Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — An Affair of “Honor.” [ARTICLE]

An Affair of “Honor.”

Honor that is satisfied with a wounded coat-tail might just as well pocket the insult.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A painful rumor has gone forth that Mr. Fox was not in his coat when it was perforated by Mr. Borrowe’s bullet.— Kansas City Star. B OREO WE shot Fox in the coattail and honor is satisfied. It does not take much to satisfy the honor of some people.—Pittsburg Times. In the Fox-Borrowe duel Fox received a bullet in the coat-tails and “honah” was satisfied. The "code,” in its own defense, ought to require that the principals should jump off of a beam with ropes tied to the beam and fastened around their necks, and the fellow whose rope broke should be considered vindicated —the other fellow to hang. The penalty for seconds who provided ropes that broke should be life imprisonment, —Minneapolis Journal.