Show DUELING IN RUSSIA hot a crime hut la some an order was issued to the russian army last year which makes dueling under certain circumstances compulsory instead of branding it as a crime the result is that often men who arc friends are obliged to fight each other the gives a graphic account of a duel of this kind took place recently between two russian officers they stood by agreement forty paces apart facing each other with the right to approach nearer after firing the seconds stepped aside and one of them slowly counted one two three a couple of shots rang out but no one was touched the seconds begged that the affair might now be considered at an end but one of the contestants insisted that there should bo a further exchange of shots the distance was again measured the word given once moro two shots were lost in one a cloud of smoke enveloped each of the As it cleared one of them advanced a couple of paces and fell face upward the fallen man lay as if alive but on his left eye was a dark spot from which welled slowly up one of the seconds was overcome and turned away the other blinking curiously tugged at his mustache nervously with one hand and with the other tried to take a handkerchief unobserved from his pocket the author of the catastrophe remained un ihunt and with his looked gloomily aside tears coursing down his cheeks |