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to pay claims of aliens, residents of the South during the Civil War. So, therefore, in conclusion, it is plain to be seen that civilized warfare requires notice to be given to neutrals to save them from harm and injury, and that every country has the right to blockade and obstruct its ports,

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and that alien citizens can recover no damages while residents of a country in a state of warfare, and that the time has arrived when the powers of the world should make regulations governing torpedoes and submarine explosives, a point which seems to have been neglected.

INHERITANCE.

By Wendell P. Stafford. "I "HEY say he was a jolly man, This grandsir' whom I never saw. When all my aims flash in the pan, When days are dark and airs are raw, A joke bursts somewhere in my brain, And I can laugh and sing again. I say, " Perhaps this merry whim Is my inheritance from him;" But then, what legacy began To yield the income I can draw? I'm glad he was a jolly man, This grandsir' whom I never saw.