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# Sutton v. Leib/Concurrence Frankfurter

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* Concurring Opinion Frankfurter
United States Supreme Court
342 U.S. 402
Sutton v. Leib
Argued: Dec. 3, 1951. --- Decided: March 3, 1952
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER, concurring.
This case illustrates what little excuse is left for diversity jurisdiction, certainly since Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, has curbed the unwarranted freedom of federal courts to fashion rules of local law in defiance of local law. For my Brother REED naturally enough concludes that the turning point of this case is a matter of Illinois law having no relation whatever to the essential functions which federal courts serve, and a matter which is peculiarly ill-suited for determination by a federal court. The issue in this case is whether the obligation imposed by an Illinois divorce decree to pay alimony 'for so long as plaintiff shall remain unmarried' ceases under Illinois law when the plaintiff goes through the form of another marriage ceremony regardless of the binding validity of such a ceremony. Illinois is free to consult solely her own will whether such a provision in a decree relates merely to ceremony or requires a union with a spouse legally free to marry. On that crucial issue, we are told, there is no Illinois law. By what seems to me undesirable judicial administration, the ascertainment for all I know the formulation-of Illinois law is committed to a federal court which in the very nature of things can render only a tentative and indecisive judgment.
Tentative and indecisive, because whatever view the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit takes on this question may be authoritatively supplanted by the only court that can finally settle the issue, namely, the Supreme Court of Illinois. Such a decision from the Illinois Supreme Court can readily be solicited by the plaintiff through the Illinois declaratory judgment procedure. It is precisely the kind of controversy for which the utility of the device of a declaratory judgment has been so fulsomely acclaimed. Instead of availing itself of this modern procedure, the Court makes itself a party to a discord which passeth understanding.
No doubt the Court of Appeals may tentatively answer this question of Illinois law so far as the immediate parties are concerned. But it is not conductive to the interests of law in general that this Court should compel a decision in a federal court which tomorrow or the day after may be definitively contradicted by the State court with the final say. I would remand the case to the Court of Appeals to be held by it until the plaintiff seeks with all deliberate speed a decision on the crucial question of the case in the Illinois courts.
Subject to this qualification, I agree with the opinion of the Court.

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# Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner von Heidenstam/From "New Poems"

​FROM "NEW POEMS"
# Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner von Heidenstam/From "Pilgrimages and Wanderyears"

FROM "PILGRIMAGES AND WANDERYEARS"
# Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner von Heidenstam/From "Poems"

​FROM "POEMS"
# Smith v. Adsit

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* Smith v. Adsit (83 U.S. 185)
* Smith v. Adsit (90 U.S. 368)
# Smith v. Akers

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United States Supreme Court
117 U.S. 197
Smith v. Akers
Argued: March 8, 1886. ---
S. Watson, for defendant in error.
No brief filed for plaintiff in error.
WAITE, C. J.

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# Smith v. Adsit (90 U.S. 368)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
90 U.S. 368
Smith v. Adsit
We do not perceive that this case differs essentially from what it was in 1872, when it was dismissed for want of jurisdiction in this court to hear it. In the Supreme Court of the State it was an appeal from an inferior court, in which it had been sought to enforce an alleged trust, by a bill in equity, and the bill was ordered to be dismissed, because the court was of opinion no trust was proved. The record does not show that the question whether the sale of the land warrant was a nullity if made before the warrant issued, was passed upon, much less that it was decided against the complainant. The decree ordering the bill to be dismissed must have been mad , if it had been decided that the sale was void. Even then it would have been necessary to establish the existence of a trust. What amounts to a trust, or out of what facts a trust may spring, are not Federal questions, and on a writ of error to a State court we can review only decisions of Federal questions. The case is covered by Smith v. Adsit, in 16 Wallace.
WRIT OF ERROR DISMISSED.

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# Smith v. Akers/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
117 U.S. 197
Smith v. Akers
Argued: March 8, 1886. ---
The order remanding this cause is affirmed on the authority of Gibson v. Bruce, 108 U.S. 561, S.C.. 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 873, it being admitted that both the plaintiff and the defendant were citizens of Tennessee at the time the suit was brought.

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# Stone/A meagre beam in a cold measure

From Stone.
A meagre beam in a cold measure Scatters light in the damp forest. The sorrow is like a grey bird That I carry slowly in my heart.
What shall I do with this wounded bird? The firmament has fallen silent, died; From the misty steeple Someone has taken down the bells.
And this height stands here Orphaned and soundless, Like an empty white tower, Where there is mist and quietness.
The morning with fathomless tenderness, Half real and half a dream – Unsatisfied oblivion, The misty chime of thoughts…
1911
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# Stone/Hagia Sophia

From "Stone".
Hagia Sophia, the Lord commanded That nations and kings should stop here! For your cupola, in the words of eye-witness, As on a chain, is suspended from the heaven.
Justinian set an example for all ages, When Diana of Ephesus permitted
To steal for alien Gods One hundred and seven green marble columns.
But what was in the mind of your generous builder,
Dignified in his soul and thought, When he located the apses and the exedras, Pointing them to West and East?
The temple bathed in the world is beautiful, And the forty windows are the triumph of light; And the four archangels in the pendentives Beneath the cupola are the most striking.
And the wise spherical construction Will survive nations and centuries, And the seraphim’s resonant sobbing Will not distort the dark gilded surfaces.
1912
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# Stone

"Stone" is the title of Mandelstam's first book of poems composed between 1908 and 1915. It was first published in 1913, then in 1916, 1923 and 1928 with the substantial revisions and additions.

## Contents

* The careful and muted sound, 1908
* The Christmas trees are shining, 1908
* From the semi-dark hall, 1908
* To read only children's books, 1908
* More tender than tender, 1909
* I'm given a body – what to do with it?, 1909
* Up out of an evil clinging pool, 1910
* A meagre beam in a cold measure, 1911
* The dull air is moist and resounding, 1911
* Hagia Sophia, 1912
* Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails, 1915.

## Additional works

* From the semi-dark hall, suddenly, 1908
* To read only children's books, 1908
* More tender than tender, 1909
* I'm given a body – what to do with it?, 1909
* Up out of an evil clinging pool, 1910
* A meagre beam in a cold measure, 1911
* The dull air is moist and resounding, 1911
* Hagia Sophia, 1912
* Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails, 1915
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# Stone/I'm given a body – what to do with it?

From "Stone".
I'm given a body – what to do with it? It is so unique and so much my own.
For the quiet happiness to breathe and live, Tell me, to whom shall I give my thanks?
I am the gardener and the flower too, In the world's dungeon I am not alone.
My breath, my warmth lay already down
On the window glass of eternity.
The pattern will be imprinted there
Unrecognizable from recent times.
Let the instant mud be flown away – The cherished pattern will be not erased.
1909
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# Stone/Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails

From "Stone". In Russian: Бессонница. Гомер. Тугие паруса…
* Insomnia. Homer. The rows of stretched sails.
* I’ve read the catalogue of ships just to the middle:
* That endless caravan, that lengthy stream of cranes,
* Which long ago rose up above the land oh Hellas.
* It’s like a wedge of cranes towards the distant shores –
* The foreheads of the kings crowned with the foam of Gods.
* Where are you sailing to? If Helen were not there,
* What Troy would be to you, oh warriors of Achaea
* The sea and Homer – everything is moved by love.
* Whom shall I listen to? There is no sound from Homer,
* And full of eloquence the black sea roars and roars,
* And draws with thunderous crashing nearer to my pillow. Crimea, August 1915 (Translated 27 October 2006, St Albans)
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# Stone/The Christmas trees are shining

From Stone.
The Christmas trees are shining With tinsel gold in the forests, The toy wolves are gazing With scary eyes in the bushes.
O my prophetic sorrow, O my silent freedom, And the ever-laughing crystal
Of the lifeless heavenly vault!
<1908>
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# Stone/From the semi-dark hall, suddenly

From Stone (No. 3). First printed in the 2nd edition of "Stone" (1916). In Russian: Из полутёмной залы, вдруг…
* From the semi-dark hall, suddenly,
* You slipped out in a weightless shawl —
* We disturbed no one,
* We did not wake the sleeping servants… 1908
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# Stone/The careful and muted sound

From Stone. In Russian: Звук осторожный и глухой.
* The careful and muted sound
* Of a fruit falling from the tree
* Amidst the unbroken singing
* Of deep silence of the forest… <1908>
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# Stone/More tender than tender

From "Stone".
More tender than tender
Is your face, Whiter than white Is your hand, From the whole world You are distant, And everything in you Is from the inevitable.
From the inevitable
Is your sorrow, And the fingers of your hand Which stay warm, And the quiet sound
Of your cheerful Speeches, And the distant look Of your eyes.
1909
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# Stone/The dull air is moist and resounding

From "Stone".
The dull air is moist and resounding; In the forest it is good and no danger. Once again I will bear obediently My light cross of solitary walks.
And once again a reproach to my heartless fatherland Will fly up like a wild duck, It is a gloomy life I take part in Where every single one is alone!
A shot has rung out. Now over the drowsy lake The ducks' wings are heavy. And the pine trunks are stupefied By their double, reflected existence.
The sky, dull with a strange shine… A worldwide, misty pain… Oh, let me also be misty in this way, And let me not to love you.
1911
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# Slavonic Fairy Tales/The Plague

THE PLAGUE.
(from the polish.)
When the Plague desolates the country, whole villages stand empty; the cocks become hoarse and cannot crow; even the dogs, our household guardians, no longer bark. They can, however, scent and see the Plague afar off. They, growl, and furiously try to attack it; for the Plague delights to tease and worry them.
A peasant once was asleep on the top of a hay-rick; near him leant a ladder. The moon shone brightly, and the night was clear. Suddenly, borne on the wind a great noise was heard, in which the growling and howling of dogs rose distinctly above all other sounds.
The peasant got up, and saw with terror a tall woman, clothed in white, with dishevelled hair, running straight towards him, pursued by dogs. In front of her stood a high fence. The tall woman sprang clear over it at a bound, and ran up the ladder. There, secure from the ​furious dogs, she put out her leg, and teasing them, cried,—
"Na goga, noga! Na goga, noga!" (There is my leg, seize it.)
The peasant at once recognised in her the terrible Plague itself. He softly approached the ladder, and pushed it off the rick with all his might. The Plague fell to the ground and the dogs seized her. She threatened the peasant with vengeance, and then suddenly disappeared.
The peasant did not die of the plague, but he was never well afterwards; and he would often involuntarily lift up his leg and repeat the cry,—
"Na goga noga! Na goga noga!"
These were the only words he could utter.
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# Slavonic Fairy Tales/The Plague and the Peasant

THE PLAGUE AND THE PEASANT.
(from the polish.)
A peasant sat down in the shade of a larch tree to rest. The sun was high and glowing. Suddenly he perceived something approaching him from a distance. As it came nearer he saw that it was a woman wrapped in a large cloak. Her legs were of a wonderful length.
The peasant was greatly frightened, and tried hard to run away, but the spectre seized him with her bony arms, and said,—
"Do you know the Plague? It is I. Take me on your shoulders and carry me over the whole country. You must not miss a town, a village, or even a hamlet; I must be carried everywhere. For yourself, be not afraid: in the midst of death and misery you shall remain alive and well."
She put her long arms round his neck. The peasant started, but surprised at feeling no weight, he turned his ​head, and then saw that the spectre was sitting on his shoulders.
He took her first to a town. There was music and dancing in the taverns, and joy in every place; mirth and pleasure held their sway. When the peasant entered into the market-place, the woman shook her pestilential garments. Soon the music and dancing ceased, joy disappeared, and terror reigned supreme. The terrified peasant saw coffins and dead bodies on every side. He heard the funeral bells everywhere. Soon the cemetery was filled and there was no more room to bury the dead. Even in the market-place many a corpse was left without a grave!
On went the miserable peasant. Whenever he passed through a village the houses were left empty. The inhabitants, pale and trembling, fled; men were dying on the roads, in the woods, and in the fields,
His native village stood on a high hill: there lived his wife, his little children, and his aged parents. At the sight of it his heart bled within him. Seizing the spectre with all his strength, lest she should escape, he hurried past his home.
Before him flowed the river Pruth, with its blue waters; on the other side arose green hills; and far beyond, dark mountains, capped with snow, lost their summits in the clouds. His resolution was quickly ​taken. He rushed on and plunged headlong into the river, hoping by meeting death himself to drown the Plague also, and thus to save the country from further desolation.
The unhappy peasant perished in the waters, but the Plague, as a spirit, could not be drowned. Overcome, however, by this courageous act, she fled away in terror and hid herself among the mountains. Thus the peasant not only saved his village and all those who were dear to him, but also that part of his native land into which the Plague had not been carried.
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# Slavonic Fairy Tales/The Plague-Omen

THE PLAGUE-OMEN.
(from the polish.)
A peasant, having lost his wife and children by the plague, fled from his desolate hut and sought refuge in the forest.
He wandered about the whole day; towards evening he made a hut of branches, lit a fire, and being tired soon fell asleep. It was already past midnight when he was awakened by a great noise. He jumped up and listened. He could hear, at a distance, merry songs, accompanied by the music of drums and pipes. He was greatly surprised at these rejoicings, especially when he remembered that the Plague was depopulating the country.
The music approached, and the terror-stricken peasant saw Homen advancing through a wide road. "Homen" ​consisted of a number of spectres of the most extraordinary shapes and kinds. In the midst of them was a high, black waggon, on the top of which sat the Plague. The ghastly company increased at every step; for almost everything they met on the road changed into a spectre and followed the rest.
The peasant's fire was nearly out,—there remained only a good sized, half-burnt stem. As soon as Homen approached, the fire-brand stood up, spread out two arms from its sides, and the red embers changed into two shining eyes. It joined at once the train of the Plague, and began also to sing.
The peasant was thunderstruck. Almost beside himself with terror, he seized his axe and tried to strike the nearest spectre; but the axe fell from his hands, and was immediately changed into the shape of a tall woman. She shook her dark hair before his eyes, joined the throng, and began also to sing.
Homen passed on; the astonished peasant saw how trees, bushes, even owls, and other night birds, assumed various forms, and swelled the horrible company—the dreadful harbinger of wide-spread death. He fell senseless on the ground.
In the morning, when the warm sun awakened him, he found that all he had brought with him was broken to pieces: his goods spoiled, his clothes torn. He knew at ​once that it was nothing else than Homen who had done him so much injury; and thanking Heaven that at least his life was spared, he went further on in search of food and shelter.
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# Tales from Old Japanese Dramas/front matter

Mr. Kichiyemon as Mitsuhidé
# Table Talk

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* Table Talk, by John Selden
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# South Carolina v. United States

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglass White
United States Supreme Court
199 U.S. 437
South Carolina v. United States
Argued: April 11, 1905. --- Decided: December 4, 1905
By several statutes, the state of South Carolina established dispensaries for the wholesale and retail sale of liquor, and prohibited sale by other than the dispensers. The United States demanded the license taxes prescribed by the internal revenue act for dealers in intoxicating liquors, and the dispensers filed the statutory applications for such licenses. The state, sometimes in cash and sometimes by warrant on its treasury, paid the taxes. No protest was made in reference to these payments prior to April 14, 1901. On that day a formal protest by the state dispensary commissioner was filed with the United States collector of internal revenue at Columbia, South Carolina. No appeal or application for the repayment of the sums paid by the various dispensers was made by them or by the state of South Carolina to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, as authorized by §§ 3226, 3227, and 3228, Rev. Stat., U.S.C.omp. Stat. 1901, pp. 2088, 2089.
The dispensers had no interest in the sales, and received no profit therefrom. The entire profits were appropriated by the state, one half being divided equally between the municipality and the county in which the dispensaries were located, and the other half paid into the state treasury. In the year 1901 the profits arising from these sales amounted to $545,248.12. While the laws of South Carolina prohibited the sale of liquor by individuals other than the dispensers, of 373 special license stamps issued in that state by the United States internal revenue collector, only 112 were to dispensers, while 260 were to private individuals. Three separate actions were commenced in the court of claims by the state of South Carolina to recover the amounts paid for these license taxes. These actions were consolidated. Upon a hearing, findings of fact were made and a judgment entered for the United States. 39 Ct. Cl. 257. Whereupon the state appealed to this court.
Messrs. Jackson H. Ralston, Frederick L. Siddons, and Franklin H. Mackey for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 440-443 intentionally omitted]
Solicitor General Hoyt for appellee.
Statement by Mr. Justice Brewer:
[Argument of Counsel from pages 443-447 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Brewer delivered the opinion of the court:

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# South Chicago Coal Dock Company v. Bassett

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United States Supreme Court
309 U.S. 251
South Chicago Coal Dock Company v. Bassett
Argued: Jan. 11, 1940. --- Decided: Feb 26, 1940
Messrs. Robert J. Folonie and Hayes McKinney, both of Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.
Mr. Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
[Argument of Counsel from page 252 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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