fH GENTRE KFEPORTER,. THURSDAY. FEARUARY 20 14)2 DULL RING ANTICS Mexican “Sport” as Viewed Through American Spectacles. TACTICS OF THE TOREROS. They Were Better Runners Than Fighters and Displayed More Chw- ardice Than, Bravery—Mirth That the Natives Couldn't Appreciate, “Thank you, Aguirre, but 1 hardly think 1 want to see one of your bull- fights I have heard enough about them to make me sick of the thought.” 1 had seen every other kind of fight, from messenger boys up to bull moose and buffalo, and Aguirre felt that 1 wauld forever regret it if 1 left Mexico without at least once wituessing the national sport, I reluctantly consented to accompany usual slesta, we went to I had often read the aking the the ring. of sucl any writer had ever taken tbe trouble of the fights. through the ordinary course of sprouts, first goring a broken down race horse which had seen service on many of the tracks in the States and was used in the bull ring only because he was a horoughbred Finally the bull was put to death by a stab between the shoulders, which paralyzed his spine. The second entrant was a little black full of which had been ially raised on the big ranch of Between the toril 1 the ring there was a short just wide enough to allow the to get through without rubbing from their Leaning cover the boards formed the glides of the passageway was a Mexl- 1 negro, who, when the IXtle bull oved out of the toril, jabbed a “barbo” into bis left shoul maddened the animal to n extent that he hardly knew ay to turn, so eager was he to » his enemy, crowd at this time was going ad and from all sides could be heard cries of “Cobarde., podrido, sfaccion” (coward, rotien, rotten vagy, and “El toro es muerte’ (the bull dead On the contrary, he was ch alive and showed ®t a few inter. After he was chased to the tori! the torero, whose name fire, ernor Tirazzos Aa nia flanks. which Min w hich yo . oments appeared before the 18 is the custom when plain himself nce before he ndemned nnel the result was only a repe of the former attempt, except bull wax prevented from : hima by helpers who were arm- long pikes and prevented the from scaling the fence. dozen yards ring, the ed creature stopped short, spread feet out as far as he could In his stuck. Fhe opportunity was ng ten of a the center of the wed the ground barb still big yellow red stream vickex] fastened a haif dozen und voltinieer novice torero ad over the arth side of the ring and foward the deflant torero’'s red the bull became down he rushed novice, who m had nerve, for he stood quaking gr when he should have been £ to meet the onmishing ani on foots Jumps font T ie By sunt o the With hea sanwhile Vien the latter was only twenty way the volunteer dropped the Wd espada (sword) and put + a8 fast as he could £0, fonr feet tore cleared It in a straight. & was about high, of bull was not so fortunate, he was game enough to at. ie fence in his mad effort to Iiis tormentor fle landed on top of the boarda and stuck there, with his hind legs In the alr. until be was released by some attendants who ventured from the other side of the ring I took a heap of fur out of the antics of my litle hero, the bull, and was having sn good laugh all to myself while the mob. way going wild with disgust fit the cowardice of Albertis when Aguirre advised me to suppress my mirth or there would be trouble for both of us When order wns restored the Nttle binck bunch of muscle, brawn and grit wis brought into the inclosure for the third time, but it took the efforts of two torendors ‘bulifighters on horse- bask nud a professional foot fighter to beat him, and his defent was then due only to the fact that he was exhausted, Aguirre told me that It was bad form in Mexico to lnugh nt anything in a bullfight but the death of the bull, but | remarked to him that In all America he would not find a gringo Who would not instantly grasp the funny side of that particular bulifight nnd carry it home so that others might laugh too.~ Denver Republican. The Reluctant Request. Edgar—Ethel, I've left my umbrella downtown. Ethel-Well? Edgar—I'm afraid you'll have to lend me the gold handled ombrella you gave me on my birthday.~Detroit Free Press. Bead tbe Reportar. THE AMERICAN DISEASE. Indigestion, Chronic and Abute, and the Digestive Organs. Indigestion, a phase of dyspepsia which has been called the American disease, Is very common, and its dis- agreeable symptoms are but too well known. Chronic indigestion, or dys- pepsia, is very prevalent, and In med- fecal phrase an acute disease is opposed to chronic in the sense that while a chronic disetise runs a long time the acute form Is attended with severe ily to a crisis. dition In which the digestive organs, or are worn out, overworked or tempo- rarily abused, fail to perform thelr functions and the whole system {is thrown “out of gear.” This may be due primarily and directly ing the siomach with inadequately masticated food, to retarding its nor other local influences. pepsia there go i often followed by sickness ing of the surpius or offensive by which the and vomit. stomach seeks to correct nd reg mai condition. Dut it Other fail, the ma succeed. ‘he main difference 1 spsia and act ¢ Is slow death am and drinking, pointing out.— AWED BY NAPOLEON. Queer Impression the Emperor Made Upon Countess Potocka, We waited rather long be acknowledged our curiosity unming with frigh he silence was and It broker of the noisily, and M. de Talleyrand advance ed, with a loud and uttering the magic word that made the world tremble, “The emperor.” [mime diately Napoleon made his appearance and halted for a minute as if to be admired So many portraits exist of this aston ishing man, his history has been so much written about, all the stories told by the children of his old soldiers will live so long, that the come will know him almost as well as ourselves. But what will be difficult to grasp is how deep and unexpected the impression which those feit who saw him for the first time As for me, 1 experienced stupor, a mute which selzes one at the prodigy. It seemed to me that he wore an aureole. The only thought 1 could frame when I recovered from this first shock was that such a being conid not that such a mighty organ such a stupendous genius should pever perish I Inwardly awarded bim immortality From the Memoirs of the Countess Po togka. intelligible voice generations to was gort of thu aspect of a tt rrr as He surprise, iiRKe possibly die; ization, double The Pulse Watch, Among the Ingenious devices for the physician may be mentioned a watch constructed on the “stop” principle whereby the number of pulse beats pes minute may be indicated. A push but ton is pressed at the beginning of the count and again at the twentieth pul satiofl, when the number of beats per minute is shown ou a dial without the necessity for calculation. Still anothes push on the button brings the counter back to the starting point. In the ordi nary method of taking the pulse the observer is obliged to do two things a the same time—count the beats and keep his eve on the second hand of his watch. With the pulse watch only one operation is necessary, the counting of the pulsation up to twenty, when the push button is pressed. —New York Press, English Earthquakes, English earthquakes sre not uncom mon, but we can rejoice that they have decreased in severity, r done nowadays is as nothis with the ravages wrought Ly early English earthquakes. In 1580, for in stance, part of St. Paul's cathedral was wrecked by an earthquake shock, and at an earlier date Glastonbury abbes had been completely destroyed. Staf fordshire, where the latest shock was feit, would appear to be the earth quake area of England, for shocks were also felt there in 1503. Even as recently as 1884, however, an nglish earthquake was severe enough to re quire a mansion house fund fo repair its ravages in the eastern counties. London Chronicle. ¢ damnge compared London Street Beggars. Bpeaking of the swarm of beggnurs and “panhandlers” In the Euglish me tropolis, the London Times says: “The streets of London never fail to attract the professional beggar and never dis appoint him. The Mendicity society tells us that a beggar can earn more than the wages of the average working man and that ‘it Is probably no exag geration to say that well aver $500,000 18 given away haphazard to beggars in the streets of London every year.” Her Discovery. “I have made na discovery,” declared the bride. “So? “Yes. 1 nd one can cook ns well on a stove as on a chafing dish. Really, 1 wes surprised.” — Loulsville Courler Journal, He never ht a good day's work who went grumbling about it.—Ger wan. MENDING A FAUCET kn Easy Job That Mr, Gimp Tac- kled With Confidence. IT GAVE HIM A BIG SURPRISE. When He Got Through, or as Near Through as He Was Permitted to Got, He Was Rather Subdued—The umber’'s Comment Was Quite Brief, Mr. Gimp came howe from the cit} the other day and burst into his house meant business He told parcel oun the with an air that smiled when the maid wife was out, laid a stairs, took off his coat, rolled up his took his bathroom, where he opened the slecy es, parcel and went up fo the contained nn moeukey driver, half a dozen and pipe wrench, a screw rubber washers ank goodness, sald Mr. auytning upsets questions a woman jet a piumber ter ont the other. It was dr} bathtub faucets leaking for a i Gimp promise to it said i ii day by “Weil” that no watédr caine ou “that's more sense than oman possess , Gid tub. he studi “Tem: that | dingus did that slipped and but he gi BOTW that helt dow nasheed ar mid strong When t quddenl side of the bat} bump (hat shook the house. He ap again in a minute and in the be tub. The faucet was badly marre where the wrench bad dug int soft brass, and the i twisted awry, but the faucet was He took the faucet to the window snd studied it. Except for the damage had done it, there seemed nothing the matter with iit “Some fool plumber.” sald Mr. Gimp angrily, washer into this fancet, the matter, and that's all He picked out a nose “has put the wrong sort of That's what's " different sort of was not n good fit, but it was a change anyway. “Now,” said Mr climbed back into the humped himself down on his and looked Into the which he had to “Now.” he sald. As If that had been the 3 screw the faacet out of the pipe and strack Mr in the eye tumbled backward But the stream pursued him. He got up and grap pled with the stream, Unless you have with na stream like tried to that you grapple giving It a good. self satisfying grap ple. A stream like that will not fight fair. If you put your hand over the pipe the stream will squirt ont in for. ty-two directions. Rome of them hit the ceiling Most of them hit Mr Gimp. He wrestled silently until the bathroom was well soaked and he was well sonked., and then he decided it was better just to let the stream spurt. It spurted Into the bathtub anyway. So he got out of the tub and dripped cq the floor and pawed water out of his bair and wiped water out of his eyes. And just then the plumber came up stairs again. He had been down cel lar to turn on the water after he had fixed the faucet, and it was quite nat. ural that be should come up again to see if the faucet was well fixed. Ro he came up, and he looked Into the bathroom, and he saw the faucet ly. fog in the bathtub among wrenches and water, and he saw the water spurting heartily. And all he sald was, “Well, I'll be durned!” Just like that-"Well, I'll be darned!” That was all be sald.—- Ellis Parker Batler in Judge. AAAS AANA. 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