The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-28
May WAYS OF THE DUEL.
FREAKS MADE Ely WITHDRAWING
AMERICANS ABROAD.

CauSed by a Kansan who Was
ignorant of Etiquette but Full of
Fight.
IF they ever do succeed in abolishing
dueIIing in Europe" said a Kentuckian
taking his ease at a New York hotel, sit
will make things much easier for some
of our boys who go over there to study
art and medicine. Bushels of them have
zone to France, and a good many find
their way TO Germany. Those in Paris
never seem to be troubled about the code
Of duelling. They live in a bunch, and,
s,n7ehow. the students quarters seems
10 he considered outside the province of
that sort of thing. AS l understand it,
when a Latin Quarter man gets into a.
difcultv it's a knock-down-and-dra drag
ont affair, and our boys take to that
unite naturally. What gets them all
TANGLED up is this blamed duelling ETH
| queue.
/ Now there was S. He never had but
one serious trouble in Paris; that was
when he set a waiter in a cafe to stand
/ on his mead, and the police outside made
trouble for him.. He did up several SER
eents-de vile, it's true, but, between. them
and the Magistrates, they ended by maxi
ing things so uncomfortable for him that
4 ne had to leave the country for few
months. That was when he visited
Munich and fell foul of the :dueLling CODE
"He was in a billiard saloon, where a
lot of young army officers were playing
and he didn't know that an art student
mustn't stand with his hands in his
trousers pockets watching a Bavarian
army officer make a difficult shot. One of
them said something to him in German
which he didn't understand and S. Just
smiled the pleasantest he knew how, and
said. ia, and stood his ground. Then he
saw that the whole crowd stopped playing
and got together in a corner.
Presently one of the army officers
came over and presented a visiting card
to him with flourish. S. took the card,
looked at it and said, in plain American,
mind you, What do you want me to do
with this
"WeH. the officer went back and had
pow-wow, while S. stood there, holding
the card. and wondering If they were
irving to get him into a game Of Billiards
with this Baron Won Something; Then
three of them came over. including the
one whose play S. had been admiring.
"'No, says S.. shaking his head and
making signs. Me no good to play bill
Iards and then he said it all over again
S. call him swine hound and steps
back a pace or two.
There was where poor S. fell down on
his duelling etiquette. The proper thing
= for him to do was to hand the Baron his
cwn card but he didn't have any card
and didn't know any etiquette So he just
lii in on the Baron's spectaoles and,
while the others were expressing their
feelings in Bavarian, he collared the one
I'D
and pitched him over on the nearest
table
After that the proprietor came in and
s. was srappled by a whole squad of
walters He picked himself up out on the
sidewalk and prepared to rush the place,
but the Iyor was shut tight and in an
other minute the shutters were up. S.
thought it prudent to get back to his own
quarters and stay there for that night,
as mob seemed to be gathering But the
next morning he went around for his hat,
which the proprietor gave him on demand
and didn't ask him to stay and take some
thing, either.
But that was not nearly so bad as
what my friend the doctor did at Vienna,
because S was not what you might call
in the duelling swim, and the Doc was.
He was supposed to be some sort of
postgraduate medical student there; he
pretty high-rolling crowd of young
Austrians, mostly army officers.
We'll, a certain American Colonel from
New York turned up in Vienna, and he
knew another American a Kansan, who
was Docs particular friend. The Kansan
had rather nice fiat or something of the
kind in a fashionable part of the city
and the New Yorker accepted his iPvi-
tation to stay few days.
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up party to go, and the Kansan was to
bring his New York Colonel along and
meet them at the track. Well it happened
somehow that they all-three Americans
and four Austrans-had a most halcyon
old time and got pretty gay.
After lunch in sort of open-air res
taurant where the band was playing Doc
SAID something just in pure fun about a
net ne had made with the Colonel, and
the New Yorker didn't tumble to it that
in1s was a joke. being, / suppose, rather
cloudy in his mind at the time. Instead
OF laughing it off he reaches across the
table and smashes Doc over the head,
"nereupon Doc jumps UP and let's him
nave 1t with the handle of an umbrella.
After that, the Kansan and the four
Austrans interfered. The party broke up
ana the New Yorker took his things that
evening and quit the Kansan's fiat, be-
cause the Kansan said Doc was in the
llRAt and the Colonel ought to apollo
e"e' Doc Immediately went and took the
very room the Colonel had just evacuat-
Next day the Kansan calls on the New
uIN colonel with a challenge from the
ueky doctor. New Yorker takes the
idnenge and turns 1t over to one of the
Ausuians, who calls at the Kansans
tua'le's TO make arrangements. When he
eot thefe 1t so happened that the Kansan
"'s out But Doc was in his room read
"e 'ue PAPER and he came out as friend
ana cordial as could be- Though, mind,
e anew this was the other mans second,
nv man want to seem to bear him any
malice for that.
me Austrians could speak English
al'e nuently. so Doc halls him with:
.oly my friend is out What will you
came from Colonel b. says the
mate affair
mats all right says Doc. I shall
., mao 10 talk it over with you
LUG Austrian was standing with his
n,,. 'osether, az spruce and stiff as a
no ~" soldier. An he says, 1T gives
"u'h pleasure to see that you take
sensible view of this matter and
d. uq.Is out his hand.
,,, n.y. sure says the Doc. OF course
nave to fight. Your man has the
rar. oil weapons you know; he's the