BLUFFING A WAITER.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5116, 10 June 1885, Page 2

BLUFFING A WAITER.

"As we got into South Carolina," writes a traveller in America," we were joined by a judge from Fittsburg. I for* get what court he was judge of; but he had been travelling south for his health, and had just figured up that he had paid 25 dollars in fees to waiters, and was mad over it. He vowed by his baldness that ha would not pay another cent., and ween* couraged him as hard as we could. When we went up to the hotel, the landlord gave us a large room with three beds in it. A big negro brought up the trunks, and. when he was ready to go, the judge called to him and began—'Coloured person, stand up ! "Now, I want to say to you that I shall expect prompt service without fees. You have brought up my trunk; that's all right—it was your business. I shall want water, and I may want a fire, and I shall probably ask you to go errands,; but, if you even Icok fees at me, I will throw you out of the window!' We were there two days, and the waiter waa vigilant, humble and willing ; but, as we made ready to depart on the morning of the third, in came a constable with a warrant to arrest the judge for threats of personal violence. It had been sworn before a justice ten miles away, and the complainant was the negro waiter. It took two of us to hold the judge during the first paroxysm; and, when he had cooled off a little, the negro slipped into the room and said, " White man, stand up! Now I want to say to you dat a five dollar bill will settle dis yer case just as I feel now;.but, if you goes on callin* names or pullin' hair or kickin', I'll stick for 25 dollars. Dat justice am my own brudder, an' he's just achio' to send some white man (er jail fur six monthiJ" We held the judge again for about 20 minutes, at the end of which time he banded over the amount, and was pronounced sane.