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BOXING FATALITY. {rHESS ASSOCIATION TEUGBAM.) DLXEDIN, September 20. At a boxing tourney in last night, in the final of the middleweight contest, llonald McCa'llum, of Goodwood fell from a blow., striking the back of bis bead on the floor. A medical examination showed that ho had tracLured bis skull. McCaliuni quickly L-;:nk and died. "When, the horsa is driven bv the tractor from the harvest fields, a link will be broken in* an age-old connexion betwern horses and the presiding spirits oi- tho corn. It. is an ancient faith of Teutonic peoples that the last wisp of corn in the harvest held is inhabited by. a sacred horse. There lingered into our time various quaint harvest customs revolving round tho corn-spirit that the horse represented. In Shropshire a harvesting .sport is remembered called "Crying the Mare." 'lha reapers tic- together th© tops of thft last blades of corn, the ''Mare," and makA it a target for their sickles, he who cut-s" tho knot by & shrewd throw wins the prize, amid acclamations and good cheer. Th* trophy would be carried as a taunt to any neighbour whose harvesting was behindhand.