The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-29
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Editor West yirgihim:
The average person In general way
s more or less naturally tainted with
an ambition for some kind 81 sport
and indeed y would be a very stupid
mortal who was not possessed With
something or some inclination to
tighten the burdens Of life in some
manner.
While Grover Cleveland had a mania
for ducks, IL he had and be surely
had or he would not have hunted
them, and Theodore Roosevelt has a
mania for bear and California lions
or II not he Is going very much against
nature as there Is no law TO compel
him to hunt them that we know OF and
1t Is n%obody's business so long as It
DON'T interfere materially with the
business Of others, and while some
kinds Of sport might not be the Tx.
Ing Of others who are not in sympa:
thy or In touch with the kind the other
fellow advocates, at the came time in
plain words you may have a hobby
just as unpleasant TO the other fellow
as his Is TO You, so TO cut the matter
short, there should not be much kick.
Ing done nor will not be by reasonable,
thinking people Of the live and let live
kind.
A collar and necktie on a mans
neck might look foolish to some who
never cared to wear them while the
old hickory shirt might not look good
to the other fellow, but no part or sen
slbie reason has yet presented by
which either would have q right to
censure the other.
So It is with sports such as hunt.
Ing, fishing, horse racing, fox chasing
or inv other clean snor, ~ snn,,, I,
like nature and We ought to be will.
Ing for our frIends mad no,,hhors = =.
least make their own choice Of pass.
time as life Is hardly worth living any.
how Mt tho hart much loo, n,.La.
some few lemands n, nature
We heard an o,d oh,on,a
,o,t,n, = ,ou, ,.,s
ers and one Who AID M, ,non, III
would have heon lad 10 ho,,ays 49,.
fox hunters or for cboso,s ua,a : a..
rJbre sol nj mon 10 o. Ia,
as II thew were n trihe INTO tbam.o,no.
and un,ike o,hor MON WI,
thew are unlike him and ,hoy, oma,, -
thank the rnod Inrd d.
community ought to io,n thon, T.
thanking Col TINT there w,s on,,, ,
few like the old k,cker a obn,on :,
and the devil mad done tbe cboo.,rr
and had made good what he van,eJ
While It Is not right for INV man nv
set of men to tresnass and anroy 9TH.
ers in any manner out Of reason we
still contend we should bear with one
another to n certain extent and to cut
the idea short, make good.
But this old Bat as he should be
called undertook TO say things In re-.
gard TO the kind Of characters that
INDUCED In fox huntinf. Now OF
course he may nave a few old Ply.
moth rock hens, which might be pick.
ed up by Mr.. Fox some time, but 10 the
knowledge OF the writer there Isn't
atfox hunter In Marion county who
would not pay the crossgrained being
Tor his old hen should she be gobbled !
up or gobbled down.
And while once in a while n ,oY
hound wifi kifl A sheet twice In al
while some other breed of dors wij,
kill q dozen.
And not balns Tho ovner os , a,r
or my kind, noitnnr = ,,v h,nton vii
have to clear ,ho, bounds n cow ~,
lent rs Grover c,ave,o,d and ,,,o orr
dogs knocked tho life ont q, moro
sheen in eight wears than have MI ,ho
hounds horn In tho wor,, .,n,o Nooh