Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-13
A DUEL At The WORLDS FAIR
Two Big Arabs Fight With Ma
bouts for a Danseuse.
Salda's Heart Was All untrus, After Few
Days In Chicago. and Cairo caresses
and Kisses Were Forgot..No
BIoodshsd.

CHICAGO, May s.-An ''affair OF
honor" is pending between two of the
inhabitants of the street in Cairo, which
is to be settled just as soon as the bel.
ligerents can find an opportunity to
get at each other.
ManagerPangelloh heard subdued cries
from the western end of the street, and
few minutes later his night watch
man, Mitwali, ran TO him with the In
formation that fight was in progress
Calling his superintendent, Nimel, Mr..
Pangello went with the watchman to
the crowd that had gathered around
the fighters and ordered hostilities to
cease.
Two big Arabs were pounding each
other with nabouts, not dangerous
style of weapon, but one calculated to
use an adversary up IL diligently and
persistently applied. A nabout is a
pole ten feet long, round and smooth.
The contestants, when nabouts are tho
weapons used, stand eight feet apart
and pose much the same as in fencing.
No special education in the art OF
fencing is needed to make a man handy
with nabout. An athletic man whose
knowledge of fencing is limited TO con-
structing rail fences on Missouri farm
would not have the worst of It To a
marked degree in a contest with grad
uate of Colonel Monstery's school. 1t
is simply matter Of strength and en-
durancc in this kind of fight.
Mr.. Pangello found that the fight,
although in n strange country and with
peculiar weapons and conducted under
queer circumstances, was for the same
old reasona woman. Miss Saida was
the bone Of contention, though she
doesn't look a bone by any means, be-
ing fat and sleepy looking until she
does her darce. in which the move
ments employed are of an cells de
gree of grace. Before she left
mess" promised 10 become Mrs.
Homosani, but. like her Ameri-
can and English compatriot, she "was
welded 10 her art" etc, and didn't
care to get married so long as she
could retain her popularity as dancer.
The best that Homosani could get the
girl to promise was that when she tired
Of the stage she would marry him.
This understanding between the two
gave Homosani slight percentage
over the other fellows, and he was fool
ish enough to take advantage OF the
shadow of title that he had established
to the favor of the dusky danseuse by
haunting the spot where she was.
There are moments when one wants TO
be alone, and one of these times is
when one is seasick. Homosani did
not seem TO appreciate the fact that
sentimentality and seasiclSness are in
compatible, and he insisted on hanging
around Miss Saida at that period of the
voyage when she secretly hoped that
the vessel would sink.
When she landed she developed n
dislike tor her Carlo lover and init
mated to him that Carlo promises did
not necessarily count for anything in
Chicago, and that an Egyptian engage
ment was not binding when the be-
trothed parties are in the free-for-all
atmosphere of the occident.
Homosanis heart was very heavy at
this change in the attitudes of his
Carlo charmer, and he tried to reason
with the girl, but she discouraged him
by requesting him to keep away from
her, saying that whenever he came
around her il caused that tired feeling
which follows sea-sickness to return
and that she feared that his appearance
forever after would bring to her sad
memories of the time when he insisted
on hanging around her and asking the
Egyptian equivalent of Are you better,
darling?"
Homosani discovered that his fiancee
was talkingin a confidential man
ner with Abdelmedgid Farag, and
when he told her about il
she told him gently, but firmly.
that she had abandoned all idea of be-
coming Mrs Homosani, and that she
would be obliged to him IL he would
keep away from her. Then Homossni
hunted up his hated rival and conveyed
"a desire TO fight. Farag was not in q
position to refuse even if he had wished
to do so, and the arrangement was
made for the fight to come off.
As special inducement to have q
fair contest Miss Saida offered to be
true TO her oid-time lover If he won and
to be true TO her more recent flame in
case Farag had the best of the fight.
When Mr.. Pangello reached the
scene ot the fight he fnnnd that not
only Miss Saida but also the other
women of the colony We're attendants
on the bloodless duel. The men did
not stop at the first command, and
Pangello ordered Mitwali and Ninci to
seize Farag and disarm him. Both men
have sworn to have the matter settled.