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It Had Its Origin In the
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QUEER COMBATS IN FRANCE
One Fatal Affair of Honor Was Fought
Out In Balloons and Another Was
Decided With Billiard Balls as
Weapons A Duel Between Women
The idea from -which the code duello
was developed came down from the
morth with the barbarians who over
ran the Roman empire They bi ought
rwith them the ordeal or -wager of bat
tle or judicial duel which sprang from
their idea to Oght it out and let the
guilt or innocence of the accused be
determined by the result of the battle
t Strangely enough the judicial duel
was conbidered a fitting mode of set
tling disputes between man and wife
To equalize as much as possible the
inequality of such a contest the man
l Tvas put in a pit in -which he was
buried up to the girdle while one of
his arms was bound to his side
Sometimes a barrel took the place of
a pit For a -weapon the man had a
baton or stick the woman a kind of
sling with a stone in it
J The story of the duel in the modern
sense may be dated from 1327 when
Francis I gave the lie to the Emperor
Charles V a proceeding which prom
ised to lead to a combat of excep
itional interest but which never took
place because mutual friends recon
ciled the pugnacious monarchs
I By this time the judicial duel had
tbeen gradually abolished and the pri
vate duel fought before witnesses
who seconded the principals in the en
counter came in Sometimes the sec
onds also mixed it up and instead of
a duel there was a quartet or a sextet
The day of dueling has passed long
since in England and America and
only lingers in France as a sort of
harmless comedy
Several duels haye been fought be
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tween women- ancHtirercare two or
three instances of duels between a
man and a woman in which the man
did not always get the better of it
i One of these duels between women
was that between two Frenchwomen
the Marquise de Nesle and the Com
tesse de Polignac in the eighteenth
century The two titled women were
rivals for the affections of a certain
duke and an incident occurred which
brought on a bitter quarrel between
the two jealous grande dames
i As a result of this the marquise chal
lenged the comtesse to fight her a duel
and the challenge was accepted IMs
tols were chosen and the Boise de Bou
logne selected as the place of meeting
When the women had taken their
places the comtesse called out to the
marquise Do you fire first madame
and mind you dont miss me dont
imagine for a moment that I am going
to iniss you The marquise fired but
missed and hit a neighboring tree The
comtesse smiled Your hand tremble
with passion madame cried she
You are lost
The comtesse aimed deliberately at
the head of the marquiso and fired
The marquise fell with a great cry as
of one who had received a mortal
wound but the bullet had only cut
away a minute piece of her shell like
ear All Paris laughed even the duke
Two duels have been fought from
balloons The most interesting was
that between M de Grandpre and M
Le Pique which took place on May 3
1808 Why they selected balloons is
not clear but possibly because balloon
ing was one of the crazes of the day
Each duelist with his second got
into a balloon in the field adjoining the
Tuileries and in the presence of a
great crowd the cords were cut and up
shot the balloons The combatants
were armed with blunderbusses At
about SOO feet from the ground Le
Pique fired and Grandpre immediately
responded The latters shot was ef
fective and penetrated Le Fiqxies bal
loon which rapidly descended and Le
Pique and his second were dashed to
death on a housetop while Grandpre
and his second descended safely some
seven leagues away
A duel with billiard balls took place
in France Sept 4 lS4o between two
young fljeju named rosnectiyejy Le-
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faut and Melfant They quarreled
over a game of billiards and decided
to fight a duel with the balls with
which they were playing They drew
Jots for the first throw and Melfant
won I am going to kill you at the
first throw said Melfant and aim
ing the missile he hurled it at Lefant
striking him in the center of the fore
head and killing him almost instantly
Among curious American duels was
that fought at the Oaks the famous
New Orleans dueling ground between
M Pedesclaux a ereole and a retired
French cavalry officer in antebellum
days The duel was fought with both
combatants mounted on magnificent
stallions and armed with broadswords
It was a fierce battle in which the
French officer Avas killed
Consolation
I have been a drudge all my life
he complained
i Well the unsympathetic old bach
elor replied its largely your own
fault Why did you ever get married
Look at me
Yes Im looking at you Thats
what reconciles me to my condition
After all there are worse things than
drudges in the world Chicago Record-Herald
When Nature Was Timekeeper
In the British museum is a large
stone composed of carbonate of lime
which would servo perfectly as a day
laborers calendar Inasmuch as it would
indicate to him every Sunday and holi
day of the year though not the day of
the month Moreover the stone is an
actual time record of the work done
for a long period in an English coal
mine
The Sunday stone as it is called
was removed from a colliery drain
When the miners were at work the
water running through the drain left
a deposit colored black by the coal
dust ut when no work was being
done the waterman down clear and left
a white deposit These deposits in the
course of time built up the stone
Each day of work left a black streak
immediately f ojlpwedby a white streak
madeduriug the nighr Vi3e white
streaks indicate the holidays and Sun
days Harpers Weekly
NIGHT LETTER
Sack to Adam
A parchment roll over a foot wide
and nineteen feet long containing the
genealogical tree of King Henry VI is
in the Welsh National library at
Aberystwith The work is beautifully
executed in tabular fashion of the lat
ter half of the fifteenth century and is
Illuminated with miniatures rich capi
tals aid red ornamental letters The
pedigree is traced from Adam and
the particulars occupy a red line of
fsix yards on the scroll On the left
side of the pedigree appears the list
of archbishops of Canterbury down to
John Stafford and on the right side
the list of Welsh princes down to Ed
ward I Dundee Advertiser
Eskimo Trial Marriage
The trial marriage is an ineradi
cable custom among the Eskimos If a
young man and woman are not suited
with each other they try again and
sometimes several times but when
they fiHd mates to whom the- are
adapted the arrangement is generally
permanent If two men want to marry
the same woman they settle the ques
tion by a trial of strength and the
better man has his way The North
Pole by Robert E Peary
Helping Dad
Small Johnny Papa would you be
glad if I saved a dollar for you Papa
Certainly my son Small Johnny
Well I saved it for you all right
You said if 1 brought a first class re
port from my teacher this week you
would give me a dollar and I didnt
bring it Chicago News
What She Wanted
Father to his daughter Ive brought
you a zither for your birthday my
dear and a book by which you can
teach yourself to play on it in a month
Daughter But It was the zither teach
er I wanted most Fliegende Blatter
She Doesnt Ask
Does your wife ask you for things
she knows you cannot afford
She hasnt asked me for a thing
since we were married
Great now do you manage it
When she wants a thing she does
not ask me she tells me Houston
Post
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Detroit Mich Aug 21 1911
Flanders 20 wins the SOO mile St Louis to Kansas City re-
liability run Score 998 two points penalty only for loose
nut on fender Pour days of Heavy driving sand and mud flanders
worked perfectly throughout run defeating Marmon cadillac hudson
International Ohio buici parry Mitchell and ford Every car
defeated by Flanders 20 except ford was much higher priced car
- than flanders and the ford was completely disqualified
Sealers and observers all along the line enthusiastic
over the cars wonderful performance Following three perfect
road scores in Iowaa little Glidden Flanders 20 has won every
event in which sne has been entered the gruelling I40D miles
Minneapolis to helena reliability run the Worcester hill climb
where she cut fortyseven seconds off the former record and now
the st louis to Kansas City reliability run In every event
she has defeated many cars of far greater size and price
THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION
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Flanders 20 as well
EMF 30 Cars are Sold
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DGDIVINE phone 400 flcCoo
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BIG BOARD WALK FOB CONE
New Yorks Playground Grows Jealous
of FachlcnaLis Rcccris
Coney Inland has heard about
enough of the million do ir pier of
Atlantic Cuy to say nothing of its
board walk The same feeling of en
nui goes for the famous promenade
of Park So the leading prop
erty owners of tire playground of New
York have decided to do some board
walking that will give other ocean re
sorts a period of pause
Contracts have been closed for the
construction of a section of what will
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PABT OF CONEY ISLANDS FAMOUS BEACH
be a tive mile ocean promenade and
driveway This advance section will
cost 300000 and be completed in time
for the June crowds and the remain
der will be pushed as fast as possible
The entire walk is expected to be
some five miles in length and will cost
at least G00000 The structure will
embrace a fifty foot promenade and a
twenty foot automobile drive Curious
though it appears to many the mo
torists can get near the ocean on
Coney Island at but a few points As
thousands visit the resort daily in cars
during the summer season it was de
cided to make some provision for their
comfort In time it is expected to line
this improvement with stores form
ing another avenue of trade for the
joyous isle of Coney
Log Cabin In Skyscraporville
Although ten story buildings are be
ins torn down every month in Xew
York city to make room for thirty and
forty story skyscraper there was one
log cabin erected within its domains
last year This
ediiice is one
story high and
contains one room
with a big open
urepktee over
which is seen the
inscription
Erected miO by
William Adams
of Richmond Va Adam- though the
builder is not the owner Cornelius G
Kolff secretary of the Staten Island
chamber of commerce occupying that
position Adams is a Virginia negro and
an expert on cabins and contracted to
build a real sspecimen for Mr Kolff
who is head of the Log Cabin Philoso
phers a select organization of the is
land on his property overlooking Man
hattan New Jersey and New York
bay The fireplace is connected with
a regulation old fashioned log chim
ney plastered with mud from within
and without and built with the sway
pole over the fire with a swinging
chain hanging from it
FRANCE HAS AIR MENS MAPS
Made In Six Colors With Peculiar De
vices For Landmarks
Now comes the map for air men and
as in other things aviatory it comes
from France It was designed by the
French armys geographical depart
ment and emphasizes the value set
upon military aviation by the Gallic
war department and its determination
to be in the forefront
The demand for a good map became
great after the air race from Paris to
the eastern frontier and return and the
new idea is the result It depicts the
district of Chalons where the flying
Aviation ground and
landing place
Airship sheds and re
pair shops
Aeroplane sheds and g VV
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Church towers cathe
drals
Factory chimneys
Large country houses
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SIGNS USED ON ritENCH AIR MENS MAP
school Mourmelon is located as seen
by an air man from a height of GOO
feet and is printed boldly in six colors
The roads are white Woods and for
ests are made splashes of green The
tips and downs of the country are
shown by means of shading light for
a gentle rise and heavy for a high hill
Towns and villages stand out clearly
in red Windmills church towers fac
tory chimneys telegraph wires even
tall isolated trees are indicated as dan
ger spots
Spots where it is dangerous to land
because- of uneven ground hop poles
vineyurds and orchards are marked
with ed crosses for the air men to
avoid
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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Pupil of VYm II Sherwood of
Chicago Available for con
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Address 1012 Main avenue
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Local Surgeon B M
Phones Office 163 residence
217 Office Rooms 5 6 Temple
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Registered Graduate
Dentist
Office 212 Main av over Mo
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Dentist
Phone 112
Office Rooms 3 and 5 Walj
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Dentist
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Room 4 Postoffice building Mc
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Dentist t
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Office Room 4 Masonic temple
McCook Neb
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Dentist
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Office over McAdams store Mfr
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Lawyer
Bonded Abtracter and
Examiner of Titles
Stenographer and notary in office
McCook Nebraska
JOHN E KELLEY
Attorney at Law and
Bonded Abstracter
Agent of Lincoln Land Co and cl
McCook Water Works Co Office in
Postoffice building McCook Neb
JAMES HART M R C V S
Veterinarian
Phone 34
Office Commercial barn McCook
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L C STOLL CO
Jewelers Opticians
Eyes tested and fitted Fine re
pairing McCook Neb
H P SUTTON CO
Jewelers
and Opticians
Watch Repairing Goods oi quality
Main avenue McCook Nebraska
JENNINGS HUGHES CO
Plumbing Heating
and Gas Fitting
Phone 33
Estimates furnished freeBasemeEt
Postoffice building
A G BUMP
Real Estate
and Insurance
Office 305 2nd st East Phone
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Your combings
made into switches and puffs
MRS L M THOMAS
Phone Ash 2354
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AND IRON WORKS
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Blacksmithing
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We are agents for the Celebrated
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