Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1890, Page 12

12 e ———— e e s e e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. LOVE AND RAPIERS. Maurice Thompaon (n New ¥ork Ledger. The village of Bay Saint Louis wasa favorite dueling ground in the days when an appeal to swords or to pistols was * thought by southern gentlemeh to be the only honorable way of settling personal grievances, Those days are past and now there s not a move peaceful and cer- tainly not a more beautiful town in all the picturesque coast country. If over you shall be going to New Or- feans, by way of the railroad from Mobile, you will find it well worth while to stop and sped afew days at this lov sum- mer resort. Just before vou reach the town you cross a bridge three miles long spanning the placid bay. Looking out of the car windows southward you see the Gulf of Mexico rolling green to the horizon, under a sky assoft and blue as thatof Italy. Northward. the bay nar- rows rapidiy and receives two fine,strong rivers—the Wolf and the Jordon, Just above the mouths of these streams rise the black clouds of smoke made by im- mense steam saw-mills, Everywhere on the water sail the fishing and lumber crafts, pleasure boats and the skiffs and pirogues of sportsmen. Westward, dot- ting the shore of the bay for nine miles, appear the cottages of the town, nestling amid their orange orchards, their scup- pernong vines, their gnarled old fig trees, their moss-hung live-oak and their hedges of Cherokee roses and oleander. Behind the town, stretching back for miles to the bayous and marshes, rise dark forests of pine, oak, gum and mag- nolia, against which, in fine perspective, are sketched the steeples of churches; one of these churches is an old Catholic cathedral, fanked by a college and con- vent. Infront, batween the buildings and the sea, runs a smooth, chalk-white shell road along the edge of the bluff, the whole length of the town. If you will take a carriage and a driver who knows the place, you may spend aday or two delightfully in ex- ploring the ins and outs, by highway and byway, of a settlement that dutes back to the time when the Spaniavds and the French were playing battledoor and shuttlecock with all our rich and salubrious gulf-coast country. % now in the streets and piotu shops of Bay 5t. Louis you h accents of Spain_and the polite intona- tions of Paris. Toone unaccustomed to it, there is something strangely fascin- ating and elusively suggdstive of the remote and the romantic in hearing an old, picturesquely ragged negro salute another on Yhe street with: “Bon jour, m'sien’. Il fa'la beau temps ¢’ matin”—African French for “Good mo'nin’, sah. It’smighty fine wedder dis mo’nn’.” And what weatherit is almost the ear round! A balmy b s from the “aribbean sea, upon which one can al- most detect the fragrance of pineapple and banana, blows ail day and all night. You hear mocking-birds singing in shade and in sheen, by sunlight, by moonlight, by starlight, and the roses bloom every day. There is a Dbroad, slumberous swashing of tide and surf as the warm waves roll in against the white sand bluffs. The people have soft veices and entle mannets, and it is hard to imag- ne, much harder to believe, that it was ever true of them that they stood readv, on the strength of the slightest insult to fight to the death as a matter of honor; but so it was, There are men living now who saw many duels in the days of the ‘‘code.” One charming old gentleman informed the present writer that he had witnessed twenty hostile meetings with sword or pistol. Before the days of the railroad which now mukes Bay Saint Louis but one hour and thirty minutes from New Orl the only appronch was by wate from the interior or Mississipp! rendered the place one of the most se- cluded nooks in America, and, 08 & mat- ter of course, a considerable number of refugees from justice or from misfortune or tyranny fled thither; but the larger part of the population was highly re- spectable: some of it was made uyp, es- pecially in summer, of the wealthiost and best French families of New Orleans, ‘who eame by steamboat to spend the hot season in elegant cottages on the breezy bluffs. Nearly all the duels ever fought at Bay Saint Louis took place in one or an- other secluded spot in the lonely woods behind the tawn. These woods are now dotted with creole ana negro cot- tages, the homes of poor people, who find an easy if not very luxurious lifoe where the fish in the bayous and the fruits on the trees are to be had with buv the smallest outlay of labor, Even since the place was first settled, and even before, these wdods have been a maze of crossed and tangled roads, paths and tr: tirst made by the Indian, You can ride or drive every- where and in every direction, and yet the growth is thick, often obstructing the sight on all sides. Now and again you come upon little natural glades or openings set in wild grass and sur- rounded with a wall of trees. These are the spots that were chosen for the dreadful work of the duelists, About the year 1824, two young men of New Orleans were lovers of a beauti- ful’ gitl by the name of Marie de No- yant, whose father had a summer place at Bay Saint Louis, Of course, Mario could not accept the attenjion of both if she loved either, and as Honore Chau- vin had captnred he heart, there was nothing for Pierre Maton to do but to challenge his suceessful rival to mortal combat, The three families—Noyants, Chau vins and Matons—were of the best in New Orleans, and had always been on the most intimate terms socially, Hon- ore and Pierre had known Marie from childhood up; they had been her play- mates, her friends, and now they were her lovers, Both were handsome, rich und honorable, as honor was understood at the time and place. If Marie hesi- tated to choose between themgit was not because of any doubt in her heart. She knew that she loved Honove, and qu as well she was aware that under no cir- cumstances could she ever love Plerre, Still it was very hard'for her, when Pierre came to her home on the buy and asked her to be his wifo—it was hard to break in on his passionate [Aypcul ith the truth that must crush him, She begged for time to cousider, and thus ut off the unpleasant, nay, the tortur- ng, duty that she owed to herself and to her lovers, But the time camewhen she could no longer procrastinate, Hon- ore, doubtless aware that his rival was beslo[lng the citadel of his lady’s heart, came also to bay Saint Louis und urged his sult. Gently, kindly, sweetly as she could, Marie put an end to Pierre’s hopes; but {t was not in her power to blunt in the east the terrible point of her refusal, Love s not to be set aside with polite- fiess, nor can it be assuaged by generous friendship and tender kinduess. Any- thing short of love is a stab to love. ““I'hen It is Honore Chauvin that you care for, Marie?” said Pierre, rising to arose, and they stood look- other. They had been sitting . vered veranda, with the waves of the bay tumbling in against the beach in full view. i ‘“Yes, Plerre,” she sald pregently. *'I will_not deceive you or evade youriques- tion. T dolove Honore, and I promised him today that I would be his wife,” Plerre stood dumb for a while. There was nothing for him to say; words were not made that could in any way serve his turn in this moment of utter defeat. "0, am 0 sorry, 8o grie od, Plorre, to see you feel like this!” cried Marie. “You know I love youas a brother is | ) loved, very, very much, and — ‘“As a brother!” muttered Pierre, with bitter, desperate emphasis—'‘as a broth- er! And he turned and left the girl's presence without another word. She made & movement as if to follow him, but he had passed down the steps and out of tho gnte with long strides, like some actor in a melodrama. Her first thought was Honore Chauving for in those s the hot French blood ravely cooled without first having boiled over in deadly fight. What Pierre Maton did was to go straightway to his friend Honore Chau- vi d slap him in the face. That for Marie de Noyant!” he ex- claimed, still choking with the ate choler excited by his sense ¢ 3 “That for 1" he'went on, repeating the insulting blow. Then he turned and loft Honore, well knowing what would follow. The challenge was promptly sent and as promptly accepted. The following morning ata little past e, the combatants with their sec- sand surgeons, met in a small open space where two or three little wildwood roads, dim and straggling, crpssed each other in the forest part bf what was then known as the Joulome plantation. They were to fight with swords. The weapons were measured, positions chosen, the word given, and the fight to the death was begun by a thin, keen, far- reaching clink of steel crossing stecl. Many a time had these young men (now eager for each other’s blood) fenced in manly play, and well did both know how equally they were matched,and how doubtful was the outcome of the strug- gle they were beginning, Both were palebut cool and wary; in their eyes burned the hateful fire of unforgiving anger. The seconds stood aside but intently gazing on; the su ittle further away. held their and instruments veady. Honore Chauvin, to do him justice, did not wish to kill Pierre Maton, but meant, if he could, to disablé him, Thi however, was not so easy, for I eager to slay, and burning with rage of disuplmi“lcd passion, was fighting like a mad tiger, and yet with supreme vigi- lance and art, Their swords cut the air with hissing swiftness and filled the place with a angor and o shower of spiteful sparks that might well e stilled all the wild songs of the birds in the woods round- about, Once the keen point of Pierre’s rapier barely touched Honore’s throat, letting the least show of blood. In turn, Pierre felt a tingling scratch on his own breast; but this exchange of touches only shot into the fight a new access of energy. As the exercise began to steady their excited nerv nd lend suppleness to their leaping muscles, they redoubled their efforts, and Honore for- get his resolve to only wound Pierre, while Pierre felt his desire to kill swell into a steady, deadly tempest of passion. Again and again each of the combat- ants received slight wounds—mere scratches; but neither appeared able to break the other’s guard or to find an un= defended point, such touches as they had given and received being more the result of close fighting than of advan- tage either way. But no matter how young and strong they were, or how ex- pert, this could not last very long. The tremendous strain was sureto tell. 'Who would fail first and permit the other to make the fatal pass? They were pantingnow and the white foam was gathering on their purple ll{)s. Their eyes, starting and glaving with concentrated fury, were fixed and ter- rible in their animal expression, It was as if these two men, solately friends and almost brothers, were ready to mangle and devour each other like savage wild beasts. 5 Huppll'{' 4he time when such things could be has gone by, but it is by keep- ing record of those strange facts that we are able to understand the growth of our present civilization, The duel lingered longer in the south than in the north, and especiully in the low country did it last without much sign of passing away till some time after the close of our great war. Looking back now we can scarcely realize that only half a cen- tury ago it was a common occurrence for two men to do what we are witnessing between Honore Chauvin and Pierre Maton. So much was dueling a part of thelife of the people in the early days of the present century that in some parts of our country to refuse a challenge was to invite social ostracism aud not to give one on fit occasion was sure to attract contempt. The seconds and surgeons stood by so wrapped in contemplation of the even- handed tight, so engrossed in watching the leaping blades, and so forgetful of everythiug save this play of death, that they did not hear the sound of heels and and the rapid beating of a flying horse’s feet. As for the princivals ~they would not have heard if a thunderbolt had fallen at their feet. They were now fighting in the last spurt of strength be- fore one or tho other must fail. Each felt that if his antagonist held up a few minutes longer all would be over. The reflection of this thought set a terrible light in their drawn and haggard faces. The mufled sounds of wheels in the sand and of the furious flight of a horse came neaver and near The seconds leaned forward as the intensity of their sympathy with their principuls scemed to shrivel them, as if with heat; thesur- geons unconsciously drew closer to the panting, laboring duelists. y Honore Chauyin at this moment inade alunge; Pierreavoided it by a supreme effort; the movement caused them to ex- change positions, and as they did so Pierre shot out a quick thrust that pierced Honore's sleeve without touch- ng the flesh; his point hung a half- socond, and FHonore was justin the act of running him through, when he tripped ona small root and staggered back., Now they both rallied and re- newed the contest with a mementary show of returning streagth; but Honore was failing. Plerre saw this and rushed upon him with feeble but furious en- ergy, striving to beat down his guard, IIo{md succeeded, and Honore was at his mercy. The next breath there was a sharp cry of terror, the voice of a woman in utter distress, and a strange, dull, rushing sound followed by a crash, Tho duelists were swept from their seet and dashed headlong; a horse tumbled over them and the frag- ments of a small vehicle were scattored around. In the midst of this wreck thus hurled upon the contestants & young woman rose to her foet and etood, so beautiful, disheveled, frightened almost to madness, but un- hurt. It was Marvie de Noyant, The horse after falling and rolling over, struggled to his feet, and, with parts of its harness still elinging to it and treiling and whirling about, ran frantically away throngh the woods in the direction of the town. Overcome for a moment, the seconds and surgeons stood staring and motion- less, but they were meh of nervo, and needed but time to take u breath ang bandages of danger to | ull themselves together before spring- ng forward to the assistance of Honore and Pierre, who lay as if dend on the | ground where the shock of the collision . S. RAYMOND, had flung them, Marie de Noyant had arisen early that morning to keep a promise she had made to visit a sick and extremely aged ereole woman who lived in a small house back in the woods on the road to Jordon river. Feeling oppressed with what had occurred between her and Pierve, she orderegl her servant to fetch her pony and cart, and drove awa alone, before the rest of the household were up. Sho loft the servant behind, wishing to he entirely free to commune with her heart, and to devise, if possible, some means of softening Pierre’s disap- pointment, While she feared that something dreadful might come of the terrible passion of the young man, she did not dream that, even while shedrove slowly aslong the dim road under the trees, a duel was in progress between him and Honore Chauvin, Her pony, a stout, gentle animal, jogged quietly for- ward in the sand botweon tho tults of Spanish bayonsts and thickets of bay bushes; overhead, the pine-trees moaned and the grand magnolius rustled theiv stiff, glossy foliage. Suddenly three or four goats, part of a herd that had been turned out to graze and browse in the woods, leaped out of a little tangle of tall wild grass hard by, and dashed across the road close in frony of the pony. Marie at the time was absorbed in thought and held the lines with a slack hand. The pony took fright, as the gentlest horse sometimes will, and whirling about and almost up- setting the cart, ran away through the forest as fast as hislegs could cavry him, The movement whisked the linesout of Marie’s grasp, and so she lost control, Discovering his freedom and crazed with fright the hitherto gentle littlo animal became a savage and terrible beast, reckless of evesything, giving no attention to road or direction, The reader will understand at once how the catastrophe came about at the dueling ground, for the pony, accident- ally heading itself that way, ran madl and blindly upon the combatants. 1{ was found dead a half-mile from the spot with Pierre’s rapier sheathed to the hilt in its breast. It had struck the weapon’s point just as it was about 0 dart into the heart of Honore Chauvin, The strangest part of the whole ad- venture was thut Marie escaped without even the slightest hurt. The young men were borne to the nearest house, where for many hours they lay side by side insensible. Hon- ore’s hurts were nearly fatal, and Pierre was crippled for life. ~In the course of their convalescence thoy both received the gentle antl untiring care of Marie, and before they were able to leave the house their friendship had been restored. Aunt Chlothilde, a very old colored woman who speaks nothing but the French patois of the creole country, is the only survivor of the slaves owned by Marie de Noyant’s father at the time of the duel. You may, if you will visit her in her little house on Hospital street in New Orleans, have the story that I have here sketched, told to you in the most picturesque way, and it always ends with a minute description of how beau- tiful Marie looked in her white wedding gown when she and Honore Chauvin were married, 01Inthe courseof frequent and long so- journs in the old French regionof the south, I have made note of many roman- tie, odd, or otherwise interesting stories of dueling; but none of them seems to me more strange than this told me by Aunt Chlothilde. Last winter I visited the spot where the duel was fought, and while I tried to imagine the scene ‘as -it was sixty-six vears ago, a mocking bird quavered its ncomparable flute score from a wax myrtle bush on the edge of aflowery thicket hard by. What a peaceful spot it was! e Paper Manufactures. An inyentor has just patented a paper vest. Paper, as is well known, is a non- conductor of heat, and the new waist- coat is said to be an excellent thing to wear when the thermometer is below zero. One of the most singular of recent patents is a rocking chair washing ma- chine. The rocking chair, which is placed in a tub in which ave water, soa andthe clothes to be washed, has a rac| on its rockers provided with a grooved roller, The wash tub has projections on its vertical ends and allows the full play of the rocker of the chair. The re- sult of this arrangement is that the mother of the family can rock her child to sleepin her armsand at the same time be washing the family linen, Per- sons traveling by rail can now make themselves very comfortable by the use of a patented portable elbow frame. These can be fixed so as to give the ef- fect of a most cosy arm chair, and the fatigue of a long journey is thus material- 1y diminished. These elbows can be folded when.not in use and weigh under three pounds, A new device which is adapted either for a bed or bath room isa port- able shampooing apparatus, This patent applies to a reservoir to hold either hot or cold water, and fitted with aspaay fixed on an aam projecting from the reservoir, The arm is movable, so it can be turned down, leaving a mirror, which is fitted on the reservoir, clear for shaving purposes or for general use. This handy shampoo is made entirely of metal. Tho spray is easily adjusted by a tap, leaving both hands free for use, and the reservoir being so constructed that it can be movel to any desired height, and any force required can be obtained, e s A Non-Fusible-Bullet. A bullet has just been- patented, the base of which, as well as the body, is covered by an' alloy non-fusible at any temperature which it is possible to gen- erato in a gun bavrel. The necessity for such a bullet has been caused by the introduction of nitrated or smokeless powders, which generate such intense heat that the base or head of the bullet is melted, and consequently made ragged. Accuracy of aimis thus much impaired. The tendency of late, in the desire to secure increased accuracy, has been to diminish thesize of the boreand resort to compressed powders and cased bullets, and the new bullet came in most opportunely and enables the latest. im- provements to be utilized, bt bl b s i A Story of Two Cripples. Two Chicago cripples, each with a wooden leg, who picked upaliving as boeggars, last Thursday went on a spree, Toward midnight they reeled into a pub- lic lodging-house and were put to bed, the uuundu!\t kindly removing the false limb of each man, that they might sleep more comfortably, At dawn one of the beggars arose, very dry, and stumped down stairs to geta drink. acel- dent or design, he had put on the other fellow’s leg, and now the other fellow is looking for him, asthe leg had $750 in bank notes stored in the interior, e For All the World, A coertain M. Tehernooshenko of Khar- kov has devised a universal language, a universal religion and a universal form of government. His religion consists of the simplest natural conceptions, the emblems of which every child should be able to understand; in his government he desires to have one czar rule all man- kind, who should be elected from among all the ruling dynasties df the prescut, His langunge is to be - written inn sort of hieroglyphic alphabet, each letter to be represented by an object which sug- gests the sound. A man, for instance, wvepresents the sound A because every new-born child cries A~<A-A3 B is to be presented by the figure of a bleating slwa‘r; C by a howling wolf; G by a barking dog, and so on. Krai, a daily paper ‘of Kharkoy, in reviewing M., Tchernooskenko's work, objects to the new letter b:it would rather have the- sound presented bf' the figure of a cow, whose bellowing also sounds like boo-boo. This, the aper opines, would give the word baba Elwnnmn) an objective and natural sug- gestiveness; you have only to draw “a cow, aman, a cow, and a man again, and this would suggest to the simplest the word baba as well as the component elo- ments of the female nature.” mtiiipeniinn GoLn DAHO, Y oozhiniy Joaquin Miller's Reminiscences of [t DiscoveryMhirty Years Ago. Now that the president has signed the bill admitting Idaho into the union, the forty-fourth star in our great consteila- tion of states, it may not be out of place for one who, if he did not really give the name to this new state, first put that name in print, to record a page or two of its early history, and recall an inci- dent that still maices his nerves tingle s he tells it, writes Joaquin Miller in St Nicholas. Gold was fivst found in that vast and trackless region now forming the new states of Washington, Idaho and Mon- tana, in _the spring of 1860, by a small imrty of prospectors led by Cuptain ’ierce on the spot where Plerce City now stands. The writer, although not then of age, had read law and been admitted to prac- tice under Judge George H. Williams, afterwards President Grant’s attorney general. And when news of the dis- covery of gold reached Oregon, I gath- ered up one law book a ndtwo ‘‘six shooters,” and set out on a ride of many hundred miles through the mountains for the new placers, Butas gold was not plenty, and thero was no use for the law-book. because there wasno law; and as there was an opening for a good and hardy horseman to carry letters and money to and from the new mines; the writer and a youn, man by the name of Mossman soon had nailed upover the door of the only store s yot in all that wild region, a sign which read: ‘‘Mossman and Miller's Express.” It was two hundred miles to the near- est postoffice at Walla Walla, The lover of pretty names will easily trace this Walla Walla back to its French set- tlers’ *“Voila! Voilal” No man can look down from the envi- ronment of mountains on this sweet val- ley, with its beautiful city in the center, whose many flashing = little rivers run together and make it for- ever green and glorious to see, without instinctively corying out, Viola! Viola! It is another Damascus, only it is broader of girth and far, far more beau- tiful. In this ride of two hundred miles there was but one town, Lewiston. Get your map, now, ani as you follow the story of the ride fix the geography of this newempire in your minds, 1orit will be a grand land, Lewiston, you observe, is at the head of navigation on the “Shoshonee” or Snake viver, by way of the Columbia river, This word Shoshonee means snake, Ifancy you can almost hear the rattle of the venomous reptile as you speak this Indian word, The ac- cent, as in nearly all Indian names, such as Dakota, Iowa, and so on, is on the 'middle syllable. In reading Longfellow’s poems you will find he has preserved the prop- er pronunciation of Qmaha by Hutung the uccent were it belongs. And morve than once this learned man reminded me that Idaho must be pronounced in the same soft and liquidfashion: I-da-ho. In these long, long vides, we changed horses from five to ten times daily and we rode at a desperate speed. We used Indian ponies only, and usually rode without escort, w?v.h pistols ready at hand, Indians were numerous, but our fear was* not. of them, but of white men. In fact, the Indians wero by far the most peaceable Ecup]e we had to deal with, Theyalways ept our ‘‘stations,’”” that is, the places where we changed horses and drank a cup of coffee. These Indians were of the Nez Perce tribe. It may not be gener- ally kgown that these noble Indians were nearly civilized long before the re- nowned Chief Joseph (who fought the whole United States for half a ear not long ago) was ever eard of. These Indians, under the direction of good old Father Spaulding, ublished the first newspaper that was ssuod west of the Rocky momtains. They also _printed some portions of the bible in their own tongue, including many psalms, Keep these facts of his- tory as well as the geography of this great region in mind. As before stated, we did not find gold plenty at first, and the “‘Express” did not pay, We two boys worked hard, took many desperate risks, and lived al- most literally on horseback, with littie food and with less food for the first few months, But suddenly gold was tound, as thick as wheat on a thresh- ing floor, far away to the. east of a big black mountain which the Indianscalled **I-dah-ho,”’ which literall meuns ‘‘mountain where light comes.” happened tobe in Lewiston on my way to Pierce City with the Express, when Lhe_rnfgod and sunburnt leader of the party that had made the discovery be- yond the Black Mountain came in. He took moe in his corfidence. I sent anIn- dian on with my Express; and branching off a hundred miles to the southeast, reached thenew mines,took up “elaims,” and opened an express ofice before o dozen people knew of the discovery which was to give state aiter state to theunion, You will find the place on theold maps, and some of the new ones, marked **Millersburgh,” But there is no town there now. The gold lay almost in the grass roots, in the shallow surface, like grains of wheat. It was a high, bleak place, densely wooded and intensely cold as winter cameon. Greater discoveries lay furtheron and in_kindlier climes, and broad valleys and rich cities reccive you there now. But our storyis of the snow and the stony steeps of Mount [- dah-ho, . 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