, 1889-12-05

| the las.
King AIfo..-
fighting, and
| tunity of being
| ring.
The modern buIl
| their art is decaying
nados," or amateurs.
| are themselves revealin.
of a revolution in theirta,
| alarming from the bull fl
| view The chief tendencies
are growing repugnance
cruelty in dispatching bulls
even, and an even greater repI
too rash displays on the part
| reros.
1t is fact that nowadays o.
sees mastiff dogs or wild animals
into the ring to bait the bulls, al
very seldom witnesses the use of
derillas de fuego"-fireworz darts
fuses to goad on to fury dull OF Il
bull The half moon spear is rarely u
to hamstring and disable a bull, or
make it easy for his matador to plan
/ the point of the sword behind its head
Even the most famous matadOr5 are
and other missiles if they wound and
worry bull too much ere they kill him.
A whole audience sometimes rises to
protest against disabled, bleeding,
panicstricken. tottering horse being
kept in the ring while his life blood is
pouring out, or his entrails trailing on
the sand, because an iEnpresario will not
go to the expense of another steed. Sand
Is now promptly cast over the CORY
arena to spare the feelings of spectators
who no longer, like the amateurs of the
days of Cuchares and Pepe HiIo cry
'Brava torof when bull hurls man
into the air or knocks him down
SOME OF THE FIGHTERS.
Not less striking is the fact that the
women of the middle classes and of the
better working classes are every year
less numerous in the bull ring at Madrid
and in the provinces. 1t is from the
lowest and highest ranks of Spanish So
ciety that female amateurs of the bull
ring are recruited. Then, again, the
more enlightened and better educated
men of the middle classes and of the
bourgeoisie neither go nor take their
wives. They resent it if the bull fight
is still called a national sport, and they
reply it is only such for the masses and
the fast people of the upper classes.
MaZzantini and FrascueIo are STYLED
modern bull fighters because they are
very sensational in their action in the
ring. They do not care if they risk
their lives unnecessarily as long as they
obtain applause and praise. Lagartijo,
the premier bull fighter of Spain, Cur.
rito, Cara Ancha, are, on the contrary,
the favofites in Andalusia, in Miircia.
in Cadiz, and in Granada, whers the
"aficionados" prefer the quiet, cool self
possession and daring, without ostenta-
ton or sensational poses, that were the
characteristics of the pupils of Guehares
and Pepe Hilo. Lagartijo, now. nearly
50 years of age, and very wealthy
man, is quite unrivaled ir bold Single
strokes which kill the bull instantly or
send him off reeling and totterihg, to
expire few PAGES off. while therspec-
tators are still breathless with awo and
excitement at the hairbreadth escapes
OF the old torero as he rapidly rpierces
his bull with the red cloth poised on his
| sword at half a yard from the Sharp
horns. 1t is said of Lagartijo that he
has seldom erred in his prognostics about
bull. He can always tell how the ami
NAL is likely to behave by one swift
glance at his foe just as he rushes frora
his dark cell into the glare and din OF
the ring, and tops for few SECONDS TO
gaze, dazed tn ,ugh fearless, at the vast
amphitheatre around. - .
Lagartijo is now left with no rifiM but
Mazzantini, the ex-station nlastat,tih ed
I ucated man of respectable faniis.who
took the ring, as he once said 10 the late
King Alfonso, directly he got convinced
that in Spain there were but three quick
roads to wealth and popularity&l. e.,
politics, the highway, or the buii'fing,
Lagartijo's only other rival, Frascflclo,
has had to retire in the h6yday- of his
fame and Popularity on acc6.rHt;ef an
ugly wound in his right hand. yhfcb ha.
never healed. g-.,s-.
| JnKs-Somem moist weather we're hav-
ing this month. -s.ts'ss' ='ssi s"I
Blinks-Yes: some.oyster:;s5st tsf.ff4f;ta red
with August.--PittsbdrHj BuiiCtiEss
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