Show A MODERN AFFAIR OF HONOR dueling in all its aspects receives rec elTes and deserves the unequivocal acda dons nation natios of all the law jaw abiding elements of very every civilized community hence anything that comes to public notice as an alteration or revision of any of the points of the code la is usually dignified with no higher commendation than attends the timid clipping of a huge evil that should be out out bodily still we note with some pleasure an annu 1 narration brought to view in chicago late ly hyjan and meriting a considerable degree V e approval lt it appears froom from one of the journals of the enterprising Worl worlds dJs pair fair city that a gentleman bent upon getting satisfaction for a real or fancied insult challe ged another gentleman to an encounter with deadly weapons the gentleman challenged challe need following a well authorized precedent accepted and chose the weapons he chose one a warrant ot of arrest and a policeman then he arranged for an aa immediate meeting not in the cold faint gray of dawn but in a magistrates office the result was wag most pleasing the challenger was waa severely beverely eve rely lectured by the be justice and the challenged chivalrous ly fired in the air that is in to say refused to prosecute this precedent with the ex of the lenity of the magistrate oan can be heartily commended to all devotees devotee of ef the code duello in this and every other country the principals ought to te derive quite as much satisfaction from it an ag from popping at each other with pistols lal thus endangering DE the lives of the bystanders and it g gees oss without saying that the public will be vastly better pleased the suggestion may not be inopportune therefore that the course for a challenged party to te pursue hereafter to la clearly marked barked out instead of making his will baddin bidding g his loved ones a tearful goodbye and selecting the revolver or rapier as the weapon let him accept the cartel with joyful alacrity and alog up the patrol wagon |