Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

No gentleman ever is; he can't afford
to be. Even if l had been, no friend
ship could have stood such impudence.
| looked at the judge in amazement,
wondering if / had heard Alright, when
he repeated his remarks. Ten seconds
later / had flung a challenge in his
teeth and turned away. / desired
duel to the death, sab. The person
who calls another bow-legged, even
where the misfortune exists, deserves
death. The judge did not send his sec
onds. After waiting for two days l
sent mine, and what sort Of a message
60 you think was returned? He would
fight me, but only in his own way. He
insisted that we be turned loose in a
five-acre lot and use fish-spears as
weapons! Fish-spears and the code!
A fve-acre lot and honah! could not
believe that a man occupying the posi-
ton of Judge would be so lost to all
feeling, but such proved to be the case.
He even insisted on fish-spears with
handles ten feet long, and he boosted
that he would transfix me like a cat
fish,"
"And you were powerless?" I said, as
the colonel chewed at his cigar in ST.
lence
Completely so, sah," he finally re-
piled. my idea was to horsewhip him
in public and force him to challenge
me, but he sent me word that IL /
made any such move he would turn me
wrong-side out at the first blow. No
gentleman will ever permit himself to
be turned wrong-sde out. Right-side
out is his proper condition and the most
pleasing one. AS the judge weighed 200
pounds and had hands like hams quiz
city withdrew from the affair and let
it die out. / snubbed him in Washing
ton few years later by refusing to sit
in a game of poker with him, but that
was the only satisfaction I ever got
There was one mo- case, sah--that of
Captain Fairfax. Looking upon the
captain as a gentleman / sat down to
game of poker with him. Luck was
with me, and I held four aces to his
four kings. He implied that my dex-
terity was greater than his luck, and
I instantly called him out. No gentle
man can afford to be called a card
| 1o ~ h
| quicker to charge him with skulking
on the field of battle. II was with
the captain to choose the weapons. and
/ was sure that he would name pistols.
He waited three days before replying
three whole days, sab, and then he
| selected empty beer bottles five PAGES.
not believe it of the captain till he had
reiterated his terms. He knew that as
a gentleman I could not accept them.
/ Whoever heard OF Bayard fiinging
/ beer bottles at man TO avenge his
honah! treated him messenger with
| the contempt he deserved and went
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public insult. / encountered him in
front of the Cote House and struck
him with my glove. In return he
knocked me into mud hole and spoil
ed a suit OF clothes and made me an
! object of ridicule. As gentleman,
sab, l have had seventeen affairs OF
honah which redounded to my credit,
but IS a gentleman / have also had
three or four others in which may be
said to have crawfshed. or at least
got the worst of it. No doubt the code
is relic OF chivalry, and the proper
recourse OF gentleman. but when q
man ipugns your honah and then
wants to fight you in a barrel there
is need OF tact and wisdom to prevent
honah from becoming burlesque and
chivalry from becoming ridicule."