Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24

count, and mad TO represent the amateur
who. from among the audience, provokes
the wrestler and accepts his challenge. II
was his cue to allow himself to be thrown
and for this he received daily few francs
evening a pretty girl called out from the
crowd: WHAT a handsome fellow like
that allows himself to get the worst Of itH'
Allorto heard this and straightway lifted
over his shoulder. He lost his place on the
spot; but the young woman took him home
and no more was heard Of him until she
was taken to prison. She had been ar
rested for breaking the police regulations.
He remained faithful to her but found
himself without food or lodging. Then a
man about the wine shops proposed to him
to rob villa in the suburbs tina. was
thought to be uninhabited. A caretaker.
however. was found inside the door of the
house and was stabbed to the heart by AL
lorto's companion. Allorto was arrested
the same night, but he refused for days
to give up the name of his accomplish. AT
last he was brought to the morgue, and
bofore the corpse Of the murdered man
Was appealed to in the name Of the mother
Of the victim III you refuse to speak,
she cannot be avenged" said the willy Par
islam police magistrate. The laws of the
vendetta were sacred to men like Allorto;
and he confessed the details Of the crime.
1t was period Of alarm. and he was con-
victed and sentenced TO death along with
the principal murderer. He died bravely.
remembering his mother, his country, and
girls thoughtless compliment: What! a
handsome fellow like that allow himself
to get the worst of it,
Museum Freaks.
1t would be tiresoms task to count up
the number and variety OF these provin-
cial arenas that line the long squares Of
these Easter fairs. together with side
shows and strange theaters presen ting
time-honored plays. pantomimes. dances.
mysteries and mummeries.
At the Panopticun there is the 'phe-
nomenon Of the century. Rabowls," who
drinks eighty glasses Of beer in fifteen
minutes. The glasses are the ordinary
books of Paris, holding little less than
q pint. The placa-l states that Kabowls
has consumed $3.50 books since the COM
mercement of the ham fair. You pass be-
fore the Living Sirens. queens OF the
ocean, ard stop before an anatomical mu-
scum, which proclaimS itself - be the only
one in France Containing no German
specimens"
In the curious little theater OF HELL"
which Is sad to be an unchanged survival
from ancient times, you may see and hear
the most naive disconrses. The curtain
rises to disclose the very depths of the
coEfortlesS abode, with real flames in the
foreground. lighting up a glowing cavern
Of red tinsel. Around the scene are gro
tesque. horned. tailed, misshapen f.ends,
the size of large dolls and made Of wood.
They are worked with strings and springs
and make fearful clatter in their evoluz
lions. Some are forging red-hot handouts
on an anvil, some are prodding furnaces
with poles of gold, Of which hell Is known
to be full. Others chop viciousy at hu-
man souls that lie in red-hot watts. The
door bell rings. A devil with 8 lhree-pron
ed fork calls who is thers?' In d forced
and mournful voice the answer comes: It's
me, oh. it's me-" And a puppet dressed as
a lawyer dn the costume OF the time Of
Louis XIV enters Imply.
Ia! ha?' a big blue devil yells. Its
thou! Thou hast pleaded so many evil
causes. thou art not able today 10 plead
thine own"
Put him down! put him DOWN. a great
voice chants. And the lawyer is turned
down. The flames dart up. the anvils ring
Hoo, HOO screech the little devils. There
Is a pandemonium Of whistlins. groaning
and hooting.
The Judgments of He'll.
To the tailor who On earth ala not return
the pieces of unused cloth and who cut
garments too small TO increase the import
ance of his thefts the tiend says: THE
devil is going to cut you a gown. All! ali!
they have found your cut" TO a damned
apothecary he says: Here you are mer-
chant of sudden death. You have ointments
for burns. They will be Of use for YOU"
There has never been q time in France
when this show OF He'll did not flourish,
with very much the same scenery, cos
tunes and dialogue as today. In the COS
tunes used at present a few are modern
but the great majority straggle, as it were,
from 4O years back. The apothecary is
dressed in the style of the last century and
carries the large squirt which was SO much
Used in those days. "A vain and frivolous
woman is bedecked In a style which ap-
pears to be of the fourteenth century This
spectacle. which. like chidrens games, has
thus been handed down nearly untouched
for four hundred years. is mentioned as a
sGul-saving sight in midlle-age chronicles
and sermons, and people are warned to
take IL in" so that they may not in the
detauchery of the fair forget the issues of
eternity.
All of this mild debauchery is coupled with
a selling OF cheap goods. At the ginger
bread fair there are booths for the sale of