The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-06-25
AN AMERICAN
BLUFF wins
Georgia Mans Adventure
With a French DueIist.

sand was selected to open one of
number Of agencies abroad for the sale
of the same article. France was the
territory assigned him, with Paris for
his headquarters.
He had no sooner opened his sales
room than he was called upon by the
representative of a Paris morning pa
per for an ad. Abner told him that
ne was not yet ready. The solicitor,
taking his reply for a refusal, intimat-
ed that if the paper didn't get the ad.
it would be to the disadvantage of the
enterprise. Abner replied that he came
from a land where in journalism the
advertising and the newspapers opin-
ions were kept separate-in other
words, where newspaper blackmail
was unknown. The journal was well
come to fire away"
The next morning an article appear
ed in the home columns of the paper
in question stating that all clothes
wringerS tore the articles wrung in
them, and the Eureka sold by Abner
Church simply reduced them to rib
OOns. Other such notices appeared at
intervals and We're copied by other pa
perS. Abner made up his mind that
he must stop the SANDER on his ma
chine or shut up shop and go home.
He called ct the office Of the journal
that was Matchmaking him and pro-
tested. He was listened to politely by
THE editor of the home department and
when he had finished was referred to
NJ Jules Chicolet, another editor, who
me was assured would take up the case.
Abner found NJ. Chicolet sitting in a
study furnished la Louis XVI. read
ing a novel and smoking cigarette
AbneC stated his case, to which the
gentleman listened attentively and at
The end asked:
do I understand. monsieur, that
sou accuse our journal of blackmail-
Ing you?"
That's what it looks like"
Then as a representative Of the pa
per have the honor to refer you to a
gentleman who will call upon you this
afternoon"
Abner said that all he wanted was to
BE let alone, but while he was talking
NJ. Chicolet passed out of a rear door
and left him standing alone. The
wringing machine agent went back to
Ais store to think the matter over.
While there a genteelly dressed
grenchman entered and said he came
80 arrange an affair between NJ.
Church and NJ. ChicOlet
81 have no quarrel with NJ. Chico
let" said Abner. "Who the dickens
rs NJ. Chicolet anyway
Pardon, Monsieur, being an Ameri-
can. does not understand. NJ. Chicolet
Is the fighting editor of the paper
"Writes up duels, you mean"
mo, monsieur; NJ. ChicOlet writes
nothing. 1t is his duty to give salts
faction to those who think they have
been insulted by the journal and to de-
Eend its honor. | understand you have
accused it of Matchmaking you You
must retract or fight"
"You tell the fighting editor that my
grandfather lost an arm on the south
sarn side at Gettysburg. and we
Churches would rather die than lay
down. Tell him I'll fight him with ri
Efes at 500 yards"
The visitor protested that such weap-
s0ns We're not used in Paris, to which
Abner replied that in America no one
fought with anything else. and he
would fight with the weapon he could
handle and none other.
When the fighting editor received the
news that he must stand up against an
American rife it occurred to him that
for that occasion at least he would earn
his salary. He was a perfect swords
man and q dead shot with a pistol at
short range, but had never fought with
~ifies. Abner. who had all the so call
ed trickery Of the Yankee as well as
She fighting proclivities of the Geor-
gian, had sent him word that he'd bet
ter make will, since he proposed to
aim straight at his heart and he had
never missed, anything with a rife.
Just after daylight one morning the
fighting editor drove up to a secluded
spot in the Bots de Boulogne, alighted
with his attendants and waited for his
antagonist Presently an automobile
appeared. On the roof was something
of 2 black hue and oblong shape the
At-.re Of which could not in the dim
fslt be detected Abner alighted, and
the porter of his store removed the ar
lie from the roof and carried II on to
y field NJ Chicolet went up TO it for
1ook and saw a coffin. on the lid of
Inch was a silver plate bearing the
me "Jules Chicolet Died" that
very day
NJ. Chicolet shuddered. This gro
fesque American way of fighting threw
him off his balance. Abner stood near
the coffin, leaning on long rifle and
looking at the man be intended should
occupy it with a strange, diabolical
stare. One of the attendants, seeing
that the fighting editor was losing his
nerve, asked if there was no hope of
an arrangement Abner replied that
the journal must let him alone. A con-
ference was held between the seconds.
and it was agreed that Abner should
withdraw his charge Of Matchmaking
and the paper would publish an item
kn fits home department especially COM
mending the Eureka wringing machine