The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-28

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So our comfort is that if we strive Ia
fdo right We will get to heaven. Striy,.
I Is the word. and It means to struggle.
to exert oneself diligently. Let US all
DO that if we can. and / reckon we can.
Tor we would not have Been told to.
] WIS Illuminating about the fight, aud
my mind ran along into this channel of
thought. Why did feel an interest in
Iit? Why did ! have II lingering desire
that Fitz should. lick Corbett? Well. I
took Il disgust lit Corbett when | read
thar he had forSaken his wife and taken
another without just cause or provoca
Ition | Remembered how the papers said
she stood by him and encouraged him at
Jacksonville and OTHER places, and BE-
haved herself in womanly way, and 50
! wantef him puhished::H But / was told
To-day that'' Fitzsimh0ns had done the
same thing, and so now | don't care
(which whipped. Nov let some other fell
low turn up and lick t'itz and I will be
Satisfied Corbttts first Wife has been
avenged and his second has come to
grief. / don't take much stock in de-
Inouncing prize fighting as the worst thing
in tho world. The worst thing about it
is the 'company>it keeps-the betting and
gambling and drinking that eny;rons it.
If two men want to make Il trial of
strength by pummeling each other there
is no more harm in than in a football
game. and the surroundings are not much
worse. These pugilists never kill one
another, and the fight itself is not half
rs bad as these street duels and hip
mic n1,
day in the newspapers / have seen a
policeman draw more blood when trying
to arrest a disturber Of the peace 1t
is not so bad as bull fight in Mexico,
and yet every American Who goes there
ATTENDS them, If not two or more. q
l think should have liked to have
seen the fight, if I could have done so
on the sly, and ! know many good men
and some women who would have gone
one eye on it if they had had "a chance
and the, crowd had been a decent one.
Everybody has an instructive desire to
see a fghtm-1eyen a dog, fight. i remember
what satisfaction, we, school boys used
to haye in catching the. big, black ants
in an old dead tree and making them
fight in mortal, combat, And, what, fun
it was TO. catch a, big he, econ, by night
and see him fight, the, dogs, and how we
used to get two old rams together, and
once we say two bulls lock horns and
it was fearful. anldf, thrilling. a, oxen,
Fighting sroosters were commea incur
day. Some OF Jthettbig boys at ahe insti-
tute where l. went to- school used Y to
buy .nropsters in the tneighboFhood and
keep thenn had outo until Saturday even
hing. and then go away off in the woods
and have fight or maybe several fights.
But if we can't see the fight we all love
TO read about them. The, charm or myth
ologyy is the heroes and heroihes we read
about--IIector. and Achilles, have not yet
lost their .renowh. It was Rob Roy's
heroism and 1vanhpe,s that made those.
novels of Walter Scott the fayqrites.
Just so with the Scottish Chiefs and
Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Charley o.
Malley. ..3
And even in our day both Christians
and sinners, Jew. and Gentle, have been
fascinated with Lew Wallace's Ben
Hur, and the charm Of the book is the