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HNE could draw many interesting lessons from the recent biography of the great English barrister, Sir Edward Mar shall Hall. For instance, it furnishes a striking commentary on the dif ference between our method and the English method of adminis tering justice. Sir Edward appeared in most of the celebrated (rials of his time. Any one of them would have dragged on for weeks over here. The longest of them lasted only eleven days faa England. A majority were wound up in less than a week. We are ahead of the English in most departments of modern business. We are even with them in medicine, in science, and, perhaps, in literature. In the law we are woefully, shamefully and inexcusably behind. But at the moment I am more interested in one very human flttle incident in Sir Edward's life which occupies only a para f raph, and was perhaps overlooked by most readers. He had just been elected to Parliament and had prepared a ?peech with which he hoped to dazzle the House and make his reputation. Again and again Ndurijig the long night session he tried to catch the Speaker's eye, but each time he was overlooked in favor of some older member. So he went home with the speech ?till undelivered, its ringing sentences still ringing in his head. There in bed lay his little wi fe, who had been asleep for hours. But Sir Edward, so much disappointed and so on fire with his own oratory, could not let her sleep. Forthwith be woke her up and insisted that she listen to the whole long speech. Is there any wife in the world to whom something of the ?ame sort has not happened ? I knew personally one of the leading men of the last genera tion. For years he had gone home every evening and?detail bv detail?told his wife the whole story of the day's proceedings: what h? did, what he said, and what other men had done and ?aid to him. When she died at a ripe old age, the husband seemed organically sound and good for another ten years at least. Yet he followed her to the grave within a few months. Life had no t snore zest for him. He had lost his audience. Go into a restaurant and watch the couples at their meal. See the man expanding under the encouraging smile of a girl, talking along, showing what a ereat fellow he is. And she, asking ques tions which are much dumber than they need to be, deliberately concealing her own wisdom in order to make him appear the wiser. They are a great invention, these women, and particularly those of them who do us the honor to l>ecome our wives. When ever any one tells me that, with the increasing wealth of the country, the wives are growing more idle, I contend that they ?till earn their living handsomely. And would continue to earn it even if they had to do nothing t*it listen to us talk. Main Street Looks at RroaJway " By ERNIiST CAa.. jr. Among the Boys Back Home tie idea prevails that every yap in New York is a Broadway Playboy. At fall of night he is supposed to make a bee-line for the Great White Way. From then until the foggy hours he skips high, wide, and tipsy thru leg shows, night clubs, speakeasies. A very devil of a fel low. ... Result: when Gus and Steve de scend upon New York for a com bined business and pleasure trip (you know the combined business and pleasure trips?), they are primed for a terrific pace. * * * Here is what happens (it happened to me recently, as it had a dozen times before) : Two skylarking friends from the South breeze into town, after motoring 800 miles in two days, and not a whit worn by the journey announce that they are here to "do" New York. They climb the Statue of Liberty and see Manhattan briefly during the afternoon. When night arrives thty must see the speakeasies. * * * I show them several, where I gargle a stein of Wer while they tank to the tonsils on gin and scotch and rye. After that, weakening, I propose that we go home?and to bed. But no. They have set their hearts upon visiting the Hoboken saloons. So we drink our way up and down the New Jersey waterfront. (I, as is i'iy habit, drank nothing stronger than i ispberrv soda of which I am exces :'voly fond. . . .) * * * At this point my festive friends? ignoring my sleepy protests?take it i lto their heads to pro* 1 down to a steamship pier. Here they are dis Mtaded, with great difficulty, from j imping into > the harbor to swim : fter a departing ocean liner. | By this time your New' Yorker is ; roggv on the ropes. He finds it in creasingly difficult to dodge the fire i lugs. And lamp posts have a way or revplvJiMj . . . most disconcertingly. So, finally, we return to Manhattan. Yhe other merry-makers are as iiesn nd dapper as you please,^ In the chill ; rev dawn I proceed to take leave cf t'lem. * * * That was Saturday morning. "\Y: II," I yawn, "s'giad !?.? ' een ; boys. I spi/se you'll go to your i otel now a:;d sleep all day touior i ?w?" "Not on your life." they b-ightly '?'ply "We're just before leaving for I ome. Gotta be at work 8 o'clock Mondiv morning. G'bve." Anil they talk about gay New YorV' V<ELL/ MOTHER, NOW JU5T V ^UPPO^E. MR?. ^MITH PUT A RlPE TOMATO PQtf/N \ YOUR neck, v/oulpn't Vt YOU ^MA'-CK ^?-? " h?R- oa/E^r-^L 7/ oV? 0 0 Hot.Pin ssffajM - ? \ w t* xTWOULP MAke VOU <5RIM ANP LAUfiH AY/AY 0ULL CARP TO *?? A TINY Mou*e MAKE A MONKiEy OF A PSAR. Argentine President ? Adolf Hitler, head of the German General Jose Evaristo Uriburu, who Fascist movement, which won a great Argentine revolutionists to victory rktbry In the recent Reichstag elec; an(l ^as been chosen head, of the South tioo. ' American nation. Regains His Sight Booth Tarkington, famous novelist who has been blind for several years, is now able to read after an operation in Baltimore, SALE?12 Horses and 4 mnles. Apply Blackwood Lumber Co., East LaPortp, N. C. Z* ?? CHAPMAN DENTIST Office with Dru. Nichols over Sylva PLarmacy WPLL SELL good 104 acres farm j well located in Towns County, Ga. Compelled to sell.N, A bargain. Write or come for particulars. Miss Delia Burch, Hiawassee, Ga. i FOR SALE?One Upright Piano in good condition. Address Box 351 Sylva, N. C. * of quality Journal TRY OUR ? t Drug Store FOR GIFTS FOR MEDICINE FOR DRINKS FOR SUNDRIES FOR UNUSUAL/CANDIES The school children also find many articles here that they need for use in the school room. Buchanan Pharmacy J. D. Cowan, Prop. V '. Pay Now ?* ? Make The Discount The tax books of Jackson coun ty are ready and I will begin collec tion of 1930 taxes on Monday, Oc tober 6th. * A discount of 1 percent is given all property owners who pay dur ing the month of October. The November discount is 1-2 Pay your taxes now and make the discount. fl. B. Cannon Sheriff and Tax Colleetor
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