The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01

every man r-srur rii1s ior whaf Boz said
and odd iBc Walked sirafchf an1 talkea
sffuicht NCl liI not malfc ra'uwrn on
woman who passed thcm lu Die stree,
hCrause ~ common dorcncA did nor Forbid
such conduct id was ofcctualN sfouuei uN
fear 0f being called ont And no man
abused another behind his back or n
EliNcd company. because al the man VINO
being ma.icued had q friend present
thar friend would declare that
he was willing 90 represent
him and demand 10 hear AL thar
was being said. 10 was because 81 This
way that people had Of staudluc iN each
other that private quarrel would grow
into a fcud Smith would hack Brown.
Jones would back Smith. Thompson would
back Jones. and so it would grow until the
whole town was divided into factions.
Once a fellow named SHAW, who was
running a saloon aud q keno game was
rated in the local paper. He struck the
editor. They tried him and he was iiued
so. Cheap at half the money. he yelled
and pulled out a plug OF bills THAT tilled
his fist He took $50 out and slapped
them down before the judge Then the
crowd filed out, knowing there was
going to be trouble. Probably every
man had knife or a pistol in his
clothes. At the foot of the stairs the
editor slapped Shaw's face, and in ten
seconds the stairs and hall and space in
front of the door were filled with men
smuggling at each other and cursipg and
shouting horribly. Nobody dared fire for
fear of hurting his friends, but several
men were hurt. When Shaw got to his
saloon ne and his wife ana brother started
in to shoot, but a saloon keeper across the
way killed him with a rife and the muss
stopped right there. He was a worthless
cuss, anyway, and out of 800 people en-
gagged in the fight he was the only one
who was killed. The courts would have
settled it all now without tying up the
business of town.
IF man threatened to shoot another
on sight, that was the same rs a chal-
lenge; it was legal, you might say. l
never knew a man to be tried or punished
in any manner for doing it, because he had
given warning and he stood as fair
chance of being killed or killing. There
was a man in Americas who was threat
ened that way, and day and night he
never allowed his pistols to be out of
his reach. He came on the man who
promised to kill him one day and stepped
to a lamp post to steady his aim, then he
shot him dead. The ball splintered the
butt of pistol that the man
carried in his vest. ] was going
along the street one dark night when !
noticed that | was followed. A fellow
was pretending to come on behind me
carelessly. but | could see that he was
irving TO catch up. Just as he was a few
feet from me saw that it was jim. H,
and, thinking that there was some mis-
take, said: Hello jim! What brings
YOU out so later That speech saved my
life, for he had aimed a blow at me with
a bowie that must have been foot long,
but ! caught his wrist and he recognized
my voice in time not to try to repeat the
blow He started with an oath and in
sisted on my having drink OF whisky
and of accepting his apologies, for he had
mistaken me for a man that he had sworn
to kill at the first meeting.
Yes dueling was brutal, but was il
more so than prize-fighting2 In fist
fight men are unequal, and the largest
man wins. In a dUel-weil, the big man
there is at a disadvantage because he
shows more surface TO hit. You know
the joke about the big man who objected
to a duel with pistols for that reason.
The smaller man said: IN mark of on
you a space as large around as | am, and
all shots outside of the mark won't
count Yes, the skillful man was bound
to get the best of the merely strong man
with pistols You think you would run
away from a duel, do youl But you
wouldn't: YOU would be held right 10
your work. A man who appealed 70
the law was a coward, and was
run out of the neighborhOod. The man
who 'crawled' would have trouble with
his second, for if a man found that he
had been acting for such a fellow he
would challenge him himself, 50 that his
principal would only get out of one fight
into another. | knew a second who took
a challenge to a chap who suspected what
it was and refused to take it. You take
it. said the second or the first time
meet you on the street I'll give you a
Gaming That was a nice predicament
for a man who did not want to fight 4;
either get killed or get thrashed. Well
we'll, the old days are gone. There'n
never be any more duels in the south.
They are even stopping them in Europe. -"
nI have concluded. :, he said. uthat