Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-05

adjournment to the field of honor hies himself away to the academy duello and there encases himself in a heavy. his face. and confronts another sim Iiarly garbed. And lest hand or fin gers might be stung by the putty missiles, there is a wide-spreading guard to protect the hand.
 The American who had visited one of these galleries was one who had spent many years of his life in that section of the west where ones toilet Is not complete without six-shooter of the regulation .45 caliber pattern, But when assured by the maitre d'armes that the type of pistol with which the votaries of the duel were practicing was of the same small caliber customarily employed in French duels, he was able to compre- bend why so few fatalities accom- panied such encounters.
 It is said that several Americans have bluffed themselves out of duels in Paris by insisting on Colt .45-caliber revolyers at short range. The hero of one memorable episode of that kind was a physician who has now the larg- est practice in the American colony. He was challenged by a well-known young Parisian, and when waited on by very stiff-necked colonel, who acted as go-between, exhibited a couple of frontier six-shooters which he declared must be the weapons to be used. My principal is, unfortu- nately, not an artilleryman, monsieur" " said the colonel, dryly, and that closed the incident
 An old account of the origin of dueling says that Francis I. probably did as much to encourage duels as any | monarch. He challenged Charles V. of Germany, after giving him the lie; and when the emperor, as was nat ural, did not accept the challenge, the French king, in a solemn conclave of l nobles, said that "whosoeyer received l the lie and did not resent and repel it by duel was not a good. but a base, man." a careless speech, which spread l like a plague the vice of dueling. In, deed, We may reasonably surmise that Francis recognized his error; for | though unable to check the practice he was jealous of its exercise without his authority, which. toward the end | of his reign at least, he was chary oi giving.
 Thus he declined to sanction a fight l between Jarnac and La Chasteneraye | In spite of repeated requests, and per 1 sisted in his refusal till his death The quarrel was continued, lady be ing involved, in the reign of his feeble successor; and, with the permission of the king, was put to the issue of { combat, which was terminated by thc celebrated coup de Jhrnac, apparent! a very simple back-handed stroke, ore ceded by a feint, which the veries- | tyro in modern singlestek play would know how to make and parry.
 Henry II. made an oath Asyer to al low such a combat again. He was however, unable to keep it, and man! are the stories which Ee find in Bran tome and elsewhere of duels fought ol all sorts of pretexts and in all sort of circumstances.
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