Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — Pocket Pistols. [ARTICLE]

Pocket Pistols.

Since cast iron revolvers can be bought for a dollar, about every other boy and young man in the State has one of these weapons in his pocket, and makes it a constant companion as his watch or pocket-knife. At a bowery dance or a Dillard room in the heat of passion he whipes it out and commits a murder. In this peaceful age no man wants a revolver, except at his own home, to protect himself and family from burglars. The law against a man making a peripatetic arsenal of himself, if enforced, would put a stop to three-fourflis of the murders. A dull, head and a bilious stomach can be best conquered by Kidney-Wort.