Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-05
DOOM OF THE PRIZE FIGHT
Public Opinion Against Ring Exhibi-
tions is Growing.
CHRISTMAS TREE IN JUNE
sentiment in Favor of ReIiGion Is
ON Increase ThrouEhout the
Country. Declares ~ Mug
aEinc Editor.

bh ID. V. FRANCIS
NEW YORK, June 4-tSpeclal Dlspatch
TO The Bec)-I am neither. a prophet nA,
the son of prophet but IL | pretendod
to the gift of foreseeng | should be inclined
TO say mat the day of the LOCALIZED prza
Ilght IN this country is drawing to a CLOSE.
Tho efforts of the church people OF Cah-
fornia. backed up as they are by tho sob-
timent OF the churchmen OF the ,ybola
country. will not stop tho fisht scheduled
in San Francisco on Independence day. int
1t is merely matter OF time when an
aroused public opinion viii compel the an
thorities to put a stop to these palpable
oVasions of the laws against prize fighting
or compel the lawmaking bodies TO cnait
such drastic measures as will prohibit oven
harmless sport
That the proposed San Francisco meeting
is prize fight, pure and simple cannot DO
disputed; even those who ir order to evado
the plain letter of the law call It a boxing
contest, smile cynically when they do so.
1t would be better for tho community 30
all restrictions on such fights were removed,
for such violations simply breed contempt
for the law in other ways. There is ah-
other alternative. however, the strengthen
ing OF the law to prohbh all boxing con
tests 1t does not take much of prophet
to foretell which alternative the people DC
an American state will take.
1t is somewhat late aud unreasonable,
perhaps you might say, to talk aboht
Christmas trees in these warm days Of
June, but that is not true I'm the case OF
little 7-year-old girl Marguerite Rod
man OF Burlington, N. J. Just when Mar
guerite's Christmas tree was about to take
on its precious fruitage last December she
had to go to a hospital That did not worry
her in the least except that it grieved her
to think that she would miss her Christmas
tree,
She was comforted, however, by an uncle.
who promised that her tree would be care
fully guarded and all its gorgeous burden
kept on it's branches until she came home.
That promise has been sacrcdly kept. The
tree still stands i'm its original place, tEe
decorations and gifts are just where they
were put three days before Christmas and
every night the trunk and branches are
carefully wrapped in damp cloths to keep
them fresh and green. And in a few weeks
the patient little girl, with health restored,
is coming home to have her Christmas
tree in the good old summer time.
Interest in the Mystic.
Judicious observers have marked with
some concern the increasing interest in
the mystic and the occult. one cult IN
New York was recently shown to be guilty
of practices that BODIED little good to the
participants; and the professor who manip-
ulated the strings behind the scenes Tor
the edification of the credulous dupes in
front was proper object Of attention for
the police. These East Indian causists en-
trap the shallow and half taught with their
wiles and Sophistries. their fluent use OF
obscure terms and their rhapsodes. Soon
we find the dupes parroting the leaders,
inane repetitions of the seven infinities"
and the mystic circles of the ineffahle
ego" who is the projection Of the atom
IN to the "Over Soul" and similar alb
surdities IL usually results, after brief
experience, in revulsion and disgust, which
come with establishment and the return
of common sense. American women, who
have been patronizing these esotteric teaoh-
ers should be warned by the New York
deyelopments that there is a double danger
in allying themselves with forces that are
totally unamerican, from any conceivable
point OF view.
Dr. Alexander McLaren, who died re-
Gently in Scotland, was one OF the most
powerful preachers in the world, and MS
sermons exercised as great and wide an
influence as those of Newman or Robert
son. These sermons have been deliverNd
the world. DR.. McLaren was a Noncon-
| formist Ia BaptisD of the old school and
had no taste for new developments and
large changes. He accomplished much
valuable expostory work, but he will be
principally remembered as one of the great
| preachers who always commanded the
| close attention of large congregations. His
| sermons were delivered extempore after
| long and careful preparation.
The conservation Of Bishop Pollock in st
| Paul's cathedral, London, was notable for
an incident which has excited conslner-
| able sensation in ecclesiastical circles,
many of the clergy regarding 1t as a
| shocking act of sacrilege. 1t appears th4t
| an individual provided with camera w
sitting in one of the galleries overlooking
the choir and a photograph was taken
of the act of conservation, the archbishop
of Canterbury being depicted with ma
hands on the head OF the new prelates q
Is understood that stringent precautlpnsb
are to be taken in future to preveh a
repetition of the scandal"
Religion IL Spreading.
rs the spirit of Jesus more dominant IN
business and public affairs than when you
| entered active life, and is II an advantage
or not for public man today TO be known
Il. ~, AF,.v,