Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-08
THE RSMARKABLEDUEL.
THAT WAS FOUGHT BY A WEST
INDIAN PLANTER.
His Face Resembied That OF an Apa
and Led Rash Young O5 Ger
to Make Fun at His Expense !
The Apo as u soldier.

l was talking with an old West
Indian ex planter. a man not long
past his three. score years and ten.
who left Jamaica somewhere in the
fifties relates writer in the Louis
vile Commercial.
IL see." said he. that there is
some talk of raising Sir John Mac
donald's widow to the peerage If it
should prove true she will be the first
native West Indian to come in for
such an honor, at least in great
number OF years. Indeed. / do not
remember that the thing has ever
happened before although Cowan.
the composer who received a Bar
Lady Macdonald, native OF ia.
maica-
Yes" he continued II remember
her father well. Monkey Barnard
they used to call him. and probably
no white man except Charles Darwin
himself. the apostle OF the monkey
ancestral gospel. ever more closely
resembled an ape in the face.
There was young buck however
who had narrow escape from pay
ing dearly for his laugh at Barnard's
ply siognomy.
john X.-that was not his name.
but it will do as well as any other
was walking along Port Ryan street
Kingston. one fine morning. when a
crowd OF idle negroes attracted his
attention. The center of amusement
proved to be a good sized ape which
Spanish sailor held by rope fastened
around its body.
TX. was at once struck by the like
ness-so he told me afterward-tc
Barnard, and the result was that he
then and there handed over two gold
doubloons to the sailor and becam.
the possessor of this living caricaturee
Barnard was a large planter and
man OF some wealth, and held ma
jor's commission in the Jamaica mill
tia The fates so willed it that there
was grand inspection of the militia
appointed to be held within q few
weeks after this geological investment
of ~, and the father of mischie!
prompted him to avail himself OF tho
occasion for an act of the most out
rageous devilment
HE had the ape fitted with com.
plete suit of regimentals as worn by
the major in the Jamaica militia
bought little tin sword and spent
hours in training this brute to walk
upright with the drawn sword in its
right haad.
The secret was well kept until the
RI nf no do Of
surrounded the race course just out
side of Kingston, whore the troops
were to march past. Presently Barn,
nrds regiment marched on to the
ground and wheeled into the line. At
the same moment there was shout
from hundreds of lusty negro throats.
Lookoo Monkey Barnardp and KS
ape, brilliant in scarlet and white,
with its tin sword we'll shouldered,
strutted out toward the ranks.
Il suppose that with the exception
of Barnard himself, there was not
man on that ground that was not con-
vuised with laughter. The military
evolutions had to wait until the ape
had been recaptured by KS groom.
The duel had not quite gone out
Df fashion in those days. or at any
rate. not in jamaica. OF course,
apology would have been ridiculous,
SO Y. had to accept Barnard's chal-
lenge The weapon, as was uaual
with us was the old-fashioned single
barreled dueling pistol. The princi-
pals had the right of reserving their
tire'-that is, though they might not
fire until the word was given. either of
them might take time after the word
was given TO aim more deliberately.
*. was an accomplished dualist
but suppose he saw the enormity of
first laboriously insulting an unoffend-
ing man and then shooting him.
Otherwise / can't account for his
missing Barnard. as he did. for Gf l
remember right) the distance was
only twenty PAGES.
Barnard reserved his fire. Then,
with his pistol still pointing to the
ground, he said to X. who was
quietly awaiting the evei.s: Young
man, i am not going to take your life
but will teach you what l could do
If felt inclined
TX. was standing close to tree on
which ripe lime fruit hung within
yard OF his head. Barnard raised his
pistol and with a bullet cut that fruit
from the branch it hung on.
IF anyone ever deserved to bear
the motto, Handsome is that hand
some does, it was Monkey Barnard
and | think from and after that day
he and all his family ought to have
been proud of his nickname.
What became OF the ape?" | asked.
II forgot what fate befel that
famous ape" said my old friend, blu,
the pistols they used-a pair-havd
found their way believe like Rar-
nard's daughter to Canada"