Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — The Testy Judge. [ARTICLE]

The Testy Judge.

A young man with a delicate, strawcolored mustache and football hair parted In the center and glued down to his temples, sauntered carelessly into one of the Superior Courts the other day. He eyed the Judge through his glasses, and sized up all the attorneys. Then he walked up to the bar and poured out a glass of ice water. The Judge, who is nervous and testy, had observed the young man and frowned down on the glued hair and glasses. When the young man boldly walked up to the bar and took a glass of iee water the Judge fairly boiled with Indignation at such temerity amounting almost to contempt. The young man was just raising the glass , to his lips when the Judge roared: “That water, sir, is for attorneys and other officers of the court.” The glass almost dropped from his hand, he started violently, turned red, then placed the glass on the table and walked out of the court. The Judge chuckled. Half an hour later the young man entered the court room again with a roll of parchment in his hand. The Judge glared at him savagc’.y, but he nevefc flinched. Finally thfi-re was a lull in the proceedings, and he addressed the Court: “Your Honor!” “What is it, sir?" “I wish to submit to the Court my certificate of admission to practice in the Supreme Court and all other courts of this State,” and he passed the parchment to the clerk. “Well, what of that?” growled the J udge. “Now, your Honor, having presented the proofs of my admission to the bar I would now move the Court that I be permitted to drink from the official pitcher.” And he calmly drained the glass of water he had left on the table. —San Francisco Post.