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Show p THE BAR ON THE BAR. For picturesque scenes and local coloring the recorder's office in Atlanta, At-lanta, Georgia, is a wonder. Recorder Recor-der Broylcs is a keen analyzer of the foibles and weaknesfes of humanity, and is usually able to get a the bottom bot-tom of the obscurest tangles. A majority of the cases tried arc negroes, and the bulk of their crr'uig is in drinking too much. Not long since a shiftless-looking negro man was arraigned for habitual habit-ual drunkenness. .The principal witness against him was his wife. She was on the witness stand with Recorder Broylcs applying apply-ing his incisive scalpel. Does your husband stay drunk all the time? asked the recorder. No sub, not all dc time sometimes I isn't got any jod. |