Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
EXCHANGE SHOTS WITHOUT HURT
Woman in the Case Had Quit One to
Work for Other.
EARLY MARRIAGES IN GERMANY
Statistics Prove Kaisers Subjects Do
Not Wait Too Long.
CONTINENTAL WOMEN IN LEAD
German officer Writes an Article
showing IL IL Comparatively
Easy for Spies to secure
Military Plans.
By MALCOLM CLARKE.

Military Plans.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE
BERLIN, Nov. Especial to The Bee)
"A real duel was fought here recently.
The parties to It were a baron, who is
something Of a wineshop statesman, and
a bank clerk and the cause OF the duel
was lady. The affair took the clerk by
surprise as he was reclining in an easy
chair in his bedroom IN a west end flat,
being shaved.
Suddenly the progress of the razor was
checked by a vigorous rafting at the
handle Of the locked door that led TO an
adjoining apartment and peremptOry de-
mands for admittance, coupled with
threat that the intruder would shoot un-
less his wishes we're instantly complied
with The bank clerk replied cooly that
he, too, had a revolver at hand, and II it
came to a question Of shooting, would
probably prove to be the better marks
man of the two. To this defiance he
added an inquiry as TO who the stranger
was and what his business might be.
The intruder then announced himself as
Baron Won T., ex-cavalry officer, and said
that he had come to reclaim young
woman who had formerly acted as house
keeper and had left his service to enter
that OF the bank clerk in a similar ca
paCity.
Fired ThrOug a Door.
| To this the lady's new employer re-
! sponded that his interest in her was not
OF nature TO justify him in embarking
on an affair of honor on her account,
and he called upon the Infatuated baron to
leave the premises without delay.
/ Crack went the baron's bullet through
/ the door, whereupon the clerk also fired.
The baron fired again. and the duel com
tinued through the riddled door until
both had exhausted all their ammunition.
Meantime the agonized barber, flourish
ing his soap brush, had been screaming
loudly through the window for assistance.
/ A squad of police arrived and arrested the
Infatuated duelists. They were taken to
the police station, where they found the
lady who was the object of the quarrel.
! She was a former favorite OF the baron,
who suspected her of having transferred
her affections to the clerk. The baron
said as he was pushed into a celli ''The
end Of this is not yet"
Cost Of s'AIazinE'' n Man.
A local physician of humorous frame OF
mind calculates that a complete artificial
man might be constructed nowadays for
about fl2O. A pair Of arms with "articu-
lated" hands would cost fS5, a pair of ar
ticulated legs would run" to about f2S
a pair OF ears for f2s, eyes for f6 and a
set of teeth for f12. But when you had
made your complete artificial man accord
ing TO this scale he would be simply arti-
ficial. You couldn't construct a father
nor a genius, nor even a good briclSiayei
for $40; and, of course, it would take q
great deal more money than that to really
make" political agitator, he says
Age for Marriage.
II Lord Beaconsfield's dictum, Happy IL
the nation whose people marry young,
be correct, then Germany may claim Il
be fairly happy. During 1908 there were
% 900 marriages one thousand nine hun
bred were those of women under % and
556 between 40 and As.
AS for men the greater number OF meT
who marry are 80 years. This is probably
due 10 the fact that every man Is liable L
military duty during the best years of hii
life. Marriage rates are falling In Lon
don, but going up in Berlin. The effec
J Of the war of 1870 Is shown in charts whicl
indicate an abnormal increase in the mum
Der OF births in Paris and Berlin durinl
: the war and a steady fall in both countrie
ever since.
The women Of most continental cities
however, marry at an earlier age than d
those OF England. OF $1,000 London mar
riages recorded in 1908 1900 were those O
people between the ages OF 20 and 25 o
u the total number married 2,27O were girl
under 2l. One Of them was under the ag
e Of 16, her husband was %.
Deed of Insane Woman.
Marie Busch. a ladies maid. shot he
: master with a revolver in his home a
Frankfort and then telephoned to the pc
a lice, acquainung them with her act
N When the police arrived on the seen
a they found that the girl had blown on
v her brains and the two bodies lay close 10
a gether in the dining room Marie la
d murdered her master and then shot her
r self. The girl whose child had bee
x adopted by her employers murdered tn
n child in a lit of madness two years ag
10 and was re-engaEed on her release froI
e am asylum last August. Fault is roun
b with the authorities FOR having release
d her.
Plans Easily Obtained.
Referring TO the discovery at Emden d
p maps and photographs alleged to be IN
" eliminating for Brandon and Trench Ems
lishmen. arrested on the charge OF esplor
age az Borkum, the Tageblatt publishes a
article, said 20 be written by a naval off
Ger. showing the ease with which informl
ton such as would bring It's possessc
j under the suspicion OF espionage can q
obtained along the North Sea coast III
writer states that large scale maps can I
bought by anybody and that an expel
would have no difficulty ia making wins
: notes he wanted upon them, since n
= works can be seen by any passerby.
e EnfOrcinE Pure Food Lava.
IS The Law relating 10 pure food Is er
b. forced relentlessly IN the empire. Son
p violations OF the pure food law can /
" pun shed with life imprisonment and har
labor.