Arizona republican., 1897-10-24

style of 1OcOmOtlOn and went to lunch on wheel. He alighted in front of the restaurant, spoke to three or four friends on the sidewalk, ran briskly into the grocery store and emerged with the hitching weight. He drop ped it on the curb and finding no place to attach the strap, he looked foolishly around and admitted that the drinks were on him.
 The Herald of last Friday evening contains part of an art scle by an eastern critic upon the methods and people of Tammany. He particularly aimed at Little Judge Mccarthy, who in pulling the democratic candidate, Van Wyck, in nomination for mayor of Greater New York, made the fol- lowing astounding statement: His descendants came over to this count y with the first families four hundred years ago." The criti, might as we'll have stopped and for his own sake ought to have done, so The thing was so supremely ridiculous that it need be lighted by no comment but the critic proceeded to an explanation calculated to make still more plain Judge McCarthy's ignorance of his- tory and the difference in meaning of words descendants and ancestors. Says the critic of that part of the statement regarding -four hundred years,' He was speaking ore Iotun- do-in round numbers. To have been more exact Monsieur le Judge Nc Carthy should have said "405 years" Ore rotundo' does not mean in round numbers or anything like it. It doas ;-1, In mouth and is a technical term under stood by students of elocution.
 
 A Phoenix man not long ago was on the edge of violating the laws of God and the state of Sonora by fight ing duel. While at Nogales with a party of friends, he fell in with a German baron who happened to be engaged in a mining enterprise on the Mexican side. The baron and the Phoenix man got into a dispute one night over a game of billiards. The dispute was mild and gentlemanly at the beginning. The Phoenix man without losing his temper acquired that degree of conversational freedom which a quarrel always inspires in an American and began pouring into those noble German ears such lang uage as had never assailed them be- fore. This was the ground work for a duel The baron issued a challenge and the details were arranged by Col w. P. Harlow. It was to come off on the Mexican side. Nobody but the baron was in earnest about the duel and it was supposed that he would be cooled off during the night, but he didn't. He spent half the night in arranging his earthly affairs and preparing for the worst. Col. liar low was anxious to stop the affair before the men took their places if he could do so without loss of honor to the American. The, idea was to induce the baron to propose peace. If he should persist in settlement at twelve paces Col. Harlow had arrang- ed that the antagonists should face each other with blank cartridges. But the baron was bent on bloodhed and the party crossed the line. The Phoe- nician had swift horse for the Mex ican police know nothing about jok- ing. If the duel should be interrupted imprisonment would be likely to fol- low and freedom would be regained only after the settlement of a trfangu- lar international discussion of the, in cidena On the way to the battle field Col. Harlow, who walked with the baron enlightened him regarding the American code. eff you kill him." said he, you're only half done; kill his seconds and as many of his friends as possible before they have time to pull their guns. All hese gentlemen, your seconds, as we'll as his are dead shots, so 1t is possible that nobody wil lescape but the ref cree and the surgeon" The baron hesaated. He didn't mind shedding his own or his antagonists blood but he didn't want to participate in military movement and expose all his friends to the ravages of war. He signified his willingness to make peaceful overtures. The parties shook hands and cemented their friendship at Cazabon's and Brickwood's and many other places where the peculiar variety of cement for repairing brok- en friendships is kept on sale.
 
 The following apparently belongs with great appropriateness to a Hit and Miss column. It is called "An Aboriginal Fathers Warming to his Son." The sense may be attained by guess work but hardly without knowledge of a correct pronuncla- tion of the Indian and Spanish prop CT names of people and places in Ari- zona, thrown together in seeming kaleidoscopic manner. This is it: Yuma Maricopa if you will, but you will Navajo your own row, or see a Chiricahua leaping OCT the moon, or listen to the song of the frisky Mes quite oh, or have a Mesa pottage to Casa Grande sensation in the Chilli place that you call home; and if, per chance, Yavapai, you will never Mo have peace, until you own Apache land and have Etrella two for besf. And you will rue it! Agua Fria doy you'll wish to see! and in the Rio much I fear your sorrow you will drown. Nogales will blow sweet rest and peace to yOu and the Gila dark