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spondent has sent the details to the Green Bag, and requests us to "show the world that we have judges down here, as well as you have in the States."

HOW SPEAKER CANNON DESTROYED HIS DIPLOMA PEAKER CANNON told a delegation of college men recently of his experi ence in beginning the practice of law. Years ago, he said, he received a degree in a law college in Indiana. He started to Chicago to make his fortune, accompanied by his

diploma and 86. He was put off the train in central Illinois when his money gave out, and that was why he wound up in Danville instead of in Chicago. He hung up his diploma in his little law office and waited for clients. For six months he had little to do aside from looking at the diploma and twirling his thumbs. Finally one day in a ﬁt of rage he pulled down the diploma and destroyed it. "The diploma in itself was of no use to me," said Uncle Joe. “I kept my courage, however, and by and by began to make my way in the world."

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING Representative Nye of Minnesota has much of the wit of his lamented brother, Bill Nye. Himself a lawyer, Representative Nye said

at a lawyers’ banquet in Minneapolis:— "Lawyers have grand reputations for energy and dperseverance. A lad said to his father one ay: “ ‘Father, do lawyers tell the truth?' “ ‘Yes,

m

‘Lawyers wi

boy,’

the

father

answered,

do anything to win a case.’"

Samuel Untermyer was being congratulated at the Manhattan Club on his recent success ful conduct of a murder case. The distinguished corporation lawyer modestly evaded all these compliments by the narration of a number of anecdotes of criminal law. l‘One case in my native Lynchburg," he said, "implicated a Planter of sinister repute. The planter’s chie witness was a servant named Calhoun White. The prosecution believed that Calhoun White knew much about his master's shady side. It also believed that

Calhoun,

in

his

misplaced

aﬂection,

would lie in the planter's behalf. “When on the stand Calhoun was ready for cross’examination, the prosecuting counsel

“ ‘Now, Calhoun, I want you to under stand the importance of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in this

case.’ "‘Yas, sah,’ said Calhoun. "‘You know what will happen, I suppose. if you don't tell the truth?’ "‘Yas, sah’ said Calhoun, prom tly.

side'll win de case.‘ "— National Reporter.

‘Our

orporation

An incident which Jud e Brewer eni'gyed greatly occurred in the o d Copeland otel at Topeka.

"I

arrived in Topeka,"

said

Brewer in telling the story, "and went to the Copeland. As I entered the oﬁioe I passed the cigar stand and noticed several pictures of m self on d5: box lids, and above them t e words, ' Judge.’ After I registered the clerk called a small boy, ve black, to carry my satchel to my room, an I accompanied him. He looked me over from head to foot, and before we had walked

very far stopped and addressed me. "‘Ain't you de man what manufactuahs dem dere 'Ouah Judge’ cigahs?"' he asked, as his big eyes sparkled. “ ‘Yes, Im the man,’ I said, but I could not keep from laughin. It was too good a joke."— Kansas City oumal.

said to him, sternlyz Th0 Editor will be glad to receive for this department anything likely to entertain the reader: of the Green Bag in tin way of legal antiquities, iacltilz, and anecdotes.

Correspondence HUGHES’ "GROUNDS AND RUDIMENTS OF LAW" To the Editor of the Green Bag.‘— Sir: I am obliged to you for the space you have given to the review of my Grounds and Rudiments of Law in your edition for May, 1910. I am glad to see that, While you criticise the work in a number of respects, you appreciate the labor it has entailed in

assembling the great Leading Cases of the law, and that you approve of its reasoning in many respects. It is, I assure you. ex tremely gratifying to me that I have treated any part of the work in the illuminating

manner you state. I know that you will give me space, in reply to your candid criticism. to suggest some answers to your Various positions. You say, in the ﬁrst place, that the book