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Show SPANIARD'S NERVES GAVE WAY Sputtering Fuse Wat Getting Too Close to "Dynamite." When, some tliio ago, an American and a Spanish officer titmrreled flerri ly over n love affair and the eholco of weapons fell to the American be nr run god the following method of sel-tllng sel-tllng their dlffcrencis. Two cases'of dnamlto wero to be. placed 100 yards apart, and to each was to bo attached n long ftiRo. Bach rival was to rake his seat on ono ot the boxes, the timet. were to bo lt simultaneously, and thu man who retained his peat the longer was to bo declared victor. At the time appointed the duelists duly enthroned en-throned themselves on their respee tlve seats nnd the fuses were lit. As the fire ran hissing along the fuse and death came nearer and nearer the Spaniard turned llrst tule and then green with alarm, and. Ilunlly', iinablo to bear tho 3tr:tln any lonyer Jumped down nnd took to tils heels. Mean-wltllo Mean-wltllo his AtiH-iIcnn livnl maintained lis seat placidly, never moving a miiBclo: ami when bis fuso had burned burn-ed Itself out ho calmly dismounted and emptied and took away tho cases, which, as he well know, were tilled with nothing more explosive than s-and |