The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-12

standing in the matter. Check him if
he uses opprobrious epithets towards
his adversary, and never permit i'm
proper or insulting words in the note
| you carry.
3. To the note you carry in writing
to the party complained of, you are
entitled to q written answer, which will
be directed to your principal and will
be delivered to you by his adversary's
| friend. If this note be not written in
the style of gentleman, refuse to re-
ceive it, and assign your reason for
| such refusal. 1: there be O question
made as to the character of the note,
require the second presenting it to
you, who considers it respectful, to
endorse upon it these words: II con-
slider the note of my friend respectful
and would not have been the bearer of
1T If l believed otherwise.
4. If the party called on refuse to
receive the note you bear, you are en-
titled to demand a reason for such re-
fusal. If he refuse to give you any
reason, and persists in such refusal, he
treats not only your friend, but your
self with irdignity, and you must then
make yourself the actor by sending
respectful note requiring q proper ex-
planation of the corrsc he has pursued
towards you and your friend, and if
he still adheres to his determination
You are to challenge or post him.
(When practicable "a card" published
in newspaper is substituted for ''post-
ing"
5. If the person to whom you deliver
the note of yonr friend declines meet
ing him on grounds of inequality. you
are bound to tender yourself in his
stead, by note directed to him from
yourself, and if he refuse to meet you,
| you are to post him.
6. In oil cases of the substitution of
the second for tho principal the Sec
| onds should lnterpose and adjust the
matter If the party substituting avows
he does not make the quarrel of his
principal his own. The true reason of
substitution is the supposed insult of
imputing to you the like inequality
which is charged upon your friend,
and when the contrary is declared,
there should be no fight, for individ-
uals may well differ in their estimate
of an indidual's character and standing
in society. In case of substitution and
satisfactory arrangement, you are
then to inform your friend of all the
facts, whose duty it will be to post in
person.
7. If the party to whom you present
note employ son, father or brother
as second, you must decline acting
with either on the ground of consap-
guinitv.
8. If n minor wishes you take a
note to an adult. decline doing SO on
the ground Of his minority. BIT if the
adult complained of had made a com
panion of the micor in society you
may bear the note.
8. When an accommodation is ten
dered never require too much, and if
the party offering the amende honor
able wishes to give q reason for his
conduct in the matter do not, unless
| offensive to your friends, refuse to re-
ceive it. By 80 doing you heal the
breach the most effectually.
10. lfa stranger wish you to bear
note for him he we'll satisfied before
you do SO that he is on nn equality
with you and, in presenting, state to
the party the relationship in which
know and believe about him, for
strangers arc entitled to redress tor
wrongs, rs well rs others, and the
lul@s of honor and hospitality should
| protect them.
Chapter
TIE PARTY RECEIVING NOTE BEFORE
CHALLENGE.
l. When the note is presented to
you by m equal, receive and read it,
although you may suppose it to be
| from one you do not intend to meet,
because its requisites may be of II char
acter which may readily he complied
with. But if the requirements of the
note cannot be accedcd to, return it
through the medium of your friend to
| the person who handed it to you, with
your reason for returning it.
.. If the noto received be in abusive
| terms, object to it's reception and re-
turn it fer that reason; but if it be re-
| spectful return an answer of the same
character. in which respond correctly
and openly to all interropatories fairly
proponnded and hand it to your friend,
who it is presumed has been consulted,
and who has advised the answer di-
rected to the opposite party, and let it
be delivered to lis friend.
3. You may refuse to receive note
from a minor If you have not made an
associate of him; one that has been
posted; one thst has been publicly dis
graced without resenting it; one whose
occupation is unlawful, man in his
dotage and lunatic. There may be
other cases, but the character of those
enumerated will lead to correct de-
cision upon those omitted. If you re-
ceivc n note from a stranger you have