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Show I "LIKE HECT.OR OF OLD.'.' , "Frank Cannon Nvill not' qultr the fight. Ho cannot bo frlghtenel;lnto'Sl-lcnco, frlghtenel;lnto'Sl-lcnco, bull dozed Into submission, nor subjugated by ecclesiastical bribes. Ho would "Rather, . like Hector, In the Held to g Than as the perfumed Paris, turn Hi. and Ily." Hfc All of which appeared In the Wcdties- Hj: day issue of tho Tribune, in connec- j lion with a statement to, tho effect u. ) that Furious J. has been granted a i live weeks' vacation with pay. Thoro I ore a lot of old-timers hero in Salt 1 I Lako City who will marvel at that j statement, too. Flvo weeks' vacation with pay! Tlmo was when a man h' couldn't get a flvo-mlnuto vacation Hf, without being docked, or hauled over H; tho coals by Colonel Grouch. Dut lot that pass. Furious J. has a vacation. Ha is resting and when ho comes back will renew the contest. Wo think in thU case, however, instead of tho cou-plot cou-plot above quoted it would have been hotter to havo said: I ;, "Ho who lights and runs away, ' Will llvo to fight another day. But ho who is in battlo slain j Will novor llvo to light again." !' Or perhaps tho appended would bo ! hotter for all concerned: ' "I'll light, and gougo and blto and tear And tumble In tho mud; ' I'll rave and rant and cuss and swear And got my fill of blood. And when at last my strength Is ', spent , . I novor will glvo In, But rest myself and catch my breath ; And then go in again." Dut speaking of Hector, and Paris, and ; tho slego of Troy: Would It not be well to quote a bit of old man Homer i" for tho edification of Furious J. It will ho recalled that at ono tlmo old Ulysses was: f "Deforo tho van, Impatlont for the j With martial port ho strodo with l; stern delight; j Heaps strowed on heaps, beneath his j, falchion groaned '(' And monuments of dead deformed tho ground. Tho tlmo would fall should I In order toll What foes wore vanquished and what numbers fell. ' Fierce in his look his ardent valor glowed, f Flushed In his check, or sallied in ( his blood; '' Indignant in tho dark recess ha ', stands, j Pants for tho battlo, and tho war do- mands. 5 His voice breathes death and with a martial air ; Ho grasps his Bword and Bhook his glittering spear; And when tho gods our arms with conquest crowned ' Whon Troy's proud bulwarks smoked upon tho ground." That was Ulysses in his prldo and his strength. Look upon that plcturo and then gazo upon this sketch: A swift old ago o'er all his members spread; A sudden frost was sprinkled on his head ; His roho, which spots lndollblo bo smear; I In rags dishonest flutters In tho air; ' So looked tho chief, so moved; to mortal mor-tal eyes Object uncouth, a man of miseries." Which of tho two most resembles Furious .T.7 Really, Joe LIppman, tho author of "Tho Facts In tho Case" ought to polish up a bit on his Odys-1 soy If ho ovpr read It. |
