The San Francisco call., 1897-04-05
LITTLE STUFFED RABBIT.

The proprietors of the kinetoscope
which took pictures of the Carson prize
| fight made a little stuffed rabbit last Sat
| urday night and get him out in the road.
way. He was an innOcent-looking little
| rabbit and fat-deliciously fat. The iokers
chuckled in their bearis as they LETT him
and went and hid themselves in the woods
to watch the result.
Boa-constrictor Hearst. faring that way
| with his keenest olfactory sniffer in the
air, came around bend in the road and
paused, entranced. The little fat rabbit t
was his-ail his. Gliding up, without a
sound. he swallowed it at gulp. This is
what thereupon issued out of Boa
| strictor Hearst's two flaming eyes-or, at
least, out OF the long green eye in the
West:
NEW YORK, N. Y, April 3.-If the state
ments made by z. J. Rector be true, there is
dark fuiure-or, rather, no future-ahead for
the kineIoscope views of the recent fistic en-
counter in Carson, New. And that means q
great deal to those who ''paid the freight for
that Photographic enterprise.
Rector AYERS that he is not worried about
| the prospect OF legislation that will cripple
| the business of giving profitable exhibitions
OF the prize-fght. No; that, SO he says, is a
minor consideration. 1t is the knowledge that
the views taken at the ringside are dismal
| failures that is giving him the nightmare
A whole lot more of the little rabbit
crops out in the course of a column dis
patch published In double-leaded type on
| the front page of yesterdays long green
eye. 1t was special rabbit, you see, spe-
ciallv stuffed and copyrig hted for only one
| snake; wherefore much had to be made of
it. Here is another rare bit, following a
reference to the fact that several State
Legislatures are planning to prevent the
exhibition OF priZe-hght views in public:
But this legislative handicap does not worry
Rector. In fact, he says he is laughing In his
| sleeve at the misguided Legislators. He thinks
1t great joke that SO much space in the stat
ute-books should be used to prohibit some.
| thing that is impossible of accom- plishment
PaIpably Mr.. Rector, by getting before
the public the idea that he is amused at
the Legislatures because of a needless pre-
caution which they are taking, hopes to
throw the Legislatures off their guard and
cause them to drop those needless" pre-
cautions which make them so painfully
| ridiculous in his sight. The announce
ment that the views are hopslessly spoiled
is calculated to stop all legislation against
them. what is the use of all this fight
against Us when We can't go on anyhow
asks the little white rabbit. Why, indeed 2
1t is a most plausible proposition. Why
don't the Legislatures lay down their arms
forthwith and turn their valuable atten.
tion to something else? Never mind Mr..
Rector. Just leave him by him self to sor-
| row over his spoiled pictures. Don't
bother to keep an eye on him. He HIM
| self says that it would be absurd to do so
hereafter. Let HIM alone and forget all
| about the kinetoscope-un long after
the Legislatures have relaxed their opposi-
| ton to it, it suddenly appears upon our
| streets in full blastl That it will actually
do that latter thing is merely a possibility,
| OF course. it being only possible tha, Mr..
Rector, when relieved OF the legislative
proceedings which SO humorously diverted
him from his work, may discover that the
hlemishes on his views were not so serious
as the persistence of tie IL. e.islative fight
against him at first led him to suppose.