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 The Editor's Bag new uniform act on this subject. This act solves the whole problem by pro- • hibiting in one state every marriage void under the laws of a foreign state in which one of the parties resides and intends to reside. The states which have failed to overtake the work of the Conference would undoubtedly do much to recoup themselves by passing this legislation. But as we have said, the Conference is far in advance of the times, and it will be long before the states can catch up with the procession, and can truly say to the Conference and to the American Bar Association, "You lawyers are too conservative; all great reforms must be brought about by popu lar action untrammeled by your inter ference!" Can we conceive of that day ever coming?

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Here is his definition as given by the London Times of July 26: — "The Archbishop of York once gave a defini tion of education, which was that an. educated man was a man who knew the difference be tween knowing and not knowing; and he quoted another prelate who said — I submit this for your meditation — that an educated man was the man with a clear view of some purpose run ning through human affairs with which he identi fied himself and tried to co-operate. "I say an educated man, among other qualifi cations, is a man who knows what is evidence and when an assertion is proved and is not proved That is my opinion for practical purposes, politi cal and social.

"Not a bad definition that. More over, its interest lies in the fact that it is not only an illuminating definition of an educated man, but is a well nigh fault less definition of a good lawyer as well."

HIS SHAKY MEMORY THE lawyers got a Tartar when, JOHN MORLEY in a recent trial in a Southern SOUTH DAKOTA correspondent city, they summoned to the stand an writes to the Green Bag as follows : aged darky, who had been an eye-wit "John Morley will be seventy-four ness of a fight that had occurred be years old next Christmas Eve. Besides tween a number of persons. "Tell us what you know about this this, his career as a man of letters and his thirty years in Parliament, taken fight," said counsel when old Mose has together with the fact that he has long been placed upon the stand. "Fight?" asked Mose, apparently been England's most popular public speaker, entitle his recent definition greatly surprised, "What fight?" "You know very well what fight is of an educated man to considerable meant," said counsel. "Tell us about it." weight. "I don't know nothin' about no fight," "On July 25, Blackburn, where Lord insisted the witness. "When was it?" Morley was born, conferred upon its "See, here, Moses!" exclaimed the distinguished son the honorary freedom lawyer, "No trifling! The fight day of the borough. The ceremony took before yesterday. You know all about place at a special meeting of the Town Council, held in the assembly room of it. Tell us —" "O, de fight day befo' yisterday," the Town Hall, and was distinguished said Mose. "Well, suh, you see I'se by all the formalities attendant on slept since de day befo' yisterday, and such occasions. I never kin rickollect anything after "Lord Morley chose as the topic for I'se been asleep." his address 'The Author in Public And that was all they could get from Life,' and in the course of his remarks him. undertook to define an educated man.