The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-26

Notwithstanding the highly proper dep
recation of priZe-6ghting in the abstract
the nation alities interested in the Corbett
Mitchell fight will, now that the event is
over. indulge in little partisan Dragging
to show their preference in respect OF
reprobable work, But not TO the same
extent as when men now of middle age
were young. The fight between Heenan
and Sayres excited passions among the
patriotic as if they had been champions
chosen to arbiirate national differences
with their knuckles. In those days there
were no telegraph cables aHd the stea mer 5
were slow and news travelled at a Jog.
The Benicia Boy brought fame to a little
spot in California far beyond the honor
showered upon Boston by Sullivan. The
English, on their part, went wild over the
pluck Of the doughty Sayres, and the
House of Commons, by individual SUBJ
scription, actually collected over 2OO
guiDeas in hat as present. To this day
partisans dispute which would have won
had not the police invaded the ring. Prize
fighting has evoluted nightly since that
day. "Pompadour Jim" is a capitalist
who handles fortunes by winning and who
can afford to spend $500 day upon his
training. lie made short work of Mitchell.
who was clearly overmatched and not
worth the slender confidence placed in his
poweTs.
VIII the time ever pass away when in
telligent people shall cease to believe in
ghosts? 1t has passed when the existence
of witches aud wizards is credited by the
educated. and it is contemptuOusly denied
and set aside by law, but very recently the
witch hunters were profession and
judges gravey took down testimony and
summed up to jurles on broomstick flight
and wickedness up the chimney. Perhaps
the next century may see the ghosts laid
to rest in the same way. In Colorado the
strange spec tacle is presented of whole
crowd of people supposed to be In their
senses keeping watch all night in a mill.
which departed Italian is malevolently
supposed TO haunt. Some of the watchers
are prepared to test the flesh and blood OF
the ghost, and will not even load their
guns with battered silver, which was the
old specific for the assassination of the
spritely. But as the ghost knows what is
W holesome for its welfare il very likely
will whisk away laughing at the fun it has
provoked.
Valiant the anarchist Is doomed to die
beneath the guillotine. The court has re-
jected his appeal and the President will mo-
show him mercy. A great hubbub will be
made by the anarchists, but as they are
levying war against society they cannot
seriously object to little reprisal when
the opportunity offers. The anarchists
would not show a spark of gratitude Il
Valiant was spared. Some other fanatic
might give demons tration of his principles
in the Chamber or the Senate, by way OF
change. and others might attem ut to eX
plode tt e courts and remove" the Pres
ident. 1t takes stern measures to convince
the anarchists that society has such &
thing as government.
McNulty has heard the hammering Of
the gallows together for the last time. bu
he will not suffer beneath it. The Gov
ernor has mercifully committed the sen
| tence TO Imprisonment for life. There Il
something very touching in McNulty's ex
clamation on hearing the news: "Tbanl
God; my dear old mother will pass Der re
naming days in peace" No such move