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Show SPANIARD'S NERVES GAVE WAY. Sputtering Fuse Was Getting Too Close to "Dynamite." When, some time ago, nn American and a Spanish ofllcor quarreled fiercely fierce-ly over n love affair and tho cbolco of weapons fell to tho American ho arranged ar-ranged the following method of settling set-tling their dlffcrencss. Two cases of dynamite wero to bo placed 100 yards apart, nnd to each wns to bo attached a long fuse. Each rival was to tnke his seat on one of tho boxes, the fuses were to be lit slmultTiieotisly, "nnd the man who retained his seat the longer was to be declared victor. At the time appointed the duelists duly enthroned en-throned themselves on their lespec-,tivo lespec-,tivo seats nnd the fusca v ere lit. As tho flro ran hissing along the fuse nnd death enme nenrer and nenrer the Spaniard turned first pale and then gicen with alarm, and, finally, unable to bear the ntrnln any longer, Jumped down ami tool; to his heels. Moan-while Moan-while his Amcilcnn rival maintained his seat placidly, never moving a muscle; and when his fuse had burned burn-ed Itself out he culmly dismounted and emptied nnd took away tho cases, which, ns he well knew, wero filled with nothing moro explosive thnn sand. |