The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Some four years ago we were favo

by Charles II. Beers with interesting and
valuable Information on the subject OF
the chalchhuitl, or sacred turquoise OF
the Aztecs. Recently he has contributed
a further note on the subject, interesting
In itself and carrying a mystic connota-
ton which will I've rafdoncd by the general
reader and will be welcomed by all who
in their familiarity with primitive people
have been forced to recognize the exist
| ence of the esoteric.
You may possibly remember that I
told you that the Indian who showed me
the source OF the chalchluitl averred that
1t was of sacred origin and that II showed
emblems of properties that controlled the
human race that all things were created
by sun heat, water, fertilizer and earth
that II at any time people forgot these sim
pie natural facts and assumed other than
these natural Powers and functions (also
shown In the stone by the sign of the
| mani chaos always resulted He further
warned me that such a time was
close at hand that rulers had assumed
unnatural powers and that people were
| trying to do impossible things, that the
end OF existins conditions was due and
that after their annihilation God would
again appear on earth to teach men anew
the simple way OF eternal life. Now. I
am far from superstitous. but is It not
strange that soon after the red iscov.ry of
the long lost stone Mexico should he
PLUNGED into warfare? In 1909 l sent a
few thousand carats to Or. Alfred Eppier
Of Crefeld telling him the story. He dis
posed OF them in Europe. AZ have done
! here. II seems TO me that the condition
foretold by the aged Indian almost OBJ
tains In Europe to-day am writing this
simply because you are the one man In
the world who ever paid any attention to
this story or even seemed TO have heard
In Aztec sources OF this legend
Please inform me OF the status OF nv
/ brother. He left italy when IL YEAR.
old. came to this country and when OF
age became citizen OF the United states
| Surprising Italy goes To- war can they
| take my brother and make him serve in
| the italian army He is In Italy on a
visit for his health s MARiNo.
Van Dynes citizenship OF the United
States cites the following provisions OF
! international law pertaining to Italy:
italian. subjects between the ages Of
twenty and thlrty-ninc years are liable
| FOR the performance OF military duty
/ under italian law. except In the case OF
/ an only son. or where two brothers arc
so nearly OF the same age that both would
be serving at the same time. in which
event only one is drafted or where
there are two sons OF a widow. when
only one is taken.
naturalization OF an italian subject
IN a foreign country without consent OF
the Italian Government is no bar to
liability to military service.
~ former italian subject may visit
Italy without fear of molestation when
he Is under age Of twenty years: but
between the ages OF twenty and thirty
nine he is liable to arrest and forced
military service. IL he has not previously
reported for such service After the age
OF thlrty-nine he may he arrested and
imprisoned Cbut wiz not be compelled
to do military duty unless he has been
pardoned. lie may petition the Italian
Government for pardon. but this depart
ment win not act as the Intermediary in
presenting his petition
There Is no treaty between the UHited
States and Italy defining the status Of
former italian subjects who have become
American citizens"
Since have settled in the United
States have noticed that many Amer-
cans dlffcrentate the French language
as spoken In France from that spoken in
Canadd, as PARTISAN" and canadian"
I..r- 4. Il.
| language spoken In Canada differs from
that spoken In France and in what par
I tiCulars. {, HOLMES.
The observed linguistic differences SUBJ
sist in the country speech of Canada Bias
the language OF the habitants. Compared
with a standard modern French. such as
that OF Tours, It may appear as dialectic.
To a certain extent II is essentially dia-
lectic, for the countryside settlement OF
Canada was drawn quite predominanty
from two such widely separated elements
as the Normans and the Gaseous. An
other factor is the quality OF the coloniz-
ing element. largely rustic and therefore
carrying with them the ruder peasant
speech Another element OF divergence
inhercs in the fact that Canada has beer
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inally established In the forests: there
fore in reference to the current French
OF France II appears archaic. The stu
dent OF the diction OF Rabelais will recog-
nize much similarity In the speech OF tn,
lower provinces.
| When was the statue of BENJAMIN
Franklin In Printing House Square un
yelled and who was the donor?
JOSEPH r. HINDs.
II was unveiled in 1872. The donor
was Capt. benjamin De Groot OF a fam
lily historic in this city. The artist wa'
Ernst Plassman, a native OF Westphalia
but educated in Paris, He came to thi,
country in 1853 and established an ar
/ school. which he conducted until he dieC
in 1877. Other pieces of his modcllnl
are the Indian on the front of Tamman!
Hall. p group executed for the freigh
station OF the New York Central Railroad
and figures Of Franklin and Gutenber re-
on the former building OF the stats.
Zetun0
: In the manual of the Common Council
, OF the old city OF Brooklyn. year 1865
page 54i, also In Stiles's History o