The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-02-23
POPULAR PALACES,
Some Old Fashioned Notions
That Still Obtain Credence.
THE CYCLE OF THREE IDEA.

Be Rcscued-consestive chi!Is and
the Merging Of Oisesses-law Points.
Three physicians were standing in
i downtown drug store the other day
when one. who had been looking a;
an evening paper. exclaimed: Great
Caesar. here il is again. ] see it il
the papers II least twice Il month.
What's that" asked one o: ;ae 9th
e-S
It's ,!l. popular fallacy about 4
drowning man sinking for the third
time Here it says. Just as he was
sinking Tor the third time be was saved
by the timely arrival etc. The next
time see this third time business il
probably will read. He sank for the
third time before aid could he had and
. WAS drowred.
Why will people sc: that lco! idea
1ha, sinking Tor the third ti,ce must
needs be fatal 10 drowning Uau:
Why. bless you. saw Z man sink q
half dozen times before be was res
cued alive. An aucie OF mine. Wit
reSSeS said, never sank but once. and
be WAS drowned The number OF times
man sinks has nothing 10 do with
his drowning. He may sink but once.
and &c may so beneath the water any
number Of times /, all depends upon
the person who is drowning. bis phys
ical condition and how quickly the
!u:ss ell with water.
THAT cycle of three" suggested an
other OF the doctors. is carried along
by those who insist that y person dies
in his third suggestive chill. But this
IS r.ot true. Tbe sane rule holds good
in congcStiTe chil!S- as IL the case OF
the drowning man \ person may die
in the tirst or he ,nay nave Z dozen
and still live. The rule Of three does
no: obtain there either"
The first physician. with great dis
dain. then told how many ignorant
persons would swear that If ye git
til nalary an it runs into typhoid
feveS an It runs into pewnony it's
shore death"
There's tha: same old rule Of three
again. be continued almost angrily.
First and foremost, one disease does
not run into another. There's no such
thing IS = collision between diseases.
rs many believe. II one has malaria
he has that and that alone. The same
thing IS true OF typhoid fever and
pneumonia. Each one is separate
and distinct trouble. and q doctor with
any sense should be able to diagnose
his malady from symptoms which are
always present in each and entirely
different"
From popular fal,acics in regard to
medicine the conversation drifted to
fallacies regarding the law \ lawyer
present was called upon to explain
first one thing and another. when one
Of the bystanders said:
~ made Z bet the other day that q
person had no right 10 touch 2 dead
body until the coroner arrived. and l
won"
who decided the question for you?"
asked the lawyer SIniaaSIT.
We'll" said the man sheepishly. 1t
was bartender. but he's an educated
fellow and is Z good judge Of the law"
''You speak Of the law rs e Il were
something to be judged like cattle at
9 fat stock show" replied the attorney.
There is no law on any statute book
IN any state in the United States which
says one may not touch body before
the arrival OF the coroner.
IN case os murder the o!d English
common law used to require that the
body Of the murdered one be left just
as it lay until viewed by one in author
Sty.
THAT was done. it can plainly be
seen, for the purpose Of preserving the
surroundings intact so that whatever
evidence might be there would not be
disturbed In case Of 2 murder today.
especially If any mystery were con-
nected with Il. COMMON sense would
teach q person to leave everything in
tact, not alone for the corooer. but for
the police officials Us well. But should
the body Of murdered man be moved
there IS 10 law covering 1t unless 1t
could be proved that the PEN ;!Sho
moved the body did It with the !nteo-
ton to destroy evidence. In cases OF
saicide or death by accident there
could be no objection to moving the
body anywhere IN the city il done with
humane or some other proper motive
I'm tell you what is the law" said
q stocp shouldered. long armed man
who haG betn listening long enough
to get the gist Of the discussion III
fellow sees . murder through q pane
Of sla>s he cant DC I witness IN the
case"
"Ch. pifie.r' exclaimed tie attorney.
I'm going to lunch. That's the limit
was waiting for some zap to spring
that. If that was the case and muir
der Should be committed in this room
aalc q dozen Of Us could not be CON-
petent witnesses. if your statement IS
true, because we are wearing glasses.
Glass IS glass whether in 4 window OF
on the nose. There IS no such law as
that. That's foolish"
"I heard my grandfather say that,
insisted the long armed man. and be
know'd law too"
Yes" retorted the e1asperated at
torney, "and he no doubt saTe 1t out
as law that man could stand with bis
bac... against his own house and S!!i
any one who came within certain
distance Of him. But he would hang
so- It unless he had mighty good ce-
tense. AL Of those things are what
We call chimney corner law. but they
won't hold II coucr."-kansas City
Journal.