The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-22
CUPID TRICKS
JUSTICE JOHN /
A Letter Telling Him There Was No
Wedding.
PIANO PLAYING NOT WORK.
Luther Edwards Was systematically
Robbins His Employer and Was
Caught Rcd-Handed and Re-
ceives Full Punishment.
PIANO PLAYING NOT WORK.

Ine fOICe ESOuTL SSSlSiuEhS 49,
as short as a sleepy boys prayer, and ex-
cept for the small talk and criticisms OF
the Great Law Giver the crowd would
have felt they hadn't got their money
worth
The Great DISPENSER was in q fine good
h;,mor Yesterday He shelied the woods
all the way downtown for the enemy. out
every proposition met a second, ana ne
reached the temple of justice with not a
hair turned the wrong way
BADLY BEAT.
He came upon the bench, however, rath-
er more thoughtful than merry. Cupld;
the saucy deceitful little wretch, hao
played him a trick.
Justice John is something of a match
maker: indeed, he takes pride in the NUM-
Der of matches he has made in his ofic.al
career, and you would think from ms de-
cisions sometimes, that he thinks marriage
an estate only slightly removed from
Eden. And as for family recommendations
he grows eloquent when he talks ABOUT
the broken domestic bonds that ne mas
patched I'D and mended in his time.
CANNOT CONTROL CUPID.
"Once get 'em tied and know what TO
do with EN-" says the Great Lawgiver
But Cupid is a slick little rascal, with as
many minds as party manager, ana me
Great Dispenser owes him several beats.
NOT A WEDDING.
The other day he dismissed a case
against James Burch for trespass on the
premises of Mrs. Margaret Strain because
there was love in the case. and Miss Mary
Lizzie Strain sided with her lover against
her mother and her brother and declared
they would make a home OF their own.
The Great Dispenser gave them his con-
sratulations and sent them on their Way.
feeling as happy as a man who had maze
a millon-dollar endowment to pubic
library
But there's many a slip between the
cup and the lip, and the Great Dispenser
had Just received a note from Miss Mary
Lizzie Strain. saying she wanted him ana
the world to know she is not married yet.
OF course there is another chapter to the
romance but it is yet unwritten in the
records of the Great Dispenser.
That was why he was solemn when he
came upon the bench and roasted one OF
his best friends for not being in court eH-
actly on time, and with fine sarcasm eX-
pressed the hope that he attended to his
own business more promptly than he did
the courts.
LITTLE FIGHTERS.
Andrew Toliver (coloreO was charged
with threatening to cut with a knife Jas.
Crown They are both boys OF the age
that in these days seem naturally to sat
isfv their anger with a knife. Andrew
was fined s. and went to jail in default.
Moses Banks (colored>, also of tender
age. resented the words of some other
boys with a club, which he hurled into
the crowd.
He was fined $780, which was paid by
his mother with whole weeks washing
There was a lively seance in her back
ward when she got Moses home.
Frank Brown (colored) was charged With
being a suspicious character. He was ar
rested on the complaint of a woman for
stealing Nobody appeared against him.
and Frank declared he worked steadily
and was about to go to freedom. when the
Great Dispenser, with one of those curios-
ity-born inspirations that often overtake
him, asked Frank the character Of his la
Dor.
NO OCCUPATION.
81 plays de piano, sir: and was working
for dat lady when she tried to make ont
I stole from her.
..If there is any thing on earth I do
despise it's a piano-playing Niger And
the Great Dispensers mouth took on a
Henry Clay expression and the hard-work-
ing musician went to the pen on a tObos-
gan slide.
Luther Edwards (colored) was charged
With stealing six bottles of whisky from a
liquor house where he was employed as
driver The populations had long been
going on but Luther was trusted en-
ployee, and went a long time Wltaout
suspicion against him.
RED-HANDED.
The six bottles disappeared. two at a
time. during one afternoon. Luther was
searched and two of the bottles We're
found on his person and two in his wagon
The belief was that Luther had systenat-
ically robbed the firm
The Great Dispenser always gives a
trusted employee who steals from his en-
ployer. heavier punishment than an or
binary thief. and Luther went to Jail for
four months
LUCINDA Green (coloredl. charged with
stealing seven dollars from Judge HAYES
was put under security of hundred doll
lars for sixty days, and went to jail in
default