The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-11-04


Who knows? Not Captain Mayne
Reid though it he bad been born Il
Persian, and lived long time enough ago.
and been Gallph with long beard and
Il scilnitar, instead of captain in the
Mexican war, with Colts revolver and
goatee, and had seen the cloud of dust
which Ali-Baba saw, | think he could
have made out the band of forty robbers
under it, and the cave, and all the rest.
But Mayne Reid didn't sec the cloud
OF dust which covered those robbers land
which is very apt to cover all gangs Of
public robbers) and therefore didn't write
the Arabian Nights" Nor did Mrs
Hannah More, for the book is not in her
style; nor did the author os Little
Women !" and the genius in her "work, Z"
though very decided, isn't at all like the
Genius that c,mes in smoke and fame
into the wonderful story of Aladdin and
the Lamp.
You could never guess who wrote the
Arabian Nights for nobody knows
when those stories were first written. 1t
scoms very odd that book should be
made, and no one able to tell when it was
made. The publishers don't allow such
things to happen nowadays. Yet it is
even SO with the book we are talking Of.
OF course, it is possible to fix the date OF
the many translations of the Arabian.
Nights which have been made into the
languages Of Europe from the old Arabic
manuscripts. Thus, it was in the year
l7O4 that a certain Antoine Galland, Il
distinguished Oriental scholar Of Paris,
who had Travelled in the East and who
had collected many curious manuscripts
and medals, published French transla.
tion of what was called the Thousand
and One Nights" This was in the time
of the gay court of Louis the fourteenth ;
and the fine ladies of the court-those Of
them who could read-all devoured the
book. And the school. boys throughout
France (though there were not many
school-boys in those days outside of the
great cities) all came to know the won.
dcrful stories of Aladdin and of Alba.
ba. Remember that this was about the
time when the great Duke of Marlboro
was winning his famous victories on the
Continent-specially that of Blenham
about which an English poet, DR.. South.
ey, has written a quaint little poem,
which you should read. 1t was in the
lifetime, too, of Daniel De Foe,-who
wrote that ever charming story of Robin
son Crusoe some twelve or fourteen years
later and the first newspaper in Ameri-
ca-called the Boston NecS Letter-was
printed in the same year in which An.
tome Galland published this translation
Of the Thousand and One Nights. Ii
yon should go to Paris and be curious to
see it, you can find in the Imperial Ii
brary or the National Library Tor what.
ever those changeablc French people may
call it now the very manuscript Of An.
tome Galland.
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placed in companies that have not com
piled with the laws Of the State where
the property insured is situated, (eithcr
by the company direct, or through agents
or brokers' caDnot in case of loss, be sued
for and recovered, in any Of the United
States or State Courts, aud the assured
is left entirely at the mercy of such Com
psnies, and without legal remedy.
The statute Of all the States impose,
certain conditions upon all Insurance
Companies, Chartered by other States, }
to enable them to obtain authority to
transact business aud make binding con.
tracts within the State, and without hav.
ing first complied with such laws, and
obtained the legal authority to do busi-
ness, all insurance written by them i.
illegal and void.
The following is an abstract from u
recent opinion Of the Attorney.General
Of the State of Indiana, upon the subject
"As the statute prohibits any foreign
insurance company, directly or indirectly
to tabc risks, or transact any business oi
insurance in the State, without first pro,
curing legal authority, this includes {;
prohibition upon any person or corpora
ton (uot duly au,horized) fro IL acting ii
any capacity as insurance agents, either
by soliciting applications, or collecting
money upon premiums, A policy ISSUED
by an agent in violation of law declar
ing his act to be criminal, has been de
cided by the Supreme Court to be void
after destruction by fire Of the property
insured, (20th Indiana, p. 520,) and il
recent case not yet reported in Indiana
Hoffman VS.. Banks, the general doc
trine is confirmed"
This opinion is clear and decisive, ant
has since been confirmed by judicial de
cisions iu that State, People VS.. Pless
ner.) and the principle again recognized
by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, au,
by Judge Davis of the Supreme Court o
the United States, presiding in the U. S
Circuit Court in Indiana, and is now hel,
to be well settled law,
Insurers may, therefore, well under
stand that in accepting policies in sucl
companies, they are wholly without in
demnity against loss, except at the ca
price Of the companies whose illegal anC
void policies they hold.
A FLANNEL SuIr.-Jones says the whit
flannel suit he bought year ago has pro