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Show Kg AUinr noun itninnus. fa8?i The spectaolo that was proscntcd nt JfSf ih Couey Inland Alhlello club tail pSS 1 night was ono to make considerate jPar , men think fir a time that the wheels EV of clvllltatlon haTe been turned hack Tfc a ewhundrelyeareanl we areagaln 'M.H face to faco with the gladiatorial arena tfB J which filled thn savage-eouled Homin , With delight. In the name of "sport" MR ii a few thousand men assemble t that JK,5 well-known resort and py eaorbllaut JT r I rice for the privileges of witnessing PT ' ono of the bloodiest, moat brutal and Z. llackguard exhibitions of modern J i times, and tho law not only decs not J Interfeto with tho dlsguellng buslneea I I hut actually licensee It. The sensation A' J Imparled by reading the detail! Ii emphaalied by the announcement III nt ), the "smell of warm, f resr. b ood" at the iff .. end of the first round act the audience Hr, t wild with delight-Just aa It mod to K? the patrlclaua who wltntMod the K . alru gglo between tho glodlatore H In the lloman amphitheatre and B who could scarcely oontalu H. themselvrs when at last eno of the mm combatants, drunk with wounds, jt ataggered and fell to the gory ground t to rlio no more, Truly, thi-to be pP scones to stir a cultlTated man to bin dcplhil And the fact that the smellof ' human blood haa atlll the old-lime ' stimulation for those wbogowhwisucli IT effluvium and the cauio of It are & t abundaut,that they do not turn from It S. In dlimaybut linger for more and E howl with delight over the brutal bual. ft, ' neta, doea but aliow that tho advance- p ment we hare male la niter all, In the I kUcnee of restraint, tho merest fie- J (Ion. Olson the aame oppor uulllei f" ' that the ancient had, and how long ' would It be before wo would bo reading ' notlcea of "fliihta to a fJnleh" In which one or both of the contestant worn alaughlered In tho ring nud ex lre.1 lu a pool et blooJl Aa a mutter of fact, man hare quite frequently been killed In prlae llghlr.yel rba a n another evldenco that we are retrograding I the punlahmentla alwaje Tery light wbereany lalulllctednt all, which la noteTery time tho ollenee occura by any meana. Agalnat boxing with gloves ai n '' aclentlflo and athletlopietlme, when . eDgaged In with moderation and with- v out ill feeling, there la nothing tube eald; oven exhibitions In which audi conleata are feature need not be ob Jectlonable ou that account. Hut when glove are UMd almply becauae , the wording of tho law la auch that ' . the contestant! will not be allowed to I k; uombat without them, and they are fl mad ao hard and bo light that they ! rjk are (Ten worae than the bare flita, tho ' X law la not onlyaetaaldo bat nude a i JT mooker; and when to tble la added an ,-J utterdlaregardforakllland eaoh goe ',1 In to wear the other out In a hurry by , meana of brute force, pounding, hammering, battering and puncblog, , i It la time to call a halt on the I I whole bualneia. Olven a cer- J. tain latitude, tho puglllatlo 'rater- ' j nlty have taken all they ever had be- I U I tare and more too, certainly all lu the I ifM y of brutality and ferocity that the ' ; S moat savage disposition In any age " ii, could demand, and auch waa tho fight JIi aa dcecrlbcd In New Vorl. laat night. Jt The dlapoaltlon lu mankind, or a irJE portion of It, to evade preeorlbel regu- 1 Jf latlonaandgo back to forbidden cue. j R torus an thus aulllTale anew the i merely animal lnttlnola which have a been held In repression by force and Jj'i moral suasion united for half a thou ; ,, sand years, la now ao manifest that the I authorities will be Justified lu putting 1 an ead to boxing exhibitions alto iV gather. Those who delight In bsr. t . barla pastimes had better be controlled S 'while yet they are controllable. |