Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-02
HORSE RAGING IN SPAIN.
Curious Sights and Sounds at an
AndaIusian Course.
Spectators Who Interest the Stranger as
Much as the Sports 0o--6ay
COIOrs and Strasge Music
The Spanish New
market

como Ell trattd, unWlnSiOg glare OF q spanish
antuuI al lay. bringing out the bold, dark
SHADOWS ofthe bread orange tree leaves, and
droouirg the slender pomegranate foliage
where the ru6y hearted fruit 20 longer Turks.
Down Oh the white wall and dusty streets
of the Andallsian town Of JeFez-de-ls-
Froptsrs falls the steady sunblsze and
finds the place unusually stirring; business
"a thrown aside, the great monarch Of the
Mace (Wiue) rests for this day At least in
peace. sud hale whO obtains attention save
particulars OF the anticipated "Carrers dos
j'ahallas." which even exeites something
fSip,lv resembling interest in the listless,
byown-iaced Spaniards, who smoke parps,
nal cigarettes under the house walls aud
whose eyes are ever closed ander The kno'-
,,6 handkerchiefs that bind their heads.
At the appointed time there numbers up
10 the starting place . vehicle chosen to
carry rs to the course, distance of some
ak miles, AMI, after taking in sundry pack
aces of solids and liquids, away we 20
through the narrow streets from the Fonda,
as merry party as the traditional eriekets.
With q rattle and a jolt, and with the
crack. crack Of the drivers whip ringing
Ike pistol shots, We strike into the long,
brown. sandy road where that abominsble
vegetable, the prickly pear, forms on either
side a mos. formidable hedge. Broil-
iry boz and dusty stretches the way to the
ground, not closely packed with lines of car
rage, ~. hr' yhr with color and motley In
CHARACTER Her. comes young SpAuiArd,
iriyiD- his caes-nuJ5 there goes an Eng.
Tshnsn turning out as an Eoghshmsn
should: nov We pass some muleteers, wear
,py round ats with ball on crown and
arim. and with their waists SWsthed IN gay
Iy.color,d 5 shes who Jog merrily onward,
sitting SIDEWAYS on their mules, and putting
cigarette snoSs through their nostriIs; then
A re-iurut Of oe- Ears Pa;riarchicauy beard
ed. ragged aid filthy exhibiting manned
limbs or nGgn scars, and asking
slus in ;bs peculiar nasal whine in
which spanish meRdicanss always poster
you il this land Of Fostering mendicsnts;
next an AndalIsiOn peasant, gay IN cos
tune and with his hair tied 10 q pigtsil
With Colored rib9on, carrying a girl behind
him on his horse. after the style Of the old
English pilEon; then the inevitable boys,
whose dirty white shirts are tucked into
ragged blue o. yellow trousers over which
AZ. twisted sash-s that have once been
scarlet-boys who chant the monotouous
country songs in a long drawn talsetto that
sets your teeth on edge; and sweeping by
comes 3 carragetul Of seuoritss, dark eyed
black mantilaed and with tina, most use
iul and Indispensable of instruments. the
tan. going in tall force.
The road is in an uprosr, for one carriage
calle,h 10 another; the ladies, pleased to
get DAYS pleasure out of doors-not, be-
Geye. very usual occurrence except when
the family is NOR or less snghcized-chst
and sugh with their fathers and brothers
in tn pretty, fspiUg dialect that gives the
zsCs. and many of the SIS the sound OF
til the peasants shout and sing and get
generally excited at the dingy little 'possdo
among the pric SlY.pear hedges, where you
o6tain-if yo- can drink it-counry
wine but where the thoughtful proprietor
also dispenses cold water at a
:arthirg glass. And so horses, mules,
donke7s carriages and people arrive at the
ground which IS simmeriug in the heat
ike Ahuge o. Z, and decked with many q
saudy flag from the red aud yellow Of spain
to our own Union Jack. Here we have
military elsme enough Soldiers 70 keep
the ground and soldiers to look on; the hit
he inesman, bsggy az to his neither gar
ments, improbable as to his forage cap, and
somewhat slo1chirg in his set up; the
cavalry soldier, wasp-waisted, clad IN his
SKY blue JACKIE, Astounding in braid
and carrying his curved sabre;
the gems darme, quantity cooked
hated. with old fashioned lspelled coat
breaches. and crossbelts. And there, some
what less conspicuous, are others badged
ike watermen and carrying old-fsshionsd
pieces, on which the ugly little copper cap
CLEANS ominously. These are the men ap-
pointed to act as constsblss. Whether they
have now dispensed with their lethsl weaP-
ous cannot say, but on the occasion of
which am wiring they bore them, aud |
seemed quite prepared to use them if re-
CURED although he place was wonderfully |
Tree from the genus rough" which in
sunny Spain, Is quite ss dangerous and |
more deadly than his English counterpart,
We have not long 70 wait before hoArse |
Dell Eagles o1t its summons, and those en- |
Ssged IN the hrs. race move up to the start |
ing point with little ceremony, and warm |
poiat they mus. md it, for the glare Of the |
sun makes one glad to remain in the shady |
stand or under the shadow of the adjacent |
psndock, as the course itself is q long fat |
Of brown, tecked here and there with tiny |
leafless flower, Ike an unmelting snowflake, |
and without a tree to break the monotony |
or a vestige Of her6age save the spiky, dun
colored monkey dat"
The gay colors Of the riders-with few
exceptions amsteurs-glsnce in the white /
and uulvering sunlight, and as the winner
rolls in, yells of delight break from the
friends Of the dampY little Spaniard who |
has succeeded IN passing the post before his
rivals. And now the military band blsres |
put a somewhat brazen waltz. A good band |
y Is, and powerful in lung, but sill in the /
hight season does that demon ophicleide /
revisit our ears. Never can we forget the |
weird power o. that performer upon 81
Instrument that shudders gloomily |
through the shriller comets, and makes Us
think Of Zamiel and that wonderful incsnts.
ion scene in the VOLTS Glen. Il is 6tful
i is despairing, at times falling suddenly
Dilcnt, when we begin to hope that fatigue
las at length overcome him. We picture
% ourselves his tainting and being supported
by his condohng companions, when th"rs
bursts forth a note 80 low that it freezes the
Mood in our veins. II seems as though we
pa hear Pluto directing death to seize
&syphus, when The voice went reeeding
dpwn the storm"
More rsces-notably in which certain
= gEshmen are prominent-more music,
more ghostly, brazen notes, and 80 the day
ms on, and the races are al over, the
'Qkes al said, and the wine ell consumed,
a. bath been the custom Of race meetings
hson time immemorial In conclusion, /
nay add that some years have passed since
The meeting at Jsrez-ds-la-Frontera which l
lSAFe attempted to describe, and alterations
14Fe been made efeeting vast improve
rents in Spanish racing. 1t may, perhaps,
b. of interest TO give few facts to show the
,seition the sport holds in the estimation of
~ Spaniards.
gerez, which MIGHT almost be called the