The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-17
Pluck ROMANCE
AND ADVENTURE.
AZ OLD DOCTORS STORY.


An old doctor from one Of the South
ern States, a gentleman now well adj
vanced in the scale of years, during a
visit to friends in Washington a week
or SO ago, entertaining a small party Of
friends with various "reminiscences in
his career as a medical man and other
wise, spoke OF the days when the code
duello had wide championship in parts
OF the country where he lived and
practlced his profession.
Doctor" said one OF the party, eve
al know that IN your early days, when
you were Young and handsome, SO TO
speak, you were recognized as a strong
advocate Of dueliing Did you ever ell
gage as principal in one yourself:'
NO" said tile old gentleman. some
what mournfully. Il did on one or two
occasions invite persons TO the field,
but the requests were not complied
with, and, though l have been present
at a few hostile meetings. was there
IN my humble capacity as a surgeon,
and, Of course. 10 heal rather than to
hurt any one"
Another member Of the small party
inquired Of the doctor concerning his
presence at any fatal encounter. did
you ever see man killed IN a regular
old fashioned duel:" was the question.
Il am very happy to answer that in
the negative" was the reply. I'm tell
you Of one incident that | am person
all IT, az 80 DufI Il
'and that is seasoned both with pathos
and some little amusement This was
before the war, when two young men.
both lawyers and both married 10
beautiful women, became involved IN
a dispute IN court, and ono Of them nc
cused the other OF prevaricatlou. lie
used no stronger language. but that
was enough. The dispute occurred IN
the forenoon. and before the afternoon
was on the decline a challenge had
been sent ana accepted The men
were 70 fight al twenty PAGES with
muskets loaded Will duck shot dt day
light on the next morning ] was sur
geon for the challenger and everything
was arranged aiI right The Offended
man had a friend who was 70 remain
with him an night. and his leading sec.
ond, with myself were 10 cnlf FOR him
at 3 o'clock on the morning Of the
meeting and 50 with him and others to
the ground.
We'll, we did call. but couldn't get
our man. Tile report Of duel got ont
and the young fellows young wife
heard OF il and captured hlm She
cried ana threatened and falNed. and
went into Mysteries about dozen
times. The result OF IL was that so
far as be was concerned the affair
was or. He couldn't get away The
second, however. went TO the aeld TO-
take his place, ana went along. Of
course.
We got there Ia full time, but to
our amnzemcnt there wgs no enemy.
The ether mans wife had also been ap-
pvised Of the intended meeting, and
began screaming and kicking and
falniing. and he, Ike the other, could
not get away. His second came IN
the course Of few moments. but. NJ
ter conferrlng with my mans second
dhey were good friends, tool. the two
agreed that IL was not their funeral
aud there was no duel
Later on an arbitration committee
decided that there was no call for OK
treme measures. anyhow, and. with
honors easy, the quarrel was settled.
These two fellows became good friends
aflerward, as they were before the dis
pute IN court Both Of them were
killed Ina the Southwest during the
Civil War Washington Star.