The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-19
A LAUGH FOR
EVERY MINUTE
Justice John Entertained a Good
Audience Yesterday.
WAS JUDGE OF A BABY SHOW
lie is Now Going Around Mending IL
Fences John IiObsOn ia Court
with Brand New Nose-Ryan
Goes TO the Grand jury.

\ splendid audience greeted the Prince
of Lawgivers yesterday
The stage management was fully Up to
the standard, the performance went off
with great eclat and there was a iaugh
for every minute through the show
Although the city IL crowded with stran-
gers. good order Is maintained and those
interviewed by the police manifested uni
NeTsdl preference for water.
THAT BABY SHOW.
Justice John acted as judge at the Ba-
by Show Il rev nights asO. and Is now
spending all his spare time going around
meuding his fences This unpOlilc action
perhaps would not have occurred had his
Prime Minister been in town, and his
continued rasplug OF the reporters from
she bench is "a VicariOus relief 10 his pur-
turb0tion OF mind due 20 letting his loot
slip whore he would. by nature. throw
ashes on the pathway before he passed
What if cynicism does take the place
of Wit and good humOr Is displaced by
ira.d3ility. is it not human nature 10 visit
our mistakes on others?
Let us throw the mantle OF charity over
The Great Dispenser has three never
fading sources of relief for his feelings
the lawyers, the police and the reporters.
There were no cOuns ! before ntln yester-
tfNA+H~
half doing their duty, and that he could
not get rule returned. and threatened
10 indict the force for contempt OF court
ABUSE a PLENTY.
He then found that he had more abuse
than would go around the corps OF cops,
and let the surplus loose on the report
But it was al on account Of that Baby
Show.
Alahala Hickman caught some of It,
too. Mahaa Is given TO drinking hery-
DEMONSTRATING huid until she is as sodden
~ the ChickahOminy swamp. Manala
had no cash, and went down for thirty
days.
John Kragle pulled his slx-feet five
inches of form together. and stood be
fore the Great Dispenser with hands
deep i'm his breaches pockets. and his
back crumpled mp like a man half frozen.
at . o'clock in the morning.
The charge against John was drunk
enness. but there were lots more Dehind
t.
Not long since Mrs Kragle charged
John with being drunk and beating her
and he was forbid by the court 10 60
where she was. She Was on hand again,
Ike the Nemesis of fate. and declared
she didn't care what the Great Dis
pcnser ala with him so he kept Johnnie
The long feather I'm her hat trembed
Ike n flag pole in the wind. with her
suppressed feelings and determination,
Ind an enjoyed her sDunk.
John was put under security of hum
bred dollars and sent down FOR thirty
days Ito get the whlskey out OF his
hide.
Arthur Peters Il white boy. fifteen
years old arrested as vagran-. claimed
10 be from Elkhart. Ind. lie was held 70
inquire into his case
Willie Booker. colored was arrested
f'r lighting on the street and iawed the
policeman He paid three dollars. rot
including the cost OF ride IN 'Ihe
Thos. Ryan was charged with fe!o-
Nous and malicious assault on John Hob
on the night OF November 9th he cut
John HObsOn's nose of except silver
Of skin. with an inward slice OF "a sharp
knife severing eristle and arteries with
DR. cunningham responded with the ann
lrlance and stopped the hemOrrhage ana
put H0bs0u's nose back IN place, where
Ii is growing again as strong as a ounce
lie can't blow il yet. but he'll still be
able to tell iu the dark when he crosses
ShockOe Greek.
THE GREET Dispenser complimented the
Young doctor on the noatness Of the JOB
and the negro on being able TO follow ms
nose through lie.
\ NEAT JOB.
The testimony was that llobson ana
ia and Georgia IN a low barroom ON
cary street. and Ryan being from Geor-
eia Hobson threw up 20 him the S1u
Hose affair. and Ryan told him III 20
CHobsom was I'm Georgia they "ouid
hang him .t... ao
RYAN then went off and returning ~
minutes later. slashed Hobsons nose WIZ"
"A keen blade 1901. 20
His only defence was that he was re-
senting AN insult. The with
RYAN. who Is a cripple and WIZ ~, w."
a crufch was sent on 10 the gr1nl, -.
and Jobn retired 10 take a few fresh les
sons I'm smelling -. rroxv
Mrs. y T. Chandler appeared by p,-n@s
I'm behalf Of COW with roaili"5
sitiOn and left q souvenir - -