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Walhalla bar, since my admission in 1885. These recitals are based on fact.

Richard Lewis, a valiant Confederate

widow, who had several small chil dren, he took the license accredited to the importunate widow mentioned in the parable by Him who spake as never man spake. As last the judge became weary and faint, and rather positive in his ruling disallowing the claim. As a ﬁnal remark and parting shot, Mr.

soldier, who fought four years for the cause that was lost. He faced shot and

Cary said: “May it please your Honor: we have

shell without flinching, and left on the

come into this Court pleading the cause of the widow and the orphan; we come asking even, simple-handed

Whether they be stranger than ﬁction, it is left for the reader to say. A few years ago, a small estate was in course of administration in the probate court of Oconee county. At that time

the office of probate judge was ﬁlled by

ﬁeld of battle around Richmond his left leg, which was severed from his body, near the hip, by a cannon ball. He was the soul of honor, and combined in

an eminent degree the qualities which rendered him at once fortiter in re, suam'ter in mode. A small claim was presented against an estate by a widow, who was rep resented by N. Boone Cary, while the estate in course of administration was represented by Robert A. Thomp son. Objections were ﬁled against allow ing the claim, and testimony taken. After hearing argument of counsel, Judge Lewis modestlyintimatedthat he thought

the claim should be disallowed. Mr. Cary became insistent, and repeatedly presented the cause of his client in vari

justice for the widow and the orphan; and,

if we

can't get

justice

here,

we'll appeal to the Circuit Court of Oconee county; if we can't get justice there, we'll appeal to the Supreme Court

of the State of South Carolina; if we can't get justice there, we'll appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the most august tribunal on the face of the earth; and if, forsooth,

we can't get justice there, we'll appeal to the Supreme Court of High Heaven

itself." The widow, clapping her hands, ex claims: “Yes, glory to God, we will." (Laughter)

As soon as order could be restored ous aspects, urging in different forms’ court adjourns. The lawyer retires and his reason for asking that the claim be graciously accepts a fee of ﬁve dollars‘ allowed. As he wasié‘representing a from his delighted client.

The Merits of Blackstone’s Commentaries NOTEWORTHY paper on Blackstone noteworthy alike for its erudition and for its literary charm-was read at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in June by Hon. Hampton L. Carson of Philadel phia,the historianof the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Carson's topic was "The Genesis of Blackstone's Commentaries, and Their Place

in Legal Literature."

The strengthzof the

paper was at once recognized, and it certainly ranks with Professor Dicey's article published in the National Review last December (see 22 Green Bag 183), as one of the most notable of

the critical estimates of Blackstone which have appeared in recent years. Mr. Carson takes pains to defend Blackstone