Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-17
AN OLD STORY RETOLD.
What the Governor of South Carolina Said to
the Governor Of North Carolina.

W nat the UOVeFnOr OF SOutu SaroiIla Stiu W
the Governor of North Carolina.
A great many years ago the Governor of
North Carolina received friendly visit
from the Governor of South Carolina. At
ter real North Carolina dinner of bacon
and yams, the two governors lit pipes and
sat in the shade of the back veranda with
a demijohn of real North Carolina corn
whiskey, copper distilled within easy reach.
There was nothing stuck up about these
governors" says North Carolina state his
torian, in the homely but vigorous Ian
guage of his section. There they sot and
smoked, and sot and smoked, every once
in while taking mutual pull at the demi-
john with the aid of a gourd which they
used as democratic goblet The con-
yersation between the two governors
was on the subject of turpentine
states, and the further they got into the
Jug, and the lower down they got into the
jug the dryer the Governor of South Caro-
lima got, who was square drinker and a
warm man, with about a million pores to
every square inch of his hide, which en-
abled him to histe in a likely share of corn
juice, or other beverage, and keep his car
cass at the same time well ventilated and
generally always ready for more, while the
Governor of North Carolina was more
cautious drinker, but was mighty sure to
strike bottom at about the twelfth drink,
like as if nature had measured him by the
gourdful. Well, they sot and smoked and
argued, and the Governor of North Carolina
was as hospitable as any real Southern gen.
tleman could be, for he ladled
out the whisky in the most liberal
manner, being particular to give
his distinguished guest three drinks
to one, and gauging his own dose with great
care, for fear that if he didn't he might lose
the thread of his argument, and the demi-
john might run dry before the Governor of
South Carolina should be ready to dust out
for home, in which case it would look like
he had not properly observed the laws of
hospitality which would have been self
inflicted thorn in his side for years to come,
and no amount of apology could ease his
showing his countenance to his fellow men,
especially in his home district, where for
generations it had been main point with
every gentleman to keep his visitor well
supplied with creature comforts andto hand
him good gourdful as stirrup cup when
about to take his departure for the bosom
of his family. Singular to relate, the eau
tiDusness manifested by the Governor of
North Carolina much to his subsequent
modification, when he learned the fact af-
terward dropped off into quiet sleep,
while the Governor of South Carolina con.
tinued to keep on with his argument,
holding the empty gourd in his hand
in close contagiousness to the demi-
john, and wondering at the apparent
absent mindedness of his hitherto attentive
host, to whom, after minute and half
of painful silence, he made use of but one
remark: Governor, don't you think it's a
| ing overheard by George, the body servant
of the Governor of North Carolina. who,
knowing that there was something wrong,
| took to the woods, where he remained in
seclusion for three days; but the Governor
| of South Carolina, receiving no reply from
| the Governor of North Carolina, mounted
| his horse and rode sadly homeward with an
| irrepressible feeling at his heart that there
was coming to be a hollowness in friend
ship, and that human nature was in danger
of drifting into condition of chaotic mock
cry"
| Ever since the occurrence SO touchingly
described by the conscientious historian, q
common form or invitation to join social
glass has been, Gas the Governor of South
| Carolina said to the Governor of North
| Carolina, it's long time between drinks.
| The form is as efficacious as that used BY
the itinerant minister when called upon to
turn two into one at short notice, g ine
hands