The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-01-07
THE TWO GOVERNORS.
AN OFT-TOLD TALE OF 4 LITTLE
BROWN JUG.
hat the Governor OF Soath Carolina
Said TO the Governor of North Carolina
IN the Days of Long Ago.
From the Richmond, Va. Reformer. /

From the Richmond, Va. Reformerl
great many years ago the Governor
OF North Carolina received "A frIendl. visit
from the Go.ernor of South Carolina.
After real North Carolina dinner Of ba
con and vans, the TWO Governors lit pipes
and sat in the shade OF the back verauda
with a demijohn of real North Carolina
corn whlshey, copper distilled, within easy
reach There was nothing stuck up
about these Governors, says North Car
DINA State historian, IL the homely bIt
vigorous language of his section. There
they sot and smoked, and sot and smoked
every once and a while taking a mutual
pull at the demijohn with the aid of a
gourd, which they used as a Democratic
goblet. The conversation between the two
Governors was on the subject OF turpen-
tine and rice, the staples of their respec-
tive states, and the further they got into
the subject the lower down they got into
the jug, and lower down they got into the
jug the dryer the Governor of South Car
olna got, who was a square drinker and
warm man, with about a million pores
to every square inch of his hide, which en-
abled him to hlSte in a likely share of corn
juice, or other beverage, and keep his car
caSS at the same time we'll ventilated, and
generally always ready for more, while
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 Caro-
lima was as hospitable as any real South
ern gentleman could be, for he ladled out
the whiskey in the most liberal manner,
being partleu uar to give his distinguished
guest three drinks to his one, and gauging
his own drinks with great care, for fear
that he might lose the thread of his argu-
ment, and the demijohn 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 a self-inflicted
thorn in his side for years to come, and no
amount of apology could ease his mind or
enable him to feel warranted in showing
his countenance to his fellow men, especl-
ally in his home district, where for gen
eratlOnS it had been main point with
every gentleman to keep his visitor well
supplied with creature comforts, and to
hand him good gourdful as a stirrupcup
when about to make his departure for the
bosom of his family. Singular to relate,
the cautiousness manifested by the Coy
ernOr of North Carolina was of no avail,
Tor at one ana the same time the Jug went
dry and the Governor of North Carolina,
much to his subsequent modification,
when he learned the fact aftefward, drop
ped off into quiet sleep, when the Gov
ernor of South Carolina continued to keep
on with his argument, holding the empty
gOurd in his hand in close contiguousness
to the demijohn, and wondering at the
apparent absent -mindedneSS of his hither-
to attentive host, to whom, after a minute
and half of painful silence, he made use
of but one remark: ''GOvernor, don't you
think it's long time between drinks y
The remark was 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 secluson 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 irrepressl-
BILE feeling at his heart that there was
coming to be hollowness in friendship.
and the human nature was in danger of
drifting into condition of chaotic mock
cry.
More WOnderfuI Than n Fairy Tale.