Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-06-13
ONLY The GHOST.
NEW YORK SOCIETY WIT
NESSES THE SHAOOWY
BATTLE.
You Can Watch the Conflict And
be a Pillar OF the Church,

Nh'bltitu ci tnt F~eIlScDpH:
The veriscOie is the verv ]atcs
METROPOLITAN sensation. There's n
danger in going 20 it. You can't +
arrested, and you don't lose an,
money, and nobody calls YOU name
Tor going, and you a be lust a
brutal and just AS eager for the KNOCK
out as II you were a wild Westernp
and lived in Nevada, where w,
CO. Id have the courage OF your en-
victiOus.
II is very. very wrong to go to 8
real prize fight. but Won can 60 to the
veri-cOpe and have l. Is # fun watch
ing one man pummel anorher-on a
screen-tnd lie a pillar OF the Church
all the time
Tnat's the way I did.
When the orchestra stopped and q
mild Young man walket down to the
footllghts and announced that be
would have the honor to explain TO
the Intelligent audience he saw before
him the greatest gladiAtorial combat
OF the age.
You will observe, ladies and gen.
temen,' said the mild young man.
TO the ffo"t and right Of the SCREEN
the tinekeepers. TIE light corner or
the screen is Mr.. CoIbett's corner
white on the left will be seen M. Fitz.
slmmons's corner" A dancing glow
Ing light began 10 jig upon the screen.
ard 1t became suddenly peopled with
moving figures.
IheTe was something upcanny
about it. The men on the screen Were
exactly like living men, except thai
you could not hear them step. when
they walked. They turned and bowed,
ana talked together. One man took
Oh Ms hat and wiped his forehead
ohe took out a notebook and began to
write. One crawled up from out OF
nothing and crept through the rones
which marked the arena.
1t Was Ike looking at a cf
gray ghosts.
This. ladies and gentlemen" said
the mild young man, as Mr.. Siler tha
Referee
The ghost Of Mr.. Siler, the referee,
"alked into the screen and bowed.
"lhe champions o appear" said
the mild Young man. 90 the RIGHT
IS MT Corbett, in his hath robe" Th-
ghost or Mr. Corbett in his BATH robe.
appeared, bowed, went to his corner.
and laughed and exul,eh like a great.
gray s"hoolbcy in a dream.
"On the left" said the mild vonno
man. MT tltzsimmons in his oath
Tobe.'
1he ghost Of Mr.. Fifzsimmons, in
DIS bath robe, came do v the left Of
the screen and bowed. Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons looked old aud thin, and he had
a sliding gait about him that mad
think Of the great white snaka :
"nlch guarded the kings ankus.
Inc two ghosts walked up and down
n down, till the whole theatre l
TUX tegan to let as ervou as the
ghosts Looked. S
A man at the side Of the Screen
tire" the shadow of a hat into snaca L
and he two ghosts walked toward
Zach other.
A. said the big man next to me. "
now the fun beeins." :
Ard the two gray ghosts on the u
''reen suddenly seemed very much u
They boxed, and Iodged, and made "
udden f%eints, and clntched, and lie, II
'ach other go, end then few II space
gain. CT
Ed OF round one" said toe mjld ,
man. CT
is that all they do?' said q
noth"riy oma Il tuuu.bt they "a
ere going to fight" Ill
"Ronnd lumber two" said the mila 10
man. The gray ghosts sprano 81
40 lie again. Again they lodged. d
walked stealthiIy to each other 81
I'd 1-iket away. One Of them shot W.
nc his arm in Il suddeo blow. r.
the other in the side Of th,. pa
w.! sald the TWO young women "
Orange co
THERE" laid the motherly
81 Son gave her a nervous ! Judge n
10 round. Young face VAS pale with
c~lteinent, aud his childish eyes ""
like the eyes OF a wolf. 'ne
End CT round twC," said the mild III
unA man. eh'
HE lighting shadows lay in their !
Gu 'lrs In the corners of the O."
zen. las
4 crowd OF shadows funned them. wei
70 shadow rubbed the fighters ,"'
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