The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
JUSTICE JOHNS COURT.
THE JASPER Family OCCUPY THE
SATURDAY SESSION.
A Confused and Bewildered Negro Woman
Attempting to Fad Her Old Friendsin
Richmond--A Small Docket.


doorway OF Justice Johns courtroom
yesterday morning. She was neatly dress
cd and from under q warmly knitted red
hood some OF the grayest or sray HAIR
was visible. Her figure was bent with
age, and when she spoke 1t was evident
that
''She had no teeth for to eat de hoecake,
SO she had TO let de hoecake 60"
There was nothing particularly TO mark
her from the herd that daily comes ana
goes through the always-open doors or
the White Chamber, yet one involuntariiy
paused TO look at her again. There was
something. after ell. why. or now. or
what for. we can never tell. but there
IS an indefnable instinct In mankind
which enables them TO distinguish an
unnamed difference in human beings.
We as certainly recognize or know some
how the undisplayed under-current OF
responsibility as we detect the ugly duck
ling or select the black sheep OF the
flock. We mark such differences In the
pasture or the pen, and readily discern
quality In tho stable, but this we credit
to our knowledge. and 1t may ia so in
stock; hut lg men and women IL must
be instinct tor We bring no reasoning
to bear. end children detect and single out
the good and bad with almost the I'M
erring result that will attend the sheep
and goats at judgment.
HER FRUITLEsS SEARCH.
The old woman looked all around at
the crowd within the court, ana then
slowly shook her head, and muttered some
unintelligible sounds.
Wont you go in, AuntyY' some one
asked her. and her answer was:
mo, indeed; thanks ye, honey. / ain
got no bisneSs In dar wild dem po' white
folks and dem tritin' niggers."
a STORY OF DEVOTION.
What are you doing here, them was
asked her. and the good old woman
looked ready TO cry as she recalled the
objects Of her visit, and felt ner own
helplessness and complete bewlderment,
for It was evident that while Time had
been comparatively kind 10 the outer ten
ement OF the mind, that his lnsidious
fingers had been busy upon the structure
within, as we see some gray churchyard
walls still standing firm ana unshaken'
while witrin the finer"tablets in memory
are crumbling and corroding with the
mutations that circle about them.
The old woman then told her story or
years ago. when she nursed two children
a boy and a girl, away down in Charlotte
after the war, and after years she had
heard OF the death of her boy she
said. and lately her grand daughter, and
read in the papers that her little mistress
of other years was about 10 ole, 100
and she had come 10 nurse her back 10
ufa agaln: and she knew how 10 90 u
why. hadn't she took her through all ue
troubles dat chillun has, and mo- 100
She had been given the ADDRESS, put u
-
wars ago. and then again she was "eu-
a. ut neither names she could recall.
They were Bouldns. she would say, ana
"vVeu I clare. / thought they all knowed
do RolIns In dis town, ana sadly sue
would look around appealingiy LOT Tue
Information that none could give one
remembered the early days IN Chario''e
u,Itb her prize boy and girl, ana told
number of their smart sayings ana re-
counted their childish joys ana tears
Tho subsequent scenes were shauo"y'
and the present-well, truly
Youths eager life and ohangeful Iot'
Nor starner manhood's graver toys
Nor trembling age itself can oiot
,rhe memories Of our earlier joys
The old woman was finally taken away
hv some woman who knew her ioihs III
charlotte. and with as much nope %
tnsnired Tvangeline she went aSa'n
in search of her little missus.
THE WAULS OF JASPER"
From the feline-nke ferocity with which
tba Jaspers went at each other yesterday
,,orning IL appeared Tor a moment as
II harmony was a lost gen. ana lanIi's
fealds the reigning substitute Oh inc
realm. .,.,,, o,,,-sf,e
and abusing Florence Jasper, ana Cou"-
ter warrant was sworn out by L loi ei.OS
against Phillis. and Harry Jasper Adam
Jasper. Bette Jasper, ana Jane '"'Pe'
ware witnesses In the case.
Florence aJsper l. gingeroreaa-coiore
y.onan and was neatly dressed, as III
fact were all the Jaspers. hne wears
a round-crowned Alpine hat ana pair
of rickel-rimmed spectacles. hcr VIVA
Tia tongue is reasonably compared 10 the
eiectrical motor OF 5000 revolutions per
minute. and the minutes are numbered Oy
the recently-invented perpetual-iil uoh
machine, and the charge against heI vas
sufficient 10 set the whoie snoP III 'u''
operation. - ....-, ..,,,
much In the order OF geese going SOUTH
ward and although distantly related 10
the Rev. DR.. John Jasper. they seeineu
but slightly acquainted with handing 'he
Roolk which is alleged TO have taught
their distinguished cousin that the sun
do move" Sergeant Thomas raped lot
order. Justice John dealt out ms bloies'
they kissed the book" and the game
began. Florence wanted the rules hNeu'
50 she would know whether stralghts
went or not and so she demanded tne
striking out Of the word "curslng IN the
warrant. This was done, and the zeal
began -. IN. en-.
started off with, Il hol' mp my right nan
10 de highes' hebbcn, and KISS ten thou-
sand Bibles. II | don tell dc uufe'
Hold on here" cried Justice Johh'
'what's all that you're going 10 90
Florence repeated, and then plunged
into a statement or the war OF WORDS
between herself and Phillis. that woulu
have dened an official stenographer'
Justice John made several attempts 10
stop her. but she rushed on ike swollen
stream down a mountain side, or a 1eAas
hull through a country town.
THE OLD MANS CHANCE.
She finally failed Tor want OF breath,
and Harry Jasper, in meek way ula1
plainly told that lie was the regreIui
husband OF this whlrlwind OF words, De-
gan his story. lie had gotten Few
sentences out when Florence interrupted