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r v * UNWRITTEN LAW. TW Cod*" as It la Understood In tha Southern States. They call it "the code" in the outhern states, and to this day the node often takes precedence of statute law among men of southern birth. The code is this: If a man insults you by publicly calling you a liar or ( any other fashion you do not j chock him down on the spot, as you ' would in some states, out you warn the man that you will shoot him on | sight. The warning must be in the I presence of witnesses or in writing. Then you go home and get your pistol, and the other man presumably does the same thing. After that wherever you and your adversary meet the one who sees the other first opens fire, or if the recognition is simultaneous it is merely a question of which can pull his pistol quickest. Usually one is killed or badly injured. But if the warning has been given in due fonn it is 10 to 1 that the jury will not convict the killer. Tke verdict is "self defense" or at most "manslaughter." There is hardly a case on record of a murderer being hung for his share in a duel of this kind, however one sided. If the cause of the quarrel has anything to do with an insult offered to a lady of the challenger's family the latter is far safer than if he had killed a dog. In most cases he ' walks out of court amid the cheers of the audience. There was a ghastly tragedy at Oak Grove, Va. A man named Marx quarreled with a neighbor over an alleged insult to a young lady. In the ensuing affray Man j killed ^Taylor and two of his friends and Seriously wounded a fourth. The coroners jury decided that Marx had acted in self defense and exonerated him. To some ears this code of the southern states sounds wicked and criminal to a degree. Yet the southern code of honor is certainly no worse than that prevailing in the German and Austrian armies. If a German or Austrian officer quarrels with another of hiB own rank a duel must take place at once. The insulted man is in Coventry till blood is shed. But if the insult it from one so much higher in rank that the other cannot challenge, the latter is doomed to commit suicide. The late Archduke Otto, the Austrian emperor's nephew, got tipsy one night and brought a crew of boon companions to the doors of hia wife's suit. A young lieutenant on duty drew his sword and swore he would run the first man through t who touched the door handle. Otto truck the boy in the face and then retreated. The lieutenant could not challenge one of royal blood. He prepared to commit suicide. Most happily the story came to the P emperor's ears. He telegraphed the lieutenant and Otto to attend at at the Hofburg. Then he rated Otto fiercely and ? .4 ~ ,3 k<> '"Vni-P PrtPul rafllf CX1UCU UJ > iU0 . A V/Ui L \SJ Ui A precludes Lieutenant from challenging you. But no restriction binds me." With that he stepped up to the archduke and struck him a heavy blow on the cheek with his open hand. "Now Fgo/* he bade him. Then he turned to "the lieutenant and embraced him. "You will receive your commission as captain tonight," he said, "and with it your exchange to another station." ? Chicago RecordHerald. ?? . i y Byron's Gooce. One of the odd things remember?t ed of Byron was his careful observance of English customs abroad, customs maintained with an accompaniment of abuse of his native land. He religiously ate plum pudding at Christmas and roast goose on Michaelmas day. An acquaintance chronicled a droll consequence of this last fancy. Buying a large goose at Pisa early enough to fatten it for Michaelmas, the poet proceeded to feed it himself daily. Alas! "As the fateful day arrived he found himself so fond of the crea- 1 ture that he determined to spare its life and buy another in its place. The respited fowl now began to ' r travel with him, being swung in a cage under his carriage." At His Wits' End. He sat in his office musing. "Now, , here are two tickets for the theater 1 tonight," he said. "If I ask Jones to go with me I'm sure to find out when I cet home to dinner that it's ? 0 - the only thing that's been here in- a ; year that my wife really wants to see, ajfd if I "don't ask any one to go and blan to take her 111 learn when it's Coo late to make any change 1 that 'nothing could hire her to sit 1 through the old piece." 1 He puzzled his head over the { question for an hour, and then he ] tossed up a quarter to decide what ] he woula do, although he knew h? 1 would loae whichever way it came. ' I . \ I . i I MORBID JEALOUSY. A Disease That, Unless it Is Killed, Will Ruin Ar.y Life, When a man is afraid to remark at the breakfast table, even mildly ' and casually, that, from what he | had heard, Cleopatra was a beauti- j ful woman it is fair to assame that j the specter of constant jealousy! dwells in that household. When a , wife fears to look at the moon because she r?ay be accused of admiring the man in it the husband needs to be gently reminded that be is taking a very rapid short cut to killing the love he seems to hold so sacred. Love is fed by confidence, trust, faith and serene, restful reliance, but morbid jealousy is a poison of doubt, suspicion and injustice that dulls the love it does not deaden. Jealousy is a disease that can be cured only by tiie object, not by any one else in all the world. No matter how gentle, kind, forlmaring, forgiving and forgetting the object of it may be, this in itself will not cure the attacks. The subject whose heart is thus swayed by fierce j gales of jealousy must first awaken to the folly of it, the injustice of it; ( must be conseious of the trail of bitterness and unhappiness it brings to both, must realize the cruel continued assault on the tolerance, love, loyalty and patience of the other and when the next attack comes seek by strength of will, by force of character, by every weapon in the armory of the soul, to kill the feeling. Jealousy must be killedin the thought. In the mind, the battleground of the soul, must the , fight of extermination be waged. In the thought must the jealousy be neutralized by faith, conquered by ju tice and transformed by trustful love into a restful, abiding confi- j dence that only absolute proof and | certainty of just cause for jealousy ( * 11 11? n" i can ever reawaKen. ? >v mum \j.; Jordan in Delineator. 1 0. K. and Its Origin. There have been many theories ! advanced as to the origin of the expression 0. K. Some of them have j been partly correct, and some have not. Over a century ago a great deal of the best rum and tobacco came from Aux Caves, which was pronounced 0. K., and the best of anything was said to be 0. K. The meaning of this phrase is still retained and figures largely in the business world. Xo doubt many have thought that 0. K. came from 1 "Oil Korrect." During the campaign of General Jackson his enemies did all in their power to injure him in the eyes of the people. Once he signed some papers and I wrote after his name, "This is 0. J' K" The Democrats took- un the i ' phrase and said that it was an al>- ! breviation of the customary indorse- , ment of the general, as "Oil Korrect." They put it on their banners, and the meaning "Oil Korrect" stuck to the letters. Tartars' Holy Well. A holy well or spring awav up on ( a hillside near Kazan and overlooking the river is believed by the Tartar villagers to possess extraordi- < nary healing properties. The spring ' flows into a rocky basin about ten ; feet square and three feet deep. J The water is a pure, clear crystal, sparkling in the sunshine, and the ! marvelous thing is that the bottom ;; of the well is thickly covered with , silver coins thrown in by sufferers I who came to be cured by the wa-1 ter, to propitiate the spirit of the well. Although the tank is only I' three feet deep and no watch is; 1 kept on the spot, no one has ever !] been known to touch or attempt to ^ take any of the coins.?London ' Globe. 1 i The Wrong Pocket { The cars were packed to the doors 1 with suffering humanity. Suddenly I a little man standing in the aisle ^ thought of pickpockets and of money in his outer coat pocket. He ( plunged his hand in a pocket and * was somewhat shocked at encoun- ^ tering the fist of a fat fellow pas- ] sender. /' 1 "Aha!" exclaimed the little man. "Leggo my hand!" "Pickpocket!" hissed the fat man. , "Scoundrel!" the other yelled. Then a tall person in their vicinity looked up from his paper. "I get off here,*" he drawled, "so you fellows had better take your hands out of my pocket." Wanted to Know. An eminent novelist, remarkable j more for his vagueness than for his 1 brilliance, habitually dictates his brain {5-oducts to his secretary. When the heroine, through a stroke of bad luck, had suffered the amputation of a leg, he was perplexed as e to how long it would be before she ^ could be out and about. Absentmindedlv, walking up and down the J i " i . j ur room, ne suddenly inquired, i say, Clarke, you haven't ever lost a leg, I tiave you ?"?Pall Mall Gazette. ] - 1" lW 'MMP?I j ... iu i j.'2?v.-iV. L' . DRINKING WATER. To Bo of Any Uu It Must Bo Puro o? Comparatively So. Water is the universal solvent, and it preserves this property inside the human body as well as witnotit. It is therefore a useful, indeed indispensable, substance. But it must be taken with discretion. If one drinks a hard water?one already saturated with saits?it J - 1 . * 1 1 ila onfli?rrn UUtrs l.Llic lui an iio must be expended ia removing from the system the mineral matter which it already holds in solution, and the animal waste is left where it was before. A drinking water to be of any use must be pure or comparatively so. Distilled water is the best drink, but unless it i3 aerated?shaken up so as to absorb air?it is flat and most unpalatable. Kain water in the country is distilled water and if properly collected und 6tored is excellent for drinking purposes. The first fall should be allowed to run awav, for it contains the dust and other imparities in the air and also the bird droppings and dirt from the roof or other collecting surface. The cistern in which it is stored should be protected from the surface drainings and should be tightly covered to keep out dust. Water so kept is greatly preferable to well water, which is almost never beyond the possibility of contamination, no matter how far it may be from the barn or the outhouses and no matter though it may be at a higher level. There are often seams and cracks in the earth which give free way to water, and in this way the surface washings may be carried to the bottom of a deep well a long way off and on a higher level. Many persons will not trust any natural supply and drink only bottled water, either natural or artificial. But this is not always as safe as it seems to be. The maker of the artificial water may not filter it before charging it with carbonic acid gas, and then of course it is no better than the water of the town where it is made. The natural waters may be pure and they may not, just as any spring may be pure or contaminated. Those who live in cities where the water is filtered may safely drink it if they can be sure the water supplied is always that which came through the filter beds. Those in charge of oublic water supplies have been known to mix unfiltered water with the filtered or to substitute it entirely without warning to the users.?Youth's Companion. Jefferson Stopped It. .The custom of presidents of the United States reading'their messages to congress prevailed up to the first term of Thomas Jefferson, who discontinued it. Various explanations for Jefferson's departure from the custom of Washington and John Adams have been advanced, the most popular being that Jefferson felt that it savored of royalty, seeing that the king of England went in person to parliament and read his address from the throne. Another - 1 i T ?9 ? explanation was mat jenereons voice was notably weak. Jefferson himself said in making the change, "I have had principal regard to the convenience of the legislature, to the economy of time, to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers on subjects not yet fully before them and to the benefits thence resulting to the public affairs." Jap Sign of Fidelity. "The Japs are a fine race," said a globe trotter, "but there's one thing about them I don't like. The married women all blacken their teeth with a paste made out of sweet oil and soot. When a young married woman gives you a smile, instead of being ravished with a glimpse as of snow on roses?pearly teeth gleaming between red lips? fou look into a black hole. You frown. You turn away in disgust. The idea is that the married woman's black teeth, making them unattractive, keeps them faithful to their husbands. Seems to me it must have the opposite effect on the husbands."?New York Press. A Typical Yankee. That Dr. Ifolmes was a typical Yankee in undemonstrativenesa vas shown in the meeting with hia <on, who was wounded at Chancelorsville. For many days he had - - ? 11 tf.M. 1 >ought the captain on uie neias ana n the hospitals and .at last learned hat he was on a train that was car ving the wounded to Washington. He entered the car, saw the pale face of his wounded boy, and they ;lasped hands with a "Hello, capr ind "Hello, dad!" No Truot. Brokeleigh ? Now, look at this luit. What would you say it was rorth ? Wiseman?Give it up. But 111 >et I know what you paid for it. Brokeleigh?What ? Wiseman ? Cash. ? Philadelphia Press. When the baby is teething it is cross aui restless; it become fever- i isn, and in matiy cases vomits a great J deal and oftentimes cannot even,' keep cool water on the stomach. All the delicate little organs of the stom. ach are affected, bringing on colic ; and diarrhoea. 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I .t?'~ f V > % This man out acquainting of SCHNAPPS qualities that g less expense th A e SCHNAPPS has been a< paper so that every che\ opportunity to get acqua facts and know that drug to produce the cheering < the famous Piedmont cou tobaccos, and that SCHNA ought to chew. Still the who accept other and cl that do not give the same ] # - ' * . .. L* tJ . 'v V*. J'-^ _ . / (Mot better than the best, j but better than the rest One trial order will convince you that it pays to deal where you get the best for the money. -A-"bsolu.tel3r Free ONE QUART OF OLD MONONOAHELA! One Dozen Good Snaps while they last. SNAP 1. SNAP 7. 4 Quarts Acoru Corn $2 00 4 Quarts Monifrara Itye $2.00 1 Quart Old Monoojraheia lQuart Old Monon^ahela free. Rye free. SNAP 8.. SNAP 2. 4. Quarts Black Fox Rye $3.00 4 Quarts Surnuf Com $3.00 1 Quart Old Mononjjahela free. 1 Quart Old Monongahela free. SNA?* 9. SNAP 3. 4 Quarts Square Deal Rye $4.00 4 Quart Hy^rade Corn $4.00 1 Quart Imported Claret wine 1 Quart Old Mdnongahela free. free. SNAP 4. SFAP 10. 4 Quarts Corncob (torn $5.00 4 Quarts Gold Seal Rye $5.00 1 Quart Imported Claret Wine 1 Quart Imported Claret Wine free. , free. SNAP 5. ' SNAP 11. 4 Quarts Eagle Gin $2.00 20 Bottles Pale Export \ 1 Quart Oid Monongahela free. Beer $1.50 SNAP 6. SNAP 12. 12 mixed Quarts Wine $5 00 5 Quarts Cream of Kentucky 1 Quart Old Monongahela free. express paid, $6.00 MORRIS DISTILLING, CO. No. $ S. Front St., Wilmington, N. C* P. 0. Box 243. 5?2-fcf WATCH I THIS 1 CD A ^C NEXT 1 WEEK . WTWilkins, | KINGSTREE, S. C. ^ ^ ' bought a supply of tobacco withl himself with the distinctive taste I Tobacco, which has the cheering .ratify his desire to chew, and at . an cheap tobacco. ' 1 ivertised in this Some day they'll get a taste of the real yer has had an Schnapps?they'll realize what enjoyment inted with the they've missed by not getting SCHNAPPS juatily "ountfin lon? a8??UttyH feel like kicking intrv flue-cured themselves. :reParcSJhewre * SCHNAPPS is sold everywhere in 5 leaper tobaccos cent cuts, and 10 and 15 cent plugs. Be pleasure. sure you get the genuine. fj /