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FRIDAY, DECeMBER 21, 1923. UUtUSAKtNOW OUT OF FASHION Recent Encounters Show “Field of Honor” Has Lost Its Romantic Glamour.

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New York.—Just when It seemed that dueling had finally gone out of fashion after some fourteen centuries of popularity two gentlemen in Paris, an Italian nobleman and Jacques Richepln, a theater manager, started poking at each other with rapiers. About the same time Norwood Huckaby and Charles A. Williams of Texas laid hold of a handkerchief with their left hands and blazed away across it with revolvers. A little antiseptic and some courtplaster healed the harm wrought In the Parisian encounter, but nothing could be done for the Texans except to give them a decent burial. The Italian duke, who lost his battle, could have been wounded Just as badly in sharpening a pencil as he was In fencing with his adversary. Paris, according to all accounts, did not take the duel seriously. There was a time, however, when dueling ranked well up with cancer and diabetes in the mortality tables of the city. In one decade in the reign of Henry IV 4,000 Frenchmen perished in the duello. England. Germany, Italy, Spain and even the United States have also had their outbreaks of gentlemanly homicide. Virtually every country has forbidden these slashing and shooting parties by law, but it is fashion rather than legislation that has doomed them. The spectacle of two grown men trying to kill each other while their best friends look on has come to be regarded as ludicrous’ rather than romantic. War Revived Dueling. The close of the war witnessed a brief revival in the settlement of personal and political differences on the so-called field of honor. The dueling of nations appeared to have a natural sequel in the mortal combats of individuals. The theory has been frequently advanced that life was held so cheaply as a result of the bloodshed in the war, the most trivial excuses were sufficient to send a group of men out early in the morning on a mission of mutual manslaughter. Italian noblemen, politicians and journalists trampled down many acre? of the good grass around Rome as they endeavored to bring home theii argument on the point of a sword, Benito Mussolini, when a Nationalist deputy, engaged In four duels within a few months, winning them all, bul suffering several superficial wounds It was said that a little inn just outside of Rome and off all the main highways was supported almost entirely by duelists and their seconds. Hungary seethed with duels. Almost every debate in the national assembly was prolific of a challenge oi two. While fatalities were few, scars and bandages were common. Strong efforts were made finally tfl curb the cutting. Russia has banned the duel as being a sport of aristocrats. Two high Russian officers of the Red army engaged iin a fatal passage at arms about a year ago, following the discovery thal both were paying court to the sam< girl. One of the officers was killed The victor was sentenced to thre< years’ imprisonment. The girl was arrested, charged with complicity, and found guilty. The sentence passed upon her was unique. She was termed a siren, ar “angel of trouble,” and was ordered t« remain away from all cities for twenty years. She must grow to old age in the country, where her charms cannot play havoc with impetuous army

officers.

Duels Popular in Old Days.

In the early days of the Americau navy, the officers were sticklers foi dueling etiquette. In the war od Tripoli, about the beginning of th« Nineteenth century, dueling among naval officers was the vogue. Duel* among planters and politicians were common occurrences in some of the Southern states. The statute books ol 16 states carry laws prohibiting such encounters, these measures having been prompted by outbreaks of bloody

i controversy. Winchilsea wrote: "1 i now Call upon your lord«hlp to give me that satisfaction for your conduct which a gentleman never refuses to give.” Wellington’s reply followed the approved form, and said: “The satisfaction which your grace has demanded, it is, of course, Impossible for me to decline.” They met on a field at Battersea. ! At the signal Winchilsea fired, missing I deliberately. Wellington withheld his I fire. Before the preliminaries for a second shot were begun, one of Win* chilsea’s seconds handed a Wellington second a signed statement by Win- : chilsea in which the earl apologized | for his attack upon Wellington In their i religious dispute. Winchilsea explained ; later that he had felt he was In the J wrong, but had gone through with ! the duel, regardless of the fact that he had not Intended to fire at Wellington. It was the proper thing to do, he said. England’s Most Famous Duel. One of England’s most famous duels was between Lord Byron, a granduncle of the poet, and a Mr. Chauvert, in 1765. The affair followed a trivial argument In a tavern. Chauvert was run through and killed. Byron was tried by a jury of his peers, was found guilty and was required to “pay the usual fees.” Richard Brinsley Sheridan fought a duel with a Captain Matthew’s in 1772. It will be recalled that in Sheridan’s “The Rivals” there is a duel scene that contributes greatly/to the humor of the famous play. George Garrick, an actor and brother of David Garrick, w’as called upon to exchange shots with the irate husband of a woman friend of Garrick. The husband missed, leaving Garrick with the privilege of firing as deliberately ae he pleased. The wife found the scene of the duel after a frantic search and pleaded with Garrick to spare het husband. The actor upheld the best traditions of the stage with respect to such situations by complying with her request. Burr and Hamilton. The most famous duel in this country was that between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. The wave of public resentment that followed Hamilton’s death In the affray did much to discourage dueling in the United

States.

Trivial causes often resulted In fatal meetings. There have been strange duels. A poor marksman, challenged, had been known to name as the place a darkened room, where sound rather than sight guided the aim. A duel In balloons took place in France in 1908. Two men claimed the affections of a famous stage beauty of the time. Armed with blunderbusses,^ they ascended in separate balloons. A great crowd w T as attracted to see the ascent, not knowing of the grim plans of the men. When about 100 feet in the air one of the enemies fired and missed. His opponent was more successful, puncturing the gas bag of his rival and sending the latter crashing to earth to be killed instantly.

FAIL TO REMOVE SP0N8ES AFTER MAJOR OPERATIONS Doctor Cites 200 Cases Where Surgeons Were ftsegligent. New York.—Advocating use of a continuous strip of gauze instead oi sponges in surgical operations, Dr. H, S. Crossen says in the current issue oi the Journal of the American Medical Association that he has listed a totsil of more than 200 cases in which a sponge was left in the abdominal cavity following an operation. Some hospitals avoid this by having a string with a metal anchor attached to each sponge and left outside the body. Others make a eeunt at the close of the operation of all sponges used, but this is not an Infallible method, he said, because sponges sometimes are torn in two. “The method,” he said, “of attaching a tape to each sponge and then fastening forceps to the tape and at the same time to the abdominal sheet is probably the method in most general use. It has a record of many failures —tlie tape pulled off the sponge or there was a failure to attach the forceps or the forceps failed to hold. In one recorded case the sponge, tape and forceps were all lost in the cavity." Sewing up sponges often causes peritonitis and death. It is only in cases where postmortems are held that the presence of the sponge is detected, so that many such accidents are unrecorded. To persons outside the profession such an accident seems inexcusable, according to Doctor Crossen, who described some of the operating room conditions under which it occurred. “Suffice it to say,” he continued, “that a review of the cases in which dependence was placed on counting shows an appalling list in which a sponge was left because one was hastily torn in two and one-half forgotten, or an extra one was primarily included in th*f bundle and missed in the counting, or an extra one was secured for an emergency during the operation, or some loose gauze, not intended for Intraperitoneal use, slipped in while near the wound; or a mistake was made in the final count of sponges removed. It is astonishing what slight inattention may lead to a sponge being left, with all the consequences which such an accident entails.”

K00K0Q NEST AT HARTFORD CITY FILLED WITH RARE BIRDS OF A FEATHER WHO FLIT BY NIGHT Hartford City, Ind., Dec. 21.— zens of Hartford City whose taxes Sine© we are exposing, the Klan in aided materially in constructing the the 11th district, why naturally pavilion. Hartford City must have its airing. The Klan grafters here even swinThe good people of Hartford City died the poor laborers who did not have been very tolerant with the as a down payment. Like Klan hut from now on until primary the credit stores one dollar was acday we will keep an investigator cepted as first installment and the and reporter in the city to inform remaining) $9 was paid., out $1 per the citizens of these protectors of week at Ayres and Thomas’ grocery sweet womanhood. store on North Jefferson street. When we finish with these hooded j We find Claude Hobson a dues hoodlums we will guarantee that Paying member of the Klan. Claudie the local secretary Rev. House, will was an aspirant for the postoffice have to have more than one drive but his record followed him from

between the Reds and Blues to remind the dear 10() per centers to pay their dues. Henry Aylor, almost a carpenter, is captain of the Blues, and Fred James is captain of the Reds. The contest is on to get 500

Kentucky so consequently, no appointment. Claudie’s record is—for not paying his honorable bills. Claudie works for the Prudential Insurance Company. We doubt if he calls on any Catholics, Jews or Ne-

POST CORRESPONDENT RUNS ACROSS ANOTHER BATCH OF EIJX PATRIOTS IN WABASH-TIffI NAMES APPEAR

more new suckers to buy cheap groes because of their being aliens,

sheets and pillow cases at $10, a smash. We opine that the Rev. House, who hails from the incubator at Upland, will have to show more speed than any othr Klansman secretary has shown in Marion, Wabash or Kokomo, to get the Koo Koos to

Oh, Claudie! Wait'until your company hears of this. You know the Prudential doesn’t particularly care

for the Klan.

Also, Frank Messner doesn’t want to be forgotten. He is probation officer, an appointee of Judge Sim-

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Five Members of Family Meet With Violent Death Hugo, Colo.—The body of Gottleib Kaiser, twenty-nine, the latest victim In a family in which stark tragedy seems to lurk, was brought to Hugo from Canon City for burial. Kaiser, an ex-service man, who was living on a homestead twelve miles north of Canon City, was killed when a team of horses which he was driving hitched to a load of hay ran away and threw him to the ground, killing him instantly. ^Twelve years ago Kaiser’s father, Gottlieb Kaiser, Sr., was killed in the same manner when he was thrown <rom a hay wagon on his farm near here. Last December Kaiser’s stepsister, Mrs. Minnie Patterson Talladay, her five-year-old daughter and her infant son were burned to death In a lire which destroyed their home four miles east of Aroya, Colo. Kaiser is survived by his mother and sister living at Sunshine Valley, N. M„ and a sister at Grand Junction.

pay their dues, after exposure has mons. Merchants say that Frank is once begun. innoculated with the same bug as These Knights of Korruption can- Claude, ihat is relative to paying not endure the light of day or any bis bills. Frank has other honors unpublicity. We have before us a letter mentioned. He was trustee of Harwritten by the Rev. House exhorting rison Township. Also, he was short all the followers of the Mer Rouge in bis funds and his poor old father gang to please pay their dues, as the bad to sell his farm to make the treasury is hardly worth fighting shortage good and the sad part, the over. old gentleman died penniless. You folks of Hartford have heard Mrs. Joe Kasteter of 525 East very little of the Socialist partv, Washington street, i s a Camilla and lately; that is because like in all a sister Kluxerino of Mrs. Cap Rodother cities the Klan has absorbed crick who is a “she” organizer for them. The dirty propaganda may the hooded goofs. In our next issue now he hidden under the pillow we will give a more detailed report case. of the feminine Kluxers. We find that Cap. Roderick, who Ike Waters is the wealthy gentleruns a restaurant on West Wash- man that financed the coming of ington street carries a membership Koo Koo King the Kharacter Killer, card in the Klan. These Koo Koos It cost Ike $150. It would have been are certainly devoted to each other, much more honorable to have bought why, Cap even lent his wife to a Rapid Trim or Rollings, brother Koo Koo. And while dwelling upon the Roderick family, LOCAL KOO KOOS might state that Cap’s wife is a Rev. House, Secretary Klan,' Upfollower of Daisy Doodle Barr, the land. champion Kluxerino of Indiana. .In Cap. Roderick, Restaurant, West

Wabash, Ind-, Dec. 21.—Hail to spine carpenters ar; considered unthe new Wabash paper, edited by that lawful. If Kluxer Ed Jackson is brilliant scholar, Fish Ferry. No elected governor of Indiana he prom- , , , ,, ised them that they shall be as legal doubt the Wabash Untruth and Dil- . . a 1 ^ rn their profession as any real doclon’s filthy sheet will come to blows tor It is edifying to say the least. editorially; and when two such emi- A slap on the spine, $1-00 please, or nent brains meet in scholarly combat like bananas, six for $5.00. why the public may truly expect! Wabash county has another officer many noble utterances. Fish, old that has svrurn allegiance to two govhoy, asserts that “ten nights in the ernments, however, one is invisible bar room” Dillon is making too much au i their reg i raiment consists of a money. Fish, like Dillon, likes his sheet and pii’ow case. The gent is booze and ladies and plenty of it and Arthur Thompson, commissioner of as to the quality of either it matters ; W r abash county, R. F- D. No. 6. not. Many older citizens of Wabash' We w’ill have a story in our next make bold the remark, that they re- issue entitled “Why Did C- C. Hiner member when Fish’s children follow-1 leave Warsaw- so suddenly?” It qualed him from saloon to saloon beg-jifies Hiner absolutely as a real ging their father to come home. Fish Klansman. Ferry typifies the true Klansman. j Kluxer Charles Lane, better known No matter where you find them, east, | as Baldy, is the official Klan boot-w-est, north or south, they run true legger of Wabash Baldy receives to form. | fifty cents a drink for his home brewIt is alleged that an auditing of ed peach brandy. Baldy has also anRay Baker’s books will be finished other honor, he was a “shill” around in the near future. Of course we a certain joint some tgpe ago. mean the Chamber of Commerce i It is certainly edifying for a banker books. Ray was secretary and it is like* Dick La Salle of the Citzens Savsaid the funds didn’t show up just ings Trust Company to be an ac-

right.

Fred Garpow, 1606 North

street, an employee of the Wabash Cabinet is a Wabash Koo Koo- It is rumored and known that Fred takes 1 an office employe out riding after dark in his Lizzie. Fred has a large

family.

Mr. A- V. Wire, the spine carpenter in the Citizens Savings & Trust building, has discontinued his 100 percent calls in the neighborhood of a certain home. Strange how these spine carpenters have joined this unconstitutional organization almost to the man. However, we are aware that in

j knowledged brother Kluxer of the

Wabash following men: WABASH KLUCKEKS.

Charles “Bafidy” Lane—vagrant. Harry Smith—Poolroom hangeron. Hopper Howell—Button cutter.

Chas. Fadley—ice man.

Bell Fay—Baker.

Geo- Anderson—Poolroom hanger-

cn.

C. C- Hiner—Poolroom proprietorButch Howard—Gents Haberdash-

er.

Frank Carsell—Supt. of High Tension. Fish Ferry—Editor, Scholar and

a great many states the aforesaid | pledge of white mule.

2,000. Foour years later with the Lew Shank will he elected by a milstupid Kilgore as chairman, bleating lion v °tes.

other words Mrs. Roderick is a sister Camilia, who would dare dictate the morals of good women of Hartford City. Watch each issue of our paper or the stories from other localities and see how true these low brows run to form. Protectors of womanhood, perfect Americans, per-

fect Christians, wouldn’t it

one sick!

Chester Weir, local agent of the Indiana Union Traction is another protector of sweet womanhood. Chet rented the pavilion for the notorious grafter King to attack the gpod citi-

quarrels. Virginia barred from public | believed he was penniless,

^ . j. _ > Via** ivn/■»!sx’cj mill maa -frmnr!

Pawned Ring to Aid “Penniless” Relative New York.—Just before the death of James J. O’Brien, a year ago, his niece, Miss Mary Ellen Glynn, with whom he lived, had to pawn a ring to get medicine for him. She had

so when

office any one who had fought In a

duel.

The wastage in humanity engendered by the duel has never appealed to the Germans, although Heidelberg and other universities have gone in quite extensively for it. Neither official dignity nor towering rank prevented men from exercising their right of giving or accepting invitations to meet on the field of honor, In 1789 the duke of York fought an Indecisive duel on Wimbledon common with a lieutenant colonel of the duke’a regiment After a dispute, the duke had refused to stand upon whatevei immunity was his by reason of his be* ing a gon of England’s king. William Pitt, the great commoner and friend of American independence, w«s challenged by George Tierney, 4 political opponent, to mortal combat (Neither of them had the slightest knowledge of handling a pistol. Tw* shots which each tried went wild, theij Ae encounter was stopped by the seconds, who must have been concerned about their own safety and that oi anybody else In near-by England. Wellington on “Field of Honor." The duke of Wellington, Napoleon’i conqueror, was challenged by the ear) of Winchilsea following the duke’s share rebuke of the earl in a rellsrlom

her uncle’s will was found bequestlng her about $13,000 she at first refused to believe it. Then when It wafl proved he had bank deposits and Miss * Glynn learned she was entitled to $9,516, she refused to pay a bill oi $1,500 her attorney, George K. Hunt-

on, presented.

This came out in a hearing before Surrogate Foley on Miss Glynn’s objections to the lawyer’s fee. Surrogate Foley ordered it paid.

News photographs of important events, photographs of criminals and of finger prints, signatures for identification by banks—all these are dispatched via telegraph or radio by means of the new phototelegraph apparatus Just completed by Marvin Ferree, a newspaper man of Cleveland. The apparatus Is simply operated, is Inexpensive and may be operated from afly newspaper office equipped with an engraving plant. Likewise, banks seeking Immediate identification of signatures, police chiefs seeking trace or description of fugitives of the law may make use of the device that is very easily Installed. The Ferree phototelegraph Instrument closely resembles a radio receiving set and occupies about the same amount of space. Ferree has sent photos a distance of 900 to 1,000 miles via radio, and nearly 400 miles via wire. The principle employed Is an electrochemical process consisting of two identical transmitting and receiving machines.

4 — | Lived Like Pauper, Dies Amid Treasure Genoa, Italy.—Giovanni Battista Devoto, eighty-three years old, who owned 100 apartment houses in Genoa, died recently. He was credited with being a millionaire, but always lived as though in dire poverty. The man had no relatives here, but some of his kin are living in America. They are reported to be wealthy. The house in which Devoto died was filled with furniture and antiques, plied up promiscuously in the rooms.

New rerfume Bottles Made to Resemble Dogs London.—Lifelike miniatures ot foxes and dogs daintily fashioned in glass blown as finely as a soap bubble, are the latest craze in scent bottles. They will captivate women more than any novelty introduced for many years past. There are perfect models of every kind of dog, from the fluffy toy Pekinese to the great St. Bernard. The scent is stored in the -bodies of the dogs or In the brush of the fox. A cork is fitted in the mouth.

Skunk Halts Trolley Traffic. Lancaster, Pa.—A street car carrying 50 passengers was held up for half an hour near Lenape park by a skunk. The animal had Its head wedged in a tin can and was unable to free itself. In its predicament it took to the street car track. The motorman finally freed It with a switchbar and the trolley car proceeded. The animal was killed later by a searching party.

Washington street. Chester Weir. I. U. T. Agent. Fred James, Cyclops, Glass Work-

er

Henry Aylor, Near Carpenter Mrs. Henry Aylor, wife of Near

Carpenter

Claude Hobson, Prudential In-

make surance Company.

Frank Messner, Probatijon Officer Mrs. Cap. Roderick, Lady organi-

zer, Camilia.

Mrs. Joe Kasteter, 525 E!. Wash-

ington street.

Ike Waters, Plumber at large.

HANDICAP IS PUT ON CRETTENBERGER BY OBED KILGORE

Office of Klux Democratic County Chairman Was Meeting Place. DEMOCRATS REFUSE SUMMONS FROM OBED They Like Crittenberger— But Can’t Stomach the Klux Chairman.

Several days ago Dale Crittenberger, of Anderson, came to Muncie to announce his candidacy for governor, Y/hile here he was either chloroformed or blindfolded or otherwise asphyxiated, and inveigled into the office of Kobedia K. Kilgore, Klucker Kounty Khairman, who was wished onto the democrats one drizzly day in the Merry Month of May by five halfasleep precinct committeemen and

from the stump that “Dale had been , run cut of Hartford City,” to the in-! spiring notes of Haystack Jones’s | base viol orchestra, the democratic' candidate was defeated by a two! thousand majority. In the campaign of 1922, this time chairman by the votes of six committeemen and ten or twelve proxies, Oby led the party to the greatest defeat it ever sustained, at an election when all the rest of the world, including Michigan and Ohio, was going democratic. In that campaign Oby jacked over a thousand dollars out of the democratic candidate for congress, a gentleman from Decatur, who had more money than judgment and who has been putting in his time since that disastrous exchange of real mCaiy for experience in trying to figure out why a man should spend a thousand dollars to lose Delaware county by six or seven thousand votes. If it costs that much money to lose one county by such a wide margin, just think what might have happened to him here if Oby had got the two thousand dollars which he tried to

pry out of him?

In the coming May primary the democrats here are expecting to come to life and elect precinct committeemen who will kick Oby but

Advertise in the Post-Democrat

• crat cares to be seen on the same I side of the street with this cheap ' koo koo, and the result was that what should have been a large meeting of democrats for the purpose of furthering the candidacy of an eighth district candidate, turned out to be a very smal gathering, of democrats, who like <Crittenberger, all riglft and wish him well but were distracted from the business in hand

by beingr compelled to hold thei and install a live one. The democrats noses, much as they would if they are going to purge the party of klans

had been invited to a polecat’s par-

lyor to eat ice cream.

Probably Obey will read this and will in his childish way pretend that it was inspired by the fact that the editoi of the Post-Democrat was not invited to Oby’s party, but what he says or thinks is of slight importance. It is important, though, that Mr. Crittenberger should be given a fair shake and it is unfortunate that he should have such a handicap imposed upon him here at the outset. Muncie and Delaware, chanty are full of the very best democrats on earth, but they are tired of being trifled with by such a false alarm as Kookoo Kilgore. When it comes to a question of who is the fyest democrat, Kilgore or the editor of the Post-Democrat, we are willing any

one-wide awake one who had toured t j me t0 put jt to a vote and if we fail the county and came back to Muncie to beat him ten to one we will agree with a pocket full of proxies while as a forfeit to walk up and down the

the farmer givers of the proxies stayed at home to plow corn. “Grit” is not a klucker, the son of klucker or anything remotely connected’with kluxiusm, yet there he was, tied and gagged, figuratively speaking, in the office of the sneakenist, most no-account piece of humanity in Delaware county, to meet such democrats as might be selected by Obey to hear the announcement

of his candidacy.

The result of this was that only a

length of Walnut street attired in Oby’s kluck nighty and dunce cap. Kilgore has served as democratic chairman three qonsecutive times He was acting chairman in the campaign of 1920 and the party got ap unmerciful walloping in Delaware county. He was acting chairman in the city campaign in 1921 and the democratic defeat in the city was relatively worse than the licking in the county in 1920. With Ray An-

few democrats responded to Oby’s in- drews as city chairman in 1917, Drvitation. No self-respecting demo-,Runch was elected by a majority of

men and they will stand for no candidate who does not come out in the open and declare war ou the invisible empire. A handbill printed by one of Kilgore’s kluck cronies last week stated that Mr Crittenberger would have six planks in his platform We trust that one of these planks will enunciate against the klan If the democratic candidates fol* governor attempt to straddle this question for expediency’s sake politics will be thrown to the wincj and

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