Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-09
AN OLD STORY RETOLD.
What the Governor of South
Carolina Said to the Cover
nor of North Carolina.

'" hAt AhO OONNAhOA ""
Carolina Said to the Cover
nor of North Carolina.
From the Retailer.
4 great many years ago the Governor
of North Carolina received a friendly
visit from the Governor OF South Caro-
lima. After a real North Carolina din.
ner of bacon and vans, the two Gov
eruors Int pipes and sat i'll the shade OF
the back verauda with a demij0En OF
real North Carolina corn whlskey, cop
per.distilled, within easy reach. There
was nothing stuck up about these
Governors" says North Carolina
historian in the homely but vigorous
Language of his section. There they
sot and smoked, and rot and smoked,
every once IN a while taking mutual
pull at the demijohn, with the aid Of q
gourd, which they used as democratic
goblet. The conversation between the
two Governors was the subject OF tur-
pentine and rice, the staples OF their
respective States, and the further they
got into the subject the lower down
they got into the Jug, and the lower
down they got IN the jug the dryer the
Governor of South Carolina got, who
was square drinker and a warm man
with about q million pores to every
square inch OF his hide, which enabled
HIM to histe in a likely share of corn
Juice, or other beverage, and keep his
CarcaS at the same time well ventilat-
ed, and generally always ready for more,
while the Governor of North Carolina
WIS more cautious drnker, but was
mighty sure to strike bottom at about
the twelfth drink, like as il 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
gentleman could be, for he ladled out
the whiskey in the most liberal manner,
being particular to give his distinguish =
ed guest three glasses to one, and gang
ing his own dose with great care, fer
fear that ii he didn't he might lose the
thread of his arguments and the demi-
John might run dry before the Gov
ernOr of South Carolina should be
ready To dust out for home, in which
case it would look like he had not pro-
perlv observed the laws of hospitality,
which would have been Il seli-lntlCte'
thorn in his side for years to come, and
no amount of apology could ease his
mind or enable him 10 feel warranted
in showing his countenence TO his fell
low-men, especially in his home dis
trict, where for generations 1t had been
a main point with every gentleman TO
keep his visitors well supplied with
creature comforts, and to hand him a
gOurdiul as a stirrup cup when about
TO take his departure for the bosom
of his family. Singular to relate, the
CautiOusness manifested by the Gov
ernOr Of North Carolina was of no avail,
for at one and the same moments the
Jug went dry AMI the Governor of
North Carolina, much TO his subsequent
modification when he learned the fact
aiterward, dropped off into quiet
sleep. while the Governor OF South
Carolina continued TO keep on with his
argument, holding the empty gOurd in
his hand in close COtagiousness to the
demijohn, and wondering at the APP
parent Observation-Disclosures OF his hlther-
to attentive host, to whom, after min
uLt anu u llhAA Va l'tAAAlANA oAANANNf NV
made use of but one remark: Gov
ernor don't you think it's a long time
between drinks" the remark being
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 re-
NAMED in seclusion for three days, but
the Governor OF South Carolina receiv.
ing no reply from the Governor of
North Carolina, mounted his horse and
rode safely homeward with IN irrepressi-
bic 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 a condition OF
chaotic mOckery.'
Ever since the occurrence so touch
ingly described by the conscientious
historian, common form OF invitation
10 ioin a social glass has been, "As the
Governor Of South Carolina said to the
Governor Of North Carolina, it's a long
time between drinks The form is as
eticacious as that used by the itinerant
minister when called upon to turn two
into one at sho,t notice-'Jine hands.