The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-21


4 IN response to any one who may challenge
| him: and, generally, he is in very bad
! way.
To relieve himself of these painful disa-
! bllltles. the beer outlaw gives notice through
| beer-hOnorable BtrSch dor he is in too
| degraded condition to do so i'll his own
| person., that he desires to fight out" and
! inquiries who is willing to act as his antago-
INST. -Four champions having consented 10
! do so, each is provided with full tankard
and four more (all provided Mt the cost of
the delinquent are placed before the beer
excommunicate himself. -Four times in sue
! ceSSlOn, within tive-ninute intervals, he
must empty tankard, one of the opposing
! champions each time doing the same with
his, or in default himself falling into beer
! communication The beer-outlaw having
duly come up to time and emptied his four
tankardS, is again declared beer-honorable
A beer-honorable fox rubs out his name
from the blackboard and Richard is himself
again and may fuddle at pleasure.
The beer-outlaw may either fight out on
! the spot, or at any time within three days
| from the date of his accommodation. If
he has not done so within the limit named,
he becomes liable to a fine payable, as
usual, in beer. This liability is doubled
! for each further three days during which
his state of outlawry continues. 1t is an
| awful but incOntrovertble reflection that
! by the familiar operation of geometI'ical
! progression student who ventured to dis
| regard the sentence passed on him and to
| leave the university while still in default
would, by the time he reached middle age,
owe, in accumulated fines, enough beer to
| fill the Great Tun itself
The old English custom of taking wine
| with person" each merely slipping from
! his glass, seems almost a teetotal observance
! when compared with the corresponding
usage of the kHeipe In the first place no
| one must drink So}US. If any one ventures
| to take solitary Swig, he is forthwith COM
| PEELED to drain a full measure to the health
| of the company generally The proper
| course is to drink to some one el e, at the
same time specifying the quantity the
! drlnker proposes to imbibe. The person
| houored is bound to accept the challenge,
| which he may do with simple drink
away or some equivalent phrase, when the
| challenger is bound to drink off, within tie
next five minutes, thequantity he has named,
! and within five minutes more the challenged
| must drink to him lin response the like
| quantity. If either fail in his obligation
| communication is the result But the
! challenged party may not be content simply
| to accept the challenge Stirred with mob e
| ardor, he may ''go higher" doubling the
| quantity named The challenger may do
the same, and so on, until the total quantity
| reaches a maximum of eight tankards,
| which are drunk off alternately, one by
| one, with an interval of five beer-mnutes
| between each.
The beer drunk by the challenged Gin re-
| spOnsen is not allowed "a double debt to
| pay" Probably some craven soul in the
| past devised the plan of saving his brains
and his pocket by making the same beer
| which he drank in response to one person
also serve the purpose of a challenge to
another. This is strictly forbidden by the
| code under the usual penalty. unless in
deed the original challenger has used the
words in die Welt schicken ''to rass round'1
| in which case A drinks to B. B, with the
beer with which he responds to A, drinks
also to G.; c, responding to B, drinks sim
| ultaneously to d, and SO on, all round the
table.
Speaking of anything connected with
| study (4nglice, talking shop0 is tabooed
at the hnejpe. If any one offends in this
manner he is promptly called to order by
the sarcastic remark from one or other of
the company, "Gelehrtr' ('You learned
| mann1 This is regarded not merely as a
rebuke but challenge to the duello, the
weapons being, as usual, beer tankards
The person rebuked may either simply ac-
cept the challenge this, indeed, he is bound
to do in some shapel, or he may retort with
the still more cutting ion. "D0ctOr"
c'You're doctora) This again may be
met with YOU'RE a professor" and finally,
c'You're pope y Such insults as these
can naturally only be wiped out with-beer;
and according to the gravity of the offence
the greater is the quantity required! The
comparatively soft Impeachment of being
learned man can be wiped out with half
tankard; but doctor demands a whole
tankard, professor two tankards, while
nothing short of four tankards will rehabil-
itate the man who has been dubbed pope"
Each party chooses his second. The tank
ards are filed and the second of the chal-
lerger 'malles the weapons equal" Il. e..
sees that the beer stands at the same level
in both. The second of the challenged party
gives the word, "Grasp your weaponsm
Crhe combatants raise their tankards.)
Knock" They knock them on the table,
Ready" They raise them to their lips.)
"Of." They empty them and bring them
down with bang upon the table, the one
who first brings down his tankard, fairly
empt ed, being the winner. If either of the
comhatants has not finished his full guam
tum within the usual five minutes-excom-
muulcation!
There is minor form of duel, which does
not admit of any ''going higher" The form
of provOcation is in this case to all your
adversary ''BieiJunge," meaning young
ster, or greenhorn, in beer matters. An
umpire is appointed but no seconds. The
taukards being filed the challenger says
"One," the challenged Two" and he chal-
lengrr Three" At the word ''Three" both
empty their tankards, and the combatant
who first RECEIVERS breath enough to hurl
once more at his antagonist tie word of
of scorn, "BjeJJunge," is adjudged the
victor.
In the two kinds Of duel above described
quickness in drinking is the road to victory;
but it may well be that champion, though
not able to drink so quickly as his adver-
saTy, may conceive himself able to contain
a larger quantity. In such case he may
challenge him to another kind of duel known
as tue q fare nehn1en "a term for which
there is no English equivalent. If his an
tagonst accepts for he may decline in this
case, both parties first clear Off all existing
obligations in he way of beer-duels, drink
ing to or i'll response to others, etc, and
having given public notice, through beer
homo. able BurSch, Of their intention to com
pete, the contest begins. They drink sim
UNANIMOUSLY, at intervals of five minutes,
tankard each, till one or the other can drink
no more, when a beer-honorable Bursch
declares the result, and the defeated party
is sentenced to stand four quarters as a
punishment for his presumption. It is the
duty of every beer-bonorable BlL,'Sch to zee
that the combatants "drink fair" and if
they do not come up to time H. e., if they
venture to protract the intervals of drink
ing beyond the orthodox five minutes), the
contest comes to an end and the detected