The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-07-12
NEW STYLE
He Declares That Wives Can ''SasS"
Their Husbands.

Philadelphia Record.
"a woman has a right to sass
her husband"
"a man who has lived for SIX
years with a woman who has a
tongue like a bell-clapper has had
a full share OF punishment"
The solomon who utters these
decisions, which have IA smattering
of common sense if not of law, is
big bluff Magistrate Bob Smith.
His correct name is Robert r.
Smith, but he is addressed by his
full name only by utter strangers.
From one end of the city to the
other he is known as Bob"
HE GOES IN FOR JUSTICE.
"BUb doesn't care so much for
the law, but he goes in for justice.
The place for him is in the Com
mon Pleas on in the Supreme
Court. We want less law and
more justice these days, and that's
just where he's strong" said one of
The habitueS Of police heacquar-
tiers yesterday.
TERROR To EVIL DOORS.
This opinion is shared by all the
frequenters of Fifth and Chestnut,
and each year adds 10 the luslre
which the upright Justices deci-
si0ns have given 10 the Central
station ernlIne. He has been hold
ing court there OH and off for near
ly fifteen years, and previous to
that he dispensed even, handed jus
tice as an alderman. No magistrate
is so well-known in Philadelphia,
and the fame of his decisions and
Judicial ntteranceS has been car
ried TO distant States. The muglt-
trate is OF sturdy frame, with a
ruddy face and bright eyes, and he
speakeS in a sharp, oft-hand way
that carries terror 10 the evil doer.
He has passed the h%alf-century
mark by several years, but carries
his age with a careless, easy grace,
and still delights in red neckties
and bultonhole bouquets.
SIGNS FOR THE wHIPPING-PosT.
The especial antipathy of the
Judge is Il Ile-beater or a husband
Who has been remiss III his marital ,
clatl0ns. HIS language 10 such
is severe. "You big,
BRUTE" he said 10 one of
hese creatures a while ago, "it's a
The whipping-post was ever
polished. Fellows like you ought
o be tied up and lashed." !
The Justice is an ardent advocate !
f the restoration of the whipping =
Ost for certain offenses committed =
y men, and it has been said thai q,
g also tavOrs a return TO the duck !,
lg stool as ii method of punish .
lent for women of unruly tongues. :.
lie looks upon a common scold as !;
almost as bad as a wife !,
eater. :
Nov shut up and get out of I
ere, all of you," he has sometimes =
say when a lot wrangling women :
ct to squabbling and bandying !,
ords in The sacred precincts Of his q
,urt. "I've heard all | want TO y
ON you: Skip now or I'll put all 8
nder bail"
HIS MOST FAMOUS DECISION, A
But the most recent decisions of a
Ie Magistrate have won for him v
lie undying love of womanhood. h
e has decided that it is a woman's Il
ght to sass" her husband. The
,caSion of this queer decision
'ose from a suit brought by an up. =
'wn woman against her husband. \
"He beat me until | was black {;
I'd blue" the woman testified. h
"What did you hat for, you a
~ said the Justice.
"She sasSed me-" replied the hus-
md. n
"Well, a woman has a right TO II
IS her husband" retOrted Justice
NTH. "Fined $1,000 bail. Mad .
ne, You 60 home and leave this :
How to me-"
MARRIED SIX YEARS TO A TONGUE.
The ink had scarcely dried on the
in this case when another
tracted the attention of the JUS Il
&c. A woman with rather live
tongue appeared against a man
% called her husband. The fell
W was as meek as Moses, and
'Out twenty-five years older than C.
e woman. She started off with
r story at a $50 words-a-minute
ut.
"hold on!" cried the Magistrate.
Hes a BEAST" said the woman. N
How long have you been mar
ed TO that tongue 7" asked the
"Six years." replied his meek
SIS in The dock. v
you've been punished enough.
pen the gate and let him co." SAID q.
NTH. . ..
MAKES CROOKED PEOPLE QUAKE. ~
If there is one point more than u
upon which the Justice -
ides himself it his is memo L
of the faces of criminals and ma
hers who have stood before him n
the bar OF justice.
How long since you served =,
ne :" he thunders at a culprt ~
lom he thinks he has seen before n,
his court.
"Why, Judge, l never served In
the trembling wretch an
'ers, in all probability. 70
IN your sforks'o (tha