized comparative information in total but not by net asset class.
Such information does not include sufficient detail to constitute a presentation in conformity with (GAAP).
Accordingly, such information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements for the year ended June 30,
2009, from which the summarized information was derived.
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June 30,
2010
NOTE 3 - INTEREST IN NET ASSETS OF THE FOUNDATION OF ST. CATHERINE’S CENTER FOR CHILDREN
a. Net Assets
The Foundation of St. Catherine’s Center for Children (Foundation) was organized to engage in activities to promote the
purposes, goals, and objectives of the Center to solicit contributions to carry out those purposes. The Center is required
to report its ongoing economic interest in the net assets of the Foundation. Each year the change in this interest is
reported in the statement of activities.
Liabilities $ 912
Year Ended
June 30, 2010
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NOTE 3 - INTEREST IN NET ASSETS OF THE FOUNDATION OF ST. CATHERINE’S CENTER FOR CHILDREN
- Continued
b. Service Agreement
The Center has an agreement with the Foundation to provide personnel, office space, and certain administrative services
to the Foundation. The agreement is renewable on an annual basis. Reimbursement for these services totaled $85,854
during the year ended June 30, 2010. The Center received unrestricted contributions totaling $48,523. In addition, the
Center received temporarily restricted contributions totaling $49,275, which were used in the Center’s program services
in accordance with the donors’ wishes.
NOTE 4 - LINES-OF-CREDIT
The Center has available a $1,300,000 line-of-credit with First Niagara Bank, of which $628,753 was outstanding at June
30, 2010. The line-of-credit expires December 1, 2010, and is secured by accounts receivable. Interest is charged at the
bank’s prime rate with a floor of 4.0% (4.0% at June 30, 2010) or the three-month LIBOR rate plus 2.5%, with a floor of
4.0% (4.0% at June 30, 2010) at the election of management. The Center is required to maintain a zero balance for 30
consecutive days during the loan year.
The Center also has a $250,000 equipment line-of-credit with First Niagara Bank, of which $148,121 is available at June
30, 2010. The line-of-credit expires December 1, 2010, and is collateralized by the related equipment purchased. Interest
is charged at the bank’s prime rate plus .25% with a floor of 4.0% (4% at June 30, 2010) or at the Federal Home Loan
Bank rate plus 2.25% (4.0% at June 30, 2010) at the election of management. Any outstanding amounts on the line-of-
credit are converted, at the time of the advance, to a term loan with payment periods not to exceed sixty months at the
election of management (Note 5).
$ 154,386
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$ 154,386
$ 506,502
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a. Leases - Continued
The Center leases program space at 401 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York, from St. Teresa of Avila Church, a
related party. The lease required payments of $6,438. The lease expires during November 2012. The Center has one
additional five-year renewal option, with monthly rental payments of $6,631. Rent expense on this lease was $77,250 for
the year ended June 30, 2010.
The Center leased program space at 994 Madison Avenue, Albany, New York, from the Church of St. Vincent DePaul, a
related party. The lease required monthly payments of $1,320 during the first year increasing to $1,358 during the
second year, to $1,400 in the final year. The lease was set to expire March 31, 2010. During July 2009, the Center
vacated this property. Rent expense on this lease was $1,400 for the year ended June 30, 2010.
A summary of the Center’s future annual minimum rental payments due under the terms of its operating leases is as
follows:
$ 268,486
The Center maintains cash balances in several financial institutions located in the Northeast. Accounts at each institution
are insured, up to certain limits, by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). At times, the Center has bank
deposits in excess of amounts insured by the FDIC.
c. Significant Concentration
Approximately 53% of the Center’s total revenue and other support was derived from three funding sources. Accounts
receivable due from these payers was approximately $856,000 at June 30, 2010. No other funding source accounted for
more than 10% of the Center’s total revenue and other support.
d. Funding Sources
The Center is subject to audits and reviews of reimbursable costs by various governmental agencies. The outcome of
these audits and reviews may have the effect of retroactively increasing or decreasing daily rates charged for various
services. These charges, if any, will be recognized in accordance with the rules and guidelines established by the various
funding sources.
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Salaries and wages $ 997,609 $ 1,643,678 $ 111,200 $ 391,271 $ 144,604 $ 1,806,487 $ 379,554 $ 159,615 $ 482,181 $ 691,007 $ 276,498 $ 93,190 $ 32,986 $ 7,209,880 $ 901,989 $ 8,111,869 $ 8,489,808
Payroll taxes, fringe benefits,
vacation accrual 209,202 322,396 23,126 76,835 29,080 322,169 65,352 27,946 83,387 138,311 57,170 17,072 12,804 1,384,850 176,387 1,561,237 1,582,416
Transportation and worker expense 10,220 27,003 23,213 4,270 3,583 2,675 638 6,940 33,688 10,164 6,622 2,193 - 131,209 687 131,896 119,904
Children's activities/program supplies 28,104 47,931 4,864 13,536 279 35,532 4,931 2,068 4,464 14,850 22,849 2,029 - 181,437 4,250 185,687 260,364
Purchase of services 2,215 4,265 746 850 390 19,467 440 761 715 64,299 5,471 65 130 99,814 86,089 185,903 136,108
Purchase of health services - - - - 140,690 5,275 73,625 20,400 8,820 - - - - 248,810 - 248,810 280,525
Food 30,452 49,944 - 14,828 - 63,129 77 - - 44 - - - 158,474 - 158,474 203,805
Clothing 12,401 20,773 987 6,225 - - - 10,359 - 1,217 - 456 - 52,418 - 52,418 60,094
Bedding/linen/uniforms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Supplies and equipment 13,836 25,053 5,229 8,666 302 18,121 4,428 2,828 319 39,558 - 3,043 - 121,383 43 121,426 97,490
Supplies and equipment, medical - - - - 171,989 - 6,286 - - - - - - 178,275 - 178,275 261,034
Rent, occupancy 5,846 75,470 1,007 2,061 - 1,088 1,306 972 24,702 326 7,305 - 154 120,237 42,343 162,580 178,596
Rent, equipment and fixtures 2,223 3,151 917 1,962 165 3,073 544 1,040 713 2,315 333 66 2 16,504 1,655 18,159 14,208
Utilities 18,269 12,124 2,509 8,056 4,197 34,801 8,573 2,509 - 61,918 - 5,174 - 158,130 - 158,130 172,927
Repairs and maintenance, plant 13,066 13,635 6,280 3,012 7,638 27,181 7,516 6,280 11 23,080 - 3,875 - 111,574 5,987 117,561 100,517
Repairs and maintenance, equipment - - - - - 459 - - - - - - - 459 - 459 1,771
Repairs and maintenance, vehicles 4,841 13,998 1,149 3,600 228 2,018 1,218 55 3,054 5,183 6,423 2,249 - 44,016 - 44,016 38,317
Telephone and telegraph 13,527 13,593 3,128 6,106 7,421 13,115 7,868 3,072 8,829 12,309 6,308 4,020 473 99,769 19,128 118,897 115,936
Postage - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16,343 16,343 13,796
Dues/licenses/permits 204 752 337 533 - 241 253 936 169 278 385 147 - 4,235 36,032 40,267 43,040
Office supplies 3,270 5,751 100 1,908 2,793 10,281 2,863 100 4,334 7,102 603 380 - 39,485 21,040 60,525 115,985
Subscriptions/publications - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 176 176 42
Conference expense - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,093 1,093 5,160
Administrative 199 417 897 136 1,063 11,534 441 1,210 775 3,314 2,008 - - 21,994 7,197 29,191 38,821
Staff development 1,761 3,155 947 801 267 9,502 1,296 1,059 2,645 1,069 213 1,028 - 23,743 4,691 28,434 45,259
Publicity - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18,048 18,048 16,664
Grant expense - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Audit/legal and advisory 15,310 21,478 - 6,126 - 4,322 3,878 - 1,175 140 - - - 52,429 76,964 129,393 102,980
Insurance 6,099 6,882 1,401 4,387 1,728 8,968 3,130 358 1,878 31,714 3,532 645 - 70,722 2,444 73,166 76,750
Interest 1,082 1,044 590 294 - 979 502 29 752 2,360 1,695 541 - 9,868 38,129 47,997 43,947
Boarding home payments - - 187,699 - - - - 130,184 - - - - - 317,883 - 317,883 301,748
Clothing/activity/special payments - - 8,774 - - - - - - - - - - 8,774 - 8,774 16,046
Replace reserve/amortization 602 16,659 - 288 - - - - - 9,931 - - - 27,480 524 28,004 27,719
Total expenses before depreciation 1,390,338 2,329,152 385,100 555,751 516,417 2,400,417 574,719 378,721 662,611 1,120,489 397,415 136,173 46,549 10,893,852 1,461,239 12,355,091 12,961,777
Depreciation, buildings 10,001 280 4,393 7,300 11,666 42,269 11,580 4,393 - 5,983 - 1,082 - 98,947 1,717 100,664 99,608
Depreciation, equipment 405 1,011 - 268 8,917 1,851 1,703 - - 8,563 - 503 - 23,221 6,543 29,764 34,405
Depreciation, vehicles 6,706 3,681 2,920 534 2,590 3,366 1,078 157 4,268 9,302 10,295 4,019 - 48,916 - 48,916 58,601
Total expenses $ 1,407,450 $ 2,334,124 $ 392,413 $ 563,853 $ 539,590 $ 2,447,903 $ 589,080 $ 383,271 $ 666,879 $ 1,144,337 $ 407,710 $ 141,777 $ 46,549 $ 11,064,936 $ 1,469,499 $ 12,534,435 $ 13,154,391
Family Community
Group Foster Group Special Based Transitional 231 Based Access and 2010 2009
Residence Copson Care Home Medical Education Clinic Treatment Prevention Housing Sherman St. Services Visitation Totals Totals
Salaries and wages $ 1,115,518 $ 1,832,782 $ 143,657 $ 437,723 $ 188,350 $ 2,006,363 $ 427,137 $ 191,288 $ 531,816 $ 782,488 $ 104,549 $ 309,905 $ 40,293 $ 8,111,869 $ 8,489,808
Payroll taxes, fringe benefits, -
vacation accrual 231,975 359,278 29,437 85,894 37,604 361,683 74,783 34,181 93,134 156,109 19,308 63,630 14,221 1,561,237 1,582,416
Transportation and worker expense 10,310 27,148 22,457 4,305 3,616 2,829 674 7,008 33,726 10,630 2,202 6,985 6 131,896 119,904
Children's activities/program supplies 28,655 48,823 5,126 13,754 486 35,075 6,572 2,219 4,698 15,262 2,083 22,899 35 185,687 260,364
Purchase of services 13,447 22,341 3,839 5,290 4,629 38,834 5,133 3,817 5,482 71,603 1,161 9,496 831 185,903 136,108
Purchase of health services - - - - 140,690 5,275 73,625 20,400 8,820 - - - - 248,810 280,525
Food 30,452 49,944 - 14,828 - 63,129 77 - - 44 - - - 158,474 203,805
Clothing 12,401 20,773 2,806 6,226 - - - 9,541 - 671 - - - 52,418 60,094
Bedding/linen/uniforms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Supplies and equipment 13,842 25,062 6,024 8,668 304 18,131 4,431 1,034 321 40,108 3,499 2 - 121,426 97,490
Supplies and equipment, medical - - - - 171,989 - 6,286 - - - - - - 178,275 261,034
Rent, occupancy 11,336 84,360 2,528 4,245 2,055 10,614 3,580 2,475 27,046 4,424 539 8,879 499 162,580 178,596
Rent, equipment and fixtures 2,438 3,498 976 2,048 276 3,445 633 1,099 804 2,444 88 394 16 18,159 14,208
Utilities 18,269 12,124 2,509 8,057 4,198 34,801 8,573 2,509 - 61,916 5,174 - - 158,130 172,927
Repairs and maintenance, plant 13,842 14,894 6,495 3,320 7,897 28,528 7,837 6,492 342 23,692 3,951 222 49 117,561 100,517
Repairs and maintenance, equipment - - - - - 459 - - - - - - - 459 1,771
Repairs and maintenance, vehicles 4,841 13,998 1,932 3,600 228 2,018 1,218 11 3,054 4,783 2,249 6,084 - 44,016 38,317
Telephone and telegraph 16,007 17,609 3,815 7,094 8,349 17,417 8,895 3,752 9,888 14,162 4,261 7,019 629 118,897 115,936
Postage 2,119 3,432 587 843 793 3,677 878 580 905 1,582 207 607 133 16,343 13,796
Dues/licenses/permits 4,875 8,318 1,632 2,390 1,749 8,347 2,188 2,215 2,164 3,767 606 1,723 293 40,267 43,040
Office supplies 5,998 10,168 852 2,993 3,814 15,014 3,993 852 5,499 9,138 647 1,385 172 60,525 115,985
Subscriptions/publications 23 37 6 9 9 40 9 6 10 17 2 7 1 176 42
Conference expense 142 230 39 56 53 246 59 39 61 106 14 41 7 1,093 5,160
Administrative 1,065 1,932 1,157 509 1,414 13,158 759 1,466 1,175 4,130 92 2,276 58 29,191 38,821
Staff development 2,369 4,140 1,115 1,043 495 10,557 1,548 1,226 2,905 1,523 1,088 387 38 28,434 45,259
Publicity 2,340 3,790 649 931 876 4,060 969 641 999 1,747 230 670 146 18,048 16,664
Grant expense - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Audit/legal and advisory 25,288 37,638 2,766 10,095 3,735 21,636 8,010 2,732 5,437 7,590 980 2,859 627 129,393 102,980
Insurance 6,416 7,395 1,488 4,514 1,848 9,518 3,261 444 2,014 31,951 676 3,622 19 73,166 76,750
Interest 6,026 9,050 1,960 2,261 1,850 9,567 2,549 1,383 2,863 6,040 1,026 3,111 311 47,997 43,947
Boarding home payments - - 187,699 - - - - 130,184 - - - - - 317,883 301,748
Clothing/activity/special payments - - 8,774 - - - - - - - - - - 8,774 16,046
Replace reserve/amortization 670 16,769 19 315 25 118 28 19 29 9,981 7 19 5 28,004 27,719
Total expenses before depreciation 1,580,664 2,635,533 440,344 631,011 587,332 2,724,539 653,705 427,613 743,192 1,265,908 154,639 452,222 58,389 12,355,091 12,961,777
Depreciation, buildings 10,224 641 4,454 7,389 11,751 42,654 11,672 4,454 95 6,149 1,104 64 14 100,664 99,608
Depreciation, equipment 1,253 2,385 235 606 9,234 3,323 2,054 232 362 9,197 586 243 53 29,764 34,405
Depreciation, vehicles 6,706 3,681 2,920 534 2,590 3,366 1,078 157 4,268 9,302 4,019 10,295 - 48,916 58,601
Total expenses $ 1,598,847 $ 2,642,240 $ 447,953 $ 639,540 $ 610,907 $ 2,773,882 $ 668,509 $ 432,456 $ 747,917 $ 1,290,556 $ 160,348 $ 462,824 $ 58,456 $ 12,534,435 $ 13,154,391
Do not trust thy body with a physician. He’ll make thy foolish
bones go without flesh in a fortnight, and thy soul walk without a
body in a se’nnight after.
Shirley.
YOU must know, gentlemen, that there lived some years ago, in the
city of Périgueux, an honest notary public, the descendant of a very
ancient and broken-down family, and the occupant of one of those
old weather-beaten tenements which remind you of the times of your
great-grandfather. He was a man of an unoffending, quiet
disposition; the father of a family, though not the head of it—for in
that family “the hen overcrowed the cock,” and the neighbors, when
they spake of the notary, shrugged their shoulders, and exclaimed,
“Poor fellow! his spurs want sharpening.” In fine—you understand
me, gentlemen—he was henpecked.
Well, finding no peace at home, he sought it elsewhere, as was
very natural for him to do; and at length discovered a place of rest far
beyond the cares and clamors of domestic life. This was a little café
estaminet a short way out of the city, whither he repaired every
evening to smoke his pipe, drink sugar-water, and play his favorite
game of domino. There he met the boon companions he most loved,
heard all the floating chitchat of the day, laughed when he was in
merry mood, found consolation when he was sad, and at all times
gave vent to his opinions without fear of being snubbed short by a
flat contradiction.
Now the notary’s bosom friend was a dealer in claret and
cognac, who lived about a league from the city, and always passed
his evenings at the estaminet. He was a gross, corpulent fellow,
raised from a full-blooded Gascon breed, and sired by a comic actor
of some reputation in his way. He was remarkable for nothing but his
good-humor, his love of cards, and a strong propensity to test the
quality of his own liquors by comparing them with those sold at other
places.
As evil communications corrupt good manners, the bad practices
of the wine-dealer won insensibly upon the worthy notary; and before
he was aware of it, he found himself weaned from domino and
sugar-water, and addicted to piquet and spiced wine. Indeed, it not
infrequently happened that, after a long session at the estaminet, the
two friends grew so urbane that they would waste a full half-hour at
the door in friendly dispute which should conduct the other home.
Though this course of life agreed well enough with the sluggish,
phlegmatic temperament of the wine-dealer, it soon began to play
the very deuce with the more sensitive organization of the notary,
and finally put his nervous system completely out of tune. He lost his
appetite, became gaunt and haggard, and could get no sleep.
Legions of blue-devils haunted him by day; and by night strange
faces peeped through his bed-curtains, and the nightmare snorted in
his ear. The worse he grew, the more he smoked and tippled; and
the more he smoked and tippled—why, as a matter of course, the
worse he grew. His wife alternately stormed, remonstrated,
entreated; but all in vain. She made the house too hot for him—he
retreated to the tavern; she broke his long-stemmed pipes upon the
andirons—he substituted a short-stemmed one, which, for safe
keeping, he carried in his waistcoat-pocket.
Thus the unhappy notary ran gradually down at the heel. What
with his bad habits and his domestic grievances, he became
completely hipped. He imagined that he was going to die, and
suffered in quick succession all the diseases that ever beset mortal
man. Every shooting pain was an alarming symptom—every uneasy
feeling after dinner a sure prognostic of some mortal disease. In vain
did his friends endeavor to reason, and then to laugh him out of his
strange whims; for when did ever jest or reason cure a sick
imagination? His only answer was, “Do let me alone; I know better
than you what ails me.”
Well, gentlemen, things were in this state when, one afternoon in
December, as he sat moping in his office, wrapped in an overcoat,
with a cap on his head and his feet thrust into a pair of furred
slippers, a cabriolet stopped at the door, and a loud knocking without
aroused him from his gloomy revery. It was a message from his
friend the wine-dealer, who had been suddenly attacked with a
violent fever, and, growing worse and worse, had now sent in the
greatest haste for the notary to draw up his last will and testament.
The case was urgent, and admitted neither excuse nor delay; and
the notary, tying a handkerchief round his face, and buttoning up to
the chin, jumped into the cabriolet, and suffered himself, though not
without some dismal presentiments and misgivings of heart, to be
driven to the wine-dealer’s house.
When he arrived he found everything in the greatest confusion.
On entering the house he ran against the apothecary, who was
coming down stairs, with a face as long as your arm; and a few steps
farther he met the housekeeper—for the wine-dealer was an old
bachelor—running up and down, and wringing her hands, for fear
that the good man should die without making his will. He soon
reached the chamber of his sick friend, and found him tossing about
in a paroxysm of fever and calling aloud for a draught of cold water.
The notary shook his head. He thought this a fatal symptom. For ten
years back the wine-dealer had been suffering under a species of
hydrophobia, which seemed suddenly to have left him.
When the sick man saw who stood by his bedside, he stretched
out his hand and exclaimed:
“Ah! my dear friend! have you come at last? You see it is all over
with me. You have arrived just in time to draw up that—that passport
of mine. Ah, grand diable! how hot it is here! Water—water—water!
Will nobody give me a drop of cold water?”
As the case was an urgent one, the notary made no delay in
getting his papers in readiness; and in a short time the last will and
testament of the wine-dealer was drawn up in due form, the notary
guiding the sick man’s hand as he scrawled his signature at the
bottom.
As the evening wore away, the wine-dealer grew worse and
worse, and at length became delirious, mingling in his incoherent
ravings the phrases of the Credo and Paternoster with the shibboleth
of the dram-shop and the card-table.
“Take care! take care! There, now—Credo in—pop! ting-a-ling-
ling! give me some of that. Cent-é-dize! Why, you old publican, this
wine is poisoned—I know your tricks!—Sanctam ecclesiam
Catholicam—Well, well, we shall see. Imbecile! to have a tierce-
major and a seven of hearts, and discard the seven! By St. Anthony,
capot! You are lurched—ha! ha! I told you so. I knew very well—
there—there—don’t interrupt me—Carnis resurrectionem et vitam
eternam!”
With these words upon his lips the poor wine-dealer expired.
Meanwhile the notary sat cowering over the fire, aghast at the fearful
scene that was passing before him, and now and then striving to
keep up his courage by a glass of cognac. Already his fears were on
the alert, and the idea of contagion flitted to and fro through his mind.
In order to quiet these thoughts of evil import, he lighted his pipe,
and began to prepare for returning home. At that moment the
apothecary turned round to him and said:
“Dreadful sickly time, this! The disorder seems to be spreading.”
“What disorder?” exclaimed the notary, with a movement of
surprise.
“Two died yesterday, and three to-day,” continued the
apothecary, without answering the question. “Very sickly time, sir—
very.”
“But what disorder is it? What disease has carried off my friend
here so suddenly?”
“What disease? Why, scarlet fever, to be sure.”
“And is it contagious?”
“Certainly.”
“Then I am a dead man!” exclaimed the notary, putting his pipe
into his waistcoat-pocket, and beginning to walk up and down the
room in despair. “I am a dead man! Now don’t deceive me—don’t,
will you? What—what are the symptoms?”
“A sharp burning pain in the right side,” said the apothecary.
“Oh, what a fool I was to come here!”
In vain did the housekeeper and the apothecary strive to pacify
him. He was not a man to be reasoned with. He answered that he
knew his own constitution better than they did, and insisted upon
going home without delay. Unfortunately, the vehicle he came in had
returned to the city; and the whole neighbourhood was abed and
asleep. What was to be done? Nothing in the world but to take the
apothecary’s horse, which stood hitched at the door, patiently waiting
his master’s will.
Well, gentlemen, as there was no remedy, our notary mounted
this raw-boned steed, and set forth upon his homeward journey. The
night was cold and gusty, and the wind set right in his teeth.
Overhead the leaden clouds were beating to and fro, and through
them the newly-risen moon seemed to be tossing and drifting along
like a cock-boat in the surf; now swallowed up in a huge billow of
cloud, and now lifted upon its bosom and dashed with silvery spray.
The trees by the roadside groaned with a sound of evil omen, and
before him lay three mortal miles, beset with a thousand imaginary
perils. Obedient to the whip and spur, the steed leaped forward by
fits and starts, now dashing away in a tremendous gallop, and now
relaxing into a long, hard trot; while the rider, filled with symptoms of
disease and dire presentiments of death, urged him on, as if he were
fleeing before the pestilence.
In this way, by dint of whistling and shouting, and beating right
and left, one mile of the fatal three was safely passed. The
apprehensions of the notary had so far subsided that he even
suffered the poor horse to walk up-hill; but these apprehensions
were suddenly revived again with tenfold violence by a sharp pain in
the right side, which seemed to pierce him like a needle.
“It is upon me at last!” groaned the fear-stricken man. “Heaven
be merciful to me, the greatest of sinners! And must I die in a ditch,
after all? He! get up! get up!”
And away went horse and rider at full speed—hurry-scurry—up-
hill and down—panting and blowing like a whirlwind. At every leap
the pain in the rider’s side seemed to increase. At first it was a little
point like the prick of a needle—then it spread to the size of a half-
franc piece—then covered a piece as large as the palm of your
hand. It gained upon him fast. The poor man groaned aloud in
agony; faster and faster sped the horse over the frozen ground—
farther and farther spread the pain over his side. To complete the
dismal picture, the storm commenced—snow mingled with rain. But
snow, and rain, and cold were naught to him; for, though his arms
and legs were frozen to icicles, he felt it not. The fatal symptom was
upon him; he was doomed to die—not of cold, but of scarlet fever!
At length, he knew not how, more dead than alive, he reached
the gate of the city. A band of ill-bred dogs, that were serenading at a
corner of the street, seeing the notary dash by, joined in the hue and
cry, and ran barking and yelping at his heels. It was now late at night,
and only here and there a solitary lamp twinkled from an upper story.
But on went the notary, down this street and up that, till at last he
reached his own door. There was a light in his wife’s bed chamber.
The good woman came to the window, alarmed at such a knocking
and howling and clattering at her door so late at night.
“Let me in! let me in! Quick! quick!” he exclaimed, almost
breathless from terror and fatigue.
“Who are you, that come to disturb a lone woman at this hour of
the night?” cried a sharp voice from above. “Begone about your
business, and let quiet people sleep.”
“Oh, diable, diable! Come down and let me in! I am your
husband. Don’t you know my voice? Quick, I beseech you; for I am
dying here in the street!”
After a few moments of delay and a few more words of parley,
the door was opened, and the notary stalked into his domicil, pale
and haggard in aspect, and as stiff and straight as a ghost. Cased
from head to heel in an armor of ice, as the glare of the lamp fell
upon him he looked like a knight-errant mailed in steel. But in one
place his armor was broken. On his right side was a circular spot as
large as the crown of your hat, and about as black!
“My dear wife!” he exclaimed, with more tenderness than he had
exhibited for many years, “reach me a chair. My hours are
numbered. I am a dead man!”
Alarmed at these exclamations, his wife stripped off his overcoat.
Something fell from beneath it, and was dashed to pieces on the
hearth. It was the notary’s pipe! He placed his hand upon his side,
and, lo! it was bare to the skin! Coat, waistcoat, and linen were burnt
through and through, and there was a blister on his side as large
over as your head!
The mystery was soon explained, symptom and all. The notary
had put his pipe into his pocket without knocking out the ashes! And
so my story ends.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
1809–1849
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn
of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I
had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary
tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the
evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I
know not how it was; but, with the first glimpse of the building, a
sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for
the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because
poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the
sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the
scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape
features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-
like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white
trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can
compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-
dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life
—the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a
sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of
thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught
of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so