Show I AN ARKANSAS STUEET DUEL I I In an Arkansas town the other day there was one of those street duels I that not infrequently occur in the I south This duel resulted in the death of one man a leading physician of the I town and the fatal wounding of his I brother The killing was done by one of the wealthiest men in the place a man who is noted for his fearlessness I It is stated that the tragedy was the culmination of a feud of long standing I and that owing to the prominence of the parties it is expected the feud will I be continued by some of their numerous I numer-ous friends This expectation will probably be realized re-alized for a southern feud is to borrow a phrase from Mr Cleveland an endless end-less chain Those who engaged in it seem to think that they owe a personal fealty to their friend or relative who has either killed some enemy or been I killed by him And the youths belonging belong-ing to either faction have a deadly hatred ha-tred of each other instilled into their minds Personally they have no grievance griev-ance but they make the cause of the clan their own individual cause It is a senseless thing to do but to do senseless sense-less things isthe nature of those who engage in feuds It is seldom that the feud extends beyond a few families though it occasionally does by marriage mar-riage Perhaps the most famous feud of recent times possibly of all time was the HatfieldMcCoy feud in Kentucky Ken-tucky It finally developed to such an extent and lasted so long that it almost al-most became an institution This threatened Arkansas feud cannot become be-come so famous as that though if all those bearing the name of the victims of the wealthiest man of the town where the killing occurred should take it up it would become Unionwide for their names were Smith But why should these southern brawls be calledstreet duels They are nothing noth-ing but assaults with deadly weapons each party taking whatever advantage he can Do those who engage in them and their friends think that by calling them street duels people will be deceived I de-ceived into thinking them anything at all like the old fashioned duel with its punctilious code They deceive themselves I them-selves if they so Street duels and feuds are reHcs of barbarism I I |