Show THE mace and slade aro doing the in the most attractive manner in every city they meet with warm receptions by the sports who admire science and muscular exercise new york city however how evel treated the anzy haht in something of a cool unwelcome manner and the twain shook the dust of gotham from their beet with the avowed purpose of giving no moie public exhibitions there mace felt indignant over the arrest of himself and the maori in new york and was not slow to express his contempt foi the authorities in meddling with his affairs why said he at san francisco they permitted me to give a sparring exhibition in one their churche chu iche and in now york they would not permit him to exhibit himself anywhere and put him under arrest foi attempting to do so we next hear of them washing ton city and how is he received there the telegraph tells us that they gave an exhibition in the theatre domique Co mique and among the audience were a number of persons of distinction including several congressmen on the following day slade made a visit to the capitol and was followed by a large crowd through the coni dors even dignified and senators left their seats to get a glimpse of the australian bruiser and w hat did they see noth ajie but a man no taller no prettier no stronger or better built than many other human beings simply a man nothing moie and our senators and congressmen leave their seats neglect their business and skulk away to look at a human being a fisticuff a scientific boxer shame on such dignity this incident forcibly deminds us of a joke promulgated by a youth during the lite war the lad bad headd so much about the great abraham lincoln and teased his parent to take him to see this wonderful mm the futher finally consented and the youthful admirer was admitted into the presence of the president ot the united states when they had left the capitol the father asked his son what he thought of mr lincoln why papa answered the boy 1 I was disappointed I 1 expected to see something wonderful from what I 1 had heard and read but after all I 1 only saw a man that is all our law makers saw when they deserted their seats to look upon slade who has attained no conety as a bruiser nothing but man how elevating must be their tastes to neglect their duty to look upon a man of that character |