The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-13
ALL SORTS OF TIME.
The Way the Time Question Has Up
set the Courts.


The court house time is a strange medley
of contradictions, and the old picture of
Time with scythe wouldn't fit there by
any means. A picture after the style of the
Furies, with the snakes omitted, triple
headed, to represent three systems, would
serve better, or the venerable old gentleman
might be represented unit-headed with
Briarean arms to accommodate three
scythes, according to the judgment of the
| artist
The clock in the Superior Court room is
set to record Eastern Standard time. The
clock in the Clerks office of the Superior
court is set to register Central Standard
time, while an official lays his hand on his
heart and solemnly asseverates that the
officer of the court, Sheriff Roman, carries
watch set to record sun time, or the re-
| Gently discarded city time.
The question arises are the Clerk and
Sheriff in contempt of COURT Could they
be arraigned on this grave charged Not sue
cessfully. The Sheriff points to the clock
in the Superior Court ROOM of which he is
the custodian, and as it is keeping Eastern
time the complaint against him must fall to
the ground. Clerk Carr's watch is STRANGELY
at variance with the clock down stairs.
He carries Eastern time in his pocket
upstairs and works by Central time down
stairs. He must go acquit.
SAID Juryman this week: This time
business has muddled me all up. Ny wife
has adopted sun time. She says it is as 3lt
as the everlasting hills, or words to that
effect, and she don't believe in Innovations
and progress on the time question. She
says that the inaenable right of running
the family clock according to the rising and
setting of the sun has been inherited by her
from the fathers and mothers from away
back beyond the days Of Seth Thomas and
other Yankee clock manufacturers aud sun
time it must keep The meals must be pre-
pared by it and the babies spanked and put
to bed by it as in the early
days Of the republic. No ordinances
of City Councils or DEGREES of court
will set backward or forward the hands Of
her timepiece. 1t is kept as true as sun
dial to the ancient luminary, and there is
no going behind the returns, for she is an
exemplification of the adage that
When woman will, she will, you may de-
pend ont;
And when she won't, she won't, and there's the
end ont.
ESQ you see | have to get up by sun time,
eat breakfast by sun time, catch the train
by Central time and be in court on Eastern
time. Its worse than listening to an OBJ
streperous witness or tiresome advocate.
When court adjourns at Eastern time |
have to work a sum in satisfaction to get
the train time and a sum in addition TO see
if | can get home in time for supper, thus
multiplying the sum of annoyances and
causing division in the family if am not
prompt"
The docket of the City Court shows that
the Central standard time has been adopted
by Judge Harden to conform to the action
of the City Council, and, in fact, the only
adoption of the Eastern time, as far as can
be aScertained is that of the Superior
Court 1t has lei to confusion worse CON
founded, and is the target for many shin
ing shaft of levity, for while there we're but
two systems of time, and one of which was
gradually being dropped, there are now
three systems, which is especially confusing
to htigants, lawyers, jurors and witnesses
in the Superior Court