Show f run duly 18 CHILDREN PAYING WITH PISTOLS the celebrated modem french duel as compared with a recent affair of honor in alabama is as alie feats of ottlie alotti of gold compared with the puppet show of a childrens mimic alae la cone were there bloodletting blood letting or bloodcurdling incidents but some ot them made up or lack of real gore by furnishing a spectacular show which pleased the audience and were at least or an exhibition of with real weapons the alabama affair was deficient even in this attraction we are not ad mil era ot the code baello as a means of settling personal differences A man shot down cr blabbed in a duel is murdered and his bang as for the crime M it be had waylaid his victim and beat out his life with a bludgeon the arties to the duel enter the held with murder in their hearts and their appends and physicians go to sec murder perpetrated it all are disappointed and no killing is done the credit is the nervousness or ot the principals not to any yielding to the of a better nature whether there is bloodshed or not aba parties should all bo hunted down as criminals and when captured be punished the principals for wilful attempt to ubi the others as accomplices in lie attempt this would make the chivalry and bombastic honor of lie age seek more modes of exhibit uon bat on tle french adnel as commonly enacted and on alie recent bur in one of the southern states there can be hut one feeling that of utter contempt ton tempt for all the participants they boast of their bravery when they show nothing but silly blaster they prate about insulted honor when the fact is they feiza the duel as the only way of trying to convince their acquaintances that they have any honor to insult they grind their teeth in rage at trifling tri flina cause and swear that but blood will satisfy them and they meet pop away harmlessly at the air express themselves as pleased with each others explanations and with their own prowess aej flient back into the arins of society like a pair of precious clowns blead alia account of the alabama tray liet saturday evening between patrick calhoun and J I 1 williada Bon both prominent railroad men of georgia sir stood with the laub of a billib oak almost touching his face while mr calhoun stood in alie open alie acro placed in hands ahe stepped alde a aej mr king tone 01 the second sl arc on arai rrai 1 afi 1 hen lire he baid liuo enion six aliota rang out then the liking cardl und ciulli nien re larni neither licul liven bombed sir lud tired all pvc of his choti while mr calhoun only tired iiii all the att ig that mr cheek mr evidently to kill but tried to eliout too ast and mir n d lii mail mr L ho Is a drad shot lia alny in hla ark prk ake in the orning turned a half dollar ali ace out of he tarn ty PUK aisil alio ww ai cool iia it in a pratlie prat lve apparently did not try to bit his man at r the ahot mr calhoun pointe his reoler at and ordered linn not to mm c mr I 1 liae add our 0 my billi I 1 to tire at yon now I 1 do not v lh to ake our life I 1 now aik you to t stir renia iks made leor the 1 I hlll d so Willii maon provided ou the in your ic clr aaen aoker an unconditional 1 al w lift h M r Willi aniTOn aguin n fu i d 1 hen mr bild willou withdraw jour or I 1 tire mr Will lanxon replied iou with upon my iha it not no nd I 1 buu itada acta altre our our theia we load and lire again and sir wil blannon llannon omed hi aam 1 I dont to toko our li mr calhoun in speaking before tin I 1 intended to w er a point and sir personally did not occur to ne alien I 1 withdraw iny salil clr said mr calhoun pointing hla our kliots n lie air I 1 reba ml bliem or lie then isreal hig i liota in alie air alio i bok leinda and 1 t alo held ilotti are ai ann e alho public opinion li air calhoun gme mr his life Is not this the very essence of childishness ish ness what a magnificent display of bense and judgment I 1 how proudly the attendant doktors must have wrapped up their needless bandages and unused tools and how patronizingly each second roust have blown the smoke out of his principals revolver the valiant champion all the upon alie bra very which should restore hia insulted dignity and coaka his name famous in the annals of tle heroes t away with such nonsense the only successful and praiseworthy duel which ever was resulted in the mortal wounding of both fools and the imprisonment of all the accessories others are entitled to favor as having in one death on the spot and the subsequent hanging of the murderer but the greatest crime of all and we think the one ill eventually the ane entirely is that which causes all tills preparation and buncombe and waste of ammunition and et allots every participant to come home happier and ln arlier alian when he went away this ia thu kind of buelling duelling du elling press and pulpit anil platform should unite in down IT ia generally conceded deot Last arid west eliat idaho and wyoming had belter wait a while tor admission when men loa to the mountains fur new states their eeb always fiall first milne upon moribund and eliat bellit is warning enough THE counnis fair in 18 would be a great card for chicago and the north neet iset chicago haa already appropriated everything in eight and fair pi ly should step in to prevent her the world new york mast look after the worlds fair |