Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-07-19

calmness and gaiety, but also encourage
them, and impart to them an ardor and
nope which he no longer possessed.
The whole night was spent thus. A
terrible night, during which the general
endured all the fortunes that assail an
ambitious man on the eve of a scandal
mas sworn to defend
sunrise surprised the general giving
his final orders. Worn out by the fatigue
OF a long watch, with pallid brow, and
eyes infiamed by fever, he tried to take
a lew moments of restorative rest, which
he so greatly needed but his efforts were
trultless, for he was suffering from an
excitement too intense, at the decisive
hour, for sleep to come and close his
eyes.
Already the bells of the churches were
pealing out, and filling the air with their
joyous notes. In all the Streets and in
all the squares, boys and leperos were
letting off crackers, and uttering deafen-
ing cries, which more resembled bursts
OF fury than demonstrations of joy. The
people, dressed in their holiday clothes.
were leaving their houses in masses and
The review was arranged for seven
o'clock a. M, so that the troops might
be spared the great heat of the day.
They were masSed on the Pase de Buca-
relli and the road connecting that prone
made with the Alameda.
We have already stated that the Next
can army, 10000 strong, has 2,4OO off
GERS. Hence, in the enormous crowd as
sembled to witness the review uniforms
were in a majority, for all the officers liv-
ing on half pay in Mexico for some rea-
son or another, considered themselves
bound to attend the review as amateurs.
At a quarter to o'clock the drums
beat, the troops presented arms, a deaf
ening shout was raised by the crowd, and
the President of the Republic arrived,
followed by large staff, glistening with
gold and lace, and with a cloud of feath-
ers waving in their cooked hats.
General Guerrero had joined the Presi-
dents staff in his full dress uniform, as
Colonel Lupo and other conspirators had
also done; the rest, dispersed among the
crowd.
In the meanwhile the review went on
without any hitch 1t is true that the
President restricted himself to riding
along the front, and then ordering the
troops to march past, for he did not
dare, owing to the notorious ignorance of
the officers and soldiers, risk the execu-
ton of any manguvers, for it would not
have been understood. and would have
broken the charm under which the spec
tators were fascinated. Then the Presi-
dent, still followed by his staff, proceed
ed to the cathedral. We will not say
anything about the official reception, etc,
which occupied all the morning
The hour for the bull fight arrived.
Since the review no one troubled him
self about the troops, who seemed to
have suddenly disappeared-no d soldier
was visible in the streets; but the people
did not think of them, for they were let
ting off fireworks, laughing and shouting,
which was quite sufficient to amuse them.
1t was only noticed that these soldiers,
though invisible about the city, had ap-
parently passed the word to each other
to be present at the bull fight. Nearly
the whole of the palcos de sol in the cir
Gus, that is to say, the parts exposed to
the sun, were thronged with. soldiers,
grouped pell-mell with the leperos, and
offering the most pleasant contrast with
these ragged scamps, who were yelling
and whistling.
The President arrived, and the circus
was in a second invaded by the mob.
Since an early hour the jamaica had be-
gun, that is to say, the framework of
yerdure raised in the center of the arena,
forming refreshment rooms, had since
daybreak been filled with countless num-
bers of leperos, who ate with cries of
ferocious delight.
Suddenly, at a given signal, the gate
of the torril was opened and a bull
rushed into the arena. Then began an
extraordinarily indescribable scene, resem-
bling one of those diabelical meetings so
admirably designed by Callot.
The leperos, surprised by the arrival
of the bull. darted, shouting, pushing
and upsetting each other, over the frame
work. which they threw down and tram
pied under foot in their terror, while
seeking to escape the pursuit of the en-
bollado, who, also excited by the turmoil
hunted them vigorously. In second the
arena was deserted, the refreshment
rooms swept clean. and the performers in
the jamaica sought any shelter they could
find on the edge of the palcos or upon
the columns. from which they hung in
hideous, yelling and grimacing clusters.
The bull, after amusing himself for
some minutes in tossing about the re-
mains of the framework, stopped and
looked cunningly around and soon no.
ticed the tree. the only obstacle left to
remove in order TO completely empty the
arena.
He remained motionless for an instant.
as if hesitating ere he formed a resolu-
ton. then bowed his head. made the sand
fy with his fore feet, dashed his tail
violently, and rushing at the tree, dealt
it repeated powerful blows.
The Ieperos uttered cry of despair
The tree, which was overladen, and in
cessantly Slapped at its base by the BULL
svayed. and at last fell sideways. carry
ing down in its fall the leperos clinglng
TO its branches The audience clapped
their hands and broke into frenzled
braves, which changed into perfect yells
of delight when a poor fellow who was
limping away was suddenly caught up by