The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-09

a policeman draw moro blood when
trying to arrest disturber of the
peace. 1t is not SO lad as a bull
fight in Mexico, andyet every Ameri-
can who goes there attends one, if
not two or more
think L should have liked to
have seon the fight if I could havo
done SO on tho sly, and L know many
good mon and somo womon who
would have gono one eye on it if
they had a chance and tho crowd
had roen decent ono Everybody
has ~ instructive desire to 500 a
fight oven dog fight. I romom-
Dor what satisfaction wo school boys
used to havo i'll catching tho big
black ants in an old doad troe and
making them fight in mortal com.
bat. A I what fun it was to catch
big ho coon by night and 500 him
! fight the dogs, and how wo used to
get two old runs together, and ouco
we saw two bulls lock horns, and it
was fearful and thrilling.
Fighting roosters wore common
in our day. Some of the big boys at
tho institute whore l won't to school
used to buy roostors in the ncigbor-
hood and keep them hid out until
Saturday evening, and then 90
away off in tho woods and have a
fight or maybe several fights.
But if we can't 500 tho fights we
all love to read about thom. Tho
charm Of mythology in tho heroes
and horoinos we road about-Icctor
and Achillcs-havo not yot lost their
ronown 1t WAS Rob Roy's hero
ism and Ivanhoo's that mado those
novels Of Walter Scott tho favoritos.
Just 80 with tho Scottish Chiefs
and Thad1ous Of Warshaw, and
Charley O'NTalloy.
And ovon III our day both Christ
ians and silnors, Jcw and Gentile,
havo bccn fascinated with Low
Wallaco's Bon Hur, and tho charm
OF the book is tho chariot race, which
was groat flight struggle between
| tho heroic champions. Tho truth is
| that no novelist other ancient or
modern has dared to write romance
without great fight in it some
whore. From Milton in his Para
disc Lost down to Kcnnody's Horse
shoe Robinson, fighting is tho
cssonco and tho charm Of tho story,
and it is compliment to our human
nature that wo always side with tho
right side and honor tho horo and
adore tho heroine
Moro mon like to SEQ Il fight
than arc willing to ndmitit. Inover
saw Il preacher shut his eyes whom
tho dogs hitched or try part two
roostcrs i'll his back yard. All m,n
arc not rs honest rs Horny Grady,
who told a mutual friend that if ho
had tho money and it was a ro-
spoctablo thing to do, he would give
Il thousand dollars to 500 the mill
between Sullivan and Kilrain IT is
said that he would havo Slipped off
and gone anyhow, had ho hot been
already billod for Boston to mako
his last great spooch. ITo loved all
manly sports, but abhorred cruelty.
mover shall forget tho grand and
awful scono that | witnessed from
tho top Of tho Prico house during
tho battles boforo Richmond. Our
brigade was stationed on tho south
sido of tho Chickahominy with Or
doris to await orders, and whilo
waiting General Tigo Anderson and
somo OF his staff climbed up to the
little balcony and saw tho desperate
fight that was raging on tho othor
sido of tho rvor. We saw our
regiments, with banners waving, ad-
vance and fro and advance and fire
again, and climb the sloping hill
while tholr ranks wero thinned from
shot and she'll, and hundreds Of men
fol- dead or wounded and wore
tramped ovor by othor regiments as
on they charged to tako tho battery
on top of the hill. Once regiment
wavered and was falling back, for
tho color bearer was shot down and
tho colonel unhorsed, but another
soldier soized tho colors and ran in
front waving tholn, and tho bravo