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Show AS TO CARRYING WEAPONS. The New York legislature has passed a law miikinv: it a misdemeanor to possess) any pistols. Strictly construed, the law would prohibit a man keeping a nun in his house. A great many people rejoice over that statute and say it is just the thiuji. Hut thst is one of the kind of statutes intended in-tended to prohibit something, but which does not prohibit. It keeps peaceably inclined men from carryiui; trims, but it does not deter the touvjh nt all, because he will jjet a gun if he has to send out of the slate to buy it. A man was sentenced to death on Tuesday. He shot to death au innocent man and injured two more. If the man he killed, seeinp; his purpose. I had pnesesKed a u'lin. he niitfht have anticipated 'what the man did and killed him, which would have been much lietter all around. It would have ended a worthless life instead of a valuable one; it would jave waved much expense to the county, mid it would have saved the trouble of hani;iiir 'the culprit. A lliinnotiid laws have been enacted 'against the carryinir of concealed deadly weapons. (None of them has deterred a bad man from carry-I carry-I in ir (he Kims; they have amounted to nothing ex-jeept ex-jeept to take possible protection away from pood i ineu. |