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DUELLING IS SPORT IN CUBA. Only One Fatal Casualty in Seventeen Years.?Precautions Taken. Duelling and cock fighting are the distinctive sports of Cuba (base ball, though popular, is exotic), but while cock fighting is the sport of all, from the highest to the lowest, duelling is confined to the "caballeros," who wear coats, says a Havana letter to the New York Evening Post. The - ^ AT. . coatless toilers of the city ana uie agriculturalists who wear their shirts outside, like the Philippine "hombre" of naval song, must content /' themselves with the plebian entertainment of the cock-pit. Since the restoration of the republic of Cuba Libre under President Gomez, cock fighting, abolished by the first intervention, has been lawful; duelling is still prohibited, but the newspapers publish the texts of * challenges and the results of meetings, with the names of principals and seconds, much as though they were boxing bouts or baseball games. Among the friends of the writer is a prominent congressman who has taken part, either as second or principal, in thirty-two duels, and the speaker of the house, Signor Orestes Ferrara, is credited with anywhere from one to two score of duels, besides enjoying the distinction of tak* ing part as a second in the only fatal duel in the last seventeen years, during which there have fceen some hundreds of duels "fought," or perhaps "played" would be the better word. Really a Refined Sport. Duelling as conducted in Cuba is * really a refined sport, not nearly so brptal or painful to the participants a3 boxing, and far less dangerous \ than baseball or tennis; sprained / ankles are unknown in duelling, and ? quarrelling such as too frequently leads to violence and serious bodily injury at the cockpit is never permitted on the field of honor, where the greatest precautions are taken -for the safety of all concerned And no less than the safety is the dignity of the sport safeguarded by the Cu ban code, which leaves no opportunity for such a reduction ad absurdum as that of the giant railspiitter Lincoln naming cavalry sabres of the heaviest pattern when challenged by the pigmy Shields. Unlike the code which prevailed in England and Ireland, and in our own South prior to the Civil war, the Cuban code gives the choice of weapons not to the challenged, but to the aggrieved party. It is for the seconds representing the cnallenger and challenged to determine, after full discussion, which is the aggrieved one (agraviade), after which the seconds of the latter shall fchoose the ? "weapons, but within the restrictions of the code, whiclf does not permit ,. too serious a form of combat if the grievance be a slight one. Thus, pistols may not be used unless the quarrel is very serious indeed, as there is always the danger that even the best shot may in the excitement of the moment hit his antagonist in a vital spot. To minimize so far as may be the consequences of such accidents, the pistols are loaded very lightly, but, even so, the pistol is considered a risky weapon, to be re' sorted to only in extreme cases. A Drop of Blood Suffices. The duelling sword is the weapon almost invariably used, and a drop of blood from a prick in the forearm of one's enemy usually suffices to heal the wound that honor feels. Fencing i is a part of every young caballero's polite education, and there are a number of "salones de armes" in Hai * - vana, where the young men learn and practice fencing. Cuba has probably the best amateur swordsman in the world in Major Ramon Fonst, master-of-arms of the Cuban army. When only eighteen Fonst won the amateur championship of the world with the duel^ ling sword at the Paris exposition, defeating representatives of France, Italy, and Spain. A year or two later he defeated all who met him at the St. Louis World's Fair. Fonst was designed by nature for a fencer. Six feet tall and lean as a grayhound, he has narrow, sloping shoulders, and long arms with muscles of steel. His hips are considerably broader than - hie shoulders, and his long legs are very powerful, enabling him on oc*... casion to escape dangerous lunges by phenomenal backward leaps. But - the most striking thing about him is his eyes, which are strangely large 4 and prominent, suggesting exceptional power and scope of vision. Possessing such prestige as a swordsman, Fonst is often asked to act as a secv ond but as a principal is not in much demand. Sought by Politicians. Aside from the farces between college boys, to whom an "affair of honor" ("lance de honor") seems neces sary to mark the full attainment of man's estate, most Cuban duels are fought by politicians, particularly legislators, and newspaper men. The duel's chief function would seem to be the shielding of the truth from indecent exposure, a sort of protest against the nude in statement, any 4 , ? * COW HAD RABIES. Animal Owned by J. E. Attaway, Bit ten by Dog, Killed. On Sunday afternoon J. E. Atta way, of near town, killed one of hi milk cows on account of her havin rabies. The cow was bitten by mad dog several weeks ago. A fe^ days ago she began acting queer. Th negroes who had her in charg thought she was sick and gave he medicine one or two of the nesroe the eminent naturalist, to be 8,00 and even 10,000 years old. The oldest living things in th world today are these giant trees Also the species of vegetation t which they belong is the oldest i the world. The sequoia tree, exactl like that of California, flourishe several millions of years ago. W know that because we find their fos sil remains buried beneath thousand of feet of rock, and geologists ar able, by reading the leaves of thos rocks as an ordinary'man would rea a book, to tell when the sequoias be neath them lived.?Kansas City Stai Definition of Memory. The dangers of premature peac were put very graphically by Lor Rosebery the other day when he sai that such peace "would mean a shoi peace and a war that would be eve worse than this to follow." Lord Rosebery is noted for , hi smart repartee. Some time ago h was talking to a friend on the sul ject of memory. "What is memory?" asked hi friend. "Memory," answered his lordshij thoughtfully, "is the feeling tha steals over us when we listen to ou friends' original stories." legislator or editor who dares tell th nnkpH truth about Dublic men c measures, as Senator Mazary Artol did recently about the notoriou squandering of the public moneys o sinecures and the no less notoriou venality of the press, must be pr< pared to answer for his words on th field of honor, even though, in th case of a legislator, the words be ui tered in debate on the floor of th house or the senate. Many measure that would not bear too close analj sis are thus enabled to reach a vot unchallenged. While from what has been said i may be inferred that the duel as pra< ticed in Cuba is not a brutal or dangerous sport, some risk may ai tend the impertinent participation c foreigners in the national pastim< During the Ten Year's war a Spar ish editor was killed in a duel by Cuban, and in the only fatal duel c the last seventeen years a youn American, named Warren, was th victim. A q.uarrel between Warre and a wealthy young Cuban name Mpsn hnri Ipri tn thp ranin? nf the Ia1 ter by Warren. Mesa challenged Wai ren, and the seconds, one of whor on behalf of Mesa was Orestes Fei rara, speaker of the house of repre sentatives, found that Mesa was th aggrieved party, and pistols wer chosen to avenge the affront. Wai ren was a heavy youth, nearly si feet in height and half as much i breadth, and was exceedingly neai sighted. Mesa is small and slende and a winner of prizes in amateu pistol tournaments. Friends of Wai ren have said that at the distance se lected, ten paces, he could see his an tagonist only as a mere blur. At th first fire Mesa placed his bullet righ in the centre of the huge target, an Warren died of peritonitis. A dispute on the floor of the hous nr the seriate nr anv other rmarre among caballeros that is likely t lead to a duel, is invariably descrit ed by the newspapers as an "inci dente," and its sequel is duly chror icled. Notwithstanding the occasions casualties, insurance actuaries seer to consider duelling a healthful exei cise conductive to longevity, makin the inveterate battler on the field c honor a better risk on the whole tha the sedentary pacifist. putting their hands in the cow' mouth the day before she was kilJec It is said that they are considerabl frightened and are thinking of gc ing to Columbia for the pasteu treatment. At the same time when the ccp was bitten, several dogs were als bitten by the mad dog, and hav since been killed.?Saluda Standard Oldest giving Tiling. One of the wonders of the ancien world, and probably the greatest c them, was th? pyramids of Egypi And yet some of the giant sequoia of California that are now thrift trees had bark on them a foot thic when Cheops began building th great pyramid that bears his nam* Beneath the shadow of the pyramid Napoleon said to his troops: "Fort centuries look down upon you." I the shadow of the big trees of Cali fornia one might say: "Eighty cer turies look down upon you." Ther are trees in the grove estimated b scientists, among them John Mui] ? ; ; :?i ?Hh 50,000 GUARD BORDER. t- Funston Completes Plan for Patro Which He Hopes Will End Raids. L_ San Antonio, Texas, May 14.?Gen s Funston tonight had practically comg pleted plans for reorganization oi a the border patrol, which, he believes w will put an end to border raids. De* e tails of the proposed redistributior e of the troops were not made public ,r but it is understood that those alon? ,s the boundary will be divided intc s three divisions, with Brig Gen. James 1 Parker, Brig. Gen. William A. Manr y and Brig. Gen. Harry A. Green act ing as district commanders. r With the State troops of Texas New Mexico and Arizona, and addi x tional regular army troops bein^ 0 mobilized Gen. Funston will have ap e proximately fifty thousand men. B: j the end of this week he plans tc have the entire force in shape anc position for service. It is improbable that more troops it will be sent to Col. Sibley, who is ir >f charge of the little expedition thai t. crossed into Mexico near Boquillas s as a result of the raid at Gleni y Springs and Boquillas a week ago k Four troops of cavalry and a machine e gun detachment are operating close i. to the line, scouting throughout ? s limited territory south of the border y but it was stated there never has n been any intention of sending for I- ward at that point a punitive expedi i- tion that would compare in size tc e that Gen. Pershing. If the cavalr: y operating south of Boquillas fails tc r. locate any bandits within a few days 0 its return to stations north of the line is probable, e Watching the Mexicans. 3. Army officers here are deeply in o terested, however, in the efforts the n Mexican troops were reported to be y making to run down the "bandits whe d raided the Big Bend district and whe e still hold as a prisoner Jesse Deem J- ers, an American storekeeper. It ii is regarded here as not impossible tha A mor nn f a f V?i c mo lUCAlcau uuups in a, j- lui, viij. m< e retreat toward the interior and forc< d the bandits back into the lines o s- Col. Sibley's cavalry, r. With the exception of the attemp to destroy a part of the buildings a Fort Bliss last night, no unusual in cidetfts were reported to genera :e headquarters today. Gen. Bell, re ^ porting the incident to Gen Funston ^ expressed the opinion that the fire; ** were of incendiary origin. Gen. Fun n ston ordered an investigation. With the exception of the 30th am [S 3rd infantry, one battalion of the 3r< e field artillery and one company coas 7" artillery, all the additional troops or dered to report to Gen. Funston hav< ls arrived. The militiamen will be mustere< into the regular military establish Lt ment Tuesday. Medical officers wh< r have been examining the men state< _ that the percentage to be rejecte< because of physical condition wil be negligible. Some have proteste< ir oofotnet Vioinor ewnrn in "fnr the torn aHUiUOt 0 ?T VI A1 AAA A VA VAtV VWA A4 ?1 of entrenchment," but it is expecte< 15 that at least 85 per cent, will ente: n the service without protest. 16 ___ Marathon, Texas, May 14.?An e other raid into American territor; e by Mexican bandits was made Frida; ^ night at McKinney Springs ranch e sixty-seven miles south of Marathon !S and twenty-three miles of north o 7~" Boquillas, along the Marathon-Bo e quillas road, according to H. E. Staf ford, an attorney of El Paso. Mr lt Stafford arrived here late today fron Boquillas, to which place he had ac a companied Major Langhorne last Sat ^ urday as a guide. He secured hi ^ information from ranchmen in Mc Kinney Springs as he was passim l~ through there en route to Marathoi a today. There was no shooting, h< said. g ?? e Slept on the Job. n .? d They tell the following story of i New York physician, who as an in terne in a Chicago hospital som< n years ago incidentally held his owi with a crowd of rather gay friends. 5- One morning the interne awoke t< e |ind that he had sadly overslept. Hal e dazed, he put on his clothes, anc - made his way to the hospital. Th< x first patient was a big Irishman. 11 "What seems to be the trouble?' - asked the sleepy interne, as he stifle( r a yawn and took his patient by th( r hand to get his pulse. "It's me lungs, doc," said the man 5- "They're in a bad way. I can't ge i- me breath at all." e "Your pulse is normal, but let m< t examine the lung action a moment,' u replied the doctor, kneeling besid< the cot. "Now talk a bit," he con e tinued, closing his eyes and listen >1 ing attentively for sounds of pulmo o nary congestion. >- "What shall I say?" i- "Oh, anything. Count one, two l- three, and so on," murmured tne in terne, drowsily, il "Wan, two, three, four, five, six,' n began the patient. When the interne, with a start g opened his eyes, the Celt was count if ing huskily, nine hundred and sixty n nine, nine hundred and seventy, nin< hundred and seventy-wan." FRANCIS F. CARROLL i Attorney-at-Law Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. f R. P. BELLINGER ATTORNEY AT LAW i Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. ' General Practice r ) * J. P. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law GENERAL PRACTICE BAMBERG. S. C. > i E. H. HENDERSON 1 Attorney-at-Law 3 BAMBERG. 9. C. 1 General Practice. Loans Negotiated. ^ LIFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK ; HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE 5 Agent for Superior Monument Co. Can Save you Money on Tombstones. > W.MAX WALKER [ EHRHARDT, S. C. 3 J. A. Klein Mrs. J. A. Klein Teachers of Piaaoaod Organ Studio Over Herndon's Store . 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