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 Review of Periodicals title to the polar re 'ons, and even supposing that Commander eary, an oﬂicer of the

United States navy, had been speciﬁcally detailed to reach the Pole, his expedition was it would seem one of adventure and scientiﬁc discovery not undertaken for the plurpose of extending the sovereignty of the nited States to the polar regions." Uniformity of Law. See Codiﬁcation . Wills and Administration. See Judicial Interpretation, Real Property.

Miscellaneous A rfi'cles of Interest lo (he Legal Profession Congress. "The Insurgents v. Aldrich, Cannon et al.,"—II. By Henry Beach Needham. Everybody’s, v. 22, p. 102 (]an.). “New En land representatives ma sneer at the Mid 1e West and talk of t e ‘tail wagging the dog.‘ Unknown to the Eastern reactionaries, the animal may have shifted his position. If not today, undoubtedly by 1912 the head and heart of the ‘do ' will be content with the landscape of the ississippi Valley, while the tail, 'tifully attenuated, is‘ faintly tapping the 'debound coast of tune. Customs Frauds. "Robbing the United States; An Investigation of Systematic Fraud at the Port of New Yor ." By Lyman Beecher Stowe. 11.)

Outlook, v. 93, p. 811 (Dec.

"This pervasive System of fraud has been found to extend to every branch of weighable and gaugable importations. It had so honey combed the Weighing Division of the Custom House with corru tion that practically the only higher ofﬁcia s left unstained were too incompetent to be a menace to the corrupters or the corrupted." r6110! Tl’ltl. “The Ferrer Trial." By Percival Gibbon. McClure's, v. 34, p. 327 (_Ian.). “Everything was carried out according to arrangement. Ferrer was committed to take his trial before a court martial, and Captain Galceran . . . was appointed counsel for the defense. This is a post of no ordinary diﬂi culty, for in such a case the officer must rec0n~ cile his duty to his client with a convention as to the lengths an oﬁicer of the army may go in defending a man accused of a military crime. . . . The ofﬁcer . . . is to be brou ht before a court martial for playing too well '5 part as counsel for the defense." Impostors. “ ‘Lord Gordon-Gordon’: A Bogus Peer and His Distinguished Dupes." By W. A. Croffut. Putnam's, v. 7, p. 416

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time was lost. Fletcher and Burbank hired a team of fast horses with a light wagon. Hoy and Keegan jumped in, hastened to the cottage where Gordon was staying, seized

him upon the front porch, kept him from making an uproar, dragged him to the wagon, and drove for the boundary as fast as the horses could go. They reached American soil with their prisoner and were a quarter of a mile south of the line when they were arrested by a pursuin party from Fort Garry. Gordon was releas and the Minnesotans were heavily ironed and taken back. The were thrust into a. dungeon and treated wit t indi ‘ty. Fletcher telegraphed to rackett, ‘We're in a hell of a ﬁx; come at once!’ The greatest excitement prevailed in Minnesota and it was seriously proposed to raise a regiment at once and throw it across the border. But peaceful counsels prevailed. . . . "Bancroft

Davis,

Assistant

Secretary,

boldly advised that the Minnesotans go up to the boundary and seize the custom-house officer and bounda police and hold them until redress was 0 tained. He offered to back u the movement. To avoid inter nationa

trouble,

however,

Brackett

and

Governor Austin went to Canada and pre sented the case to Sir John MacDonald, the Prime Minister. He received the visitors very sympathetically, alleged that, while the attempt to capture and kidnap Lord Gordon Gordon was irregular and wrong, yet there was no reason why his captors should not be admitted to bail. His decision was at once telegraphed to Manitoba and bail was obtained and accepted. The prisoners were released and went home.

(September 15, 1873.) Three

of the kidnappers were afterwards elected to Congress and two made governors of the state." Juvenile

Crime.

"The

Beast

and

the

jungle-IV." By Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile Court of Denver. Everybody's, v. 22, p. 41 (Jan). “These days of 1902, 1903, and 1904 were the heydays of our Juvenile Court, and I should like to dwell upon them fondly—-as the song says—~because of what ensued. Our cam aigns against the wine-rooms, the jails, an the grafting commissioners had made the court as popular as a prizeﬁghter, and the newspapers kept it constantly in the public eye." Opium ‘Indie. “The International Opium Commission." By Hamilton Wright. 3 American journal of International Law 828 (Oct.).

"The remission of the Boxer indemnity appealed to the oﬂicial and educated classes as a generous act, but no more than was due;

(Jan).

“When these facts became known in Min neapolis, half a dozen sturdy citizens resolved to get even with the pseudo-lord who had so grossly imposed on their hospitality. . . . No

while the work of the International Opium Commission and the leadership of the United States in it has penetrated not alone the upper classes, but into the humblest hovel in China."