The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-22

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story of Judge Twiggs and How
Ready Tongue Told.
The good time is coming in the sweet
I"' by and by,
a. tho good time is coming by and by;
0'' When the tariff bill enacted
Will be driving us distracted,
irving to pay our debts contracted
Under prices then exacted-
nh you'll never have penny for a drink
"" of corn or rye.
= .,,o eood time that's coming by and by.
oDe necessaries uf life is gwine ter rise
IN nrce. so 1 thought I'd lay in my stock
fo-band" and as he spoke old uncle
huoeed more tightly the little brown jug
90 corn whisky he carried under his arm,
uftine it finally into his one-horse wagon
ord nlacing it snugiy away in a pile of
fodder with caressing tenderness.
II was the most doleful and cherries
commentary upon the Dingley bill and the
Mckinley idea of tariff that has been wit
messed in Savannah since congress has
beer tearing its hair over the measure by
which prices are to be raised on the COM
roodities. which go to make life worth liv-
Ing.
why is it that you are laying in a sup
pIv of whisky and not clothing or things
TO eat?" asked some one standing near.
oval. sab, it wuz lack dis: Dey tole
me as how de teriff wuz gwine ter raise
de price NV de necessaries NV life, an ter
nv own notion deres nothin' so necessary
as de article dat jug contains and I'm
Gle Zeke crawled into his little wagon and
clucking to his faithful, though much
abused old hallelujah mule, which no
doubt carried on its poor shoulders the
invisible ghost of many a mortgage,
started off up Whitaker street.
One thing seemed certain that he had
caught the prevailing awe and dread
which hovers over the country since the
proposed tariff bill started on it's way
through congress- though he may not
have known exactly where it would hit
first. Another thing is equally certain.
Uncle Zeke will have enough of the pure
old article of corn whisky to cause him
TO be utterly Obvious of the real effects
of the tariff provided he takes it in brok-
en- doses.
"Tybee is just little too swift and
gay for me" remarked an elderly look
ing lady on a Liberty street car yesterday
afternoon.
She had evidently been down to Savan-
nah's seaside resort to pass a few days,
but had decided that she had best skip
along back to her home away up In the
interior
And why do you call it too gay?" asked
a friend, sitting by her, probably city
cousin.
Don't ask me-" and the good old soul
threw up both hands and made a very wry
face and shrugged her shoulders. 1t was
evident that she had seen something per-
fectly awful at Tybee.
Those girls and old women, too, ought
to be ashamed of themselves for the way
they behave when they go out in their
snort frocks to battle. Why, suppose my
daughters were to carry on like that,
would dsinherit them"
why, surf bathing is nothing" protest
ed the city cousin. '"The wearing of short
dresses to go in bathing is all right.
Where's the wrong?'
i don't object to the wearing of short
dresses and don't mind their gong in
the water in their stocking feet and all
mat sort of thing" she said, with broad
minded allowances, "but, when l saw a
glri come deliberately out to the shallow
water look about to see If she had a lot
OF people looking at her, which she did
nave, and then deliberately wiring her
skirts m her hand to squeeze the water
out OF them, and then dart right back in
the water-go off, you can't tell me she
wasn't doing that for effect! No, no, Ty-
Dee IS Just little too gay for me-"
A clever story is told how Judge H. D.
~ I"lggs once called down another law
yer VINO was opposing him in case. The
counsel on the other side had the first
speech ana he went on to say in grandilo-
queht fashion before the jury that he
tealSed what a great giant of legal abll-
ny was to follow him, referring to Judge
I"iggs. He said, however, that he was
Hiinset thrice armed since he had a Just
cause he stated that he did not need
ne sreat pile OF law books Judge Twiggs
t nau seen mt TO bring out, for the reason
'naI ne was like Samson, "strong IN the
ruin and hence he would, like Sam
sun huri down the stack of law books.
ana with this speech he dramatically ges-
ucuIated by striking at the stack of Geor-
court Nv nv
"nen 1t came Judge Twiggs' time to
sPedk ne said to the jury that his friend.
~ ~ attorney on the other side, had called
s,'lIseii IN great outburst OF verbosity like
80 9'itson and that he would STAY the pile
~ o9 S with one blow. This he may
."Ne oohe, said Judge Twiggs, because
she weapon engaged was the same that
'arlson used-the jaw-bone of an ass.
49, ". =, story was told Gov. Stephens once
49, 80. lhe dlminutive little Georgia giant of
rlor,ri' a,ltship laughed heartily at it, de-
ushns mat II ought to have been puh-
'e4 ~ me Bench and Bar"