, 1877-01-27
AN AFFAIR OF HONOR.
A LITTLE CASE OF UNBURNED
POWDER.
AN ABsQuATuLATIxG BELLIGERENT.

On the recent upward trip Of the Da>
kota from San Francisco to this port,
laughable episode occurred, in which
the sanguinary code was eventually IL
voked. 1t takes two to fight due,
however. as well as to make q bargain
and the failure Of one I the principals
| To put in an app earance. was no fauir
OF the getters up of the affair. 1t seems
that among the fifty old cabin passen
gers was u young gentleman who was
unknown to his fellow -travelers by any
other name than that OF 1.-The Profes
sor." Whence he came and what WAS
his destination. beyond Victoria. no
body knew. He dressed well ard, by
uot getting sea, sick, became
QUITE HERO
In the eyes Of the lady passengers. The
third night out from San trancisst.,
one of the passengers undertook to aci
as ciceroue for the Professor. He CAL.
Ell on him for u song and the haiter, q
vocalist struck up "Ihe Heart Bowed
Down." The passengers were aston
Ished, If not delighted. They might
have heard the snme song better rel
dered--but neve! worse. That voice!
How he lang It's marvellous staccato ny
10 the highest pitch and then dropped
1t down into the lowest basso protundo.
| In New York such voice Was worth
four dollars per Cay to ally man whose
soaring ambluon would lead him into
DRIVING A CLAM GAIT.
Just as he finished the strain, a sup
pressed litter ran though the spacious
cabin. ''Who laughe ed?" asked the
Prafessor. 1.-The ships surgeon," was
the answer. land you must call him to
account for it, Here the Doctor rose
10 retire when the clceiune called after
MN saying,
I'VE accept your challenge. sir"
Il said nothing about challenge.
replied DR.. Wheeler, calmly.
I've are the llJured pa.ry." retorted
the cicerone, ''Hnd We choose pistols al
twenty steps"
Great Godr' cried the agonized Pro-
| fessor, Il never fired a pistol Ill my
life.
LEAVE ALL TO ME,
Replied tue clcerone. your honor shall
be my honor" There Was no help for
it. The challenge was penned by one
of the parties to the job and the Pro
lessor. with trembling hand, appen ed
his sign manual. The second then took
1t ana wen1ed his way to the surgeons
room. as the gallant ship had the gilt
tering hight of fattoosh 'broad abeaiu. >
Midnight Was oD the sea and the pOn
derous w:lklng.beam rocked slowly i'll
the darkness Through the gloom, the
pprtiy tigme of the veteran Morse tow
cred above his puny snbalterns. The
affable Brewster. the methodicai Pitts
the mischievous Mcclure. the genial
Martin and the modest Hof, alike had
sought
THE EMBRACE OF MORPHEUS,
And so had DR.. Wheeler. when knock
came at his door, "Wh0's there ?"
asked the man of q thousand pills
"Open in the name of honor" replied
the stern voice of well-known Seattle
lawyer, who soon made his business
known. The doctor glanced over the
cartel and drew down his upper hp
with a cold smile. "Well." he replied,
Il dislike quarrels. and would fam
forego hostile meeting, but"
"But you must fight" Interrupted
plume.
"AIl right" replied the Escnlapian.
everything goes. Meet me on Bea-
con Hill, at noon. on Sunday"
THE SEQUEL
Is yet in the WON'T of futurity. Hof
swears be got no sleep that night after
the challepgers withdrew, for Wheeler
snored SO loud that he (Hoff) though,
of waking up Mcclure to equip the
Doctor with a surface condenser, to
reduce his exhaust. 1t evidently did
not trouble him much. He rose I'D
the morning early and was the ''leadeI
of the torlorn hope" a, the breakfas
table. where he got away with broile d
chickens. and deviled ham, with the
rapacity sof paper-miIl. At last the
ship reached E>quimault. and Capt.
Morse took his departure Cor the Vic
toria Custom House. Wheeler, began
to grow impatient and called upon the
adverse seconds to bring ont
THE MARKING IRONS"
The time had come, and so had the
tools; but the other principal. where
was he? Echo answers where Per-
haps he slumbers beneath the yeasty
waves that roar about Race Rocks;
perhaps some shark has digested his
left leg and retired to nightmare off
Sock Inlet; perhaps he exchanged
clothes with some steerage passenger
and got ashore in the excitement that
pervaded the landing o: the steamer
Bnt as n beliigerent. IN exponent of the
&C de, be is no more He has retired TO
a mysterious seclusiou hitherto enioyed
only by Charley Ross. and will probably
never emerge from his retiracy till the
Dakota goes into some foreign trade
and carries the impertnrbabls Wheeler
with her.
W. Ill.