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Show It is not the purpose of this journal to often discuss the merits or demerits of the bruisers who peilodically make life Interesting for the crimson corpuscled public, but the reams of palaver thai have been unwound regarding the state of mind of Mr. James J. Jeffries, recently heralded as the "cave man," and who has more recently retired to it, Is too much to bear without protest. It would be interesting to know who in the be ginning, even in the palmiest days of this low- J brow ever discovered that ho was endowed with " any superabundance of gray matter, and just why any paper profits were figured up in advance on account of the supposed superiority of his mind over that of the black man is difficult to compi'e- hend. The writer of this, like many another, interviewed inter-viewed the gentleman when he was in the very heydey of his glory, and if there we.re any evidences evi-dences of even ordinary intelligence in his makeup, make-up, he kept them carefully concealed. He was just a mountain of muscle, from which occasionally occasion-ally came an almost inaudible grunt, which was Interpreted now and then as "Yes" or "No," and I there was positively nothing from the occasional f two or three-word sentences he uttered to lead one to believe that his mind could ever do very much to help him in a battle. The dullness of his mind, particularly regarding its inaction at the time of his most recent emergency, emer-gency, was probably no different in the beginning, and it is an excellent thing that the negro gave him what was coming to him, for the public will now be spared his periodical farewell tours at ?5 a glimpse. There never was a time in his career that Johnson could not have beaten him, and without any sentiment attached, it is just as well to give the latter full credit as the greatest bruiser the world has ever produced. Besides his victory has already been very beneficial, for in consequence as near as we can calculate, twenty-seven toughs have beeen killed since the Reno celebration. |