Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-27


great act OF running from COW. 1t was
thought he could not do things seriously.
They were mistaken. The two buh fights
he gave were wicked, bloody. Tnc papers,
that His guests, ashamed to be part of
such n function. did not brag of It. And. as
the feast was private, the public prose-
cuter could not prosecute. even had he
wished.
TIVE Accidents.
All this was done, and over a full month
ago. The only marx it made was to arouse.
CIR half arouse. the public mind to the bull
lighting question in particular and to cruel
ty 10 dumb animals in general. Now. here
two accidents, two simple accidents. have
interviewed TO stir up France and make a
real war Of Opinions.
The first OF these two accidents Is due to-
the American woman. Yes, it is true. At
last, perhaps for the first time American
women have had some influence on cur
rent French thought. Outraged by sights
Of continual cruelty to the death driven, UNI
aer-fed Partisan cab horse, they have of
late stirred up an s. +. G. n. movement,
really strong, in which they have been
joined, and heartily, by the complete Paris
ian population of the better sort.
These ladies from America had not
thought Of bulls. The bull lights OF the
south are far off. They do not see them.
lie cenlais bien ecs DANES" What they
object to is the sight of cruelty. not cruelty.
Example: They would scarcely hesitate to
mount an oyercrowded street ear, for they
do not see the mar,yred horses. They Go
not hesitate to wear dead birds in their
hats and feather boas. They eat the lob
ster thrust alive into It's boiling water,
feie gras torn from out the living goose,
the mute but quivering oyster on its cold
half shell, and pour corroding vinegar and
hot red pepper into it's flesh wounds. And
they exult when they can bargain down
a Paris sewing girl to 40 cents day. The
cheapest room a girl Gun get costs 81 a
lr rf0 anrtfl
morning coffee and bread, SI50 a month;
food when not employed, say - a month
they starye; that makes ST. month. sup
pose they have American ladies to work
Ter every day at 10 cents. That makes ST.
q month. No shoes, clothes, no lights,
DO fire, no medicine Poor girls. your
iieher sisters eat your food and wear your
ciothesi
The second accident is much more Seri-
Gus. Kill girls. kill men, but do not shed
the blood of bulls except in the official
slaughter houses for the delectation OF
such people as have money to pay for their
flesh cut into decent sections, slices. per-
tons. rump steak, chump chop, entrecote,
sirlciE, rib roast. calves liver. calves feet,
calf's head, Calls brain, calves tongue
Now, in the South OF France it is a fact one
must admit that the hot southern eye is
thrstinS more and mere OF late years for
real bull lights, where the bull shall have
an honest combat for his money, where
mon shall run some risk. 1t was not al
ways so.
There was n time-and only ten years
back--When these bull fights of Nirnos and
AFies we're merely sportive games, where
posing tartarinS could sport their graces
and all the small boys of the countryside
could dodge the rubber ha1l-horned he-calf
70 theic hearts content, with no more risk
than broken ribs.
That was in Aries Rut nov, tba1, bo,o
brought in the Spanish bull And those
who have heard the bad bull puncher's
SURFING song in Gounod's ''Mircille'' Cwhy
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the United StatesO, will recognize the same
fierce note in what goes on today.
In the south of France OF today there
are three ways to run" the bulls.
The Three styles.
1.-The fashion of the "Landes," around
by Bordeaux. In this game a red, white
and blue rosette is fastened between the
horns of a bull. Whoever has the dexterity
and courage to pluck it away receives a
prize OF 81. There Is no blood, either OF
men, horses or bulls. But man may have
his arms or ribs broken.
THE style of Portugal. This was the
old Spanish ball night, pure and simple. One
or more lighters, mounted line horses,
attempt, either with a deadly spear to Kill
the BULL while saving their horses, or with
blunt Spea: push of the bull, who would
otherwise (tochnically) lmperll the horses.
In this latter case the horses have armGr
or the bulls horns are balled
3-The modern Spanish style. This is the
bull fight of today. 1t has its set acts, like
a tragedy. 1t has its traditions and con-
ventions, like the stage. 1t occupies pro-
fessonals (a) The bull is run by nimble
"toreadors-" who Haunt their tablecloths
before MIN and escape. CD The bull is en-
ragged by "DanderillerCS, JabbinS iron har-
poems into his neck. (c) The Infatuated bull
is allowed to massacre from three to five
broSen-down, blindfolded horses by dis
embOwelinS them, ripping their tanks and
threats and SO on. 1t is to give the bull a
smell of blood and also to weaken him.
Sometimes the horses are protected by a
cuirass, which may save them, or may only
hide the outrage from the public view, ac-
cording as it is arranged. Id The bull is
killed by the ''espada," through sword
thrust delivered from in front, beneath his
very nose. The sword must pierce the
bull in the environs of his shOulderblade,
and. going two feet deep, must penetrate
his heart or lungs. 1t is a dangerous feat.
L have seen one man killed outright and
one man crippled at the real Madrid and
Seville fights.
In these fights Of the south of France it
is pretended at the present moment. when
they are in danger of suppression, that the
horses run no risk. 1t may be SO this week.
1t Vas not so last week. AT OAK they kill
ed ten horses and four bulls in one short
afternoon.
The North and south.
At Mines. Aries, OAK, Bayonne they have
drawn up the issue, plain and square The
minister of the interior, from Paris, sent
down word to all the projects, telling them
they must enforce the Grammont law, which
broadly forbids cruelty to domestic animals
in public. Acting this the projects have
forbidden the putting of bulls or horses to
death In the public bull rings. People, news
papers, judges, municipal councillors alike
declare: I'VE will kill bulls" And they go
on and do il. Now, as respect for consti-
tuted authority is the fundamental idea of
French government-not respect for law, but
respect for those who execute the Iaw-it
seems that a collision or a plump defeat for
Minister Dupuy must be inevitable.
Meanwhile from Paris come the Paris. pa
pers. illustrated and unillustrated. lie Midi
bouge, Tout est rouger' They sneer at the
Dragging, eXcitable, impotent south as
people who eat garlic, oil their hair and are
in one word-da2oes. Aries is noted for
kind of garlic sausage. Parisians pretend
that ii is made from horses killed in the
ring. Mines is noted for the yellow painted
wooden whistles, flutes fageolets, which
the Nimois come up to sell in Paris to the
children in the parks. On all sides these
honest folks are laughed at as being anti
quated-even n ediaeval.
This is the attitude of Paris always-in-
solent and hippant-knowing nothing caring
nothing for the things outside herself
STERLING HELLO.
4 Poem by Holmcs.
Crhe Star has been favored with copy of lines
written by Oliver Wendell Holmes TO his grand
niece, Dorothy Quincy Upham, evidently Mt her re-