The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11

kept at a safe distance and when he |
found the chance, hurled from his |
sling stone which struck Goliath In
the forehead and knocked him sense
less. Then David. who had no sword,
ran to the unconscious giant, took his
own great weapon and killed him,
cutting off his head
David received many honors for his
triumph, which resulted in the Philis-
/ tines being destroyed
Hercules and Antaeus.
Hercules, the great strong man of
Hellenic legend, had conquered about
everything and everyone fightable,
when he was challenged by Antaeus,
another husky young man, possessed,
though Hercules did not know 1t at
the beginning Of the battle, with
strange powers Of recuperation. 1t
seems that Antaeus, through being the
son of the Earth, gained his great
strength from the ground
They met and began to fight. They
wrestled prodigiously, and Hercules,
for the first time in his life, found
superior strength Nothing that he
could do semed to weaken Antaeus and
Hercules found himself losing his pow
er to continue the fight. 1t looked, af-
ter hours Of fighting, as though he had
met his match. Suddenly it came to
lin in a mysterious way that Antaeus
would never lose strength unless he
could be kept free of the ground. So
Hercules, with his remaining strength,
raised Antaneus. a giant like himself,
above his head with one hand, while
with the other he proceeded to
astounding fight-one giant supporting
the other over his head and slowly
forcing his muscles into quietude with
the prodigious strength of his other
! arm. Hercules finally killed Antaeus
md then sank senseless on the ground
Hector and Achilles.
The fight between Achilles, a great
of the Trojans, outside the city of
Troy, is famous in history. Achilles
was especially bitter against the enc
| my because i'll a previous battle they
had killed his chum. Patroclus and he
itched to get revenge. Finally Hec-
tor was forced to fight him, and they
met outside the city walls in the sight
of both armies, the Trojans from with
in the ramparts of their city.
Hector at first was brave, but he
lost courage and tried to escape from
Achilles, who, however, pursued him
and made him fight They fought with
spears and swords, and the battle
lasted for hours. Achilles could not
| find a vulnerable point in HectOrs
armor, while he himself was being
Worsted in the exchange of blows. At
! last, though he found spot between
Hector's chin and neck, Straight he
plunged his sword into that opening,
and Hector fell. Then, before he was
dead Achilles tied his body to a
,chariot and drove it ten times around
the walls of the city.
/ Horatius was a Roman warrior,
whose feat of holding q bridge over
the river Tiber against the advancing
Tuscans has made him famous. There
was an incident in that exploit greater
than the main feat itself, and that was
the personal combat with Asrur, d
great hero of the Tuscans. After Ho-
ratius had killed hundreds of Tus-
cans who could not pass him on the
bridge and had been deserted by the
1.-TWO companions who at first had stood
intention of himself killing the hero.
They met with swords and a furious
battle ensued, in which Horatius
finally slew Astur and flung his body
into the river,
LanceIot and Gawain.
The knights of King Arthur's court
were great fighters and among them
the battle between Sir Lancelot and
Sir Gawain stands out as a wonder
full affair which would have been
worth seeing at any price a seat.
Lancelot was practically champion of
) the court, but he and Gawain were
deadly rivals and the latter was a
great fighter himself. Finally it was
settled that they must meet and fight
it out So they did, with the king and
all the mobiles as an audience. Gawain
had received from Merlin, a specially
prepared coat of mail which was sup
!, posed to make him impervious to the
wounds of a lance for three hours.
With this coat he was sure of standing