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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
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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.
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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
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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. '
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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
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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
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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
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room, ne suddenly inquired, i say,
Clarke, you haven't ever lost a leg, I
tiave you ?"?Pall Mall Gazette. ]
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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
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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
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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
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>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. Caecasweet for babies
and children makes the stomach
right and allavs inflammation and
I prevents irritation. Cascasweet
i I ncikes the baby happy and well.
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JOHN D. MOUZON'S BARBER SHOP
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Van Keorei Hotel
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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 ]
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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
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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.
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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.
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