The sun., 1910-02-27

| IfIn or outward you be bound
| DO not forget to sound:
| Neglect OF that was caused OF this
| 10 steer aIniss.
The seas were calm, the wind was fair.
That made me 30 secure, y
That now must endure
An weathers. be they foul or fair
The winters cold the summers heat
| Alcrnatvcly beat
Upon my bruised sades. that rue.
Because too true.
| That no relief ever come;
| But why should despair
Being promised 80 fair
That there shall be q day OF DOOM
There Is no evidence that this. while American
IN theme. really written In America
VIII you kindly tell me something about the
statute OF limitations-f a day or TWO ago !
| Of money from the sub Treasury in CHICAGO was
Immune from arrest as tnree years had % saRssd .
tstions some time % ssV noticed that 40 SSsf Ssa
Of one Of nc large ne insurance s Srpce sSrosS
as the statute Of limitations then made him I'm
on limit lsI% is Il unl.ed states swt Wsst
! IS Il supposed 70 cOnservei Is the lengm Of ume
longer period than the ntiie onef Is there no
Ss ss Ss
within a stated pertodg Il. t. bohN'
The purpose OF the statute Of umita tons Is the
preservation OF equal and exact justice. Every
obstacle Is set In the way OF its employment for
| the avoidance OF the punish hment of wrongdoing.
| In the practice Of the Middle Ages . suit might
be brought at any ume. This. it was found might
| be productive Of great Inconvenience and not
| infrequenuy of great injustice. Parties might
and often did walt until witnesses were dead
or papers destroyed and then proceed TO enforce
! claims 70 which at an earlier date successful
defence might have been made. Titles were
thus rendered uncertain. the tenure OF property
Insecure and litigation fostered. Various At
TEN pts made 20 check the evils arising nom
this unrestricted litigation. and these were fnaily
codInod In the historic statute OF limitations,
being Il Jae. 1. c. l6. the Act for Limitations OF
Actions and for Avoiding Of suits In Law" This
was introduced into the American practice from
the Wv Institution OF courts OF law In che
several colonies and. subject 20 divergency OF
growth In independent states, it formed part
of American law except in Louisiana. In which
State the limitations arc those OF the civil law,
derived thence through the Parddss OF ihe Span
lsh code.
Please state how the nnaI award or adJudIcs-
Iry' and Great Britain was arranged. Mas Eng
land right In her contention. or was Nsnesnslaf
After a period Of active debate. which once
rose 10 a high pitch. tho British Government
receded from LIS earlier stand that there was moth
Ing 20 AEbtrate. and In February, 1897. an agree
ment was reached in accordance with which an
ArOltfutlO trcatlsW1S slgucO. Nncu Nuo bTlbou
presented their claim before the tribunal ap-
poin ted 10 sit under this treaty IL was seen that
they had receded from the position upheld BY the
Marquis Of salisbury and were res ting 20 all gen
sraI intent upon the demand made In 1850 by Lord
PAlmerst ton in support of tho earlier Schomburgk
line. In opposition the Venezuelan Government
proposed the claim that the British Guiana boun-
dary was deIlmitod at the Esseduibo River. that
this was set forth In the treaty OF Minister and
that it had never been amended by any legal act.
The disputed territory thus presented TO the
arbitrators amounted 10 some 5000 square miles,
The principal issue was Joined upon the period
embraced In the item of continuous possession
for nifty years. The Venezuelan contention was
that this period was wholly anterior to iSit, tho
date OF the cession OF British Guiana. The Brit
ish case was that the nifty year period that
which ended In 1897. The decision OF the arbi-
traitors was unanimous and was render red Octo-
ber J. iSea. Without particulanxing the mlnutIs
OF the newly established boundary II may be said
that tho veneEuesns felt that the advantage had
accrued 10 Great Britain.
IfA man Is born in ireland what Is his nativity
and what Is his nationality i, J. SULLIVAN.
The determination OF the two points rests
wholly upon the sense of the tvo'words nativity
and nationality. BY nationality the man Is, or
may at his own desire become. a subject OF the
British Empire or OF the United Kingdom. Ma.
tlonality Is susceptible OF positive definition, for
IL has been the theme OF much law both domestic
IL as the character. status or condition with
reference 70 the rights and duties of q person as
a member OF some one State or nation rather than
another" II may come 70 q person through
birth or by acquisition In course Of naturalization,
these being dsting guIshed nationality by origin
and nationality by acquisition. The sense OF
nativity. on the -0iher hand. Is far less precise
man born>in ireland OF Afghan parents might
profess 70 be Irish BY nativity. yet conditions
may readily be imagined In which the claim would
n.-Na..s ~
comparable because 1.-THE fact that one has at
tanned the hxity OF legal precision and the other
remains plant.
I may Obtain a copy of an old recitation about
a Ysller Dogs Love for Niger" l remember
the tirSt part goes:
-Dars 'er lone grave on dc odder side of de hill.
wat secs no Decoration Day,
An he VINO yOnder sleeps am only an oic niger.
Dey gsbe I'm his freedom. but dey took away his
An he died an ole vagrant, uncsrod for. un-
He didn't leave no one behind I'm 70 feel sad.
For an ole yaller dswg was all that he had"
think flrst heard II at q minstrel show in
washington some thirty years ago. This stsnEa
has always remained in my memory. FMS.
Kindly supply the proper word in this sentence:
I'VE shall take pleasure In approaching several /
GEoRdx L. BALoUs.
Variety has come into good use as a diverse |
collective. signlfying a number or collec ton of
different things. In that sense the sentence
should read "a variety OF opinions" But the A
older Specification OF variety Is the state or con
dltIon OF being various, and that Specification
has by no means passed from Use. In that sense
the sentence should read the variety OF opinion"
and the change TO the definite article should be
noted.
In brakes Address 70 the American FIAx"
what Is the meaning OF the words baldric and
wekn, VETERAN.
The baidric Is the scarf over the shoulder and
supporting the weight Of the soldiers sword; it |
Is living term In military tailoring. welkin Is
archaic: It means no more than the dome ofsky.
Can any one give me the original application |
OF the phrase La belle dame sans mcrci- (the |
woman without mercylf lady Wortley Montarue |
~ men nuoned In such q connoc ton IN Dxon's /
"omens Of Beauty" and keats has q poem OF 1
that title. J.,B.
The lines asked for by N. II. n. as 70 Prebie'.
men At Trlpoll are from James Jefrey Rocne's |
poem Reuben JAmes- IL may be found In Bur-
,as,n+ ,9n Egeer1 @ SssssS'ns P0fTs q American
In the Borough OF Manhattan only what "a.
the vote for Barnard and what for Hearstf