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uniform in all the principal maritime pow ers the principal questions arising in salvage cases has been drawn up by a committee of the International Maritime Committee, of which Lord Alverstone was a member, and was under consideration at Brussels at a Conference to which representatives of the different powers were invited last winter.1 1 A very amusing and interesting discussion of this question by committees belonging to the different nations represented in the International

The question of life salvage, however, is not dealt with in this treaty, excepting that it is provided that nothing therein shall be considered as preventing any of the con tracting powers from allowing salvage against ship or cargo for salvage of life. Maritime Committee may be found in the report of the Paris Conference of the International Mari time Committee, in 1900. BOSTON, MASS., November, 1905.

PRECEDENTS BY DONALD RICHBERG 0 Precedent! where is that charm That sages have seen in thy face? When "contra" you greatly alarm, And befriending me, bring me disgrace. 1 wade through citations galore, Dissect and distinguish the same, Pile volumes around me a score And prove my opponent quite lame. My precedents now seem most sound, But I find, 'mid defeat and vain fury, There never was yet to be found Precedent for a judge or a jury. CHICAGO, ILL., November, 1905.