The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-28

to last a civilized man lifetime. lie
said nothing about cruelty to dumb
animals or an indisposition to watch
knacker's work.
In the preliminary corlesas the bulls
have no part. They make their corte-
sias, each for himself, at their en-
trarces. Supposng the scene is at the
Santa Anna at Lisbon, the first notice
Of the bulls entry is generally a heavy
smash in the direction of the pen That
means that the first bull has been ad-
mittcd to the passage communicating
with the arena and that he is trying to
knock down the wooden gates. Then
comes a below, which is answered by
a flourish of trumpcts from the prcsi-
dents box. \ banderihciro, in the
brilliant Andalusian dress familiar to
those who have enjoyed Carmen"
| jumps into the ring, the doors of the
| pen swing wide open and the bull
! shoots in, flourishing tail and horns in
! magnificent defiance and roaring like
! echoed thunder in the mountains. This
! being the Portuguese and not the Span
! iSh ring, you viii notice that the great,
! Curyiug, sweeping horns are covered
| with leather shoaths, so that Touro can
! break bones or toss a man into the
! scmblanCe of g fNe-Dointed stariish
| projected into the air, but cannot gore
horses even If the riders should hap
! pen to be careless CT unsKlled
What goes on between bull and ban
derilheiro is common to all bun fights.
| The game has it's rules just like other
| games one rule is that no dart must
he planted anywhere in the animals
| body behind the shoulder. Another
! is that the darts shall be 50 construct
| ed as not by any possibility to pene-
tratc more than one inch or there
abuuts After a bout with bandoril-
heiro. if the latter knows his business,
the bull has a dozen or SO of these
gayly beribbcned weapons hanging
| from his neck.
TIE DETAILS.
The programmes set forth the de-
tails of each separate bulls curse, and
one curse differs considerably from an
other. Sometimes the whole work of
| wearing out 4 bulls strength ana spirit
is undertaken by one banderilheiro or
one cahalhciro. In the latter case the
programme announces "TOurO No. -,
For ser farpeadO de -" giving the
name of the hOrseman. The tarpa used
by the hOrsCman is only & longer ban
dcrlha. 1t is generally about feet o
inches long, but the shorter the farpa
the greater the skill of the man who
can lean over from his high -pOmmelled
saddle and drive the barb into the
bulls neck 50 as to make it stick. This
is always done at full gallOp, while the
| bull charges, and then, if it is bull OF
any spirit, the pursuit of horse and
rider by the bull continues with more
zeal and determination than before, the
rider shaking his plumed three-COrrer-
ed hat in the bulls face to puzzle him,
the horse now and then flashing out
vigorously with his heels.
| This is the part of the cXhibiton-an
exclusively Portuguese feature re-in
which men are most often killed cr in
jur"d. Accidents would be more fre-
qucnt if it were not that the horses are
generally we'll trained and the riders
almost, if not quite, worthy to rank
with Americas reliable cavalry eX-
perts. The banderilheirO, who does his
part on foot, can escape, when hard
pressed, by jumping over the barrier,
though occasionally that does not serve
him. The Cabinhas, with the long,
fluttering nGtntleS, ear also interfere
to cover the retreat of the fighter on
foot. But the horscman, though his
mount could easily leap the barrier
would find insufficient room to land
safely in the narrow passage on the
other side, and lmtil the pursuit of
> horse and riUer ends in a fan for the
pursued, there is no chance Of interfer-
cnce by Capinhas. Still it was only by
some accident that could hardly have
been forsecn that the present writer
has ever known a case of cabalneirC
coming to grief in the ring. The worst
: such accident was when a famous and
extremely popular amateur allowed
himself TO be ovcrpersuaded into stay
) ing in the ring to crafty the "blcach-
crs' with one supreme feat &C audaCity
, after his horse had become fatigued
= ard unsteady in the course of some
fifteen minutes continual galloping
= turning, and loapiHg in making that
last domiVolte to avoid a furious charge
at right angles the horses hind fet-
t locks got crossed and he fell, crushing
, his riders left leg and allowing the bul
to smash several of the riders ribs
| The pluCky horse, however, spranC tC
| his feet and upset the bulls Calcula'
| tiOns before n second blow could be de.
: hvarcd with the horns ana the watch
, | ful capinhas did the rest. If the CahaI
5 hciro's leg haa not been jammed undel
, the weight Of his horse, he would have
5 been flung into the air and most likely
I | killed. As it was he was never able
to ride in the bull ling again.
: From the point of view of the old
, timer, the Portuguese bull fight ha
= | long been Curtailcd of its fair pro
- portions in Lisbon, at least,by a munici
pal ordinance Of that city forbiddinj
the pega. This pega was the crown
ing glory Of the ancient Portuguese
f bull fight, and takes the place whicI
the death of the bull holds in III
: | Spanish game. 1t may be sOmeWha
+ less artistic than the sWordstroke of
, ! Mazzantlni or FrascuelO, but it i'm
presses the AnglO-Sa as more man
= ly and not at all cruel. The Lisbo
, authorities forbade it within thei
jurisdiction as being to dangerous {
/, human life "Pcgar" in Portugues
corresponds quantity to the old Engls
word "dowse." ."pega a chandeira
, means, "Dowse the glim," or, NOR
; | modcrnly, Put out the candle"
D GENUINE ARTICLE.
Q Some years ago one might still oc
s | CasiOnallV see a genuine and nm