Show FOOLS POLLY The two individuals referred to in a recent number of the HEKALD whose honah sah had teen violated vio-lated got tpgether yesterday and exchanged a couple of shots each one of them getting a ball in his thigh the other unfortunately escaping es-caping unhurt The one who was armed so strong in honor that the bulets passed him by expressed himself as satisfied i and withdrew from the field wi h the stain upon the escutcheon of his noble house washed out in blcod and an tJgly hole in the other fellows thigh acted as an open sesame to a lofty position among the chivalry of the period Yes he felt well not only had he vindicated himself but shown to the world that he was man enough to handle a Colts revolver better than the one whose thigh ha perforated perfor-ated We presume the recipient of the leaden missile also feels sats fled though perhaps not quite so comfortable as the victor But he stood up and took his medicine like a man that ought to consrle him The dispatches inform us that no efforts are being made to apprehend the parties This is rather gratuitous gratuit-ous information What have officers of the law to do with an affair of honor The sphere of the transaction transac-tion is above and beyond the range occupied by men who merely make arrests and sit in judgment and they act wisely in keeping aloof Let them attend to their own busi ness and not interfere with gentlemen gentle-men whose interests and practices are superior to the groveling methods meth-ods of commoners The laws are made to restrain people of ordinary clay the chivalric do not come within its prohibitions Meantime we hope that wounded thigh will come out all right and have no doubt that the scar will I be a conclusive and complete seal of hightoned respectabilitya brand whose length and depth will serve as a certificate of the blue blood which poured through it ama am-a source of neverfailing satisfaction to his children and to their children |