The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-06
ALLEGED TIGER TRIED THOUSANDS DEAD lr ronnEo>
Sent up tO Circuit Court by Magistrate
Burket for Trial

colored, was given preliminary
hearing yesterday i'm the court Of
Magistrate Burkett. for violation of
the dispcnsary law and sent up to tn,
court Of sessions for further investi-
cation. John is a man of very clear
perceptions, as you would readily im-
agine on seeing his physiognOmy, and
Is not one Of those. who are satisfied
with the monotonous tolls of life, but
full of ambition and enterprise
looking forward to opportunities as
they arise, and If they don't present
themselves, casually makes it a point
To bring them about. Several davs
ago, In his fertile mind, he conceived
the idea Of having a dance at his
domic,le and of course extended cor.
dial invitations to his many friends of
the surroundings. In the meantime,
prompted by an ambition to add &C.
cumulatiOns to his possessions, as
we'll as social time with the invited
guests, got busy and after mature
consideration of the dispensary law,
and deciding it a joke. procured for
the occasion, just a little, not enough
for the whole assembly, but about
enough for those who were fortunate
enough to carry in their pocket lit
tie Of the spOndulics. When Friday
night. the time designated for the
eventful occasion with all of its bright
hopes and cheering inspirations,
came round, John was armed and
equipped for the purpose in view. AS
the guests began to arrive, John, it
seems, took up his position in the shed
room of his house, opposite a window,
and as the boys with the spondulics
IN hand soon began to catch on, It
nickles. dimes and quarters were
making their ingress and the half
pints and pints their egress through
said window. One OF the character
istics of that osul-stirring balm, be-
ing To reach the bottom Of q fellows
shoe, II was not long before shuffling
was progressing in high order. Some
OF the attendants. conscious that the
joke was on in good earnest, kept par.
taking OF that inspiring fluid until
their senses Of heroism began to he
aroused and then the impulses were
to measure swords with the first fell
low who should drop the gauntlet.
Things were getting lively now and
Of course variety being the spice Of
the occasion, ii was not long before
Johns joke had raised pandemonium
While the great council Of demons
was reigning, one fellows head came
In contact with missile hurled by
one Of the patriots of the occasion,
and for the time being his guns were
silenced. After his spirit of heroism
had abated and after realizing his
anatomy had been the object of more
or less iniiiction, had, like many 9TH
er prominent characters, to appeal
to some power for maintenance in his
virtuous cause. The ramfications of
John's joke were now making them
selves felt. This defeated patriot
wtnded his way to the tribunal where
Justice Is supposed to reign, and IN
his Inundated herOism gave an ac-
count Of the Joke and things con-
nected theerwith. In his plative mar
ration he let few of the pearls
Of Johns joke fall upon the ever
alert ears of his honor, Magistrate e
Burkett. His honor, believing there
was something good in that Joke for
the county, as well as himself who
highly enjoyed getting on the inside
OF such, as the one John had played,
issued a special invitation to John and
handed 1t over to Mcssrs. Boykin and
scale, with minute instructions to es-
cort the guest into his majesty's
presence. Pursuant to instructions
the couriers proceeded and in a short
while John was conducted before his
honor in royal style. After getting
some of the principal details of the
joke. he decreed that the joker should
be further conducted to that palace,
at the county's expense, where pro-
visions are made for the specific care
of all such jokers.