Show RACE PECULIARITIES I Race spirit is the most wonderful thing in the World A colored man defeated a white man i ill hi n il i prize fight near S San Hi Francisco o last Saturday Now n 0 dispatch SH says the thc steamers on the lower lover Mississippi sippi river are arc all tied up because the colored M stevedores or 01 roustabouts have goic gose on an nn extensive exten o she sive celebration in honor of ol Mr i 1 Johnson We Ve V c it itis is perfectly natural and it pc per pertains h ns to nil all races Ve Ye believe Americans arc alc more marc free from that kind of pride than tiny any other but we yc suspect is is because there hId are so man ninny many if r them in ill II this country The file chances are that if any of or us were in iii an American colony in an any place in Europe we wo would want to raise i Old Glory on th the e eI I Fourth of July though we might forget all about it while at home Sp Speaking of or that man Johnson on Mr Mi- 1 Jeffries ha had better think twice before he fights him him because be he- cause J. J judging l eo b by his performance iii List last Saturday to Ic fight him would be he a a. good deal like HIm fighting a buffalo l falo or 01 a hippopotamus lie lIo is im imply ly a great giant gant animal with no more sensibilities sensibilities' than a lilack snake which it takes c all day clay to kill and docs does not seem to 10 be he more than three degrees degrees' removed from n a giant gorilla A great many people express cx- cx press sympathy for foi n his or opponent r Wj do not see ir IL that way When two go into a ring to fight the they meet there on an au exact level lc and ami it is th the place for fOI s sympathy L. L n |