Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-06
(OrIginal.]
OUARRELING.

boys are more addicted than the habit of
quarreling. This vice is not confined to boys
only but sometimes girls do not agree very
we'll amongst themselves and men, grown up
men, old grey headed men, disagree and call
each other by all sorts of ugly names. The
ancient poets taught that there was in mans
nature something of the nature of the wild
beast. They said that man was compound
of all the animals. They believed that the
base was clay but that small particle was
taken from all the animals and added to this
clay, and this combination constituted what
is called human being. Thus they said
that man got his courage from the lion and
his cunning from the fox.
Foolish and absurd as this theory was, it
had at least the semblance of truth. That is,
there is something in the actions of men to
give coloring of truth to those old poetic
fancies. Growing and barking and quarrel
ing is characteristic of dogs 1t is strange,
but it certainly is true, that two dogs, it mat
ters not how near kin they are nor how inti-
mately associated they may have been all
their. lives, cannot live together in peace.
Usually, so soon as one dog sees another dog,
he assumes as huge proportion as is posi-
BILE, raises the hair on his back and COM
mences to growl most furiously. No sooner
has his eye caught glimpse of a fellow crea-
ture, than he prepares for a row. Quarreling
may then be said with due regard to truth,
to be characteristic of the dog, and hence
doggish.
Quarreling, although instructive with the
dog, is not always, if ever, attended with the
best consequences. Sometimes it results in a
dog-6ght, and dog-6ght is always attended
with much damage to one of the combatants,
and most frequently both are badly hurt.
Ears and eyes and legs are often left in sad
condition. The contest most frequently COM
meuces about some trivial thing, dry bone
OF stale bread crust; but after the fight is
over, neither are in good condition to enjoy
the object of dispute.
Boy quarrels and men quarrels seldom
have better origin or more favorable re-
suit than dog quarrels. Neither party gains
anything and both are great losers. Ma
tions are sometimes as quarrelsome as individ-
uals We might expect this, for nations are
only mass of single individuals, the whole
partaking of the nature and complexion of
the individuals. Two of the nations of Eu-
rope disputed about an ak and two goats.
One party charged the other with stealing
these things; the other denied it. They quit
quarreling and went to fighting, and the re-
suit was that the two goats and ak cost one
of the nations the lives of great many of
its citizens and twelve millions of dollars be-
Sides One would suppose that they were
dear goats and ak.
The city of Corinth was once laid in ruins
by the Romans, because some one in the city
insulted, or was thought to have insulted, an
ambassador of Rome. Philip, the king Of
France, and William I, king of England,
met one day and Phillip made a witty remark
about William. The latter flew into rage
and carried death and destruction into France.
Many families were reduced to poverty many
wives we're made widows, and many helpless
children were made orphans, because king
could not bear to be jested by another king.
Does not this look like too i'll natured ours
quarreling and then fighting till they are COW
cred with blood about sun-bleached beef.
bone? Doggish as it may seem, all quarreling,
whether it be by man or woman, boys or girls,
is very much of the same character.