The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-18

l see that reporter, the other day, knocked the
stuffin' out of Paddy Ryan, the pugilists say.
According to the account given in the papers, the
reporter only little fellow weighing less than
$50 pounds, but he knocked the big prize-hghte
down three times, fast as he could get up. Ryan
had insulted the reporter, but before he had time
to fairly realize what had happened, he found him
self lying prone upon his back on the sidewalk.
He was surprised at this sort of treatment that
he could only scramble to his feet In a haf-dazed
way and was promptly knocked down again. The
reporter, il appears, not in the hippodrome
business, nor was he fighting for share of the
gate receipts; but he licked his in good style
and did the whole job up in about three minutes.
Ryan being professional fighter was at a great
disadvantage. He was dressed only In citizens
clothes, had not been in training, there had been
no agreement to fight, no referees chosen, in fact
none of the usual preliminaries had been attended
to, SO that he was wholly unprepared to make
good fight against amateur who mad and
meant business. little scrap like this illustrates
very forcibly the difference between men who
follow fighting a business and those who only
practice it occasionally and then only, rule,
when they forced to.
The first Christ was Jew, the second is, II he
be not an impostor, German. Herr Sweinfurth
of Rockford, Ill., claims to be the second incarna-
ton of Christ and has already goodly number of
followers. Unlike the Nazarene of old however,
this modern Christ has women for his disciples
the sterner sex not taking very kindly TO his
teaching taking any stock in his divinity.
One man, doctor here In Chicago has even gone
far to bring suit against Herr Sweinfurth in the
sum of $25 900 for alternating the affections of his,
the doctors wife. AS Sweinfurth is reputed to be
worth cool half Million the doctor stands pretty
good show to get some of the second Savior's
ducats as a balm to his wounded feelings. 1t
appears too, that the followers of the new Christ
have been causing not little trouble in several of
the Chicago churches by their zeal in their cause
They do not hesitate TO get right up in meeting,
and declare their faith in the new Messiah, and
svow their willingness to be prosecuted for the
sake of their faith. Their course has aroused much
of that same feeling which led the Jews in days of
old, to finally cruelty Him whose avowed mission
was the saving of the world So, If this thing goes
on and Herr Sweinfurth continues to gain popu-
larity and power in his newly assumed character
of the second Savior, he stands q pretty fair
show to be pat out of the world is some such way
as was his illustrious predecessor. Fer, notwith-
standing the influences of this, age OF intellectual
freedom, there 10 telling where religious perse-
cution would stop were 1t once to get started At
any rate, the orthodox churches have this new
Messiah on their hands to deal with and il remains
to be seen what course they will pursue. 1t is
well known fact that new faith only thrives
under persecution, and the more bitter and
unrelenting the persecution the more rapid is the
growth and prosperity of the faith. If this new
Christ will only come to the front now with few
first class miracles and will take pains TO have
them well authenticated there will be fun in the
camp and NO mistake.
For the past twenty Ave years we have heard