- — ' » » *3 I ‘ ft TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 19» 1911» THE CODE DUELLO J It Had Its Origin In the Barba rous Wager of Battle. QUEER COMBATS IN FRANCE. I M I f 9 4 « 4 1 A I , ft I i On» Fatal Affair of Honor Wai Fought Out In Balloons, and Another Wa» Decided With Billiard Balls as Weapons—A Duel Between Woman. . I, They Are Small and Silent, but W>rk With Fire Tipped Sting». Mosquitoes In this Icebound north ern country, Alaska, are a plague be yond relief. They come to life about the middle of May, before <be ground is thawed nut aud while many feet of ice still cover the lakes and all but the swiftest rivers. Stagnant, sun heated water is not In the least necessary. They breed In the glaciers wherever a bit of earth or manure has melted a little pool Their wrigglers ure seen In running ice water. By the 1st of June it Is uncomfortable to sleep with out protection, and from that time on until September, when the first frosts have benumbed them, especially dur ing the warn, rainy season of July and August, they become a never ceas ing scourge, swarming iu thousands. The Alaskan mosquito is small, browu, silent and very much in ear nest. lie never sings a warning nor fools about selecting a spot to Ills taste, but comes In u bee line with Ills probe uud gets into action. Every Inch of your clothing Is Industriously bored, so that you look like an ani mated brown cocoon, aud the slightest exposed spot on wrist or neck is promptly set on fire. I experimented with a small hole In my glove. After the first mosquito had found the open ing others came In quick succession to the spot. He left some microscopic “kind lady and no dog” sign there. If I killed the first and left his carcass It served as a warning not at all. The others came the faster, and the more 1 killed the more eager the survivors be came. perching quite unmoved on the remains of their confreres.—World To- day. The Idea from which the code duello Was developed came down from the north with the barbarians who over ran the Roman empire. They brought with them the ordeal or wager of but tle or Judicial duel, which sprang from their Idea to tight it out aud let the guilt or Innocence of the accused be determined by the result of the buttle. Straugely enough, the Judicial duel was considered n Utting mode of set tling disputes between man and wife. To equalize as much as possible the inequality of such a contest the man was put In a pit in which be was burled up to the girdle, while one of his arms was bound to bls 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. The story of the duel in the modern sense may be dated from 1527, when Francis 1. gave the lie to the Emperor Charles V., a proceeding which prom ised to lead to a combat of excep tional interest, but which never took place because mutual friends recon ciled the pugnacious monarchs. By this time the Judicial duel had EUGENIE’S ESCAPE. been gradually abolished, and the pri vate duel, fought before witnesses, who seconded the principals In the en How the Empress Got Out of Franoo After Sedan. counter, came in. Sometimes the sec As soon ns the hot headed citizens of onds also mixed it up. and instead of a duel there was a quartet or a sextet Paris learned In September, 1870, that The day of dueling has passed long their emperor, Napoleon III., had aur- since in England and America and rendered to the Prussians at Sedan only lingers in France as a sort of these Parisians rose in a riotous mob and made posthaste for the Tuileries, harmless comedy. Several duels have been fought be They were armed and after royal tween women, and there are two or blood and plunder, The empress had three Instances of duels between a to flee for her life. Assisted by the man and a woman. In which the man Austrian and Italian ministers, she made a hurried flight from the palace, did not nlways get the better of it. One of these duels between women but found the mob ahead of her in was that between two Frenchwomen, the garden; back agalu and then out the Marquise de Nesle and the Com by a secret wuy Into a side street, tease de Pollgnac, In the eighteenth where they entered a carriage. A century. The two titled women were street gamin recognized the empress rivals for the affections of a certain here, but the shouting of the mob was duke, and an Incident occurred which so great that the boy’s cry of warning brought on n bitter quarrel between was not heeded. Once the carriage was stopped by a the two Jealous grande dumes. As n result of this the marquise chal mob. but the party alighted and man lenged the comtesse to tight her a duel, aged to escape. Finding themselves and the challenge was accepted. Pis near the residence of Dr. Evans, the tols were chosen and the Boise de Bou American dentist, they took refuge logne selected ns the place of meeting. tber-. and the doctor took upon him When the women had taken their self the responsibility of Empress Eu places the comtesse called out to the genie's safety. The empress put on a marquise. "Do you fire first, madaine, dress belonging to Mrs. Evans and. und, mind you. don't miss me; don't with Mme Breton, her friend, was Imagine fur n moment that I am going driven by Dr. Evans to the suburbs. to miss you!" The inarqulso fired, but Dr. Evans explained that the women missed and lilt a neighboring tree. The were a patient and her attendant comtesse smiled. "Your baud trembles whom he was taking to a sanitarium. with passion, inn da me," cried she Two days later the fugitives reached a coast town, whence they escaped to "You are lost!” The comtesse aimed deliberately at I England — the bead of the marquise and fired. The marquise fell with a great cry a» Plant» That dhoot Arrows. of one who had received a mortal • The arrows are crystal needles of wound, but the bullet had only cut oxalate of lime. They are of microscop away a nilnuto piece of her shell like ic domenslons, and they are Bhot from ear. All Faria laughed—even the duke. minute capsule shafted bodies found Two duels have been fought from In the tissues of such plauts as the balloons The most luteresting was Indian turnip and the Polynesian taro. that between M. de Grandpre and M. An extraordinary spectacle may bn Lc Pique, which took place on May 8, viewed in the field of the microscope ISus. Why they eelected balloons Is when the “bonds" contained In a drop not clear, but possibly because balloon I of taro pulp begin to discharge their ing was one of the crazes of the dsy. arrows. Sometimes only oue or two Each duelist, with his second, got need lea and sometimes groups of four Into a balloon tn the field adjoining the to ten were discharged at once, the Tuileries, and in the presence of a bomb recoiling as the projectllee left great crowd the cords were cut and up It. it has been suggested that the shot the balloons. The combatants Intense burning and pricking sensa were armed with blunderbusses. At tions exiterleticed In chewing such about 800 feet from the ground Le plants ns those Just mentioned are due Pique fired, and Grandpre immediately to the release and discharge of these res)K>nded. The latter'e shot was ef crystal arrows wheu the plant tlsauae fective and penetrated Le Pique’s bal are crushed In the mouth.—Harper’s loon, which rapidly descended, and 1« Weekly. Pique and his second were dashed to ceath on a housetop, while Grandpre A Fine Distinction. uud his second descended safely seme Sometimes a small boy can draw ■ wi en leagues n way. flue distinction Two fishermen of the A duel with billiard balls took place t sportsman type, equipped with sll the In France Sept 4. 1843, between two latest appliances for angling, were young men named, respectively, Le- i wnlklug a mountain road when they faut and Melfaut. They quarreled i over a game of billiards and decided met a barefooted boy with a tin can In to fight a duel with the balls with ills hand and a carelessly trimmed which they were playing. They drew branch of a tree slung over his shoul lot» for the first throw, and Melfaut der. 'Hello, sonny!" exclaimed one of won. "1 am going to kill you at the first throw." said Melfant. and. aim the men "Going fishing?" "No." drnwled the youngster, with ing the missile, he hurled It at Lefant. striking hlu> In the ceuter of the fore only a glance at the splendid outfits, head and killing him almost Instantly. “1 ain’t goln' flshin’. I'm Just goin' Arnoug curious American duels was dowu to the crick to ketch some fish." that foughl at the Daks, the famous Now Orleans dueling ground, between I Air In the Lunge, M Podesclaux. a creole. and a retired In one minute. In a state of reel, the French cavalry officer. In antebellum average man takes Into bls lungs about days. The duel was fought with both •M-8 cubic Inches of air. In walking combatauts mounted on magnificent he needs 97 tl cubic inches; in climb atalllona and armed with broadswords ing. 1<O3 Inches; In riding at a trot. It was a fierce battle, iu which the 2013 cubic Inches, and in long dis lTrouch offleer was killed. •aocg running. 347 7 cubic Inches Consolation. » ALASKAN MOSQUITOES. An Optical Delusion. I NEHALEM VALLEY BANK THE USE OF TOBACCO, Cut It Out On» Day Each Week 1» th» Advice of a Doctor. OF NEHALEM OREGON If a man who uses tobacco will give it up for one day each week be will u.or. himself from becoming a "to- keep bacco fiend.’ This is the advice of a FRANK A. ROWE, President. well known doctor, who says that quite a number of men. Including him NEHALEM, OREGON, OCTOBER 16, 19U< self, have adopted this plan. "By leaving off tobacco for one day To the Headlight Readers: a week you give your system time to get rid of the effects of the drug," be You are all interested in the road work in this County. Bald. “You will then enjoy your tobacco The Call for more good roads for Tillamook County is now far more, too, because you have be come unaccustomed to the flavor, and more urgent than ever before It Is therefore more enjoyable when you resume smoking. The new railroad will not be of its greatest value to us “The effect of tobacco is a general sedative action on the nervous sys unless we have good wagon roads and many of them, connect tem, which diminishes the power of taste and smell. That Is why tea ing with the railroad tasters seldom or never smoke. “Leave it off for a day, and the Right here I want to go on record as approving the work »ense of taste recovers Not only that, but leaving off tobacco for one done by the present County Court. The plans of the County day voluntarily breaks the tobacco habit, exercises the self control and Court are well laid, but they must have time and money and prevents one from becoming a slave to the habit. assistance to carry them out "Slaves to the tobacco habit suffer from Irritable hearts, loss of appetite I am in favor of assisting the members of the County for breakfast, eye trouble, sometimes going as ftir as blindness, chronic Court by giving them my encouragement rather than embarras catarrh of the throat and nervous de pression.”—New York American. sing them by threats and unjust criticisms STUYVESANT’S LOST LEG. Respectfully, Doubt as to Which It Was Shown In Paintings and Statues. There Is no doubt Peter Stuyvesant had a wooden leg. The histories tell of how he stomped about the streets of New Yleuw Amsterdam, leaving a dot and dash trail in the road like a Morse code. But there is one point on which historians Reern perplexed—or it may be that the readers of history are unobserving—which leg bad the good Peter lost? In the Wall street section those who roam may see at least five representa tions of the late lamented governor of the Dutch colony. Three of these are painted on the panels of signs, and two are statues, like Peter’s leg, made of wood. One of the statues and two of the paintings represent the governor wear ing a chair leg attached to his right nether limb, while In the others paint ers and sculptors have chosen to resent that it was his left leg he lost. All show the leg bedecked with bon bows, and all show him as a be- nlgn individual—not at. all In keeping with the character given him by tlie historians in question—wearing knick erbockers and a felt chapeau and offer ing a roll of manuscript to whomso ever looks.—New York Times. .J& & .&! j HEADQUARTERS FOR AIRYMEN'S SUPPLIES | AND * STEEL STOVES & RANCES.i Hardwaro, Tinware, Glass and China, Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window Sashes, Agents for the Great Western Saw. ALEX McNAIR CO The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County. iWF&Eiì J backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irregularities Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in action, quick in results. Refuse substituted Chas. I. Clough, Tillamook Bathing an Elephant. A Puzzle For Will? The new school superintendent was chock full of new pedagogy. “Never ask leading questions when examining your pupils," he command ed his teachers "Do not hit at the an •were. Make the learner And them unassisted " This Is how the young Indy teaching Greek history obeyed: “Willie, who dragged whom how ■any times around the walls of wbat f—Every body 's. Affable Stranger-1 beg your par Ambiguoue. don. but lent tbia Mian G roen leaf 7 “Did your late employer give you a The l-ady-No; I am Miao Redpatb A. S -Ah. excuse me! I must be col testimonial r "Yes. but it doesn't seem to do roe or blind. - Boston Transcript. any go<xl " "What did be say?” Revengo, "He said I was one of the best men She-Tou ask me to marry you Can his firm had ever turned out“—Phils you not see your answer In my faca? delphla Inquirer. He <• twently>—Teo—er-er—lt i vary plain.—Life. It le not eooucb to be luduetrtoon. bo err ente Wbat arg you toduetrtouo about t-Tboroau. Ftgg-l rappoae you bare something Take ■ gesst hook slowly. Ton see 1«M up for a rainy day? Fogg-Sure! h finer country In a mover's wag. > re a lot of things ready to «oak on than you do from a car window. *boa it vomee.-Boaton Transcript. Fee a Rainy Day. ft 5 T01EY KIDNET PIUS The elephant's bath takes a week to carry out in every detail. It requires the services of three men, and it costs 1300. This treatment is necessary for a circus elephant, and If the animal Is a valuable one the proprietor of the circus does not consider the money wasted. The first process consists in goiug over the Immense body with the best soap procurable; 150 pouuds of soup Is used, and the elephant's ears sire especially carefully attended to. When the soaplug and drying are completed the elephant is well sandpa pored and after that rubbed all over with the purest Indian oil until the mouse gray skin is supple and glisten ing. This last touch is the most ex pensive part of the bath, as $150 has to be spent on the oil alone.-rhlladelphla Record. ”1 have beeu a drudge all my life,” he complained. "Well," the unsympathetic old bach elor replied. “It’» largely your own fault. Why did you aver get married? Ixwk at me." “Yoe. I'm looking at you. That's wbat rosencllee me to my condition. After all. there are worse things than drudges In the world."-Chicago Rec ord Herald 11 We carry a Large Stock of London Through the Ages. The occupation of the site of London dates back much farther than most readers are aware. The city that Julius Caesar found occupied a site which had beeu luhabited for unnum bered thousands of years. It is now kno wn that during paleolithic and ■eolithlc times—the two great divi sions of the stone age—man dwelt on the site of London, but it first became the settlement of a community at the openlug of the historic age, when it was a stronghold of the Celts. The remains of its Roman period are the finest of the kind in Great Britain. The Anglo-Saxon and Danish periods are finely represented, and even later periods, such as the Tudor, furnish rel ics that have been buried by that strange process of superincumbent growth which makes the soli under a great city resemble the fosBlliferous strata of geology.—Youth's Companion. 1 FRANK A. ROWE w. J. STEPHENS, Distributer for Ti llamook, Ore y, ___