| Show U uli lif reasons for its declined some SOM Ai anecdotes li iq dueling still popular among amoia gentlemen waa asked by a reporter the other day or of a military man who has been prominent in several ef fairs no times have changed chan goil marvol marvel jacksina Jackson Jack sona lis term tho with victory fit at the lie presidential election were rather arrogant many and gallant young nien moo had been eluded elected from froin the western and southern rou thern states I 1 and conscious conn cloua of their great numerical superiority yera some bume what disposed to carry matters with will a high hand dueling in those days was much in vogue and pers personal in tho the house were frequently brought to abrupt termination by an that hat injurious imputations would lie he resented john at patton and I 1 henry I 1 enry at wise ot 0 Virl doln balue 1 loyton of of kentucky jesse bynum of north carolina find many other southerners were known to bo be prompt with 1 tho lie pistol and it wati waa stoid hut a cull call to the field would follow any fly damaging personal attack upon distinguished members of the ilia ruling party tho the rude demeanor and of vituperation by which ion eon t re satina been disgraced fur for sonio some years seara pnat would have been promptly punished lied forty years ago now it excites comparatively little public attention and is 14 only mot met in congress by a retort in kind I 1 how do you account for tho the do de allne ellne of the dueling mania the decline dates fruna from the time it was vai made auxiliary to gambling lini and or to io tile settlements between vulgar arola since then it lias has gono gone out of rapidly tho the gross abuse of bueling duelli it has dono done more to remedy its own morat appeals and legal enactments 11 what do the lie irish think log ine Or attana dying addico 10 lo ills ons bona was always alwais be ready aly with your pistols the irish era are often too really ready there Is a trait iq in tho tie irish character charac tar which la Is considered b by to 11 be naturally chivalrous a and Z that la Is it general dislike to seek in courts of law a morne tary conati lion for outraged wo mans mania folly in this thi eon country in try reparation for loss losa of service la Is considered a thing thine as correctly as loss of pr profit 0 11 t on a brok broken eu co contract n t rac t for a cargo to of f wheat or cotton while amon gIrl irishmen li menla in nine cusati out 0 f ten the man mail who works upon th the 0 weak weakness ness of ft a wife or triflis ta with the affections or of a sister la is eo not is subjected U J acted to lu flu an asie for di IL by it a jury but ruai boned tu to alte por personal 11 men Hi inclined to lo alike target 1 I of alvea in obedience olied lence to a eon con gent ional code of honor hava ve often by availing themselves or of the he right accorded to 0 o toe the challenged to choose the wei we p kojis an old whaling capt captain attl not long lone since sinco declared he be would light fight with harpoons or not cot at all nn art alter active declined by hl mal adversary A missourian daunted his antagonist by insisting upon a combat with limited to halt half an hours Iti duration ration gen dlutman wits vu once challenged by a young officer and proposed that hat each should sit upon a powder p keg with i a lighted lose 40 in the bung As he would hear of no other benns the general hail had his way y at the appointed time the belligerents took their seats the fuses were ignited and the veteran watched the progress p of the flame with unmoved 4 countenance hla his opponent lie ho took intense interest in the fast lessening match avid and when the flume flame got suggestively near the ilia bunghole bung bune hole hola showed sho weil hla bill Doses slon of the better cart part of valor P by jumping off the keg and boking fur the open field till arrested by putman roaring out hold on rny my boyl boy its only onion heed 1 I 1 two western editors of opposing newspapers once mads made of them belaf it came about through the editor of of the pipers in a leader that the editor of the other paper was it a biga bigamist inist and that Contle mett the 00 calumny lv by pulling pull liiK tile libelers noso nose in the abo I 1 u ili it street The mayor of th the e town kindly undertook to arrange for the beani settled in ili it a proper way and the two editors were wera soon ensconced rifle lit in hand behind the trues trees lit in it a wood for two mortal InOr till hours they lodged and peeped neither lanne caring to tiro oro lest by in issing inlaying he should leave himself at ills his one enc roys mys mercy thou then the tha train rain came dowland dow nand comb hants dig covered eliat it had saturated ills powder OW der bowder Is your nur powder lie ho bohli 1 h Is rival no answered the othar All alanes nes dry contina cont lau td the hc first but his adversary hew haw matters were cattle caino boldly off out t of co civer willi ills his weapon ready to corr cobia I 1 to tile tha pre sont 11 St cried the appalled mn man atoil lets have a pirley you are a darned good rellow fellow suppose I 1 a toad stead 0 of f sh shooting hotl e 9 we go I 1 into n to partner partia er ship 11 all right replied the he ot herand they returned homo tome together toco lher of course both editors hail had to pet net themselves right with their sub they did by telling them that their gurm guna wet unit would not go K off N Y star |
